Blogs in February 2021

Courage & Defiance: Stories of Spies, Saboteurs, and Survivors in World War II Denmark 13th February 2021

When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go...

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Immortal Sea 13th February 2021

From a chance encounter… Morgan of the finfolk does not normally waste his attention on humankind, but while in Copenhagen, he meets a young woman who captures his interest-if only for a night. On sojourn in Europe before starting...

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Anger Is My Middle Name 12th February 2021

An empowering memoir of resilience and redemption, and the rage that helped a girl escape the darkness of a harrowing childhood. Born to a violently dysfunctional home in working-class Denmark, Lisbeth Zornig Andersen and her three older brothers were...

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Niels Lyhne 12th February 2021

Jacobsen’s immediate importance was his status as the ‘writer of his generation.’ With the novel Niels Lyhne (1880) he voiced the disoriented and confused rejection of the old values, Romanticism’s dream and religion. . . . Like the single...

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Dark September 12th February 2021

Award winning Scandinavian mystery From an international best-selling author It is late September, and Anna Kiehl, a student of anthropology and a single mother, does not return from her evening run in the forest. The next morning, she is found...

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