Sjukhusbiblioteken i Västerbotten

Helsinkiin kertoo ylioppilas Antti Ljungbergin matkasta Kuopiosta pääkaupunkiimme opiskelemaan. Nuori Antti huumaantuu uudenlaisesta vapaudestaan ja aikamiehen roolista. Alkumatka ...

Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane are “the sort of people that wonderful things happen to.” And the children have yet more adventures ahead of them. Following up on “Five Children and ...

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 girl's reputation as a beauty had marched before her, blowing trumpets. She was the prettiest girl in Davos, as she had been the prettiest in London; and I shared with other n ...

"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 ...

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 ...

“Lad: A God” was first published in 1919. It is made up of twelve short-stories, inspired by Terhune’s real-life Rough Collie, Lad. Through his dog’s fictional adventures, Terhune ...

“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 ...

“For some moments distant Vesuvius had beguiled my thoughts from the still more distant mountain of the secret, when suddenly a white girl in a white hood and a long white cloak pa ...

"His Dog" is a story about Link Ferris who finds an injured dog on his way home one evening. He knows nothing about dogs, but nurses it back to health and the two form a bond such ...

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- ...

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 ...

"Bruce" charts the story of an unwanted puppy who becomes loved by the mistress of the family. He is then enlisted as a carrier dog in World War I, completing heroic tasks and comi ...

"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 ...

The Duke of Laverdale is ambitious to be appointed Master of the Horse and the new Queen Adelaide is determined that behaviour at Court should be moral after the licentiousness of ...

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn.Prince Serge of Tamrush, who himself had been sent a bride by Queen Victoria to save his Principality from invasion by the ...

The beautiful Yolisa Warren lives quietly in the country with her father, her mother having died five years ago. Unexpectedly her uncle, Lord Langford, who is a brilliant Diplomat ...

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn.Calina Hart’s mother, the lovely Lady Carol Wood, was being forced by her ambitious father, the Earl of Hurstwood, to marry ...

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn.The beautiful eighteen year old Karla Stanton, who is living in the country with her brother training horses, is astonished ...

Lady Julia Wood was extremely happy living in the country with her father, the Earl of Wentwood, after her mother’s death, until he remarries unexpectantly after a visit to Paris. ...

When Madelina Winston, a beautiful American heiress, arrives in England, she has at first only one thought on her mind, to try and trace her late father’s English family. Her stepm ...

The Earl of Langdale tells his beautiful daughter, Zela, that, having gone to London on a visit, he has become involved with the Comtesse de Courché, who is one of the famous beaut ...

Merestä, ajopuiden seasta löytyy pullo, ja pullosta viesti. Vesi on huuhtonut osan viestin sanoista pois. Kapteeni Jorgan haluaa selvittää viestin salaisuuden. Onko viestin lähettä ...

Hyvin tärkeä kirje on kadonnut Euroopan asiain sihteeri Trelawney Hopen kodista sillä aikaa, kun Hopen vaimo on ollut teatterissa. Kirjeessä on vaarallista tietoa – sen sisältö saa ...

Viisitoistavuotias Cissie Brodie ei anna helposti periksi. Kun Cissien vanhemmat kuolevat koleraan, tytöstä tulee yhdeksän sisaruksensa yksinhuoltaja. Heidän elämänsä on äärimmäise ...