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Martin House Publications

Books written and/or published by Janet Letnes Martin, Norwegian-Lutheran Literary Guru and the blond half of 'Those Lutheran Ladies.'  She can roll lefse, recite the Books of the Bible from memory, and make hollyhock dolls with the best of them!

Cream and Bread

Cream and Bread  by Janet Letnes Martin & Allen Todnem

Martin and Todnem's first book.  Published in 1984 and still going strong -- as strong as you'll get from eating cream and bread!  Reminiscences that are as wholesome as the boy on the cover.

MH 1 - 01  Paperback  $8.95

Second Helpings of Cream and Bread

Second Helpings of Cream and Bread  by Janet Letnes Martin & Allen Todnem

If the book Cream and Bread doesn't give you enough Norwegian-American humor or nourishment, go for some more!

MH 1 -02  Paperback  $8.95

Shirley Holmquist & Aunt Wilma: Whodunit?

Shirley Holmquist & Aunt Wilma: Whodunit?  by Janet Letnes Martin

Janet always liked Sherlock Holmes but she knew she couldn't call her mystery book that.

MH 1 - 08  Paperback  $7.95
 



Our Beloved Sweden Our Beloved Sweden  by Janet Letnes Martin & Ilene Letnes Lorenz

This beautiful cookbook, written by Janet Letnes Martin and her sister, Ilene Letnes Lorenz, and translated and edited by Suzann Nelson, is truly an art book.  It contains wonderful Dala paintings along with great immigrant recipes submitted by individuals and churches in the Midwest.  It also contains sections on Swedish American church life, Swedish festivals and black and white sketches of all the Swedish provincial flowers.

SE 3 - 01  Paperback  $19.95
Lutheran Church Basement Women

Lutheran Church Basement Women: Lutefisk, Lefse, Lunch and Jell-O

by Janet Letnes Martin and Allen Todnem
A humor cookbook with all your favorite church basement recipes supplemented with short stories, theories and great pictures of your aunts and their neighbors.  If you don't feel like cooking, just sit down, read this book, laugh right out loud, and order out!

MH 1 - 03   Paperback   $11.95  

Helga Hanson's Hotflash Handbook Helga Hanson's Hotflash Handbook

 Don't waste precious time at night when you can't sleep because another wave of hotflashes has hit you. Get your guilt-filled, soakin' body up out of bed and do something!  The handbook tells you what you can do to be productive in the middle of the night, and offers advice on what is happening with your body when you start getting brown spots on your skin so your arms start to look like lefse that's been left on the griddle too long.

MH 1 - 11  Paperback  $4.95
  

Hotflash Hanky

Helga Hanson's Hotflash Hanky Hotflash Hanky

"Catch the drips from head to hips." 

A hanky with instructions included.   You'll learn where to tuck it so no one knows how often your spells are coming on .

MH 1 - 10   Cloth Hanky  $6.95

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All Caragana Press products are available at wholesale prices to qualified retailers, organizations, churches, schools, and libraries.  Call 800 494-9124 for details.