Absolutely Love this updated cover! See other listings with the cover that has the two ladies in a shower cap on her head, and the other one, a towel on her head. This one also includes a readers guide inside. It is a very nice condition book, just a teeny bit of wear on the corners.￼

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

Updated cover 

Journeying to Finland to help Penny find her only living relatives, Sharon experiences a profound new perspective on life and her faith in the land of reindeer and saunas. Original.

Sisterchicks on the Loose

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Helen Dunmore

Minnesota

'House of Orphans' is a spellbinding story of love and loneliness, of the differences between change and revolution, and of the terrorism that lurks everywhere in times of change, even in our private midst.

House of Orphans

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#paperback #translated #Finland #trolls #LGBTQIA

Rhode Island

Mikael, a young gay photographer, finds near his apartment block a small, man-like creature. It is a troll, a beast familiar to us from Scandinavian mythology where, through the ages, it has been used to frighten children. The first thing he does is research everything that has been written about trolls.

Not Before Sundown - aka Trolls: A Love Story

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#hardcover #historicalfiction #idaho #Finland #Norway #generational #saga #UofWpress #hardscrabble #womensfiction

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

As a child, Solveig Torvik heard stories of a lost, mysterious great-grandfather who left Finland for America to make his fortune - leaving Torvik's great-grandmother and his unborn daughter behind. As a reporter, Torvik determined to discover the fate of the man who followed his dreams to Oregon. She uncovered not only the story of one man, but also the saga of an entire family. In Nikolai's Fortune, a tale of Scandinavian women, the journalist turns fact into fiction and shares the tales of her ancestors as she imagines they would have told them.

Nikolai's Fortune is a heartbreaking, multigenerational epic, chronicling family secrets and sufferings against the backdrop of Scandinavian history and culture. Blending memoir and historical fiction, grandmother, mother, and daughter each share their own story: Kaisa, of her mother's love for Nikolai and her own 500-mile trek at the age of twelve from impoverished Finland across the snowy mountains of Lapland; Berit, of child slavery and an obsession with seeking out her grandfather's fortune for her mother; and Hannah, the voice of Torvik, of her childhood during the Nazi occupation of Norway and her family's emigration to Idaho.

Through detailed historical research into census, church, and weather records, as well as academic and museum sources, Torvik recaptures a dramatic story nearly lost to memory and inherits something worth more than a fortune in riches - a sense of her family history, ethnic background, and the generations of remarkable women who came before her.

Norwegian-born Solveig Torvik was a reporter, editor, and columnist at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer for thirty years. She was also a reporter for United Press International in Salt Lake City and for the San Francisco Chronicle, and an editor at the San Jose Mercury News.

Nikolai's Fortune

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Pennsylvania

Northern Finland, 1952, at the height of the Cold War with its neighbor the Soviet Union. A misunderstood, flawed, whip-smart Finnish woman police detective, while fighting against prejudice and political interference, investigates a murder on the Finno-Russian border. But that is but the beginning of her involvement. In fact the locals have been the victims of a crime so evil it is beyond anything any of them could have ever imagined.

Evil Things

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Pajtim Statovci

David Hackston

Colorado

A Novel

April 1995. Arsim is a recently married student at the University of Pristina, keeping his head down to gain a university degree in a time and place deeply hostile to Albanians. In a café he meets a young man named Milos. Before the day is out everything has changed, and two milestones soon erupt in Arsim's life. His wife announces her first pregnancy, and he begins a life in secret

Bolla

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

New Hampshire

The first thriller in a new series featuring Inspector Kari Vaara: the haunted, hardened detective who must delve into Finland's dark and violent underbelly.

Kaamos: Just before Christmas, the bleakest time of the year in Lapland. The unrelenting darkness and extreme cold above the Arctic Circle drive everyone just a little insane . . . perhaps enough to kill.

A beautiful Somali immigrant is found dead in a snowfield, her body gruesomely mutilated, a racial slur carved into her chest. Heading the murder investigation is Inspector Kari Vaara, the lead detective of the small-town police force. The vicious killing may have been a hate crime, a sex crime-or one and the same. Vaara knows he must keep this potentially ex­plosive case out of the national headlines or else it will send shock waves across Finland, an insular nation afraid to face its own xenophobia.

The demands of the investigation begin to take their toll on Vaara and his marriage. His young American wife, Kate, newly pregnant with their first child, is struggling to adapt to both the unforgiving Arctic climate and the Finnish culture of silence and isolation. Meanwhile Vaara himself, haunted by his rough childhood and failed first marriage, discovers that the past keeps biting at his heels: He suspects that the rich man for whom his ex-wife left him years ago may be the killer.

Endless night can drive anyone to murder.


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Snow Angels (Arc)

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“Snow-noir!” as the mystery unfolds in Finland. Clean pages, no writing, very mild edge wear to two corners. #fiction #softcover #mystery #detective #Finland #crime #thriller #paperback (Shelf 9F)

New Jersey

Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa is called to the local hospital in which his young wife died several years before. An unidentified woman in a coma has been murdered by someone who wept over the body, their tears staining the sheets around her. The death marks the start of a series of killings, with the unknown patient at their centre.

As autumn turns to winter, and Christmas fast approaches, Kimmo's attempts to unravel the case and identify the first victim are complicated by the disappearance of his sometime girlfriend, who has vanished after a party thrown by the head of the police force, and by a colleague's spiral into the depths of a gambling addiction.

Light in a Dark House

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Finland in 50 Stories

Finland Travel Guide by Lonely Planet. In good condition, but former library book. tons of other travel books in my shop: most $1. #paperback #travel #finland #nordic #newyear #goals 

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Finland Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

James Thompson

Ex-library book with associated stickers, marks, etc. 

Ohio

A Booklist Best Crime Novel Debut

"Don't miss this one."--USA Today
"A masterful job." -Michael Connelly

It is called kaamos--two weeks of unrelenting darkness and soul-numbing cold that falls upon Finnish Lapland, a hundred miles into the Arctic Circle, just before Christmas. Some get through it with the help of cheap Russian alcohol; some sink into depression.

This year, it may have driven someone mad enough to commit murder. The brutalized body of a beautiful Somali woman has been found in the snow, and Inspector Kari Vaara must find her killer. It will be a challenge in a place where ugly things lurk under frozen surfaces, and silence is a way of life.

Snow Angels

Finding Courage, Wellness, and Happiness Through the Power of Sisu

An engaging and practical guided tour of the simple and nature-inspired ways that Finns stay happy and healthy--including the powerful concept of sisu, or everyday courage

Forget hygge--it's time to blow out the candles and get out into the world! Journalist Katja Pantzar did just that, taking the huge leap to move to the remote Nordic country of Finland. What she discovered there transformed her body, mind and spirit. In this engaging and practical guide, she shows readers how to embrace the "keep it simple and sensible" daily practices that make Finns one of the happiest populations in the world, year after year.

Topics include:


 * Movement as medicine: How walking, biking and swimming every day are good for what ails us--and best done outside the confines of a gym
 * Natural mood boosters: Cold water swimming, steamy saunas, and other ways to alleviate stress, anxiety, insomnia, and depression
 * Forest therapy: Why there's no substitute for getting out into nature on a regular basis
 * Healthy eating: What the Nordic diet can teach us all about feeding body, mind and soul
 * The gift of sisu: Why Finns embrace a special form of courage, grit and determination as a national virtue - and how anyone can dig deeper to survive and thrive through tough times.
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   If you've ever wondered if there's a better, simpler way to find happiness and good heath, look no further. The Finns have a word for that, and this empowering book shows us how to achieve it.

The Finnish Way

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A Different Kind of Social Guide to Finland 

Finnish Nightmares

Katja Pantzar

Nebraska

Timothy D. Walker

Pasi Sahlberg

33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms

The best-selling book of easy-to-implement classroom lessons from the world's premier educational system--now available in paperback.

Teach Like Finland

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South Carolina

Investigator Jessica Niemi is in a race against time to find the link between a body with strange markings that has washed up on a frigid shore in Finland and two baffling disappearances in this terrifying new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Witch Hunter. Six months have passed since Jessica's encounter with the mysterious serial-killing coven of witches and the death of her mentor. Her nightmares about her mother and the witchcraft that undid her have only gotten worse, but she's doing what she can to stay focused. Her homicide squad, now under new leadership, has been given a murder case and a new series of disappearances to investigate. A young woman's corpse has washed up on an icy beach, and two famous Instagram influencers have gone missing at the same time. The missing influencers and the murdered woman all have ties to a sinister cult. Jessica finds an eerie painting--of a lighthouse on a remote island--as she investigates, and under the picture is a gruesome poem detailing a murder. The nightmares about her mother suddenly seem all too real, making Jessica wonder if the dead woman might be trying to tell her something about the killings. And as Jessica works frantically to solve her latest case, her horrific past comes roaring back and threatens to destroy her.

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Robin Jones Gunn

Sisterchicks on the Loose

Helen Dunmore

House of Orphans

Johanna Sinisalo translated by Herbert Lomas

Not Before Sundown - aka Trolls: A Love Story

Solveig Torvik

Nikolai's Fortune

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Evil Things

Pajtim Statovci; David Hackston

Bolla

James Thompson

Snow Angels (Arc)

Jan Costin Wagner; Anthea Bell (Translator)

Light in a Dark House

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Finland in 50 Stories

Lonely Planet

Finland Travel Guide by Lonely Planet

James Thompson

Snow Angels

Katja Pantzar

The Finnish Way

Karoliina Korhonen

Finnish Nightmares

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The Finnish Way

Timothy D. Walker; Pasi Sahlberg

Teach Like Finland

Max Seeck

The Ice Coven

Matti Klinge; Laura Kolbe; Malcolm Hicks (Translator)

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