Frank Carlson Library

Conrad Richter's trilogy of novels The Trees (1940), The Fields (1946), and The Town (1950) trace the transformation of Ohio from wilderness to farmland to the site of modern industrial civilization, all in the lifetime of one character. The trilogy earned Richter immediate acclaim as a historical novelist. The Town won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1951, and The Trees was a Book-of-the-Month Club selection after it was published. Richter also...

USA TODAY bestseller from the author of The Mountain Between Us, now a major motion picture!"When Maggie opened her eyes that New Year's Day some seventeen months ago, I felt like I could see again. The fog lifted off my soul, and for the first time since our son had died and she had gone to sleep-some four months, sixteen days, eighteen hours, and nineteen minutes earlier-I took a breath deep enough to fill both my lungs."Life began again for Dylan...

An American teenager discovers that he's the re-incarnation of a living weapon created to prevent the rise of an ancient demon warlord. In order to follow his fate, he must take responsibility for crimes caused by his past life.

USA TODAY bestseller from the author of The Mountain Between Us, now a major motion picture! Collected together for the first time-Dylan and Maggie's love story. Down Where My Love Lives is a bittersweet yet triumphant love story-a tale of one man's spiritual journey through the darkness of despair into the light of hope. The Dead Don't Dance was New York Times best-selling author Charles Martin's debut novel. Even then, the deep characters and emotional...

"One year ago, Lia Kahn died. A few days later, she woke up. She had a new body: mechanical, unfeeling, inhuman. She had a new family: mechs like her, who didn't judge her for what she could no longer be. She had a new life, one that would last forever. At least is was supposed to. But now everything Lia thought she knew has turned out to be a lie; everyone she thought she loved has been stolen away. And someone is trying to get rid of the mechs,...

Sequel to AwakeningRobert, handsome half-breed apprentice cooper, travels to the Ohio Country with Nathaniel Morgan. Robert has loved Nathaniel since being apprenticed to him many years before. Robert's love is unreturned, as Nathaniel's heart belongs to another who has been left behind.Robert is unwillingly sent as an interpreter with the British Army to inform the settlers and the Shawnee that King George will honor the Indians' claim to the land....

David Matthews is having a rough time. Being a teenager is bad enough, but when he picks up and moves to Japan for a year, with barely any knowledge of the language or social behaviors of Japanese teenagers, things go from bad to worse. Until one day, David attends a temple ceremony and finds himself possessed by a Japanese god. Suddenly, he can understand and speak Japanese. He has unbelievable new powers, including the ability to shift into a tiger,...

Shifter, Liam Doyle knows Hell. At least he believed he did. The night he feels his mate die, he learns how very wrong he was. Nothing he'd struggled with since Ava's rejection compares to the emptiness that fills his soul by her death. Lost in his grief, he's taken by surprise and drugged. When he wakes, everything changes. Nothing is what it seems, and someone is dead set on making him pay. When Ava Michaels is taken captive, she's thrust into...

Duty vs Desire. Loyalty vs Love. Heaven vs Hell. When the stakes are this high, does love stand a chance? Disgraced and demoted for two thousand years, Charouth has one final mission before regaining her status as one of Heaven's Elite; criss-cross the globe in search of five rare artifacts to prevent Satan's escape from Hell. A random underground skirmish puts her face to face with Satan's top relic hunter and her ex-lover, Azazel. For centuries,...

Book Three of a trilogy of seduction, entrapment, and ultimately, liberation. Newlywed Helen is so confused. She has been seduced by sexy Selena. She has been lusting for Selena's brother Karl. Now she is told that her husband Uli is perfect. The perfect philanderer. But who can she trust in this tangle of liaisons? The woman who sweet-trapped her? The man she is dying to get a taste of? Her own heart and instincts? Then Uli shows up for his honeymoon....