New World Finn Bookstore

Your source for fine books about Finnish life and culture

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• The Nelson Brothers, by Allan Nelson; R & S Bartley, Editors. Two socialist brothers go in different directions trying to fulfill their philosophy, striving for workers’ rights and equality. $24.00.
• Nikolai’s Fortune, Solveig Torvik. Story of 3 generations of mothers and daughters who move from Finland, Lapland, and Norway, to the U.S. always in search of a better life. Part history, part memoir, and a heartrending description of the power of prejudice. $24.00.
• Juha - Considered Juhani Aho’s finest. Drama of classic novel has inspired 4 films. Translated by Richard Impola. $19
• A Mother’s Story - Based on Lemminkainen story from the Kalevala. Written and beautifully illustrated by M.E.A. McNeil. Supported by a grant from the Finlandia Foundation. $23

• Finnish Cookbook, Beatrice Ojakangas. Finnish recipes adapted for American kitchens. Includes recipes for 14 different kinds of Finnish bread. $14.00
• Finnish Touches, Recipes and Traditions (Fantastically Finnish revised and expanded). $14.95
• A Finnish Christmas Cookbook, by Sargit Warriner and Liisa Krumsieg. Traditional recipes, all of which have been used by the authors, plus explanations of the origins of Christmas customs and how they’re practiced today. Includes menus and photographs. $14.95
• Suomi Specialties: Finnish Celebrations, Recipes, & Traditions–Sinikka Garcia presents many Finnish holidays, customs, and celebrations. $12.95
• Traditional Finnish Recipes That Bridge the Generations: Video featuring women of the Finnish American Home Association of California demonstrating how to make various foods. Includes a booklet of the recipes demonstrated in the program. $24.00
• The Best of Finnish Cooking: Previdi. Authentic Finnish recipes adapted for the American kitchen. Main courses, soups, salads, appetizers, sandwiches, and desserts. $12.95.
• Festivals of Finland: Hazel Lauttamus Birt. Looks at the yearly festivals, customs, folktales, and myths. The book was written for children, but adults enjoy it too. Illustrated in award-winning halftone wood-cut prints and line drawings. Hazel Lauttamus Birt lives in Canada. $14.00

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• Winter War by Antti Tuuri. Narrative account of Finland’s Winter War, 1939-40. Based upon diaries, stories told by veterans, and documents, all combined by Tuuri as a continued story of one man’s experiences in order to re-create the war as it was lived by the men who took part in it. $20
• Seven Brothers - Finland’s dassic novel by Aleksis Kivi. Next to the Kalevala, the best-known work of Finnish literature. Used as assigned reading in a half dozen colleges and universities. $14.00
• Our Daily Bread - by Kalle Paatalo, Finland’s most popular writer. The first novel in a series of five. Growing up in backwoods Finland during the depression. $20.00
• Before the Storm - by Kalle Paatalo. Life before the war. $15.00
• Storm Over The Land - by Kalle Paatalo. The families from Our Daily Bread during the trying years of WWII, on the home front and the battlefront. $15.00
• After the Storm - by Kalle Paatalo. Recovery and Reconstruction in Finland after WW II. The fourth book in a five-book series. $18.00
• Winter of the Black Snow - by Kalle Paatalo. Post-war problems arise in the rural areas of Finland as agricultural surpluses and unemployment increase. Last volume of the five-volume series. $18.00
• Under the North Star by Väinö Linna. Part 1 of Linna’s classic trilogy, “Täällä Pohjantähden AlIa.” Depicts conditions in Finland 1884-1907, telling the story through the experiences of ordinary Finns in the rural village of Pentti’s Comers. $19.95
• Under the North Star 2, The Uprising by Väinö Linna. Landless farmers’ frustrations and the Civil War in Finland. $20.00
• Under the North Star 3: Reconciliation by Väinö Linna. Final volume of the trilogy, ending in the post war years of WWII. $20.00
• No Home for Us Here by Jukka Rislakki and Eila Lahti-Argutina. The mass annihilation of the Finnish Border-Hoppers in the Urals in 1938. $14.95
• Sisu Mother by Lempi Kähkonen-Wilson. A young Karelian girl’s life is drastically changed as the family is evacuated twice during the wars, and she marries and raises her own family amidst many obstacles, including numerous moves to far away lands and a mentally ill husband. $14.95

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• Guarding Passage by Beth Virtanen. Highly acclaimed book of poetry. $14.50
• St. Croix Avenue translated by Miriam Leino Eldridge $20
• A Matter of Courage Joann Hakala. This story, from Joann Hakala’s point of view, tells about the persistence that their son Gerry needed during the long struggles for recuperation from a major accident - see review on page 13. $16.95
• Suomalaiset, People of the Marsh. Takes place in Northeastern MN, Northern MI, and Ontario during 1908-1918 and deals with the immigration of the Finns, WWI, labor history, and the tragic lynching of Olli Kinkkonen in Duluth (1918) $20.
• Armour: A Lake Superior Fisherman by Peter Oikarinen. Non-fictional story of Armour Sarkela who fished for 60 yrs along the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan. Many photographs by the author. $20.00
• Fragments of Lappish Mythology – Lars Levi Laestadius, edited by Juha Pentikäinen, translated by Börje Vähämäki. Laestadius was a Sami pastor who wrote this work both as a history and a mythology. $20.00
• Nordic Immigration to North America - U. of Wisconsin - $8.00
• Calumet, Copper Country 1898-1913 Metropolis - Engel & Mantel. Using newspaper clippings and photos, the authors create a sense of the Copper Country when it produced most of the world’s copper and the city was bustling with activity. $20.00
• FinnFun - B. Hillila. Hillila received the 1997 “Performer of the Year” award from Finlandia Foundation. This book is filled with his humor, poetry and essays about Finnish heritage. $12.95
• Forbidden Fruit & Other Stories -Juhani Aho is considered one of the masters of Finnish literature. His 19th century characters are forest-clearing pioneers and other rural people who often find themselves clashing with technology. $12.95
• Shavings Juhani Aho. A perceptive, intelligent story of a man born into a religious family in Savo. $10.00
• Jonas of Kivijärvi. Story of a Finnish freedom fighter. $12.95
• Blueberry God. Reino Hannula. Hannula said he thought about his “teen-age surrogate Ash Street Hall parents...they contributed to Gardner’s history. They contributed to its culture. How could I let these indomitable men and women drop into oblivion without some effort on my part?” $8.00 postpaid.
• Down from Basswood: Lynn Laitala has 24 different characters tell 27 interrelated stories. Although the stories occur in a specific place (Ely, Minnesota area), they are not unlike the stories of millions worldwide who were displaced for economic and political reasons during the twentieth century. $17.00
• The Legend of St. Urho. Asala. Finnish American folktales about St. Urho, including the story of how the legend began. $12.95
• Helmi Mavis: A Finnish American Girlhood by Mavis Hiltunen Biesanz. $12.95
• In Wartime Finland: Memories of a World War II Childhood. Hilja Nast, translated by Richard Impola. $9.95
• Red Moon over the White Sea by Laila Hietamies. $19.00.
• The Thirty Years’ War. Henrik Tikkanen. A soldier carries on WWII by himself, years after it officially ends. Tikkanen gives many nods to American culture and military. $9.00

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• A Grave in Karelia: Komulainen. Based on the author’s experences at a work camp in Russian Karelia in the early 1930’s, his escape and return to the U.S. $10.00
• Karelia: Hokkanen. Finnish American couple in Russia, 1934-41. A book you can’t put down to finish some other day! Their story was withheld for a long time because of fear. $12.95
• Karelian Exodus: Finnish Communities in North America and Karelia During the Depression Era. Documented and well researched articles. $22.00
• They Took My Father, Finnish Americans in Stalin’s Russia by Mayme Sevander and Laurie Hertzel New Printing. $16.50
• Of Soviet Bondage by Mayme Sevander $14.00

• Tales From a Finnish Tupa - translated by Aili Kolehmainen. Traditional tales told through the generations. $10.00
• Magic Storysinger (H) Color illustrations.$16.95
• Mr. Boo - Written and illustrated by Hannu Mäkelä, translated by Anselm Hollo. Mr. Boo’s boundless imagination creates fascinating situations for him. $13.00
• The Land of Santa Claus-Karjalainen & Pitkäranta. Color illustrations. $10.00
• Fish of Gold & Other Finnish Folk Tales. Magic, castles, beautiful daughters of kings. Young are heroes. $7.95
• Flikka and the Magic Bear. Written and illustrated with woodcut prints by Hazel Birt. On a Finnish homestead in the Canadian bush a little girl named Flikka befriends a bear. $14.00.
• Finland, a Book to Color $5.00

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• Finns, Swedes, and Norwegians in the Alaska Draft Registrations,
1917-18 by Tim Laitila Vincent. $30.00
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Cemetery by Margaret
Olson Webster. Stories of the “Finn Cemetery” founded by Finnish
immigrants near Tamarack, Mn. $23.00
• Norden: Guide to Scandinavian Genealogical Research in a Digital World by Art Jura .$14.95

• Mastering Finnish textbook - Börje Vähämäki $22.00
• Mastering Finnish CD $18.00
• Finnish-English, English-Finnish dictionary $11.95
• Aapinen – Suomi Synod approved $5.00

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