Frank Carlson Library

Discusses the characteristics of comets and meteors and cites both famous appearances and unexplained mysteries connected with them.

Describes the characteristics of the planet Venus and how we discovered them.

Offers an account of how scientists and amateurs use instruments such as space telescopes, computers, radio telescopes, and binoculars to study the universe.

Explores the possiblity of life on other planets within our solar system and elsewhere.

Discover the wonder and learn the truth about our rocky home. Why does life exist on Earth but nowhere else in our solar system? What causes Earth's seasons? What makes up the Earth's interior? This book answers these questions and many more about our rocky home. From Earth's place in space, to its atmosphere and time zones, everything readers need to know about planet Earth is covered!Planets and stars, moons and galaxies! The universe is a vast...

Georgia Douglas Johnson (1877—1966) was the most prolific female writer of the Harlem Renaissance. Born as Georgia Blanche Douglas Camp in 1877 in Atlanta, Georgia, Johnson devoted much of her artistic imagination to indexing African American women's interior life and advancing the means through which to achieve interracial cooperation. After a Thousand Tears represents the only extant poetry collection that Johnson authored between 1928 and 1962,...