Frank Carlson Library

In I sing the body electric, a girl comes to understand that a grandmother can be a tender, thoughtful, caring, loving woman, even if she is a robot. In Long distance call, a young boy uses a toy telephone to talk with his dead grandmother. In Lonely, a murderer is sentenced to solitary confinement on a distant asteroid. In Probe 7, over and out, the lone survivors of two annihilated planets must begin new lives together on a new world.

The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor'easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it's bringing something worse. Something even the islanders have never seen before; something no one wants to see.

Execution: A western outlaw is spared from his execution by a scientist and his time machine, only to face fate in the future; The hunt: A hunter and his dog are killed, leading them to what may be the gate to Heaven; The self-improvement of Salvadore Ross: A man with the ability to trade traits with others tries to turn himself into the person he believes will appeal to the woman he loves; Number twelve looks just like you: A young woman rejects...

Sarah, plain and tall: In this heartwarming, enormously popular family film, a mail-order bride travels to Kansas in 1910 and teaches a lonely family to love again.

Share the heartwarming adventures of young Sara Stanley as she leaves the big city of Montreal and faces the joys and difficulties of growing up with her newfound family on Prince Edward Island. In "The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's," Sara, on a dare, sneaks into the house of the woman-hating recluse just as busybody Mrs. Lynde barges in for a visit. But their brief stay turns into weeks when Alexander Abraham comes down with smallpox. An epidemic...

John Walker, a U.S. Navy submarine communications officer heads a spy network for the K.G.B. for 17 years, involves his own family in the deception and commits one of the most devastating breaches of American security.

" First published nearly thirty years ago, the novel Good Omens has sold more than five million copies worldwide and is beloved by Gaiman and Pratchett fans alike. Collected here are Neil Gaiman's original scripts for the Good Omens television series, offering readers deeper insight into Gaiman's brilliant new adaptation of a masterwork." --

The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.

When Stacey Bess gets her first teaching job, she's shocked. It's not at all what she expected. Stacey is assigned to something called 'The School With No Name', a space in a homeless shelter that's supposed to be a classroom. The children are all ages, many from broken families, thrown together in a 'classroom' lacking essentials like desks and books. Stacey must tackle her own fears and insecurities as she works to gain the attention and respect...