Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=6666&browse=true&Ne=6670&N=6594+6670 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642024 Though they have the vote and the Pill and havent been burned as witches since 1727, life isnt exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on womens lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own, from the riot of adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother. With rapier wit, Moran slices right to the truth--whether its about the workplace, strip clubs, love, fat, abortion, popular entertainment, or childred--to jump-start a new conversation about feminism. With humor, insight, and verve, How To Be a Woman lays bare the reasons why female rights and empowerment are essential issues not only for women today but also for society itself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542971 A narrative account of the twentieth presidents political career offers insight into his background as a scholar and Civil War hero, his battles against the corrupt establishment, and Alexander Graham Bells failed attempt to save him from an assassins bullet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186474 In this tough, tender memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Maxs Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribners, Brentanos and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplthorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029437 Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029828 Symbologist Robert Langdon, summoned to Washington, D.C. by his mentor, finds himself plunged into a clandestine world of Masonic secrets, hidden history, and secret locations--all of which seem to be dragging him toward a single, inconceivable truth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147669 Brings together, for the first time, the best of Gladwells writing from The New Yorker in the past decade, including: the bittersweet tale of the inventor of the birth control pill; the dazzling inventions of the pasta sauce pioneer Howard Moscowitz; spotlighting Ron Popeil, the king of the American kitchen; and the secrets of Cesar Millan, the dog whisperer. Gladwell also explores intelligence tests, ethnic profiling and hindsight bias, and why it was that everyone in Silicon Valley once tripped over themselves to hire the same college graduate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=808695 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1244657 The disappearance forty years ago of Harriet Vanger, a young scion of one of the wealthiest families in Sweden, gnaws at her octogenarian uncle, Henrik Vanger. He is determined to know the truth about what he believes was her murder. He hires crusading journalist Mikael Blomkvist, recently at the wrong end of a libel case, to get to the bottom of Harriets disappearance. Lisbeth Salander, a twenty-four-year-old, pierced, tattooed genius hacker, possessed of the hard-earned wisdom of someone twice her age--and a terrifying capacity for ruthlessness--assists Blomkvist with the investigation. This unlikely team discovers a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity running through the Vanger family, an astonishing corruption at the highest echelon of Swedish industrialism--and a surprising connection between themselves.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=730854 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=740452 Author Tami Hoag talks with host Megan Linder about Prior bad acts, a twisted tale that depicts a gruesome crime and explores how dark deeds committed in the past can come back to endanger us in the present. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741436 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=740456 Author Karin Slaughter, hailed as one of Americas best crime novelists, unveils Triptych. Three points of view bring together the compelling story of one heinous crime in this thriller. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1381306 Mann shows how a new generation of researchers equipped with novel scientific techniques have come to previously unheard-of conclusions about the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans: In 1491 there were probably more people living in the Americas than in Europe. Certain cities--such as Tenochtitln, the Aztec capital--were greater in population than any European city. Tenochtitln, unlike any capital in Europe at that time, had running water, beautiful botanical gardens, and immaculately clean streets. The earliest cities in the Western Hemisphere were thriving before the Egyptians built the great pyramids. Native Americans transformed their land so completely that Europeans arrived in a hemisphere already massively landscaped by human beings. Pre-Columbian Indians in Mexico developed corn by a breeding process that the journal Science recently described as mans first, and perhaps the greatest, feat of genetic engineering.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=740465 Mark Z. Danielewski, author of House of leaves presents his new novel, Only revolutions. In it, he tells the tale of two teenagers whose youth and whose love are the only constants in a world in perpetual flux. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=740493 NY Times bestselling author, Terry Goodkind, discusses the strong philosophical themes he explores in his highly anticipated novel, Phantom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=740478 Dan Burstein presents Secrets of the code: The unauthorized guide to the mysteries behind The Da Vinci code. Scientists, theologians, archeologists, and art historians come together to interpret Dan Browns bestselling novel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=740470 Robbie Stamp, executive producer of The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, talks with James Michael Tyler about the film and movie tie-in book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=740449 NY Times bestselling author, Tess Gerritsen, fills in Kate Arno, on finding a corpse is alive at the morgue, a gruesome scene which opens her latest thriller, Vanish. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=740447 Star Wars author, Jonathan Rinzler, talks with James Michael Tyler about the organic process George Lucas used to make his film. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1380089 Martin delivers the long-awaited fourth book of his landmark series, as a kingdom torn asunder finds itself at last on the brink of peace ... only to be launched on an even more terrifying course of destruction. It seems too good to be true. After centuries of bitter strife and fatal treachery, the seven powers dividing the land have decimated one another into an uneasy truce. Or so it appears ... With the death of the monstrous King Joffrey, Cersei is ruling as regent in Kings Landing. Robb Starks demise has broken the back of the Northern rebels, and his siblings are scattered throughout the kingdom like seeds on barren soil. Few legitimate claims to the once desperately sought Iron Throne still exist--or they are held in hands too weak or too distant to wield them effectively. The war, which raged out of control for so long, has burned itself out. But as in the aftermath of any climactic struggle, it is not long before the survivors, outlaws, renegades, and carrion eaters start to gather, picking over the bones of the dead and fighting for the spoils of the soon-to-be dead. Now in the Seven Kingdoms, as the human crows assemble over a banquet of ashes, daring new plots and dangerous new alliances are formed, while surprising faces--some familiar, others only just appearing--are seen emerging from an ominous twilight of past struggles and chaos to take up the challenges ahead. It is a time when the wise and the ambitious, the deceitful and the strong will acquire the skills, the power, and the magic to survive the stark and terrible times that lie before them. It is a time for nobles and commoners, soldiers and sorcerers, assassins and sages to come together and stake their fortunes ... and their lives. For at a feast for crows, many are the guests--but only a few are the survivors. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1380007 A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. Two great leaders--Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon--who hold sway over an age of enforced peace are dead, victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms, preparing to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. It is a tale in which brother plots against brother and the dead rise to walk in the night. Here a princess masquerades as an orphan boy; a knight of the mind prepares a poison for a treacherous sorceress; and wild men descend from the Mountains of the Moon to ravage the countryside. Against a backdrop of incest and fratricide, alchemy and murder, victory may go to the men and women possessed of the coldest steel ... and the coldest hearts. For when kings clash, the whole land trembles.