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When a mysterious spacecraft carrying a deadly intergalactic plague crash-lands in a small New England town, it's up to a group of misfit high schoolers and an alien abductee to stop the army of slime-spewing brain creatures from their one goal: kidnapping Elvis Presley! Oozing with '50s pop-culture affection, Atomic Brain Invasion is a gleefully gooey homage to classic sci-fi cinema that the critics call "a success on every level, quick on its feet...

"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and beyond. This is the path I took to finding my purpose and my strength, but also to finding my voice in a world that didn't always see me. As I wrote Finding Me, my eyes were open to the truth of how...

Ryan Christensen just wanted to be an actor. He never imagined a life where fans would chase him, paparazzi would stalk him, and studios would want to own him. Filming in Seaport, Rhode Island, Ryan ducks into a neighborhood bar to escape screaming fans . . . and finds much more than he expected. Nursing a recent heartbreak, Taryn Mitchell is keeping men at a safe distance. Ryan has every other girl in Seaport swooning. But Taryn isn't every other...

"Arriving on Block Island - the place she swore she'd left for good-after her estranged sister Blake is murdered-Thalia must uncover the real reason for Blake's demise before the forces conspiring to keep the island's secrets dead and buried rise up to consume her, too."--

When a legendary femme fatale is nearly killed during Movie Town Theater's first ever Film Noir Festival, Penelope Thornton-McClure turns to P.I. Jack Shepard, a hard-boiled ghost who remembers the victim's dark past, for help in solving the mystery.

Stranger Things meets The Goonies in this suspenseful yet heartwarming adventure story about a group of friends who set out to find a crashed meteor...but find mystery and danger instead as their close relationships begin to fracture.Annie, Beans, Rocky, and Fynn are the Scouts--best friends who do everything together. It's 1985, and the summer before seventh grade is just beginning. The Scouts decide to secretly climb Old Man Basinger's silo to watch...

This scrapbook contains memorabilia from various performances in the Rhode Island area from 1898-1902 collected by Florence Nelson. It includes playbills, newspaper reviews, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and autographs. Many of the performances documented took place at the Providence Opera House or the Bristol Opera House. Performers of note in the scrapbook include Julia Marlowe, Mary Mannering, William Gillette*, Virginia Harned,...

"An actress of sorts, a woman recalls her childhood, longs for her absent lover, imagines traveling overseas, and wanders through gardens and galleries of art. Hers is a life meticulously lived, a carefully crafted and rehearsed engagement with a real and imagined world; a search for love and meaning that has left her, in the end, alone. Unrue's intricate and intriguing sentences--now one word, now comprising whole paragraphs and interrupting one...

Rochel Garner Coleman talks with Valerie Tutson about his acting career. The conversation is in tribute to Providence actress Barbara Meeks and refers to others including Viola Davis, Ed Hall, Leonard Bernstein, David Cryer, Daniel von Bargen, Richard Neiland, Rose Weaver, Anne Hampton, Stephan Wilfort. Richard Jenkins, Hakeem Babatunde and Mark Ferguson. Places mentioned include the Trinity Repertory Theater (Providence, R.I.) and the Kennedy Center...

"When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she...