Ocean State Libraries

In these three tales, "a recently paroled ex-con steals a car and attempts to outrun a violent past; an out-of-work logger finds that love can both sustain and destroy; and a woman's journey by rail in the snowscape of Wyoming becomes a tale of discovery and hard-won redemption."--Jacket.

A collection of stories on backwoods life in northern California. In Darkness Runs, a man struggles to keep going a health and social services center for the poor, while Smoke is on a Vietnam War veteran who grows marijuana.

Visit Trinity, South Carolina, a small town with more chills than charm. Sheriff Lucas Buck won't let anyone--including local doctor Matt Crower or the determined Gail Emory--stand in the way of his evil plans.

A famed zookeeper reflects on his lifelong love of animals-and his decision to build them a home-in this memoir by the author of the Corfu Trilogy. The first word Gerald Durrell could say with any clarity was "zoo." Animals were his passion. His early years in India were full of routine visits to the local zoo, and if his nursemaid attempted to deviate from this routine, the result was usually a tantrum.   Years later, when Durrell decided to set...