Frank Carlson Library

Corey's parents become perplexed when their son's inexplicable knowledge of the Native American circle of life begins to change their lives. Could his newly purchased stuffed dog from the Sulky Plow Country Store have magical powers or is it the imagination and introspective curiosity of their young son. Mentoring My Master is a coming of age story about six-year-old Corey Clark whose attraction to a toy dog named Rufus could alter his life forever....

A Wonderful Eccentric Novel from G.K. Chesterton. "She had never really listened to anyone in her life, which, some said, was why she had survived." Man Alive is a book about the modern man's problems in which G.K. Chesterton shows us why life is worth living and why we need a little madness sometimes just to feel alive.

"Come Watch the Nighttime Breathe " is the first novel in a series written by Jeff Gray that follows a young man named Tristan Wallace as he comes of age and begins his journey to learn the meaning of life and more specifically — the meaning of his life. Tristan was born and raised in a small, Midwest town in the 1970's by a middle-class family, enriched in Catholic values. His safeguarded upbringing never allowed him to adapt properly. As a result,...

You're just a face in the crowd... Until you're not.A Million Miles is an intense coming of age story set in 1999 that follows 19-year-old Maddy Traeger as she drops out of college to go on tour with her favorite band, Crimson + Clover. This is not a story of arenas with flashing lights and luxurious tour buses, it's one of dank dive bars and all night drives in a hot-boxed sardine can.Get in the van and drive around America with Maddy. Experience...

Three HOT Alpha Professors, One Very Bad Student. It all started with just me and Professor Holden Moss, the grad school professor I seduced by flashing him my pink goodies the first day of class. I love being the Teacher's Pet. And Holden loved playing my games. Then Holden invited his best friend, Dr. Wynn Driver, to join our little party. Wynn was the epitome of hotness: tall, handsome, with surfer-boy good looks and a foot long of pleasure inside...

Vince Patelo is not like anyone you know. He has green skin. His eyes are black polka dots. He lives on a planet called Dert. He mines quadlithium for a living. His neighbors own pet aardvarks. He lives in a city named Mundanity. Yet in many other ways, Vince is more like you, an earthling, than you realize. He struggles with work, bills, loneliness, injuries, and mistakes all too common to people his age. As if that weren't enough, the city of Mundanity...

Growing up is never easy but for twelve-year-old Tracey Townsend it's about to get a whole lot harder as he is forced to choose between psychotic Mister's rugby team and loyalty to Tommo, his deeply troubled friend. Hull. 1981. Tracey's dad, Mally, has been run over by a bus so he needs a replacement. Should he choose Jonny Bessit his mum's new drumming boyfriend, the obsessive Mister and his weird rugby team or Pepe, the ageing revolutionary cyclist?...

Meet Katherine O'Leary, a young girl, growing up in wartime (1942) around Charleston, South Carolina, from graduation to navigating the ever-changing landscape that war will bring. She is living just blocks from the beach with her momma, pops, and menacing brother, Mickie, while helping manage the family business. Along the way, she is accompanied by her high school sweetheart, Luke Bennett, through a heartbreaking situation and the loss of her best...

Set on the Nebraska Plains in 1953, The Round Prairie Wars is an initiation story told from the viewpoint of a nine-year-old girl, Jeb Wilder, whose family lives in a small trailer house and moves every year because of her father's government job. Her mother is schizophrenic, dragging Jeb into a world of shifting realities and vivid hallucinations, of poetry and word games which ironically will help protect Jeb in the long run. Her mother's paranoia...

When reckless meets responsible... Straight A student Kathryn Lane is all work and no play. She's determined to keep her scholarship, and that means no distractions...until she takes a summer internship at Stone Cliff Resort and meets bad boy Noah Ryan. She knows she should keep her distance-after all he's not the kind of guy she can bring home to daddy-but his disarming smile and dangerous ways are entirely too tempting. College dropout, Noah Ryan...