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=50 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682630 Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703960 In the wake of a series of baffling murders committed by children, anthropologist Hesketh Lock investigates a scandal in the Taiwan timber industry and wonders at his stepsons odd behavior before making a shocking connection upon the death of his Taiwan contact. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713743 Shaman Joanne Walker returns to North Carolina to find her missing father and meet Aidan, the son she left behind long ago. But Aidan has become tainted by an evil reaching forward from the distant past. It will take everything Joanne has to pull the past apart and weave a better future--for her, her son, and the Appalachians. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740412 Phoenix Smith, a wounded ex-spy, returns to her hometown in rural Missouri to recuperate. After her arrival she finds her lifelong friend, Annalynn Keyser, mourning her husbands death. Everyone except Annalynn believes that her husband shot his mistress and then himself. She pleads for Phoenixs help in proving her husband innocent and to identify his killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712242 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694885 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738592 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713809 There is another world than our own-- one no closer than a kiss and one no further than our nightmares-- where all the stuff of which dreams are made is real and magic is just a step away. But once you see that world, you will never be the same. Dreams and Shadows takes us beyond this veil. Once bold explorers and youthful denizens of this magical realm, Ewan is now an Austin musician who just met his dream girl, and Colby, meanwhile, cannot escape the consequences of an innocent wish. But while Ewan and Colby left the Limestone Kingdom as children, it has never forgotten them. And in a world where angels relax on rooftops, whiskey-swilling genies argue metaphysics with foul-mouthed wizards, and monsters in the shadows feed on fear, you can never outrun your fate -- from HarperCollins web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713753 When a local baker gets run over by a big white Cadillac and her Granny stands accused of the crime, psychic Sunny Meadows refuses to ignore her visions and joins in the investigation despite Detective Mitchs objections. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743326 While investigating a mobsters mysterious death, police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross come into contact with a strange artifact and accidentally develop the Sight. Suddenly they can see the true evil haunting Londons streets. Now the four officers take on the otherworldly creatures secretly prowling London. Football lore and the tragic history of a Tudor queen become entwined in their pursuit of an age-old witch with a penchant for child sacrifice. But when Londons monsters become aware of their meddling, the officers must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to clean up their city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711928 Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and hes made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, hes called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C., is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all-out frenzy. Alexs investigations are going nowhere, and hes too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him--and will stop at nothing until hes dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694696 Adam Desantis is back-bruised, battle-weary and sexier than ever! Not that Brooke Thalberg is in the market. The beautiful cowgirl of Silver Creek Ranch needs a cowboy for hire, not a boyfriend-though the gaggle of grandmas at the Widows Boardinghouse thinks otherwise. But from the moment she finds herself in Adams arms, shes shocked to discover she may just want more. Adam knows its crazy to tangle with Brooke, especially with the memories that still haunt him, and the warm welcome her family has given him. But he finds himself in a fix, because tender-loving Brooke is so much more woman than he ever imagined. Can a soldier battling demons give her the love she clearly deserves?--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698358 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=1732155 A young man comes to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film, in particular with his relationships with family, friends, lovers, and adversaries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711911 Eight months into a surrogate pregnancy for her sister, Kristina, Detective Savannah Dunbar just wants to wrap up paperwork before taking medical leave. But her departments investigation into a brutal double homicide has suddenly become much more complex - and personal. And now there are disturbing rumors about the Colony, its matriarch, and a long history of bitter secrets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744069 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732809 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732466 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696145 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738060 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732442 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705438 In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby. At the same time, Nikitas English widow Maud - disturbed by her husbands strange behavior in the days before his death - starts to investigate his complicated past. She soon finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, and discovers a heartbreaking story of a young mother caught up in the political tides of the Greek Civil War, forced to make a terrible decision that will blight not only her life but that of future generations -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727084 Scarred by the memories of the war, Captain Garrett Sinclair returns to England where he, dealing with powerful enemies who want him dead, comes to the aid of the penniless Lady Alexandra Langdon, who makes him forget his past and look forward to the future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743560 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744000 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734788 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715665 Blake Harrison is in need of a wife by Wednesday. Samatha Elliot is the owner of a matchmaking firm and not on the martial menu...that is, until Blake offers her ten million dollars for a one-year contract. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733131 A middle-aged woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbors yard improvements, offers a corner of her lawn to a Croatian immigrant who wants a vegetable garden. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain. In twelve stories about the difficult, sometimes impermeable boundaries between friends, neighbors, and family relations, Jessica Francis Kane explores just how close we can come to love, success, happiness, and forgiveness.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677529 Susan Lindley is adrift after her husbands death. Suddenly gifted her great uncles Pasadena mansion, she decides to restore his extensive collection of preserved animals. Meanwhile, a menagerie of uniquely damaged humans-- including a cheating husband and a chorus of eccentric elderly women-- joins her in residence. As Susan defends her inheritance from freeloading relatives and explores the mansions many mysterious spaces, she emerges from the sudden dissolution of her family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682631 In this poignant story of two parallel destinies, a young New York lawyer and his wife link their destinies forever in a follow-your-dream move to rural Wyoming. Thirty-eight years later a Manhattan publisher and a young Amish woman become irresistibly drawn together through her writing. Somehow these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways, as lovers are lost, and find each other again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744042 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713744 A terminally ill cancer patient is attended throughout his final days by his wife and daughter while the trio contemplates their relationships with an estranged son, a situation that stirs up painful memories for a new next-door neighbor who has recently lost her mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678855 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=1713072 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738905 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739480 Sharing a family life in the 1930s near the legendary Palisades Amusement Park, a family of dreamers explores ambitions and cultural boundaries that are challenged by the realities of the Great Depression, multiple wars, and the parks eventual closing in 1971. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738570 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732113 Griffin Shaw and his wife were both murdered fifty years ago. Now a minor angel, Grifs been granted permission to solve the mystery of his own death--if he helps the Pure angels guide those souls who might otherwise be Lost. Souls like Jeap Yang, a drug addict in his final moments of life. Grif knows that death is coming, but he cannot intervene. However, Grifs mortal lover, reporter Katherine Kit Craig, isnt constrained by angelic protocol. If she can stop a death, she will. But as Kit is about to find out, there are things more traumatic and evil than murder. A strange new drug is literally eating tweakers flesh from their bones, and Kits crusade to get it off the streets is set to propel her and Grif into a battle with a vicious drug cartel. Theyll have to scramble to stay alive, stay together, and choose their own fate--before its chosen for them.-- P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731310 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740413 Paralegal and title searcher Apple Mariani finds herself in the middle of different kind of mystery after appraiser Lou Marshall is killed by an antique dagger at an estate sale and an elderly friend and witness goes missing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706395 In every war there are stories that do not surface. You can try to forget, but sometimes the past can return: in the scent of a bar of soap, in whispers darting through a village after mass, in the color of an undelivered letter. Jeanne Nerin and Marie-Angle Baudry grow up side by side in the Catholic village of Ste. Madeleine, but their worlds could not be more different. Marie-Angle is the grocers daughter, inflated with ideas of her own piety and rightful place in society. Jeannes mother washes clothes for a living. She used to be a Jew until this became too dangerous. Jeanne does not think twice about stealing food when she is hungry, nor about grasping the slender chances life throws at her. Marie-Angle does not grasp; she aspires to a life of comfort and influence. When war falls out of the sky, the forces that divide the two girls threaten to overwhelm those that bind them together. In this dizzying new order, the truth can be buried under a pyramid of recriminations -- from publishers web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714499 When Miss Anabelle Honeycote, a dressmaker in Londons busiest shop - and a reluctant blackmailer in need of money to care for her gravely ill mother, falls in love with the Duke of Huntford, she enjoys pleasures she never imagined until her secret is revealed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743549 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742780 Regency-era glamourists Jane and Vincent Ellsworth hope to bolster Melodys chances for a good marriage by accepting a commission from a prominent London family, a job that embroils them in an international crisis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712243 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732452 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=1694895 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738593 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737966 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713810 When the woman to whom he has been betrothed since childhood decides to call off the wedding, the Duke of Huntsley, a.k.a. the Lord of Vice, is surprised by his refusal to let Lady Grace Kearly go, viewing her as a beautiful challenge he cannot resist. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686076 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705746 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738386 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712107 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704701 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713754 High Priestess might sound like an 80s hair band, but its Mona McGregors life. She runs the Midnight Magic shop in Goodnight, Virginia, and leads a large coven. Shes also raising two nieces and hasnt been with a man for fifteen years. Then a handsome doctor takes an interest in her-- and a sexy werewolf arrives at her door! Hells bells! When a demon begins stalking her, Mona has to find out who wants her dead... and who really wants her... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742240 Surviving a near-fatal car wreck and cruising the streets of the Sunset Strip during the heyday of the late 1960s, Easy Rawlins investigates the disappearance of a young African-American, a case that is complicated by Rawlinss changing perspectives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743327 Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694697 Two novellas provide insight into the human condition as a sixty-year-old art history academic embarks on an unexpected journey of discovery and a young farm boy is drawn to the water of Lake Michigan as an escape. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1702014 A young New York lawyer and his wife link their destinies forever in a follow-your-dream move to rural Wyoming. Thirty-eight years later a Manhattan publisher and a young Amish woman become irresistibly drawn together through her writing. Somehow these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways as lovers are lost, and find each other again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675594 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732415 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712207 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698359 When her sisters boyfriend, philandering Monster Truck driver Bobby Joe Jones, is found dead, former Silicon Valley-based copywriter-turned-marketing guru Dana Lewis must once again come to her sisters rescue and stop a deadly killer in his tracks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711657 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735884 Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past--a past of death, suffering, and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England with his beloved wife, Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and defined him. As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are transported to St. Petersburg, to the Winter Palace of the czar, in the early twentieth century--a time of change, threat, and bloody revolution. As Georgy overturns the most painful stone of all, we uncover the story of the house of special purpose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744070 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732622 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705084 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704666 As China plans to invade Taiwan, and launches a cyber attack on the U.S., President Jack Ryan, his son, and the team at the Campus have to act fast if they are going to stop the increasingly rogue nation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675585 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732481 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731275 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696316 One of the mythical race of shape-shifting Imnada and a member of an elite military unit, Captain Mac Flannery suffers under a ruthless curse. As the result of a savage massacre on the eve of Waterloo, he and the men he served with are forced to live the hours of darkness trapped as their animal aspects. Now one of them has been murdered, and Mac suspects the existence of the Imnada may finally have been discovered. His only link to unearthing the truth-Bianca Parrino, the beautiful actress whom every man desires. Forging a new life for herself after escaping the clutches of her abusive husband, Bianca is again drawn into violence when a dear friend is brutally murdered and she becomes a suspect. Forced to place her trust and her life in Macs hands as they flee a determined killer, Bianca cannot deny she is falling for the mysterious soldier. But will his dark secrets tear them asunder? Or will love be the key to breaking even the cruelest of spells?--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732429 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695867 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732467 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704392 Before getting married, Lady Philippa Marbury has fourteen days to learn more about the darker side of life and hires Cross, the owner of an exclusive gaming hell, to give her a taste of Londons wicked underworld. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706491 Eight months into their whirlwind romance, Taryn wakes up in Ryans Hollywood hotel room to find a diamond to die for on her left ring finger-- and her face splashed across the cover of every gossip magazine. Ryans very public proposal is catnip to the tabloids, his management team is worried, and Taryn must figure out how a small-town girl like her fits into his glittering world. What does it take to make a relationship work amidst telephoto lenses, daily on-set temptations, and jealous fans who will stop at nothing to keep her from walking down the aisle with the man of her dreams? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738061 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732443 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684642 Bryce Grantham wants a quiet vacation at his familys cabin. On his first night in town, he meets a lovely girl at a bar and gives her a ride home. The next day, he finds her cell phone in his car. When he tries to return it, Bryce discovers that the young woman has vanished, leaving behind only a bloody shoe. Suddenly Bryce Grantham is the primary suspect in a murder investigation--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686169 After losing his partner in a shootout, Detective John Tallow discovers an apartment filled with guns that were each used in an unsolved murder stretching back over twenty years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715300 A portrait of 1970s Botswana is told through the intertwined stories of three people, including a medical student who is forced to flee apartheid South Africa after witnessing a murder and an American Ph.D. student who abandons her studies to follow her husband to Africa. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695480 Sixteen linked stories explore the marginalized humanity in communities, hospitals, and nursing homes in San Francisco, including an elderly Chinese immigrant who is forced to make a painful sacrifice and a young veteran whose injuries symbolize the rest of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738579 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743561 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713043 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705814 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743969 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744055 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695790 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1720369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738630 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705409 Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mothers unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons. Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Graces aunt disappeared without a trace. The night has been shrouded in secrecy by the powerful Alban family for all of these years. Her mother intended to tell the truth about that night to a reporter on the very day she died--could it have been murder? Or was she a victim of the supposed Alban curse? Grace soon realizes her family secrets tangle and twist as darkly as the mansions secret passages. With the help of the disarmingly kind-and attractive-Reverend Matthew Parker, Grace must uncover the truth about her home and its curse before she and her daughter become the next victims.-- P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716369 Living with her controlling husband in 1920s New York, socialite Charlotte Delacortes life changes when her sister-in-law Mae takes up residence with the couple and introduces Charlotte to the flapper revolution.