Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&Ne=7050&N=3+7464&N=7431 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731286 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731288 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711917 An apocalyptic disease spread by a race of aliens turns its victims into zombies and begins an infection that threatens to overwhelm the Earth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686146 1884. When her first love, Elliot McBride, saves her from an uncertain future by marrying her, Juliana St. John works to restore Elliots half-ruined manor and help him heal from his ordeal of imprisonment and torture in India. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731290 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743504 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711918 Presents stories featuring men who make doomed forays into middle-class respectability in Southern California, from a high-school basketball player who aspires to a college scholarship, to a game-show production assistant who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683684 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738021 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712809 A man about to leave his marriage is poisoned to death while his wife, the logical suspect, is hundreds of miles away. Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi and his assistant agree to disagree about the guilty party: was it his wife, his girlfriend, his business associate, or a random crime? They call on physics professor Manubu Yukawa, and even the brilliant mind of Detective Galileo is challenged by a crime that is implausible, methodical - and perfect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695817 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1692917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731291 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743505 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743990 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743322 A British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of [his] age, has come to believe that beings more highly evolved than us are alive on Mars (he has evidence) and that there will be a perfect moment in which we can signal to them that we are here, too. He gets the support and funding for a massive project to build the Equilateral, a triangle with sides hundreds of miles long, in the desert of Egypt in time for that perfect window. But as work progresses, the Egyptian workers, less evolved than the British, are also less than cooperative, and a bout of malaria that seems to activate at the worst moments makes it all much more confusing and complex than Thayer ever imagined--Amazon.com. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684675 When her husband leaves her for a younger, blonder woman, overwhelmed single mother Molly Hagan takes a copywriting position at a new bakery where she, after meeting a sexy British pastry chef, just might get her own happily ever after. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705066 Eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle McAllister has a favor to ask her hairdresser, Dorrie Curtis. Isabelle wants Dorrie, a black single mother in her thirties, to drop everything and drive her from her home in Arlington, Texas, to a funeral in Cincinnati--with no clear explanation why--tomorrow. Over the years, Dorrie and Isabelle have developed more than just a business relationship: they are friends. But Dorrie, fretting over the new man in her life and her teenage sons irresponsible choices, still wonders why Isabelle chose her. Isabelle confesses that, as a willful teen in 1930s Kentucky, she fell deeply in love with Robert Prewitt, a would-be doctor and the black son of her familys housekeeper--in a town where blacks werent allowed after dark. The tale of their forbidden relationship and its tragic consequences makes it clear Dorrie and Isabelle are headed for a gathering of the utmost importance and that the history of Isabelles first and greatest love just might help Dorrie find her own way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696043 After being caught in the middle of a love triangle which led to a devastating betrayal, Kiera pledged to learn from the mistakes shed made. She was determined to never again inflict that kind of pain on anyone, especially the soulful, talented man who held her heart. But life offers new challenges for every relationship, and when Kieras love is put to the ultimate test, will it survive? Love is easy-- trust is hard.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711919 Twenty-four-year-old Natasha Wiley lives in America-Five, a high-tech, underground, utopian settlement where hunger and money do not exist, everyone has a job, and all basic needs are met. But when her mentor and colleague, Jeffrey, selects her to join a special team to venture Outside for the first time, Natashas allegiances to home, society, and above all to Jeffrey are tested. She is forced to make a choice that may put the people she loves most in grave danger and change the world as she knows it--Amazon.com 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=1686148 Laura Bailey returns to Sierra Falls, California and finds herself working to save her familys lodge from losing business to an under-construction resort, as well as resisting the attraction she still feels for Eddie Jessup, who just happens to be running the construction company developing the new resort. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712207 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712810 Recently returned from the experience of a lifetime in fin de sicle Vienna, where she met and tragically lost the first great love of her life, Eleanor Burden has no choice but to marry and settle into her expected place in society. Her story is not unlike those of the other privileged young women she grew up with in 1890s Boston, with one exception: Eleanors unshakable belief that she has advance knowledge of every major historical event to come in her lifetime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695820 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732506 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708662 A string of murders being committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin on the exotic island city of Key West pits a crusading environmental shock-jock and a homicide detective against a maelstrom of unscrupulous developers, scammers, and everyday citizens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1692949 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731292 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743506 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743991 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705084 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696044 In the spirit of J.A. Jance, Nevada Barr, and C.J. Box comes Shamus Award-winning author Armstrongs sharp and gritty book about Black Ops army sniper-turned-FBI agent Mercy Gunderson and her quest for vengeance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711920 CIA Agent Jordan Sandor is on the hunt for the cold-blooded sociopath known as Adina, whose indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people, including Sandors close friend, represents man at his worst. Armed with little more than a combat knife and a deadly automatic weapon, he infiltrates Adinas camp and discovers that the ruthless terrorist is smuggling not only cocaine into the United States, but also a deadly substance that could cost tens of thousands of lives-- and Adinas evil web extends to the far corners of the globe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698354 Freelance writer Troy Chance is snapping photos of the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival ice palace when the ice-cutting machine falls silent. Encased in the ice is the shadowy outline of a body--a man she knows. One of her roommates falls under suspicion, and the media descends. Troys assigned to write an in-depth feature on the dead man, who, it turns out, was the privileged son of a wealthy Connecticut family who had been playing at a blue collar life in this Adirondack village. And the deeper Troy digs into his life and mysterious death, the murkier things become. After the victims sister comes to town and a string of disturbing incidents unfold, its clear someone doesnt want the investigation to continue. Troy doesnt know who to trust -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735840 When their strait-laced, domineering father, Sir Clement Carnell, dies, Valentine throws open their Devonshire estate of Pennacombe to their fashionable cousins from London and Louisa feels free at last to reject the man Sir Clement wanted her to marry. Soon, the temptations of Regency London beckon, including the beautiful, scandalous, and very married Lady Harriet Eversholt, with whom Valentine becomes dangerously involved. Meanwhile, Louisa finds that freedom of choice is as daunting as it is exciting. Will the opportunity to indulge in a little folly lead to fulfillment--or disaster? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683699 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713010 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743902 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711635 In an age of zeppelins and gyroplanes, atomics and horseless carriages, the Transatlantic Span is the industrial marvel of the nineteenth century. A monumental feat of engineering, the steel suspension bridge stretches across the Atlantic from Liverpool to the distant harbor of New York City, supported by no less than seven hundred towers. But in the shadows of its massive struts, on the docks of the River Mersey, lies a faceless corpse... Inspector Matthew Langton is still seized with grief when he thinks of Sarah, his late wife. Tortured by nightmares and afflicted by breathless attacks of despair and terror, he forces himself to focus on the investigation of the faceless man. The victim wears the uniform of the Transatlantic Span Company but bears the tattoos of the Boers--could there be a Boer conspiracy to assassinate Queen Victoria on the upcoming inauguration day of the Span? But the truth, as it begins to emerge, is far more bizarre than a political coup. As additional victims turn up--all with strange twin burn marks on their necks--Langton draws a connection between the dead man beneath the bridge and chilling rumors of the Jar Boys, soul snatchers who come under cover of night. Most frightening of all is the mythic and elusive Doktor Glass, who not only may be behind the illicit trade in souls...but may hold the key to what happened to the inspectors own beloved wife on her deathbed..-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735129 A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsays homicide department to report a murder that hasnt yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says hes ready to tell where the bodies are buried, but does he have a much more sinister plan in mind? Lindsay doesnt have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when she is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739022 A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot. Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation to save the hostages and keep the U.S. from being maneuvered into a murderous war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698026 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738614 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695826 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732507 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744340 When her son is recovered three years after his abduction, a mother flees the country with the boy and his sister to live with her former mother-in-law in a hotel where she uncovers the mystery of the boys lost years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732411 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739228 Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743612 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738079 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735977 At the request of his wife, Commissario Brunetti looks into the death of a deaf, mentally disabled man who worked at their dry-cleaners and uncovers a mystery when the man left no official records and his mother is reluctant to speak to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744004 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694678 Motherlunge is an eloquent and irreverent novel about first sex, true love, chronic sibling rivalry; its about the deepest fear of young (and not-so-young) adulthood: the fear of inheriting a disappointing live. Its motherly advice, too--featuring wigs, dogs, road trips, and medicine--a guide to the essential experiences of being female, born unto a librarian, named for the goddess of sight, waiting for the future to arrive. With sly wit and surprising joy, Motherlunge considers the flaws in the family line and celebrates the promise that staggers alongside--Front flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1692955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698249 An undercover DEA agent has gone off the radar. Suspecting an internal mole, the government needs Luke Dubois and his elite team of operatives to recover their man, and the New Orleans native thinks hes found his way inside the dark underbelly of Manhattan: Olivia Taylor, the girlfriend of a mob boss and the sexiest woman hes ever laid eyes on. His new mission objective? Get past Olivias defenses and convince her to take a chance--on him. All Olivia wanted was to finish law school and live a normal life, but that dream was shattered when one dangerous night put her deeply in a mobsters debt. Now Luke and his team will help her escape--in exchange for intel on the missing agent. But Olivia doesnt anticipate her intense attraction to the reckless Louisiana charmer or that shell be forced to risk everything--including her heart. --Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696629 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731296 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744046 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743507 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743992 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683283 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684677 For two years, Diamond and Black have been living comfortably on their high-class cul-de-sac with their daughter, ready to leave the drug business behind them. However, Johnny can feel nothing but rage for the woman he once loved, and on his death bed he sets a plan in motion to tear Diamonds world apart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696618 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715793 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694546 Gabe is wealthy, powerful, and accustomed to getting anything he wants. Anything-- and anyone. For Gabe, its one particular fantasy with a woman who was forbidden fruit. Now shes ripe for the picking... Mia was his best friends little sister... but shes not so little any more. Mia knows Gabe is way out of her league, but shes an adult now, and theres no reason not to act on her most secret desires. But she doesnt know how exacting his demands can be... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711921 In an alternate world where a victorious Nazi Germany has enslaved the native populations of Africa, former assassin Burton Cole struggles to stop a threat against Britains surviving colonies from a messianic racist with ties to a brutal plot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698355 A triple homicide in one of Goteborgs most fashionable neighborhoods culminates in a frantic investigation for Detective Inspector Irene Huss that is complicated by a dot-com diva who refuses to speak and Irenes partner Tommys suspicious behavior. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743524 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735841 Egotistic wine critic Clyde Craven-Jones gives a bottle of Cabernet the highest score on his self-devised scale, but the bottles unknown provenance leads to problems ranging from compromised positions in a fermentation tank and an internal family squabble becoming a public scandal. 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=1712193 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683701 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713012 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704723 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732466 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743903 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716155 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=1744008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716341 When billion-dollar stealth technology drops to bargain prices, governments and drug cartels around the world want in on the action. Suddenly, hotspots are cropping up everywhere, and even the United States can feel its military security slipping away. No country is safe unless Stony Mans command can find a way to destroy the technology. Determined to stop war from erupting, Able Team is sent to find the brain behind the stealth tech, while Phoenix Force infiltrates China to destroy the manufacturing plant. But time is of the essence. And the clock is already counting down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711636 Why should Dorothy Parkers friends be the only ones making enviable names in science, art, and parlor games? Dorothy can play with the best of them--as she sets out to prove at a New Years Eve party at the Algonquin Hotel. Since the swanky soiree is happening in the penthouse suite of swashbuckling star Douglas Fairbanks, some derring-do is called for. How about a little game of Murder? Each partygoer draws a card to be detective, murderer, or victim. But young Broadway starlet Bibi Bibelot trumps them all when her dead body is found in the bathtub. No one knows who the killer is, but one thing is for sure--they wont be making gin in that bathtub. When more partiers are put in peril, it becomes clear the game is indeed on, and its up to Dorothy, surprise guest Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the members of the Round Table to stay alive--and relatively sober--long enough to find the killer...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735132 Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether its across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing--and terrifying--playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manxs unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. Hes on the road again and hes picked up a new passenger: Vics own son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738944 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735898 Duisberg is one of thousands of planets plunged into darkness and chaos by the collapse of the galactic republic, but where other worlds have begun to rebuild a star-travelling culture, Duisberg remains in an uneasy balance between mud-brick civilization and bloodthirsty barbarism--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712209 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744035 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704536 They say Frasquita knows magic, that she is a healer with occult powers, that perhaps she is a sorcerer. She does indeed possess a remarkable gift, one that has been passed down to the women in her family for generations. From rags, off-cuts, and rough fabric she can create gowns and other garments so magnificent, so alive, that they bestow a breathtaking and blinding beauty on whoever wears them; they are also capable of masking any kind of defect or deformity (or a pregnancy!). But Frasquitas gift incites jealousy. She is hounded and eventually banished from her home, and what follows is an extraordinary adventure as she travels across southern Spain all the way to Africa with her five children in tow. Her exile becomes a quest for a better life, for both herself and her daughters, whom she hopes can escape the fate of her family of sorcerers-- From publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715752 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1718285 In 1842, when she wakes up next to a naked Scotsman with a ring on her finger and no recollection of what happened, Lady Georgette Thorold makes a run for it with Highland warrior James MacKenzie fast on her trail. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694148 Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. When she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street, she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core. Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and hes determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached. Jocelyn soon realizes that Braden wont be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her-- down to the very soul... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698029 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738092 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738615 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671095 Supervising an unrepentant alcoholic doctor who has been implicated in the death of a powerful Congressman, Dr. Lou Welcome uncovers a wealth of incriminating facts, including the doctors alleged affair with the victims wife, before stumbling on a high-level conspiracy that places Lous life at risk. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695827 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696010 In the wake of her stalwart police officer husbands shattering suicide in their otherwise peaceful Adirondack village, house restorer Nora Hamilton notices strange inconsistencies in her husbands past and in the behaviors of his police force co-workers before stumbling on deadly local secrets.