Cultural Region/Scandinavian
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Pan: From Lieutenant Thomas Glahn’s Papers
$17.00 Add to cartThe Nobel Prize winner’s lyrical and disturbing portrait of love and the dark recesses of the human psyche
A Penguin Classic
A lone hunter accompanied only by his faithful dog, Aesop, Thomas Glahn roa- Series: Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0141180676
- Language: English
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Troll Magic: Hidden Folk from the Mountains and Forests of Norway
$21.95 Add to cartA collection of macabre and magical folklore from the “godfather” of the Norwegian troll
Across the stillness of the sprawling mountain heath, the shadow of the mighty forest falls, its wildness calli
- Author: Kittelsen, Theodor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1517911397
- Language: English
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The Liar
$16.95 Read moreDelicately attuned to the complexities of both the natural world and human psychology, this potent classic of twentieth-century Danish literature is narrated by an isolated schoolteacher stuck in a mi
- Author: Hansen, Martin A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377187
- Language: English
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The Lazarus Solution
$16.99 Read moreWhen a courier for Sweden’s Press and Military Office is killed on his final mission, the Norwegian government-in-exile appoints a writer to find the missing documents … breathtaking WW2 thriller.
*- Author: Dahl, Kjell Ola
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1914585682
- Language: English
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The Blue Fox
$12.00 Add to cartNamed one The 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Esquire
Winner of the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize–the Nordic world’s highest literary honor– Sj’s
The Blue Fox is part mystery, part f- Author: Sjón
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2013
- ISBN10: 0374114455
- Language: English
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The Antarctica of Love
$20.00 Add to cartThe international star Sara Stridsberg returns with The Antarctica of Love, an unnamed woman’s tale of her murder, her brief life, and the world that moves on after she left it.
[Stridsberg] writes wi- Author: Stridsberg, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: January 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1250858747
- Language: English
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Then Came You
$8.99 Add to cartDetermined to save her sister from an undesired marriage to Lord Alex Raiford, reckless and beautiful Lily Lawson finds herself falling for the handsome, enigmatic nobleman.
- Series: Avon Historical Romance
- Author: Kleypas, Lisa
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 30 2015
- ISBN10: 038077013X
- Language: English
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An Enemy of the People
$15.95 Add to cartWidely regarded as one of the foremost dramatists of the nineteenth century, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906), created realistic plays bringing the social problems of his day to center st… [more below]
- Author: Ibsen, Henrik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: September 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1722504242
- Language: English
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Njal’s Saga
$19.00 Add to cartWritten in the thirteenth century, Njal’s Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided loyalties, from the law’s inability to curb human passions to the terr… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Anonymous
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0140447695
- Language: English
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Hunger
$9.95 Add to cartOne of the most important and controversial writers of the 20th century, Knut Hamsun made literary history with the publication in 1890 of this powerful, autobiographical novel recounting the abject p… [more below]
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: November 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0486431681
- Language: English
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My Struggle, Book 3
$22.00 Read moreThe third volume –the book that made Karl Ove Knausgaard a phenomenon in the United States–in the addictive New York Times bestselling series, My Struggle.
A family of four–mother, father, and two b- Series: My Struggle #3
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 28 2015
- ISBN10: 0374534160
- Language: English
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Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
$18.99 Add to cartGeorge Orwell was first and foremost an essayist, producing throughout his life an extraordinary array of short nonfiction that reflected–and illuminated–the fraught times in which he lived. “As soo
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0156033135
- Language: English
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Yellow Roses
$18.95 Add to cartKelly Fitzgerald was no stranger to the injustice of life, to the pain selfish people inflict on the innocent, so when she sees a horrific crime being committed, she is willing to do what is necessary
- Author: Casey, Bp
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9798891571303
- Language: English
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The Last Letter Home: The Emigrant Novels: Book IV
$27.95 Read moreConsidered 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 life for early Swedish immigr… [more below]
- Series: Emigrant Novels #04
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 873513223
- Language: English
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The Lady Most Likely…: A Novel in Three Parts
$8.99 Add to cartFrom Julia Quinn, the author of Bridgerton–along with close friends and bestselling authors Eloisa James and Connie Brockway–comes an enchanting tale of a country house party in which three heroines
- Author: Quinn, Julia
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0061247820
- Language: English
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Yule-Tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular Tales and Traditions, From the Swedish, Danish, and German
$24.95 Add to cartThis collection of ancient Scandinavian tales takes you on a journey to fight werewolves, rescue the princess on the glass mountain, and explore “the beautiful palace east of the sun and north of the
- Author: Thorpe, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 484
- Publish Date: October 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1396318232
- Language: English
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Faces
$16.00 Add to cartFrom Tove Ditlevsen, the acclaimed author of the Copenhagen Trilogy, comes The Faces, a searing, haunting novel of a woman on the edge, portrayed with all the vividness of lived experience.
Copenhagen- Author: Ditlevsen, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1250838193
- Language: English
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Operation Napoleon
$25.99 Add to cartIndridason fills the void that remainds after you’ve read Stieg Larsson’s novels. —USA Today
Prepare for sizzling action in a riveting stand alone thriller from Arnaldur Indridason, the award-winning- Series: Reykjavik Thriller
- Author: Indridason, Arnaldur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 08 2012
- ISBN10: 1250003180
- Language: English
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Eyes of the Rigel
$16.95 Add to cartThe highly anticipated third novel in a historical series that began with International Booker-shortlisted The Unseen
The war is over, and Ingrid Barr y leaves the island that shares her name to search
- Series: Barr Chronicles #3
- Author: Jacobsen, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1771964758
- Language: English
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My Mother Says
$17.99 Read more“Reeling from a breakup, a young Danish woman recovers her sense of self through conversations with parents, friends, and strangers. A sweet and quirky debut about heartbreak, memory, and the endless … [more below]
- Author: Pilgaard, Stine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 164286126X
- Language: English
