Älvkarleby folkbibliotek

Eletään vuotta 1718 Pariisissa. Ritari d’Harmental on liittynyt salaliittoon, joka vastustaa Ranskaa johtavaa Filip II:ta, Orléansin herttuaa. Ritari d’Harmentalilla on hyvin olenn ...

Eletään vuotta 1718 Pariisissa. Salaliitto suunnittelee sieppaavansa Ranskaa johtavan Filip II:n, Orléansin herttuan. Ritari d’Harmental on osa salaliittoa, mutta viime aikoina hän ...

Martta on nuori tyttö, joka viihtyy paljolti omissa oloissaan. Nyt Martan elämässä on kuitenkin tapahtumassa suuri muutos – pian hän muuttaa lapsuudenkodista pois, piiaksi toisaall ...

Efter tre brutna förlovningar är Beti i stort behov av en nystart i livet. Vad kan passa bättre än att bege sig till södra Spanien och börja en ny tillvaro i solen? Men allt är int ...

Rose Winther skall gifta sig med Dimpy Ashmore, och Cecilia Winther reser till England för att hjälpa sin dotter med förberedelserna. Cecilia är förväntansfull inför att träffa dot ...

"What a silly thing Love is. It is not as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one belie ...

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."Jack Worthing is an important and respected person in Hertfordshire. Being a gu ...

Imagine being torn away from the person you love most in the world! The pain would be just too terrible to bear! This is exactly what happens to Shah Mah Phru after she falls passi ...

‘Dombey and Son’ follows Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of a shipping firm who is frustrated by his lack of a male heir. His disappointment and frustration triggers his own financi ...

Evelyn's pride and high standards lead her to marry a man she doesn't love, while leaving the man she does love in the past as a piece of history. Her true love is one who is "rich ...

‘A Strange Island’ is Alcott’s take on many Mother Goose characters and tales, Mother Goose being the anonymous poet and writer behind timeless pieces such as ‘Jack and Jill’, ‘Baa ...

Inspired by true events from the Paris Opera, ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ is the most famous novel from French author Gaston Leroux. A strange phantom haunts the opera, causing fata ...

Who wouldn't want passionate love in their life? Of course, this love is usually accompanied by a lot of jealously, conflict and tragedy and this novel is no exception to that rule ...

"Men, Women, and Ghosts" is a short story collection by Elizabeth Phelps that deals with primarily the supernatural but also a whole host of topics never publicly addressed at the ...

‘Work: A Story of Experience’ is a semi-autobiographical novel loosely based on Alcott’s own life, which explores the social standing of women in the US, in the years around the C ...

Pauline Valery is a scorned woman, rejected by her lover Gilbert Redmond for a wealthy heiress, she will stop at nothing to exact revenge. She will don a metaphorical mask, shieldi ...

‘On Picket Duty, and other tales’ is a collection of four short stories that focus on a range of social issues that were raging in America in the nineteenth century. The tales tack ...

‘Moods’ follows the life of the strong willed tom-boy Sylvia Yule, who is heavily inspired by Alcott’s own experiences, embodying her strong feminist and abolitionist attitudes. On ...

‘Jack and Jill’ is a children’s book set in a small New England town after the Civil War, following Jack and Jane, who are so close everybody calls them Jack and Jill, to mimic the ...

Originally published under a pseudonym, this tale set in Victorian Britain follows the journey of the simple and sweet governess of the Coventry family, Jean Muir. But all is not a ...

‘An Old Fashioned Girl’ is a tale of the country girl in the big city before it had ever been done. Polly Milton, on a visit to her wealthy city dweller friend Fanny Shaw, is compl ...

‘A Garland for Girls’ is a collection of stories written by Alcott for her own amusement in a time of "enforced confinement". The collection is a wonderful assortment of hopelessly ...

‘The Green Ray’ is a story that exemplifies the age old saying ‘It’s about the journey, not the destination’. The Green Rays, are rare phenomena observable only in certain places o ...

Stella Barrington a wealthy trainer and stable owner comes across a mysterious tramp one day at the stables after he has fended off an attack from some fellow tramps. Impressed by ...

‘The Books of Bart’ is an interesting entry in Wallace’s body of work as it is not a thriller or a mystery, it is in fact surprisingly up front about itself. The story centres on s ...