Frank Carlson Library

Emma's opening sentence, which describes the titular heroine's many advantages, is loaded with foreboding. Discomfort and vexation lie on the horizon, triggered by her penchant for matchmaking. Emma's latest scheme involves finding a suitable husband for ingenue Harriet Smith, and to that end she persuades the latter to reject good-natured farmer Robert Martin, despite a mutual attraction. Harriet must set her sights higher, she exhorts, fixing on...

In 1855, mysterious and master criminal Edward Pierce plans and carries out, with three accomplices, the impossible robbery of the monthly London-to-Paris train carrying gold bullion fr The British Army in the Crimea, and is brought to trial.

Shortly before President Kennedy's scheduled visit to the wall that divides Berlin, East German agents kidnap a prominent priest in an effort to undermine the effects of that visit.

A father's quest for vengeance draws him into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a veteran assassin Piano virtuoso John Mikali's flair as a musician is matched only by his skill as an assassin. The trail of bodies he's left in his wake is proof. But when he kills a young woman while fleeing from a murder scene, the woman's father, a special forces soldier in the British military, vows to avenge his daughter's death.   Now, both men are locked in...

British intelligence needs to get Brosnan, an expert killer, out of prison to assassinate a man. But Brosnan has a plan of his own--assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.

A mother struggles to save her son from a group of religious fanatics who think that he is the Antichrist and must be killed.

"My name is Lucas Greywolf." A raspy voice, as soft and sandy as the wind that blew across the desert, spoke directly into her ear. It was a gentle sound, but Aislinn wasn't deceived. Like the winds it reminded her of, it could be whipped into a fury. . .Aislinn Andrews knows his name because his escape from prison has prompted a statewide manhunt. As lean and menacing as a panther, the fugitive invades her house, her bed, and then takes her as his...

When an American officer who knows the time and place of the D-Day invasion disappears on German-occupied Jersey, the Allies choose Harry Martineau to direct the rescue mission.

Languishing in the London home of her uncle, Chelsea Myles is offered an escape when she is asked to switch identities with a young woman on her way to an arranged marriage in Australia.

Writer Sabrina Stone had married wealthily and unwisely. Her husband's refusal to love their handicapped son added more strain to their failing relationship. But one day, she encounters an investigative reporter named Derek McGill, who is writing a story on parents of special children, and the two develop a fiery attraction. Eighteen months later, when Derek McGill is in prison for murder, soon-to-be-divorced Sabrina travels to his prison cell to...