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As we approach the end of 2025, and Celebrate the New Year 2026. Thank you to those who supported North Wind Books and have helped us grow into our new chapter.   Discover for Yourself - What Titles Made Our Top 25 Reads for 2025! Top Sellers at North Wind Books  Gales of November Phantom Finn Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula Art of Sauna Building Hope in Action Aapinen Sisu Beginner's Finnish The Serviceberry Punished Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design The Finnish Way A Good Sauna Always Burns Down Askel Means Step Finnish Cookbook Roots of John Morton in Finland Walking Paths...

I was making a speech on saunas as the “Lecturer of the Year” for Finlandia Foundation National in Bellingham, Washington, in early May, when I met Carol Mäkelä. I guess it’s normal in life that things will not go as expected. For one, Carol’s father’s untimely departure and the unfinished manuscript that was very close to not seeing the day of light due to timing, but also technical problems that ensued. Lucky for us, Carol made the effort and now we have a book for all of us to read. I have personally been in the United States for only...

Discover for yourself what books are tops!

• End of Drum-Time
• Finnish Heritage Hymnbook
• Aapinen
• Finns of Michigan's Upper Peninsula
• Sisu
• The Finnish Way
• Walking Paths & Protected Areas of the Keweenaw
• Roots of John Morton in Finland
• Winter: A Solstice Story
• Summer: A Solstice Story
• The Serviceberry
• Tastes of Finnish America
• Rocks Will Echo Our Sorrow
• Finnish Nightmares
• Illustrated Kalevala
• Best Part of Sauna
• Cold Victory
• Finnish Cookbook
• Knitted Moomin Socks
• Secrets of Finnish Sauna Design
• Stolen
• Gentle Power: A Revolution in How We Think, Lead, and Succeed Using the Finnish Art of Sisu
• Sisu: Find Your Resilience
• The Mason House