Frank Carlson Library

Describes the people who live in rain forests around the world, how they hunt and farm, and their religions, festivals, food, and medicine.

Introduces aspects of rivers in the rain forest including their plants and animals, the water cycle, flooding, and mining.

The first appearance of Barrett Raines in A Rock and a Hard Place added an intelligent and extraordinarily engaging black policeman to the short roster of leading Afro-American fictional detectives. At the end of A Rock and a Hard Place, Raines is so torn by the conflicts he faced that he's gone into an emotional tailspin. While trying to save himself from depression Raines gets a new case. It involves the discovery of a mysterious stranger's body...

On a chilly October morning, Barrett "Bear" Raines finds himself on the campground of Linton Loyd, one of the richest men in Florida, watching Linton clean his latest catch. Barrett does not understand why he, an African-American detective for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, has been invited to the rich man's playground, but soon discovers that Linton wants something from him: Linton wants Barrett to run for county sheriff and Linton will...

Simple text and photographs present the lives of gorillas that live in rain forests in Africa.

Simple text and photographs from the rain forest present the characteristics and behavior of parrots.

Simple text and photographs from the rain forest present the characteristics and behavior of tree frogs.

Describes the characteristics of the many different types of insects and spiders that inhabit the rain forests of the world.

There is a Florida, that has nothing to do with Disney World. Nothing to do with palm trees or Holiday Inns. Tourists are neither courted nor coddled in this Florida, and you can go a hundred miles and never find a golden arch. So says author Darryl Wimberley, and it's a Florida he knows. He knows, too, that in towns like Pepperfish Keys, there are those who still can't believe that a black man could rise to a high position in the state police. But,...

Simple text and color photographs describe the jaguars that live in the rain forests of Central and South America.