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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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Ladies of the Lake volume 2
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"In 1871, Kirstin Hallberg arrives in Duluth, Minnesota, to find the city council intent on building a canal and ensuring the city's rise to greatness. She's come to care for her elderly grandmother Lena Segerson only to discover Lena very full of life and full of secrets. For when Kirstin opens their front door one day, she finds the brother she long thought dead on the other side. Domar begs his sister to say nothing to their parents, viewing their...
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Ingrid Larsen, a young Swedish immigrant, arrives in Michigan in 1871 to search for her brother who has disappeared into the woods to work the dangerous lumber camps. Destitute and barely hanging on to hope, she encounters a newly-widowed farmer who is struggling to raise five children on his own. Marriage would solve both of their problems, and so Ingrid proposes to a man she barely knows. She will fight to protect her new family-- but the hardest...
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"A young Swedish boy finds himself in penniless and alone in California. He travels East in search of his brother, moving on foot against the great push to the West. Driven back over and over again on his journey through vast expanses, Håkan meets naturalists, criminals, religious fanatics, Indians, and lawmen, and his exploits turn him into a legend. Diaz defies the conventions of historical fiction and genre (travel narratives, the bildungsroman,...
5) O pioneers!
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"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman, writes Willa Cather in O Pioneers! The country is America; the woman is Alexandra Bergson, a fiercely independent young Swedish immigrant girl who inherits her father's farm in Nebraska. A model of emotional strength, courage, and resolve, Alexandra fights long and hard to transform her father's patch of raw, wind-blasted prairie into a highly profitable business. A gripping saga...
6) A lo lejos
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Sinopsis: Håkan Söderström, conocido como "el Halcón", un joven inmigrante sueco que llega a California en plena Fiebre del Oro, emprende una peregrinación imposible en dirección a Nueva York, sin hablar el idioma, en busca de su hermano Linus, a quien perdió cuando embarcaron en Europa. En su extraño viaje, Håkan se topará con un buscador de oro irlandés demente y con una mujer sin dientes que lo viste con un abrigo de terciopelo y zapatos...
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Life in Sweden seems like an endless winter for three sisters after their mother's and father's suicides. Ellin writes to her relatives in Chicago, pleading for help. Joining 16 million other immigrants who leave their homelands for America between 1890 and 1920, Ellin, Kirsten, and Sophia begin the long, difficult journey fraught with hardships.
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"Swedish novelist Ola Larsmo's historical novel Swede Hollow follows a group of Swedish immigrants at the turn of the 20th century and their experiences trying to forge a life for their families in Swede Hollow, a collection of shacks in a wooded ravine on the edge of the emerging industrial city of St. Paul"--
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Julia, a Swedish transplant in Vienna, 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... it's just that none are original. Then something original finds Julia. Ben is handsome (under all that beard) and adventurous. He's also sexy as hell and planning to shuffle off to Berlin before things can...
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In 1993, Sigrid Rausing, a young student working on a PhD in Anthropology, went to spend a year living in Estonia, a remote Baltic State that had just gained independence from the recently collapsed Soviet Union. Armed with a notebook, rudimentary Estonian, and a clunky laptop, she arrived in the peninsula of Noarootsi, on Estonia's north-western tip, and made her way to the village of Purksi, the place that would be her home for the next twelve months....
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W Lipowie nastał świąteczny czas. Wszystko pachnie sosnowym igliwiem, a w ceglanym kościele śpiewa się kolędy. Jedno tylko mąci spokój mieszkańców wsi: już za kilka dni ma wrócić morderca. Przez długie piętnaście lat nikt we wsi nie wymawiał nawet jego imienia. Młodszy aspirant Daniel Podgórski ma szczególne powody, żeby nienawidzić mężczyzny - sprawcy pożaru, w którym bohaterską zginął ojciec policjanta. Jakby tego było...
14) Insomnia
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Criterion collection volume 47
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Disgraced Swedish detective Jonas Engström travels to Northern Norway to solve a brutal murder. Unable to sleep through the night of the midnight sun, Engström quickly loses his grip on the case and his mind.
16) Farma pereł
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Początek lat dziewięćdziesiątych. Młoda Kiona mieszka z rodziną na niewielkiej syspie na Południowym Pacyfiku. Na co dzień, odizolowana od reszły świata, pracuje na farmie pereł--nurkuje i dogląda ich hodowli. Pewnego ranka fale wyrzucają na brzeg żaglówkę. Na pokładzie jest ranny mężczyzna. Ma na imię Erik, pochodzi ze Szwecji. To początek opowieści, która stawia pytania o sens życia i cenę, jaką przychodzi nam płacić...
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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 was a third child u a teenage daughter u who is unaccounted for. Annika makes it her mission to find the missing girl. But as she delves into the mystery she becomes embroiled in a far darker side of Spanish life than she'd envisioned, as she begins to piece together...
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[A] monumental mid-nineteenth century epic that charts, over the course of two films, a poor Swedish farming family's voyage to America and their efforts to put down roots in this beautiful but forbidding new world. Karl Oskar and Kristina [are] a couple who meet with one physical and emotional trial after another on their arduous journey.
20) Za granicą
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Upalne lato, bezkres chorwackiego nieba, beztroska, plaża i morze - tak wygląda raj, do którego przyjeżdżają na wakacje Daria z Markiem. Mieli mieć czas tylko dla siebie i syna, ale na miejscu poznają Szwedów: Johana i jego dużo młodszą seksowną żonę Verę. W dodatku Marek dostaje nagłą lukratywną propozycję zawodową i pogrąża się w pracy. W tym czasie Daria zbliża się do nowo poznanych ludzi. I z dnia na dzień jest nimi...