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Excerpt: "Presently the evenness of his breathing told her he was asleep. For a long time she lay on her back just as he had left her, mulling over her situation. In those brief minutes everything...

The Prague astronomical clock is featured on the front cover. The back cover features people in medieval attire among the performers in a festival of The Five Petalled Rose in Cesky Krumlov, The...

Julie Jensen McDonald talks about growing up Danish, a brief history of Denmark, royalty, the lure of the north, immigration to America, common Danish names, the Museum of Danish America, a heritage...

In a book of breathtaking beauty, Penfield Books presents "Iowa Pastel Landscapes," a collection of Iowa scenes as captured by lifelong artist Marcia Wegman. In May, 2014, Iowa Pastel Landscapes was...

BONUS: Ten new pages about Selma Lagerl?f and Sweden added. Three landscape photos included. Selma Lagerl?f is best known in America and worldwide for her masterpiece children's' stories: NILS: The...

Per Anders Fogelstrom's Stockholm Series is a quintet of novels about the intertwined stories of a city and of a family. The research behind and within Fogelstrom's series is prodigiously detailed:...

In a City Transformed is the fourth volume of the acclaimed Stockholm Series by Per Anders Fogelstr?m. It opens with the watershed year of 1928, on the eve of the Great Depression. As Sweden heads...

"City in the World," the fifth and last book of Per Anders Fogelstr?m's famed Stockholm Series, covers the years from 1945 through 1968. The author depicts the progress of the Swedish social...

Judit Martin, originally from the American Midwest, has been living in rural Sweden since 1969. She has published several short stories in Scottish literary magazines, two books in Swedish, and one...

This beautifully illustrated book gives an overview of the Amana community from its founding in Germany, first settlement in New York, and permanent dwelling in eastern Iowa. It focuses on Iowa's...