Upplands-Bro bibliotek

Suuria tunteita ja elokuvatähtiä sairaalan varjoissa.Violet Murray on aloitteleva lääkäri, joka leikkausalissa pitää pään kylmänä ja toimintansa ammattimaisena. Työminän siirtyessä ...

Punatukkainen, omintakeinen Aarne asuu vaatimattomissa oloissa, eikä koulunkäyntikään ole mutkatonta lahjakkuudesta huolimatta. Poika joutuu kiistaan opettajien kanssa ja tappeluun ...

Uusia alkuja, vastuuta ja vanhemmuutta.Katriina on helpottunut suunnatessaan pienelle Karistovaaran paikkakunnalle kouluterveydenhoitajaksi. Taakse jää väljähtänyt suhde entisen mi ...

En rapp feelgood-roman om längtan efter barn och hur långt man är villig att gå för att få dem.Efter flera års misslyckade försök står Henrietta och Mattias fortfarande barnlösa. V ...

Written by famous author F. Scott Fitzgerald, this short story relates the rocky relationship of married New York couple Luella and Charles Hemple.Luella Hemple is selfish. However ...

Bookseller, Merlin Grainger, has a crush. The only problem is, he’s never actually met the girl he’s in love with, so he calls her Caroline. Russet-haired Caroline keeps popping in ...

Deliciously funny, ‘Jemina’ is one of those rare things: a story for a story’s sake.Fifty years ago, way up in the mountains, the Tantrums and the Doldrums fell out over a game of ...

Do opposites actually attract? 'Head and Shoulders' features the intellectual Horace, who is totally absorbed in his studies at Princeton, but falls for a spirited dancer despite t ...

Lois, a young girl, is anxious to meet her lover but makes an unexpected stop at her brother Keith's house, who is studying to become a Catholic priest. After not seeing him for ma ...

This short story follows the loveable character of George O'Kelly, an aspiring engineer who sells insurance to pay the bills.George falls in love with the mysterious Jonquill Cary. ...

Jim Powell is a jelly-bean; a lazy, idle man, who is content to drift through life. However, when his friend, Clark, invites him to a shindig where Nancy Lamar is going to be, ther ...

At the tender age of 17, half-Russian, half-American Val has a brief romance with a married woman from the United States. However, this fleeting encounter is about to change his li ...

Kazan is three quarters husky and one quarter wolf, and struggles with these two sides of his personality. A part of him wants to stay with people, while the other wants to run fre ...

An unusual novel in Wallace’s collection, it is not told linearly but instead it is an adventure novel told in the form of witness statements to a journalist. It follows Captain Ta ...

‘The Wizard's Touch’ (1906) is a short story by American playwright and novelist, Alice Brown.Jerome Wilmer is an artist who returned from his travels to find Mary, the girl he lov ...

Hester appears to have it all - marriage, a nice home, three children and a stimulating job.But it is not enough. For no matter how much she and her husband earn, she spends more.D ...

The very wealthy are different from the rest of us, and so is Anson. From a young age, he learned to speak in an almost British way; his words and sentences are crisp and clear. Th ...

Written as a journal, ‘In the Mountains’ tells the story of an English woman who after WWI decides to escape her personal troubles in London and seeks refuge at her chalet in the S ...

Orphan Anna’s life is changed for the better when she inherits an estate from her maternal uncle. Kind and intelligent, Anna decides to pass on some of her wealth by setting up a h ...

‘Moving the Mountain’ (1911) is a novel by American feminist and writer, Charlotte Gilman. It is the first book of her classic utopian feminist trilogy that includes ‘Herland’ (191 ...

‘Pott's Painless Cure’ (1898) is a short story by the American author, Edward Bellamy, most famous for his socialist and utopian novel ‘Looking Backward: 2000-1887’ (1888).College ...

‘Lost’ (1898) is a short story by the American author, Edward Bellamy, most famous for his socialist and utopian novel ‘Looking Backward: 2000-1887’ (1888).On the 25th of May, 1866 ...

Av en rad mindre bra beslut som Saskia fattat i sitt liv tog överenskommelsen att jobba åt sin mamma priset. Än värre blir det när hon tvingas samarbeta med John, hennes ärkefiende ...

Ellie ska packa ihop hela sitt liv, inklusive sin likgiltiga mamma och sin dödssjuka pappa och flytta till Hamper - en grönskande idyll, belägen mitt i Emerald-regionen. Det ska gö ...

För att kärleken ska kunna gro måste Flora gräva i sitt förflutna. Under en möhippa på den skotska, bortglömda ön Alana, förlorar Flora ett vad, och måste fråga en snygg främling o ...