Karitas
Untitled is an unforgettable novel about the burden
and joy of being an artist. Growing up in early 20th-century Iceland, Karitas
is a clever child who sees things others do not: elves, ghosts, and the rainbow
embedded in the color black.
Despite crushing poverty, she achieves her dream
of attending the Royal College of Art in Copenhagen and marries the most
beautiful man she has ever seen—only to learn that the unending labor of being
a mother alone while he spends months at sea, leaves little time or energy for
art.
But Karitas does not give up. Her story speaks to every woman who
struggles to find time for herself—and succeeds.
A portrait of an artist trapped by convention and expectations but longing for the chaos that can set her free.
Growing up on a farm in early twentieth-century rural Iceland, Karitas Jonsdottir, one of six siblings, yearns for a new life. An artist, Karitas has a powerful calling and is determined to never let go of her true being, one unsuited for the conventional. But she is powerless against the fateful turns of real life and all its expectations of women. Pulled back time and again by design and by chance to the Icelandic countryside-as dutiful daughter, loving mother, and…
I love true stories of strong women who defy
our expectations. Iceland’s fishing industry in the early 1800s would seem to
be a man’s world.
But Captain Thurídur was one of many women who rowed out into
the icy North Atlantic in open boats—and in winter, no less—to catch the fish
that powered Iceland’s colonial economy.
Haunted by a ghost, a believer in
elves and omens, Thurídur could read the waves and weather like no one else.
Her catches were legendary. Best, in her 50 years at sea, not one of her
crewmembers drowned.
A daring and magnificent historical narrative nonfiction account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality-and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies.
Every day was a fight for survival, equality, and justice for Iceland's most renowned female fishing captain of the 19th century.
History would have us believe the sea has always been a male realm, the idea of female captains almost unthinkable. But there is one exception, so notable she defies any expectation.
This is her remarkable story.
Captain Thuridur, born in Iceland in 1777, lived a life…
Like the fictional Emily Wilde, I’m a scholar
who’s captivated by elves and faerie lore. I’ve visited out-of-the-way villages
on icy islands in the far north, like Emily’s Ljosland, looking for the hidden
folk. But Emily, unlike me, actually found them—or they found her—putting her
and her friends in peril of their lives.
Author Heather Fawcett’s love and
respect for the ancient lore of the north shines through in this wonderful
exploration of friendship and belonging. I’ll be looking for the sequel.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic, friendship, and love in the start of a heartwarming and enchanting new fantasy series.
“A darkly gorgeous fantasy that sparkles with snow and magic.”—Sangu Mandanna, author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is…
"Icelanders believe in elves. Why does that make you laugh?" asks Nancy Marie Brown in this wonderfully quirky exploration of our interaction with nature. Looking for answers in history, science, religion, and art from ancient times to today, Brown finds that each discipline defines what is real and unreal, natural and supernatural, demonstrated and theoretical, alive and inert. Each has its own way of perceiving and valuing the world around us.
Illuminated by her own encounters with Iceland's Otherworld-in ancient lava fields, on a holy mountain, beside a glacier or an erupting volcano, crossing the cold desert at the island's heart on horseback Looking for the Hidden Folk offers an intimate conversation about how we look at and find value in nature.
