Frank Carlson Library

"Midsommar": A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. "The farewell": A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies. "The lighthouse": Two lighthouse keepers...

"This is the story of my childhood in Brazil, about the culture shock I experienced when I arrived in the forests of northern Sweden and about the loss of the people I loved most. It's about what I remember of my childhood in the Brazilian wilderness, on the streets of São Paulo, in the orphanage. And it's about my early days in Sweden, when I found myself dropped into a place and life that couldn't have been in sharper contrast to what I had known"--Back...

Three novels about Pippi Longstocking, a high-spirited girl with red braids and superhuman strength who lives every child's ultimate fantasy--escape from parental supervision in a world without rules. Pippi lives in a house called Villa Villekula with a horse, her monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and a suitcase full of gold coins. Accompanied by her conspicuously normal friends, Tommy and Annika, Pippi finds herself caught up in wild, hilarious adventures, whether...

"Hamburg 1938. Fifteen-year-old Asta is hurrying home from school with her twin brother Jurgen. The mood in the city is tense - synagogues have been smashed with sledgehammers, and Asta is too frightened to laugh as she used to. But when she and Jurgen are stopped in the street by a friend, her world implodes further. Her Jewish parents have been dragged into the streets by German soldiers and if she and Jurgen return to their house, they will be...

It is a cold wintry morning in the picturesque port town of Visby when art dealer Egon Wallin's battered and naked body is found suspended feet from the ground, hanging from the 'gate of love' in the town's old city walls.

"In legislatures all over the world, ten of thousands of serious-looking and stern-sounding politicians sat and discussed an endless range of issues. But they never addressed the problem of the health of the planet. It was time for someone to remind them to step in to protect the environment--and the future of children all over the world. It was an emergency. Everything else could wait. So Greta made a sign, put on her jacket, and went on strike."--Back...

Pack your bags for 48 vacations you'll never forget! Travel gurus Julie Conover and Mark Jennings of the Award-winning PBS series of Passport to adventure, take you on more than 150 adventures, and introduce you to the people, pastimes, food, history, hidden gems and extreme traditions ofmore than 25 countries and territories around the globe. From treacherous alpine terrain and mysterious island secrets to chic getaways and quaint countryside, you'll...

Traces the life of the diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.