Frank Carlson Library

Presents a brief biography of the first American astronaut to orbit Earth.

Peep inside this lift-the flap information book and explore the vast and wonderful universe. Drifting through the twinkling stars and visiting the moon, readers will feel like astronauts exploring the galaxy themselves.

Walker, Texas ranger standoff: During a tip to Dallas, the Mexican presidential candidate becomes the target of an assassination attempt. Despite the life-threatening risks involved, he refuses to cancel any of his pending appearances, making Walker and Trivette's job of protecting him all the more difficult - and dangerous. Places in the heart: In the 1930s rural south, a widow and her family try to run their cotton farm with the help of a disparate...

Que Otto y Maya se encuentren, vivan felices y coman perdices es un bonito y t�ipico final de cuento. Lo que no es nada t�ipico es c�omo se encontraron, y menos t�ipico a�un c�omo su perro se convirti�o en astronauta. Esta historia on�irica y surrealista muestra los v�inculos inapreciables a simple vista que ligan unos a otros, c�omo los sue�nos cambian la realidad y c�omo la realidad puede ser un sencillo disparate. That...

Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left, and the only way home may be to go further...

Although the space penguins manage to escape an attack by a fleet of starships, they soon discover that the Tunafish has been boarded by shape shifters, and they need to devise a plan--the only problem is that it involves summoning their deadly enemies to "rescue" them.

"The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James Tighe receives an invitation to billionaire Nathan Joyce's private island, he thinks it must be a mistake. But Tighe's unique skill set makes him a prime...

Watch as astronauts blast off into space with this beautifully illustrated book. By simply holding the book up to the light, or shining a torch behind each page, young readers will be able to discover how astronauts work, eat and exercise on a space station, and will delight in following a crew from lift-off to touch-down. The innovative see-through feature fulfils a similar function to lift-the-flap books, but has the added interactive dimension...

When the space penguins answer a distress signal, they find themselves captured by a predatory space station run by a former crewmember who deserted several years before--and who has now transformed himself into a super mechanical pengbot.