Cranston Public Library

Karr breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir, opening our concepts of memory and identity, and illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past; anybody with an inner life or complicated history, whether writer or reader, will relate.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for certainty.
“Elegant ... witty ... intelligent.” —The Washington Post

Here is the story of Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student who decides to escape the world of postmodern literary theory and immerse himself in the messiness...

A memoir-writing guide offers writing lessons and examples for those interested in putting their memories down on paper, explains the difference between remembering and imagining, and describes the language of truth.

"Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, and love have a large and passionate following. Fans of xkcd ask Munroe a lot of strange questions. What if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90 percent the speed of light? How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? If there was a robot apocalypse, how long would humanity last? In...

As a little girl discovers things round, square, and rectangular in her urban neighborhood, she is reminded of her Chinese American culture.

Common animals, such as red square owl and yellow star frog, teach young readers multiple, basic concepts at once in this educational concept book. An ideal read for bedtime or story time, this book's rich watercolor illustrations and delightful animals will engage children and become a family favorite.

"'Quiet world' is unlike any other composition I've encountered. Built on themes inspired by the environment Alice experiences every day, each elegantly simple song has the potential to be either a two-voice canon or a harmony to any of the other songs. To sing several lines together brings to mind a set of wind chimes, the twinkling of stars, the rising of the sun, rushing waters or the wind through the trees. And the wood thrush is always singing,...