Cranston Public Library

"A desperate race against death, a firestorm of passion, and a search for priceless treasure collide, in this dazzling contemporary novel."--Amazon.com

Joe Louden, a previously profligate young man, returns to his Indiana hometown to practice law.

In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.

"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...

George Smiley is puzzled by the case of a Foreign Office man found dead, an apparent suicide, the day after the man was cleared in an investigation.

"Told in rhyming text young dinosaurs learn to read, but only after many mishaps, like chewing their books and throwing them at the cat--but eventually they learn to respect their books, and treat them properly." --

The brutal murder of a female priest at the height of the Swedish midsummer brings attorney Rebecka Martinsson face to face with a nightmare as she is drawn into the investigation and into the heart of a lethal mystery.

Three stories of passion between strangers.

"The Supa Buddies bamboozled the baddies, but all's not right in the world. Dog Man has a new problem to pound, and he's going to need his entire pack to help him. Will he go barking up the wrong tree?" --

"By day Ogata Shingo, an elderly Tokyo businessman, is troubled by small failures of memory. At night he associates the distant rumble he hears from the nearby mountain with the sounds of death. In between are the complex relationships that were once the foundations of Shingo's life: his trying wife; his philandering son; and his beautiful daughter-in-law, who inspires in him both pity and the stirrings of desire. Out of this translucent web of attachments,...