Frank Carlson Library

In this action-packed adventure and coming-of-age story that finely weaves fact and fiction, thirteen-year-old Ming lives in a small village in Maoist China in the 1970s. His father is convinced that Emperor Qin's tomb-and the life-size terra-cotta army created to serve and protect the emperor in the afterlife-lies hidden in the hills around them. But if Ming's father doesn't prove it soon, the town's Political Officer will condemn him to the brutal...

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McKenna investigates the first casualty in a New York literary war. The romance boom has ended, and the women who made fortunes writing bodice-rippers are now scribbling mysteries instead. When the genre's "true" authors fight back, a battle breaks out in every high-class gin joint in Manhattan. It is take-no-prisoners fighting, and Patience McKenna is caught in the middle. This ex-romance author has just turned to true crime writing when Sarah English...

The world that Brilynn lives on was already falling apart, but now it has begun to destroy itself from within. A mysterious metal has sprouted up from beneath the surface of the planet and is threatening to encase everything it touches. The most powerful people on the planet, The Big Five, are baffled at what to do next. Nothing seems to slow down or stall the metal enemy that marches steadily onward. The world waits and watches as this new enemy...

Kingston has worked hard to get where he is: owner of his own shop, master potion maker, well-respected...and lonely, too busy with life to enjoy more than his regular visits to Acacia House. If he wishes his loneliness might be eased by Hux, the man he meets at Acacia twice a month, well, someday he'll work up the nerve to ask. Maybe. Then Hux unexpectedly visits his shop, distressed and in desperate need of help to save his employer from a love...

Respected Kidney specialist, Malcolm Christian, has spent years intrigued by "salt," a substance-long imbued with deep medical, mystical and religious significance. When a deranged killer embarks on a ritualistic series of murders by salt injection, teasing the authorities with a trail of cryptic, salt-related clues, Dr. Christian must draw on his knowledge of the substance's natural and symbolic properties to beat the killer at his own game. But...

A Lion That Walks has emerged in Kal'ada'abassa for the first time in an age. While some rejoice, others find his arrival disturbing. Far out on the Macca Deep, Basil chases down black ships as chaos erupts on the high seas. Onya Onoto, makes her way to the ancient city of Saladon, wondering what a once in a lifetime meeting of the Compact will bring. The Watchman, Cordovan, looks for a way into the Hallowed Place of Horrors in the hopes that Mino...

Enjoy this steamy wolf shifter reverse harem paranormal romance series starter by best-selling author Charmaine Ross… A prophesy that rules me.A curse that ruins me.A wolf shifter pack who claim I am theirs. It wasn't my choice to be sold to a powerful psychopath by my mother when I was a baby. It wasn't my choice to be tortured for magic I don't possess but no-one says no to Esoti and lives. Except me. There are worse things than death. Not dying,...

Two young men, Jumas and Tartric, embark on a journey of betrayal, hate and conflict. Power and destiny collide as each searches for the ultimate control that only one last hidden remnant of their Master's soul can release. In doing so, they ignite a struggle that threatens to engulf their world in an oppression darker than the deepest well. One powerful enigmatic woman, Whelya ty-Shaerba, ignites a burning uncontrollable passion within them; one...

A lifetime of living in a man's world has given sword-making-factory owner Eleanor Blackwell some very definite opinions-;particularly about the duplicity of men! Benjamin Grayson, Viscount Whittonstall, seems to be cut from a different cloth-;Eleanor responds to his touch with a passion normally reserved only for fencing! She may be spectacularly unsuited to mix with aristocracy, but Ben has different ideas when he plans to safeguard her business...