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Accidental Shepherd by Liese Greensfelder
How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway A summer job turns serious when a young woman takes the reins on a remote farm—and learns far more than how to herd sheep.In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived...
$27.95
Alpha Girls: The Women Upstarts Who Took On Silicon Valley's Male Culture and Made the Deals of a Lifetime by Julian Guthrie
An unforgettable story of four women – Magdalena Yesil, Mary Jane Elmore, Theresia Gouw, and Sonja Perkins. Through grit and ingenuity, they became stars in the cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated world of venture capital in Silicon Valley, and helped build...
$28.00
Counterfeiter: How A Norwegian Jew Survived The Holocaust by
This is an enthralling personal account of the secret Nazi project, Operation Bernhard, devised to destabilize the British and, later, American economies by creating and putting into circulation millions of counterfeit banknotes. A team of typographers and printers was pulled...
$16.95
Handmade: Learning the Art of Chainsaw Mindfulness in a Norwegian Wood
Humans have always used their hands to create the world around them. But now most of us have gone from being practitioners to theorists, from being producers to consumers. What happens to our society when we are so divorced from...
$16.99
I Talk about It All the Time by Camara Lundestad Joof
In this biting, lyrical memoir, Camara Lundestad Joof, born in Bodø to Norwegian and Gambian parents, shares her experiences as a queer Black Norwegian woman. Joof’s daily encounters belie the myth of a colorblind contemporary Scandinavia. She wrestles with the...
$18.95
Mission To The City by Karl Holm
This book records Karl Holm's personal account of his work in Orkenen Sur, a shanty town in the Red Hook section of Brooklyn, New York, during the worst years of the Depression. Holm immigrated to the United States from Norway in...
$11.95
Paddle Pilgrim, Kayaking the Fjords of Norway by David Ellingson
Paddle Pilgrim chronicles a month-long paddle adventure on the magnificent Sogne and Hardanger Fjords in Norway, where the author's ancestors emigrated to America in the 1850s. An epic narrative is told with daily detailed accounts of experiences on the water...
$14.99
The Diary of Elisabeth Koren 1853-1855 by David T Nelson
Else Elisabeth Hysing, an upper-class Norwegian woman, married Ulrik Vilhelm Koren on August 18, 1853 and, almost immediately afterward, the couple made the perilous Atlantic Crossing to America, where her husband had been called to serve as the first Lutheran...
$19.95
The Dragon from Chicago By Pamela D. Toler
For fans of unheralded women’s stories, this is a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz who was one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime.“No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much...
$29.95
The Hjelles of Siewers Springs by Ann Hjelle
An Iowa family and their farm. This booklet documents a Norwegian immigrant family and their Decorah, Iowa, legacy.
Softcover.
$5.00
Voyage of the TradeWind by Harald M. Hamran
The logbook and diary of the voyage that Harald Hamran and his brother Hans made between Norway and America in 1933 on a 25-foot sailboat. Their ship, TradeWind, is one of the most popular artifacts at Vesterheim.Softcover, 80 pp.
$12.95
War and Innocence by Hanna Aasvik Helmersen
A young girl's life in occupied Norway (1940-1945) War and Innocence is Hanna Aasvik Helmersen's moving account based on her childhood memories of Norway during WWII. It is the remarkable story of a young girl's experience with the suddenness of...
$15.00