Bibliotek i Västmanland

Kring år 1900 lämnar Carl och Ida-Levina Åland för Amerika. Där hittar de varandra och ett liv. Men möjligheternas land är också ett hårt klassamhälle. Carl bygger de stora broarna ...

I väntan på svaret om hon hade överlevt natten eller redan var död passerade livet revy.Dramatiken slog knockout, likt inflammationen i bukspottskörteln. Inom sig såg hon den under ...

“Wildfire” tells the story of the temperamental stallion called Wildfire who many have tried to win and tame. Lin Slone has also spent many months following the wild horse with the ...

Richard Gale is a young man who wants to prove his father wrong. He decides to seek new chances in the border town Casita. However he suddenly finds himself in trouble by stepping ...

“The Man of the Forest” is a Western classic that tells us the story of the 30-year-old Milt Dale, a valiant man who prefers the splendid isolation and solitary life of a hunter. O ...

The 18-year-old Adam Larey shoots his brother Guerd after a confrontation near a gold mining town in the southwest. After he runs away into the desert in order to save himself from ...

The Western novel “Riders of the Purple Sage” continues in its sequel from 1915 “The Rainbow Trail”. The novel depicts the difference between older Mormon community and new generat ...

”Riders of the Purple Sage” presents the conflict between a Mormon community and non-Mormon people, Gentiles. Jane Withersteen is a born-and-raised Mormon. She however sympathizes ...

Utvald till Reese Witherspoon's Book Club. »En vacker roman full av förbjuden passion, familjehemligheter, mod och uppoffringar.« Reese Witherspoon Havanna, 1958. Nittonåriga Eli ...

»En viktig, rörande roman som stannar kvar hos en långt efter att man läst klart.« The Independent Franskfödde Noah är en pensionerad kemiprofessor som bor på Upper West Side i Ne ...

”Bokskåpets hemlighet lyckas med konsten att kombinera eskapism med det jordnära och väjer inte för att skildra såväl förtvivlan som himlastormande kärlek förlagd under både andra ...

Återsken är en samling efterlämnade texter utgivna postumt 1932. I den ingår bland annat romanen Sönder. Henry Parland [1908-1930] var en finlandssvensk poet, författare och journ ...

Freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on asettunut nauttimaan seesteisestä syksystä hurmaavan nuoren poikaystävänsä Armas Kettusen kanssa, kun menneisyyden varjot nousevatkin yllättäen p ...

Edellinen henkirikos on tuskin poistunut otsikoista, kun freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on jälleen uuden murhamysteerin pauloissa. Hän on sopinut haastattelun suuren lehtitalon, L ...

Freelance-toimittaja Viola Glas on vetäytynyt ystäviensä luksustaloon Westendiin hoitamaan haavoittunutta sydäntään ja järkkynyttä mieltään: hänen suhteensa charmikkaaseen ex-minis ...

Östgöten Ansgarius Borén deltog i präriens blodigaste drabbning mellan röda och vita, slaget vid Little Big Horn 1876. General Custer och hans sjunde kavalleri skulle spöa skiten u ...

Arthur Jermyn was a noble man whose family was full of strange people such as adventurers, sailors and people who joined the circus. But the family members were not only strange – ...

H.P. Lovecraft is a master of horror – and in this compilation of stories the reader gets a chance to meet some of Lovecraft's most memorable characters. In ‘The Alchemist’ we meet ...

Dante Alighieri’s journey continues in the third part of “The Divine Comedy”. Opposite to the main subject in the previous two parts, “Paradiso” depicts virtues and not sins as it ...

Frightened and helpless, Dante is desperate to join his Beloved Beatrice at the gates of Heaven. But fate and fear have other plans. He’s sins have landed him at the beginning of a ...

“Inferno” tells the story “of those who have rejected spiritual values”, of those who are lost and are unable to find the right way to salvation. It describes each sin and the corr ...

Charles Darnaway decides to leave the University of Edinburgh, so that he can travel to the remote island of Aros. He pays a visit to his uncle, Gordon Darnaway, and beautiful cous ...

A large ship carrying slaves has ended up in distress. Sailor Ben Brace has managed to build a small raft – and together with a young boy called William they are trying to survive ...

After "Little Women's" immediate commercial and critical success readers demanded to know more about Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy. In "Good Wives", Louisa May Alcott follows the dinamic l ...

Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy are four sisters trying to support the family and keep their spirit up while their father is at war. Each one of them has a unique vivid personality which hel ...