E-böcker Vetlanda bibliotek

"Humorn är en av våra viktigaste egenskaper. Inte minst i svårigheter. Ofta är det den svages och maktlöses enda vapen mot en övermäktig (och ofta humorlös) överhet. Säkerligen gic ...

Irma är inte bara sekreterare i Socialdemokraternas Utrikespolitiska grupp. Hon är även rumänsk ambassadör, tysk byggentreprenör och norskt polisbefäl, i alla fall när partnern och ...

Ihastuttava taiteilija Paula Valentin pyytää yksityisetsivä Allan Karvelta apua karistaakseen ympärillään pörräävän ihailijan. Niinpä Karve osallistuu Paula Valentinin seurassa täm ...

Kun tämä maailmanmeno tuntuu muuttuneen muutaman viime vuoden aikana arvaamattomaksi, lienee enemmän kuin paikallaan ottaa välillä hengähdystauko. Tämän kirjan tarinoissa kat ...

In this collection of satiric essays, Ambrose Bierce offers his provoking outlook on a series of subjects. This collection includes, "Civilization", "Immortality", "The Death Penal ...

Claudius Bombarnac is a reporter, tasked with writing a travelogue while aboard the Great Trans-Asiatic Railway. Hoping to spice up his story, he befriends a group of travellers, w ...

‘The Hermit and the Wild Woman' is a collection of short stories through which Wharton explores the themes of choice and morality. A surprising read, the stories feature a wide var ...

‘The Spark’ is the third of four books set in Old New York. When Hayley Delane discovers that there’s more to his mentor than meets the eye, he realises that he needs to change his ...

‘Xingu’ lampoons the leisurely lives of six ladies who lunch. Having formed a literary club, the six pseudo-intellectuals are thrown into panic at the prospect of being visited by ...

Varje generation har sin historia. En historia om hjältemod och tapperhet. En historia om en modig hjälte som överkommer omöjliga odds för att slutligen segra. En hjärtevärmande hi ...

The earliest collection of short stories from Edith Wharton, ‘The Greater Inclination’ documents the beginning of an outstanding literary career. The book contains seven short stor ...

What happens if two boys are given the exact same name? If you guessed 'disaster in adulthood', you would be right. When one of the men dies, there is an exciting adventure to find ...

"If you were to go up in a balloon, you would make for heaven; and if you were to dive into the depths of the earth, nothing short of the other place would content you."These are t ...

Charles Dickens’ ‘The Lamplighter’ is a short story that will take the reader on a comical adventure bringing together the philosopher's stone, some fortune-telling stars, an eccen ...

Nemerov’s first novel, ‘The Melodramatists’ is a parody of life in 20th Century America. When wealthy Nicholas Boyne is committed to a mental health facility, his two daughters, Cl ...

Who would have known that 'the father of Science Fiction' also wrote satire about stuffed animals? H.G. Wells' short story 'The Triumphs of a Taxidermist' was first published anony ...

Jean är en ung munk som kommer till Nydala kloster i Småland, men som blir tvungen att fly därifrån efter en fruktansvärd händelse. Han lyckas ta sig till Gotland i förhoppning om ...

Svensk sensommar 2011. Petra, självlärd astrofysiker, har räknat ut att atmosfären kollapsar den 21 september samma år, omkring klockan 21.20. Nu är hon, domedagsprofeten, on the r ...

Setting the template for almost every subsequent novel set at school, ‘Jeremy at Crale’ follows the trials and tribulations of our eponymous hero. The third in the series, Jeremy i ...

Who is Egbert Craddock Cummins? And why is he changing?'The Obliterated Man' tells the tale of a shy young man, Egbert Craddock Cummins, who reluctantly takes on the role of a thea ...

When your life’s path seems set in stone, who wouldn’t long for a bit of adventure?In 1910s England, everyone knew their place. But 13-year-old Bealby isn’t content to become a ser ...

Minorcan suurherttua on innoissaan: tänään alkaa uusi vaihe Minorcan suurherttuakunnan historiassa! Mutta mitä mahtaakaan olla edessä? Keskittyyhän suurherttua yleensä lähinnä syöm ...

Walter Schnaff is unlike the other soldiers in the Prussian army. While his brothers-in-arms advance through Normandy with the intent of subjugating the French and achieving victor ...

Matilda cannot wait for her husband to be away so she can invite Captain Sommerive into her house and heart. But as their love affair grows more passionate, Matilda begins to see t ...

Today, children trapped at their grandma's house because of a storm would occupy themselves with social media and a range of streaming services.But in the 1800s, things were very d ...