Living in Nebraska, Swedish immigrant Alexandra Bergson struggles to make the family farm a success while trying to establish a personal life for herself.

A story of a young woman's awakening as an artist and her struggle to escape the constraints of a small town in Colorado.

Kirsten and her family celebrate their first Christmas in their new home on Uncle Olav's farm in mid-nineteenth-century Minnesota.

Nine-year-old Kirsten keeps her friendship with a Sioux Indian girl a secret until Kirsten's little brother becomes lost in the woods. Includes a section on Sioux Indians and a project related to the story.

In 1856, Kirsten and her cousins look after the farm while the adults go to town for supplies, and everything is fine--until a blizzard surprises them.

No ethnic group is so identified with a single state as the Swedes are with Minnesota. From before statehood, Swedish immigrants flooded into the small frontier towns of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Encouraged by agents who promised inexpensive and fertile farmland, they came by the thousands. By the turn of the twentieth century, over 126,000 Swedes lived in Minnesota-and their impact on everything in the state continues to today. In this concise history...

The highly anticipated follow-up to the acclaimed Scandi-noir thriller The Bucket List Alicia Bjelke has always been the "other sister," the foil to her beautiful sister Stella-people turn their backs when they see Alicia's disfigured face. So she created a life in the background, becoming a coding genius and founding a groundbreaking dating app company. With Stella as the face of the company, Alicia has found success. Until one day, when Stella...

When their father leaves to earn money away from home, Kate and Anders assume more responsibility at the farm and uncover a mystery.