Cultural Region/Scandinavian
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Andersen’s Fairy Tales
$7.95 Read moreFor more than 150 years, Hans Christian Andersen’s beloved fairy tales have charmed and entertained audiences around the world. Blending old folk tales with fantasy, the Danish bard’s stories are rich… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0451532074
- Language: English
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What Kingdom
$18.00 Add to cart“An incredibly moving and gripping novel . . . so sure-footed, clear, vibrating, like chiffon or a cigarette.” — Olga Ravn
An incandescent debut about young adults learning how to care for themselves- Author: Grabol, Fine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1953861849
- Language: English
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The Princess of Burundi: A Mystery
$24.00 Add to cartWinner of the Swedish Crime Academy Award for Best Crime Novel, The Princess of Burundi introduces American readers to Kjell Eriksson–a crime writer who has quickly become an international sensation.
- Series: Ann Lindell Mysteries #1
- Author: Eriksson, Kjell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 06 2007
- ISBN10: 0312327684
- Language: English
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Is Mother Dead
$19.95 Read moreLonglisted for the International Booker Prize
A cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middleaged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the- Series: Verso Fiction
- Author: Hjorth, Vigdis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1804291846
- Language: English
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My Struggle: Book 6
$40.00 Read moreThe final sixth installment in the long-awaited, internationally celebrated My Struggle series from Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The full scope and achievement of Karl Ove Knausgaard’s monumental work is evide- Series: My Struggle #6
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0374534195
- Language: English
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My Struggle: Book 2
$27.00 Add to cart“[Book 2] sears the reader because Knausgaard is a passionate idealist [who] wants to fight the conformity and homogeneity of modern bourgeois existence.” –James Wood, The New Yorker
In the second ins- Series: My Struggle #2
- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: June 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0374534152
- Language: English
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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 Read moreA 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
$17.00 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
$9.99 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 Read moreWritten 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
