Älvkarleby folkbibliotek

Fri att älska Kung Augustus av Arun är fortfarande vid trettio års ålder ogift – något som inte vore ett problem om det inte innebar att han enligt en uråldrig tradition tilldelas ...

När familjeföretaget råkar i svårigheter vet advokaten Sean O’Sullivan vilka som bär skulden: borgmästaren och hans stab. Korruptionen i stadshuset måste få ett slut, och han ska ...

Lockande leende För att komma undan ett påtvingat äktenskap flyr Tara Michaels från shejkdömet Dhalkur till grannlandet Nahrat där hon hamnar mitt i shejk Raifs storslagna palats. ...

Kärlek i Toscana Miljardären Trace Jackson ser sig själv som en problemlösare. På samma vis som han reder ut konflikter mellan anställda, ska kan få ordning på sina egna trassliga ...

Den mest spännande presenten är den utan omslagspapper … Chloe lutade sig över tårtan där de tjugofem ljusen fladdrade. Vad skulle hon önska sig? Hon tittade upp och mötte Ril ...

Hon var så ensam. Det var väl därför hon med en gång gick med på allt han föreslog. Ville hon följa med hem och se hans tavlor (han var konstnär)? Ja. Ville hon ligga med honom? Ok ...

Eskapistisk romance-serie om tre systrar som börjar söka sina rötter...Rosalind, Olivia och Eve är döttrarna till den vackra och omtalade skådespelerskan Jillian Croft, och hennes ...

INTRIGUE. TENSION. LOVE AFFAIRS:In The Historical Romance series, a set of stand-alone novels, Vivian Stuart builds her compelling narratives around the dramatic lives of sea capta ...

Jean and Luc are two best friends serving in the army. Life as a soldier is unforgiving, but every Sunday provides a ray of hope for the two soldiers as they walk down the Seine ri ...

Matilda cannot wait for her husband to be away so she can invite Captain Sommerive into her house and heart. But as their love affair grows more passionate, Matilda begins to see t ...

Moscow is lost, occupied by Napoleon's French hordes. Is Russia lost? Is all lost? Students of history will already know the answer. But whether or not you do, Leo Tolstoy's 'War a ...

The third quarter of 'War and Peace' is where the rubber really hits the road (or the cannonballs hit the walls). The story centres on one of history's most famous periods, Napoleo ...

Have you taken a deep breath after the drama and conflict of volume one? It's time to dive into 'War and Peace II' - and it does not slow down. With Russia bruised by Napoleon's vi ...

'I'm not looking for 'War and Peace'" is a modern way of saying 'keep it short'. However, 'I am looking for 'War and Peace'' should be on our lips. Leo Tolstoy's masterpiece is a c ...

Published posthumously in 1884, An Old Man’s Love was Anthony Trollope’s last completed work. A classic tale of romance and rivalry, it follows the intertwining stories of young or ...

Ok, nobody wants to lose pund500 – but is it big enough of a deal to deserve a short story? To put it into context: a Victorian pund500 was about pund60,000 in today’s money. So, y ...

If you’ve seen "The Sixth Sense" with Bruce Willis, you’ll be familiar with Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome: deliberately making a person feel unwell in order to care for them. In "Je ...

Dr Phil didn’t invent family drama. This Victorian novel might as well be given the Dr Phil caption of "I found out my parents weren’t married, and my cousin won’t give me my inher ...

What is "poor" about Miss Finch? Well, with a novel with names like "Mr Sebright" (he’s an eye specialist – "see bright", geddit?), it’s all about sight. You see, Lucilla Finch has ...

Imagine as a woman losing all your property to your husband. Sadly, such was the law for much of the Victorian times. Wilkie Collins’s novel "The Woman in White" (starring Charles ...

Join Aurora on her travels from Florence to London - a coming of age journey full of trials and tribulations. Spanning 9 books, Browning’s poetic blank verse evokes classical and m ...

Poetry lovers look no further! Elizabeth Barret Browning’s passionate collection of 44 love sonnets is all you'll ever need. Following the Italian model made popular by Petrarch, B ...

'A Modern Mephistopheles' is an eerie tale of passion, deceit, control and greed. It is little wonder Alcott's authorship of the novel was unknown for many years, as she sheltered ...

Sindre oli todellinen sydäntensärkijä. Hänen viehätysvoima ei kuitenkaan purrut Gard Mörkmoeniin, joka yllättäen sai pojan syliinsä viestin kera Anyt isä saa pitää huolta pojastaan ...

Kieronia sanottiin häikäilemättömäksi seikkailijaksi kyyniseksi edunmetsästäjäksi, joka myi palvelunsa korkeimmin tarjoavalle ja joka ei koskaan sitoutuisi yhteen naiseen.Kun Susan ...