Frank Carlson Library

"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...

Young mother Chelsea Clark leaves the house for a girls' night out ... and vanishes. Her family knows she would never voluntarily leave her two small children. Her desperate husband-- the prime suspect-- hires Morgan Dane to find his wife and prove his innocence. As a single mother, Morgan sympathizes with Chelsea's family. She wants to track down the criminal-- unaware she's his next target.

When Susan Tate's seventeen-year-old daughter, Lily, announces she is pregnant, Susan is stunned. A single mother, she has struggled to do everything right. She sees the pregnancy as an unimaginable tragedy for both Lily and herself.

Rosie's chick is hatched and she is trying to find it, but the chick is following Rosie.

After the loss of her mother, a young girl and her dad find a new way to live with grief with the help of her mom's sweater.

Spend the holidays in Magnolia, North Carolina, where two lonely hearts find exactly what they need for Christmas. Angi Guilardi needs a man for Christmas--at least, according to her mother. What she really needs is to grow her fledgling catering business. Partnering with Magnolia's Wildflower Inn holds promise, but when her mother falls ill, Angi's pulled back to the responsibility of the family restaurant. While she balances work and her eight-year-old...

"Best friends Unity and Ellen are in serious ruts. High school teacher Ellen, whose son's dream of going out of state for college is arousing financial anxiety, hasn't dated since she became pregnant on the night of her junior prom. Unity, a successful handyman, is grieving after her soldier husband was killed three years ago. Each woman goads the other to venture out of her restrictive comfort zone, daring the other to take on a list of challenges,...

"Searching for a story to launch her career and new friends to help her navigate motherhood, Tash, welcomed into a circle of sleek, sophisticated mothers, discovers the kind of life she's always dreamed of until two recent murders make her wonder why she's been so quickly accepted into their exclusive world"-- Tash has been searching for a story to launch her career as a freelance journalist, as well as new friends to help her navigate motherhood....

Following a day in the life of two rambunctious children and their mom, this warm, revealing picture book builds a bridge of empathy between parent and child and celebrates the value of "Mommy Time."