Cranston Public Library

"The body cannot tell any lies. From birth to death, and through all the transitions in between, the body stores our knowledge and history, our feelings and experiences. Our betrayals. These insightful and empathetic stories shine new light on our physical vessels set against our physical world, two landscapes irretrievably connected and altered over time. These eleven stories take us into the lives and experiences of others to scrutinize the physical...

“An enthralling — and welcome — reclamation of Kaul’s fiction. . . Kaul’s work shimmers with questions of reality and illusion, home and exile.” – The New York Times Book Review
17 lively short stories provide an irreverent examination of exile, drawn from the ever-observant pen of one of Kashmir's most celebrated writers
Hari Krishna Kaul, one of the most celebrated Kashmiri writers,...

Presents an illustrated collection of fifteen adapted stories of English playwright, William Shakespeare.

Mõ̂i truyện là một mảnh đời, một khía cạnh xã hội, một hướng đi mà các tác giả hướng đé̂n. Trong sách có những truyện ngá̆n như "Hoa Tử Sa", " Mùa hoa núi" của tác giả Tó̂ng Ngọc Hân - tác giả đạt vô só̂ giải thưởng lớn nhỏ trong mảng chuyện ngá̆n. "Say ná̆ng ở Budapest" hay "Người đàn bà trên đỉnh cao" của tác giả Kiè̂u Bích Hậu và những...

"From New Yorker and Paris Review contributor and Wallace Stegner Fellow Zach Williams comes a staggering debut story collection that confronts parenthood, mortality, and life's broken promises. Parents awaken in a home in the woods, again and again, to find themselves aging as their infant remains unchanged. An employee is menaced by a conspiracy-minded security guard and accused of sending a sinister viral email. An aging tour guide leads a troublesome...

"Mouth is an eerie, uncanny debut collection of speculative stories that moves across time and place, blurring the lines of conventional reality"--

Debut author Honor Levy's uniquely riveting voice emerges from the chaos of coming of age in the 21st century, only having lived in a post-internet world. Never far from a digital interface, Levy's characters grapple with formative political, existential, and romantic experiences in a web-drenched world simultaneously hyper-real, hyper-performative, and on the brink of collapse. Amid the sense of imminent catastrophe, a fragile self struggles to form....

"Join Gabby, Pandy Paws, and all the other Gabby Cats in this collection of six cat-abulous stories. Each story takes about five minutes to read, so they're perfect for bedtime, story time, or just about any time!"--

"H. P. Lovecraft es uno de los grandes maestros del horror cósmico y pilar indiscutible del terror. En la presente recopilación se encuentran algunos de los primeros relatos del autor, tan bien escritos como los grandes clásicos que publicó durante las decadas de 1920 y 1930, y en los que ya prefiguraba sus grandes inquietudes temáticas y sus señas de identidad como autor"-- "H. P. Lovecraft is one of the great masters of cosmic horror and...

"When junior manager Frank Dominio is suddenly demoted and then sacked it seems there was more than a grain of truth to his persecution fantasies. But as he prepares to even the score with those responsible for his demise, he unwittingly finds an ally in a dark and malevolent force that grants him supernatural powers. Frank takes his revenge in the most ghastly ways imaginable - but there will be a terrible price to pay once his work is done."--Page...