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The Arctic, A Guide to Coastal Wildlife
• Tony Soper
• Dan Powell
• FIELD GUIDE
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A compact guide to coastal marine mammals and seabirds of the Circumpolar North, featuring handsome watercolor illustrations and lively text.
(ARC85, $21.95)
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Arthur Miller's Adaptation of an Enemy of the People
• Arthur Miller
• Henrik Ibsen
• LITERATURE
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This classic drama portrays public-minded Dr. Stockman's crusade to save his town from its contaminated water supply.
(SCN26, $12.00)
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The Bayeux Tapestry, The Life Story of a Masterpiece
• Carola Hicks
• HISTORY
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Art Historian Hicks investigates the production and politics of the Bayeux Tapestry, tracing its survival from medieval times through the present day.
(FRN782, $16.95)
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Beginner's Norwegian
• Laura Ziukaite-hansen
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A beginner's course, including a textbook and two audio CDs.
(NOR60, $26.95)
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Berlitz Norwegian Phrase Book
• Inc. Berlitz International
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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With a focus on the traveler, this combination 90-minute CD and pocket phrasebook will help you learn basic vocabulary.
(NOR67, $14.95)
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Birds of Europe
• Lars Svensson
• Dan Zetterstrom
• Killian Mullarney
• FIELD GUIDE
• FAVORITE
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Featuring 3,500 glorious paintings by Killian Mullarney and Dan Zetterstrom, this second revised edition of this exquisite guide has been brought up to date with revised text and maps.
(FG47, $29.95)
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The Body in the Fjord
• Katherine Hall Page
• MYSTERY
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A Faith Fairchild mystery, distinguished by its intricate plot and its setting along the fjords of Norway. Hall Page, as usual, includes a section of recipes at the end (part-time sleuth Faith Fairchild is, after all, a caterer).
(NOR34, $7.99)
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Chronicles of the Vikings: Records, Memorials and Myths
• R.I. Page
• CULTURAL PORTRAIT
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A collection of recently translated Viking writings.
(VIK16, $31.95)
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
• HISTORY
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The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state.
(FRN536, $12.00)
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The Cross
• Sigrid Undset
• Tina Nunnally
• LITERATURE
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This is the third volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway.
(NOR17, $15.00)
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Don't Look Back
• Karen Fossum
• MYSTERY
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In her U.S. debut, Norwegian mystery author Karen Fossum weaves a tale of intrigue set in a small mountain town outside of Oslo.
(NOR37, $14.00)
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Edvard Munch, Behind The Scream
• Sue Prideaux
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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An incisive intellectual and psychological portrait of the artist. Interspersed with excerpts from Munch's private diary, this is the first comprehensive English-language biography of Munch.
(NOR49, $40.00)
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Egil's Saga
• Bernard Scudder
• Svanhildur Oskarsdottir
• LITERATURE
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This chronicle of war and rivaly between ruling clans, written in the 13th century, blends history and legend. It's a vivid portrait of the Viking world. The action is set in 10th-century southern Scandinavia, the Baltic, Iceland and the North Sea.
(VIK06, $15.00)
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Elling
• Peter Naess
• LITERATURE
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This charming, Academy Award-nominated comedy follows two former psychiatric patients --a mouse of a man called Elling and a giant oaf named Kjell Bjarne. They move into a welfare apartment in Oslo, where they poke and prod each other out of their walled-in lives.
(NOR52, $14.99)
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Fodor's Norway
• Emmanue Alspaugh
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical guide in the popular series, saturated with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining.
(NOR65, $18.95)
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Four Major Plays: A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, the Master Builder
• Henrik Ibsen
• Jens Arup
• LITERATURE
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Drawn from the Oxford Ibsen, this compact paperback highlights the playwright's four most celebrated works in excellent translations.
(NOR50, $9.95)
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Frommer's Norway
• Darwin Porter
• GUIDEBOOK
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A practical travel guide featuring excellent annotated listings of what to do and where to eat and sleep. With one-color maps and suggested excursions.
(NOR64, $24.99)
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Glacier Ice
• Austin Post
• Edward R. LaChapelle
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A classic book of extraordinary black-and-white aerial photographs of mountains and glaciers by two devoted men of ice. Ed LaChapelle's text is paired with Austin Post's stunning aerial photographs of glaciers from Alaska and Chile to Switzerland, the Himalayas and other parts of the world.
(SCI07, $27.95)
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe
• Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
• RELIGION
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An classic survey of the Norse and Anglo-Saxon mythologies, gods and goddesses of pre-Christian Europe by a leading scholar of Norse and Anglo-Saxon religion and archaeology.
(SCN23, $15.00)
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Hamsun
• Jan Troell
• LITERATURE
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Based on the Thorkild Hansen's 1978 novel, The Hamsun Trial, this thougtful film depicts the postwar trial and treatment of Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun, and tackles the problem of reconciling his great literature with his political views.
(NOR53, $29.95)
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He Who Fears The Wolf
• Karen Fossum
• MYSTERY
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Inspector Konrad Sejer investigates the murder of a woman who lives alone on a farm in this dark psychological mystery by the Norwegian author of Don't Look Back.
(NOR38, $23.00)
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He Who Fears the Wolf
• Karin Fossum
• Felicity David
• MYSTERY
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(NOR41, $14.00)
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
• LITERATURE
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This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow.
(EUR189, $15.00)
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A History of the Vikings
• Gwyn Jones
• HISTORY
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Jones integrates history and archaeology in this classic portrait of the Vikings.
(VIK20, $18.95)
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Hitler's Sunken Secret
• Nova
• EXPLORATION
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The Nova presentation of the 1944 sinking of the Norwegian ferry Hydro, one of the most daring resistance operations of World War II, including the underwater search for the ferry.
(NOR63, $19.95)
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Hunger
• Henning Carlsen
• LITERATURE
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A film adaptation of Hamsun's 1890 novel, about an author starving in Oslo while waiting for his work to be accepted.
(NOR54, $29.95)
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Ibsen, The Complete Major Prose Plays
• Henrik Ibsen
• Rolf Fjelde
• LITERATURE
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Twelve masterful plays plus almost 100 pages of introduction and background.
(NOR48, $30.00)
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The Ice Palace
• Tarjei Vesaas
• LITERATURE
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A spare tale of two girls and of ice, a haunting frozen waterfall, the best known of the great 20th century Norwegian author's work.
(NOR46, $23.95)
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King Harald's Saga
• Magnus Magnusson
• Paulsson Herman
• Snorri Sturlusson
• Hermann Palsson
• LITERATURE
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A classic biography of the last Viking warrior King Harald and an account of the 1066 conflict between Norway and England.
(NOR19, $13.00)
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Kitchen Stories
• Leif Andree
• LITERATURE
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A Swedish social scientist studies then befriends a cranky Norwegian farmer. Norwegian and Swedish, with English subtitles.
(NOR55, $14.98)
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Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft
• Thor Heyerdahl
• F. H. Lyon
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The hugely popular account of a daring 1947 voyage sailing along the Humboldt and Equatorial currents from Peru to Tahiti. Apart from the sheer adventure, Heyerdahl wanted to show the world that Polynesians could have settled the region. With photographs.
(PAC10, $12.95)
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Kristin Lavransdatter
• Liv Ullmann
• LITERATURE
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This epic love story set in 14th-century Norway is Liv Ullmann's adaptation of Sigrid Undset's 1928 Nobel Prize-winning novel.
(NOR57, $29.99)
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Lapland, A Natural History
• Derek Ratcliffe
• NATURAL HISTORY
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An authoritative, indispensable overview of the birds, plants, habitats and wildlife of the northern regions of Norway, Sweden, Finland and northwestern Russia.
(ARC182, $70.00)
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
• FIELD GUIDE
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Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals.
(FG61, $38.50)
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Michelin Green Guide Scandinavia and Finland
• Michelin Travel Publications
• GUIDEBOOK
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A thorough guide to Scandinavia in the classic Michelin style.
(SCN10, $21.95)
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Nordic Gods and Heroes
• Padraic Colum
• Willy Pogany
• LITERATURE
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Column's classic retelling of the dramatic tales of the Norse gods and goddesses, originally published in 1928. With 40 illustrations.
(SCN39, $10.95)
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The Norsemen in the Viking Age
• Eric Christiansen
• HISTORY
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A cultural history of the Norse.
(VIK17, $26.95)
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Norwegian, A Language Map
• Kristine K. Kershul
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers.
(NOR39, $7.95)
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Norwegian-English Dictionary
• E. Haugen
• LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
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A comprehensive Norwegian-English, English-Norwegian dictionary, geared for students.
(NOR61, $29.95)
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Orkneyinga Saga, The History of the Earls of Orkney
• Hermann Palssom
• Paul Edwards
• LITERATURE
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A fusion of myth and legend, circa A.D. 1200, by an unnamed Icelandic author. The medieval chronicle has its center of action among the Orkney Islands, describing their conquest by Norwegian kings during the Viking expansion of the ninth century.
(VIK07, $15.00)
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the Vikings
• Peter Sawyer
• HISTORY
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An insightful overview of the Viking Age in Norway and abroad, illustrated throughout and featuring essays by 12 experts.
(VIK18, $27.99)
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Peer Gynt
• Henrik Ibsen
• LITERATURE
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The last of Ibsen's verse plays, based on the Norwegian folk hero.
(NOR13, $12.95)
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Per Gynt, A Dramatic Poem
• Henrik Ibsen
• LITERATURE
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A Penguin Classics' edition of Ibsen's classic.
(NOR59, $10.00)
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The Poetic Edda
• Carolyne Larrington
• LITERATURE
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The Norse-Icelandic poems of mythological deities are translated into modern English.
(SCN25, $14.95)
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Rough Guide Norway
• Jules Brown
• GUIDEBOOK
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This compact guide includes an excellent historical and cultural overview of Norway, with special attention to its legends and myths. It's otherwise an opinionated, thorough travel guide with region-by-region descriptions.
(NOR07, $22.99)
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The Royal Physician's Visit
• Per Olov Enquist
• LITERATURE
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Swedish novelist Enquist fleshes out a footnote in Danish history in this story of the Enlightenment-era Danish court, the mad king Christian VII, the ambitious royal doctor and the passionate young queen.
(DMK21, $14.00)
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Runes
• R. I. Page
• HISTORY
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An excellent introduction to Scandinavian pre-Roman script.
(NOR56, $14.95)
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The Saga of the Volsungs
• Jesse Byock
• LITERATURE
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Full of traditional Norse lore, including runic knowledge, jealous princes, betrayals, unrequited love, the vengeance of a Barbarian queen, the greed of Attila the Hun and the mythic deeds of a dragon-slayer, these tales are essential reading for anyone wishing to understand Viking society.
(SCN05, $14.95)
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The Sagas of Icelanders
• Jane Smiley
• Robert Kellog
• EXPLORATION
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Nine sagas and six tales composed between the years 1000 and 1500, including an account of Leif Eriksson's voyage to North America, all newly translated. With an introduction by Jane Smiley.
(ICL13, $22.00)
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Seven Viking Romances
• Hermann Palssom
• Paul Edwards
• ANTHOLOGY
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Entertaining sagas telling of Viking kings, adventurers and gods.
(VIK04, $15.00)
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The Shetland Bus, A WWII Epic of Escape, Survival and Adventure
• David Howarth
• HISTORY
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The little-known story of a fleet of fishing boats that regularly journeyed across treacherous waters from the Shetland Islands to Norway, to bring relief and fortifications to Norwegians under Nazi attack.
(NOR26, $16.95)
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Skis Against the Atom, The Exciting, First Hand Account of Heroism and Daring Sabotage During the Nazi Occupation of Norway
• Knut Haukelid
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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Commando Haukelid and his small but courageous band of Norwegian soldiers led a daring raid against German heavy water plant in WWII, sabotaging the Nazis' efforts to develop an atomic bomb.
(NOR58, $13.95)
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Spitsbergen Explorer Map
• Ocean Explorer Maps
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A detailed map of Svalbard at a scale of 1:1,000,000. With illustrated biographies of explorers and a wildlife guide on the reverse.
(ARC88, $11.95)
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The Svalbard Passage
• Thomas Kirkwood
• Geir Finne
• LITERATURE
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A Cold War thriller lush in the details of its Norwegian setting. The novel opens with a description and map of the Arctic archipelago.
(NOR31, $15.95)
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Trailblazer Norway's Arctic Highway
• John Douglas
• GUIDEBOOK
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A comprehensive, detailed guide to the overland trip from Mo i Rana to Kirkenes.
(NOR32, $19.95)
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Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe
• Marybeth Bond
• Mary Morris
• ANTHOLOGY
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Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris.
(EUR160, $17.95)
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The Vikings
• Magnus Magnusson
• HISTORY
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A well-regarded history of the Vikings.
(VIK23, $20.00)
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The Vikings, A Very Short Introduction
• Julian D. Richards
• HISTORY
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This slim volume is a stimulating, concise introduction to the Vikings.
(VIK24, $14.99)
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When the Devil Holds the Candle
• Felicity David
• Karin Fossum
• MYSTERY
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An unexpected sequence of events in a small Norwegian town randomly intersects the lives of very different people in this gripping psychological thriller starring inspector Sejer.
(NOR42, $14.00)
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The Wife
• Sigrid Undset
• Tina Nunnally
• LITERATURE
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This is the second volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway.
(NOR16, $15.00)
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Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries
• Ornella D'Alessio
• Marco Santini
• FOOD
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Part how-to, part guidebook, part picture book, this charming coffee table treat covers sprawling French vineyards as well as lesser-known hidden treasures in Austria and Hungary.
(EUR191, $35.00)
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The Wreath
• Sigrid Undset
• Tina Nunnally
• LITERATURE
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A romantic masterpiece by the Nobel Prize-winning Norwegian author, first published in 1927. The first volume in Undset's trilogy of historical novels recreating a woman's life during the Middle Ages in devoutly Catholic Norway. Also available are the other two parts of the trilogy, "The Mistress of Husaby" (NOR16) and "The Cross" (NOR17).
(NOR10, $15.00)
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