Frank Carlson Library

Riches to rags. Chaos to more chaos. ... Fire destroys evidence. ... Or at least most of it! Flush with success from solving a decade-old kidnapping case, Doreen can't wait to find out what's next in her one-woman crusade to clean up Kelowna's cold crimes. But before she can unearth another old case to sink her teeth into, she must tie up some loose ends from the last one. Steve Albright, fixer for the local biker gang, has made it clear that...

Su matrimonio era una bomba de relojeria. Sophie Greenham habia entrado en la vida del comandante Kit Fitzroy como un tornado, cambiando su vida para siempre. Tener que dejar a su prometida para volver al frente, a desactivar bombas, fue la cosa mas dura que habia hecho Kit en toda su existencia...Cuando volvio a casa, la relacion entre Kit y Sophie siguio siendo excitante, pero el hombre al que Sophie amaba se habia convertido en un extrano. A pesar...

After getting involved in two murder cases in the short time she's lived in picturesque Kelowna, divorcee and gardener Doreen Montgomery has developed a reputation almost as notorious as her Nan's. The only way to stop people from speculating, is to live a life of unrelieved boredom until the media and the neighbors forget about her. And Doreen aims to do just that with a tour of Kelowna's famed Carnation Gardens. Plants, more plants, and nothing...

Morning glory: An aspiring actress is mentored to success by several Broadway veterans. Little women: Follows the lives of the four March sisters living with their mother in Concord, Massachusetts, while their father is ministering to Union troops during the American Civil War. Stage door: A group of aspiring actresses share a boardinghouse in New York City. Philadelphia story: A socialite's wedding plans are complicated by the appearance of her...

Maya, una estadounidense que tiene 19 aänos, se exilia y se queda temporalmente refugiada en una isla al sur de Chile, Chiloâe, la tierra del origen de su abuela. Allâi se pone a escribir en un cuaderno acerca de su adaptaciâon al lugar, sus problemas con las drogas, su vida amorosa, y otros acontecimientos. Maya, a young American on the run, is sent to Chiloâe, in a remote part of Chile, her grandmother's homeland, where she records in her...

What a girl wants : A spirited young American girl goes to London in search of her long-lost father. When she finds him, she sets out to prove that love can conquer all, but finds that her unique, impulsive style threatens the relationship she has waited for all her life. Cinderella story : High school senior Sam lives at the beck and call of her self-obsessed step-mother Fiona and her wicked step-sisters. With her sights set on attending Princeton,...

"Kyuri is a heartbreakingly beautiful woman with a hard-won job at a 'room salon', an exclusive bar where she entertains businessmen while they drink. Though she prides herself on her cold, clear-eyed approach to life, an impulsive mistake with a client may come to threaten her livelihood. Her roommate, Miho, is a talented artist who grew up in an orphanage but won a scholarship to study art in New York. Returning to Korea after college, she finds...

As the widowed master of an elegant house in Victorian-era London slips slowly into madness and his tyrannical housekeeper takes on more power, a ghostly presence distracts a teenaged maidservant with clues to a deadly secret.

"A darkly hilarious and deeply felt debut novel about a young Australian woman's unruly and indignant love affair with her older coworker"-- At 24, Hera is a clump of unmet potential. To her, the future is nothing but an exhausting thought exercise, one depressing hypothetical after another. She's sharp in more ways than one, adrift in her own smug malaise, until her new job moderating the comments section of an online news outlet--a role even more...

Noel: "Joy is just around the corner when Susan Sarandon, Penelope Cruz, Paul Walker and Alan Arkin fill out an all-star cast in this holiday classic. As five strangers come together on Christmas Eve, a story of peace, companionship, comfort, love and healing unfolds against the backdrop of New York City. Noel, with its stunning cast and inspirational story, proves miracles are closer than you think"--Container. Christmas without snow: "A divorced...