Biblioteken i Malmö

Kriminalpolisen Kenneth Klintman har jobbat inom polisen tillräckligt länge för att ha sett det mesta. Länge nog för att ha accepterat de många nackdelar och brister som kommer med ...

Kukkivassa syreenilehdossa seisoo avoin ruumisarkku. Arkussa makaa mies, jonka pään alla on suuri kirja. Kirja on kasvio – siihen on kerätty mitä kauneimpia kuivattuja kasveja. Mik ...

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 ...

Året är 2350 och genom Virgos Rymdresor kan jordborna för en präktig summa köpa sig en semester till planeten Prima Chara. En interstellär rymdfärd är en omständig historia - och d ...

På Sorgens sjö går ingen säker, men det vet inte Petra Bravo när hon ger sig ut på vattnet tillsammans med Aerwinwath. Då dyker plötsligt sjungande näckrosor upp, vars klagosång gö ...

En strypmördare har mördat sex kvinnor på slumpmässiga platser. Under samma sommar, vid det hiskeligt branta Galgberget, har tre män fallit ner mot stupet och sin ofrånkomliga död. ...

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 village street was like most other village streets: wide for its height, silent for its size, and drowsy in the dullest degree."In Tom Tiddlers Ground – the name of an ancient ...

"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 ...

"When I began to settle down in this right-principled and well-conducted House, I noticed, under the bed in No. 24 B (which it is up an angle off the staircase, and usually put off ...

"Once upon a time, and of course it was in the Golden Age, and I hope you may know when that was, for I am sure I don't, though I have tried hard to find out, there lived in a rich ...

"Mother had the gripe and clutch of poverty upon her face, upon her figure, and not least of all upon her voice."After a traumatic childhood spent locked in a cellar, the orphaned ...

"She would not hear a word. She has made her plans for living abroad, as if she were well. But if I should tell her what her real condition is, it would kill her.'A sick noblewoman ...

A group of rich Russians gather one night for hospitality and conversation, all admitting that they aren’t happy and aren’t optimistic that their children will ever find happiness ...

'He felt for the first time in his life that he—not his services, but he himself—was necessary to another human being.'At 19, Alyosha’s father sends him off to work as a servant fo ...

The sly fox, the greedy wolf and the diligent ant are among the most iconic and loved characters from Aesop’s fables. Who doesn’t love discovering knowledge in the ancient tales? I ...

Do you want to find out what happens with a frog when it gets kissed by a beautiful princess? Or how could a young girl drive away a perky rabbit which was eating all the cabbage t ...

In sometimes humorous and sometimes tragic, even violent contexts, the characters in these stories struggle to fathom the complexities and circumstances of their lives. Here are or ...

H.L. Mencken, in his illustrious career as a journalist, made his reputation with satirical writing and controversial ideals. Although his is a name not customarily associated with ...

Enslaved by their own fears, the characters in this riveting collection are straining for redemption. Their choices reflect the well-worn patterns we carve for ourselves through ou ...