Orem Library

Simple text and photographs describe the physical characteristics, behavior, and habitat of wrinkle-faced bats.

As the heat of the desert day fades into night, various nocturnal animals, including bats, coyotes, and snakes, venture out ot find food.

White zombie: A young man turns to a witch doctor to lure the woman he loves away from her fiance, but instead turns her into a zombie slave. The devil bat: Dr. Carruthers feels bitter at being betrayed by his employers, Heath and Morton, when they became rich as a result of a product he devised. He gains revenge by electrically enlarging bats and sending them out to kill his employers' family members by instilling in the bats a hatred for a particular...

With loving words, a mother bat lulls her baby to sleep.

"It's time for Fiona the fruit bat to take her very first flight, but she's scared. How will she fly when she can't see in the dark? Mama just says, "listen." But how will listening help her to see? Then she hears a mysterious sound from deep in her cave. To find out what's making that noise--and to finally fly--Fiona will have to unlock a secret hidden inside herself. Written by biologist and bestselling author Dan Riskin, and rooted in the real-life...

"In this fresh and funny picture book from Geisel Honor-winning author-illustrator Paul Meisel, a lonely bat thinks he has found a perfect home until he discovers that it's already inhabited by a persnickety squirrel. Since each is asleep during the other's waking hours, the two begin exchanging notes. With these notes, Squirrel does her best to oust her unwelcome guest, but Bat misunderstands and thinks Squirrel is happy to have a new friend. This...

It's Daniel's birthday, and Megabat wants to join in all the fun, but his excitement gets the best of him and suddenly the birthday celebrations are on the brink of disaster. Daniel isn't in the birthday party mood. He hates his new glasses -- they're dorky, and he feels silly in them.

Shade, a young bat, searching for his father, continues his struggle against the power of Goth the cannibal bat, now king of all the Vampyrum Spectrum, who plans to wipe out the sun.

A tribute to the creatures at Bat Conservation International and its scientists reveals the bat's important role in the natural world while raising awareness about the problems threatening bat populations, including white-nose syndrome.

Could the source of the world's deadliest viruses hold the secret to a healthier and longer life? Bats have a sinister reputation as potential sources for some of the deadliest disease outbreaks: Ebola, MERS, SARS, and most recently, SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 global pandemic.