Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=3295&N=7431+6609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683679 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743949 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714499 When Miss Anabelle Honeycote, a dressmaker in Londons busiest shop - and a reluctant blackmailer in need of money to care for her gravely ill mother, falls in love with the Duke of Huntford, she enjoys pleasures she never imagined until her secret is revealed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737953 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739439 Feeling unfulfilled in the face of an imminent legal partnership and a broken engagement, Manhattan lawyer Clementine Evans learns of a long-buried family secret that leads her to the inner circles of World War I British society and the red hills of Kenya. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732620 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675591 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695840 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716197 Publicist Wendy Mann has always competed hotly with her rival Daniel Blackstone, but this time theyre headed for a collision. Wendys job is on the line if she doesnt save the image of a spoiled young starlet whos posting provocative pictures of herself all over the Internet in a snarky attempt at revenge on her former boyfriend. Daniel is representing the ex, a onetime teen heartthrob who never grew up. With the feuding Hollywood pair scheduled to appear on the same Las Vegas awards show, Daniel and Wendy are determined to do whatever it takes to defend their own clients. Unfortunately, the chemistry between Wendy and Daniel is even more explosive than that of their Hollywood stars. L-O-V-E was always a four-letter word for these two ultra-competitors; they never counted on the scorching heat that erupts between them. But Wendys high-gloss exterior hides a dark past--one thats lurking behind the bright Vegas lights. Their careers are on the line, and so is Wendys life. . . .--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744018 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683684 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714517 A cautionary tale about finding love online and the trouble that comes with cheating. Bored with her humdrum married life, thirty-two-year-old Codi Norman is searching for excitement. After teaming up with her best friend, Katina, Codi discovers that the Internet offers both money and an escape from her earthly life. In cyberspace anything is possible, and that is what Codi loves most. While online, she meets a charming and handsome man named Quinn Hamilton. Sparks fly and the two begin a torrid affair with unpredictable consequences. But their virtual lives collide with reality when their spouses discover their illicit relationship.--Back cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743950 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737954 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705417 Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. She was not surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thing green folder whos contents told an unfamiliar story: in the early 1960s, Wolf had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738056 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675594 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713866 When a mysterious woman named Ceara shows up at his house, insisting that his dying sister-in-law can be cured if he marries her, Quincy Harrigan agrees despite his doubts, only to discover that she is a time-traveling druid. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695841 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744019 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698351 Spring has sprung in Tinkers Cove, and Lucy Stone has a mile-long to-do list from painting eggs with her grandson, to preparing the perfect Easter feast, to reviving her garden after a long, cold winter, she hardly has time to search for a killer with a deadly case of spring fever. Lucy has always loved covering the annual Easter egg hunt for the Pennysaver. Hosted by elderly socialite Vivian Van Vorst at Pine Point, her luxurious oceanfront estate, its a swanky event where the grown-ups sip cocktails while their children search for eggs that are as likely to contain savings bonds as they are jelly beans. But when Lucy arrives with her three-year-old grandson, VVs normally welcoming gates are locked, and a man dressed as the Easter Bunny emerges only to drop dead moments later. Lucy discovers that the victim is Van Vorst Duff, VVs grandson, and soon learns that not all is as it seems at idyllic Pine Point. As Lucy gathers a basketful of suspects, shes convinced that someones been hunting for a lot more than eggs. And shell have to chase the truth down a rabbit hole before the killer claims another victim. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731324 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713996 Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kwekus death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693987 A collection of stories which includes Home, a wryly whimsical account of a soldiers return from war; Victory lap, a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733156 Dashiell Hammett searches for the meaning behind the falcon statuette that haunts him in later life. A worthless bird statuette{u2014}the focus of Dashiell Hammetts The Maltese Falcon. And much more. As Dashiell Hammett closes his final case as a private eye, the details of which will later inspire his most famous book, he acquires at a police auction the bogus object of that case, an obsidian falcon statuette. He casually sets the memento on his desk, where for a decade it bears witness to his literary rise. Until he gives it away. Now, suffering writers block, the famous author begins to wonder about rumors of the falcons metaphysical qualities, which link it to a powerful, wish-fulfilling black stone cited in legends from around the world. He cant deny that when he possessed the statuette he wrote one acclaimed book after another, and that without it his fortunes have changed. As his block stretches from months to years, he becomes entangled again with the scam artists from the old case, each still fascinated by the real black bird and its alleged talismanic power. A dangerous maze of events takes Hammett from 1930s San Francisco to the glamorous Hollywood of the 1940s, a federal penitentiary at the time of the McCarthy hearings, and finally to a fateful meeting on New Years Eve, 1959, at a Long Island estate. There the dying Hammett confronts a woman from his past who proves to be his most formidable rival. And his last hope. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743951 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738057 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740209 When Clayton Campbell shows up on her doorstep, Olivia Swift is stunned. For long ago, Clayton was the boy who stole her heart. Hes also the man her betrayal had sent to the gallows. A man she believed dead, now standing before her, looking leaner, harder, more powerful than ever, his haunted eyes filled with a lust she had never seen--for vengeance...He has more than once faced death and escaped unscathed. Yet Clayton Campbell cannot deny that the sight of Olivia rouses in him something more than a thirst for revenge. Or that the bold beauty would lure him once more into a dangerous game. Only this time, Clayton plans to be the victor--with the tempting Olivia in his bed as his prize. But once passion ignites between them, the hard-hearted agent will face his greatest battle yet--for his heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694767 After being vanquished by the Spanish empire, little remains of the Aztec and Mayan civilizations. From the ashes of their cities emerged a unified legend: Their conquerors possessed a mysterious artifact so powerful - so deadly - that it was universally known as the Death Relic. When archaeologist Maria Pelatis research team disappears in the rugged terrain of the Yucatan Peninsula, she contacts Jonathon Payne and David Jones to help track them down. As Payne and Jones embark on a perilous mission to find the lost archaeologists, they realize that Marias research may be the key to solving one of the darkest mysteries of the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729391 Felicity, a minstrel sworn to the truth, tells the ill-fated love story of the stubborn and indulged Princess Caution and the stableboy Lostler, a former Chalcedean slave and the piebald horse bound to him by the magic of Wit, which gives him the power to communicate with animals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732622 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743940 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713868 When his life perceptions are altered by injuries incurred during a suicide bus bombing, Russian architect Roman Guttman embarks on a journey into Palestinian territory, while the spirit of the young Palestinian bomber witnesses from beyond. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695842 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714074 Remaining on the virtually abandoned island of Britannia after centuries of Roman rule, two cousins pursue very different efforts to unite disparate tribes and factions, including throne-seeking Dinas and reluctant leader Cadogan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734524 Catalyzed by a nephews thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732155 A young man comes to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film, in particular with his relationships with family, friends, lovers, and adversaries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744020 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713730 Venetia Fox is Londons most sought-after actress, darling of the demimonde and every noblemans desire. But shes about to face her toughest role yet-seducing a confession from the devilishly handsome and very dangerous Lord Linwood to bring her fathers murderer to justice. She might have the whole of London fooled, but Linwood can see through Venetias ardent attempts to persuade him to open up. His past is murky, but hes no criminal. Her interest in him has Linwood intrigued-he might just have to play Miss Fox at her own seductive game -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683699 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738034 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716369 Living with her controlling husband in 1920s New York, socialite Charlotte Delacortes life changes when her sister-in-law Mae takes up residence with the couple and introduces Charlotte to the flapper revolution. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739476 The residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of lifes most profound discoveries. What they eventually learn about themselves and one another will transform them all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685942 An adrenaline-fueled thriller debut in the tradition of Three Days of the Condor from the famed creator of TVs Law & Order, featuring NYPD Special Agent Jeremy Fisk, who is New York Citys last hope against an ingenious, multi-pronged terrorist attack-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731325 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694857 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743969 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705429 Tracking the former stockbroker and gray wolf who made off with his familys fortune to the Grand Cayman Islands, Highland wolf Duncan MacNeill, while searching for the traitorous alphas, is unable to control his powerful attraction to a beautiful botanist. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693988 Newly widowed, pregnant and alone in the Wyoming wilderness, Hannah Wentworth agrees to marry Flint Creed, a bitter man who is in desperate need of a wife, and as the danger of the wild frontier surrounds them, the greatest threat of all are the secrets between them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732483 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743952 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714502 Perturabo, master of siegecraft, and executioner of Olympia. Long has he lived in the shadow of his more favoured primarch brothers, frustrated by the mundane and ignominious duties which regularly fall to his Legion. When Fulgrim offers him the chance to lead an expedition in search of an ancient and destructive xenos weapon, the Iron Warriors and the Emperors Children unite and venture deep into the heart of the great warp-rift known only as the Eye. Pursued by a ragged band of survivors from Isstvan V and the revenants of a dead eldar world, they must work quickly if they are to unleash the devastating power of the Angel Exterminatus! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694669 When Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Christensen unexpectedly comes into her life, pub owner Taryn Mitchell finds herself falling hard for his humor and charm, but wonders if their newfound relationship is strong enough to withstand the tabloids, the paparazzi and jealous fans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705522 Coming to the aid of a race of serpent-human mutants caught up in a civil war, Cerberus rebels Kane, Brigid and Grant find their subterranean haven turning into a prehistoric nightmare when a new battle begins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737956 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715467 Inspired by an iconic picture taken during the Great Depression, this multi-generational narrative depicts the lives of the photos subject, the ambitious and struggling photographer, and a present-day professor who finds a connection to a family legacy in the image. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712122 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738080 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738058 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735907 When Jordan Holloway, Earl of Ashbourne, agrees to keep on eye on his best friends new sister-in-law, Annie Andrews, he is forced to take her to his country house to prevent her elopement, only to fall in love with her himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681874 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685238 Contacted to investigate the gruesome murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is simultaneously drawn into another case that could be related to hers and must stop a dangerous killer from striking again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731310 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694768 After years of being a TV ratings juggernaut but now taking a hit in viewership, Project Icon keeps assistant producer Sasha King hopping, what with its diva judges, foul-mouthed contestants, and muckracking gossip columnists. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732416 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711997 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713870 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712069 Katherine thought her fiance was the perfect man -- until he turned out to be the perfect killer. His victims were stabbed through the heart and holding a single red rose. Three years ago he vanished, now hes back, and hunting the one who got away. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738628 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695847 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714189 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739430 Agoraphobic Em Moore is the writing half of a biography team. Her partner, Teddy, does the schmoozing. When Teddy dies, Em is devastated, alone in a world she doesnt understand. The only way she can honor his memory is to finish their current book, an autobiography of director Garrett Malcolm. She finds Malcolm friendlier and far sexier than she had imagined. But Em senses trouble between Malcolm and one of his former stars, and she hears whispers of skeletons in the Malcolm family closet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734773 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729539 When travel writer Lily Moore joins a group of journalists for an all-expenses-paid press junket to Acapulco, Mexico, she expects sun, sand, and margaritas. Instead, she finds that the Mexican city, once the playground of Hollywood stars, is a place of faded glamour and rising crime. Even the luxurious Hotel Cern, isolated from the rest of the town, seems disturbing to her, with its grand, empty rooms, ever-watchful staff, and armed guards patrolling the grounds. Only after Lily tries--and fails--to leave the Hotel Cern does she discover the truth: the journalists are prisoners in a gilded cage. Too late, Lily realizes that she has been maneuvered into the role of bait in a vicious, vengeful plot. Faced with unthinkable choices, Lily must summon all her strength to survive, confront the past shes still running from, and save other lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734525 When assassin Gin Blanco, a.k.a. the Spider, is robbed and taken hostage at gunpoint during the biggest gala event of the summer at Ashlands fanciest art museum, she is more than happy to show these unlucky thieves that red is her favorite color. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712117 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714610 When the Texas Legislature decided to stop paying its Rangers, Phil Guthrey knew it was time to move on to greener pastures. As he rides into Arizona Territory, he finds a slew of criminals running free--thanks to Crook Countys no-good sheriff. With reports of rape, arson, theft, fatal shootouts, and foul play, Guthrey decides to make it his mission to rehabilitate Crook County, not to mention capture the heart of the spunky Cally Bridges. As Guthrey sets out to bring to justice the men terrorizing his new home, he knows he must ultimately find a way to uproot Sheriff Killion if he wants to clean up the county for good. The fight will be long and hard, but for a former Texas Ranger like Guthrey, getting your hands dirty is just part of the job. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738576 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681659 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732026 In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses.Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination. Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood. The Precursors created many technological species, including humanity and the Forerunners. But the roots of the Flood may be found in an act of enormous barbarity, carried out beyond our galaxy ten million years before...Because of that barbarism, a greater evil looms. Only the Ur-Didact and the Librarian--husband and wife pushed into desperate conflict--hold the keys to a solution. Facing the consequences of a mythic tragedy, one of them must now commit the greatest atrocity of all time--to prevent an insane evil from dominating the entire universe-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744021 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698353 When small-town librarian Kathleen Paulson stumbles upon the body of Mike Glazer, a former resident and the loudmouth owner of a travel agency, she investigates with the aid of her cats, Owen and Hercules. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713731 Disgraced by her past employer, young governess Kate Walcott owes her loyalty to the only woman willing to hire her: the sought-after courtesan Mrs. Georgette Lawson. Georgette entrusts Kate with the care of her unruly children, and the writing of her shocking memoirs, which detail her affairs with famous gentlemen, including the rakehell who promised to marry her, then ruined her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715837 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734662 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727084 Scarred by the memories of the war, Captain Garrett Sinclair returns to England where he, dealing with powerful enemies who want him dead, comes to the aid of the penniless Lady Alexandra Langdon, who makes him forget his past and look forward to the future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695783 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711915 Mumbai has emptied under the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation; gangs of marauding Hindu and Muslim thugs rove the desolate streets; yet Sarita can think of only one thing: buying the last pomegranate that remains in perhaps the entire city. She is convinced that the fruit holds the key to reuniting her with her physicist husband, Karun, who has been mysteriously missing for more than a fortnight.--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683701 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738035 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740480 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694151 Hoping to help her alcoholic brother, Nash, make a fresh start, Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, where she must confront her estranged mother and a terrible secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713986 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744038 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742780 Regency-era glamourists Jane and Vincent Ellsworth hope to bolster Melodys chances for a good marriage by accepting a commission from a prominent London family, a job that embroils them in an international crisis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731482 Charlie Hood struggles with the moral challenges of arresting his late loves cartel-connected son, Bradley Jones, while the enigmatic Mike Finnegan uses his unsettling knowledge to infiltrate both of their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705753 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740379 After gossip columnist and blogger Vanessa Valentinos forced back home to the sleepy town she thought shed left behind forever, she must face her sworn enemy Nathaniel Woodberry, who cant believe shes back to wreck havoc on their close-knit community.