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Rebecca's Reward
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Lauraine Snelling
Nineteen-year-old Rebecca Baard has experienced more than her share of sorrow, and now she is afraid to open her heart to love. Besides, no man has ever shown enough interest in her to come courting. So Rebecca's friends set out to remedy the situation, concocting social events to attract all the eligible bachelors in Blessing and advising her in ...
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Sophie's Dilemma
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Lauraine Snelling
Defiant Sophie leaves home with her beau, but when tragedy strikes and a heartbroken Sophie wishes to return, she may not be welcome.
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Dream to Follow
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Lauraine Snelling
Thorliff Bjorklund has been writing since he was a young boy and now longs to study journalism. But his father has other plans for him and refuses to agree. Loving and respecting his parents, Thorliff dreads going against his father's wishes and cannot imagine any honorable way to leave home. To make matters worse, the threat of a crop failure may ...
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Tender Mercies
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Lauraine Snelling
She never intended to stay. So why is leaving so hard? The fertile prairies of Dakota Territory have finally begun to yield the bountiful harvests the pioneers have dreamed about since leaving their homes in Norway. The tiny community of Blessing is beginning to expand and thrive, its hardy citizens at last enjoying a measure of prosperity. Mary ...
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Blessing in Disguise
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Lauraine Snelling
Her first mistake was emigrating alone. Was this one even worse? Augusta Bjorklund, after discovering her intended bridegroom married someone else, decided to leave her broken heart in Norway and start a new life in America. But knowing no English, Augusta misunderstands a ticket agent's directions in St. Paul, Minnesota, and in the harried ...
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Midnight Sun
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Lisa Tawn Bergren
In the conclusion to the Northern Lights series, readers can witness the glorious finale of this epic family saga as four life-long friends journey out of the shadow of their darkest days into the light awaiting them in the land of the "Midnight Sun."
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Bold Spirit: Helga Estby's Forgotten Walk Across Victorian America
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Linda Lawrence Hunt
In 1896, a Norwegian immigrant named Helga Estby and her teenage daughter, Clara, set out to walk from Spokane to New York in order to win a $10,000 bet, hoping to save her family's home from foreclosure. Armed with pistols, five dollars each, and equal parts determination and desperation, they set out on May 5, and supported their journey with ...
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A Touch of Grace
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Lauraine Snelling
Eighteen-year-old Grace Knutson loves Blessing, North Dakota, and sees no reason to leave. She's more serious-minded than her twin sister, Sophie, and very sensitive to the feelings of others. In spite of her family's disapproval, Grace has always had a soft spot in her heart for Toby Valders, for she's seen the vulnerable side he keeps well ...
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New Day Rising
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L Snelling
The dream of their own farmstead and a good life in America had brought Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund across the Atlantic to pioneer the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. But Roald's tragic disappearance in a winter storm had turned Ingeborg's dreams into a living nightmare. Against nearly impossible circumstances and overwhelming grief, she ...
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Deep Harbor
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Lisa Tawn Bergren, Lisa Tawn Bergen
Determined to live the "good life" no matter what the price, Tora Anders weaves a web of lies that could cost her everything she cares for--including a successful future and the man she loves.
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Wobegon Boy: 6
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Garrison Keillor
A young man from Lake Wobegon escapes to upstate New York, becomes manager of a college radio station, and dodges marriage with various eligible maidens. Garrison Keillor uses the plot as a vehicle for his comic takes on various subjects.
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Nothing to Do But Stay
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Carrie Young
This daughter's loving tribute to her pioneer mother tells of a real heroine who traveled by herself to North Dakota in 1904, to stake a lonely claim and start a farm on 160 empty acres before she married and began her family. Photos.
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Nothing to Do But Stay: My Pioneer Mother
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Carrie Young
This folk narrative by Carrie Young is a collection of essays that remininisce on her mother's North Dakota pioneering days.
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Peder Victorious: A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later
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OLE E Rolvaag, Nora O Solum (Translator), Gudrun H Gvale (Designer)
"Peder Victorious", the sequel to Rolvaag's massive "Giants in the Earth", continues the saga of the Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Here again, years later, are all the sturdy pioneers of the earlier novel, Rolvaag's "Vikings of The Prairie"- Per Hansa's wife, Beret and their children, Syvert Tonseten and Kjersti, and Sorine. The great ...
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The Wedding Dress: Stories from the Dakota Plains
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Carrie Young
This text contains seven short stories by Carrie Young.
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Lili the Brave
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Jennifer Armstrong, Uldis Klavins (Illustrator)
Set in Norway and America in 1870, this charming novel tells the story of young Lili Alesund, who is called "Lili the Brave" by all the people in her little town because she has never been afraid of anything. But when her parents decide to emigrate from Norway to Minnesota, Lili's courage is truly put to the test.
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Their Fathers' God
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O E Rolvaag, Trygve M Ager (Translator)
Susie Doheny, an Irish Catholic, and Peder Holm, a Norwegian Lutheran, fall in love and marry in South Dakota in the 1890s. Soon their marriage is tested by drought, depression, and family bickering. Susie believes they are tested by their fathers' God. Peder blames Susie for the timidity of her beliefs; Susie fears Peder's pride and skepticism. ...
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Prairie Cooks: Glorified Rice, Three-Day Buns, and Other Reminiscences
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Carrie Young, Felicia Young
These 72 recipes blend Scandinavian cooking with what the author and her mother always called the American style of cooking.
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The Promise Fulfilled: A Portrait of Norwegian Americans Today
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Odd Sverre Lovoll
On October 9, 1825, the sloop Restauration sailed into New York harbor with the first fifty-three Norwegian immigrants to America. In the next 100 years over 800,000 people would leave Norway to become members of a proud new community in the United States. Today, the Norwegian American population numbers nearly 4 million -- almost as many people ...
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My Body to You
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Elizabeth Searle, Carrie Young
These finely wrought stories unfold in the Dakotas during the struggling pioneer days and bone-dry landscape of the thirties as well as the verdant years that followed, where the nighttime plains are bathed by softly radiant harvest moons shining down from dazzling northern skies. Young's absorbing narratives begin with the pleasant sense of "Once ...
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From Peasants to Farmers: The Migration from Balestrand, Norway to the Upper Middle West
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Jon Gjerde
This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants' cultural adaptations to America.
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Quilt
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Gary Paulsen
In 1944, a boy spends the summer with his grandmother near the Canadian border. With the men gone to war, the women are left to run the farms. When his cousin goes into labor, women come to help and to work on a quilt that contains stories of the boy's family.
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Real Scandinavians Never Ask Directions: Scandinavian America, Wit & Wisdom
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Art Lee
This is Art Lee's fourth book on Scandinavian-American culture. It's filled with his witty observations on this unique culture. From short stories to jokes to "quizzes, " Dr. Lee entertains and humors all those who love to read and laugh about the ways of those quiet, conservative lefse-lovers.
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Don't the Moon Look Lonesome
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Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch, the African-American social critic, writes his first novel about a white woman named Carla Hamsun, a jazz singer, and her tenor sax-playing boyfriend, Maxwell Davis.
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Blow, silver wind : a story of Norwegian immigration to America
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Erik Bye
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