• This exclusive sterling silver charm bracelet and the necklace are reminiscent of your high school days, but with a lot more class! The bracelet and necklace were designed by Suzann Nelson and Janet Martin, Those Lutheran Ladies (midwestern authors, humorists and performers), and sold exclusively by them. Sterling Silver, 7 inches ... more

  • by Erling N. Rolfsrud
    Paperback
    Twenty-four true stories about the people who shaped the "Flickertail State." ... more

  • by Lois Lowry
    Paperback
    For Annemarie, life in Copenhagen is a complicated mix of ordinary home and school life, food shortages, and the constant presence of Nazi soldiers. To her courage is something dragon-slaying knights do in the bedtime stories, but soon Annemarie's bravery is tested. Set in 1943 when Nazis occupied Denmark, 10-year-old Annemarie Johansen is asked ... ... more

  • Ola

    $16.95

    by Ingri and Edgar Parin d’Aulaire
    Hardcover
    Ola is the enchanting story of a dauntless Norwegian boy who takes off skiing one day and ends up having many unusual adventures before returning home. He meets new friends, joins a merry wedding party, encounters a howling dragon, skis to the Arctic region, gets caught in a tree, and ... ... more

  • Cloth
    We listened to you men! You saw "Helga Hanson's Hotflash Hanky" and said you wanted something too. Well, here you are. "Ole's Oil Rag -- For When Your Dipstick Comes Up Short"! ... more

  • by Janet Letnes Martin & Ilene Letnes Lorenz
    Paperback
    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 ... ... more

  • by Ole Rølvaag
    Written in 1929, Peder Victorious, subtitled "A Tale of the Pioneers Twenty Years Later," is the second book in this trilogy and brings the immigrants into the twentieth century. For Rølvaag's second generation of "vikings of the prairie," the battle against the land has been won, but they are faced ... ... more

  • A novel inspired by Rolfrud's immigrant mother. Fiction based upon experiences of single women and widows who homesteaded, often beginning in sod huts. ... more

  • by Jan Smith
    Paperback
    This is a fictional look at the daily life of a homesteading family of five in the year 1890. Many of the characters, events, and places, however, allude to actual local people and happenings of that year. This story is set in the area around in the Phelps Mill, a successful flourmill ... ... more

  • by Jan Smith
    Paperback
    This book continues Nivek's story in 1898. Leaving his family's homestead, Nivek becomes a newspaper correspondent during the Spanish-American War. Together with his boyhood friends, Wing, an Ojibwa Indian, and Jesse, from Medora, North Dakota, the young men travel across country by horseback, train, and stagecoach to join Theodore Roosevelt and the ... ... more