Frank Carlson Library

Returning to her childhood home in Lowfield, North Carolina so that her husband can live out his final days in his favorite place, Elaine Forsythe gets more than she bargains for when her husband's mother, who hasn't spoken to her in 25 years, arrives and stirs up trouble.

A family secret...Could be an unexpected Christmas gift.To escape the small-town gossip around her broken engagement, Kelly Walsh plans to house-sit alone with her therapy dog, Pokey--not spend the holidays with her late sister's ex-boyfriend. But when Alec Wilkins and his daughter arrive on her doorstep, Kelly can't turn them away. Soon the temporary arrangement has Kelly wishing for more. Only, Alec has a secret that could change everything...From...

Even though it was not easy at first, Lily learns how to embrace Mommy's new friend Carl as a member of her family.

"THE STORIES WE CANNOT TELL is a fast-paced, beautifully written tribute to what we can and can't control and who we love in the process. A true delight. This book is GOOD!"--- Zibby Owens, author of Bookends: A Memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature, and host of Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books There can come a point in life where you'll always remember what came before and what came after.Rachel is a thirty-year-old married Jewish woman who's wanted...

"Jennifer Barnes never expected the shocking news she received at a routine doctor's appointment: she has a terminal brain tumour-and only six weeks left to live. While stunned by the diagnosis, the forty-eight-year-old mother decides to spend what little time she has left with her family-her adult triplets and twin grandsons-close by her side. But when she realizes she was possibly poisoned a year earlier, she's determined to discover who might have...

"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"-- It is said that the canal will be the greatest feat of engineering in history. But first, it must be built. For Francisco, a local fisherman who resents the foreign powers clamoring...

In a small Alabama town, high school seniors Asa and Ezmita, both with troubled families and dreams of leaving home to attend college, find comfort in their blossoming friendship.

Nina and Simon are the perfect couple. Young, fun and deeply in love. Until they leave for a weekend at his family's cabin in Vermont, and only Simon comes home. What happened to Nina? Nobody knows. Simon's explanation about what happened in their last hours together doesn't add up. Nina's parents push the police for answers, and Simon's parents rush to protect him. They hire expensive lawyers and a PR firm that quickly ramps up a vicious, nothing-is-off-limits...

"After a tragic accident claims the life of one of her children, Marie Egide is desperate to carve out a fresh start for her family. With her husband and their three surviving children, Marie travels to New Hampshire, where she plans to sell a family estate and then, just maybe, they'll be able to heal from their grief. Marie's plans are thwarted when she realizes a war veteran known by locals as "the river witch" is living in a cabin on the property,...