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Beartown volume 3
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English
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"Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone has tried to move on, but there's something about this place...
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Taken hostage by a failed bank robber while attending an open house, eight anxiety-prone strangers--including a redemption-seeking bank director, two couples who would fix their marriages, and a plucky octogenarian--discover their unexpected common traits.
Viewing an apartment normally doesn't turn into a life-or-death situation, but this particular open house becomes just that: a failed bank robber bursts in and takes everyone in the apartment hostage....
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten...
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English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beartown and A Man Called Ove, hailed as "a writer of astonishing depth [with] the remarkable ability to make you understand the feelings of each of a dozen different characters" (The Washington Times), a heart-wrenching story of how loyalty, friendship, and love carry a town through its darkest days. After everything that the citizens of Beartown have gone through, they are struck yet another blow...
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English
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"From the author of the internationally bestselling A Man Called Ove, a charming, warmhearted novel about a young girl whose grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters, sending her on a journey that brings to life the world of her grandmother's fairy tales"--
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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A little book with a big heart—from the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People.
"I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know." —Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell...
"I read this beautifully imagined and moving novella in one sitting, utterly wowed, wanting to share it with everyone I know." —Lisa Genova, bestselling author of Still Alice
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell...
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English
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Britt-Marie is a socially awkward, fussy busybody who is used to being organized. When she walks out on her cheating husband and gets a job as caretaker of the dilapidated recreation center in Borg, she is woefully unprepared for the changes. But as she takes on the task of leading the supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory, she just might find a place she belongs.
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
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Fredrik Backman, el autor bestseller de Gente ansiosa, nos trae una novela emocionante, tierna y graciosa que celebra la importancia de la comunidad y de las conexiones entre las personas en un mundo que a veces intenta alejarnos los unos de los otros.
Tras dejar a su esposo infiel, Britt-Marie encuentra trabajo como encargada en el casi clausurado centro cívico de Borg, un abandonado y ruinoso pueblo del que lo único bueno que
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"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...
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Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
Español
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Un robo a un banco con toma de rehenes. Una escalera llena de policías a punto de asaltar un apartamento. Llegar a esto fue sorprendentemente fácil. Sólo hizo falta una mala idea. Una idea mala de verdad.
Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situación de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la víspera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequeña ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su
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Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
Conoce a Ove. Es un cascarrabias, el tipo de hombre que señala a las personas que no le agradan como si fueran ladrones atrapados afuera de la ventana de su dormitorio. Tiene principios firmes, rutinas estrictas y poca mecha. La gente lo llama "el vecino amargado del infierno". Pero detrás del malhumorado exterior hay una historia y una tristeza. Entonces, cuando una mañana de noviembre una joven pareja conversadora con dos hijas pequeñas se mudan...
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HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
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Beartown, una pequeña comunidad escondida en lo profundo del bosque, es el hogar de gente dura y trabajadora que no espera que la vida sea fácil ni justa. No importa lo difíciles que sean los tiempos, siempre han podido estar orgullosos de su equipo local de hockey sobre hielo. Así que es un golpe cruel cuando se enteran de que el hockey sobre hielo de Beartown podría disolverse pronto. Lo que empeora las cosas es la evidente satisfacción que...
Author
Series
Beartown volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
"Cerca del lago en Beartown hay una pista de hielo, y en la pista Kevin, Amat, Benji y el resto del. Equipo junior de hockey sobre hielo est̀ a punto de competir en la semifinal nacional; y, de hecho, tiene la oportunidad de ganar. Todos los suęos y esperanzas de este lugar descansan ahora sobre los hombros de un grupo de adolescentes. Bajo la pesada carga, el partido se convierte en la cat̀lisis de un acto violento que dejar̀ a una joven traumatizada...
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Publisher
HarperCollinsEspañol
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
Español
Description
Tras dejar a su esposo infiel, Britt-Marie encuentra trabajo como encargada en el casi clausurado centro cívico de Borg, un abandonado y ruinoso pueblo del que lo único bueno que puede decirse es que tiene una carretera. Esta quisquillosa mujer se verá envuelta en la vida de sus nuevos vecinos, un grupo de malhechores, borrachos y holgazanes que le demostrarán que la vida va más allá de tener un cajón de los cubiertos ordenado. Pero su reto...
17) Gente ansiosa
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Español
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Español
Description
"Visitar un apartamento en venta no es una situación de vida o muerte. A menos que sea la víspera de Nochevieja, vivas en una pequeña ciudad en Suecia y alguien haya tenido la peor idea de su vida y decidido atracar un banco que no maneja efectivo. Entonces, sí lo es. Porque, cuando alguien es así de idiota, es inevitable que no sepa cómo huir y termine en un apartamento en venta tomando rehenes sin querer. Pero puedes confiar en la policía....
Author
Series
Beartown volume 3
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Rediscover this "lyrical look at how a community heals, how families recover, and how individuals grow" (The Washington Post) with the complete Beartown trilogy in one unputdownable ebook from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Fredrik Backman.
In the "beautifully told" (The New York Times Book Review) Beartown—which inspired the HBO series of the same name—a small town obsessed with the...
In the "beautifully told" (The New York Times Book Review) Beartown—which inspired the HBO series of the same name—a small town obsessed with the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Now a Hallmark Original Movie!
"A perfect read for lovers of Antoine Laurain's The Red Notebook, Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove." —Library Journal, starred review
"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul." —Nina George, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop
A delightful gem of a novel about family, forgiveness and finding...
"A perfect read for lovers of Antoine Laurain's The Red Notebook, Gabrielle Zevin's The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, and Fredrik Backman's A Man Called Ove." —Library Journal, starred review
"Phaedra Patrick understands the soul." —Nina George, New York Times bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop
A delightful gem of a novel about family, forgiveness and finding...
Publisher
Cohen Film Collection
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Swedish
Description
After the end of a long marriage, Britt-Marie is starting over at age 63. In the small town of Borg, the only job she can find is quite challenging: to coach the town’s youth soccer team. Based on the bestselling novel by author Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove).
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