Frank Carlson Library

Tracy Hubbard arrives in Istanbul to work with artist Miles Radburn. That's her cover, since her real reason for coming is to track down answers to a tragedy that befell her half-sister. Tracy believes no one knows of the sister's connection, but begins to wonder if her assumption is correct as she becomes more deeply drawn into a whirlpool of conspiracy and intrigue. In the abandoned ruins of a palace she overhears a heated argument in Turkish. The...

They were cat and mouse. Antagonists in a deadly game of survival, Ward Cameron and William Olive were linked together by the most fearful word in the West: bounty. Olive was a thrice-hardened Foreign Legionnaire turned bounty-hunter. And Cameron was a fugitive with a newly minted price on his head. An ex-Confederate officer, Cameron had murdered a carpet bagger tax-collector in a fit of rage. As if punished by the gods, he was pursued by a man seeking...

Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the American Revolution when one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a Tory town.

Lucretia "Crete" Ward lives with her sister Carrie and niece Luella, both of whom are very selfish and treat her like a slave. Upon learning that Donald, the son of their now-deceased older sister, is coming to visit from out west, Carrie and Luella fear what others will think of them if they are seen with a "backwoods cousin" and leave for a resort. Donald is actually well-educated and rich, and pays for some pampering for Aunt Crete. When the two...

Fourteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.

As a pledge of a sorority, Abby Wallis becomes part of a prant that goes wrong.

After Joanna breaks up with her boyfriend, Dex, he dies. She wants to be sorry, but she's not. Dex isn't going to leave it at that, though. He's coming back for one last date with her.

Examines the properties and uses of soil and describes how it functions as both a home for plants and animals and as a building material.