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1) The raiders
Author
Series
Inuk quartet volume 2
Physical Desc
127 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Apuluk and Narua decide to leave Thorstein's farm and return home Leiv, their good friend, joins them on their journey but when they learn that Grimur and Rane are destroying entire Inuit villages, the boys help form a raiding party determined to kill the fierce Viking brothers.
2) Cold earth
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Physical Desc
280 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland assembles at the beginning of the Arctic summer to unearth traces of the lost Viking settlements in Greenland. But as they sink into uneasy domesticity, there is news of an epidemic back home, and their communications with the outside world fall away. Facing a Greenland winter for which they are hopelessly ill-equipped, Nina, Ruth, Catriona, Jim, Ben, and Yianni, knowing that...
Author
Series
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecked off the coast of Greenland, Leiv Steinursson, a young Viking boy, is helped by two Inuit children, twelve-year-old Apuluk and his eleven-year-old sister Narua, and is accepted into their community, gladly leaving his violent lifestyle behind.
5) First light
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Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Peter and his family arrive in Greenland for his father's research, he stumbles upon a secret his mother has been hiding from him all his life, and begins an adventure he never imagines possible.
Author
Series
Konrad Simonsen volume 2nd
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the body of a girl is discovered in the melting Greenland ice cap, hundreds of miles from any civilization, Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen investigates the murder and discovers disturbing details about some of Denmark's most powerful figures.
Author
Physical Desc
x, 173 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Last Night in Nuuk follows the lives of five young Greenlanders exploring their identities at the cusp of adulthood. Niviaq Korneliussen is a ground-breaking young writer hailed for creating "[her] own genre" (Politiken, Denmark) in her witty and fearless debut Last Night in Nuuk. A work of daring invention about young life in Greenland, Korneliussen brilliantly weaves together the coming of age of five young people in the capital city, Nuuk. Fia...
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Series
Sigma Force novel volume 15
Physical Desc
xvi, 437 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"For eons, the city of Troy -- whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad -- was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of even older artifacts -- tools of war -- dating back...
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