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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  $18.95
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   

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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.