Summer Reading
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...
$12.95
Keep on Rolling! Life on the Lefse Trail by Gary Legwold
When lefse aficionado Gary Legwold wrote The Last Word on Lefse, he fretted that the grand old practice of lease making was dying. Now, 25 years later, he assesses the State of the Lefse Union and finds it to be...
$16.95
The Night of the Scourge: A Novel by Lars Mytting
A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII–era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is also the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy. The Sister Bells Trilogy includesThe Bell in the Lake (#1)The Reindeer...
$32.50
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
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
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
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
Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House, Norwegian Edition) by Henrik Ibsen
Et Dukkehjem (A Doll's House) is, quite simply, the most performed play in history. It is a three-act play in prose by Henrik Ibsen, which critically deals with the suffocating norms of a 19th century marriage. However, the themes go...
$14.50
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
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 Lace Maker's Secret (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #9) by Kathleen Ernst
The Chloe Ellefson series combines history and mystery with a little bit of romance! For adults and mature teens, these traditional mysteries feature the reluctant sleuth Chloe and her boyfriend Roelke McKenna. She's a curator at the museum Old World...
$16.95
Death on the Prairie (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #6) by Kathleen Ernst
A road trip to the past turns deadly when museum curator Chloe Ellefson gets custody of an old quilt, said to have belonged to author Laura Ingalls Wilder, and she and her sister Kari set out on the Wilder road...
$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
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
Morning and Evening by Jon Fosse
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2023 A child who will be named Johannes is born. An old man named Johannes dies. Between these two points, Jon Fosse gives us the details of an entire life, starkly compressed....
$19.95
Mining for Justice (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #8) by Kathleen Ernst
Curator Chloe Ellefson is excited to be learning about Wisconsin's early immigrants and mining while on temporary assignment. But when her boyfriend, police officer Roelke McKenna, discovers long-buried human remains in the root cellar of an old cottage, Chloe reluctantly...
$16.95
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