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Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 6
Language
English
Description
A young immigrant gets lost on the way to relatives and is mistaken for a farmer's Norwegian mail-order bride. Red River of the North Book 6.
3) Midnight sun
Author
Series
Northern lights (Lisa Tawn Bergren) volume 3
Language
English
Description
The sagas of Kaatje, Elsa, Tora and Karl continue.
4) Deep harbor
Author
Series
Northern lights (Lisa Tawn Bergren) volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Northern Lights Series
Book Two
“Lisa Tawn Bergren has a straightforward, evocative style of writing that makes her characters breathe. They walk right across the page and straight into your heart.” –Francine Rivers, author of Redeeming Love
SOME TIES CAN NEVER BE BROKEN
As they build new lives in America, Tora, Elsa, Kaatje, and Karl each experience...
Book Two
“Lisa Tawn Bergren has a straightforward, evocative style of writing that makes her characters breathe. They walk right across the page and straight into your heart.” –Francine Rivers, author of Redeeming Love
SOME TIES CAN NEVER BE BROKEN
As they build new lives in America, Tora, Elsa, Kaatje, and Karl each experience...
Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 4
Language
English
Description
As the hard land finally yields a harvest, has it become more important than even family for Ingeborg? Red River of the North book 4.
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 2
Language
English
Description
Romance and drama on the northern prairie at the turn of the century from bestselling author Lauraine Snelling.
Author
Series
Northern lights (Lisa Tawn Bergren) volume 1
Language
English
Description
Elsa Anders's dream of marrying Peder Ramstad is about to come true. But as this independent, strong-willed woman discovers her own creative gifts—a love for travel, painting, and the sea—can she find happiness with a captain who insists upon leaving her safely on shore?
Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a voyage to a new life in America with their closest friends, including: Kaatje Jansen, a woman seeking...
Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder embark on a voyage to a new life in America with their closest friends, including: Kaatje Jansen, a woman seeking...
Author
Series
Red River of the North volume 1
Language
English
Description
Ingeborg and Roald Bjorklund leave Norway for the promise of free land and a good life in America. But little could they foresee the price they will have to pay to wrest a living from the virgin prairie. Will they survive the hardships of that first winter?
11) Rebecca's reward
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 4
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing, and advising her in the use of her feminine wiles.
Author
Publisher
Westminster John Knox Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
224 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Travel with Lori Erickson as she finds unexpected spiritual guides among the seafaring Vikings and her hardscrabble immigrant forebears. Then explore how the spirits of your ancestral past can guide you today"--
13) Wobegon boy
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Garrison Keillor returns to Lake Wobegon in a masterful portrait of the sort of small-town world that many of us Americans believe we grew up in, or would have liked to.
14) The winter room
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1989]
Physical Desc
103 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describes the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
Author
Series
Return to Red River volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
New look for bestselling account of life in the newly settled Dakota Territory in the 1890's as a new generation struggles to achieve their dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"They whisper about her in Chicago. Men come to her with their hopes, their dreams-their fortunes. But no one sees them leave. No one sees them at all after they come to call on the Widow of La Porte. The good people of Indiana may have their suspicions, but if those fools knew what she'd given up, what was taken from her, how she'd suffered, surely they'd understand. Belle Gunness learned a long time ago that a woman has to make her own way in this...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : avoid stuff. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
18) The quilt
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
viii, 83 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
During World War II, while his father is in Europe fighting and his mother is working in Chicago, a six-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a rural Norwegian American community in Minnesota. Based on events from the author's life.
19) A touch of Grace
Author
Series
Daughters of blessing volume 3
Language
English
Description
The arrival of a wealthy young man leads Grace to question what she really wants in life. The third book in this best-selling historical series. Daughters of Blessing book 3
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maddy Rolvig struggles with prairie life on her aunt and uncle's farm in Dakota Territory, but on January 12, 1888, when a blizzard threatens to trap Maddy and her classmates inside their damaged schoolhouse, she finds the courage and strength to lead them to safety. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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