Frank Carlson Library

It's the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime. Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually attend law school, hesitates to participate in what she sees...

"Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she'd reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D.C. to Key West with three tablespoons of Mrs. Nash's remains in her backpack. But Millie's determined to give her friend a symbolic happily-ever-after, before it's (really) too late--and hopefully reassure herself of love's lasting...

"1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and self-made multimillionaire, is drawn to Arabella from their...

"Cora Matthews returns to Moonberry Lake to settle her mother's affairs and then get on with her life. What she finds is a strangely enticing inheritance, including a dilapidated lodge, a lot of eccentric neighbors, a handsome stranger, and a whole lot of family secrets to unravel." -- Provided by publisher.

Katie was the small-town girl who made good; millions of TV fams loved her. When she cam e home to attend a local dance, she ended up brutally murdered. As the police carefully put together a jigsaw puzzle of double lives, shameful secrets and startling revelations they cast new light on life in both the proper English countryside and the underside of big city show business. katie was definitely not like her TV image.

"Can Mac find her doppelg©·anger and discover who's after her before they're both killed? Private Investigator Mackenzie Love manages to get into trouble on a simple shopping trip where she finds herself at the business end of a gun. It's clear her attacker mistakes her for someone else, but who? And why is her look-alike in so much trouble? Mac enlists the help of her partners, Samantha Majors and Miss P, and Detective Jake Sanders to find her...

In the continuing story of an early ranching family of Arkansas, Jesse and Sarah Meeker and Riley Fourkiller establish the first ranches along Osage Creek, raising horses and mules. After an attack on their home, Jesse moves his family back to the Village on the Middle Fork before heading west on the Cherokee Trail. Then the Civil War erupts . . .

This book reads like wild-west fiction, yet Kenneth "KR" Roy is a real flesh-and-blood Kansan, who faced down a serial killer now serving five life sentences. Unlike Dodge City legend, Wyatt Earp, with his dubious history, Cowboy to C.O.P. tells of humble beginnings, building into an honorable and lifelong journey of serving justice and saving lives, KR most wants to be remembered for "just doing my job." Steeled in hardship and stragedy, and later...

"Most students would kill to be accepted into the prestigious Law and Literature cohort at Franklin University. But for Jessie Mooney, enrollment in the course is about more than elite campus status, rigorous thought, and professional connections. It's her chance to get close to charismatic professor Jay Crane -- and take him down. From the moment she discovered their secret relationship, Jessie's been convinced Crane is to blame for the events leading...