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Setterdahl, Lilly

Jenny Lind Chapel Fund

Lilly Setterdahl's Not my time to die: Titanic and the Swedes on board, presents a brief, but thorough history of the Titanic. The book describes the conditions in Sweden in 1912, the reasons for the emigration, and profiles each of the 125 Swedes on board. The stories of the 34 survivors cover some 100 pages. The author has researched the intriguing lives of the survivors to a greater extent than anyone else. She has translated eye-witness accounts, letters, newspaper reports, and interviews that give new insight in what happened on that tragic night one-hundred years ago when the biggest steamer built-to-date foundered on its maiden voyage.

Not My Time to Die - Titanic and the Swedes on Board

Travel

Nordstjernan-Swedish News

: The book begins with the dramatic rescue of the Swedish lady’s maid, Anna, by the Italian lifeguard, Roberto. They are taken to the rescue ship, where the comatose Anna is misidentified as Miss Lydia Addison (Anna’s employer’s daughter and Roberto’s sweetheart). Roberto decides to go along with the misidentification because he thinks that it would benefit both of them. When Anna regains her memory, Roberto disappears from her life for a while, but returns to create more problems for her. Anna’s beau, John, helps her when it’s discovered that she is an heiress and that Roberto claims that he is an heir. : The book begins with the dramatic rescue of the Swedish lady’s maid, Anna, by the Italian lifeguard, Roberto. They are taken to the rescue ship, where the comatose Anna is misidentified as Miss Lydia Addison (Anna’s employer’s daughter and Roberto’s sweetheart). Roberto decides to go along with the misidentification because he thinks that it would benefit both of them. When Anna regains her memory, Roberto disappears from her life for a while, but returns to create more problems for her. Anna’s beau, John, helps her when it’s discovered that she is an heiress and that Roberto claims that he is an heir. : The book begins with the dramatic rescue of the Swedish lady’s maid, Anna, by the Italian lifeguard, Roberto. They are taken to the rescue ship, where the comatose Anna is misidentified as Miss Lydia Addison (Anna’s employer’s daughter and Roberto’s sweetheart). Roberto decides to go along with the misidentification because he thinks that it would benefit both of them. When Anna regains her memory, Roberto disappears from her life for a while, but returns to create more problems for her. Anna’s beau, John, helps her when it’s discovered that she is an heiress and that Roberto claims that he is an heir. : The book begins with the dramatic rescue of the Swedish lady’s maid, Anna, by the Italian lifeguard, Roberto. They are taken to the rescue ship, where the comatose Anna is misidentified as Miss Lydia Addison (Anna’s employer’s daughter and Roberto’s sweetheart). Roberto decides to go along with the misidentification because he thinks that it would benefit both of them. When Anna regains her memory, Roberto disappears from her life for a while, but returns to create more problems for her. Anna’s beau, John, helps her when it’s discovered that she is an heiress and that Roberto claims that he is an heir.

Maiden of the Titanic

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Midwest Writing Center

The art-of-luck, “Hero of the Titanic” inherits a beach house and falls in love with Julia, but loses her because she is too young for him. Roberto becomes ill, and after a year in the sanitarium he sails home to Genoa, where he dates Tessa. When Italy enters the war, he serves on a hospital ship and become a war hero. But Tessa has not waited for him. Disappointed he returns to Boston and once again meets Julia, who is now ready to be his wife.

Hero of the Titanic

Product Description A cyber thriller about what happens when a nation's power grid is targeted and hacked by a foreign power. "Until the lights come back on" offers a scary view of how the modern society of Sweden is affected once the lights do go down ... from the individual's perspective but also from the nation backed hacker. Review Setterdahl's tense thriller introduces a catastrophe all too conceivable in a post-pandemic world: Hackers immobilize Sweden by taking down the electrical grid, and people scramble to survive as infrastructure crumbles, the economy collapses, and war looms.Setterdahl renders their emotional challenges as her characters raise children, find jobs, and try to repair their shattered country. An intriguing, imaginative glimpse at the breakdown of a society and the tenacity of human hope-Misty Urban A current cyber-thriller has now appeared at the hand of Lilly Setterdahl. Among the compelling characters in the book are the farmwife Lena and her husband who fall victims to an operative who takes advantage of the cyber attack-John E. NortonAn electrifying thriller ... follow brothers Alex and Kurt as they race across Scandinavia to undo what cyber attackers have done to the national electrical grids. Lilly Setterdahl has outdone herself in keeping readers to the edges of their seats in suspense-Dan MooreLilly Setterdahl, who gave us four books about the Titanic, now gives us a unique international cyber-thriller that includes the hacker and his continuous involvement. The thought-provoking book focuses on Sweden where a cyber attack has cut off all electric power in the month of October. One of the heroes, Kurt, is in Estonia at the time of the attack and later fights the invisible enemy from Finland. There, he meets another computer specialist, Elsa, and together they attempt to destroy the hacker's code-until the hacker puts a stop to it. No one can imagine what the perpetrator plans to do next-Ulf Barslund Martensson.

Until the lights come back on

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Nordstjernan

Lilly Setterdahl's Swedish immigration novel plays like a movie. The story begins in Sweden after World War I when Katrin assumes her first job. The young girl turns down a marriage proposal because she wants to see the world. She pulls us into a life of longing for both the unknown and the familiar, conflicts, and elusive love until she decides where she belongs. Her strong attachment to her childhood home, parents, brothers and sisters carries over in her love and concern for her own family. The reader will find Katrin, almost American to be entertaining, educational, and as relevant in today's world as in the 20th century.

Katrin, almost American

Parenting & Relationships

Nordstjernan-Swedish News, Inc

The passengers dress in period clothing, dance, flirt, and fall in love on the maiden voyage of the newly-built Titanic Princess sailing from Jiangsu, China, to Dubai, United Arab Emirates, in 2018. But will the ship reach Southampton, England, and New York without serious threats?
True to her tradition, the author creates Scandinavian characters and fits them into the story. Whether you are a Titanic fan or not, you will love reading about the surprise meeting on board of the grandsons of two Titanic survivors, the lady’s maid, Anna, and her rescuer, Roberto, both featured in Setterdahl’s earlier Titanic novels.

Titanic Sailing Again: An epic novel

Born in the Swedish countryside to a businessman-small farmer and his homemaker wife, Lilly Setterdahl grew up with four siblings during World War II. Responsibilities that she took on as a child shaped her life. She has authored or co-authored 11 non-fiction books about Swedes in America and one novel, Maiden of the Titanic (2007).

Growing Up in Sweden in the Shadow of World War II

Author]

Thousands of Swedes settled in Moline, Illinois, from the late 1840s through the 1920s. For many years they made up the largest ethnic group in the city. They came to work in the plow factories and to join relatives who were here before them. Lilly Setterdahl has drawn from many different sources and brought forward a mosaic of facts and photographs. The reader will learn about the environment facing the new immigrants, how they conquered the challenges of adapting to another culture and language to become Americans and, in many cases, significant contributors to society. Other immigrants groups, no doubt, experienced the same tribulations and rewards. The work at hand is unique in many ways. As far as is known, no other Swedish-American researcher has attempted to include smaller businesses in similar studies. Fifty different business categories are included. Find out where the Swedes worked, shopped and went to church, what papers they read, and which clubs and lodges they joined. What was their journey to America like, their arrival in Moline, and every-day life? Did they ever visit Sweden? These are questions asked by many descendants. Sample descriptions are included. So are first-hand experiences recorded on tape with Swedish Americans in Moline. The work concludes with family histories that cover several generations and reveal the upward movement in society. Sometimes the immigrant trail winds through places in the East, the Midwest and even the West. Many Swedes settled in the farming communities in northwestern Illinois. The connection to Moline then is through their descendants. While the general history of the Swedes in America is relatively well docu-mented, local histories still remain largely untapped. With this richly illustrated publication, Lilly Setterdahl fills one gap on the subject in the Midwest, which was so prominently settled by Swedes.

Swedes in Moline, Illinois 1847-2002

History

Americas

Universal-Publishers

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