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Against the Ice

The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was devoted to Arctic exploration. In 1910 he decided to search for the diaries of the ill-fated Mylius-Erichsen expedition, which had set out to prove that Robert Peary’s outline of the East Greenland coast was a myth, erroneous and presumably self-serving. Iver Iversen was a mechanic who joined Mi

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Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years. In this timely book he leaves his adopted home of Denmark and embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success, and, most intriguing of all, what they think of one another. Why are the Danes so happy, despite having the highest taxes? Do the Finns really have the best education system? Are the Icelanders as feral as they sometimes

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Arctic Adventure My Life in the Frozen North

Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that "except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time." During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen, the renowned polar explorer, founded Thul

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HIB338

Assault in Norway

Subtitle: The Amazing WWII Story of the Commandos Who Sabotaged the Nazi Nuclear Program. This is the gripping account of a commando raid into occupied Norway in 1942. Target: the seemingly impregnable factory-fortress where material crucial to Nazi nuclear experimentation was manufactured and stored. Basing his narrative in large part on interviews with the commandos themselves, Thomas Gallagher here recounts in vivid detail the planning and execution of Operation Gunnerside. This book will app

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Cold Victory

From New York Times bestselling author Karl Marlantes comes a propulsive and sweeping novel in which loyalty, friendship, and love are put to the ultimate test Helsinki, 1947. Finland teeters between the Soviet Union and the West. Everyone is being watched. A wrong look or a wrong word could end in catastrophe. Natalya Bobrova, from Russia, and Louise Koski, from the United States, are young wives of their country’s military attachés. When they meet at an embassy party, their husbands, Arnie and

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Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, & Survivors in World War II Denmark

Critically acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII. When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their daily lives as if nothing had changed. But everything had changed. Award-winning author Debor

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Danish Proverbs

Contains Danish proverbs, written in calligraphy and illustrated in black and white by Esther Feske. 50 pages

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Embracing Two Worlds

The experiences of the Muller family and the Kimballton community emerge out of the recollections of a variety of individuals. Some are members of the Muller family, some are current or former residents of Kimballton, and some are scholars interested in h

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HIB218

Family Tree Scandinavian Geneaology Guide

Trace your Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish ancestors! This convenient guide will help you discover your Northern European family history while optimizing your research time. Highlights include: Strategies for identifying immigrant Scandinavian ancestors, plus how to trace them back to Europe from North America Methods for locating Swedish genealogy records, Norwegian genealogy records, or Danish genealogy records within your family's town of origin Detailed guides to finding and decoding common Sc

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Forever Danish

This book contains excerpts from three published novels by Julie Jensen McDonald, all featuring the author's Danish-American heritage. The out of print novels are Amalie's Story, Petra, and The Sailing Out. Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 140 pages

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HIB155

From Lapland to Sápmi

A cultural history of Sápmi and the Nordic countries as told through objects and artifacts Material objects—things made, used, and treasured—tell the story of a people and place. So it is for the Indigenous Sámi living in Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, whose story unfolds across borders and centuries, in museums and private collections. The objects created by the Sámi for daily and ceremonial use were purchased and taken by Scandinavians and foreign travelers in Lapland from the seventeent

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Giants in the Earth

Now available in a beautifully designed package for a new generation of readers, Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s classic novel of a family of Norwegian settlers in the Great Plains—a vivid and intimate portrait of the nineteenth-century immigrant experience and the conquest of the American continent. “The fullest, finest, and most powerful novel that has been written about pioneer life in America.”—The Nation Based in part on Ole Edvart Rølvaag’s own recollections as well of those of his wife’s family who

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Hitler's Savage Canary

After Adolf Hitler made plans to create a “model protectorate” out of Denmark, Winston Churchill predicted that the nation would become the Führer’s tame canary. Isolated from the Allies and fueled only by a sense of human decency and national pride, the Danes created an extraordinary resistance movement that proved a relentless thorn in the side of the Nazis. By 1945, they had published twenty-six million issues of illegal newspapers. They set up radio guides for Allied aircraft on the coasts a

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How the Other Half Lives

Jacob Riis was one of the very few men who photographed the slums of New York at the turn of the twentieth century, when as many as 300,000 people per square mile were crowded into the tenements of New York's Lower East Side. The filth and degradation made the area a hell for the immigrants forced to live there. Riis was one of those immigrants, and, after years of abject poverty, when he became a police reporter for the New York Tribune, he exposed the shameful conditions of life with which he

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Karen From the Mill

On a tall dune on the island of Fanø, the windmill stands watch and at its foot lies a red brick farmhouse. Here begins the tale of Karen Andersen, the miller's eldest child, who would fly with the lark but whose heart can never forget the mill. It is the golden age of sail when the men of Fanø roam the seas as masters of tall ships while the women stay home, bound by centuries of tradition.Sixteen-year-old Karen, dreams of marrying First Mate Peter Larsen. Her mother has other plans. She mistru

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HIB331

Last Light Over Oslo: A Novel

A Paperback Original 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 of Norway. Cleo Jaffray was an American. A war in Europe had nothing to do with her. She told herself that right up until the man she loved went missing in Poland and Cleo was forced to turn to the only person who might be able to help—her aunt Daisy,

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My Seven Lives

Author: Solveig Sedlet. Solveig Sedlet's remarkable "Lives" take her from early 20th-century rural Denmark to post-World War II London to the United States. They span a village childhood, life under Nazi occupation, employment and emigration, marriage, and more. Highly readable! Paperback.

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Number the Stars

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend, Ellen rosen, often think about the way life was before the war. It's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching in their town. The Nazis

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HIB127

Palace of the Snow Queen

An exploration of the winter wonders and entangled histories of Scandinavia’s northernmost landscapes—now back in print with a new afterword by the author After many years of travel in the Nordic countries—usually preferring to visit during the warmer months—Barbara Sjoholm found herself drawn to Lapland and Sápmi one winter just as mørketid, the dark time, set in. What ensued was a wide-ranging journey that eventually spanned three winters, captivatingly recounted in The Palace of the Snow Quee

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Scandinavians: In Search of the Soul of the North

Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with Nordic furniture; we envy their humane social welfare system and their healthy outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, commonsensical acceptance of life’s vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider’s view of Scandinavia, and how accurate our picture of life in Scandinavia today? Scandinavians follows a chronological progression across the Norther

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Sledge Patrol

Author: David Howarth. A World War II Epic of Escape, Survival, and Victory. Newly reissued in June 2008, Sledge Patrol is Howarth's account of Danish and Norwegian hunters who patrolled 500 miles of Greenland coastline where they battled Nazi soldiers, taking desperate measures in the dark days of World War II. Paperback.

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Tante Johanne–1887-1910 Letters of a Denmark Immigrant Family

Correspondence involving a spiritually and culturally uprooted Danish immigrant woman of the nineteenth century provides an insight into how difficult it was for her to see her family become Americanized. The book is an interesting acount of rural Iowa li

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Teenage Immigrant

Anne Ipsen's latest memoir describes a six year period starting in 1946 with the departure of Anne and her parents from Denmark, first as visitors to the USA, then in 1948 as immigrants. It is a sequel to A Child's Tapestry of War, the story of the author's childhood during the World War II occupation of Denmark by Nazi Germany. Anne's parents are not typical immigrants fleeing from oppression but part of the post-war European Brain Drain. Both parents speak fluent English and Dr. Ipsen is a med

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The Nordic Theory of Everything - In Search of a Better Life

Now in Paperback! A Finnish journalist, now a naturalized American citizen, asks Americans to draw on elements of the Nordic way of life to nurture a fairer, happier, more secure, and less stressful society for themselves and their children. Moving to America in 2008, Finnish journalist Anu Partanen quickly went from confident, successful professional to wary, self-doubting mess. At first, she attributed her crippling anxiety to the difficulty of adapting to a freewheeling new culture. But as sh

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