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Series
Publisher
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Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In 1905, fifteen-year-old Otto describes in his journal how he travels from Finland to America, joining his father in a dreary iron mining community in Minnesota and becoming involved in a union fight for better working conditions.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Karl Marlantes's debut novel Matterhorn has been hailed as a modern classic of war literature. In his new novel, Deep River, Marlantes turns to another mode of storytelling--the family epic--to craft a stunningly expansive narrative of human suffering, courage, and reinvention. In the early 1900s, as the oppression of Russia's imperial rule takes its toll on Finland, the three Koski siblings--Ilmari, Matti, and the politicized young Aino--are forced...
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Not Supplied
Language
English
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Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
5) Finnish
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
Not Supplied
Language
English
Description
A course in the Finnish language divided into twenty lessons.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
On November 30, 1939, the Soviet Union's Red Army invaded the young nation-state of Finland, in the full expectation of routing the small, ill-equipped Finnish army and annexing the former Russian territory by the end of the year. But Finland held out for 105 bitterly cold, fiercely combative days, until March 15, 1940, when a peace agreement ended the short, savage Winter War. At the stirring center of the story lie the resourcefulness and resolve...
10) Helsinki white
Author
Series
Inspector Vaara novels volume 3
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
After recovering from surgery for a brain tumor, Kari Vaara assumes leadership of a rogue black-ops unit while investigating the assassination of an immigrants' rights advocate at the height of xenophobic uprisings in Finland.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
In 1939, tiny Finland waged war-the kind of war that spawns legends-against the mighty Soviet Union, and yet their epic struggle has been largely ignored. Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century's true military geniuses-these are the elements of both the Finnish victory and a gripping tale of war. William R. Trotter was raised in Charlotte, North Carolina,...
Author
Publisher
Floris Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Travel to the snowy forests of Lapland in this warm and witty storybook with beautiful illustrations - perfect for sharing and reading aloud. Classic characters of Nordic folklore - cunning Fox, gullible Wolf, clever Hare and powerful Bear - star in these lively stories of mischief and fun. Readers will discover why Bear is ruler of the northern forests, how Fox outwitted Wolf, and what Hare did to earn her fluffy white tail. In this stunning storybook,...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
Finnish
Description
In season two of the Finnish Nordic Noir hit, chief investigator Kari Sorjonen of the Serious Crimes Unit deals with a variety of harrowing homicides on the border between Finland and Russia. Each of these murder cases takes the viewer on a journey into humanity's dark underbelly, in which no one will be able to escape their past.
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