Upplands-Bro bibliotek

Halvard Solness is a master architect who has ruthlessly forged a preëminent career without regard for the feelings of those around him. In spite of this unscrupulous path of life, ...

A European businessman and his Malayan wife have a daughter, Nina. A Malayan prince comes to do trade with the businessman and falls in love with the daughter. Conflict arises when ...

An autobiographical short story written in 1898 and included as the first story in the 1902 volume Youth, a Narrative, and Two Other Stories. This volume also includes Heart of Dar ...

Real men don't take guff from snotty kids. Neither does Disko Troop, skipper of the "We're Here", a fishing schooner out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, when his crew fishes Harvey C ...

Are you really 'living', or just existing? Do you want to improve yourself or just continue to muddle through? Do you use the time given you each day, or just throw most of it away ...

Boken Lotten - nu på engelska! Det är fredagen den trettonde, otursdagen. Viggo ska gå på puben med sin kompis. På vägen köper han en trisslott. Den kommer att förvandla hans liv. ...

Darias stigar - nu på engelska!  Daria har nyligen kommit till Sverige. Svenska språket är som en gåta för henne. Men hon tycker om att sjunga. Och att promenera i parken. I parken ...

Boken Flörten - nu på engelska! Ebba och Filip sjunger i kör. Ebba har förälskat sig i Filip men vet inte hur hon ska närma sig honom. För hur säger man till någon att man är kär? ...

Boken Kär i kärleken - nu på engelska! Emma är en framåt tjej som behöver en del stöd i vardagen. I den här boken möter vi Emma på hennes arbetsplats där Kim blir hennes vän. Eller ...

Eva ska handla. Hon har en lista med sig till affären. I den här boken får vi följa Evas inköpstur steg för steg. Det blir möten med bekanta och funderingar kring varor. Varje upps ...

Practical tips that will make you more comfortable and confident in your presentations. In this book you will find personal tips and concrete advice from a professional lecturer ac ...

Practical, easy to use leadership tools in a short and straightforward format. You will get awareness of the most common pitfalls and tips and tricks not to fall into all of them. ...

History is always written from the perspective of the ruling or rising elite at the time of writing. Concepts like The Stone Age, The Bronze Age, et cetera, were of course unknown ...

På vilka sätt har internets framfart påverkat samhälle och maktstrukturer? Hur förändras människans levnadsvillkor och världsbild i samband med de nya förutsättningar som digitalis ...

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a short story by Washington Irving contained in his collection The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent., written while he was living in Birmingham ...

Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Washington Square is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict b ...

Ruth and Alice DeVere and their father Hosmer struggle to make ends meet in New York City – times are hard, even for a talented actor like Mr. DeVere. Just as he successfully audit ...

Puck of Pook’s Hill is a children’s book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of history. The stories are all told t ...

Oscar Wilde supposedly said that these fables were "intended neither for the British child nor the British public". A follow-up to his first popular fairy-tale collection (‘The Hap ...

This is a selection of short stories recounting, with gentle satire and tolerant good humour, the small town provincial life at the end of the nineteenth century, based around the ...

The Adventures of Reddy Fox is another in the series of children’s stories by conservationist Thornton W. Burgess. In this story, Reddy and Granny Fox must outsmart Farmer Brown’s ...

Father Brown is a fictional character created by English novelist G. K. Chesterton, who stars in 52 short stories, later compiled in five books. Chesterton based the character on F ...

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the U.S. in 1920 by Doran. Rachel Vinrace embarks for South America on her fat ...

The Wood Beyond the World is a fantasy novel by William Morris, perhaps the first modern fantasy writer to unite an imaginary world with the element of the supernatural, and thus t ...

The life and adventures of Honorable William F. Cody–Buffalo Bill–as told by himself, make up a narrative which reads more like romance than reality, and which in many respects wil ...