Cranston Public Library

This is the story of a pretty young widow who has invented the most provocative sexual fantasies and absurd distractions to ward off the raw truth of her personal history and the tedium of daily life.

Lone Star Survivor (2014): "Killed in action" a year ago, US Army captain Ian Rayford shocks everyone when he stumbles half-dead onto his family's Texas ranch. Suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Ian can barely remember his relatives. His former fiancee, a psychologist specializing in PTSD, arrives to help Ian recover. But not everyone wants her to unearth the dangerous secrets he's carrying. Protecting their child (2013): Cord McCrea...

Four volunteers sign up for what initially appears to be a typical paid research study. Quickly, they discover that they have unwittingly become involved with a classified government program that should have been terminated nearly two decades ago. As the study gets underway, the group is presented with a series of questions, and given a finite window of time in which each individual member must submit a unique numerical answer. At first, the participants...

This vivid diary of life in a Japanese internment camp during World War II examines the moral challenges encountered in conditions of confinement and deprivation.

Annother decade has elapsed, and William Browning Spencer has produced another superlative collection of short stories that commingle horror and humor. A number of these tales are cautionary ones. After reading "The Tenth Muse," you might not wish to interview a reclusive writer who wrote one wildly popular novel and has been silent for decades, even if your father was his closest friend. You might not wish to become a writer at all. "The Indelible...

Alex Cross joins forces with Scotland Yard and Interpol in pursuit of the Wolf and the Weasel.

"After several people die in multiple suspicious fires, NYPD hostage negotiator Abby Mullen begins to suspect that the fanatical cult leader who threatened her as a child has returned."--

"Un libro sobrecogedor, potente e inspirador que busca ayudar a todos aquellos cuyos traumas les impiden vivir en plenitud. Como su mentor Viktor Frankl, Edith Eger es una superviviente cuya experiencia vital y trayectoria como psicóloga le han permitido ayudar a miles de personas que viven incapacitadas por sus cicatrices emocionales"--Back cover.

The first collection of Timothy Leary's (1920-1996) selected papers and correspondence opens a window on the ideas that inspired the counterculture of the 1960s and the fascination with LSD that continues to the present. The man who coined the phrase "turn on, tune in, drop out," Leary cultivated interests that ranged across experimentation with hallucinogens, social change and legal reform, and mysticism and spirituality, with a passion to determine...