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• History of Living Christianity in America, 2024

  History of the Old Apostolic Lutheran Church of America. Includes information by regional areas in the United States and Canada, as well as missions to America and former preachers.
• Olga og John Bjerke: Deres liv i ord og bilder, 2023

  Book authored by Anne Dahl, retired Dean of an elementary school in Gjøvik, Norway. Written in Norwegian, the work documents the history of the Dahl family over three to four generations, focusing on the lives of the author’s grandparents. The book includes narrative accounts and photographs chronicling their childhoods in Norway, emigration to Minnesota, life in the United States, and eventual return to Norway. It also provides genealogical details on ancestors, siblings, children, and grandchildren, with attention to education, professions, and daily life. 

• Hidden Heroes: World War II in Norway, 2016

  You never knew if the person next door was a hero; a Norwegian resistance fighter. The hero next door could be a teenager going with his dad to steal grain from a Nazi train, in order to feed refugees. It could be a girl who hid underground messages in her instrument case, while going by bike to a violin lesson. It could be the fisherman down the street, rowing a boat full of grenades, with a German U-boat captain sitting on the seat which was hiding them. Many Norwegians risked their lives to thwart the Nazis who were occupying their country. These are their true stories. These twenty eyewitness accounts were originally collected from Sons of Norway members by District 5 Cultural Director, Jean Bittner. We hope these accounts help you remember the acts of bravery that everyday heroes made in Norway during World War II.
• Iets Besonders!, 2000

  Book "Iets Besonders!" by Karen J. Costello. 
  
  An account, told through contemporary letters, journal entries, genealogical charts, and portraits, of how the author's great-uncle emigrated to South Africa from Norway, and of two recent visits the author has made to her South African relatives. The author is the granddaughter of a member of the Birkeland family who emigrated to Minnesota from Norway.
• Across Minnesota in All Directions: E. E. Lobeck and the Temperance Crusade, 2024

  "Across Minnesota in All Directions: E. E. Lobeck and the Temperance Crusade." In this engrossing read, Tulla Froyen gives us a glimpse into a bygone-and often misunderstood-era of American social and political activism against the predatory liquor traffic. Steeped in primary sources, the life of Norwegian-born activist and legislator Engebret "E.E." Lobeck provides new insights into both the practical hardships and political opportunities for immigrant settlers on America's northern frontier. Mark Lawrence Schrad, Ph.D., professor of political science, Villanova University, author of Smashing the Liquor Machine: A Global History of Prohibition (Oxford University Press, 2021).
  
  
• Gausdal churches in Minnesota, 2021

  The Gausdal Churches in Minnesota by Arne Halvorsen. Also includes "Gausdølenes dramatiske reise" (2018).
• The Honorables Nelson and Roe: Oley Nelson and Ole O. Roe, Norwegian Politcians of Story County, Iowa, 2024

  Norwegian immigrants began settling in central Iowa in 1855, and by 1870, the region was the third most popular settlement area for Norwegians in Iowa. Central Iowa's most prominent Norwegian politicians of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were The Honorable Oley Nelson from Slater and The Honorable Ole O. Roe from Story City. Nelson served as Story County's representative in the Iowa Legislature 1886–1889, ran as a candidate for the Iowa Senate in 1899, and was elected sergeant-at-arms in the Iowa House of Representatives 1923–1937. Roe was Story County's Superintendent of Schools 1882–1891, Deputy Auditor of Iowa 1893–1899, Chief Clerk of Iowa's insurance department 1902–1908, and Iowa's first state fire marshal 1911–1919.