Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All
Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All

Author: Jonas Jonasson

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0062458183

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From the author of the international bestseller The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, a brilliant satirical novel set in modern Sweden—a story of idealism and fanaticism, gangsters and entrepreneurs, sensationalism and spirituality, that explores the values that matter in contemporary life. In a former brothel turned low-rent hotel, the lives of three unusual strangers—a former female priest, recently fired from her church; the ruined grandson of an ex-millionaire working as a receptionist; and Killer-Anders, a murderer newly released from prison—accidently collide with darkly hilarious results. Seeing a lucrative opportunity in Killer-Anders, the unlikely trio form an unusual new business. The Priest and The Receptionist will handle strategy and public relations, and coordinate Killer-Anders’ “missions.” Using the media’s obsessive need for sensational, headline-making stories to advertise their talent’s superb “skill,” they quickly build a clientele of rich Swedish gangsters. Suddenly, they’re making an altogether different kind of killing of their own. But when Killer-Anders begins asking deeper questions about purpose and meaning, his curiosity leads him to an unexpected discovery: he finds Jesus. Desperate to save the money machine they’ve built, The Priest and The Receptionist devise an audacious plan utilizing Killer-Anders’ newfound and decidedly fervent faith. Mischievous yet big-hearted, filled with Jonas Jonasson’s trenchant humor and delightful twists, Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All is a delightful comic adventure that reminds us it’s never to late to start over—and to discover what truly matters.

Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.
Sweet Sweet Revenge Ltd.

Author: Jonas Jonasson

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2021-04-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0008407568

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The brand-new adventure from the beloved author of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.

The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules
The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules

Author: Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2016-07-12

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 006244798X

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#1 International Bestseller The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel meets The Italian Job in internationally-bestselling author Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg’s witty and insightful comedy of errors about a group of delinquent seniors whose desire for a better quality of life leads them to rob and ransom priceless artwork. Martha Andersson may be seventy-nine-years-old and live in a retirement home, but that doesn’t mean she’s ready to stop enjoying life. So when the new management of Diamond House starts cutting corners to save money, Martha and her four closest friends—The Genius, The Rake, Christina and Anna-Gretta (a.k.a. The League of Pensioners)—won’t stand for it. Fed up with early bedtimes and overcooked veggies, this group of feisty seniors sets about to regain their independence, improve their lot, and stand up for seniors everywhere. Their solution? White collar crime. What begins as a relatively straightforward robbery of a nearby luxury hotel quickly escalates into an unsolvable heist at the National Museum. With police baffled and the Mafia hot on their trail, the League of Pensioners has to stay one walker’s length ahead if it’s going to succeed…. Told with all the insight and humor of A Man Called Ove or Where’d You Go Bernadette?, The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules is a delightful and heartwarming novel that goes to prove the adage that it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s the life in your years.

Look Hamlet
Look Hamlet

Author: Barbro Lindgren

Publisher: Restless Books

Published: 2019-10-29

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 1632062593

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A hilarious, darkly comic graphic retelling of Shakespeare’s Hamlet in radically condensed prose by legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren and illustrator Anna Höglund. Look Hamlet. Hamlet not happy. Hamlet’s mommy dumb. Hamlet’s daddy dead. So begins this wonderfully strange, dark, and hilarious picture book version of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy boiled down to its smallest possible size: 100 words, give or take, and fifteen etchings that look like the lovechild of Beatrix Potter and Edward Gorey. In our despondent antihero, a lop-eared bunny Hamlet with handbag in tow, is somehow embodied all the tremendous pathos of Shakespeare’s Danish Prince. And in legendary Swedish children’s author Barbro Lindgren’s pithy prose resides the poetry of the original, reworked for the era of memes and short attention spans. Bold and brilliant, irreverent and humane, Look Hamlet is the perfect irreverent gift for Shakespeare readers of all ages. As the Bard himself wrote: “brevity is the soul of wit.”

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: A Novel By Jonas Jonasson (Trivia-On-Books)
The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden: A Novel By Jonas Jonasson (Trivia-On-Books)

Author: Trivion Books

Publisher:

Published: 2016-09-08

Total Pages: 74

ISBN-13:

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Trivia-on-Book: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson Take the fan-challenge yourself and share it with family and friends! The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden, Jonas Jonasson’s second novel, narrates a story about racism, romance, and politics. The plot begins in the year 1961 where the main protagonist, Nombeko Mayeki, was born in a shack in Soweto. She managed to escape poverty and made her way to the top, destined to become one of the chief advisors of a renowned secret project. In the 1980s, South Africa manufactured six nuclear missiles. However, they voluntarily surrendered the six bombs and dismantled the program in 1994. The story is centered around the seventh nuclear missile that the world didn’t know existed. Nombeko was so much involved with it that she was sought by agents from Israel and South Africa. Nombeko reached a point where she took hold of the bomb, placing the fate of the world in her hands. The Girl who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson became a New York Times bestseller. You may have read the book, but not have liked it. You may have liked the book, but not be a fan. You may call yourself a fan, but few truly are. Are you a fan? Trivia-on-Books is an independently curated trivia quiz on the book for readers, students, and fans alike. Whether you're looking for new materials to the book or would like to take the challenge yourself and share it with your friends and family for a time of fun, Trivia-on-Books provides a unique approach to The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson that is both insightful and educational! Features You'll Find Inside: • 30 Multiple choice questions on the book, plots, characters and author • Insightful commentary to answer every question • Complementary quiz material for yourself or your reading group • Results provided with scores to determine "status" Promising quality and value, come play your trivia of a favorite book!

The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared

Author: Jonas Jonasson

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2015-07-09

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 0349141819

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THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER Sitting quietly in his room in an old people's home, Allan Karlsson is waiting for a party he doesn't want to begin. His one-hundredth birthday party to be precise. The Mayor will be there. The press will be there. But, as it turns out, Allan will not . . . Escaping (in his slippers) through his bedroom window, into the flowerbed, Allan makes his getaway. And so begins his picaresque and unlikely journey involving criminals, several murders, a suitcase full of cash, and incompetent police. As his escapades unfold, Allan's earlier life is revealed. A life in which - remarkably - he played a key role behind the scenes in some of the momentous events of the twentieth century. Translated by Roy Bradbury.

Oh Sweden! Oh Israel!
Oh Sweden! Oh Israel!

Author: Stephan Mendel-Enk

Publisher: Granta Books

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 9781846274152

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Wry, warm, and sprinkled with Yiddish humour, this is the novel Woody Allen might have written - had he grown up in Sweden during the Intifada.

Liberty Lady
Liberty Lady

Author: Pat DiGeorge

Publisher:

Published: 2016-11-01

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9780998257013

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LIBERTY LADY is the true story of a WWII bomber and its crew forced to land in neutral Sweden during the Eighth Air Force's first large-scale daylight bombing raid on Berlin. 1st Lt. Herman Allen was interned and began working for his country's espionage agency, the OSS, with instructions to befriend a businessman suspected of selling secrets to the Germans. Soon Herman fell in love with a beautiful Swedish-American secretary working for the OSS, their courtship unfolding amid the glamour and intrigue of wartime Stockholm. As Swedish newspapers trumpeted one of the biggest spy scandals of the war, two of the main protagonists walked down the aisle in a storybook wedding presided over by the nephew of the King of Sweden.

Elianne
Elianne

Author: Judy Nunn

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 1742758398

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"In 1881 'Big Jim' Durham, an English soldier of fortune and profiteer, ruthlessly creates for Elianne Desmarais, his young French wife, the finest of the great sugar mills of the Southern Queensland cane fields, and names it in her honour. The massive estate becomes a self-sufficient fortress, a cane-consuming monster and home to hundreds of workers, but "Elianne' and its masters, the Durham Family, have dark and distant secrets; secrets that surface in the wildest and most inflammatory of times, the 1960s. For Kate Durham and her brothers Neil and Alan, freedom is the catchword of the decade. Young Australians leap to the barricades of the social revolution. Rock?n' roll, the Pill, the Vietnam War, the rise of Feminism, Asian immigration and the Freedom Ride join forces to rattle the chains of traditional values. The workers leave the great sugar estates as mechanisation lessens the need for labour. And the Durham family, its secrets exposed, begins its fall from grace ..."--Back cover.