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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Here is the real inside story—not the one about the Stieg Larsson phenomenon, but rather the love story of a man and a woman whose lives came to be guided by politics and love, coffee and activism, writing and friendship. Only one person in the world knows that story well enough to tell it with authority. Her name is Eva Gabrielsson.
Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his...
Eva Gabrielsson and Stieg Larsson shared everything, starting when they were both eighteen until his...
4) Childhood
Author
Publisher
Lake View Press
Pub. Date
1991.
Physical Desc
ix, 182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 259
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 379 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Series
Dictionary of literary biography volume 257
Publisher
Gale Group
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 380 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 473 : Sweden
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1978]
Physical Desc
194 pages : portraits ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
x, 343 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first English-language biography of Astrid Lindgren provides a moving and revealing portrait of the beloved Scandinavian literary icon whose adventures of Pippi Longstocking have influenced generations of young readers all over the world. Lindgren's sometimes turbulent life as an unwed teenage mother, outspoken advocate for the rights of women and children, and celebrated editor and author is chronicled in fascinating detail by Jens Andersen,...
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Swedish
Description
Follows the story of Astrid Lindgren, future author of Pippi Longstocking. As a teenager, eager to break free from her loving but strict religious family in rural Sweden, she accepts an internship at a local newspaper where she attracts the attention of its married editor. After Astrid becomes pregnant, she embarks for Denmark to give birth to a son, whom she reluctantly leaves with a foster mother. When the foster mother falls ill, Astrid uses her...
Author
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
x, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stieg Larsson's former publisher reveals the real man behind the mega-bestselling Millennium Trilogy--a man who fought heroically for human rights, and who brought that same political and moral passion to his writing. Until the trilogy's posthumous publication, Larsson was best known for his devotion to left-wing causes and as a tireless anti-fascist activist. Horrified by the rise of far-right extremism in Sweden, he dedicated himself to exposing...
14) Astrid Lindgren
Author
Series
Twayne's world authors volume TWAS 851
Publisher
Twayne Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Physical Desc
xv, 157 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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