Vaggeryds bibliotek

Benvenuto Gismondi is sitting on his horse, breathing hard and grinning, while looking at Messer Crespi. Crespi is also grinning while laying in the snow with his arms flung wide. ...

Forty-year-old Professor Kauffmann is awakened by the loud, insistent trilling of the electric bell. He slides his hand, holding a weapon, into his gown’s pocket and goes downstair ...

Dr. Peter Blood is an Irish physician who served in the Dutch and French navies. He now works as a doctor in the city of Bridgwater in southwestern England. During the rebellion of ...

Henry Jekyll is an idealistic young scientist whose main goal it is to unlock the secrets of the human soul. He creates many different potions and chemical mixtures in his lab, but ...

We all have heard about the great glaciers. Some may have even seen them. But did you ever wonder what is hidden behind the great and treacherous Canadian glacier? Now you have the ...

Some poems can really teach us something if we read carefully and understand the essence. This lyric poem by Kipling makes no difference. By reading it, a man can find some wise ad ...

"Ivanhoe" is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, part of the Waverley series. The action takes place during the 12th century in England, and the themes revolve mainly around ch ...

"The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias" is the third story from Stephen Leacock’s masterpiece story sequence 'Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town'. It deals with an explora ...

"Barbara of the House of Grebe" is a short story from Thomas Hardy’s collection "A Group of Noble Dames". It is a dark that intertwines madness and desire. Barbara Grebe is alread ...

Ghosts, vampires, werewolves, and mad scientists. The most characteristic features of the gothic and horror genre are combined here, together with some mysterious and hard to crack ...

The stories in this collection are all about Christmas, but that does not mean that they are all happy and tranquil. Sincere and romantic ones like O. Henry’s meet the mysterious t ...

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn.Kathleen O’Farrel finds herself as the governess of Conde de Chaves’ two young nephews. What follows is a clash of wills: K ...

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. Virginia Summers is extremely fond of the Meadow House, which has been bestowed to her by her father. Even the thought of ...

Perfect for fans of the Bridgerton series by Julia Quinn. Lacey is an English teacher at a fancy girls’ school in Switzerland. Her young pupils have something in common: all of the ...

A selection of wonderful Christmas fairy tales by the beloved author Hans Christian Andersen to enjoy in the cozy winter evenings. Let one of the best-known children’s authors of a ...

Det är inget vidare att gå till tandläkaren, men när Hercule Poirot en fin dag kliver ut från tandläkarmottagningen känner han hur lättnaden spirar genom honom på ett trevligt sätt ...

The book that inspired the new Netflix series, 'Lupin' with Omar Sy.The gentleman burglar and criminal mastermind, Arsene Lupin, returns in five new adventures. Paris’ very own "Pr ...

From the books that inspired the new Netflix series Lupin with Omar Sy.After Arsene Lupin is suspected of yet another grand theft with a mysterious blonde accomplice, the Parisienn ...

Quiquendone is a small town in West Flanders, whose citizens are the wisest, most sociable and hospitable people. The town’s mayor, Van Tricasse, claims that the one if a person di ...

Following the events of the first novel, Tarzan is grieving his beloved Jane, who is about to marry someone else. But he soon finds that there is more love to be had as he sets off ...

A father and his son visit a magic shop. This is not just any magic shop, but the 'genuine' one, as the shop owner points out to the father. The father is not impressed but the boy ...

Martians have wanted to invade Earth for some time in order to secure their own survival. They make their way to the new planet, but what they don't realize is that Earth may not b ...

A meteorite crashes in an area around Arkham, Massachusetts and normally life is interrupted. The earth is poisoned, the animals are driven mad, the products that grow there become ...

"The Colour Out of Space", "The Call of Cthulhu" and 15 more stories are combined in the collection "The Dunwich Horror and Other Tales". Horror, supernatural occurrences, science ...

Francis Thurston finds an old collection of letters and articles from his late uncle. They contain detailed descriptions of the so called Cthulhu cult, which Francis gets more and ...