Frank Carlson Library

Portrays life in a future time when a totalitarian government watches over all citizens and directs all activities.

The Deep South of the late 1950's was another country: a land of lynchings, segregated lunch counters, whites-only restrooms, and a color line etched in blood across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. White journalist John Howard Griffin, working for the black-owned magazine Sepia, decided to cross that line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a southern white man for the disenfranchised...

As England and Germany engage in battle, the world's most luxurious airline, takes off for its final flight to neutral America, but two ruthless passengers are determined to prevent the plane from reaching its destination.

An official Signet movie tie-in, this book contains four of Stephen King's most popular novellas. "Apt Pupil", one of the stories in this work, is scheduled to be released in early 1998 by Phoenix Pictures in movie theaters nationwide. Directed by Bryan Singer ("The Usual Suspects"), it stars David Schwimmer, Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joe Morton, Kevini Pollack, and Elias Koteas. Two other stories from this book, "The Body" and "Rita Hayworth" and...

First published in 1877. Black Beauty, a horse with a white star on his forehead, describes his idyllic days on a country squire's estate and his harsh fate as a London cab horse.

Lighthearted novel about the village of Tobiki on Okinawa and a native houseboy who swings "big deals". Points out tendency of Americans to think of democracy only in terms of American institutions.

No child should have to witness what twelve year old Cord Malone saw the day his parents were murdered and his home burned to the ground. Rescued from the blaze by his Uncle Jesse, the terrible image still haunts him, as does the name of the man responsible... Eli Creed. Jesse had tried to track the man down, only to lose Creed's trail. But Cord never gave up. He just waited out his young years before setting out on a trail long gone cold to satisfy...

Brian Middleton left his father's ranch long ago to make his own way. But now, he's returned to claim the land his late father left him--and learns the hard way that if he wants to keep something in the Wild West, he has to fight for it. With local lowlifes and shady con-men after the Driving D ranch, Middleton has no choice but to make a stand.

At Cold Devil, Arizona Ranger Sam Burrack and Federal Marshal Pete Summers apprehend two wanted men-one of whom has posted a ten-thousand-dollar bounty on the lawmen's heads. When Sam is dry gulched and Pete is wounded, a pretty young woman and her family nurse the lawmen back to health. Then Sam sets out to recapture his prisoners-and make the town of Cold Devil hotter than hell.