Summer Reading
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
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
Wolf Hour (Minnesota) A Novel By Jo Nesbo
From “one of today’s most interesting thriller writers” (Lee Child) comes an immersive, propulsive novel in which a detective and a crime writer conduct parallel investigations, six years apart, into a series of puzzling murders. Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2016. When a small-time...
$30.00
Punished: A Novel by Ann-Helén Laestadius
From the internationally bestselling author of the “extraordinary” (Fredrik Backman) novel Stolen comes a harrowing story—inspired by true events—of five Indigenous children forced to attend a government-run boarding school in 1950s Sweden, revealing the emotional scars they carry thirty years later.In the...
$19.99
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
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
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
The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be...
$18.99
Hunger By Knut Hamsun
First published in Norway in 1890 by Norwegian Nobel Prize author, Hunger probes the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. A true classic of modern literature, it is the story of a Norwegian artist who wanders the streets,...
$17.00
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
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
Shyness and Dignity Dag Solstad
He was a rather sottish senior master in his fifties, with a wife who had spread out a bit too much and with whom he had breakfast every morning. This autumn day, too, a Monday in October, not yet knowing...
$12.00
Unto a Good Land - Emigrant Novels Book 2 by Vilhelm Moberg
Vilhelm Moberg's novel Unto a Good Land, is the second in his Emigrant Novels series. Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created the characters Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily...
$27.95
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
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
The Blind Woodsman by John Furniss
A moving memoir that will touch your heart and open your mind to the true meaning of vision.
The true life story of woodworking TikTok sensation John Furniss, his wife Anni, and their powerful relationship.
Softcover.
$16.99
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