The Floating Human + The Mafia Pact + Brottsjön + Free + Swede
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The Floating Human: How did humans learn to navigate the sea? Was Magellan really the first to circumnavigate the globe? How did the sperm whale contribute to the Enlightenment? In what way did the Scottish baker Robert Dick change our view of the history of life? How do we really know how deep the ocean is? After his debut with "The Eel Gospel," Patrik Svensson has written a book about the people who have explored, mapped, tried to understand, and dominated the sea. "The Floating Human" is about the allure of the ocean, about that ancient drive that has always compelled humans to seek out the open sea. In short, it is a book about curiosity. The Mafia Pact: A journalistic investigation into how organized crime is increasingly infiltrating the trust-based Swedish society. In 'The Mafia Pact', crime reporter Lasse Wierup provides a knowledgeable yet frightening picture of how more and more criminal networks are targeting businesses and authorities in the pursuit of easy money. In the next step, lawyers, doctors, accountants, corporate leaders, and bank officials become involved. The black economy is merging with the white economy on several levels. We have learned to live with bombings, shootings, and innocent victims. Will Sweden succeed in defending the welfare state and trust – or will we lose what made the country unique? Brottsjön: "Johanna Mo has constructed a well-thought-out plot, the pace is high, and the character portrayal is unusually deep as she tells the story of families that have fallen apart after a disaster." Dagens Nyheter. Hanna Duncker's parental leave comes to an abrupt end when a man is found dead at the water's edge in southeastern Öland. It turns out to be a murder that deeply affects everyone at the Kalmar police. At the same time, Hanna is planning a life-changing step, and the man who burned down her house and stabbed her during her pregnancy is still at large. Hanna Duncker has lived much of her life as the daughter of a murderer. Will she finally be free together with her beloved Isak and their child? Brottsjön is the long-awaited finale of the successful series Ölandsbrotten. Free: Lea grows up in Stalinist Albania. It is a life marked by isolation, surveillance, and hardship. But Lea is unaware of any of this. She is proud of her free and equal country, completely oblivious to the price her family has paid to survive. In 1990, everything changes. The regime falls, but the newfound freedom soon shows another face, one that is also brutal and merciless. Free – A Coming of Age at the End of History is an overwhelming and razor-sharp story about growing up at the transition between communism and capitalism. Swede: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The water lies smooth as a mirror against the red morning sky. The clock approaches seven. The naval base at Pearl Harbor slowly awakens. Suddenly, a familiar noise is heard. But something is not right. He hears machine guns. And screams. Then he understands. This is the story of a young sailor who experienced all the major battles against Japan in the Pacific during World War II. He saw aircraft carriers sink and Marines storm beaches. He saw attacking bombers in the sky and submarines' torpedoes approaching. He saw swollen and burned bodies floating in the sea. He saw his comrades die. Daily life on a warship is often slow and an eternal wait for new orders, but in an instant, one finds oneself in the midst of war, and the 150 men on the destroyer Monaghan are tested to the limit. Many died in the battles. A few survived. One of them is the Swedish-American Emery “Swede” Lundquist, and he is still alive. His family emigrated from Roslagen in the early 1900s, in the shadow of World War I. After a difficult upbringing, including time in an orphanage, he sought out the American Navy. Many books have been written and films made about World War II, but few can tell how it was to be there. One of them is Swede. This is his story.
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The Floating Human: How did humans learn to navigate the sea? Was Magellan really the first to circumnavigate the globe? How did the sperm whale contribute to the Enlightenment? In what way did the Scottish baker Robert Dick change our view of the history of life? How do we really know how deep the ocean is? After his debut with "The Eel Gospel," Patrik Svensson has written a book about the people who have explored, mapped, tried to understand, and dominated the sea. "The Floating Human" is about the allure of the ocean, about that ancient drive that has always compelled humans to seek out the open sea. In short, it is a book about curiosity.
The Mafia Pact: A journalistic investigation into how organized crime is increasingly infiltrating the trust-based Swedish society. In 'The Mafia Pact', crime reporter Lasse Wierup provides a knowledgeable yet frightening picture of how more and more criminal networks are targeting businesses and authorities in the pursuit of easy money. In the next step, lawyers, doctors, accountants, corporate leaders, and bank officials become involved. The black economy is merging with the white economy on several levels. We have learned to live with bombings, shootings, and innocent victims. Will Sweden succeed in defending the welfare state and trust – or will we lose what made the country unique?
Brottsjön: "Johanna Mo has constructed a well-thought-out plot, the pace is high, and the character portrayal is unusually deep as she tells the story of families that have fallen apart after a disaster." Dagens Nyheter. Hanna Duncker's parental leave comes to an abrupt end when a man is found dead at the water's edge in southeastern Öland. It turns out to be a murder that deeply affects everyone at the Kalmar police. At the same time, Hanna is planning a life-changing step, and the man who burned down her house and stabbed her during her pregnancy is still at large. Hanna Duncker has lived much of her life as the daughter of a murderer. Will she finally be free together with her beloved Isak and their child? Brottsjön is the long-awaited finale of the successful series Ölandsbrotten.
Free: Lea grows up in Stalinist Albania. It is a life marked by isolation, surveillance, and hardship. But Lea is unaware of any of this. She is proud of her free and equal country, completely oblivious to the price her family has paid to survive. In 1990, everything changes. The regime falls, but the newfound freedom soon shows another face, one that is also brutal and merciless. Free – A Coming of Age at the End of History is an overwhelming and razor-sharp story about growing up at the transition between communism and capitalism.
Swede: Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. The water lies smooth as a mirror against the red morning sky. The clock approaches seven. The naval base at Pearl Harbor slowly awakens. Suddenly, a familiar noise is heard. But something is not right. He hears machine guns. And screams. Then he understands. This is the story of a young sailor who experienced all the major battles against Japan in the Pacific during World War II. He saw aircraft carriers sink and Marines storm beaches. He saw attacking bombers in the sky and submarines' torpedoes approaching. He saw swollen and burned bodies floating in the sea. He saw his comrades die. Daily life on a warship is often slow and an eternal wait for new orders, but in an instant, one finds oneself in the midst of war, and the 150 men on the destroyer Monaghan are tested to the limit. Many died in the battles. A few survived. One of them is the Swedish-American Emery “Swede” Lundquist, and he is still alive. His family emigrated from Roslagen in the early 1900s, in the shadow of World War I. After a difficult upbringing, including time in an orphanage, he sought out the American Navy. Many books have been written and films made about World War II, but few can tell how it was to be there. One of them is Swede. This is his story.
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