Frank Carlson Library

When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, eleven-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye

"Aurora is suspenseful storytelling--both large scale and small--at its finest"-- In Aurora, Illinois, Aubrey Wheeler is just trying to get by after her semi-criminal ex-husband split, leaving behind his unruly teenage son. Then the lights go out, not just in Aurora but across the globe. A solar storm has knocked out power almost everywhere. Suddenly, all problems are local, very local, and Aubrey must assume the mantle of fierce protector of her...

With the end of all things rapidly approaching, Jack must find the Three Secret Cities, three incredible lost cities of legend. Its an impossible task by any reckoning, but Jack must do it while he is being hunted by the greatest hunters in history. When Jack West, Jr. won the Great Games, he threw the four legendary kingdoms into turmoil. Now these dark forces are coming after Jack-- in ruthless fashion. With the end of all things rapidly approaching,...

"It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David - charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere. David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates...

"An adjustor discovers that the world may be ending and that the instrument of destruction is a werewolf"--

"A single teenage girl, the last of her kind, continues her journeys through Japan with the adoring and bright Shiba Inu Haru--and they're not alone! From the aloof beauty Snow White to the friendly neighborhood aliens, they've got plenty of fellow wanderers to meet, swap stories, and get into misadventures with. Who knew the apocalypse could be such a party?" --

In the conclusion to the Bloodleaf trilogy, Zan is left with the task of finding and reviving Princess Aurelia while searching the dangerous land of Ebonwilde to return the gift she sacrificed for him--her life.

"The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies--but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose?"--Back cover

Maximum Ride's seventeen-year-old daughter, Hawk, is living under the radar in post-apocalyptic New York City until a destiny that is perilously close to her mother's forces her to take flight. Ten years ago a girl with wings fought to save the world. Then she disappeared-- and now is just a fading legend, remembered only in stories. Hawk doesn't know her real name. She doesn't know who her family was, or where they went. The only thing she remembers...

On an overseas flight to London a journalist, Buck Williams, and a pilot, Rayford Steele, are caught in the middle of the most incredible event in history. Suddenly, without warning, dozens of passengers simply vanish into thin air. As chaos and anarchy engulf the world, both men set out on vastly different paths in a desperate search for answers.