Cultural Region/Scandinavian
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Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales
$7.99 Add to cartThis enchanting collection, retold by writer and critic Naomi Lewis, contains twelve of Hans Christian Andersen’s magnificent stories. It includes Thumbelina, a little girl no more than a thumb-joint … [more below]
- Series: Puffin Classics
- Author: Andersen, Hans Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 24 2010
- ISBN10: 0141329017
- Language: English
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The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue re… [more below]
- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032941
- Language: English
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A System So Magnificent It Is Blinding: Longlisted for the International Booker Prize
$20.00 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE
Are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control?
A joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we
- Author: Svensson, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1957363118
- Language: English
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The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia
$20.00 Add to cartThe Christian Science Monitor’s #1 Best Book of the Year
A witty, informative, and popular travelogue about the Scandinavian countries and how they may not be as happy or as perfect as we assume, “The- Author: Booth, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1250081564
- Language: English
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The Kalevala
$15.95 Add to cartThe Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millennium of our era, speakers of Uralic langu… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: L?nnrot, Elias
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 199538867
- Language: English
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Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry
$17.00 Add to cartSometimes radical yet always applicable, Brick by Brick abounds with real-world lessons for unleashing breakthrough innovation in your organization, using LEGO–which experienced one of the most remar… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 24 2014
- ISBN10: 0307951618
- Language: English
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Guts & Glory: The Vikings
$10.99 Add to cartHistory comes alive for kids like no textbook can in this epic account of the time of the Vikings that’s perfect for history buffs and reluctant readers Contains awesome illustrations
From battle-a- Series: Guts & Glory #2
- Author: Thompson, Ben
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0316320579
- Language: English
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The Emigrants: The Emigrant Novels: Book I
$27.95 Add to cartConsidered 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 #01
- Author: Moberg, Vilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 15 1995
- ISBN10: 0873513193
- Language: English
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Shadow on the Mountain
$12.99 Read moreFrom the Newbery Honor-winning author Margi Preus, the award-winning Shadow on the Mountain recounts the adventures of a 14-year-old Norwegian boy named Espen during World War II–based on a true stor… [more below]
- Author: Preus, Margi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1419711598
- Language: English
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The Norse Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Heroes
$25.95 Add to cartThe Norse Myths presents the infamous Viking gods, from the mighty Asyr, led by ??inn, and the mysterious Vanir, to Thor and the mythological cosmos they inhabit. Passages translated from Old Norse b
- Series: Myths #3
- Author: Larrington, Carolyne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0500251967
- Language: English
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The Ghosts of Other Immigrants
$17.99 Add to cartThe characters in these stories of migration are marked by heritage and the pasts that follow them wherever they go. A young woman in 1970s Washington, D.C., is changed forever after her love interest
- Author: Mäkinen, Maija
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1941561292
- Language: English
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Odd and the Frost Giants
$16.99 Read moreThe thrilling, wintry Nordic tale by Neil Gaiman, who weaves a magical story of legend and adventure that will enchant readers from beginning to end.
Odd, a young Viking boy, is left fatherless follow
- Author: Gaiman, Neil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 22 2009
- ISBN10: 0061671738
- Language: English
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The Poetic Edda
$24.95 Add to cart“She sees, coming up a second time,
After the terrible conflagration of Ragnaro
earth from the ocean, eternally green;
the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them,
over the mountain hunting fish.”- Series: Oxford World’s Classics Hardback Collection
- Author: Larrington, Carolyne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198834578
- Language: English
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
$19.95 Read moreWe Die Alone recounts one of the most exciting escape stories to emerge from the challenges and miseries of World War II. In March 1943, a team of expatriate Norwegian commandos sailed from northern E… [more below]
- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 30 2016
- ISBN10: 1493023454
- Language: English
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Growth of the Soil
$17.00 Add to cartThe epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature, in the first new English translation in more than ninety years
A Penguin Classic When it was first published in 191- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hamsun, Knut
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143105108
- Language: English
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Noma 2.0: Vegetable, Forest, Ocean
$75.00 Add to cartA Barnes & Noble Best Cookbook of 2022
There’s a reason Noma sits atop the list of the world’s best restaurants. Every bite, every dish, every course surprises
A Barnes & Noble Best Gift Book of 2022- Author: Redzepi, René
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1648291724
- Language: English
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The Trio
$27.00 Read more“An absolutely fantastic debut novel.”–Fredrik Backman, author of A Man Called Ove
A deeply atmospheric debut novel about three young people testing the boundaries of intimacy that is being hailed as
- Author: Hedman, Johanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1609459520
- Language: English
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Norse Ancient Origins: Stories of People & Civilization
$14.99 Add to cartA beautiful companion volume to Norse Myths and Legends, exploring the ancient origins of Viking society and culture.
The Norse legends of Odin, Thor, Loki and all the gods of Asgard are well known, b- Series: Flame Tree Collector’s Editions
- Author: Rogers, Beth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1804175781
- Language: English
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The Age of the Vikings
$18.95 Add to cartA major reassessment of the vikings and their legacy
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and ensl- Author: Winroth, Anders
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169292
- Language: English
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The Nomadic Notebook – Norway: True short stories of travel adventures and encounters
$17.95 Add to cartA wonderfully immersive collection of short stories describing the otherworldly beauty of Norway’s arctic fjords and villages seasoned with the comedy of an inexperienced group of international volunt
- Series: The Nomadic Notebook #1
- Author: Purdy, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 106
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1088265227
- Language: English
