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O Pioneers!
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Willa Cather |
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska cou… |
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Leopardens öga
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Henning Mankell |
Arriving in newly independent Zambia in the hopes of fulfilling a friend's missionary dream, Hans Olofson endeavors to make Africa his home while struggling with such past demons as his father's alco… |
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Vindens son
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Henning Mankell |
In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to discover an insect no one has seen before and name it after himself. But then he impulsively adopts a youn… |
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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend
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Katarina Bivald |
Warning: once you let books into your life, the most unexpected things can happen…
This is a book about books. All sorts of books, from Little Women and Harry Potter to Jodi Picoult and Jane Auste… |
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Three Score And Ten 1886-1956
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Gladys M. Halliwell,M. Zetta D. Persson |
**Dedicated to the Pioneers of Nya Stockholm Swedish Colony, Excel District and the Village of Stockholm, SK.**
**''The world may sound no trumpets, ring no bells;
The book of life, the shining r… |
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The long shadow
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Liza Marklund |
A violent robbery has killed an entire family on the Costa Del Sol. Annika Bengtzon is assigned to cover the story for the Evening Post. But when she arrives in Spain she discovers there is a third c… |
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En el espejo de otro
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Beatriz Graf |
"Los gemelos Nilssen, originarios de Suecia, huyen de la severa violencia de su padre y llegan a Mexico, donde se separan. Ante sus ojos terminan los anos del porfiriato y empieza la convulsa revoluc… |
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The Swedes in Wisconsin
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Frederick Hale |
"In the spring of 1841, six young Swedes and one hunting dog sailed from Gavle, Sweden, as extraordinary passengers aboard a merchant ship bound for New York. By fall of that year, members of the gro… |
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The colony of New Sweden
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Bill Albensi |
Examines the history of the only Swedish colony in America, describing its founding, government, growth, and interaction with other settlements. |
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Our Jerusalem
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Bertha Spafford Vester |
This book describes the history of the American Colony, a presence in Jerusalem from its founding in 1881 until its decline in the mid-20th century (two active outgrowths are Jerusalem's American Col… |
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Swedish ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923
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Knutson |
In the 1880s two Swedes were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. One of them, Knutson, wrote a long memoir of his time in Cameroon (1883-1895). It gives fascinating insights into eve… |
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