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By Selma Lagerlöf. Translation by Lillie Tudeer.
A second reprinting of Selma Lagerlöfs classic work, first published in Sweden in 1891, is available again in English, in a handsome, affordable reprint edition by Penfield Press. A first printing of 1500 copies in almost 60 years of this classic novel was released in 1997 by Penfield Press.
In 1909, Lagerlöf became the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. Gosta Berlings Saga is acclaimed by many as her finest work; it is certainly her most popular. Lagerlöf drew on stories of legendary figures in her rural province in south-central Sweden to weave this epic tapestry of passions.
The setting provides a fresh departure from contemporary life, illustrating a simple country existence. Gosta Berlings Saga deserves renewed attention from students and lovers of literature.
Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 358 pages. ISBN 1-572160-33-0

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Second in a series, this book tells the continuing tale of Henning Nilsson and his family, a family whose origins and growth in the underclass of nineteenth-century Stockholm mirror the growth of Stockholm itself into a modern European metropolis.
Per Anders Fogelstrams Stockholm Series is a quintet of novels about the intertwined stories of a city and of a family; this second volume, Children of Their City, focuses on the experiences and diverging destinies of the children of Henning Nilsson, the principal character of its predecessor, City of My Dreams. The research behind and within Fogelstrams series is prodigiously detailed: he gives us meticulous descriptions of landscapes, weather, rooms, streets, factories, cafes, bars, and emerging landmarks; he knows and understands the historical events, issues, politics of the period 1880-1900 in this second volume, which of them were remote from the working classes, and which were immediate. He tells his stories without contrivance; when there are life-changing events, they erupt into a context of daily life that he conveys no less compellingly. He can show us the clothes his characters are wearing, tell us how these people smell, describe the effect of alcohol and toil on their bodies. Most of all he understands their values, their ideals, their emotions, their human integrity; he admires their enduring strengths, and views their weaknesses with compassion. Jennifer Brown Baverstams skillful translation is at once transparent and rooted, like its source. The author, Per Anders Fogelstram, is one of the most widely read authors in Sweden today. City of My Dreams, the first book in his five-volume Stockholm Series, broke the record for bestsellers. A compelling storyteller known for his narrative sweep, his acute characterization and the poetic qualities of his prose, Fogelstram was highly acclaimed even before he wrote the Stockholm Series. Ingmar Bergman made one of Fogelstrams earlier novels, Summer with Monika, into a film that is now a Bergman classic. Fogelstram has remained a favorite in Swedish literature among readers of all ages, and he continues to be greatly loved and respected as a chronicler of his people. He died June 20, 1998, two days before the unveiling of a statue of him at the entrance to the hall where the Nobel prizes are awarded in Stockholm. New release fall 2008. 6x9"
ISBN 978-1932043488

By Kerstin Olsson Van Gilder.
Kerstin Olsson Van Gilder came to America from Sweden in 1961. Kerstin refers to Swedish foods as "cooking the naturally delicious way." Recipes include glogg, black soup, ham rolls, crayfish, Swedish meatballs, potato dumplings, Swedish pastry, and cocoa balls.
Spiral bound, 5-1/2 x 3-1/2", 160 pages. ISBN 0-941016-52-8

Take a tour through Swedens Regional Recipes, a delightful title that describes each of Swedens diverse provinces and their culinary specialties. The journey starts in Lappland, the land of the midnight sun, Swedens northernmost and largest province. It winds through the others as well, from the fertile valleys of Norrbotten in the northeast to Dalarna, the heart of Sweden, to the southernmost province of Skane, where the residents eat a feast of goose on St. Martens Day.
Enjoy arctic trout in Medelpad, blueberry tartlets in Dalarna, apple pancakes in Vastmanland, pea soup in Uppland, breaded potato bites in Dalsland, and Swedish meatballs, rye bread, and cheesecake in Smaland. Try minced guinea fowl with roasted root vegetables in a chapter on foods from Nobel Awards banquets. A chapter on Swedish holidays features everything from pineapple-strawberry torte at Midsummer to cookies and candy for Christmas to crayfish parties.
And do not forget the smorgasbord chapter, which includes an article about the right way to eat a traditional smorgasbord as well as a host of recipes. With more than 100 recipes, this book has something for everyone.
*Free Recipe*
CHEESY VEGETABLE CASSEROLE
from Sweden''s Regional Recipes
Cheesy Vegetable Casserole p. 83

1 head cauliflower, cut into pieces
2 cups carrots, sliced
2 cups peas
2 tablespoons butter or margarine
3 tablespoons flour
2 cups light cream or milk
2 egg yolks, beaten
salt and pepper
4 tomatoes, peeled and sliced
1/2 cup grated cheese

Cook the cauliflower, carrots, and peas separately until tender. Drain. Arrange in a greased baking dish. Melt butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour until smooth. Add the cream gradually while stirring and cook slowly 10 minutes, stirring often. Set aside. Add egg yolks. Bring to a boil again, then remove from heat. Stir until thick and smooth. Season to taste.
Pour sauce over the vegetables and arrange tomato slices on top. Sprinkle grated cheese over everything. Broil about 10 minutes until brown.

Perfect bound, 6x9", 142 pages. ISBN 1932043195

*Free Recipe*
FIG PUDDING
from Sweden''s Regional Recipes
Fig Pudding p. 59

10 ounces figs
4 eggs, separated
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup cream
1 tablespoon dried bread crumbs
3/4 cup chopped sweet almonds

In the baking dish:

2 teaspoons butter or margarine
3 tablespoons bread crumbs

Cut the figs into strips, place in a saucepan, cover with water, and simmer until swollen, then drain. Blend the egg yolks with the sugar, figs, cream, and bread crumbs. Beat the egg whites until stiff; fold into the fig mixture, along with the almonds.
Butter a baking dish and sprinkle with bread crumbs. Pour the pudding mix in. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes. Turn upside down onto a serving platter. Serve with vanilla sauce(below). Serves 6.

Vanilla Sauce p. 51

3 egg yolks, beaten
2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup whipped cream

Mix egg yolks and sugar in top of double boiler. Add cream and cook until thick, stirring constantly. Remove from heat; add vanilla and cool, stirring occasionally. When completely cooled, fold in whipped cream.

Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 142 pages. ISBN 1-932043-19-5

Janet Letnes Martin and Ilene Lenes Lorenz wrote this book in honor of the 150th Anniversary of the mass emigration from Sweden to the United States (1846-1996). It is a compilation of wonderful old recipes, courageous and heart-warming stories of faith and memories of how Swedish traditions have been celebrated, preserved and promoted in the United States, both in the past and at the present time.
Perfect bound, 6 x 9", 282 pages. ISBN 1-886627-02-9

Recently Released Updated Volume
Edited by David Wright and Martha Wiberg Thompson

Midwest Independent Publishers Association 2006 prize winner!
This 160-page, perfect-bound volume is the long-awaited updated version of Penfield''s 1983 "Superbly Swedish." With 32 pages of all-new full-color photographs and completely revised text, "Swedish Touches" includes classic Swedish-American recipes carefully selected and expanded, now available in this new edition.
Unique to this book are color reproductions by famous Swedish artists, and popular American artists of Swedish descent. Enjoy your favorites like Carl Larsson, Anders Zorn, and Carl Milles; and learn more about the beauty of works by John F. Carlson, Birger Sandzen, Paul Granlund, and others.
With a special section on Swedish folk arts, and Dala painting, as revived in America. New color images feature Dala painted domestic interiors by Karen Jenson, noted Minnesota folk artist. Take a tour of the most interesting Swedish historic sites in America, including: Lindsborg, Kansas; Bishop Hill, Illinois; Scandia, Minnesota; and The American Swedish Institute, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
"Swedish Touches" is a fascinating glimpse into the traditions of Swedish Americans, one of America''s most colorful and artistic ethnic groups. With beautiful photos of all the customs, festivities, foodways, and institutions that carry on the best of Sweden''s old world traditions.

Perfect-bound, 6x9", 160 pages. ISBN 1-932043-53-5

Delight family and friends with hundreds of the very best Swedish dishes. From typical smorgasbord items to classic main dishes to traditional breads and pastries, you'll find 200 easy-to-follow recipes for genuine Swedish foods.

Swedish Cakes and Cookies is a modern classic. First published in 1945, it has sold over 3.4 million copies in Sweden. Over the years, it has been modernized and improved. Today''s full-color edition, with beautiful photographs throughout, contains nearly 300 recipes for cookies, sweet breads, butter cakes, tortes, and other Swedish dessert delights.
ISBN: 978-1602392625

From a country famous for its Christmas celebrations comes a book that explains everything necessary to make beautiful Christmas crafts with an authentic Swedish twist. In this full color book, author Helene S. Lundberg includes lists of necessary materials, step-by-step photographs of each project, and all the patterns you need to make each project picture-perfect. From stockings and ornaments to picture frames and gift wrapping to Christmas cards and homemade candles, the simple and elegant projects in this book are easy enough to appeal to beginners, but exquisite enough to make even the newest crafter seem like an expert.

Helene S. Lundberg is the author of several books on crafts, decorating, and entertaining. She lives in Sweden.
ISBN: 978-1-60239-330-1

More complete than ever before with 70,000 entries. Includes 20,000 phrases and idioms. Full explanations of inflected forms, plurals and conjugations. Covers both British and American usages. Compact and up-to-date; ideal for students and travellers.
ISBN 0-781803-79-9

This dictionary and phrasebook is an essential resource. A pronunciation guide and a grammar section ensure that users undersand the structure of Swedish, while important contextual information will help travelers avoid embarrassing moments. The phrasebook contains 15 sections, including convenient conversion charts for clothing sizes as well as weights and measures.
ISBN 0-78809-03-7

This book is an autobiography of our "Growing Up Lutheran" remembrances. We both speak at hundreds of Lutheran churches of various synods throughout the nation each year, and countless Lutherans have related their endearing, often hilarious, stories. Many of those stories, and many related pictures, are included in this book and help capture the "Lutheran Experience."
By combining our memories and pictures with those of other Lutherans who grew up in the 40's through the 60's, our book is like an old-fashioned Lutheran church basement hotdish. We have put together a mixture of ingredients that we had on hand, generously salted it with gentle humor, and lightly peppered it with quite a few hot granules of Lutheran theology.
This is most certainly true.
--Janet Letnes Martin and Suzann (Johnson) Nelson

By Scott A. Mellor
Hippocrene Beginner Series with 2 audio CDs.
This book is designed to provide the English speaker with basic Swedish grammar and a general vocabulary of common words. Each lesson includes dialogues, grammar points, a brief comparison of Swedish and English, and some important cultural information.
The audio CDs, which feature the books dialogues and vocabulary sections as spoken by native speakers, round out this excellent introduction to the language. Paperback, 8-1/2 x 5-1/2". ISBN 0-781811-57-0

Over 2,00 up-to-date practical entries, quick word substituion for every need, a handy bilingual glossary, and in clear type. Dover language books are the fastest, most easy-to-use method ever devised for finding the phrases you need instantly in compact, sturdily produced books that will stand up to years of use.
Perfect bound, 3 1/2 x 5 1/4", 156 pages. ISBN 0-486208-12-5

A life without LOVE is like a year without summer. Swedish proverb. 2" x 3" magnet

Being young is a fault which diminished daily. Swedish proverb. 2" x 3" magnet

Love lives by love. Swedish proverb magnet 2" x 3"

Selma Lagerlof

Sunshine is like love. Selma Lagerlof quote. 2" x 3" magnet.

The longest journey of any person is the journey inward. -Dag Hammarskjöld. Swedish proverb. 2" x 3" magnet

This volume outlines the historical background to events in the Finnish epic, THE KALEVALA. It discusses the historical developments in Sweden-Finland, Estonia, and the entire Baltic Sea during the Middle Ages when the sea united the countries bordering on it.
Finland's pre-eminent historian, Matti Klinge has enhanced this updated English translation with 75 historical documents and maps as illustrations.
Paperback. 6" x 9", 214 pages. ISBN 9-780978348-80-9

20 Beautiful Postcards from Paintings by Sweden's most beloved artist, Carl Larsson. Each card measures 5x7". 20 cards in one package.

Over 300 holiday postcard images bring Sweden's Christmas traditions to life. The charm, warmth, and beauty of a Swedish Christmas is captured in this remarkable collection of 300 colorful, fun, and historic postcards dating back to the 1800s. Each postcard reveals the magic behind Christmas and of Scandinavian tradition and folklore. Here, gnomish elves meet Santa and children play with angels. With traditional postcards from renowned artists such as Jenny Nystrom, Elsa Beeskow, and Aina Stenberg, accompanied by explanations of the cultural and historical past, God Jul will make everyone that is even a little bit Swedish homesick for an Old World Christmas. 300 color illustrations.

About the Author Anders Neumuller is the editor of Scandinavian and Swedish Press magazines and the author of ten books including God Jul. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

By Diane Edwards.
A closer look at the Swedish Arts with rich, full-color photographs throughout.
ISBN 0-967458-36-6

By Astrid Lindgren.
"This is a bedtime story that small children will want to hear over and over again."-The New Yorker
"Charming, hushed illustrations and quiet text together evoke the soft, snowy silence and winter beauty of a Swedish night. The troll Tomten mercifully saves the farm animals from the depredations of Reynard the fox, and manages to assuage the fox's hunger to boot!"-School Library Journal
"The illustrations have a luminous beauty. There's a kind, quiet calm here that warms the winter air."-The New York Times Hurry, closing out, limited supplies!
ISBN 0-698115-92-9

By Astrid Lindgren.
This classic story of the Tomten's nocturnal visits to all of the residents of this wintry farm has been reminding children of the promise of Spring for more than 30 years. Hurry, closing out, limited supplies! "The friendly troll Tromten will be a welcome visitor. . . . Highly recommended."-School Library Journal "Wiberg's lovely, full-color paintings convey the hushed atmosphere of night in the Swedish countryside and also the sweet charms of the Tomten. . . . The gentle story with its eye-filling scenes is an apt choice for bedtime read-alouds."-Publishers Weekly
ISBN 0-698115-91-0

Vilhelm Moberg''s four-volume emigrant novels have been reissued in conjunction with the 1996 Jubilee celebrating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Swedish mass emigration to North America.
Moberg introduces us to Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their three young children, and others who make up a resolute party of Swedes fleeing the poverty religious persecution and social oppression of Smaland, a province in Sweden. The Nilssons leave a farm too small and stony to support them. Kristina's uncle Danjel Andreasson seeks religious freedom for himself, his wife, and four children. Ulrika of Vastergohl, once the town whore, is determined to live with her daughter where no one knows her past. And Karl's brother, Robert, travels with his friend Arvid Pettersson to escape their lot as farmhands. For ten long weeks they suffer the cramped, filthy quarters of the sailing vessel that finally brings them to New York City.
Voted book of the century by the Swedish people!
ISBN: 0873513193

Vilhelm Moberg''s four-volume emigrant novels have been reissued in conjunction with the 1996 Jubilee celebrating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Swedish mass emigration to North America.
This book portrays the family of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, prospering in the midst of Minnesota's growing Swedish community of the mid- to late-nineteenth century. Years of toil have brought them a comfortable house and a thriving farm. Now they face a new terrible challenge as Minnesota struggles through two bloody conflicts-the Civil War and the Dakota War. The family remains steadfastly together through wartime turmoil and fears for the safety of loved ones. Kristina finally tastes the very first apple ripened on the tree grown from seed sent from her old home in Sweden. Like her family, the tree has taken root and thrived in the new land.
ISBN: 0873513223

Vilhelm Moberg''s four-volume emigrant novels have been reissued in conjunction with the 1996 Jubilee celebrating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Swedish mass emigration to North America.
This book focuses on Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson as they struggle to prosper on their new farm in Minnesota during the 1850s. Kristina, coping with a feeling of loss for Sweden and the difficulty of adapting to a new land, draws strength from a new-found spirituality. Karl Oskar brings more land under cultivation and harvests rye, wheat, and corn. Together they survive blizzards, grasshopper plagues, wildcat speculation in currency, and self-righteous neighbors. With friends they rejoice in the arrival of more Swedes, building a church, moving into their new house, even planting a small flower garden. Karl's brother, Robert, falls victim to gold fever and with his friend Arvid Petterson, faces an arduous journey on the California Trail. ISBN: 0873513215

Vilhelm Moberg''s four-volume emigrant novels have been reissued in conjunction with the 1996 Jubilee celebrating the 150th anniversary of the beginning of Swedish mass emigration to North America.
This book opens in the summer of 1850 as the sailing ship Charlotta unloads its human cargo-including Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, their children, and a party of other emigrants from Smaland, a province in Sweden--New York City. Their journey to a new home in Minnesota Territory takes them by riverboat, steam wagon, Great Lakes steamship and ox cart to Chisago County. There Karl and Kristina claim 160 acres and begin farming. It is a year of struggle, but the kindness of their new found friends - both American and Swedish - helps temper the difficulties wrought by little cash, scant knowledge of English, and late-summer planting.
ISBN: 0873513207