Staffanstorps bibliotek

Rymden blir mindre kall när Dani sprider hopp och värme under sina äventyr Jonas Bengtsson, Barrikaden.se   Det här är en samlingsutgåva med de fem första novellerna i serien om Da ...

For five years I longed for peace. When we finally defeated the aliens, the general greeted us: "Good morning, victorious", and I believed everything would return to as before the ...

När 29-åriga Evita Klanglind kör ombord på färjan som ska ta henne till Sassnitz, gör hon det med viss ambivalens. Göran hade nyligen lämnat henne för en annan kvinna och hennes mo ...

Love, art, ambitions and sacrifices. O. Henry’s "A Service of Love" tells the story of the artist Joe and the pianist Delia who fall in love with each other. They marry and althoug ...

'Please, speak softly, we might be overheard,'Two college friends run into each other in Paris and one tells the other of a mysterious woman he’s been seeing. She sets appointments ...

The famous Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain, served as the major influence for this collection of essays and sketches by Washington Irving. Blending history, myth, and natural des ...

There are graves that should have never been opened... The narrator and his friend learn this only after they have robbed several graves and started an exhibition on the artifacts ...

More than 10 000 years ago something terrible happened in the land of Mnar. Shepherd people built a new city called Sarnath. But the land they took to themselves was not uninhabite ...

"The total number of legs belonging to the manufacturing population of one great town in Yorkshire was, in round numbers, forty thousand, while the total number of chair and stool ...

"Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed."Hughie, a charming young man with no money, wants to marry a girl named Laura. But Laura’s father is co ...

The narrator has gone out to a garden in the middle of the night. But the garden, under the light of the moon, doesn’t seem like a usual garden. Everything seems a little weird and ...

When Harry Houdini travels all the way to Egypt, he doesn’t know yet that this trip will take him to one of his greatest – and most terrifying – adventures. During the trip he is k ...

Kalos and Musides are two Greek sculptors who are asked to sculpt statues for a competition. But while they are preparing their statues, something terrible happens – Kalos becomes ...

When captain James P. Orne and his crew kill a strange and enormous animal in the sea, they are confused. They have never seen anything like this before – the animal looks like a g ...

It is the time to celebrate Yuletide – a festival that ancient Germanic people celebrated during the darkest times of the year. A man returns to his home town to share this special ...

"Strictly speaking, there were only six poor travellers; but, being a traveller myself, though an idle one, and being withal as poor as I hope to be, I brought the number up to sev ...

"Minerva House ... was ‘a finishing establishment for young ladies,’ where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything an ...

"Society, taken in the lump, is all dwarfs (...) And when you’ve no more left to give, they’ll laugh at you to your face..."A man sets up a circus in a respectable neighbourhood an ...

Doctor Marigold is a traveling salesperson and a good man. But his wife beats their daughter Sophy and he is too weak-willed to do anything about it. When Sophy dies, Marigold is s ...

"He is a regular dare-devil, you know: a gambler, a duellist, a seducer, but a jewel of an hussar - a real jewel."A handsome young hussar rides through a small town, seduces a youn ...

"Everybody knows it's our business to score. You don't get a chance to get a bite of any thing, and you don't get to bed till two o'clock o' nights, but you're always being screame ...

Rutger von G's mystiska död har gäckat östgötska Kisa i ett helt sekel. Han var illa omtyckt, och dessutom gammal och bräcklig, när han tog sitt sista andetag under äppelträdet i t ...

Petra Bravo har återvänt till Rand och ska för första gången få träffa den unge jimbugen Lhan. Vid sin sida har hon magikanden Jend, som för närvarande befinner sig i en kropp som ...

Nu undrar du förstås vad den här berättelsen innehåller. Och det ska du få veta! Här finns en hexaflexagon som ingen någonsin lyckats vika, en ung doktorand som tror sig ha hittat ...

När jimbugen Ghezor råkar på rönnkvinnan Rowenna blir han omedelbart förälskad. Hon är dock inte alls imponerad av hans grå elefanthud och tredelade näsa. Men så händer något som g ...