Frank Carlson Library

Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.

Pizza's and Taco's moms want them to join a sports team, so when they see the wrestling sign-up sheet at school they choose their wrestling names and create signature moves, hoping to join the club--Provided by publisher.

Twenty-one-year-old Amanda Broadmoor wrestles with her desire to work in the medical field, despite her family's wishes for her to marry and have children, when cholera breaks out in Rochester, New York in 1899.

Wrestling is the ultimate one-on-one competition. Strength is a huge component of the sport, but so are technique and anticipation. These are just some of the skills wrestlers work on to prepare for combat on the mat. Physical conditioning is also essential to a wrestler s preparation. Of particular importance in wrestling is nutrition. Wrestlers must monitor their eating carefully as they need to make weight before each meet. This is true in both...

This is an extraordinary memoir of dysfunction, abandonment, sadness and redemption. Mike Matson captures the insidiousness of the illness of alcoholism in a way only one who has experienced it can. It captures one family's journey through heartache, abandonment and eventually, forgiveness. He captures the true story of his father's upbringing with alcoholic parents. It will resonate with anyone who has wrestled with addiction--or loves someone who...

"Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins. Decades later, on an assignment to translate a rare book, Daniel Goodman finds himself embroiled in a web of secrets carefully kept within the ancient city and in the mystery of the man whose story the book does not finish: Sebastien"-- 1807: A baby is discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice; a guild of artisans...

An anthology of interconnected short stories captures the lives and destinies of the Samuelsons, a family struggling with tragedy and divorce, in a series of portraits that chronicle Gretel Samuelson's journey through betrayal, grief, conflicting loyalties, friendship, and loss.

A federal judge has been murdered. There is only one witness, and someone wants her dead. U.S. Marshal Marcus O'Malley thought he knew the risks of the assignment going in -- until he fell in love. To do what he must accomplish, he must walk back into his past and wrestle with the complex matter of prayer, and again learn to trust a sovereign God.

"Lysa TerKeurst helps readers address how to stop suffering from what others have done to them while exploring what forgiveness is, what it isn't, and how to deal with difficult relationships"-- You deserve to stop suffering because of what other people have done to you. But you may be stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind. TerKeurst has wrestled through this journey, but she has discovered how to let go...

"Raina Bretton is a rag woman in London's east end when a handsome stranger appears in a dank alley and offers her a glittering smile and a chance for adventure. Rothburne Abbey has a unique position for her, one that will take her away from her hardscrabble life and give her a chance to be a lady. Things she could only dream of might be coming true. But some dreams turn out to be nightmares. Though Raina has traded squalor for silk and satin, something...