Frank Carlson Library

In the early nineties, Nancy Kress took the SF world by storm with her multiple award-winning novella, "Beggars in Spain," which became the basis for her extremely successful Sleepless Trilogy (comprising Beggars in Spain, Beggars and Choosers, and Beggars Ride). Since then she has written more than a dozen novels, including the well-received Probability Trilogy, which Booklist praised saying "Kress's characterizations are as sound as ever, but many...

He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I'd never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily... Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become mirrors that reflected each other;s most private wounds...and deires. The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that...

The worldwide phenomenon continues as Eva and Gideon face the demons of their pasts and accept the consequences of their obsessive desires in the third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Crossfire series.
From the moment I first met Gideon Cross, I recognized something in him that I needed. Something I couldn’t resist. I also saw the dangerous and damaged soul inside—so much like my own. I was drawn to it. I needed...

Angel meant to stop a war. Instead, she may have caused one. With everyone out for her blood, Angel is forced to hide in the last place she wants to be. But, hiding will only be an option for so long. Somehow, she must make amends for her mistakes and find a way to save Southern Archaides from those who seek to destroy it. But, matters are more complex than she knows. Angel thinks she has all the answers. She has no idea how wrong she is. And, as...

Featured on Free Comic Book Day, Afterburn returns ahead of its big screen debut! The race for the Holy Relics continues as Jake and his team find themselves beaten to the prize in Austria. Desperate to get ahead of rival treasure hunters, Jake splits his team up. But it may be a move that costs him dearly as they encounter a mutant threat never seen before.

Featured on Free Comic Book Day, Afterburn returns ahead of its major motion picture debut! After half the world is destroyed by a solar flare, Jake and his team find themselves in a race to recover as many first class relics from the Burn Zone as possible. But before they can they must face an old rival, hostile mutated survivors, and a ghost from the past long thought dead.

"Hostage Negotiators can talk themselves out of anything--except falling in love. FBI Supervisory Special Agent Dominic Sheridan is an accomplished expert in the Crisis Negotiation Unit. Practiced, professional, used to dealing with high-stake situations under tense conditions, Dominic is a master at manipulating people. Everyone, that is, but the headstrong rookie agent bent on destroying her fledgling career. As a child, Ava Kanas put her life on...

In an effort to halt an armed standoff, FBI negotiator Charlotte Blood tries to unravel the mystery of a young woman's death on a remote mountainside. Pity she has to fight her stubborn, sexy, Hostage Rescue Team counterpart every step of the way. As a highly skilled operative, HRT leader Payne Novak doesn't have time to play detective or make nice with killers who flout the law. His focus is getting inside the compound and ending the siege as quickly...