Upplands-Bro bibliotek

"True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid..." Dorothy is in a bit of a pickle. Her house has been swept away in a vicious tornado with just herself and her dog inside, ...

"Roads,' observed the shaggy man, 'don't go anywhere. They stay in one place, so folks can walk on them." A shaggy-looking man, imaginatively called Shaggy Man, asks Dorothy for di ...

Whatever happened in the lands of Oz after Dorothy left? In this sequel to the ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz’, we meet a young boy named Tip, who, unlike Dorothy, has grown up in thi ...

Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to be ...

Good news for those who found themselves missing the original heroine of Oz in the second book because in ‘Ozma of Oz’ (1907), Dorothy is back! Traveling to Australia with her uncl ...

"There is no doubt they intend to kill us as dead as possible in a short time,' said the Wizard.'As dead as poss'ble would be pretty dead, wouldn't it?' asked Dorothy." During an e ...

Once again, Alice finds herself in a peculiar place. In this sequel to ‘Alice Adventures in Wonderland’, Alice has climbed through a mirror and arrived in a world in which everythi ...

"Off with her head!" yells the Queen of Hearts, one of the many peculiar creatures Alice encounters after falling down a rabbit hole and into an absurd fantasy world of Mad Tea Par ...

"Are we rising again?''No. On the contrary.' 'Are we descending?' 'Worse than that, captain! We are falling!" Five prisoners of war escape in an air balloon during a siege. They ar ...

Phileas Fogg is English exactitude personified. He eats breakfast at 8:23, shaves at 9:37, and leaves for the Reform club at 11:30. He reads, eats, and doesn’t travel. But one day, ...

When Lemuel Gulliver wakes up on an island after a shipwreck, tied on his hands and feet and with arrows pointed at him, you would think all hope is lost. But his captors are the ...

Wanting to impress a woman, journalist Ned Malone sets out to interview the hostile professor George Challenger, who claims to have discovered living dinosaurs in South America. Th ...

The supernatural is an everyday occurrence for John Kendrick Bangs, who just can’t avoid seeing ghosts everywhere! A witty, turn-of-the-century spoof of the gothic horror anthology ...

The eight-year-old Princess Irene is lonely in her castle that sits on a mountain. She has only her nursemaid, Lootie, for company. She discovers a a secret, and soon she overhears ...

When, on his twenty-first birthday, Anodos goes into his father's study and opens a drawer, a little ancient fairy lady grants his wish to go to Fairy Land. But is it all just a fa ...

A princess is locked away on a remote island guarded by a dragon. Many suitors try and fail to save her, but one day a clever boy arrives. So begins ‘The Island of Nine Whirlpools‘ ...

After ten long years away from Barsoom and his beloved red Martian princess Dejah Thoris, John Carter is finally back! Unfortunately, Carter appears in the one place on Barsoom fro ...

John Carter is catapulted to Mars! Or Barsoom, as the locals call the dying planet. Suddenly he is surrounded by strange, towering cities, colossal, four-armed savage green hordes ...

One night at Christmas, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean and greedy man, gets a visit from the ghost of his dead business partner. The ghost warns him about the awful punishment that await ...

"Bring oxygen – Challenger." The gang from ‘The Lost World’ is back together, but the reunion is much more dramatic than they had hoped. As Professor Challenger has predicted, the ...

Poliskvinnan bakom Elin drar plasthatten av en injektionsspruta med grov nål, hugger nålen genom Elins byxor och trycker in vätskan i Elins lår. Elin flämtar, flyttar blicken och s ...

Jonas lever i ett samhälle utan konflikter, fattigdom, arbetslöshet eller skilsmässor. En värld där allt fungerar och ingen är missnöjd. Men Jonas är spänd. Spänd inför den årliga ...

»Sonen« är en av fyra nya noveller ur Divergent-trilogins värld. Var och en av dessa - »Falangbytaren«, »Novisen«, »Sonen« och »Förrädaren« - utforskar Veronica Roths dystopiska fr ...

»Novisen« är en av fyra nya noveller ur Divergent-trilogins värld. Var och en av dessa - »Falangbytaren«, »Novisen«, »Sonen« och »Förrädaren« - utforskar Veronica Roths dystopiska ...

»Förrädaren« är en av fyra nya noveller ur Divergent-trilogins värld. Var och en av dessa - »Falangbytaren«, »Novisen«, »Sonen« och »Förrädaren« - utforskar Veronica Roths dystopis ...