Frank Carlson Library

Is time travel unlimited, or is it a postmodern cyberpunk trick by an Atlantean alien? A novel about reincarnation, and an alternate history of World War 3. Will Sophie Vaughan--the first woman president--and her con-man cohort Felix Krull save the day? After reading "The Last Book" they must choose between the Hieararchy and the Panarchists, dystopia or freedom.

Waterloo de Pier-Giorgio Tomatis Si Napoleón hubiera ganado en Waterloo, la historia de Europa sería muy diferente. Quizás mejor... Waterloo ¿Y si Napoleón hubiera ganado la batalla de Waterloo? La Europa de hoy sería muy diferente. Incluso la de ayer. Sobre todo la de ayer. Dos guerras mundiales, el nazismo y la Shoah, probablemente desaparecerían de los libros de historia. El Dr. Chances agrega otro factor a la lista de beneficios que...

In post-Katrina New Orleans, dying wishes can cure cancer, eliminate cats, bring back Elvis (1968 vintage), and turn the clouds orange. Divorced and disgraced up north, Victor hopes to live a carefree, drunken existence in the French Quarter, making capes and corsets and lusting for the girl who lives across the street-until the hysteria surrounding "death wishing" changes his world in ways he never imagined.

This is a story about the daily life of a girl in an alternative future, where the main place in the government is occupied by the system that is responsible for the happy life of citizens, taking on the right to choose their profession, life partner, and even a pet.But is the perfect job and family that the system has selected part of a happy life?You can find the answer to this question together with the main character while reading "Update the...

In a medieval world, song and music are suppressed by the almighty church. A group of strolling friars brings melody to those in need. But a fearsome brotherhood known as The Black Hounds hope to eradicate music. They regularly observe the operations of the Music Bearers and aim to hunt them to extinction. The secret musical order embraces a teenager named Elis and raises him to be one of their last carriers of song. He must fulfil his mission, while...

Seven incarnations of the Godhead make up an incarnational round that began in the 1st century BC. We are today at the seventh round personality. Cleopatra of Alexandria, the Last Egyptian pharaoh, was the first personality of the seven in this incarnational periord.The historical written record of this early time is incomplete and unreliable. Historians with great effort effect to sort fact from myth, but the truth may be lost and long forgotten....

This fresco has set itself a challenge: that of popularizing universal history by placing, one next to the other, the representations of the world of those who have been the most representative actors, who are, or who may be one day. These characters all address the reader in the first person, as if they wanted to make him the privileged witness of their assessment, their reflections or their recommendations. You will thus be able to dialogue with...

Academic geniuses, Wilhelmina "Will" Reinhardt and Dorothy "Dolly" Raab, become roommates at Barnard in the early 1920s, a time when college for women was a rarity. Socially awkward Will, grieving her mother's death, is fascinated by Dolly, a beautiful, charming rebel with an insatiable taste for adrenaline. Both musicians come alive at Harlem jazz clubs and Prohibition-era speakeasies. Dazzled by the world they are discovering together, their...

In 2018 it was estimated that there were over 750 million spiders in the United Kingdom. By contrast, the overall number today is less than ten percent of that - but now the spiders live all around us. Today, the spiders are our neighbors. They live alongside us, coexist with us. As us... An intriguing, imaginative, and often unsettling short story set in a world where spiders and humans live together, Eight Over Four examines the problems which arise...

"As intricate and absorbing as a Van Gogh painting…MRS VAN GOGH will stay with me for a long time." New York Times bestseller Hazel Gaynor "All the characters jump off the page…what we have here is a very fine novel." Historical Novel Society She's been painted out of history…until now Who tells her story? In 1890, Vincent Van Gogh dies penniless, unknown, a man tortured by his own mind. Eleven years later his work is exhibited in Paris and...