Kumla Bibliotek

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a best-selling historic action and adventure novel by American author Lew Wallace.Ben-Hur is a story of two very different heroes. Judah Ben-Hur, a ...

4th National Climate Assessment, Volume II: Impacts, Risks and Adaption in the United States.The Global Change Research Act of 1990 mandates that the U.S. Global Change Research Pr ...

Legacy (aka A Tale of Two Clocks) is a science fiction novel by James H. Schmitz.Set well into the future where the human race has spread throughout the galaxy, this novel follows ...

Planet of the Damned is a Hugo nominated science fiction novel by Harry Harrison.Brion Brandd lives on the planet Anvhar which due to an elliptical orbit experiences a year with a ...

A World is Born is a short science fiction story by Leigh Brackett.A world is Born is an action & adventure story taking place on Mercury, where a convict tries to escape a terrafo ...

Black Amazon of Mars is a science fiction novel by Leigh Brackett. This is the third story to feature Brackett’s hero Eric John Stark.This gore drenched story finds Eric John Stark ...

Leaves of Grass by American poet Walt Whitman was first published in 1855. The work was an attempt at reaching out to the common person with an American epic (a lengthy narrative p ...

Tutankhamun - The Discovery of His Tomb by Sir Grafton Elliot Smith tells the exiting story of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt, 1922. Never before in the history ...

Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship is a biography of Oscar Wilde, written by Robert Sherard.  Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer. ...

The Life of Oscar Wilde is a biography of Oscar Wilde, written by Robert Sherard. Robert Sherard was Oscar Wilde's friend of 20 years and first biographer.   Oscar Wilde (1854–1900 ...

Vikings is a concise history of the Vikings by Allen Mawer.  The volume presents a historical account of Scandinavian civilisation during the Viking period, taking the term 'Viking ...

The Three Musketeer is a historic adventure novel by Alexandre Dumas. D’Artagnan, son of a poor Gascon aristocrat, travels to Paris to seek his fortune. His family connections enab ...

The Valley of the Moon is a novel by American writer Jack London (as well as the mythic and romantic name for the wine-growing Sonoma Valley of California).  The Valley of the Moon ...

Mark Twain is a biography on the famous author written by Archibald Henderson.Many writers have penned studies of Mark Twain's life and work through the years. Twain authorized thi ...

Frederick Douglass - A Biography by Charles Waddell Chesnutt. Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass became one of America's great icons. He escaped slavery to become one of our gre ...

Psichopathis a short science fiction short story by Randall Garrett. A classic Randall Garrett tale...One way to hide an ex-officio agency of the United States Government was to la ...

Worlds Within Worlds - The Story of Nuclear Energy by Isaac Asimov explains nuclear physics in a way that can be understood and enjoyed by anyone with an interest in science.Worlds ...

Youth is a science fiction short novel by Isaac Asimov and one of the rare Asimov stories with alien characters.Slim is a boy whose astronomer father is visiting the country estate ...

Mars is My Destination is a science fiction novel by Frank Belknap Long.MARS... Earth's first colony in Space. Men killed for the coveted ticket that allowed them to go there. And, ...

The Survivors (aka Space Prison) is a science fiction novel by Tom Godwin.”AFTER TWO CENTURIES... The sound came swiftly nearer, rising in pitch and swelling in volume. Then it bro ...

Wolfbane is a science fiction novel by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth.Appallingly, the Earth and the Moon had beenkidnapped from the Solar System—but who werethe kidnappers and ...

Pursuit is a science fiction novella by American author Lester del Ray, first published in 1952.A man wakes with no memory of the last seven months. He only knows he's in danger. N ...

Birds of a Feather is a science fiction novella by Robert Silverberg.A fantastic, hilarious tale of a “no freaks required” search for aliens to be displayed on Earth in a Zoo masqu ...

Master of Life and Death is a science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg.By the 23rd century Earth's population had reached seven billion. Mankind was in danger of perishing for la ...

The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran on the subject of Life and the human condition. It is Gibr ...