sweden

This is the saga of the great Swedish warship, the Vasa. Built to be the crown jewel of the Swedish Navy, the Vasa capsized not a mile into her maiden voyage in 1628---a tragedy resulting in many deaths and great loss. But who was to blame? Award-winning author Russell Freedman explores the history of this ship, and her resurrection from the seas in 1961.

Readers will learn about the game's creator, programmer Markus ""Notch ""Persson; Mojang, the company he founded to help make it a reality; and the team of people who've helped it reach its current popularity.

"Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo, the brilliant hacker, the obstinate outsider, the volatile seeker of justice for herself and others-even she has never been able to uncover the most telling facts of her traumatic childhood, the secrets that might finally, fully explain her to herself. Now, when she sees a chance to uncover them once and for all, she enlists the help of Mikael Blomkvist, the editor of the muckraking, investigative journal 'Millennium.' And she will let nothing stop her-not the Islamists she enrages by rescuing a young woman from their brutality; not the prison gang leader who passes a death sentence on her; not the deadly reach of her long-lost twin sister, Camilla; and not the people who will do anything to keep buried knowledge of a sinister pseudoscientific experiment known only as 'The Registry'..."--Dust jacket.

Discusses several cultural events and holidays in Sweden.

Presents the biography of Markus "Notch" Persson, a computer programmer from Sweden, who invented the Minecraft video game. Also includes information on the game development company Mogjang AB and other programmers who were involved in the creation of Minecraft.

Text and illustrations explore the life and career of Anders Celsius, a Swedish scientist best known for the Celsius temperature scale.

"[Presents the life story of] Sweden's Carolus (Karl) Linnaeus [who] started off as a curious child who loved exploring the garden ... Karl's love of nature led him to take on a seemingly impossible task: to give a scientific name to every living thing on earth. The result was the Linnaean system--the basis for the classification system used by biologists around the world today"--Provided by publisher.

After finding a Nazi medal among her late mother's belongings, crime writer Erica Falck meets with an old friend of her mother's, who is suddenly and violently murdered two days later, and Erica and her husband Detective Patrik Hedstr?om must turn to family wartime diaries for clues.

Tells the story of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish humanitarian who saved tens of thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, issuing passports and providing housing.