Frank Carlson Library

Two decades before the events of Partials, the world was locked in a different battle for survival: a global war for the last remaining oil reserves on the planet. It was for the Isolation War that the American government contracted the ParaGen Corporation to manufacture the Partials-our last hope in reclaiming energy independence from China. And it was on these fields of battle that the seeds of humanity's eventual destruction were sown. Isolation...

There are certain things that I feel, as I look through this bundle of manuscript, that I must say. The first is that of course no writer ever has fulfilled his intention and no writer ever will; secondly, that there was, when I began, another intention than that of dealing with my subject adequately, namely that of keeping myself outside the whole of it; I was to be, in the most abstract and immaterial sense of the word, a voice, and that simply...

When a meteor hits the moon, teenage Miranda and her friends and family struggle to survive the unimaginable. Four gripping books that follow their ordeal are collected in this single-volume edition, including Life As We Knew It, The Dead and the Gone, This World We Live In, and The Shade of the Moon.

In A.L. Mundt's first novel, Water & Earth, Book 1 of the Messengers Series, readers will go on an adventure with siblings, Majest and Aletta Skylark in this epic post-apocalyptic YA fantasy as they combat the northern wilderness and the demons within it to find peace for their land before all is lost. Seventy-five years ago, the humming modern world began to suffocate under the watchful eyes of the gods, and the humans began to rip that world apart....

Nominated for an Edgar Award: When Marc and his friends discover an Indian grave in a long-abandoned cavern, they begin to wonder if it's haunted It's the summer of 1954, and Marc Schaller expects to spend his days playing baseball, swimming in the river, and reading comic books. But when he hears about a fifty-dollar reward for the discovery of any local Indian graves, his summer plans suddenly get a lot more exciting. Marc gathers his best friends,...

Gamers and action fans of all types will dive straight into the MEEP, a virtual-reality gaming world, thanks to Julia Durango's cinematic storytelling. A touch of romance, constant twists, and a vivid, multidimensional journey through a tricked-out virtual city will keep readers flying through to the breathtaking end. Nixy Bauer is used to her classmates being very, very unhappy to see her. After all, she's a bounty hunter in a virtual-reality gaming...

Now they know who she is. After surviving the Battle of Vanthurium, the stakes are higher than ever for Aliya and the Nova squad because now the galaxy knows: the Krech have returned with a vengeance and no one is safe. Aliya's abilities are also out in the open, and everyone expects her to be the hero she's already shown herself to be. It's a lot to handle and when the former Nova squad's role at the palace becomes different from what they expected,...

4 books in 1! 'Fangless', 'Big Fangs', 'Blood, Blood Everywhere' and 'Dead Again'. Loads of illustrations and fun stories! Follow the adventures of Nicu, a little vampire living in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, Romania. See how he withstands and stays strong in the face of bullying and manages to rise above it.

The adventure of Jeremie and the Onyx Stone! When his parents died, Jeremie moved in with Mr Hollbrook, his uncle. Between Chelsea, his young cousin who is unhappy to see the arrival of this new inhabitant, and Prudence, the old both contentious and gruff governess, Jeremie felt more lonely than ever. Even worse, his new house seems to harbour strange secrets: a flying piano, an old man who appeared and disappeared mysteriously. Whilst Halloween...

A girl who's lost her mother. A boy learning about love. Both with a secret neither knows about and a journey that could tear them apart. When half-sighted Leanora catches her father committing an unspeakable crime she is forced to flee her village with her blind best friend, Dex. Together they seek answers to the Mists that caused disabilities in many communities on their planet. The journey of discovery isn't without hardship. Dex drifts away from...