Frank Carlson Library

He's an officer ... but is he a gentleman? Not if you ask Kate MacDonald! Everything about Lieutenant Craig Cole, Nantucket's new Coast Guard commander, rubs her the wrong way. Worse, everyone else is smitten with the man--including Kate's four-year-old daughter.

Explosive elements coverge one early September night in a Florida men's club revealing the seamy underside of American life at the moment before the world changed.

"Sheena McFeely was born in Hong Kong to an Irish father and a Hong Kongese mother. Shortly after her parents' discovery of Sheena being Deaf, America called their names. Since then, Sheena has grown into a visionary businesswoman and passionate children's book author [...]. Shay & Ivy children's book series will touch on moments from her and her two kids' lives teaching us what is more important."--Publisher's website, http://www.shayandivy.com/about/sheena-mcfeely/,...

If the Tide Doesn't Change, Who Will Pay the Price? As autumn of 1916 descends upon the once-peaceful town of Sunset Cove, Anna McDowell has great hopes that the excitement of the summer will be over, now that a few of the key players in the rum-running ring have been arrested. But with a daring jailbreak getting the town in a dither again, she knows that the danger hasn't passed for anyone in her coastal hometown. With a mayoral election keeping...

" Jessica and her mom, Camila, must live in their cousins’ crowded apartment until Camila finds work making holiday decorations and they can afford their own place. Isolated on the playground and baffled in class, unable to understand her teacher’s instructions, Jessica is intensely homesick. But little by little, things get better. She begins to learn English, and she loves the cats she and her mom care for to earn extra money. Left...

To make them a family... She'll need his help. Raising three children alone is tough, but single mom Carly Bradley makes it work--until she takes in one more. As she struggles to handle the new arrival, grumpy new neighbor Mike Morris seems to bond with little Hannah. But a past tragedy keeps Mike at arm's length from Carly. Will they both learn to trust again before discovering happiness next door?

Lorelai and Rory are a mother and daughter who are sharing life's ups and downs in a small Connecticut town.

Hyman presents an "account of growing up in America--the houses, schools, her passion for horses, dating, an early marriage, domestic life in New York and country life in Connecticut. Woven into it is an attempt to reconcile her role as Bette Davis's daughter . . . with that of a devoted wife and mother."

"The Perfect Daughter is a thriller that explores the truth or lies behind a teenage girl's multiple personality disorder, from D.J. Palmer, the author of The New Husband. Grace never dreamt she'd visit her teenaged daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with a shocking and brutal murder. There was not much question of her daughter's guilt. Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim's...

While her mother builds a clinic in Syria and her best friend abandons her for a boyfriend, fifteen-year-old Phoebe lives with her godmother and discovers her own sexuality and vulnerability. When Phoebe's mother ditches her to work as a doctor for an international human rights organization, she is stuck living with her mom's best friend, Kate, and helping out at Kate's thrift shop. There she meet Emma. Phoebe tries to shield her head and her heart...