A complete guide to Friluftsliv, the Nordic secret to unplugging and connecting more deeply with nature. In The Open-Air Life , Swedish-American writer Linda McGurk introduces readers to a wide array of Nordic customs and practices that focus on slowing down and spending more and more of ones’ ...

Instantly calming houses in remote Scandinavian locations that will have you dreaming of your own perfect escape. In a world of starchitects competing to design ever taller glass and steel megaliths, there are still some architects designing with natural materials at a human scale for comfort, longe...

Winner of a second-place award in family life books from the Catholic Media Association. What happens to a mother’s heart when her children grow up and begin their own lives? How can she absorb the mixed emotions of anxiety and excitement, grief and hope? In Giving Thanks and Letting Go , bes...

Very few desserts can boast a history like the Bundt cake. Derived from the traditional German gugelhupf or kugelhupf cake, the oldest recipe for the Bundt dates back to 1581. These cakes were loved by the infamous French queen Marie Antoinette. The Grimm brothers also wrote about them. They are tra...

Vorwort Wenn man fragt, ob jemand in einer Fußballmannschaft gleichzeitig Stürmer und Torwart spielen wolle, würden die meisten das ablehnen. Fragt man, ob jemand zwei Autos gleichzeitig von München nach Hamburg fahren kann, dann muss das jeder von uns zwangsläufig verneinen. So veranlassen die...

Recent developments in aDNA has reshaped our understanding of later European prehistory, and at the same time also opened up for more fruitful collaborations between archaeologists and historical linguists. Two revolutionary genetic studies, published independently in Nature, 2015, showed that prehi...

Scream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten. On a remote island nestled off the coast of Sweden, four friends―Tilly, Anna, Linnea and Evelina―meet every year. Bes...

An undercover journalist goes to expose an exclusive psychological wellness clinic where women go to recover from heartbreak, with dire consequences, in this creepy thriller from The Bachelorette Party author Camilla Sten. Welcome to Himlafall Clinic, where we use revolutionary therapy techniqu...

A beautifully illustrated book of imaginary fables about Earth's early -- and lost -- history. Before our history began, another -- now forgotten -- civilization thrived. The people who roamed Early Earth were much like us: curious, emotional, funny, ambitious, and vulnerable. In this series of i...

[ MP3 CD Format ] Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction “ The Strand Magazine was always a giant voice in our corner of the literary world -- and it still is today.  This collection proves why -- these unearthed gems an...

Scream meets The Guest List in this wickedly compelling and compulsively page-turning thriller of friendship and murder from the author of The Lost Village, Camilla Sten. On a remote island nestled off the coast of Sweden, four friends―Tilly, Anna, Linnea and Evelina―meet every year. Bes...

Best of "The Strand Magazine": 25 Years of Twists, Turns, and Tales from the Modern Masters of Mystery and Fiction “ The Strand Magazine was always a giant voice in our corner of the literary world -- and it still is today.  This collection proves why -- these unearthed gems and exciting new pie...