The Christmas Mystery

The author of the critically acclaimed Sophie's World  presents a Christmas adventure about a boy who discovers a magical  Advent calendar in the corner of a dusty bookstore that takes him on an  amazing holiday journey that reveals the true mystery of the Nativity.  Read by Isaiah Sheffer.

GAARDER, Jostein

Sheffer, Isaiah

Children's Books

Penguin Audio

When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong with Anna; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. 
 Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, roaming through wasteland with a band of survivors, after animals and plants have died out. 
 The more Anna sees, the more she realises she must act to prevent the future in her visions becoming real. But can she act quickly enough?
 Haunting, gripping and magical, The World According to Anna is a fable for our time.

The World According to Anna

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

, 482 pages, translated from the Norwegian by Paulette Moller, colour illustrated endpapers

Sophie's World

The author of the massively successful Sophie's World returns with a love story and a novel of ideas, exploring the place of human consciousness in the universe Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together, then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have fond memories from, and their meeting turns out to be fateful. But is it purely coincidental that they meet at that particular spot at that particular time? Over a couple of weeks that summer they write emails to each other, and it becomes clear that they have been living with very different interpretations of their shared past. This intimate love story of rediscovery explores the question: can science explain everything, or does some invisible force influence our lives?

The Castle in the Pyrenees

Literary

Orion Publishing

The author of the critically acclaimed Sophie's World presents a Christmas adventure about a boy who discovers a magical Advent calendar in the corner of a dusty bookstore that takes him on an amazing holiday journey. 75,000 first printing.

Holidays & Celebrations

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Floria Aemilia, a concubine to St. Augustine for more than ten years prior to his spiritual awakening, challenges St. Augustine's view of women and love as described in his Confessions, in a passionate and occasionally erotic fictional letter addressing faith, doubt, and human relationships.

That Same Flower: Floria Aemilia's Letter to Saint Augustine

Born, Anne

Finding two thought-inducing philosophical questions in her mailbox, Sophie enrolls in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher, and begins receiving some equally strange letters. 25,000 first printing.

Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy

Genre Fiction

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

While taking a car trip through Europe with his father in search of his long-lost mother, a mysterious miniature book about a sailor shipwrecked on a strange island on which a deck of cards has come to life holds the clues to understanding the disappearance of Hans Thomas's mother many years before.

The Solitaire Mystery

Hello? Is Anybody There?

"Eight-year-old Joe is waiting alone at home for the birth of his sibling when he sees something fall from the sky. It's Mika, from the planet Eljo, hanging by the seat of his pants in Joe's apple tree. During the first meeting, the two explore the thought-provoking concept of when down becomes up and vice versa...The importance of questioning everything, from what's a pancake to religious beliefs, makes this gentle story fun to read as well as eye-opening."-School Library Journal

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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The Christmas Mystery

The World According to Anna

Sophie's World

The Castle in the Pyrenees

The Christmas Mystery

That Same Flower: Floria Aemilia's Letter to Saint Augustine

Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy

The Solitaire Mystery

Hello? Is Anybody There?

The Solitaire Mystery