Frank Carlson Library

"A wildly entertaining road trip novel featuring a college dropout and an eighty-four-year-old woman off on the adventure of their lives, full of tremendous heart, wit, and wisdom from the USA Today bestselling author of The Invisible Husband of Frick Island. Twenty-one-year-old Tanner Quimby needs a place to live. Preferably one where she can continue sitting around in sweatpants and playing video games nineteen hours a day. Since she has no credit...

This book serves as a tribute to our men and women in service and chronicles our military history since the Revolution through 150 iconic artifacts. It showcases such diverse items as the Washington Peace Medals to the Indians, the earliest Medals of Honor, Civil War Corps badges, British military decorations and historic French treasures. Drawn from leading museums and private collections, these objects recall the role of decorations and jewelry...

Considered the first true detective story Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868) is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. Originally serialized in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round, it introduced many hallmarks of detective fiction, including an English country house setting, bungling local policemen, and a large number of false suspects. In it, Rachel Verinder, a young English woman, inherits a large Indian diamond on her eighteenth birthday...

An account of how eight jewels shaped the course of history shares insights into the role of precious gemstones in triggering cultural movements, political dynasties, and wars, while exploring how jewels reflect darker aspects of human nature.

There's a pub in New York City that's been in the Finnegan family for generations. Now Kieran and her three brothers own it. Kieran Finnegan is also, as it happens, a criminal psychologist--a fitting reaction, perhaps, to her less-than-lawful teenage past. Meanwhile, New York's Diamond District has been hit by a rash of thefts. No one's been killed - until now. FBI agent Craig Frasier is brought in to investigate; he and Kieran meet at a jewelry store...

Discover secret blueprint how to make stunning jewelry yourself for free Everything you have ever wanted to know about jewelry making is right here at your finger tips. Read on to Learn exactly how to become the next master jewelry maker... If you are really upbeat about how you can make exquisite, professional looking & stunning jewelry like the experts do it then this is one of the most important letters you will ever read... And why's this...

Lace-it-up leather bracelet -- Totally tubular necklace -- Super-stacked washer ring -- Very vinyl wristband -- Eye-catching eyelet choker -- Seriously sequined earrings -- Hard-ware necklace -- Orb-it ring -- Groovin' guitar pick necklace -- Button bonanza bracelet -- Superstar origami earrings -- Galaxy-girl charm bracelet -- Wicked wire ring -- Eclectic electric bracelet -- Bathing beauty bathtub--chain anklet -- Daring duct tape wristband -- Templates....

The name Elizabeth Lowell has become synonymous with electrifying fiction that seamlessly combines suspense, intrigue, and passion. And now the phenomenal New York Times bestselling author brilliantly displays her incomparable talents in a story of treachery, greed, conspiracy, and murder that will hold the reader spellbound until the final word. It is the opportunity of a lifetime for Kate Chandler, the chance to cut seven rare, priceless sapphires...

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