Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6661&N=7431+4294947136 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1208788 When Ben Fish responds to an ad that reads Driver Needed Seven Days Excellent Pay No Druggies, Drunks, or Felons, its because of the money ($10,000) but also to get away from his dead-end life. He has just graduated from college with a useless degree, has gotten dumped by his longtime girlfriend, and is still mourning his father, who died in a freak accident. Yet Ben finds himself in for more than he expected, as the old man who placed the ad seems to be a still-living Elvis who leads Ben on a 900-mile journey to Memphis in search of his granddaughter. Along the way they brawl with biker gangs, consult a backwoods oracle, rescue a hooker named Ginger from her one-eyed pimp, and ultimately find some answers about themselves and their place in the world.--From cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=523999 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=451634 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=404522 Nineteen sixty-three. Elvis Presley has just completed filming Kissin Cousins, a hillbilly romantic comedy of which he is instantly ashamed. His romance with Ann-Margret has just become public knowledge, and Priscilla is on the warpath. It is a critical period for Elvis, a time in which he must sort out his own contradictory feelings and make life-changing choices. Against this backdrop, one Squirm Littlejon, an old army friend, contacts Elvis. Littlejon is serving life in a California penitentiary for the murder of a young actress on the MGM lot, and he insists he was framed. Elvis figures that taking the case is just what he needs to escape all those people making demands of him, both professionally and romantically. So begins a fast-paced mystery train ride that takes Elvis from the weird world of movie stuntmen to a groundbreaking genetics laboratory in Mexico. His sidekick on this adventure is Squirms deadbeat, Freud-spouting lawyer, who has personal insight into the psychological quirks of surviving twins - like Elvis. Before hes through, Elvis will have to disprove a murder charge of his own and stop a diabolical film producer from publishing career wrecking Peeping Tom photographs of Elvis and Ann-Margret making love.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=425336 Nick Upton, news manager of KVGO-TV in Dallas, thought the newsroom was a jungle before his ruthless new boss took over. Then a computer geek shows Nick how to boost the ratings: let a technologically advanced virtual Elvis have his own show. Soon Elvis lives again for millions of viewers. But who controls Elvis? And are those people at all interested in truth in broadcasting? To what lengths will they go to keep those profits rolling in?--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=357730 The weekend before Christmas 1970, Elvis Presley stormed out of Graceland in a drug-addled rage, escaping his handlers for two days and flying back and forth across the country. He finally landed in Washington, D.C., where he begged for, and received, an audience with President Nixon. In the Oval Office, with flashbulbs popping, he was awarded - of all things - an FBI Special Narcotics Agent badge. It was a surreal moment. But the story doesnt end - or begin - there. Against the backdrop of that historical meeting, Jonathan Lowy weaves a vivid web of stories about the eccentric cast of characters whose lives were touched by the encounter. Some of the stories are real, some are fiction, all are unforgettable.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=358004 Orson is a schoolboy in Germany whose American mother works at a U.S. Army base in the 1950s. There he becomes a fan of a G.I. stationed nearby, a soldier whose music captivates Orson, as it has so much of America: Elvis Presley. Orson is caught in the PX stealing records of Elviss music, and the military court mock-seriously sentences him to a month without Elvis music. The publicity catches the young stars attention, and Elvis goes to visit his deprived young fan and then sings for him. That is the beginning of a lifelong friendship. Against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, Elviss career rockets ever higher, and he becomes the icon of the nation while Orson, in college in America, joins the student protesters and then goes on the road, searching for something to believe in. Each man is an emblem of his time, as social conventions fall and the cultural landscape changes forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=279517 When actress Stevie Marriner, reigning sex star of the soaps, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a once-famous movie director from the Golden Age of Hollywood, she calls on her ex - but still besotted - husband for help. Neil Gulliver, a former Los Angeles newspaper crime reporter, discovers that he can prove Stevie innocent and expose the real killer by untangling the truth surrounding the rumor that Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe had a torrid love affair in the mid-fifties - and that someone has the letters to prove it. Author Robert S. Levinson is in a unique position to speculate on whether or not Elvis and Marilyn had an affair. He knew Elvis, worked for many years with Elviss public relations man - and its known that Elvis and Marilyn worked on the Fox lot at the same time. So...did they or didnt they?--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283354 In Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit, Midnight Louie, the jet-black feline sleuth who thinks hes Sam Spade with hairballs, finds some suspicious jumpsuit-wearing Kings of Rock N Roll wreaking havoc in his hometown of Las Vegas. It all begins when Midnight Louies longtime human partner, public-relations woman Temple Barr, learns something strange about one of her accounts. It seems that ghost sightings are holding up the remodeling of the Crystal Phoenix hotel. But thats not the strange part - whats strange is that the workmen swear the ghost is none other than the (supposedly) deceased King of Rock N Roll, Elvis Presley. Could the ghost be just an uninvited visitor from the Kingdome, a nearby Elvis-themed attraction - or is he a more otherwordly visitor? Meanwhile, the daughter of Temples professional enemy, a lovely seventeeen-year-old who bears a striking resemblance to Priscilla Presley, is in trouble. A series of death threats culminates in a razor-tattoo attack, leaving her with the letter E carved into her neck. And Temples neighbor and former suitor Matt Devine has been receiving some unusual calls to his midnight radio hotline: the caller has a thick Memphis accent and sounds remarkably like...well, guess who.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138405