sweden

In 1935, Swede Raoul Wallenberg graduated from the University of Michigan. He returned to Sweden, but soon World War II erupted. Sweden remained neutral during the war, which enabled Wallenberg to travel as a salesman throughout Europe. Because of his brilliant command of languages and Swedish citizenship, Wallenberg was chosen to work for the U.S. War Refugee Board in Hungary. His mission was to rescue Jews in Budapest from the Nazis and their monstrous death camps. This volume’s gripping narrative transports readers to the turbulent last days of the war, when Wallenberg’s heroic actions helped to save thousands of Jews.

A Swedish retelling of the traditional tale about a ragamuffin who tricks an old woman into giving him the ingredients to make a delicious soup for them to share.

Describes the etiquette and customs of Sweden, covering a wide range of topics and providing guidance for traveling, socializing, doing business, and other situations, and includes a cultural quiz, a do's and don'ts list, and a resource list.

An autobiography of star soccer player Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the son of Balkan immigrants who grew up in a chaotic household and ultimately overcame personal hardships and obstacles to find his calling on the soccer field.

After receiving a call from a trusted source claiming to have vital information to the United States, journalist Mikael Blomkvist turns to hacker Lisbeth for help.

Having left Nazi-occupied Vienna a year ago, thirteen-year-old Jewish refugee Stephie Steiner adapts to life in the cultured Swedish city of Gothenburg, where she attends school, falls in love, and worries about her parents who were not allowed to emigrate.

On August 2, 1947, a young man got off the train in a small Swedish town to begin his life a second time. He survived the ghetto of Lodz, the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the slave camps, and the transports during the final months of Nazi Germany. Now, his final challenge is to survive the survival. His story is told by his son, who tried to get close to him, using a child's joy and optimism, but who found that his father's world was darkened by the long shadows of the past.

Chronicles Olof Rudbeck's efforts to prove that the lost civilization of Atlantis really did exist and explores how the world responded to his claims.

Erik Winter, the youngest chief inspector in Sweden, is already dealing with the stresses of his father's death, his fortieth birthday, and impending parenthood, when a serial killer with a penchant for death metal music strikes in Gothenburg and investigation indicates a link to the police department.

Malin Fors is the superintendent of the police force in her small Swedish town of Linkoping, surrounded by forests and plains and usually snow. She is divorced with a teenage daughter, blond, and thirty-four years old. One frigid night in February, a very fat man is found mutilated and hung from a tree within sight of the village. Fors is assigned the case--finding the identity of the man and the killer threaten to bring sleepy old sins from Linkoping's past to light again.