Frank Carlson Library

The first book in the emotionally charged post-apocalyptic series, The Ending. They may have survived the apocalypse, but the Virus changed them... Grad student Dani O'Connor won't let a cross-country move end her closest friendship. But when a mysterious virus consumes the world and Dani,herself, falls violently ill, she fears she'll never see her loved ones again.After her fever finally breaks, she barely recognizes the devastated world around...

Chase should be dead. The package he carried was supposed to blow up and take out the guy he handed it to. He was just the courier, the delivery mechanism for a hit. Collateral damage.But he's not.When his package starts ringing, he finds a loaded gun, a phone, and the defused remains of the bomb inside. The stranger on the other end of the line tells him that she saved his life.And that he now has the chance for revenge and the tools to take it,...

The Walking Dead meets Falling Skies in this fast-paced, new adult episodic series. Lin searched for Major Cantrell--and help for Shay. Ella and Shay are reunited with Matt. Amara tries to pull herself together as base camp is visited by outsiders. Major Cantrell orders everyone to start cleaning up the area while he and Xak'thul interrogate Matt about the crashed Kyborg ship and The Blue Room.

David Feintuch's acclaimed Seafort Saga begins as Nicholas Seafort sets off on an interstellar naval adventure he will never forget. In the year 2194, seventeen-year-old Nicholas Seafort is assigned to the Hibernia as a lowly midshipman. Destination: the thriving colony of Hope Nation. But when a rescue attempt goes devastatingly wrong, Seafort is thrust into a leadership role he never anticipated. The other officers resent him, but Seafort must handle...

YOU WILL FEAR THE ZOMBIES DeadS The story as told by 'a Chosen One.' She is given the task by the Divine Gods to find a cure and heal the cracks in the celestial realms. Keeping Logs while traveling from Hollywood to the harbors of New York. She needs to convince every earthling on her travels to go to the cruise ships. The vessels are destined for the safe shores of Derry, Europe, and China. These countries are rich in tradition and hold the...

Eleven Sooty Dreams could also have been called Meeting at Bolcho Pride, or Fire Deep Down Below, or Station in the Heart of the Flames, or Granny Holgolde's Stories, or The Liars' Bridge, or Eve of Battle After the Defeat, or Never Without My Embers, or Good-Bye to Death, or Fire Stories, or Terminal Childhoods, or Granny Holgolde's Childish Sickness, or Even the Nursing Home Is in the Line of Fire. In Manuela Draeger's poetic 'post-exotic' novel,...

What you are looking for is not out there, it's in you... Stass had told her the story a thousand times. She was ten years old when he found her, lost and alone in the harsh wilderness of the Northern Cascades with no memory of who she was. For the past eight years, Amber has lived with him above his martial arts studio in Seattle, slowly losing hope that her family will ever come for her. Everything changes the day Stass is murdered. Alone and hunted-with...

Secrets come in all shapes and sizes, but this one fits in the palm of your hand.Tru Shepherd is like a lot of teenagers-stubborn and foolhardy. While her peers are lining up to take a life-altering vaccine, her goal is to avoid it at all costs.Zared Aoki has a different agenda-exposing what the vaccine does. He can't do it without Tru's help. She doesn't know it yet, but she's the key to finding a SIM card that will expose government secrets.It's...

Critics are hailing Francisco Angulo latest novel Freak as "a modern gothic masterpiece" (The New York Times) that is "impossible to put down" (Washington Post).Set against the backdrop of a mysterious traveling circus, Freak chronicles the experiences of a group of extraordinary characters who possess uncanny abilities and physical anomalies that set them apart from mainstream society. Led by the enigmatic magician known only as "Nikola," the "freaks"...

The companion book series to the Space Cowboy Books Presents: Simultaneous Times science fiction anthology podcast. In Simultaneous Times Volume Two Space Cowboy Books brings you a collection of science fiction short stories from our local Hi-Desert authors, featuring both stories that have been featured on the podcast, as well as some appearing for the first time. An eclectic mix of approaches to the science fiction genre, which range from rebellions...