Frank Carlson Library

"Her photographs capture the beauty of Puget Sound. Do they also expose a darkness that someone would kill to keep buried?"-- After her husband was killed in a climbing accident, single mother Shauna McDade's aerial photography business is on the verge of bankruptcy. There's been a string of mechanical failures that don't seem coincidental. Now pictures for an environmental study create a furor when they show runoff is coming from one of the largest...

Chloe is enjoying activity camp and all the outdoor fun - what's not to like? But she can't understand why everyone goes on and on about "leaving things the way you found them". After all, what's the big deal about a bit of litter in the middle of the woods? The world is big enough for a bit of rubbish not to matter. But when she's given a mysterious compass with a fifth direction she's transported to a tropical island beach and has to brave the extreme...

"Like busy moles, we humans dig lots of holes to get things done: in the ground, in our oceans, and even in our bathrooms! Unfortunately, many of these holes rip apart the ground, spill dangerous chemicals, and permanently damage our earth. But used correctly, our shovels and machines might be able to help our planet instead of destroy. Whimsical rhyme and delightfully strange illustrations unearth the excitement happening beneath our feet and urge...