Sjukhusbiblioteken i Västerbotten

The small village of Sleepy Hollow is anything but a rural idyll. People see apparitions, hear voices, and, worst of all, are chased by the headless horseman. When the teacher Icha ...

Young Cedric Errol is a kind-hearted and noble-spirited boy living with his widowed mother in New York City. Cedric's life takes an unexpected turn when he learns he is the heir to ...

Nine-year-old Mary Lennox lives a spoiled but joyless life with her parents in India. But when her parents die in a cholera epidemic, she ends up in England, with her enigmatic unc ...

Hester Prynne is publicly humiliated, imprisoned, and ostracized. It is the 17th century, and she lives in the strictly Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony in Boston. After giving bir ...

Michael Henchard, a young man of no particular promise, sells his wife and daughter in a moment of drunken impulsivity. Years later, having risen to prominence as the Mayor of Cast ...

Tess Durbeyfield is a young and innocent country girl whose life takes a tumultuous turn when she discovers her noble lineage. Seduced and betrayed by the wealthy Alec d'Urberville ...

Jude Fawley is a young and ambitious working-class man with dreams of pursuing an education and becoming a scholar. His plans are thwarted when he is lured into an unhappy marriage ...

The beautiful and headstrong Bathsheba Everdene has no shortage of suitors. She has managed to capture the attention of the devoted shepherd Gabriel Oak, gentleman farmer Boldwood, ...

The Wind in the Willows, and its unforgettable characters - Mole, Ratty, Mr. Toad, and Badger - have charmed children of all ages around the world for over a century. Whether the f ...

She has just given birth to their child. He labels her postpartum depression as »hysteria.« He rents the attic in an old country house. Here, she is to rest alone – forbidden to le ...

The Prophet by Khalil Gibran is a timeless masterpiece that transcends borders and cultures with its profound wisdom and poetic beauty. Set in the fictional town of Orphalese, the ...

Molly Gibson, the daughter of a widowed country doctor, is just getting used to life in adult society and the newly sparked attention she is getting from men. She becomes entangled ...

The young Margaret Hale arrives in Milton, Northern England, with her father, who has become a dissenting minister after leaving the established church and a congregation in the ru ...

Mary Barton is the daughter of a proud and militant trade unionist. When she finds herself torn between two men, one a workingclass friend and the other the son of a wealthy mill o ...

Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford whisks readers away to the quaint and charming English town of Cranford, where the rhythms of rural life unfold amidst the tea sipping, gossiping, and ...

Amory Blaine, is a young man navigating the complexities of adolescence and adulthood against the backdrop of a rapidly changing society. As he moves through the ivy-covered halls ...

The Hollywood of the 1930s is a constantly spinning Ferris wheel of business, alcohol, and promiscuity – and a complete lack of morals. Film mogul Monroe Stahr's mode outwardly ref ...

Benjamin Button is born as an elderly man and, as the years pass, becomes younger while those around him grow older. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century America, the sto ...

Ranked 2nd [after James Joyce's Ulysses] on the Modern Library's list of "The 100 Best Novels" Ranked 46th on the French Le Monde's list of "The 100 Best Novels in the World” The G ...

Snart som Netflixfilm! Fern har slösat bort tillräckligt stor del av sitt liv med att tänka på Will. För tio år sedan tillbringade hon ett underbart dygn i Toronto med den attrakti ...

Förlorad roman för första gången i svensk översättning Världens främste konstförfalskare, Gaspard Winckler, mördar sin uppdragsgivare, Anatole Madera. Varför? Gaspard har ägnat fle ...

Ny svensk översättning av Orwells mästerverk Boktips i Babel: Niklas Rådström rekommenderar Ragnar Strömbergs nyöversättning av 1984 i Babel, SVT »1984 släpps nu i en ny översättni ...

Den postapokalyptiska vampyrklassikern i ny utgåva »En av 1900-talets viktigaste författare.« Ray Bradbury »Den författare som inspirerat mig allra mest.« Stephen King Robert Nevil ...

För den unga Kirsty har simningen alltid fungerat som tröst i svåra stunder. Men i samband med en personlig tragedi sommaren 1939 lämnar hon Skottland och tvingas ge upp sina drömm ...

Den ensligt belägna ön Högbonden och dess gamla fyrplats är uppseendeväckande, vacker och okuvlig. Och berget är lika orubbligt som de minnen Josefin försöker fly ifrån. Hon har re ...