Frank Carlson Library

In the 1970s, thirty years after a baby's disappearance from the community of DeClare, Oklahoma, a grown Nicky Jack Harjo mysteriously returns.

"At the front of a middle school classroom in Oklahoma, a boy named Khosrou (whom everyone calls "Daniel") stands, trying to tell a story. His story. But no one believes a word he says. To them he is a dark-skinned, hairy-armed boy with a big butt whose lunch smells funny; who makes things up and talks about poop too much. But Khosrou's stories, stretching back years, and decades, and centuries, are beautiful, and terrifying, from the moment his...

The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...

Your Grandpa is a felon and a Christian. He says he's a felon because he's a Christian. So says Aunt Sweet to her nephew Dustin, when her father, who has been raising Dustin, is arrested for hiding migrant workers. The law that makes harbouring 'illegals' an offence is the brainchild of the ferociously ambitious Oklahoma politician Monica Moorehouse. Aunt Sweet takes Dustin in, but Dustin is bullied by her son Carl Albert, and goes on the run, aided...

In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus.

Marie Bostwick delivers a captivating novel of soul mates discovering each other as the country faces its greatest challenge. . . Morgan Glennon's destiny points straight up into Oklahoma's clear, blue sky. It's been that way since he was four years old, imagining the famous flier father he's never met. Morgan leaves college to enlist as a Navy pilot, and his whole world suddenly changes when America goes to war. Watching his friends fall in battle,...

Greta Fields had planned to stay one night in Murray County, Oklahoma, to attend her brother's wedding, even though she thought he was making the biggest mistake of his life - again. But on her way out of town, she dropped her cell phone and caused a three-car pileup. For her crime, she was sentenced to four months of community service with none other than the policeman she'd had words with at the reception escorting her to and from work.

Dee Hooper and Jack Brewer grew up next door to each other in sleepy Buckhorn Corner, Oklahoma, best friends since they were less than a year old. Then Dee eloped with a man from Pennsylvania. Seven years later, she's brought a broken heart back home. A computer geek in high school, Jack has turned that into a lucrative business that lets him do what he loves - run the town convenience store. But there's a hole in his heart, and only Dee Hooper can...

"Jenna Burkhart is tired of being "special" and hearing about what she can't do. Even though she suffered a head injury in a childhood swimming accident, she wants a life of her own just like any Amish woman. But now that she, her mamm, and her mammi have moved to Wells Landing, she's having a hard time fitting in. . . . Until she meets Buddy Miller, a boy just like her, who gives her the confidence to reach for the impossible. Like Jenna, Buddy is...

Reprint of a 1929 novel which follows the adventures of newspaper editor and lawyer Yancey Cravat, his wife Sabra, and their young son Cim, in Osage, Oklahoma in the years before the territory became a state.