Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&Ne=7431&N=3+7491&N=7431&No=20 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732319 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753702 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759442 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759238 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738590 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753830 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705813 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705445 On Indonesias Belitong Island--impoverished and tyrannized by tin-mining interests--a wily group of schoolchildren fight for their right to education-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738029 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753779 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748578 A novel spanning decades follows a cast of characters as they make their way through a labyrinth that connects WWII spycraft, the occultism of Aleister Crowley, the Jonestown massacre, pulp science fiction, Latin American revolutionaries, and new wave music. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759333 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732823 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714079 Englishwoman Liese Campbell visits the Melbourne country mansion of heir Alexander Colquhoun, with whom she shares a no-strings-attached affair until discovering deeper, more erotic aspects of his character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715295 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743923 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759372 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738930 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753787 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715832 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754168 Continuing the trilogy that began with A Blaze of Glory, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara returns to chronicle another decisive chapter in Americas long and bloody Civil War. In A Chain of Thunder, the action shifts to the fortress city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. There, in the vaunted Gibraltar of the Confederacy, a siege for the ages will cement the reputation of one Union general and all but seal the fate of the rebel cause. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694800 Set during a period of revolution and turmoil, Mistress of My Fate is the first book in a trilogy about Henrietta Lightfoot, a young woman who was abandoned as a baby and raised alongside her cousins, noble children of a lord and lady. At just sixteen years old, circumstance and a passionate love affair tear Henrietta away from everything she knows, leading to a new life fending for herself on the streets of 18th century London as a courtesan, gambler, and spirited intellect of the city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715867 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753879 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694783 Seventeen-year-old Unni has done something terrible. The only clue to his actions lies in a comic strip he has drawn, which has fallen into the hands of his father Ousep - a nocturnal anarchist with a wife who is fantasizing about his early death. Ousep begins investigating the extraordinary life of his son, but as he circles closer and closer to the truth, he unravels a secret that shakes his family to the core. Set in Madras in the 1990s, where every adolescent male is preparing for the toughest exam in the world, this is a powerful and darkly comic story involving an alcoholics probe into the minds of the sober, an adolescent cartoonists dangerous interpretation of absolute truth, an inner circle of talented schizophrenics and the pure love of a 12-year-old boy for a beautiful girl. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740380 Damage Control displays Amber Dermonts remarkable gift for portraying characters at crossroads. In Lyndon, a daughter visits presidential landmarks following the death of her father. In Damage Control, a young man works at an etiquette school while his girlfriend is indicted for embezzlement. A widow rents herself to elderly women and vacations with them as a professional grandchild in Stella at the Winter Palace. And in The Language of Martyrs a couple houses a mail order bride on behalf of the husbands Russian mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1752796 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753703 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712061 Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself-fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth. Though they are one with the farm and with each other, the land on which Tike and Ella May live and work is not theirs. Due to larger forces beyond their control - including ranching conglomerates and banks - their adobe house remains painfully out of reach.--back cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744065 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736004 O foul villainy! Someone has stolen valuable paintings from Tawcester Towers, ancestral home of Blotto (the future Duke of Tawcester) and his sister, Twinks. Blotto is content to run around in a (handsome) sweat, cursing the thieving varlets and vowing revenge, but Twinks, rather more pragmatically, tracks the valets to France. She and Blotto, accordingly, go zipping off to Paris-- where they have rather a jolly time with the Left Bank bohemian set-- but before the hangovers can take hold Twinks has redirected the search to the Riviera, headquarters of that dastardly criminal mastermind, La Puce! Will the noble Blotto and the brilliant Twinks recover their paintings, vanquish La Puce, and rescue the kidnapped film star I neglected to mention? Mesdames et messieurs, place your bets -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743558 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759239 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738593 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733147 As leader of his clan, Black Rob Brunson has earned every dark syllable of his name. But, having taken hostage his enemys daughter in a fierce act of rebellion, he is tormented by feelings of guilt and torn apart with the growing need to protect her--and seduce her! Stella Storwick feels Robs disdain from the first. Then slowly she starts to see behind his eyes to a man in turmoil. Something he has no words for, something that can only be captured in a heart-wrenching kiss? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753831 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705814 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705446 Rendered a public hero when he is forced to kill a chief suspect in the murder of a high-profile judge, New Jersey police officer Luke Somers is targeted by the suspects vengeful older brother, who kidnaps Lukes brother and insists that his own brother was innocent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729352 Stella Lavender, an SBI undercover narcotics agent, really wants to work homicide. Her boss should listen because she has both the smarts and the nerves. Attending an elegant outdoor wedding where the a bride is murdered just before her wedding, Stella is asked by the local sheriff for assistance. Shes energized by the opportunity to prove herself. But why would someone kill Justine, the bride, on her wedding day? Even as a paranoid drug dealer seeks to silence her, Stella must unravel a complex knot of obsession, grief and secrets before Justines murderer claims another victim. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738030 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=1711925 Necromancer is such an ugly word, but its a title Eric Carter is stuck with. He sees ghosts and talks to the dead. Hes turned it into a lucrative career; putting troublesome spirits to rest, sometimes taking on even more dangerous things. For a fee, of course. When Carter left L.A. fifteen years ago he tought hed never have to go back. Too many bad memories. Too many people trying to kill him. But now, his sisters been brutally murdered and Carter wants to find out why. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753624 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753780 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753825 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696642 After CIA attorney Eve Salinas kidnaps and drugs ex-operative Mike Brown, he agrees to join her on a hunt for the cold-blooded traitor behind a fatal military operation that haunts them both. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750453 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734899 Gifted with the ability to see the future, Lady Olympia Wherlocke teams up with Lord Brant Mallam to save his sister from an arranged marriage orchestrated by his cold, calculating mother until their clever plan works a little too perfectly, revealing the sins of their pasts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714191 Fired from her job as a paralegal, Samantha Novak is in trouble. When Telltale, a Hollywood tabloid, asks her to write an expose on the reality television dating show, The Love Dog, Samantha is thrilled. Shes always dreamed of being a writer, and the fat paycheck wont hurt. After being recently left at the altar, shes not too keen on love either. Hired as the canine stars handler, Samantha finds that digging up dirt on set is harder then she thought. Apollo, the shows star, is a sweet golden retriever who takes his job as the love dog very seriously. He only wants to help couples fall in love and make everyone on set happy. Mason Hall, the shows producer and leading man, is down to earth, charming, and ... very attractive. If Samantha doesnt reveal to the world that the reality show isnt exactly real, her new career will be over before it starts. But when she falls in love with Apollo and Mason, will she still have the heart to expose The Love Dogs dirty secrets? -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695751 Famous for his fifty-year-old self-help book on love and relationships, Peter engages in a passionless relationship after the death of his wife and questions the validity of his advice when an ambitious young editor launches a contest for struggling couples based on his book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759406 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705521 Appointed to the unwanted position of Great Royal Scribe, peasant boy Ptah-hotep finds himself surrounded by envious rivals while the zealous monotheist Akhnaten plots to suppress the worship of all other gods in the Black Land. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759317 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714080 In 1811, Daria Babcock comes to Scotland in search of adventure and romance, and she gets her wish when she discovers a wounded Highlander in her grandmothers house who insists that he cannot remember what happened to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743924 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738721 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738551 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750458 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759373 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738091 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759072 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736032 When long-buried mistakes of her youth begin to resurface, old hatreds are rekindled and Alexia De Vere, the conservative partys newest superstar, finds herself on the brink of losing everything: her power, her family, and even her own life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754261 When a contentious professor makes claims about the identity of a woman found in a mysterious Mississippi grave and implicates wealthy Zinnia families of having ties to a related scandal, Sarah Booth Delaney is hired by a group of society ladies to clear their names only to discover another body in the professors hotel room. 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=1732499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715833 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754169 Receiving a sealed bottle with a years-old plea for help by two young victims imprisoned in a boathouse by the sea, Detective Carl Mrck follows leads to a desperate woman trapped in a brutal marriage to a man who keeps her in isolation and hides deadly secrets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715319 When a murdered body is discovered in the sacred Temple in 29 C.E. Jerusalem, ranking rabbi Gamaliel teams up with the physician Loukas to solve the crime and restore peace, a situation that is further complicated by additional killings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696579 Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins crimes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713751 From back cover -- Disaster strikes a mere week before the Hemlock Falls Ladies Auxiliary hosts the annual Spring Fete when the festivals chairwoman--the redoubtable Adela Henry--gives up her job in a huff. Who will stop the members of the Craft Guild from sabotaging their rivals, the Crafty Ladies? More to the point, whos got the tact, diplomacy, and iron will necessary to organize the booths and settle quarrels over the programming? Hemlocks mayor hopes to assure the fetes success when he recruits professional organizer Linda Connally and her staff to take over Adelas duties. But when Connallys body turns up in the trunk of a used car at Petersons Automotive, Meg and Sarah Quilliam, owners of the Inn at Hemlock Falls, are back in the detecting business... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753897 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715868 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753636 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=1729616 Captain Jean Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise join forces to combat a dangerous alliance between enemies of both the federation and Doctor Who, but the Doctor and Picard disagree on how to handle the threat. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696565 Zookeeper Teddy Bentley takes Alejandro, the Gunn Zoo llama, to a Monterey Bay-area Renaissance Faire. When she discovers the body of the Reverend Victor Emerson, owner of the local wedding chapel, dressed in his royal robes as Henry the Eighth, it appears as if Aljandro stomped the man to death, but a closer look reveals a crossbow dart in the mans back. And the reverend is really an escaped convict, and every marriage hes performed in the past twenty years is null and void! When Teddys mother Caro becomes the chief suspect, Teddy puts her crime solving skills to work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753880 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759045 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712117 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703719 Join bestselling authors Jennifer Crusie, Victoria Dahl and Shannon Stacey for three SEXY stories about finding the one you love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1760197 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1752878 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732442 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1753704 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1750374 In 1939 Scott is living in Hollywood, a virulent alcoholic and deeply in debt. Despite his relationship with gossip columnist Sheila Graham, he remains fiercely loyal to Zelda, his soul mate and muse. In an attempt to fuse together their fractured marriage, Scott arranges a trip to Cuba, where, after a disastrous first night in Havana, the couple runs off to a beach resort outside the city. But even in paradise, Scott and Zelda cannot escape the dangerous intensity of their relationship. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744051 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759444 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1754462 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712062 When Harry and Madeleine Winslow meet Claire, they are drawn to her youth, quiet intelligence, and naivete, and over the course of the summer, reverence transforms into dangerous desire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748086 Admiral Gearys First Fleet of the Alliance survives the journey deep into unexplored interstellar space, a voyage that led to the discovery of new alien species, including a new enemy and a possible ally. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694669 When Hollywood heartthrob Ryan Christensen unexpectedly comes into her life, pub owner Taryn Mitchell finds herself falling hard for his humor and charm, but wonders if their newfound relationship is strong enough to withstand the tabloids, the paparazzi and jealous fans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759339 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736005 Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan auction house. But after a tragic loss throws her into an emotional crisis, she pursues a reckless course of action that jeopardizes her personal and professional success. Meanwhile, talented artist Gabriel Connois wearies of remaining at the margins of the capricious Parisian art scene, and, desperate for recognition, embarks on a scheme that threatens his burgeoning reputation--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705530 We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In Thief, a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In We Live in Water, a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In Anything Helps, a homeless man has to go to cardboard to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In Virgo, a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. And the collections final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walters hometown into a moving contemplation of our times--Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743560 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698250 Rebekah restores her hope for the future when she falls in love with Isaac, but the birth of her twin sons marks the beginning of years of misunderstanding, disagreement, and betrayal. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1759240