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Heikki Hietala
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When you pick up a book of Winston Churchill, you sort of know what you are going to get. You think you will have yet another retelling of how Winston won World War 2, after featuring in the Boer War as a correspondent and even before that in Sudan as a cavalry officer. Well, yes - you get that, but you get a lot more than that and in a much more entertaining package than many other books can o...
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Tulagi Hotel
— published 2010 — 7 editions |
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Filtered Light and Other Stories
— published 2012 |
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Words to Music
by Michael Wells, Pat Black , Suzannah Burke — published 2011 |
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Brief Objects of Beauty and Despair
by Larry Harrison, Mary Banks, Heikki Hietala (Goodreads Author) — published 2009 — 2 editions |
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[Note - I read the translated Finnish version of the book, but the translator, Jyri Raivio, did excellent work with this book] The FBI is an iconic organization; even if it is an American feature, it is recognized and remembered around the world. When...more |
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Thought as much, and yes, Koivu, Koivunen, Koivula, Koivisto etc. are very common here (what with all the birches we have).I once visited Marquette, MI, which is chock full of people with Finnish surnames. It was surreal.
I once visited Marquette, MI, which is chock full of people with Finnish..."
Near where I grew up, in Fitchburg, MA there is a large Finnish community. It's smaller than it was when I was a kid, because a lot of the first generation immigrants have passed on, but there's still a Finnish presence in the area...although I'm not sure anyone but the Finns are aware of it, since they tended to be farmers and didn't open visible businesses like pizza places or Chinese restaurants when they came over.