Voyagers: Homeland to Heartland is based on D. L. Norris’s own family history, and rings with authenticity. Opening in nineteenth-century Norway, like so many of their compatriots living in poverty, Kittil and Marte Dyrebu decide to emigrate to America. They have an extended bureaucratic battle...

Breakfast at Bernie’s: Waffles and Wisdom by D. L. Norris is a delightfully charming tale of small-town, rural America and the inhabitants who keep it alive and functioning. Columbus, Wisconsin, is the epitome of any small, rural settlement, where the social center is the local...