Frank Carlson Library

Some things grab a man's attention... like being shot at! Jared Valeron learns that an unknown gunman has tarnished the family reputation by killing a man while impersonating his cousin Wyatt. In trying to track down the culprit, Jared is drawn into an odd mystery at a gold-mining town. Solving the riddle of the killer's target requires discovering a motive for the murder. When his investigative efforts propel him deep into a hole, only his cousins...

Everyone imagines running away from their life at some point. But Birdy has actually done it-- and the life she has run to belongs to her best friend Heather. The only problem: she hasn't told Heather. But the summer job at the highland Scottish hotel that her world class wine-expert friend ditched turns out to be a lot more than Birdy bargained for. Can she survive a summer pretending to be her best friend? And can Birdy stop herself from falling...

Two hyenas from Africa find a pair of passports (memo: do not go swimming in a crocodile pool), and move to Teddington, England, where they live suburban lives, hold jobs, and raise their children to hide their tails and act human--the only trouble is old Mr. McNumpty, their nosy neighbor, who is hiding a secret of his own.

"Tom Palding offers Ned Rippon $500 to impersonate him for five days to find out why Charles Barrett has summoned him back to Tyndal Valley which he fled twenty years ago after killing Sam Barrett. Rippon needs the money and agrees, but soon wonders if he'll survive the five days to collect it"--

Super-sized, eleven-year-old Liam makes a giant leap for boy-kind by competing with a group of adults for the chance to go into space.

When Clementine wakes up in a hospital after being the only survivor in an airplane crash and discovers she cannot remember anything, she runs off with a stranger to avoid dealing with a father she does not recognize and the press coverage of the crash.

"In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in...

A retired American jewel thief living on the French Riviera seeks to prove his innocence by exposing the burglar who has been imitating his technique.