Good Reads
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
Norwegian Emigration: Between Rocks and Hard Places by Ann Urness Gesme
Gesme shares her research detailing customs and conditions in the lives of rural Norwegians as they began to consider emigration in the 1800s. With this information, readers can gain logical and credible insight into the daily lives of Norwegian ancestors. This...
$22.95
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
Assault In Norway: Sabotaging the Nazi Nuclear Program by Thomas Gallagher
A gripping narrative of a brave team of Norwegian exiles who infiltrated their homeland for the Allies to sabotage a German factory where "heavy water" was being produced and stockpiled."An exciting and dramatic episode." ~ Library JournalSoftcover, 233 pp.
$16.95
Shetland Bus by David Howarth
The occupation of Western Europe and Scandinavia in the spring of 1940 crippled Britain's ability to gather intelligence information. After the Germans invaded Norway, many Norwegians knew that small boats were constantly sailing from the Shetland Islands to land weapons,...
$19.95
The Viking Heart: How Scandinavians Conquered the World by Arthur Herman
From a New York Times best-selling historian and pulitzer prize finalist, this sweeping epic melds a compelling historical narrative of war, enterprise, and adventure with cutting-edge archaeological and DNA research. PB.
$19.99
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
Norwegian Rose Painting in America by Nils Ellingsgard
Among the hundreds of thousands of Norwegians who immigrated to the United States during the 19th century, many brought objects from a rich rural tradition. This book is a survey of the most typical and interesting objects, with emphasis on...
$39.00
Red River Girl - The Art of Orabel Thortvedt
This fascinating coffee table-style book, published in 2020, is the result of a cooperative effort between the West-Telemark Museum in Eidsborg and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County, in Moorhead, Minnesota. This is a remarkable publication that tells...
$45.00
Norway In America
Catalog of four exhibitions from Vesterheim that were invited for showing in Hamar, Lillehammer, Gjøvik, 1989. Softcover.
$7.00
The Heirloom Murders (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #2) by Kathleen Ernst
The story is set at Old World Wisconsin, a living history museum where author Kathleen Ernst worked as an interpreter and curator. After twelve years she moved on, but found herself missing the place! So she decided to write adult...
$16.95
The Light Keeper's Legacy (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #3) by Kathleen Ernst
This is the third Chloe Ellefson mystery by award-winning author Kathleen Ernst from Madison, Wisconsin. You won't want to stop reading as museum curator Chloe Ellefson trades her relaxing time on Wisconsin's Rock Island for an abundance of mystery and...
$16.95
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
Tradition of Deceit (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #5) by Kathleen Ernst
Chloe Ellefson is off to Minneapolis to help her friend Ariel write a proposal to convert an abandoned flour mill into a museum. When a dead body is found stuffed in a grain chute, Chloe's attention turns from milling to...
$16.95
Steel Girders & Steeplechases: The Life & Art of Bernard H. Berntsen by Clifford Miller
Read the facinating story of Bernhard Berntsen. Born in 1900 in Ostre Aker, Norway, Berntsen came to America when he was 19, settling in New York. Soon he was building skyscrapers, threading across open I-beams hundreds of feet in the...
$19.95
Memory of Muskets (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #7) by Kathleen Ernst
Curator Chloe Ellefson is happily planning to spotlight home-front challenges and German immigrants at Old World Wisconsin's first Civil War reenactment—but her overbearing boss scorns her ideas and proposes staging a mock battle. When a reenactor is found dead at...
$16.95