Fredrik Backman
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything."--
Winning a junior ice hockey championship means everything to the residents of Beartown, a struggling community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and an steadily...
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"Things My Son Needs to Know About the World collects the personal dispatches from the front lines of one of the most daunting experiences any man can experience: fatherhood. As he conveys his profound awe at experiencing all the "firsts" that fill him with wonder and catch him completely unprepared, Fredrik Backman doesn't shy away from revealing his own false steps and fatherly flaws, tackling issues both great and small, from masculinity and mid-life...
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When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
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Britt-Marie can't stand mess. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But at sixty-three, Britt-Marie has had enough. She finally walks out on her loveless forty-year marriage and finds a...
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"Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situación de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la víspera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequeña ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su vida y decidido atracar un banco que no maneja efectivo. Entonces, sí lo es. Porque, cuando alguien es así de idiota, es inevitable que no sepa cómo huir y termine en un apartamento en venta tomando rehenes sin querer. Pero puedes confiar en la policía....
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It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the...
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Wzruszająca i pełna uroku opowieść o życiu i potrzebie bycia sobąZwykła powieść o niezwykłych ludziach. A może na odwrót.Elsa ma siedem lat i jest inna. Babcia ma siedemdziesiąt siedem lat i jest szalona. Stoi nago na balkonie, mierząc z broni do paintballu w mężczyzn, którzy chcą rozmawiać o Jezusie. Ale jest też najlepszą, a zarazem jedyną przyjaciółką Elsy. Nocami Elsa i Babcia udają się do świata bajek – do
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow...
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Bjornstad volume 3
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"Minęły dwa lata od wydarzeń, o których nikt nie chce myśleć. Wszyscy próbowali iść dalej, ale coś w tej części lasu to uniemożliwia. Straszliwa w skutkach wichura podsyca odwieczną rywalizację między Björnstad a sąsiednim miasteczkiem Hed. Rywalizację, która zawsze znajdowała ujście na lodowisku do hokeja. Podczas gdy napięcie między społecznościami rośnie, na horyzoncie rysują się wielkie zmiany. Ktoś wróci do domu...
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"A primera vista, Ove es muy probablemente el hombre más gruñón que alguien podría kkegar y conocer; un cascarrabias con principios firmes, rutinas estrictas y de pocas pulgas. La gente cree que es un amargado y él piensa que está rodeado de idiotas. El bien ordenado y solitario mundo de Ove se ve sacudido una mañana de noviembre con la aparición de unos nuevos vecinos --una pareja parlanchina y sus dos ruidosas hijas-- que anuncian su llegada...
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Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon-- the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him "the bitter neighbor from hell." But behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty young couple with two chatty young daughters move in next door and accidentally flatten Ove's mailbox,...
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Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
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Ove is the block's grumpy old man who enforces strict neighborhood rules and whom every body avoids. One ordinary day a new family is moving in next door to Ove and accidentally backs into his mailbox. Turns out there is an unexpected friendship that blooms out of it.
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Britt-Marie is a 63-year-old housewife who has just left a 40-year marriage. The small town of Borg has lost its pride, except for the young soccer team, which Britt-Marie now has to coach to have a job. This journey will be filled with struggles and challenges, but also warmth and love.
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"Niespokojni ludzie to zakręcona komedia o dramacie zakładników pojmanych w trakcie oglądania mieszkania na sprzedaż. Kiedy po nieudanym napadzie na bank zamaskowana jednostka z bronią w ręku wbiega do wystawionego na sprzedaż mieszkania, z przerażeniem odkrywa, że właśnie przez przypadek wydłużyła listę swoich przewinień o wzięcie zakładników. I to, jak się szybko okazuje, najgorszych zakładników, jakich świat widział. Bo...
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"Tras dejar a su esposo infiel, Britt-Marie encuentra trabajo como encargada en el casi clausurado centro cívico de Borg, un abandonado y ruinoso pueblo del que lo único bueno que puede decirse es que tiene una carretera. Esta quisquillosa mujer se verá envuelta en la vida de sus nuevos vecinos, un grupo de malhechores, borrachos y holgazanes que le demostrarán que la vida va más allá de tener un cajón de los cubiertos ordenado. Pero su reto...
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Björnland volume 2
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Beartown, una pequeña comunidad escondida en lo profundo del bosque, es el hogar de gente dura y trabajadora que no espera que la vida sea fácil ni justa. No importa lo difíciles que sean los tiempos, siempre han podido estar orgullosos de su equipo local de hockey sobre hielo. Así que es un golpe cruel cuando se enteran de que el hockey sobre hielo de Beartown podría disolverse pronto. Lo que empeora las cosas es la evidente satisfacción que...
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"Ove już w młodości musiał pozbyć się wszelkich złudzeń-- życie nie zamierzało go oszczędzać. Wczesna śmierć rodziców, samotne dorastanie, żelazna dyscyplina i możliwość polegania jedynie na sobie ukształtowały jego charakter na całe życie. Wierny saabom, Sonji i rutynie, Ove miał niekiedy poczucie, że nie powinien żyć we współczesnym świecie. Gdy zmarła jego żona, Ove był o tym przekonany-- jego czas dobiegł końca....