Jostein Gaarder

• Jan-1996
• / General Fiction
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SOPHIE'S WORLD is the #1 international bestseller that has captivated millions -- a wondrous journey of intellect and imagination that will make you look at life through the eyes of a child again. One day Sophie comes home from school to find tw...

• Jun-1996
• / Mystery
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The story of a boy and his father on a car trip through Europe, searching for the boy's mother, who left many years ago to find herself. Structured as a deck of cards -- each chapter is one card in the deck -- The Solitaire Mystery subtly weaves toge...

• Nov-1996
• / Mystery
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In the corner of a dusty old bookstore, Joachim discovers a magic advent calendar. When he opens the first window on December first, a small piece of paper falls out, containing the story of a little girl named Elisabet. Using his historical insight ...

• Feb-1998
• / General Fiction
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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...

• Sep-1998
• / General Fiction
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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 th...

• Nov-2004
• / Literary
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From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist.'It should be read by all' VOGUE'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together'T...

• Nov-2005
• / General Fiction
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A mysterious novel by the author of the international bestseller SOPHIE'S WORLD.

A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English a...

• Nov-2005
• / Literary
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Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he sees around her neck an amber charm -- just like the one he gave his own child before she was swept away in a torrent 16 years earlier. This tale is nar...

• Mar-2007
• / Historical
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• May-2010
• / Suspense
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Two former lovers are brought back together ... but can they really trust their pasts? The new novel from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they sudden...

• Dec-2010
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2015
• / General Fiction
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When fifteen-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate ...

• Mar-2019
• / Literary
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From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder, author of modern classic Sophie's World, comes a novel about loneliness and the power of words Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he sp...

• Nov-2022
• / Graphic Novel
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Jostein Gaarder’s worldwide philosophy bestseller Sophie’s World is reimagined as a graphic novel by writer Vincent Zabus and artist Nicoby, with this first volume exploring the tenets from Socrates to Galileo. One day, Sophie receives a...

• Oct-2023
• / Graphic Novel
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Sophie’s World: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy, Vol II: From Descartes to the Present Day is the second adaptation continuing Jostein Gaarder’s worldwide philosophy bestseller reimagined by writer Vincent Zabus an...

• / General Fiction
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Conversations about life and death, between a girl and an angel.It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. ...