Summer Reading
The Dragon from Chicago By Pamela D. Toler
For fans of unheralded women’s stories, this is a captivating look at Sigrid Schultz who was one of the earliest reporters to warn Americans of the rising threat of the Nazi regime.“No other American correspondent in Berlin knew so much...
$29.95
Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset
In her great historical epic Kristin Lavransdatter, set in fourteenth-century Norway, Nobel laureate Sigrid Undset tells the life story of one passionate and headstrong woman. Painting a richly detailed backdrop, Undset immerses readers in the day-to-day life, social conventions, and political...
$32.00
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
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
The Reindeer of Chinese Gardens by Barbara Sjoholm
Norwegian-born Dagny Bergland and her husband arrive in turn-of-the century Port Townsend, Washington after years of sailing their merchant ship around the globe. They’re just in time for the Yukon Gold Rush and the arrival of a group of Sámi...
$19.95
Accidental Shepherd by Liese Greensfelder
How a California Girl Rescued an Ancient Mountain Farm in Norway A summer job turns serious when a young woman takes the reins on a remote farm—and learns far more than how to herd sheep.In May 1972, Liese Greensfelder arrived...
$27.95
I Talk about It All the Time by Camara Lundestad Joof
In this biting, lyrical memoir, Camara Lundestad Joof, born in Bodø to Norwegian and Gambian parents, shares her experiences as a queer Black Norwegian woman. Joof’s daily encounters belie the myth of a colorblind contemporary Scandinavia. She wrestles with the...
$18.95
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
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
O Pioneers! By Willa Cather
When the Bergson family leave their home in Sweden to travel to the United States in search of a better life, they, like many immigrants, are awed by the beautiful harshness of their new life in Nebraska. When their father,...
$8.99
Out of Africa By Isak Dinesen
With classic simplicity and a painter’s feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya. Dinesen was the pseudonym for Karen Blixen, a Danish writer of...
$18.00
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
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