Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=7431&N=7322+7431+3+6667&No=90 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647017 Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1487261 Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her fathers chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his fathers organs. Is he motivated by altruism or revenge? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1665417 The Montgomery brothers have been the talk of Boonsboro, ever since they decided to renovate the old Inn into an intimate and handsome new Bed and Breakfast. Beckett and Owen have both found love in the process, but what of Ryder, the third Montgomery brother? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629259 When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647021 In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, and her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time--against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1673171 Britain, 1972. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year as a student at Cambridge. Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War, Serena, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government. This secret mission brings her into the literary world of writer Tom Haley. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1601804 Kingmaker Richard, Earl of Warwick, uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on opposing sides in a royal war that will cost them everyone they love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656207 Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navys latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the worlds supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624255 Basing her bestselling novel on the night her older sister Susan was murdered on a stormy Memorial Day eighteen years earlier, Bellamy Lyston Price, writing under a pseudonym, becomes the target of an unnamed assailant who either wants the truth about Susans murder to remain unknown or, even more threatening, is determined to get vengeance for a man wrongfully accused and punished. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544732 When literature student Anastasia Steele is drafted to interview the successful young entrepreneur Christian Grey for her campus magazine, she finds him attractive, enigmatic and intimidating. Convinced their meeting went badly, she tries to put Grey out of her mind -- until he happens to turn up at the out-of-town hardware store where she works part-time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622745 A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538134 Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614971 Visiting sixteen-year-old Rat Perkins at isolated Evensong boarding school, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates are survivors of violence and are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzolis investigation into the murder of a boys foster family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649495 Taking an apprentice angel to Times Square to show him the delights and opportunities of the city, angels Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy help Will to introduce a lonely chef and food critic who after a year-long separation are reunited during the holiday season. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580581 On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nicks wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amys friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isnt true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they arent his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nicks beautiful wife? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1661816 In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Boschs ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the black box, the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579956 When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1550302 When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Franciscos most untouchable criminals. Then shes called next to the most bizarre crime scene shes ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647019 Entreated by her mother to help find a missing woman who has escaped from a mental hospital, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked to discover the womans true identity and enlists the help of rogue FBI profiler Kendra Michaels to survive a plot by a killer who is targeting her family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660371 After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624254 Stone Barrington is in Bel-Air, overseeing the grand opening of the ultra-luxe hotel, The Arrington, built on the grounds of the mansion belonging to his late wife, Arrington Carter. The star-studded gala will be attended by socialites, royalty, and billionaires from overseas. and according to phone conversations intercepted by the NSA, it may also have attracted the attention of international terrorists. To ensure the safety of his guests--and the city of Los Angeles--Stone may have to call in a few favors from his friends at the CIA. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522692 No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days theyre free to live someone elses life. As the weekend brings pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and more, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. What happened last night? In the mornings harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival. Guilty wives is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create-- Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658230 When a CIA black ops master with ties to disreputable figures in Afghanistan goes missing, Mitch Rapp is ordered to track down the missing man at all costs and finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous plot involving the interests of numerous countries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1589932 Forest fires are reducing chunks of the Boulder Valley to tinder and ash; Colorado clinical psychologist Alan Gregorys colleague and close friend, still recovering from a terrible trauma, appears to be approaching a psychological breakdown; and new evidence in an old case causes Alan to reexamine decisions he made in the past, putting his entire career at risk. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615801 The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of Fez, and Holmes badly wants the wisdom and courage of his wife, whom hes learned, to his horror, has gone missing. As Holmes searches for her, and Russell, suffering a temporary memory loss, searches for herself, each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before its too late for them, for Africa, and for the peace of Europe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575487 Dazzling her patrons with scrumptious cupcakes at her Salem, Massachusetts, bakery, Elizabeth Tucker continues to fall for the irresistible Diesel, who protects her from a villain who is seeking mystical stones tied to the seven deadly sins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1389393 Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg see a chance for huge financial gain when they learn of a pending class action lawsuit against the makers of Krayoxx, a popular cholesterol-reducing drug suspected of causing heart attacks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393398 This is the story of two small-town former high school sweethearts from opposite sides of the tracks. Now middle-aged, they have taken wildly divergent paths, but neither has lived the life they imagined, and neither can forget the passionate first love that forever altered their world. When they are both called back to their hometown for the funeral of the mentor who once gave them shelter, they will be forced to confront the choices each has made, and ask whether love can truly rewrite the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393382 Carter Crossing, Mississippi. 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup. A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington. Reacher is ordered undercover--to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1395332 On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? The authors new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination. In this novel that is a tribute to a simpler era, he sweeps readers back in time to another moment, a real life moment, when everything went wrong: the JFK assassination. And he introduces readers to a character who has the power to change the course of history. Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students, a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night fifty years ago when Harry Dunnings father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced by his crooked walk. Not much later, Jakes friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlists Jake on an insane, and insanely possible, mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakes new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sadie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jakes life, a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1270377 A zombie who yearns for a better life ends up falling in love with a human, in this original debut novel. R is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He doesnt enjoy killing people; he enjoys riding escalators and listening to Frank Sinatra. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Not just another zombie novel, this is funny, scary, and deeply moving. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297986 When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations, Katie slowly begins to let down her guard, putting down roots in the close-knit community and becoming increasingly attached to Alex and his family. But even as Katie begins to fall in love, she struggles with the dark secret that still haunts and terrifies her-- a past that set her on a fearful, shattering journey across the country, to the sheltered oasis of Southport. With Jos empathic and stubborn support, Katie eventually realizes that she must choose between a life of transient safety and one of riskier rewards-- and that in the darkest hour, love is the only true safe haven--from authors web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302846 Follows the fates of five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh--as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for womens suffrage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252069 In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679956 Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevadas Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682131 An account of the decade-long conflict between humankind and hordes of the predatory undead is told from the perspective of dozens of survivors who describe in their own words the epic human battle for survival. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675145 Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=671370 In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell by chance into the hands of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins. From Saurons fastness in the Dark Tower of Morder, his power spread far and wide. Sauron gathered all the Great Rings, but always he searched for the One Ring that would complete his dominion. When Bilbo reached his eleventy-first birthday he disappeared, bequeathing to his young cousin Frodo the Ruling Ring and a perilous quest: to journey across Middle-earth deep into the shadow of the Dark Lord, and destroy the Ring by casting it into the Cracks of Doom. The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the Wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the Dwarf; Legolas the Elf; Boromir of Gondor, and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302065 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=469439 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=20223 Magnificently restored to include all of Fitzgeralds own revisions, manuscript notes, and corrected proofs, this definitive edition presents Fitzgeralds masterpiece as the author himself intended it. The timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan is widely acknowledged to be the closest thing to the Great American Novel ever written. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733733 After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to a remote island off the coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735134 Swindled out of his home by his gold-digging wife, successful accountant Gus Hollister returns to his grandmother Roses Virginia farmhouse where he helps the residents of Blossom Farm expand their business and finds the courage to love again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722520 When the bodies of two high-profile women are discovered, bearing signs of rape, and an innocent man is accused of the crime, Thomas Pitts quest for the truth forces him to play a dangerous game of international politics and murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731250 Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his fiances murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697930 After witnessing a terrible coal mining accident, Detective Isaac Bell hunts for the high-level saboteurs he believes are responsible. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722521 Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter and a downsizing in his medical practice only to discover a shocking secret that changes his understanding of everything. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696039 New York Times bestselling author Dana Stabenows latest finds Kate Shugak entangled in a bitter tribal rivalry and murder One hundred years of bad blood between the villages of Kushtaka and Kuskulana come to a boil when the body of a young Kushtaka neer-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel. Sergeant Jim Chopins prime suspect is a Kuskulana man who is already in trouble in both villages for falling in love across the river. But when the suspect disappears, members of both tribes refuse to speak to Jim. When a second murder that looks suspiciously like payback occurs, Jim has no choice but to call in Kate Shugak for help. This time, though, her Park relationships may not be enough to sort out the truth hidden in the tales of tragedy and revenge-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733093 Targeted by a disabled former spy for the Crown who wrongly believes she is blackmailing his sister, Beatrice Lockwood offers her assistance in tracking down the real culprit and eventually falls for the spy only to find herself hunted by a mad scientist who would resurrect a dead lover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696005 When Marta Dickenson, a well-off accountant and a beloved wife and mother, is murdered, Lieutenant Eve Dallas immerses herself in her billionaire husband Roarkes world of big business to discover who arranged a hit on an innocent woman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733190 Skilled assassin Will Robie is asked by the U.S. government to track down fellow assassin Jessica Reel, who has gone rogue, but during his pursuit of Reel, Robie realizes that her betrayal may be concealing a larger threat that could impact the whole world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731340 Hoping for a more peaceful time after learning the tragic truth about her childs disappearance years earlier, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is entreated by desperate father Jim Doane to learn the truth about his missing son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722577 Environmental conservancy advocate Shayne and big city cop Tanner join forces to uncover the truth behind Tanners uncles death. When Shaye becomes a killers target, Tanner realizes hed give up anything to protect her -- including his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696031 When she discovers that her sister Roxy, who was kicked out of the house by their father eight years earlier, has become a high-priced New York call girl, Emmie sets out to spy on her sister and learn more about her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675428 Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier--a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733094 When her old boyfriend Ben reappears and reminds her of their pact to get married if they were both still single at thirty, Lottie jumps at the chance. But not everyone is thrilled with Lottie and Bens rushed marriage, and family and friends are determined to intervene. Will Lottie and Ben have a wedding night to remember ... or one to forget? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694792 Trying to keep the death of their parents a secret, Marnie and her little sister Nelly are on their own until several residents in Glasgows Hazelhurst housing estate suspect that something is not right. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738823 Defense attorney Dismas Hardy returns to defend a close friend against murder charges in New York Times bestselling author John Lescroarts most suspenseful and intricately plotted novel to date-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678811 Wedding cake decorator and maid of honor in her beloved cousins wedding, Piper Donovan must save the day when the impending nuptials are threatened by the disappearance of a bridesmaid, the discovery of a body on the wedding beach and the arrival of the lecherous, ex-drug dealer best man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739088 At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, hes waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, Hey, I think hes breathing, and another voice says, Yeah? Give me the bat. And thats the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the mans disappearance, then--very troublingly--to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then--most troublingly of all--to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen. No matter who gets in the way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742427 Embarking on a shared family life, Harry, Emma, Sebastian, and Jessica find their happiness challenged by Emmas brothers engagement to a fortune-seeker, Sebastians hedonist pursuits, and a grudge-bearing enemy from the past who would destroy their careers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677485 Includes stories that detail Alphabet series heroine Kinsey MIllhones origins, as well as true tales of the authors past.