Summer Reading
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 Little Winter Book of Gnomes by Kirsten Sevig
Kirsten Sevig grew up hearing about little gnomes in great Nordic folktales. When she realized that a “gnome” was also another word for a proverb, she brought the two together. The result is a charming collection of Scandinavian wisdom accented...
$13.95
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print.
Softcover.
$18.00
$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
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...
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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
Legend of Siljatjern Seter: Life, Love and Faith on a Norwegian Mountain Dairy by Gunlaug Nokland
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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
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
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...
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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
Old World Murder (Chloe Ellefson Mystery #1) by Kathleen Ernst
Clever plot twists and credible characters make this story great fun. Ernst, the author of Clues in the Shadows and other Young Adult "American Girl" novels, shows her ease in mining historical periods in her adult debut, set in Wisconsin...
$16.95
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
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
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