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<p>Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.<br/><br/>Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (explored in Madeleine Miller's bestseller <i>Song of Achilles</i>), join the cult of Antinous (inspiration for Oscar Wilde), get down with pansexual god Set in Egyptian myth, and fall for Zimbabwe's trans God Mawi. And from modern pop-culture, through Dan Jones's witty, upbeat style, learn more about 90s fan obsessions <i>Xena: Warrior Princess</i> and <i>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</i>, Neil Gaiman's <i>American Gods</i> and the BBC's <i>Doctor Who</i>.<br/><br/><i>Queer </i><i>Heroes of Myth & Legend </i>brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.</p>

<p><b>Eighty years on, <i>D-Day The Oral History </i>is a fresh and significant new history of arguably the most important day of the 20th Century.</b><br/><br/>On 6th June 1944, the Allied invasion began. For hours, wave after wave of soldiers, sailors, and airmen crossed the channel and stormed the Normandy coast, fighting to gain a foothold in Nazi-occupied Northwest Europe. It was the largest combined air and seaborne invasion ever, involving over 150,000 Allied troops on the ground, and its eventual success became a critical turning point in the war, spelling the beginning of the end for the Third Reich.<br/><br/>As the events of that day fade from living memory, it's more important than ever to understand what it felt like to be there and to live through it, on both sides. In this definitive work, Garrett M. Graff, the bestselling author of <i>The Only Plane in the Sky: The Oral History of 9/11, </i>compiles <b>over 600 US, Canadian, UK, French and German voices</b> to tell the full story of exactly how that historic day unfolded, in visceral detail - as well as the weeks and months leading up to it. From paratroopers to fighter pilots to nurses, generals, French villagers, German Defenders to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, this is the most intimate re-telling of D-Day published to date.<br/><br/><b>Praise for <i>THE ONLY PLANE IN THE SKY: </i></b><br/><br/><i>"The most moving and chilling oral history you will read."</i><b><i> The Times</i></b><br/><br/><i>"Incredibly evocative and compelling." </i><b><i>The Washington Post</i></b><br/><br/><i>"A hugely powerful new book."</i><b> Dan Snow</b><br/><br/><i>"Astonishing book about an astonishing, terrifying atrocity, relived in real time by those who were there. I read it in one sitting & was utterly gripped from start to finish." </i><b>Piers Morgan</b></p>

"En utmärkt bok för våra utländska vänner." Bibliotekstjänst<br/><br/>Turistboom! Våra svenska traditioner äntligen på engelska. Perfekt bok för turister såväl som för utländska gäster och vänner.<br/><br/>Här berättas om Lucia, Midsommar, Jul, Nationaldagen, Påsk, Våffeldagen och årets övriga svenska traditioner. Här finns förstås hela julhelgen med bilder av bl a Carl Larsson. Författaren skriver lärorikt och personligt om typiskt svenska traditioner en del ursvenska och om de traditioner vi delar med andra men med vår egen svenska utformning.<br/><br/>Rikt illustrerad med bilder och fotografier av den vackra svenska naturen.<br/><br/>Även recept på några klassiska svenska maträtter.<br/><br/>IN ENGLISH:<br/><br/>Did you know that . . .<br/><br/>Swedes cannot celebrate Christmas without Swedish ginger snaps and saffron buns?<br/><br/>Swedish children dress up as witches and beg for money at Easter?<br/><br/>Lucia Midsummer Christmas Sweden s National Day Easter Waffle Day<br/><br/>are all presented here together with the other annual Swedish traditions. Of course the Christmas holidays are included, with illustrations by Carl Larsson and others.<br/><br/>The author has written a personal, informative and entertaining presentation of typical Swedish customs some of which are ancient and the traditions which Swedes share with others often with our very own Swedish adaptations.<br/><br/>Richly illustrated with pictures and photographs of Sweden's beautiful nature, including recipes for some of Sweden s most classic traditional dishes.<br/><br/>The author Jan-Öjvind Swahn is one of Sweden s most renowned scholars in cultural history studies, and he is Professor Emeritus in Folkloristics.

<p><b>The first and only graphic novel to win</b><b> the Pulitzer Prize, <i>MAUS</i> is a brutally moving work of art about a Holocaust survivor -- and the son who survives him</b><b><br/><br/>'The first masterpiece in comic book history' <i>The New Yorker</i></b><br/><br/><i>Maus</i> tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Approaching the unspeakable through the diminutive (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father.<br/><br/>Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits, studying the bloody pawprints of history and tracking its meaning for those who come next.<br/><br/><b>HAILED AS THE GREATEST GRAPHIC NOVEL OF ALL TIME, THIS COMBINED, DEFINITIVE EDITION INCLUDES <i>MAUS I: A SURVIVOR'S TALE</i> AND <i>MAUS II</i>. </b><br/><b>___________________________________________________________________________</b><br/><br/><b>'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust'</b><b> <i>Wall Street Journal</i></b><br/><br/><b>'A brutally moving work of art' <i>Boston Globe</i></b><br/><br/>'<b>No summary can do justice</b> to Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik<br/><br/>'Like all great stories, it <b>tells us more about ourselves than we could ever suspect</b>' Philip Pullman<br/><br/>'<b>A capital-G Genius</b>' Michael Chabon</p>

Goodbye, Eastern Europe [Bok / Inbunden]

<p>Svenska kungar och drottningar - på engelska!</p><p>I Kings and queens of Sweden presenteras svenska regenter från Gustav Vasa och fram till dagens kungahus. Bokens tyngdpunkt ligger på de moderna kungligheterna. Boken även en kortfattad SVENSK HISTORIA - från istid till Spotify - och en presentation av de elva kungliga slotten.</p><p>Här får du lära känna kung Carl XVI Gustaf, drottning Silvia, kronprinsessan Victoria, prins Carl Philip och prinsessan Madeleine och deras familjer. Du får läsa om deras uppväxt, intressen, sociala engagemang, bröllop, barn.</p><p>Boken innehåller minibiografier om Sveriges regenter från Gustav Vasa till Gustav VI Adolf. Det är historier om makt, krig, familjefejder, älskarinnor. Följ släktband och uppgörelser fram till vår moderna kungafamilj. </p><p>Boken presenterar också de elva KUNGLIGA SLOTTEN, bland annat Drottningholms slott, Stockholms slott, Ulriksdals slott, Haga slott och Gripsholms slott. </p><p>Boken är rikt illustrerad med fotografier och målningar i färg.</p><p>PETER OLAUSSON har tidigare skrivit böcker om Sveriges historia. ADRIENNE BÖNNELYCHE är reporter på Svensk Damtidning. MATTIAS HENRIKSON är författare till böcker om Stockholm.</p><p></p><p>IN ENGLISH:</p><p>Royalty and History!   </p><p>THE REGENTS OF SWEDEN from Gustav Vasa to our present king Carl XVI Gustaf presented here together with a short survey of Sweden's history from the ice age to Spotify.     </p><p>Learn about our modern royal family: King Carl XVI Gustaf Queen Silvia Crown Princess Victoria Prince Carl Philip Princess Madeleine . . . and their families. Read about their upbringing, social involvement and duties, their weddings, children. With quotations and wonderful illustrations. </p><p>Mini-biographies from Gustav Vasa to Gustaf VI Adolf, as well as the struggles for power, wars, family feuds and mistresses . . . Follow family relationships and agreements up until our modern royal family today.</p><p>The eleven ROYAL PALACES AND CASTLES are also presented here, including Drottningholm Palace, the Royal Palace of Stockholm, Ulriksdal Palace, Haga Palace and Gripsholm Castle. Most of the palaces are open to tourists.</p><p></p>

<p>Havet har flera ansikten. Ofta rofyllt och välkomnande, men också våldsamt och dödsbringande. I årtusenden har havet varit en scen för liv, handel och krig och misslyckanden.</p><p>I F<i>acing the Sea</i> får vi ta del av svenska erfarenheter av havet. Vi får läsa om smugglare från Åland, brittiska kapare som beslagtar svenska skepp och marinofficerare som kämpar för flaggans heder. Vi ser också vad en katastrof till sjöss eller bärgandet av ett skeppsvrak kan berätta om samhället i dåtid och nutid, och varför allt fler människor väljer att begrava sina anhöriga till sjöss. Rösterna av barn som i krigstid tagit den farliga flyktvägen över Östersjön ger ytterligare en dimension till innehållet.</p><p><i>Facing the Sea</i> har författats av elva forskare som tillsammans representerar ett axplock av den forskning som bedrivs vid Centrum för maritima studier (CEMAS) vid Stockholms universitet. Författarna är historiker, etnologer och marinarkeologer med koppling till forskningscentret.</p><p></p>