Bibliotek i Västmanland

Ett nygrundat fotograficentrum som drivs av energidrycksföretaget Zalgo hamnar i mediernas blickfång när ett miljökonstverk på centrets parkeringsplats en natt förstörs och gärning ...

Christopher Bellew is a newspaperman who has lived an easy and privileged life. When his uncle and cousin are leaving for Klondike to search for gold, Bellew decides to join them. ...

Old Long-Beard is an early caveman who wears bearskin and eats with his hands. His life might seem simple, but the truth is something different – his society was once complex and a ...

‘John Barleycorn’ is a deeply personal novel by Jack London. The book tells about London’s own struggles and problems with alcohol and alcoholism. It is a touching story of a young ...

The novel revolves around a man from the future whose brief afternoon nap is vividly tinged with the dream he has of a man from the past. Utopian in its entirety, the book touches ...

At the bottom of the dried out Svartsjö lake (Black Lake) lies the Lövdala Parsonage with its stables and outhouses. There resides the good-hearted, widowed Pastor Lyselius and his ...

"The Emperor of Portugallia" by Selma Lagerlof was first published in 1914 in Sweden and in 1916 in English. The story is set in Vaermland around 1860 or 1870 and centers on Jan of ...

In this High Victorian detective novel, Dyke Darrel investigates the robbery of the Central Railroad’s midnight express, during which Dyke’s friend Arnold Nicholson, a messenger, w ...

A family of five children moves from London to the English countryside. While playing in a gravel pit soon after the move, the children discover an ancient and rather grumpy, sand- ...

When Roberta, Peter and Phyllis’ dad is suddenly and unexpectedly sent to prison, the children are suddenly pulled away from their comfortable suburban life. They move with their m ...

"Almayer’s Folly" (1895) is Joseph Conrad’s debut novel. It centers on the Dutch trader Kaspar Almayer, who comes to Borneo with a suitcaseful of dreams. He settles on the exotic i ...

Adolf Verlof runs a sex shop in 1880’s London, but his real profession is even shadier. He’s a so-called “agent provocateur” for the Embassy, whose mission it is to infiltrate and ...

The "Just So Stories for Little Children" is among Kipling's best known and loved work. The stories focus on different animals, and how they got their distinctive features. You wil ...

“Kim” is a fabulous adventure story set in India during the British Empire, around the time of the Second Afghan War. It tells the story of the street-wise orphan Kimball O'Hara, a ...

Efter första världskrigets slut följer den ena ekonomiska krisen på den andra i Europa. Folkhemmet börjar trevande byggas under 1930-talet, samtidigt som Sverige räddhågat kryper i ...

Kanteletar on Kalevalan sisarteos, klassinen kokoelma kalevalaisessa runomitassa olevaa kotimaista kansanrunoutta. Elias Lönnrotin keräämä kirja on suomalaisuuden peruskiviä ja aja ...

Tämä klassinen kokoelma Elias Lönnrotin kokoamia kotimaisia kansanlauluja on olennainen osa suomalaista kansanperinnettä. Monet lauluista käsittelevät ajattomia aiheita kuten sydän ...

Hur kan den skickliga kirurgen Leyla Saleh låta sig uppslukas av en förälskelse som kan hota hela hennes tillvaro? Hon sätter sin yrkesetik på spel och brottsmisstankar kommer att ...

Förälskelsen får resten av världen att blekna. Aldrig har jag upplevt att någon älskar mig på det viset som du gör. Jag är centrum i ditt liv, trots att vi kommer från så olika bak ...

»Rasismens historia handlar inte bara om rasister«, skriver Sven Lindqvist i förordet till Antirasister, som utkom första gången 1995. »I alla tider har det också funnits människor ...

Under en tropisk natt, när allt kan hända, går Tristan och Valeria på djupet med campingturen då Tristans föräldrar skulle visa honom blodmånen - natten när allt började. Men minne ...

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 ...