Frank Carlson Library

A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.

Learn all about pythons, including their body parts, how the snakes hunt, habitat, nesting, and their muscular coils. This book also features information on snake handlers and what to do if you're attacked. -- Adapted from publisher's website.

In two stories bound together back to back, a tortoise realizes the need for a shell after several scary encounters and a greedy python eats to excess, finally eating himself.

"From best-selling novelist T. C. Boyle, a satirical yet ultimately moving take on contemporary American life in the glare of climate change"-- Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like "jewelry, living jewelry" to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young "Burmie" she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently...