Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6642&N=3+7449&N=7431 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729353 On the outside, Aruba Dixon has a life other women envy: a beautiful home, her handsome husband, James, and a gorgeous son. Inside, Aruba knows the truth. When her husband quits his fifth job in seven months, shes done. Aruba wants a better husband, and she has the perfect man in mind--her friend Victorias husband. Victoria Faulk is a head-turning stunner--and she tells herself so every day. Between shopping, assigning tasks to her nanny, and making sure her daughter doesnt smudge the walls of her million-dollar home, Victoria cant fathom having sex with her husband. But when he grows distant, Victoria backpedals to the good old days to regain his affection. Will it be too late? Tawatha Gipson feels its high time she found a husband. So do her four children by four different men. Each time Tawatha thought shed snagged a ring and a man, something goes wrong. When she spots James Dixon at the jobsite, shes determined to have him by any means necessary. As these womens lives intersect and collide, they learn the grass is greener on the other side...but it isnt always easy to hop the fence. --p.[4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704634 Isabella, Lady Trent, known as the worlds preeminent dragon naturalist, writes her memoir detailing how she sought true love and happiness despite her lamentable eccentricities; and of her thrilling expedition to the perilous mountains of Vystrana, where she made the first of many historic dragon discoveries that would change the world forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738028 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738744 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732455 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715802 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704635 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738029 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732456 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729355 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743908 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705810 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738083 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715767 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743516 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729397 Unsettled during a retrospective of his early work, aging film director Yair Moses attempts to reconcile with the difficult but brilliant screenwriter from whom he is estranged, but the price that Trigano demands will have lasting consequences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738587 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715803 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738030 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738746 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713035 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732457 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684642 Bryce Grantham wants a quiet vacation at his familys cabin. On his first night in town, he meets a lovely girl at a bar and gives her a ride home. The next day, he finds her cell phone in his car. When he tries to return it, Bryce discovers that the young woman has vanished, leaving behind only a bloody shoe. Suddenly Bryce Grantham is the primary suspect in a murder investigation--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743909 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=1732118 A violent attack on Lady Giuliettas son forces Tycho from his new-found happiness and back into the treacherous intrigue of the court. For Giuliettas sake he would go to the worlds end to track down those responsible. As Venice teeters on the brink of civil war, its feuding families prepare to discover who is a player and who a pawn in the coming struggle for power. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738628 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739443 After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollards career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard, descendant of a Nantucket captain whose ship was sunk by a rogue whale, accepts an offer to join anti-whaling activists on a round-the-world racing yacht as the resident scientist, to sail from Argentina to the stormy Antarctic Sea. There theyll shadow, harass, and expose the Japanese fleet, which continues to kill and process endangered whales in internationally-declared sanctuaries. But everyone aboard Black Anemone has a secret, or something to live down. But no one aboard is prepared for what Nature herself has in store, when theyre targeted by a massive creature with a murderous agenda of its own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694093 In belle poque Paris, the Van Goethem sisters struggle for survival after the sudden death of their father, a situation that prompts young Maries ballet training and her introduction to a genius painter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703960 In the wake of a series of baffling murders committed by children, anthropologist Hesketh Lock investigates a scandal in the Taiwan timber industry and wonders at his stepsons odd behavior before making a shocking connection upon the death of his Taiwan contact. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738698 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738084 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743517 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729398 Forced back into the working world after her lawyer husbands downfall, Helen discovers a talent for public relations and is tempted away from her dysfunctional family by her childhood crush, who needs her professional assistance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738959 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738588 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715810 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732488 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738031 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738747 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738942 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687166 An unlikely group of campers including a woman, her two oddball friends, her teen daughter and her exs fiance embark on a trip in the Adirondacks only to be targeted by a pair of teenage killers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744364 Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732460 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743910 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729540 A collection of short fiction offers a disquieting portrait of infidelity, faith, and family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738048 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705812 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685946 Conducting a senior center crafting class to earn extra money after her gambler husband passes away and leaves her with numerous debts, crafts editor Anastasia Pollack investigates the untimely murder of a creative resident with a scandalous past, a case that implicates Anastasias cantankerous mother-in-law. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738965 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684679 For two women, Ted Bundy, Americas most notorious serial killer is the ultimate obsession. One is a cop whose sister may have been one of Bundys victims. The other is a deranged groupie who corresponded with Bundy in prison- and raised her son to finish what he started. To charm and seduce innocent girls. To kidnap and brutalize more women than any serial killer in history. And to lure one obsessed cop into a trap as sick and demented as Bundy himself--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687353 Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasnt an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader, who is being taken to Red Cliff to be hanged. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors, among them a beautiful young woman with a dark past, a merchant seaman turned rancher, and a senator with his very ill young daughter. Starving under a bitter, driving snow in the brutal, unforgiving Rocky Mountains, and surrounded by armed and desperate outlaws, Matt still dreams of making it home for Christmas. But unless fate lends a hand, nobody will. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738085 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713810 When the woman to whom he has been betrothed since childhood decides to call off the wedding, the Duke of Huntsley, a.k.a. the Lord of Vice, is surprised by his refusal to let Lady Grace Kearly go, viewing her as a beautiful challenge he cannot resist. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715773 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714081 Jane Boyle has long since known that her mother-in-law is a witch, but shed never imagined Lynne Doran was actually the embodiment of a powerful, ancient, body-snatching evil! Now that Jane and her friends have uncovered Lynne and 666 Park Avenues dark truth, they must race against the clock to find a way to destroy the ancient witch before she finds her next unwilling host. And as Jane attempts to tap into power stronger than her enemys, her estranged husband Malcom arrives in time to join the fight...but can she grow to trust him before its too late?-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743518 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733295 Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father. His days of investigating the crimes of Victorian London are now years behind him. He plans a trip to his uncles estate, Everley, in the expectation of a few calm weeks to write an important speech. When he arrives in the quiet village of Plumley, however, what greets him is a series of strange vandalisms upon the local shops: broken windows, minor thefts, threatening scrawls. Only when a far more serious crime is committed does he begin to understand the great stakes of those events, and the complex and sinister mind that is wreaking fear and suspicion in Plumley. Now, with his protg, John Dallington, at his side, the race is on for Lenox to find the culprit before he strikes again. And this time his victim may be someone that Lenox loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738960 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742776 A dazzling young scientist runs for his life and searches for answers after being chased away by paramilitaries from an archeological dig where bones belonging to a puzzling, new species were discovered. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715814 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682631 In this poignant story of two parallel destinies, a young New York lawyer and his wife link their destinies forever in a follow-your-dream move to rural Wyoming. Thirty-eight years later a Manhattan publisher and a young Amish woman become irresistibly drawn together through her writing. Somehow these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways, as lovers are lost, and find each other again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732489 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738618 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667206 Jude Oliver hails from a long line of assassins. Tired of his familys treachery and wanting more from life than power, he escapes with their secret weapon, the Silver--an ancient artifact so potent, so evil, that it could plunge mankind into a permanent state of ruin and despair. After fifteen years on the run, Jude receives a surprise visit from a cousin who planned to murder him to obtain the family treasure. So begins Judes desperate quest to find another artifact powerful enough to destroy the Silver. His traveling companion is an unlikely friend, Mike Engle--a Catholic priest who found his calling on the brutal sands of Iraq. In the course of their journey, the two men clash with evil in many forms. Mike learns the details of Judes incredible history and the family secret that reaches back 2,000 years--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1702016 When Justine Hoffman was born her mother cast a spell to protect her from heartbreak, and as a result, she is incapable of falling in love. Eventually Justines irrepressible curiosity--and her wish to lead a normal life--get the better of her, and she finds a way to temporarily block the enchantment. However, when Justine meets the mysterious Jason Black, she accidentally unleashes a storm of desire and danger that will threaten everything she holds dear...and together Justine and Jason discover that love is the most powerful magic of all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738032 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743928 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738748 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687167 Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a bar called the Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole of the northern Montana town of Gros Ventre. Tom also has a son named Rusty, whose mother deserted them years ago. An odd kind of family, they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706394 With the country in the midst of World War II, you can be sure the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, will pull together to find a missing child. And you can be equally certain that first-grade teacher, Miss Dimple Kilpatrick, will be in the search party--especially since Peggy Ashcroft is one of her students. Miss Dimple carves out a search path all her own and once again, the sharp-as-a-tack teacher is right on point. But she finds Peggy too sick to walk and its too dark for Miss Dimple to find her way back. Luckily, she comes upon the home of an elderly artist, Mae Martha, and her young companion, Suzy, who helps ensure that Peggy returns home safe and sound. A few days later, however, Miss Dimple receives a frantic call from Suzy: Mae Martha has been murdered and Suzy is seen as the most likely suspect, because her family is Japanese. Miss Dimple and her fellow teachers Annie and Charlie dont buy it; and set out to prove Suzys innocence, only to discover danger where they least expect it.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735989 In 1898, a woman forsakes the comfort of home and family for a love that takes her to a remote lighthouse on the wild coast of California. What she finds at the edge of the earth, hidden between the sea and the fog, will change her life irrevocably--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732461 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687046 The ladies of the Cumberland Scrapbook Crop are welcoming an eccentric newbie into their fold. A self-proclaimed witch, Cookie Crandall can whip up a sumptuous vegan meal and rhapsodize about runes and moon phases with equal aplomb. She becomes fast friends with her fellow scrapbookers, including freelance reporter Annie, with whom she shares shallow roots in a community of established family trees. So when Cookie becomes the prime suspect in a series of bizarre murders, the croppers get scrappy and set out to clear her name. Annie starts digging and discovers that the victims each had strange runic patterns carved on their bodies - a piece of evidence that points the police in Cookies direction. Even her friends begin to doubt her innocence when they find an ornate, spiritual scrapbook that an alleged beginner like Cookie could never have crafted. As Annie and the croppers search for answers, theyll uncover a shockingly wicked side of their once quiet town - and a killer on the prowl for another victim.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684647 In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitlers regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employers son Isaac, confronts the Gestapos wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729358 Emma Parks joins a monkey research project deep in the South American rainforest on a whim. Shes barely arrived when the renowned director drowns during a party. Tension mounts following the machete murder of a researcher, threatening Emmas budding career and her secret romance with an Australian zoologist. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743911 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739377 Desperate for money, Darius Lindsey, shunned by his wealthy father, agrees to impregnate Lord William Longstreets pretty wife-of-convenience, but things soon become complicated when he develops feelings for the young beauty--a woman he can never have. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738049 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715752 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696615 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734892 Veterinarian Dr. Peyton Blackstone walks a fine line between business and pleasure after asking Nicholas Cole-Thomas, who, among Virginias horse-country elite, is the ultimate eligible bachelor, for help. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1676008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715721 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705813 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704717 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732120 The only thing more troublesome than a Cynster man is a Cynster lady who believes love is not her destiny. Famously known in London society as the Matchbreaker, Henrietta Cynster has an uncanny skill in preventing ill-fated nuptials, not in falling victim to Cupids spell. But then she disrupts one match too many, she feels honor bound to help dashing James Glossup find a suitable bride for a marriage-of-convenience--a task infernally complicated by the undeniable, unquenchable attraction that flares between James and Henrietta, who continues to believe she will never fall.-- p. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734578 Nearly twenty years after he was wrongly convicted of setting the fire that killed his father, Lincoln Fox returns to Rebel Ridge, Kentucky. There, deep in the Appalachians, the truth of that terrible night lies buried--and hes sworn to uncover it. His plans take an unexpected turn when, in the midst of a blizzard, he rescues Meg Walker from her wrecked car. Suddenly Linc discovers another reason to clear his name. Meg, his high school sweetheart, had always believed in his innocence, and if he wants a future with her, he has to show the world proof that she was right. As the community chooses sides, those who once let a teenage boy take the fall for their crime are forced to raise the stakes. They kidnap Meg, leaving her to the mercy of the mountain. And a second rescue may be more than even Linc can manage....[back cover]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738630 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743940 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742786 Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. So does Larry. Both men go off to war, and Ed wins the highest military honor for his bravery. But sometimes heroes dont make the best husbands. [This novel] follows Kitty, Ed, and Larry from wartime England and the brutally tragic Dieppe raid to Nazi-occupied France, India after the war, and Jamaica before independence. Against this ever-changing backdrop--as they witness history being made and participate in the smaller dramas of romance, friendship, and parenthood--these three friends make choices that will determine the challenges and triumphs of their lives--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737959 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743477 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713989 Nate Ford and his team must help Ashley Billington, who, after making a deal to borrow two exotic black rhinos from a priest in Angola to save her familys zoo, is on the hook for big money when the animals never arrive--a case that brings about the arrival of Nates nemesis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686144 Local librarian Emily Tomlinson must confront a long-hidden secret when someone from her past appears in the Texas town, while new lawyer Rick Matheson must protect himself from attempts on his life while he contemplates a new-found, and maybe true, love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738966 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742192