Cranston Public Library

"In a not too distant future, humans live a seemingly care-free existence where they're happy and productive. There is a "price" though for this life: They must place special drops in their eyes daily and follow the rules perfectly, including the rule that they never own or read books. Guy Montag is a firefighter. He doesn't fight fires though, but instead hunts down those people who refuse to follow the law and burns their books. Like everyone else,...

"The title of Horse Latitudes, Paul Muldoon's tenth collection of poetry, refers to those areas thirty degrees north and south of the equator where sailing ships tend to stand becalmed, where stasis (if not stagnation) is the order of the day, and from where sailors, in the days when Spanish vessels transported horses to the West Indies, would throw their live cargo overboard to lighten the load and conserve food and water. From Bosworth Field to...

"In a terrifying care-free future, Guy Montag, whose job as a fireman is to burn all books, questions his actions after meeting a young woman, and begins to rebel against society." --

"Malcolm Gladwell cuestiona el modo en que pensamos sobre obstáculos y desventajas, y ofrece una nueva interpretación de lo que significa hacer frente a una situación adversa. ¿Estamos seguros de que el poderoso siempre lleva las de ganar? Un libro magníficamente escrito sobre las poderosas ventajas de lo poco convencional. Hace 3000 años, en un campo de batalla de la antigua Palestina, un pastor derribó a un poderoso guerrero valiéndose únicamente...