Frank Carlson Library

"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of world war...

Three women--White House chief of staff Melanie Kingston, White House correspondent Dale Smith, and president Charlotte Kramer--struggle through a year filled with lies, tragedies, and difficult decisions.

America is caught in the lethal center of an unwinnable two-front war -- in this gripping and explosive thriller from the master of geopolitical intrigue . . . The war on terrorism has borne bitter fruit, as the radical Islamic states forge an unholy alliance with a surging China, aiming for total control of the Middle East's vast oil reserves and the strategic Strait of Malacca. As a new axis of world power simultaneously launches a devastating double-pronged...

President Charlotte Kramer, the nation's first female president, returns for her second term after re-election and Tara Meyers is now Vice President of the United States. For Tara, making the transition from the New York Attorney General's office to working on the national level by President Kramer's side creates issues that blur the line between personal and professional. After botching a live television interview that gets everyone in D.C. clamoring...

Mackenzie Allen becomes the first woman American President after she ascends to the job following the death of President Teddy Bridges.

"The American people have just elected a new President--Oregon teen Beth Ross, aka Corndog Girl. Age restrictions were abolished when corporations gained the right to run for office, and voting booths have been replaced by Twitter, making just about anyone eligible for the nation's top job, including the viral-video-famous Corndog Girl! Now the eyes of the nation are on Beth. But in a world so out of control that the poor are willing to shoot themselves...

Ella sent�ia especial predilecci�on por lo prohibido...La noticia de que Veronica St. Germaine, la popular y fr�ivola diva del mundo del coraz�on, se hab�ia regenerado y estaba dispuesta a convertirse en soberana de un principado del Mediterr�aneo hab�ia revolucionado a todos los medios de comunicaci�on. El cargo exig�ia que el guardaespaldas Rajesh Vala la protegiese a toda costa. Pero Veronica no hab�ia sido nunca muy amiga de...