Purchase Icelandic Books

The ICCT has a selection of books available at our events and online through PayPal. We also have an affiliation with Chapters Indigo (see below).

PayPal is easy — For PayPal items, simply choose the items you wish to purchase below and click on "Add to Cart". Your "Shopping Cart" will open up in a window on your screen. From this window, you can adjust quantities and press "Update Cart", or remove items. Then you can choose to "Continue Shopping" or proceed to the "Secure Checkout".

In most cases, the Shipping & Handling amount is added at the "Checkout" stage. Please note that these "Shipping & Handling" costs include the necessary transaction fees, postage, and shipping materials.

Should you have any problems with this system or have questions about your purchase, please e-mail the ICCT online store.

New Icelanders The New Icelanders: A North American Community by David Arnason Our History $17.95 + $4 Shipping

Falcons Gold Falcons Gold: Canada's First Olympic Hockey Heroes - The first gold medal in Olympic hockey! $22.95 + $4 Shipping

Frances by W.D. Valgardson For your teen reader $18.95 + $4 Shipping

Thor by W.D. Valgardson Great gift for a boy! $16.95 + $4 Shipping

Your purchases help the ICCT!

In addition to the items the ICCT carries an inventory of, we also have an affiliation with Chapters Indigo Bookstore. This allows us to help members find items of interest, and also brings some benefit to the club when you make your purchase through these links. (Clicking on the links or pictures of the books below will take you to the Chapters Indigo site to complete your order.)

Dropped Threads The book Dropped Threads: What We Aren't Told is a revealing collection of writings, edited by Carol Shields and Marjorie Anderson, that examines eclectic and rarely discussed topics that pertain to women. It is also the current selection for the ICCT's new Book Club.

Dropped Threads 2 Like the first volume, Dropped Threads 2 features stories by well-known novelists and journalists such as Jane Urquhart, Susan Swan and Shelagh Rogers, but also many excellent new writers including teachers, mothers, a civil servant, a therapist.

Stranger At The Door Stranger At The Door: Writers And The Act Of Writing, by Kristjana Gunnars More information - WLU Press Review - Globe & Mail, March 2005 Purchase this book

Independent People Independent People, by Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, Halldór Laxness. Set in the early twentieth century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece. New York Review of Books - May 11, 1995 The top 100 books of all time - Guardian, May, 2002

Under the Glacier Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness's Under the Glacier -available in the United States for the first time-is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. The Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community where women are rumored never to bathe, eat, or sleep, and Creation itself is a work in progress. Piling mystery on top of mystery, improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound. Review - Orlando Sentinel, March 2005

Cartoon Charlie Beautifully illustrated, Cartoon Charlie: The Life and Art of Animation Pioneer Charles Thorson is a biography of a brilliant Canadian artist whose reputation has been hidden behind the familiar and beloved cartoon characters he designed — Bugs Bunny, Punkinhead, Elmer Fudd and Little Hiawatha, to name just a few. Thorson was raised in Winnipeg, and is reputed to have modelled Walt Disney's famous Snow White after his Icelandic girlfriend, Kristin Solvadottir. As an influential character designer for the major studios — Disney, Warner Brothers, Fleischers and MGM — Thorson's significant contribution to the Golden Age of Animation has been reconstructed in this lively and intriguing biography by author and film historian Gene Walz.

Cod A delightful romp through history with all its economic forces laid bare, Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World is the biography of a single species of fish, but it may as well be a world history with this humble fish as its recurring main character. Cod, it turns out, is the reason Europeans set sail across the Atlantic, and it is the only reason they could. What did the Vikings eat in icy Greenland and on the five expeditions to America recorded in the Icelandic sagas? Cod.

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