History & Culture
Laughing with Lutherans by Julie Sevig
Highlights from 20 Years of The Lutheran's "Light side"For twenty years, the many people who have contributed to The Lutheran magazine's "Light side" page have laughed at themselves, and shared their stories so we could laugh with them. This little...
$10.95
Last Word on Lefse by Gary Legwold
A joyous book dedicated to preserving the traditions of this Scandinavian food. It includes folktales, stories, and history surrounding this Norwegian delicacy. Along with corny songs, poems, and jokes, is a serious chapter with photographs and tips on how to...
$14.95
Last Light Over Oslo: A Novel by Alix Rickloff
A gripping historical novel set in Norway and Sweden in 1940, based on true events, which follows one of the first female US Ministers, Daisy Harriman, and her niece as the two are unexpectedly caught up in the German invasion...
$18.99
Innovative Entrepreneurs from North Dakota: 125 Years of Impact! Impact! by Bruce Gjovig
Bruce Gjovig, CEO Emeritus of the University of North Dakota Center for Innovation Foundation, has written a second book of profiles of more North Dakota innovators and entrepreneurs. This second edition features 46 chapters of inspiring stories about individuals who...
$29.99
Iconic Nordic House by Dominic Bradbury, Richard Powers
This lavishly illustrated book explores the great exemplars of Nordic residential architecture from the past 120 years, featuring groundbreaking modernist homes and contemporary dream residences.
Hardcover.
$65.00
How Iceland Changed the World by Egill Bjaanason
The history of Iceland began 1,200 years ago, when a frustrated Viking captain and his useless navigator ran aground in the middle of the North Atlantic. Suddenly, the island was no longer just a layover for the Arctic tern. Instead,...
$19.00
Heime Traditional Norwegian Food by Bodil Nordjore
Traditional Norwegian Food by Bodil Nordjore. With this book, Bodil wishes to convey some of the fundamentals of traditional Norwegian to the Norwegian immigrant community in the United States. This book is a love letter written to both traditional food...
$30.00
God Jul: A Swedish Christmas by Anders Neumuller
The charm, warmth, and beauty of a Swedish Christmas is captured in this remarkable collection of 300 colorful, fun, and historic postcards dating back to the 1800s. Each postcard reveals the magic behind Christmas and of Scandinavian tradition and folklore.With...
$19.99
Four Great Plays of Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder
$7.99
Four Great Plays of Henrik Ibsen: A Doll's House, The Wild Duck, Hedda Gabler, The Master Builder
A Doll's House (1879) and Ghosts (1881) established Ibsen's reputation as one of the finest playwrights in Europe, but his next two plays—Hedda Gabler (1890) and The Master Builder (1892)—gave him undisputed international fame.This edition includes:-A concise introduction that gives readers important background information-A chronology of...
$7.99
Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Neil Price
In imagining a Viking, a certain image springs to mind: a barbaric warrior, leaping ashore from a longboat, and ready to terrorize the hapless local population of a northern European town. Yet while such characters define our imagination of the...
$21.99
Elverhoj by William B. Rhoads and Leslie Melvin
The Arts and Crafts Colony at Milton-on-Hudson "Elverhoj (Danish for “hill of the fairies,” pronounced “El-ver-hoy”) was an Arts and Crafts colony established on the picturesque west shore of the Hudson River in 1912 by Danish American artists and craftsmen...
$35.00
Crossing the Atlantic to America in 1825 by Anne Elisabeth Skogen
In this picture book for both children and adults, you will find a version of the story of the first Norwegian emigrants who traveled to North America. In the summer of 1825, 52 children, young people, and adults left Norway...
$77.00
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
Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
The Viking Age saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through...
$22.99
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
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
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