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3) Winterfrost
Author
Language
English
Description
"Christmas has come, and with it a sparkling white winterfrost over the countryside. But twelve-year-old Bettina's parents have been called away unexpectedly, leaving her in charge of the house, the farm, and baby Pia. In all the confusion, Bettina's family neglects to set out the traditional bowl of Christmas rice pudding for the tiny nisse who are rumored to look after the family and their livestock. No one besides her grandfather ever believed...
Author
Series
Department Q volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chief detective Carl Mrck, recovering from what he thought was a career-destroying gunshot wound, is relegated to cold cases and becomes immersed in the five-year disappearance of a politician.
8) Beowulf
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
92 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Young underground volume 1
Pub. Date
[1994]
Physical Desc
172 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1943, when the Germans plan to send all Danish Jews to prison camps, Peter and Elise, eleven-year-old twins, face danger trying to help their Jewish friend Henrik escape to Sweden.
10) Melancholia
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Michael (Alexander Skarsgård) celebrate their marriage at a sumptuous party in the home of Justine's sister Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg), and brother-in-law John (Kiefer Sutherland). Despite Claire's best efforts, the wedding is a fiasco with family tensions mounting and relationships fraying. Meanwhile, a planet called Melancholia is heading directly towards Earth threatening the very existence of humankind"--Container....
11) The Snow Queen
Author
Language
English
Description
The story that was the inspiration for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis and more recently, Frozen by Disney is re-designed in celebration of 50 years of working with Bernadette Watts—one of Europe’s most recognized and beloved fairy-tale artists, known in Europe simply as Bernadette. When a young boy is cursed and unable to detect goodness, a young girl goes on a courageous journey to restore his heart and free him...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
[32] unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
A delightful Christmas story for families. The Christmas Nisse presents a Danish Christmas tradition about the magical little Nisse. These mischievous creatures live at the North pole with Santa. On the last night of November, they roam through the cold to find their way to your home. You know they have arrived when their little door appears. The Christmas Nisse is on a mission to create and collect Christmas Joy to make Santa's sleigh fly. How...
13) Out of Africa
Series
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (161 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya (British East Africa) in 1914, and her passionate love affair with a big-game hunter. An epic romance of love and loss.
14) Touch the sky
Author
Series
Young underground volume 8
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Denmark in 1946, thirteen-year-old Peter, his twin sister Elise, and their friend Henrik find themselves involved in a sinister plot to keep a group of Jews from reaching what they hope will become their new homeland in Eretz Israel.
15) Follow the star
Author
Series
Young underground volume 7
Pub. Date
[1997]
Physical Desc
176 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1945 in Denmark, thirteen-year-old brother and sister Peter and Elise try to help their Jewish friend Henrik when his mother and a friend of hers are arrested by the Russians and accused of being spies.
Author
Series
Sekret volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows a group of psychic teenagers in 1960s Soviet Russia who are forced to use their powers to spy for the KGB.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1911, when orphaned ten-year-old Inge comes to live with her stern grandmother in a remote island village in Bornholm, Denmark, she ends up changing the climate of the town, bringing joy and laughter to her grandmother's life and finding a new family for herself to help assuage her grief over losing her mother.
20) Hamlet
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
463 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Distressed by his father's death and his mother's over-hasty remarriage, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, is faced by a spectre from beyond the grave bearing a grim message of murder and revenge."--Provided by publisher.
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