Sjukhusbiblioteken i Västerbotten

Helsinki on autio, kun paviaanit saapuvat. Syksy on tulossa, ja lauma päättää asettua kaupunkiin. Johtajauros Mooses kiipeää kansallisrunoilija Runebergin patsaan päälle tarkkailem ...

Koskettava kertomus menneisyyden sekaantumisesta nykyhetkeen – ripauksella maagista realismia.Nuori Vilma työskentelee hoitajana vanhustenhoitoyksikössä. Hänellä on tapana laittaa ...

Mitä nainen on valmis tekemään, kun hänen rakastamansa mies pettää hänet?Medeia on barbaarinainen, jonka kanssa kreikkalainen Iason on perustanut perheen ja hankkinut lapsia. Kun I ...

Lumoava ja lohduttava satu aikuisille. Enkelimummi on vanha nainen, jota kaikki Ruusukylän asukkaat rakastavat. Hän asuu viiden kyyhkynsä kanssa, ja hänet tunnetaan viisaudestaan. ...

Halley's Comet had just swung by and the infamous Baptist preacher William Miller was foretelling the end of the world.Edgar Allan Poe was quick to capitalise on the atmosphere of ...

Millaista ihmisten elämä oli kivikauden aikaan?Eletään kivikautta, kun Ab-niminen poikalapsi syntyy. Abin koti on kallioluolassa, ja kasvettuaan hiukan suuremmaksi Ab leikkii oksil ...

Adapted into episode one of the TV mini-series, The Nightmare Worlds of H.G. Wells – starring Ray Winstone and Michael Gambon – The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham is a short story ...

‘Christina Alberta’s Father’ is a multi-layered read. Part comedy, part tragedy, and part satire of 1920s society, it tells the story of Albert Edward Preemby. Following his wife’s ...

It is a golden rule: if you visit or move to a new area and the locals issue a chilling warning, abide by it.In books and films, the golden rule is to ignore it.Take ´American Were ...

The final novel in H. Rider Haggard’s much-anticipated trilogy, ‘Allan and the Ice Gods’, sees the return of Allan Quatermain and features Lady Luna Ragnall and the taduki drug ye ...

"Green Tea" tells the haunting story of a man plagued by a demonic monkey. The unnamed narrator, a trained surgeon who can’t practice because of the loss of two of his fingers, is ...

A man and his guide enter the vast, labyrinthine Mammoth Cave. However, this is not an advert for Visit Kentucky, so you can predict the next plot line.The man loses his guide. The ...

One Londoner and an American geologist are out for a bicycle trip in the Thames valley. They talk about natural disasters and volcanic eruptions and how thankful they are that such ...

Den brutala smittsjukdomen Sömnen härjar i Tveväldet. På ena sidan av barriären finns kvinnorna, som är biologiskt överlägsna, och på den andra finns männen. Männens samhälle är un ...

Voiko jään sisällä selvitä elossa vuosikymmenten ajan?Kun rahtialus matkaa Newfoundlandin rannikolla, kohtaa sen miehistö jotain yllättävää. Erään jäävuoren sisällä näkyy olevan ku ...

Written just eight years before the Wright brothers made their first powered flight, ‘The Argonauts of the Air’ follows the fortunes of eccentric millionaire, Monson. Monson is det ...

'The Apple' is a fantasy-mystery short story by H.G. Wells. It is the tale of a student who, whilst travelling by train in a third-class carriage, is offered genuine, forbidden fru ...

When Mr. Henley answers a letter that is not addressed to him, his life is immediately thrown into chaos. Full of supernatural suspense, this gripping ghostly tale follows Mr. Henl ...

Written by Charles Willing Beale (1845-1932), ‘The Secret of the Earth’ (1899) is an intriguing lost-world tale. When Dirk Waaijen, the master of the Voorne, is five days out from ...

Ett häpnadsväckande rymdäventyr! För både människa och människans bästa vän.Den internationella rymdbesättningen är redo för sitt livs äventyr. De ska ge sig ombord på det första a ...

He talks to bottles, collects strange stones and only 'few know his real name'. If the title of the short story is not enough, these facts about 'The Terrible Old Man' make it clea ...

While a man is out cycling in rural New England, a storm is brewing. He finds that the only option for shelter is a house nearby.It is, of course, not a normal house. It is a creep ...

It is not advisable to become instant best friends with a mysterious man you have just met at a railway station - particularly if he has 'immense, sunken and widely luminous eyes'. ...

In ‘The Wolf Leader,’ Dumas deftly weaves the Faust story with the werewolves of folklore. While it is not the typical swashbuckling fare you would expect from the author of ‘The T ...

Written by the great French author Gustave Flaubert, ‘Hérodias’ is the third and final tale from the short story collection, ‘Three Tales’ (1877) and is a memorable retelling of th ...