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Little Mouse has a lot of things to do today ... and he can do them
all by himself! It's an exciting day for Little Mouse. His friend
Pip is coming over to visit. But first, there are chores to do
around the house, like cleaning, laundry, and cooking lunch. Little
Mouse is determined to help Mummy Mouse with all of them. And after
that - playtime! The second picture book from well-loved Finnish
author/illustrator Riikka Jantti to feature Little Mouse - the
small kid with the big personality - Little Mouse Helps Out is sure
to become another read-aloud favourite.
A highly contagious book virus, a literary society and a Snow
Queen-like disappearing author 'She came to realise that under one
reality there's always another. And another one under that.' Only
very special people are chosen by children's author Laura White to
join 'The Society', an elite group of writers in the small town of
Rabbit Back. Now a tenth member has been selected: Ella, literature
teacher and possessor of beautifully curving lips. But soon Ella
discovers that the Society is not what it seems. What is its
mysterious ritual, 'The Game'? What explains the strange
disappearance that occurs at Laura's winter party, in a whirlwind
of snow? Why are the words inside books starting to rearrange
themselves? Was there once another tenth member, before her?
Slowly, disturbing secrets that had been buried come to light... In
this chilling, darkly funny novel, the uncanny brushes up against
the everyday in the most beguiling and unexpected of ways.
A brilliantly weird literary fantasy set in a Lapland filled with
mythical creatures When Elina makes her annual summer pilgrimage to
her remote family farm in Lapland, she has three days to catch the
pike in a local pond, or she and the love of her life will both
die. This year her task is made even more difficult by the
intervention of a host of deadly supernatural creatures and a
murder detective on her tail. Can Elina catch the pike and put to
rest the curse that has been hanging over her head ever since a
youthful love affair turned sour? Can Sergeant Janatuinen make it
back to civilisation in one piece? And just why is Lapland in
summer so weird? Summer Fishing in Lapland is an audacious,
genre-defying blend of fantasy, folk tale and nature writing.
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Six Finnish Poets (Paperback)
Vesa Haapala, Janne Nummel, Matilda Sodergran; Edited by Teemu Mannien; Translated by Lola Rogers, …
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Six Finnish Poets, the eleventh volume in this series, features six
writers whose work is symbolic of the connection between the life
of poetry in Finland and the life of the poets who write it. In
Finland, poetry is a part of everyday life, a way of living,
founded upon a do-it-yourself attitude that is independent of the
approval of critics, publishers, or the popular masses. The poets
selected here exhibit the vast range of Finnish poetry, from
experimental prose to image-rich surrealism, and from sparse, stark
minimalism to ironically melancholy pop-culture references.
The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human
sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex
and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated
to menial labour and sterilized. Vanna, raised as an eloi but
secretly intelligent, needs money to help her doll-like sister,
Manna. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they
become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the
Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chilli peppers. Then
Manna disappears, and Jare comes across a strange religious cult in
possession of the Core of the Sun, a chilli so hot that it is
rumoured to cause hallucinations. Does this chilli have effects
that justify its prohibition? How did Finland turn into the North
Korea of Europe? And will Vanna succeed in her quest to find her
sister, or will her growing need to satisfy her chilli addiction
destroy her? Johanna Sinisalo's tautly told story of fight and
flight is also a feisty, between-the-lines social polemic - a
witty, inventive, and fiendishly engaging read from the queen of
'Finnish Weird'.
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Purge (Paperback, Main)
Sofi Oksanen; Translated by Lola Rogers
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Deep in an Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are
hiding. Zara is a prostitute and a murderer, on the run from brutal
captors - men who know how to punish a woman. Aliide offers refuge
but not safety: she has her own criminal secrets - traitorous
crimes of passion and revenge committed long ago, during the
country's brutal Soviet years. Both women have survived lives of
abuse. But this time their survival depends on revealing the one
thing history has taught them to keep safely hidden: the truth. A
haunting, intimate and gripping story of suspicion, betrayal and
retribution against a backdrop of Soviet oppression and European
war.
Our work is confusing and fragmented. We feel busy all the time. We
don't believe that people feel overworked because they're doing too
much work. A more likely reason is that they're doing too much work
that feels meaningless and too little work that is meaningful. The
aim of The Workbook is to bring joy back to our work. To help
people to be healthier and at the same time get more done. The
Workbook is based on a year-long research the authors conducted on
9 Finnish workplaces using the design thinking method. The book
offers practical, no-nonsense tools for changing one's work habit
by habit.
The Eusistocratic Republic of Finland has bred a new human
sub-species of receptive, submissive women, called eloi, for sex
and procreation, while intelligent, independent women are relegated
to menial labour and sterilized. Vanna, raised as an eloi but
secretly intelligent, needs money to help her doll-like sister,
Manna. Vanna forms a friendship with a man named Jare, and they
become involved in buying and selling a stimulant known to the
Health Authority to be extremely dangerous: chilli peppers. Then
Manna disappears, and Jare comes across a strange religious cult in
possession of the Core of the Sun, a chilli so hot that it is
rumoured to cause hallucinations. Does this chilli have effects
that justify its prohibition? How did Finland turn into the North
Korea of Europe? And will Vanna succeed in her quest to find her
sister, or will her growing need to satisfy her chilli addiction
destroy her? Johanna Sinisalo's tautly told story of fight and
flight is also a feisty, between-the-lines social polemic - a
witty, inventive, and fiendishly engaging read from the queen of
'Finnish Weird'.
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