Frank Carlson Library

Jill injures her back during a coasting party and is forced to lie flat on a couch for many weeks. This happy story begins with trouble, but soon rings with the gayety of youth and closes in a glow of hope.

Navigating fashionable society, wealthy heiress Rose and her closest friend Phebe find their new paths derailed when their loved ones are put in harm's way by illness and reckless decisions, forcing them both to rise to the occasion and show everyone what they're made of.

Orphaned Rose Campbell finds it difficult to fit in when she goes to live with her six aunts and seven mischievous boy cousins.

In "The Quiet Little Woman" a lonely orphan girl named Patty, desires only for a family to love her. When a family finally does come for Patty, she learns it is because they need a servant. But it happens that there is one person who cares about Patty, whose life will soon change forever. Written as a gift to five earnest fans of "Little Women", this Louisa May Alcott Christmas story has become a holiday classic.

Still trapped in the Ever After, ten-year-old May Bird struggles to decide whether to save the world of her ghostly friends from the evil Bo Cleevil or to return to her West Virginia home.

To find their way home, ten-year-old May Bird and Somber Kitty seek the Lady of North Farm as May Bird struggles with the knowledge that only she can save the Ever After from its terrible ruler, Evil Bo Cleevil.

In this authoritative guide, Dr. Weiner has distilled 20 years of research and clinical practice into an integrative six-step program to help relieve and eliminate back pain.
Millions of Americans suffer from chronic back pain, but what most don't realize is that their ailment is often caused by a combination of factors. According to Dr. Debra K. Weiner, identifying the disorders that contribute to chronic back pain is a critical part of...

An artist is found dead in a gallery with locked doors and windows. A television presenter is struck by lightning while indoors. Two seemingly impossible crimes that only Arthur Bryant and John May of the Met's Peculiar Crimes Unit might be able to solve. But Bryant has lost his nerve and May is fighting to keep the unit from closure. Worse still, an unsolved mystery from the past has returned to haunt them...

Diese "Erzgebirgischen Dorfgeschichten" stammen (mit Ausnahme von "Sonnenscheinchen") aus Mays frühester Schaffenszeit. Er zeigt sich hier von ungewohnter Seite: In heimischer Landschaft ereignen sich Konflikte, deren Schilderung an Spannung den exotischen Erzählungen in nichts nachsteht. Der Band enthält folgende Erzählungen: 1.) Sonnenscheinchen 2.) Des Kindes Ruf 3.) Der Grenzmeister 4.) Der Teufelsbauer 5.) Der Bonapartenschuster 6.) Der...

May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl's parents arrange for their daughters to marry Gold Mountain men who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel's Island (the Ellis Island of the West) where they are detained, interrogated,...