Sjukhusbiblioteken i Västerbotten

17-vuotias Lenore von Sassen ei ole sellainen prinsessa kuin saduissa. Hänen vaatteensa ja kenkänsä ovat karkeampaa tekoa, ja hän asuu maalla Dierkhofin talossa aron laidalla. Kun ...

Kun avioliitto epäonnistuu 1800-luvulla, edessä on skandaali. Rouva Lisen Adler on syvästi järkyttynyt. Hän on juuri saapunut tapaamaan nuorta tytärtään Antoniaa, joka on ollut nai ...

Kiehtovaa aateliselämää 1800-luvun Saksassa.Eräässä saksalaisessa kylässä sijaitsee melko vaatimaton kartano. Kyläläisten silmissä kartano on kuitenkin erityinen ja sitä kutsutaan ...

Maija on 25-vuotias nuori nainen, joka etsii suuntaa elämälleen. Ranskanopinnot Helsingin yliopistossa sujuvat hyvin, mutta Maija tuntee olonsa jatkuvasti ulkopuoliseksi. Miehiin t ...

Livet är härligt för rikemansdottern Hilda Sparre när hon 1889 flyttar in på Gunnebo slott. Hon är kär och nygift och planerar sitt framtida liv med maken Carl. Hilda kommer från e ...

Första delen i romance-serien Prince Edward Islands stränder av den omåttligt populära Liz Johnson.Meg Whitaker känner det som att hon driver runt på ett stormigt hav. Ända sedan h ...

1953 är Borås en stad där febril aktivitet råder. Hjulen snurrar, optimismen är på topp och industrin skriker efter arbetskraft. Hit anländer morgonen den första februari systrarna ...

Two sisters - two contrasting love affairs.Gudrun Brangwen, an artist, becomes deeply involved in a destructive entanglement with the industrialist Gerald Crich.Ursula, a schooltea ...

‘Samantha on the Woman Question’ (1913) was written by best-selling American writer and humourist Marietta Holley and tells the story of Samantha and her husband Josiah as they att ...

A forlorn English diplomat. A forgotten yet legitimate daughter. A stuffy society intent on keeping outsiders out. Steeped in the new wave of romanticism in the late 18th century, ...

Jolly Roger McKay is an outcast who is running from the law, or more precisely from Cassidy – a sheriff from the Royal Mounted Police. Nada is a young girl who lives a difficult li ...

Neewa is black bear cub who loses his mother and is adopted by a hunter and his dog, Miki. However, during a wild canoe ride, Neewa and Miki get separated from the kindly hunter. T ...

‘The Two Noble Kinsmen’ by William Shakespeare is believed to be his final play before his retirement and is usually attributed jointly to John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In ...

An ambitious lawyer, a scandalous family secret, and a loan shark. Take these three elements and paint them onto a backdrop of upper-class Paris and you have Honore de Balzac's 'Go ...

'Now that I am free, perfectly free, I intend to remain so.'Today, this would be a clear message to look for another online date.In 19th-century Paris, Leon de Preval, a captain in ...

‘Bouvard and Pécuchet’ (1881) was written by the great French author Gustave Flaubert, famous for his scandalous best-selling novel ‘Madame Bovary’. Although unfinished at the time ...

Spoiling a child is not just about letting them have a few extra sweets. In some cases, years of doting really do spoil them.Victurien d'Esgrignon was raised by his doting aunt and ...

It begins with the undignified scene of two young men on a Parisian stagecoach, boasting about their love affairs with older, married women.Hubris turns to tragedy when the coach o ...

Once bitten, twice shy sometimes rings true. Madame de Beauseant must have been bitten very hard, for she became a hermit in her Normandy castle due to humiliation after being cast ...

When Milanese nobleman Count Andrea Marcosini sees Marianna in the crowd at the Palais-Royal in Paris, he immediately decides that she will be his. After all, this wealthy man with ...

You know that feeling when you have just sent a text or an email to the wrong person? Well, in the 19th century the equivalent was a wrongly-directed letter - and there is no 'dele ...

Felix was rejected as a child by his mother and those scars never fully heal.In a book with great emotional depth, Honore de Balzac explores Felix' two major adult relationships wi ...

'Vive la counter-revolution!'In 'Sons of the Soil', Balzac tells an extraordinary story of gentry and peasants, complacency and corruption, jealousy and revenge. And it has a conte ...

There are dilemmas - and then there are dilemmas. Juanito Leganes faces the sort of choice that is beyond our worst nightmares.It comes after his father, Marquis of the Spanish tow ...

Fans of 'The Godfather' trilogy and 'The Sopranos' will know a thing or two about vendettas.In Honore de Balzac's ´The Vendetta´, tragic consequences are laid bare. What begins as ...