Orem Library

Master storyteller Jim Weiss brings you suspense, laughter, and plenty of plot twists. Spooky, not scary! An ancient ghost tries to frighten a new family away from his castle. A scientist's potion reveals old secrets. And a street magician has one last trick up his sleeve. Beloved storyteller Jim Weiss retells these spooky tales from Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rudyard Kipling, and Oscar Wilde.

Through the eyes of her family and friends we see the young Rachel as she explores nature and overcomes obstacles to write about harmful chemical practices and launch the global environmental movement. Written in blank verse.

In Silencing Eve, the prey is cornered. Will Eve Duncan survive? Will those she loves take the fall with her? And will the secrets of Eve's past ultimately become her undoing?

When a professor who believes that the dodo is not yet extinct finally finds one in New York City, he does everything he can think of to capture the bird until he learns why Dodo should be free.

Iconoclastic scientist Isabella, Lady Trent of Scirland, embarks on a two-year global voyage, hoping to determine the relationships among the endless varieties of dragon.

A glitchy time machine strands a bumbling janitor and a brilliant scientist in the distant past, and they must find their way home before they're attacked by angry cavemen or eaten alive by a saber-toothed tiger.

Forensic investigator for the Cleveland Police Department, Maggie Gardiner has seen her share of Jane Does. The latest is an unidentified female in her early teens, but more shocking than the girl's injuries is the fact that no one has reported her missing. Jack Renner doesn't murder because he enjoys it, he wants to make the world a safer place. Maggie finds another body waiting for her in the autopsy room-- and a host of questions that will challenge...

Cece, a budding and inquisitive scientist, and her equally curious best friend Isaac conduct experiments to see whether Cece's dog Einstein will eat his vegetables.

Dirk Pitt, death-defying adventurer and deep-sea expert, is out to the ultimate test as he plunges into the perilous waters of the Pacific Vortex -- a fog-shrouded sea zone where dozens of ships have vanished without a trace. The latest victim is the awesome superb Starbuck, America's deep-diving nuclear arsenal. Its loss poses an unthinkable threat to national defense. Pitt's job is to find it, salvage it, before the sea explodes. In a furious race...

Physicist Guy Carpenter finds his peaceful life with a prestigious career at NASA turned upside down by a Chinese scientific discovery that raises serious questions about possible military implications, an old love affair, and national security.