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  • Haymaker in Heaven

    A Novel

    by Edvard Hoem ...
    Translated by Tara Chace ...
    From one of Norway's leading writers, translated into English for the very first time, comes a transatlantic novel of dreams, sacrifice, and transformation set at the turn of the twentieth century.The year is 1874. Nesje is a recent widower with a young son, working as a haymaker on an estate in the town of Molde and steadily clearing his own small holding. Then he meets Serianna—an outsider, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • News of the World

    A Novel

    Now a Major Motion PictureNational Book Award Finalist—FictionIn the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of the American West from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust.In the wake ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dream to Follow, A (Return to Red River Book #1)

    Series Book 1 - Return to Red River
    It is 1893 and the first generation of immigrants who came to America for the promise of free land and a good life for their children have finally achieved their dreams. They labored hard on the land and now have a bountiful heritage to pass on to the next generation. However, many of the young people aren't interested in becoming farmers--they have aspirations of their own.Thorliff Bjorklund has ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Haunted Harbours

    Ghost Stories from Old Nova Scotia

    by Steve Vernon ...
    Scary tales from Nova Scotia, by the author of The Tatterdemon Omnibus and Where the Ghosts Are: A Guide to Nova Scotia's Spookiest Places.This is a collection of ghost stories from Nova Scotia—from the restless spirits of Devil's Island to the Black Dog of Antigonish Harbour. Documented and well-known stories from the provincial archives are mixed with word-of-mouth legends of strange happenings ... Read more

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  • The Yellowstone Kelly Novels

    Yellowstone Kelly, Kelly Blue, Imperial Kelly, and Kelly and the Three-Toed Horse

    by Peter Bowen ...
    Series series The Yellowstone Kelly Novels
    Four fast-paced novels based on the real-life frontier adventures of Yellowstone Kelly, one of the Old West's most legendary soldiers.Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly had one of the longest, strangest, and most breathtaking careers in the American West. The intrepid scout's talent for being in the right place at an exciting time would take him all over the world, from the Great Plains to Africa to the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lake Wobegon Days

    “Lake Wobegon Days is about the way our beliefs, desires and fears tail off into abstractions--and get renewed from time to time. . . this book, unfolding Mr. Keillor's full design, is a genuine work of American history.” -The New York Times“A comic anatomy of what is small and ordinary and therefore potentially profound and universal in American life…Keillor’s strength as a writer is to make the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Blood of the Oak

    A Mystery

    Series Book 4 - Bone Rattler
    The Edgar Award–winner’s colonial series continues as Scottish exile Duncan McCallum uncovers a loyalist conspiracy—“Historical mystery at its best” (Booklist, starred review).The American Colonies, 1765. As the Stamp Act dissent marks the first organized resistance to English rule, someone is kidnapping and killing members of the Iroquois Nation. Asked by an elder to investigate, Scottish exile ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unto a Good Land

    The Emigrant Novels: Book II

    Series Book 2 - Emigrant Novels
    Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Settlers

    The Emigrant Novels: Book III

    Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • Short and Tall Tales: Moose County Legends

    Series Book 2 - Cat Who Short Stories
    A charming companion to Lilian Jackson Braun's Cat Who series that contains intriguing stories about the place that cats Koko, Yum Yum, and reporter Jim Qwilleran call home.Fictional columnist James Qwilleran has finally completed his book showcasing the stories related to him by residents of Moose County—that famous region 400 miles north of everywhere. With an introduction by Lilian Jackson ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Last Letter Home

    The Emigrant Novels: Book IV

    Series Book 4 - Emigrant Novels
    Considered one of Sweden's greatest 20th-century writers, Vilhelm Moberg created Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson to portray the joys and tragedies of daily life for early Swedish pioneers in America. His consistently faithful depiction of these humble people's lives is a major strength of the Emigrant Novels.Moberg's extensive research in the papers of Swedish emigrants in archival collections, ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Reckless Kind

    by Carly Heath ...
    A genre-defying debut, this queer historical YA centers a wild and reckless trio who fly in the face of small-town tradition—full of compassion, love, and determination to live the lives of their choosing.It’s 1904 on an island just west of Norway, and Asta Hedstrom doesn’t want to marry her odious betrothed, Nils. But her mother believes she should be grateful for the possibility of any domestic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD