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Author
Publisher
Barefoot Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story, the author humorously recounts the time his grandfather got stranded with a friend on Surtsey, a brand new volcanic island in Iceland. The adventurers face epic challenges like molten lava, melted eyeglasses and scant supplies before finally getting rescued. Graphic novel-like layouts and spirited text invite readers to search for the one thing that's not actually true in this thrilling yet light-hearted tale of adventure....
Author
Series
Inspector Hulda Hermannsdottir volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
3) 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"--
4) 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
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....
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
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
Language
English
Description
Rósa has always dreamed of living a simple life alongside her Mamma in their remote village in Iceland, where she prays to the Christian God aloud during the day, whispering enchantments to the old gods alone at night. But after her father dies abruptly and her Mamma becomes ill, Rósa marries herself off to a visiting trader in exchange for a dowry, despite rumors of mysterious circumstances surrounding his first wife's death.
Rósa follows her...
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
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First HarperVia edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger. Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the...
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
...13) Miss Iceland
Author
Publisher
Black Cat
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"Iceland in the 1960s. Hekla always knew she wanted to be a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces's Ulysess and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his archnemesis from the KGB.
15) Elska
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 1
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.
16) Meltwater
Author
Series
Fire and ice volume 3
Publisher
Corvus
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Operation Meltwater: FreeFlow, a group of internet activists committed to the freedom of information have video evidence of a military atrocity in the Middle East and have chosen Iceland as their HQ while they prepare to unleash their greatest coup on the world's media.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When women in an Icelandic village buy chickens to lay eggs for them to use, the chickens follow them, adopting human ways and forgetting their barnyard roots, until the ladies hatch a clever plan.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
[First edition?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, has landed in Viking age Iceland, where he meets a girl named Helga, who seems perfectly able to take care of herself--until an erupting volcano and an early arriving baby forces Ranger and Helga to journey through the ash and smoke to find her father and bring him home.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 48
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1969]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While searching in Iceland for a missing sailor sought by an insurance company, the teen-age detective brothers uncover a plot threatening the life of a United States astronaut and the secrets of NASA's moon project.
Author
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Feeling unfulfilled in his career after attending a school reunion, Sigurdur Óli struggles with setbacks in his relationship and position in the Icelandic police department only to have a favor for a friend go wrong, catapulting him into the middle of agrisly murder case.
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