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Mike & Else's Favorite Ole & Lena Jokes - Books 1 and 2
By Mike and Else Sevig. Everyone can use a good laugh once in a while and this collections of Ole & Lena jokes are just the ticket! Quaint and well-meaning, Ole & Lena jokes celebrate the quirky folk humor of...
$4.99
The Diary of Elizabeth 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
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
Ole Goes To War: Men from Norway Who Fought in America's Civil War by Jerry Rosholt
Many Norwegian immigrants came to the United States to form the Wisconsin 15th Regiment and fight in the Civil War. Through historical photographs and the soldiers own words, this book vividly brings to life the human dimension of this pivotal moment...
$5.00
We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance by David Howarth
Here is one of the most exciting escape narratives to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern England for Nazi-occupied arctic Norway to organize and...
$16.95
A Frog in the Fjord: One Year in Norway by Lorelou Desjardins
Norwegians are the happiest people in the world, but can anyone else be happy in Norway? Lorelou, a French woman in her mid-20s from Provence region gets a job in Oslo, Norway. She is not too inspired by this Arctic...
$32.95
Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting
The second novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy – an epic, moving, and gloriously told historical novel following The Bell in the Lake.
Softcover.
$28.00
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
Balancing: Poems of the Female Immigrant Experience in the Upper Midwest, 1830-1930 by Kathleen Ernst
The poems in Balancing were inspired by the experiences of women, who, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, sought new homes in the Upper Midwest. The first waves of pioneers, predominantly Yankees from Northeastern states, were soon followed by...
$15.95
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
For the Love of Cod: A Father and Son’s Search for Norwegian Happiness
A journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate? Norway is usually near or at the top of the World Happiness Report. But is it...
$22.95
Legend of Siljatjern Seter: Life, Love and Faith on a Norwegian Mountain Dairy by Gunlaug Nokland
$10.00
Legend of Siljatjern Seter: Life, Love and Faith on a Norwegian Mountain Dairy by Gunlaug Nokland
A Bilingual novel in English and Norwegian. English translated by Liv Nordem Lyons. English edited by Jo Ann B. Winistorfer. Published by Deb Nelson Gourley, Astri My Astri Publishing. Legend of Siljatjern Seter tells the story of Mette agreeing to...
$10.00
Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath
Kristin Lavransdatter interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. The trilogy, however, is more than a journey into the past. Undset's own...
$16.00
Beartown by Fredrik Backman
Written by the bestselling Swedish author of A Man Called Ove and Anxious People, the novel Beartown centers on a declining youth hockey team and tells the story of a small town with a big dream – and the price required to...
$17.00
$13.60
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
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