Frank Carlson Library

A once-in-a-lifetime business opportunity takes shoe designer and businesswomen Valentine Roncalli from the winding streets of Greenwich Village to the sun-kissed cobblestones of Buenos Aires, where she finds a long-buried secret hidden deep within a family scandal. Once unearthed, the truth rocks the Roncallis and Valentine is determined to hold her family together as she longs to create one of her own.

Two star-crossed lovers--Enza and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I.

A bored cobbler finds a magical object that allows him to see the world in a new way.

The old shoemaker who loved shoes and ships never dreamed he would one day be able to combine both loves by moving his Shipshape Shoeshop to a ship.

A mysterious stranger commissions a single, valuable shoe from a humble cobbler, changing the cobbler's life and the life of his young apprentice forever.

"Shortly before dawn on a frigid morning in Radom, Poland, German soldiers forced twenty-one year-old Icek "Joe" Rubinsztejn onto a crowded, open-air truck. The next day, several around him were dead. From there, things got worse for young Joe--much worse. Joe arrived at Auschwitz on April 30, 1942. Now, in his nineties, Joe reveals how he survived several of the most notorious concentration camps when so many others perished. His is a remarkable...

In the ancient city of Baghdad, a shy shoemaker named Tack falls in love with the adventure-loving Princess Yum-Yum. When an evil wizard threatens their beloved city, it's up to Tack and the Princess to defeat him.

Cinderella: A hard-working young girl is turned into a beautiful princess complete with a wacky godmother and a coach driven by charmed rats. Hansel and Gretel: Two poor children get lost in the woods and end up some place they'd rather not be! The three billy goats Gruff: The adventures of three billy goats named Gruff bravely hunt for fresh grass to eat. The elves and the shoemaker: A pair of elves secretly create an amazing pair of shoes for a...

Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...