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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Science professor Trevor Anderson's radical theories have tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. They go on a quest to find out what has happened to Trevor's missing brother, also a scientist. Trevor, Sean and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There, they discover a bizarre...
2) Elska
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Around the year 1000, the Icelandic horse named Elska is born and learns about life and her role in the herd, as well as love and friendship, when she rescues the girl to whom she originally belonged. Includes facts about Icelandic horses and Iceland.
Author
Publisher
Covenant Communications, Inc
Language
English
Description
Anna Braverman comes from a long line of intelligence agents, but her late father insisted she follow a different path and become an accountant. When an urgent summons arrives from her only living relative, Uncle Ezra, Anna drops everything to meet him in a café on the outskirts of Reykjavík, Iceland. Uncle Ezra sweeps her into a decades-old mystery as he explains that her great-grandfather, a famous Jewish artist, was accused of being a Nazi sympathizer....
4) Chasing ice
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
�2012.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the efforts of nature photographer James Balog to document the receding of the Solheim glacier in Iceland, a consequence of climate change and global warming, in which strategically placed cameras would take one picture every hour for three years.
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1992
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the formation, naming, and colonization of the twenty-seven-year-old volcanic island Surtsey and how the first animals and plants became established there.
7) Iceland
Author
Series
Publisher
Pogo Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"In this book, readers will learn about the unique and defining features of Iceland. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text will engage young readers as they learn more about the key details of the country including geography, climate, culture, and resources. Compelling questions encourage further inquiry"--
8) Iceland
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes this island of fire and ice which is located in the North Atlantic and which is today populated sparsely by descendants of Viking settlers.
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Spanning the icy streets of Reykjavik, the Icelandic highlands and cold, isolated fjords, The Darkness is an atmospheric thriller from Ragnar Jonasson, one of the most exciting names in Nordic Noir. The body of a young Russian woman washes up on an Icelandic shore. After a cursory investigation, the death is declared a suicide and the case is quietly closed. Over a year later Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsd�ottir of the Reykjav�ik police...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shortlisted for the Historical Writers Association Debut Crown Award
In the tradition of Jane Eyre and Rebecca-The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea in which a young woman follows her new husband to his remote home on the Icelandic coast in the 1680s, where she faces dark secrets surrounding the death of his first wife amidst a foreboding landscape and the superstitions of the local villagers.
"Gripped me in a cold fist. Beautiful." -Sara Collins, author...
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
"Teacher Wanted At the Edge of the World Una wants nothing more than to teach, but she has been unable to secure steady employment in Reykjavaik. Her savings are depleted, her love life is nonexistent, and she cannot face another winter staring at the four walls of her shabby apartment. Celebrating Christmas and ringing in 1986 in the remote fishing hamlet of Skaalar seems like a small price to pay for a chance to earn some teaching credentials and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition, First Aladdin paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Frogbottom's class is on a field trip to Iceland, the Land of Fire and Ice, where the kids meet terrifying and sneaky trolls. But can they find their way back home after the Magic Map goes missing?"--
Author
Publisher
Sweetwater Books, an Imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Gifted seventeen-year-old Norah's archaeologist uncle has been murdered because of a discovery below an Icelandic volcano and, as the owner of her uncle's secret journal, Norah can only trust her friend James to help her search for answers--or can she?
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Elín Jónsdóttir lives an isolated existence in Reykjavík, Iceland, making props and prosthetics for theatrical productions and Nordic crime flicks. In her early seventies, she has recently become fascinated with another loner, Ellen Álfsdóttir, a sensitive young playwright and illegitimate daughter of a famous writer. The girl has aroused maternal feelings in Elín, but she has also stirred discomfiting memories long packed away. Because their...
18) Snowblind
Author
Series
Dark Iceland volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Ari Th�or Arason, a rookie policeman on his first posting in a Northern Iceland fishing village, confronts the secrets and lies of a community he cannot trust after a young woman is found bleeding and unconscious in the snow and an elderly writer falls tohis death.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
California zookeeper Theodora Bentley travels to Iceland to pick up an orphaned polar bear cub destined for the Gunn Zoo's newly installed Northern Climes exhibit. The trip is intended to be a combination of work and play. But on day two, while horseback riding near a picturesque seaside village, Teddy discovers a man lying atop a puffin burrow, shot through the head.
The victim is identified as American birdwatcher Simon Parr, winner of
...20) Avalon: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Princes, Vikings, and the history of tenth-century England come together in this saga of exploration and unrequited love. Prince Rumon of France, descendant of Charlemagne and King Alfred, is a searcher. He has visions of the Islands of the Blessed, perhaps King Arthur's Avalon, "where falls not hail, or rain, or any snow." Merewyn grows up in savage Cornwall--a lonely girl, sustained by her stubborn courage and belief that she is descended...
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