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Hunger
Knut Hamsun
Dover Publications
Dover Publications
This powerful, autobiographical novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author made literary history when it was first published in 1890. A modern classic about a penniless, unemployed young writer, the book paints an unforgettable portrait of a man driven...
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Arabian Sands (Penguin Classics)
Wilfred Thesiger
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Arabian Sands is Wilfred Thesigers record of his extraordinary journey through the parched Empty Quarter of Arabia. Educated at Eton and Oxford, Thesiger was repulsed by the softness and rigidity of Western lifethe machines, the calling...
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In Cod We Trust: Living the Norwegian Dream
Eric Dregni Dregni
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Eric Dregni’s great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find thatâmostly due to oil and natural gas discoveriesâit is now...
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The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman
Nancy Marie Brown
Harvest Books
Harvest Books
Five hundred years before Columbus, a Viking woman named Gudrid sailed off the edge of the known world. She landed in the New World and lived there for three years, giving birth to a baby before sailing home. Or so the Icelandic sagas say. Even...
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Blueberry Summers: Growing Up at the Lake
Curtiss Anderson
Borealis Books
Borealis Books
"I would begin thinking about summer on our lake as early as Easter. Yes, it was our lake, not just the lake." In this classic story of a midwestern boyhood, Curtiss Anderson takes readers into the colorful lives of his robust Norwegian...
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Report From #24
Gunnar Sonsteby
Barricade Books
Barricade Books
Sonsteby tells his courageous story of espionage and sabotage against the Naziz and of eluding capture through daring, intuition, and a constant slew of changing identities.
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Splendid Swedish Recipes
Kerstin O. Van Guilder, Kerstin Olsson Van Gilder
Penfield Press
Penfield Press
This inexpensive, index card size spiral-bound recipe book features over 100 Swedish recipes. Makes a great gift or "stocking stuffer" for friends and relatives. The author came to America from Sweden in 1961.
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Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud: The Moving Word (McLellan Books)
James Schamus
University of Washington Press
University of Washington Press
If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might put it, his most "painfully enjoyable," it is Gertrud . The film's Paris premier in 1964 was covered by the Danish press as a national scandal;...
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Christina, Queen of Sweden: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric (P.S.)
Veronica Buckley
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
Not unlike the elusive figure played by Greta Garbo, the real Queen Christina stood among the most flamboyant and controversial figures of the seventeenth century. All of Sweden could not contain her ambition or quench her thirst for adventure....
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