Biblio Library

När Julie är tretton år blir hon bortförd och kidnappad från sitt hem. Familjen blir djupt skakad men lyckas ändå behålla hoppet om att Julie en dag ska komma tillbaka. Plötsligt e ...

Elmer Gantry is a holy man, an evangelist, a hedonist and a brazen liar who seeks power and wealth by any means necessary. The novel is one of the major works authored by Sinclair ...

I New England, i skuggan av ameri­kanska inbördeskriget, är de fyra ­tonårssystrarna March - Meg, Jo, Amy och Beth - på väg att bli vuxna. Efter att ha hamnat på obestånd arbetar f ...

By the end of 1914, 15,000 Yorkshire miners had volunteered for the army, with around 1,000 from a single Castleford pit. Over the next four years these courageous men would write ...

The uncertain fates of Amelia Earhart, Amy Johnson and Glenn Miller have fascinated readers and aviation historians ever since they disappeared. Even today, more than half a centur ...

Two hundred years ago the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars convulsed the whole of Europe. These were key events in the history of the continent, and for Britain, and they are a fa ...

The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1902. A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the Engl ...

The Sea Lady is a fantasy novel by H. G. Wells, first published in 1902. A mermaid contrives to have herself "rescued from drowning" and adopted by a respectable family on the Engl ...

Love and Freindship [sic] and Other Early Works, A Collection of Juvenile Writings by Jane Austen was first published in 1922 and includes a preface by G. K. Chesterton. This book ...

“All while watching her sleep, I begin to jerk myself off, approaching without making a sound and then gently removing her knickers, which I use to cover her mouth as she opens her ...

The Waves, first published in 1931, is Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel. It consists of soliloquies spoken by the book's six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jin ...

Wellington's achievements in the Peninsular War cannot be overestimated. At the outset in 1808 Napoleon and his Marshals appeared unstoppable. By the close Wellington and his Arm ...

Persuasion is Jane Austen's last completed novel. She began it soon after she had finished Emma and completed it in August 1816. More than eight years before the novel opens, Anne ...

Few tank designs have been as effective, versatile and long-lived as that of the British Centurion. Conceived during the Second World War as the answer to the superior German Tiger ...

As the definitive final volume of the history of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment Marching with The Tigers covers events in that Regiment and its successor, the 4th Battalion The ...

Moshe Schein has previously compiled two books of surgical aphorisms and quotations — the first book Aphorisms & Quotations for the Surgeon, with its 1500 quotations, and the slimm ...

A sequel to "The Conspirators; or the Chevalier d’Harmental", "The Regent’s Daughter" is the second entry on the regency of the young King Louis XV. Much of the story focuses on Ga ...

In ancient Rome, political intrigue and betrayal simmer beneath the surface as Julius Caesar rises to power. Despite warnings of impending danger, Caesar dismisses concerns about h ...

The British Army and her commonwealth Allies went to war in 1914 with little knowledge and experience of constructing permanent, shell proof protective structures. Some masonry for ...

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate...'It is one of the most memorable and memorised lines of poetry of all time. But there is no need ...

Operation Starlite is a graphic account of the first major clash of the Vietnam War. On August 18, 1965, regiment fought regiment on the Van Tuong Peninsula near the new Marine bas ...

The Roman 'small town' of Ariconium in southern Herefordshire has long been known as an important iron production centre but has remained very poorly understood. The town is sugges ...

In December of 1914, veteran Boer commander General Louis Botha landed his forces on the coast of German South West Africa to finish off the colony’s Schutztruppe defenders. In Aug ...

The Markets of Paris, also known under the title The Belly of Paris, is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola ca ...

The Markets of Paris also known under the title The Belly of Paris, is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola cal ...