Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo’s Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom—a master of […]
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Based on the novel of the same name by Jo Nesbø, The Snowman follows Inspector Harry Hole as he’s tested to the very limits of his sanity by a killer with a strange signature: a snowman. The film stars Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Val Kilmer, and J. K. Simmons, and hits theaters on October 20th. One night, after the […]
Harry Hole returns in the eleventh installment of the author’s best-selling, electrifying crime fiction series—published in 48 languages, more than 30 million copies sold worldwide. In Police—the last novel featuring Jo Nesbø’s hard-bitten, maverick Oslo detective—a killer wreaking revenge on the police had Harry Hole fighting for the safety of the people closest to him. Now, […]
For more than four hundred years, Shakespeare’s works have been performed, read, and loved throughout the world. They have been reinterpreted for each new generation, whether as teen films, musicals, science-fiction flicks, Japanese warrior tales, or literary transformations. Now, with the Hogarth Shakespeare series, your favorite contemporary writers put their twists on some of the […]
Hogarth’s Shakespeare series will see Shakespeare’s plays reimagined by some of today’s bestselling and most celebrated writers. The books will be true to the spirit of the original plays, while giving authors an exciting opportunity to do something new. In The Gap of Time, Jeanette Winterson’s cover version of The Winter’s Tale and the first in the […]
Time is ticking. Don’t wait another minute. Cast your picks for LibraryReads November List now! Tell us about the books you’ve loved reading by voting! The deadline to vote for November picks is October 1. Remember you can vote only once for a single book, but you can vote for as many titles as you […]
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This November brings a lot of great reads. Here are a few of our favorites. We think you and your patrons will love them too. THE DEATH OF SANTINI: THE STORY OF A FATHER AND HIS SON By Pat Conroy In this powerful and intimate memoir, the beloved bestselling author of The Prince of Tides and […]
Today for Lunch Lit we have the Phantom excerpt by Jo Nesbø. Get excited it’s a good one. Following from Jo Nesbø’s electrifying international best-sellers The Snowman and The Leopard, now comes Phantom, which plunges the brilliant, deeply troubled, now former police officer Harry Hole into a full-tilt investigation on which his own tenuous future […]
