Frank Carlson Library

Join Shannon McClain and the members of the Purls of Hope knitting circle in Apple Grove, Oregon, as they unravel the mysteries that touch their lives and the lives of those they care about in their quaint coastal town.

On the third Friday of each month, six women meet at the Sweetgum Christian Church to enjoy the two things that connect them: a love of knitting and a passion for books. The Sweetgum ladies face the challenges of love inall its forms as the Knit Lit Society begins a new year and a new reading list. Eugenie's newlywed bliss falters as she learns to balance her roles as foster mother, town librarian, and pastor's wife. New member Maria must come to...

Shannon McClain and the Purls of Hope knitting circle travel to Scotland for a friends wedding. When the wedding planner is murdered, they find themselves embroiled in solving the crime.

Mistletoe, a mouse who loves snow, works very hard to knit the perfect gift for her best friend, an elephant named Norwell, who prefers to stay inside where it is warm.

Llama knits while considering what special thing she wants to do, and soon all of her friends have joined her except Beaver, who only likes to make things that are useful.

One day, Penguin goes looking for love and finds, instead, a mitten but as he tries to locate the mitten's owner, he knits his way through a blizzard to an unexpected meeting.

After a brush with the law, Ben, a dyed-in-the-wool worrier, must take up a new hobby and chooses knitting, an activity at which he excels but must try to keep secret from his friends, enemies, and sports-obsessed father.

"In order to break a world record, a fierce knitting competition spans the globe but a message of cooperation knits the world together"--

Grandmother's proch is a quiet place in the countryside where she can sit, and rock, and enjoy the stillnesss of nature.

When a fellow Black Sheep Knitter is suspected of poisoning her coworker, the group puts down their needles and takes up their friend's defense . . .Suzanne Cavanaugh has just about had it with her office rival at Prestige Properties. It's bad enough that Liza Devereaux is constantly needling her at work, but when she shows up at one of Suzanne's open houses to poach potential buyers, it's the last straw. No one in the office fails to hear the two...