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2012
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“A delightful novel” and international bestseller from the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow (Guardian)
Danish siblings search for their missing parents—eccentric ‘miracle-makers’—in this whimsical tale about faith and the magic of everyday life.
Told from the precocious perspective of 14-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers’ Children is about 3 siblings...
Danish siblings search for their missing parents—eccentric ‘miracle-makers’—in this whimsical tale about faith and the magic of everyday life.
Told from the precocious perspective of 14-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers’ Children is about 3 siblings...
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Isaiah, the son of one of Smilla Jasperson's neighbors, is found face-down in the snow outside her Copenhagen apartment building, leaving the usually stoical Smilla disturbed. She quickly rejects the official verdict of accidental death when she observes the footprints the boy left in the snow.
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The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple-Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene-a sleeping beauty drowsing gently in an alcoholic stupor-is the beautiful and disillusioned wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavior scientist. Erasmus-the unlikely prince-is a 300-pound ape. Erasmus is brought to the Burdens' London home after escaping from animal smugglers. In him Adam Burden believes he has discovered a hitherto unknown mammal,...
4. Borderliners
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Peter, an orphan studying at a prestigious Danish boarding school, discovers that the headmaster is conducting a dangerous, government-approved experiment in controlling children. The experiment always results in tragedy, and Peter is the newest subject.
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Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical...
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[2012]
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Told from the perspective of precocious fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the fictional island of Finø, where people of all faiths coexist peacefully. Yet nothing is at it seems. When Peter's parents suddenly go missing, Peter...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment :
Pub. Date:
2000
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English
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When a young boy from Greenland falls from the top of the house Smilla lives in, she suspects that this was not an accident. As she begins to investigate, she is pulled deeper and deeper into a conspiracy that could very well mean her death.