Frank Carlson Library

Business is booming at Tea for Two, so cousins Elaine Cook and Jan Blake decide to hire more help. When Elaine interviews a dapper Englishman with a resume full of important jobs around the world, she can't help but wonder, "Why does he want to work here"? As the tearoom readies its first wedding, Elaine's concerns are quickly overshadowed by the groom's sudden disappearance. Cold feet or foul play? The distraught bride turns to the cousins, who spring...

"Ex-con Seth Zimmerman is making amends by helping the vulnerable in his former Amish community. This mission includes calling on Tabitha Yoder, who was shunned after divorcing her abusive husband. An uneasy friendship is just taking hold when Tabitha's ex-husband returns - and he's willing to do anything to get her back" --

"Just before Valentine's Day, a Hollywood hairstylist returns to her small hometown and stumbles upon love that challenges her notion of the good life she's worked so hard to achieve"--

In Winter's Awakening, the first book in her heartwarming series "Seasons of Sugarcreek," author Shelley Shepard Gray begins an unforgettable new saga of love and faith set within the Amish community. As she did in her enormously popular "Sisters of the Heart" books, Gray opens a window onto a fascinating culture and society, and tells a moving and inspiring tale that readers of Beverly Lewis, Wanda Brunstetter, and Cindy Woodsmall, and every fan...

"Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she's a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is wherever she lands, and between her busy schedule and dealing with her boss's demands, she has little time to think about the past...until her latest gig lands her a stone's throw from everything she left behind. Searching off the coast of Charleston for a...

"Eleanor Briggs travels to Kalispell, Montana, with her conservationist father to discuss the formation of Glacier National Park, and sparks fly when she meets Carter Brunswick, despite their differences. As the town fights to keep the railroad, the dangers Eleanor and Carter face will change the course of their lives" --

Haunted by a tragic past, tormented by a deadly mistake, will Natalie's heart ever be free to find it's home?

"With a rare pink diamond and pearl engagement ring on her finger, Caroline Carlyle's hopes for love and a future with Roderick Adair fill her heart. It was one year ago, under a December Kentucky moon, they first declared their love for each other. And now a year later, they will celebrate their love surrounded by family and close friends with a Christmas wedding at Rockwater. But Caroline wonders if there will be a wedding when she receives a strange...

Naomi Wyatt has finally given up on the man who once promised to love her for the rest of his life-then disappeared after a business trip, never responding to her letters. She's now alone with a beautiful baby to provide for, a daughter whose red hair reminds her daily of the man she gave her heart to. She has to move on, though, and she did, going west with her sister. When Jonah Coulter asks for her hand in marriage, she knows she would be hard-pressed...

"Calvin Fisher left the Amish community at fourteen and never looked back. Only his brother's illness can bring him back to Hart County. Now, as Calvin works to make amends, he meets Alice, a local nursery school teacher, and falls hard for her. But he has a secret that could threaten the happiness he's finally found. Alice shouldn't like--or want--Calvin. He's English, has a questionable past, and an even more questionable job. Still, she can't...