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Leaving their homelands for America, Elin, Kirsten, and Sofia begin a difficult journey where they endure the ocean voyage in steerage and detention on Ellis Island--a journey where each woman will come to understand her secret longings and the meaning of home.
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English
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Cold and poverty define Hanna Renstrom's childhood in remote northern Sweden, and in 1905, at nineteen, she boards a ship for Australia in hope of a better life. But none of her hopes--or fears--prepares her for the life she will lead. After two brief marriages, she finds herself a widow twice over, and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, a world where colonialism and white supremacy rule, where she is isolated within society by her...
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740L
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English
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Swedish immigrant Inga Linberg arrives in Uppsala, Iowa, in the late nineteenth century and takes a job caring for the sick mother and two young nieces of dairy farmer Dirk Bridger, and though she chides her sisters for their infatuation with the handsome and hardworking Dirk, she cannot hide the growing truth that she too would like to attract his attention.
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English
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"Vienna: famous for Mozart, waltzes, and pastry; less famous for Julia, a Swedish transplant who spends her days teaching English to unemployed Austrians and her evenings watching Netflix with her cat or club hopping with a frenemy. An aspiring novelist, Julia's full of ideas for future bestsellers: A writer moves his family to a deserted hotel in the dead of winter and spirals into madness! A homely governess loves a brooding man whose crazy wife...
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Series
Ladies of the Lake volume 2
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English
Description
"While caring for her grandmother, Kirstin Hallberg encounters the brother she long thought dead. In shock, she volunteers to care for her brother's injured friend, Ilian. As Ilian recovers, an attraction sparks between them, but both are dealing with problems that have no easy answers. With no clear way forward, can love ever thrive and the past be forgiven?" --
9) A lo lejos
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
Sinopsis: H©Ækan S©œderstr©œm, conocido como "el Halc©đn", un joven inmigrante sueco que llega a California en plena Fiebre del Oro, emprende una peregrinaci©đn imposible en direcci©đn a Nueva York, sin hablar el idioma, en busca de su hermano Linus, a quien perdi©đ cuando embarcaron en Europa. En su extra©ło viaje, H©Ækan se topar©Ł con un buscador de oro irland©♭s demente y con una mujer sin dientes que lo viste con un abrigo...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Part 1. Becoming Swedish-American -- Sweden, the Swedes, and Swedish immigration -- Swedish settlements and life in Northwest Indiana -- Life in Old Baillytown -- Swedish churches and religious traditions -- Turbulence and the transition to English -- Part 2. The settlements -- LaPorte and the Swedish Hills -- Michigan City -- Baillytown -- Porter -- Chesterton -- Hobart -- Lake Station -- Miller -- Portage -- Part 3. The legacy -- Historic Swedish...
12) In the distance
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"A young Swedish immigrant finds himself penniless and alone in California. The boy travels east in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great current of emigrants pushing west. Driven back again and again, he meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, swindlers, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre, offering a probing look at the stereotypes...
14) The crystal tree
Author
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
Nancy and her friends uncover the history of the little silver house and the family who once lived there.
20) Insomnia
Series
Criterion collection volume 047
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A brilliant but arrogant Swedish detective with a tarnished past is dispatched to a remote hamlet in northern Norway to find the killer of a beautiful young woman. After making a fatal error in his investigation and attempting to cover it up, the detective finds himself implicated in the crime he was sent to solve in this arctic summer with 24-hour sunlight.
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