Or so the doctors say. But Nahid is not the type to trust anyone. She resents the cancer diagnosis she has been given and the doctor who has given it to her. Bubbling inside her is also resentment toward life as it turned out, and the fact that it will go on without her. She feels alone, alone with her illness and alone with her thoughts. She yearns yet fails to connect with her only daughter, Aram. As the rawness of death draws near, Nahid should want to protect Aram from pain. She knows she should. Yet what is a daughter but one born to share in her mother’s pain?At fifty, Nahid is no stranger to death. As a Marxist revolutionary in eighties Iran, she saw loved ones killed in the street and was forced to flee to Sweden. She and her husband abandoned their roots to build a new life in a new country. They told themselves they did it for their newborn daughter, so she could live free. But now as she stands on the precipice facing death, Nahid understands that what you thought you escaped will never let you go. And without roots, can you ever truly be free?

    In Hampstead Heath, London, the body of a young boy is discovered with similar wounds to Linnea's. Buchenwald Concentration Camp, 1944. In the midst of the hell of the Holocaust, Erich Hebner will do anything to see himself as a human again. Are the two murders the work of a serial killer, and how are they connected to shocking events at Buchenwald? Emily Roy, a profiler on loan to Scotland Yard from the Canadian Royal Mounted Police, joins up with Linnea's friend, French true-crime writer Alexis Castells, to investigate the puzzling case. They travel between Sweden and London, and then deep into the past, as a startling and terrifying connection comes to light.

    Four years after the storming of the Bastille in France and more than a year after the death of King Gustav III of Sweden, paranoia and whispered conspiracies are Stockholm’s daily bread. A promise of violence crackles in the air as ordinary citizens feel increasingly vulnerable to the whims of those in power.When Mickel Cardell, a crippled ex-solider and former night watchman, finds a mutilated body floating in the city’s lake, he feels compelled to give the unidentifiable man a proper burial. For Cecil Winge, a brilliant lawyer turned consulting detective to the Stockholm police, a body with no arms, legs, or eyes is a formidable puzzle and one last chance to set things right before he loses his battle to consumption. Together, Winge and Cardell scour Stockholm to discover the body’s identity, encountering the sordid underbelly of the city’s elite. Meanwhile, Kristofer Blix leaves rural life for the alluring charms of the capital and ambitions of becoming a doctor. His letters to his sister chronicle his wild good times and terrible misfortunes, which lead him down a treacherous path.In another corner of the city, a young woman—Anna-Stina—is consigned to the workhouse after she upsets her parish priest. Her unlikely escape plan takes on new urgency when a sadistic guard marks her as his next victim.Over the course of the novel, these extraordinary characters cross paths and collide in shocking and unforgettable ways.

    This hardbound volume boasts 96 pages of Karlzon's intricate designs, season by season. Dripping icicles segue to blossoming gardens; summer nights give way to strawberries, mushrooms, and playful frogs, waterside. Autumn winds bring fall fog, pumpkins and rain. Lanterns, evergreens, and beautiful oranaments bring us 'round to winter once again.Hanna Karlzon has an art teaching degree from Umea University, and has run her own business as a freelance designer since 2013. Seasons is her fourth coloring book series. She lives in Umea, Sweden

     For example, in this book you’ll learn how to: * Interact with Swedes, without embarrassing yourself. * Celebrate Swedish traditions. * Flirt like a Swede. Find out why: * … Swedes are obsessed with sunshine, nature and a socializing activity called fika. * … Swedes don’t work in July. * … Swedes dance like little frogs around a pole that looks like a gigantic phallus. … and many more steps how to smoothly blend in among Swedes. Learn what Swedish people fear and desire. This Sweden guide will get you prepared for a "fantastisk" time in Sweden.

    Many of the opinions being shared about Sweden are fueled by ignorance, and come from people who have never even been to the country. But now, Sweden’s photojournalists want to set the record straight–the joys and challenges of everyday life are now in focus when more than fifty award-winning press photographers capture the Sweden that never makes it for the headlines. Tens of thousands of pictures were taken and the very best were selected by a jury and are now presented in the photo book Last Night in Sweden. It’s an unusual photo book that paints a rich and nuanced picture of a people who believe greatness is achieved through equality, democracy, free education and free health care.The first copy of the book was sent to President Trump to show him what really happened in Sweden last night.

    To do this, Elin follows him to a secluded cabin in the woods, where she soon discovers that what’s actually transpiring is stranger than anyone thought. Having ventured too far, she’s stumbled upon a hornet’s nest and put her life at risk. But it’s too late. Can Elin win the unequal fight against a gang of brutal child molesters?SECRETS? is the second, standalone book from Christer Tholin’s Stockholm Sleuth Series. In the previous novel VANISHED?, Elin and her colleague Lars solve their first case together.If you like fast-paced action and surprising twists and turns, then you will love Christer Tholin's sleuth series.

    It is primarily based on historical facts from sources such as Church Records, Tax Registers, Land Surveyor Notes, General Muster Rolls, and Estate Inventories, but also, to some extent, on tales handed down within the family. In the 16th century, Sweden had broken away from the Roman Catholic Church to become a Lutheran country. After a successful war against the Catholic countries in central Europe in the early 17th century, the Swedish King and the Church of Sweden cooperated in taking stricter control over the population. Such was the situation at the beginning of this book, which illustrates, with a series of examples, how the decisions of the political and religious leaders befell the simple people on the bottom of society. During the reoccurring wars in the 18th century, soldiers were sent to fight in other countries. Many of them never returned. What happened to their wives and children? The rules of the Church allowed only true Lutherans to share the Holy Communion and to get married. What happened to those who did not pass the compulsory hearings? The difference between social classes was vast. How did a young woman who had grown up in a one-room cottage with a naked earth floor react, when she came to work as a maid in a mansion with parquet flooring and walls covered with French wallpaper? When the last war was over, in 1814, the rural population grew steadily, and ever more provincials sought refuge in the cities. What was life like in the overcrowded, urban, working-class areas? In the late 19th century, democracy and equality gradually developed within the Swedish society. What could an industrious man, starting out with two empty hands, achieve in this situation? The purpose of this book is not only to present the history of Sweden from the perspective of the poor. It also intends to inspire and guide readers who would like to find out more about their own Swedish ancestors. The detailed accounts are based on facts found in historical documents, which next to all are available over the Internet. Over 400 reference notes at the end of the book indicate where to look for information. There is also a supplement discussing the quality and availability of the different sources.

    Until this time and, indeed, for centuries afterwards, Norse culture (particularly that of Iceland, where the myths were eventually transcribed) was an oral culture. In fact, in all Scandinavian countries well into the thirteenth century laws were memorized by officials known as “Lawspeakers” who recited them at the “Thing.” The Thing was the legislative assembly in Scandinavia “held for judicial purposes.” One of the most famous of these Lawspeakers was the Icelander Snorri Sturluson, a masterful writer who wrote the Prose Edda in the thirteenth century. There are other sources for the Norse myths, namely the later “Poetic Edda,” a collection of poems and prose work, and other sagas but the Snorri’s Prose Edda is the most complete work whose attribution is known to modern scholars. It is believed that Snorri, a Christian, recorded these pagan beliefs so as to preserve and explain the stylistic poetry of Iceland, particularly the popular descriptive devices known as kennings. A kenning is made up of a base word and a modifying word that is used to describe a separate object. For example, “Gold” had a great many kennings, one of which was “Sif’s Hair.” If, however, the memory of Loki cutting off Sif’s hair and replacing it with gold were lost, then this kenning would make no sense to later readers. There are many of these allusions to the myths and it is thanks to them that the myths have survived. The Norse Myths also appear to follow a chronological narrative, which the historian John Lindow describes as having a “Mythical Past, Present and Future.” Loki features in each of these literary “epochs” and it helps to understand the complexity of his character, as well as the belief system, to view the myths in this way. While not as well-known as Thor or Odin, Loki’s name is immediately recognizable to many, and his history is as enigmatic as his characters. Fittingly, as historian Rudolph Simek put it, his “sources are just as varied as his interpretations.” He first appears in Þjóðólfr ór Hvíni´s 9th century poem Haustlöng, recorded in the Skáldskaparmál, but the etymology of his name has still not been solved. Rudolph Simek has made a tentative assertion that Loki was related to the Old Norse “luka” (meaning to “close”) and has surmised that there could be a connection between this and his role in the “closing” of the world during the apocalyptic event Ragnarök. Whatever the original meaning of his name, the surviving image of Loki is multifaceted but mostly negative. “Father of the Gods” enemies’ Loki has been interpreted as a fool, a trickster and a devil, the latter being connected with his being a harbinger for the Norse “end of days” and the subsequent revival of peace and godliness that had clear echoes in the Christian Apocalypse. There is no evidence of cult activity for Loki, and despite many attempts at defining one, there appears to be no obvious religious “function” to his character. Nevertheless, he permeates many of the key moments in Norse mythology - for good and bad - beginning and ending with his role as “father of monsters.” Loki: The Origins and History of the Famous Norse Trickster God looks at the story and the legendary Norse deity.