Frank Carlson Library

Katie has every reason to smile at her future. College graduation is almost here, and Katie is pretty sure she and Rick are ready to make plans for their future together. Why does Eli keeps igniting thoughts of new adventures and spontaneity? His wild love for God challenges her and he seems to always be right there when she needs support. Katie reminds herself that Rick is one she's been waiting for. Rick can offer her stability and purpose. The...

"Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College--Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet's already wondering how she'll get through. It's not just that it's grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it's designed to stretch the riders' capacity for pain beyond endurance....

When the men three college friends plan to marry suddenly all get cold feet, the women decide they won't get mad. They'll get even!

Get thrills and chills from this classic paranormal romantic suspense from the Queen of the genre, bestselling author Heather Graham. The woods have always been full of whispers in Transylvania, of terrors that go back centuries to the legendary Vlad Dracul himself. Ignoring their professor's grave warning-beware those who would prey upon the innocent-several visiting students travel into the forest...and disappear. Now their professor, Bryan McAllister,...

Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries. But when they go beyond the boundaries of normal morality their lives are changed profoundly and forever, and they discover how hard it can be to truly live and how easy it is to kill.

A passion for writing has burned brightly in Thorliff Bjorklund's heart for as long as he can remember. College life is not as he had imagined. Both time and distance have caused a rift between him and his childhood sweetheart. When summer arrives, Thorliff must return home and confront his faltering relationship with Anji. Will he find the bonds of love still strong?

Ira Levinson is in trouble. At ninety-one years old, in poor health and alone in the world, he finds himself stranded on an isolated embankment after a car crash. Suffering multiple injuries, he struggles to retain consciousness until a blurry image materializes and comes into focus beside him: his beloved wife Ruth, who passed away nine years ago. Urging him to hang on, she forces him to remain alert by recounting the stories of their lifetime together...

Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran -- and a convicted murderer. With only a few months to live, he has been...

When Claire Danvers and her equally outcast best friend Eve are invited to the annual Dead Girls' Dance at a fraternity, all hell breaks loose when the living group party with the dead group in a town rampant with bloodthirsty vampires.