Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=7431&Ne=7431&N=7431+6601&No=100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114121 Leo Hathaway must marry and produce an heir within a year to save his family home. Catherine Marks is intriguing and infernally tempting but hides a secret that could utterly destroy her. Can two wary lovers find a way to banish the shadows and give into their desires? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114127 Wedding baker Laurel McBane is surrounded by romance working at Vows wedding planning company with her best friends Parker, Emma, and Mac. Low-key and unpretentious, she longs for the seemingly unreachable Ivy League lawyer Delaney, Parkers older brother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1142921 Nine years ago Richard Allen fled England when his avaricious father, the Earl of Manford, betrothed him to Julia Miller, the young daughter of Londons wealthiest merchant. Having seen how his fathers ambition ruined his older brothers prospects for happiness with an arranged marriage, free-spirited Richard takes to the sea, determined to live his own life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114123 A reporter for the Bergen News, Chris Turley could never measure up to his father. Edward Turley, a combination of Bob Woodward and Ernie Pyle, was one of the last great investigative reporters and a difficult man to impress. Then one day while hes waiting to meet a source, a giant explosion takes out half of an office building next door. Shocked into action, Chris saves five people from the burning building. What seemed like a reporters dream quickly becomes an inescapable nightmare. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681611 Presents an allegorical account of Christians journeys towards the Celestial City from the City of Destruction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1101044 With the help of local law enforcement and the FBI, the Monkeewrench crew tracks a serial killer using savvy computer technology. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1058421 Homicide detective Taylor Jackson thinks shes seen it all in Nashville-- but shes never seen anything as perverse as The Conductor. Once his victim is captured, he contains her in a glass coffin, slowly starving her to death. Only then does he give in to his attraction. Later, he creatively disposes of the body by reenacting scenes from famous paintings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110216 Critically acclaimed and award-winning, but hardly bestselling-author Georgina Jackson cant get past the first chapter of her second book. When she receives an urgent email from her agent, Georgina is certain its bad news. Shockingly, shes offered a commission to complete a newly discovered manuscript by a major nineteenth-century author. Skeptical at first about her ability to complete the manuscript, Georgina is horrified to know that the author in question is Jane Austen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1142046 To most people, Fiona Bristow seems to have an idyllic life--a quaint house on a island off Seattles coast, a thriving dog-training school, and a challenging volunteer job performing canine search and rescue. Not to mention her three intensely loyal Labs. But Fiona got to this point by surviving a nightmare. Several years ago, she was the only survivor of a serial killer--a madman who stalked and abducted young women, strangled them, and left them buried with a red scarf on their bodies. As authorities were closing in on the Red Scarf Killer, he shot and killed Fionas cop fianc and his K-9 partner. On Orcas Island, Fiona has found the peace and solitude she needed to rebuild her life. Yet all that changes on the day Simon Doyle barrels up her drive, desperate for her help...--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1115870 In the face of a wrenching loss, amid the enchantment of Willow Lake, Ross and Claire, a private nurse and protected witness, dare to risk everything for love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1136621 On Pensacola Beach, the Coast Guard prepares for a Category 5 hurricane. Patrolling the waterways, they spot a huge fishing cooler about a mile offshore. Drug traffickers have been known to dump coolers with smuggled product to avoid detection and pay fishermen to retrieve them. But when the crew opens this cooler, theyre shocked to find body parts tightly wrapped in plastic. Though she is putting herself in the projected path of the hurricane, Special Agent Maggie ODell investigates. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110278 Theres no place like home, especially if its Serenity, South Carolina. For Annie Sullivan, though, the homecoming is bittersweet. Shed always envisioned a life there with her childhood best friend, Tyler Townsend. But Tys betrayal has cost her the family and the future theyd once planned. For Ty, losing Annie was heartbreaking. Still, he cant imagine life without the three-year-old son whose mother left him for Tyler to raise. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1099117 After disturbing visions and her mothers suicide, Alexandra Clarkson begins to investigate her mothers past and gets drawn into the search for a killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1046753 A young woman is haunted by her rommates murder; a man and his daughter-in-law confess their sins in the unlikeliest of places. In one quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1101047 On the anniversary of his beloved wife Hannahs death, Dr. Michael Everett receives a letter she had written him. In it, she reminds him of her love and makes one final request: that he marry again. Hannah specifies three women in particular that Michael should court. During the months that follow, he spends time with Winter, Leanne, and Macy, learning more about each of them and about himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1136618 When the country singer ex-wife of a U.S. president is sensationally murdered during a concert performance, forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett endeavors to learn the victims role in her demise as well as the murders relevance for the president. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1127679 As Kieri Phelan ascends a throne he never sought, he must come to terms with his own half-elven heritage while protecting his new kingdom from his old enemies. Meanwhile, in Tsaia, Prince Mikeli escapes an assassination attempt made by the Verrakaien magelords. As dark forces gather against the two kings and their worlds, even Paks may find her gods-given magic and peerless fighting skills stretched to the limit--and beyond. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1113973 When Bonnie finds her secret lover dead on the floor of his apartment, her first panicky thought is to cover it up, hide the body, straighten the scene, and remove every trace of her presence. However, nothing ever goes according to plan and Bonnie is drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=837189 Chinese-American P. I. Lydia Chin is brought in by former mentor Joel Pilarsky to help with a case that crosses continents, cultures, and decades. In Shanghai, excavation has unearthed a cache of European jewelry dating back to World War II. The jewelry was immediately stolen by a Chinese official who fled to New York City. Hired by a lawyer specializing in the recovery of Holocaust assets, Chin and Pilarsky are to find any and all leads to the missing jewels. Lydia soon learns that there is much more to the story than theyve been told. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=837191 As a curious six-year-old, Clayton didnt resist the bite--he asked for it. But surviving as a lone child-werewolf was more than he could manage--until Jeremy came along, taught him how to straddle the human-werewolf worlds, and introduced him to the Pack. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=837192 The inhabitants of Niniltna are uneasy about the gold-mining company buying up tracts of land nearby, an unease shared by P.I. Kate Shugak as she probes the killings of a mine opponent and a popular ski champion-turned-company spokesperson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991114 Jake finds the corpse of a world-famous corporate trader who used to be a local boy, and when her friend Ellie confesses to the murder, Jake smells a cover-up and investigates as cops and journalists swarm into snowbound Eastport. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998443 George Smiley was simply doing a favor for Miss Ailsa Brimley, an old friend and editor of a small newspaper. Miss Brimley had received a letter from a worried reader: Im not mad. And I know my husband is trying to kill me. But the letter had arrived too late: its scribe, the wife of an assistant master at the distinguished Carne School, was already dead. So George Smiley went to Carne to listen, ask questions, and think. And to uncover, layer by layer, the complex network of skeletons and hatreds that comprised that little English institution. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=933022 Saloon proprietor Vin Lockhart is known throughout Denver as a respectable businessman. He also has a reputation for quickness on the draw--a skill sure to come in handy when his old Oglala friends solicit his aid. It seems treacherous whites are once again intent on pushing the Oglaglas from their already diminished lands. A man of honor through and through, Vin commits himself to their fight. But in these rough and tumble times, even the best gunslinger occasionally misses the mark. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836923 An unnerving tale of a narcotics addict unmoored in New York, Tangiers, and ultimately a nightmarish wasteland known as Interzone, its formal innovation, formerly taboo subject matter, and tour de force execution have exerted their influence on the work of authors like Thomas Pynchon, J.G. Ballard, and William Gibson; on the relationship of art and obscenity; and on the shape of music, film, and media generally. This restored text includes many editorial corrections to errors present in previous editions, and incorporates Burroughs notes on the text, and several essays he wrote over the years about the book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991109 Meet Indias answer to Hercule Poirot: Vish Puri, a fastidious private eye with a penchant for fast food and dangerous disguises. Puri and his team of undercover operatives are investigating the missing and possibly murdered maidservant of a public litigator, but how will he track down an unknown girl in a population of more than one billion? His search will reveal modern India in all its seething complexity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1000184 Born Queen of Scotland, married as a young girl to the King of France, Mary took the reins of the unruly kingdom of Scotland as a young widow and fought to keep her throne. Many believed that she, and not her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I, was the rightful Queen of England, but this only fueled their bitter rivalry, ending in Marys execution at age forty-four. From her pampered childhood to the legendary scandals that surrounded her adult life, this vividly detailed and elegantly written fictional account brings readers straight into the heart and mind of one of historys most famous women. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=935218 When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=947459 Kafkas novel follows the misadventures of 16-year-old Karl Rossman, a European boy whose parents ship him off to America after he is seduced by a servant girl. On arrival, Karl finds an America only Kafka could have envisioned--and the still hopeful youth is soon set upon by odd circumstance and suspect traveling companions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=959760 Spocks mother, Amanda Grayson, is dying, and Spock returns to the planet Vulcan where he and Sarek enjoy a rare moment of rapprochement. But just as his wifes illness grow worse, duty calls Sarek away--once again sowing the seeds of conflict between father and son. Yet soon, Sarek and Spock must put aside their differences and work together to foil a far-reaching plot to destroy the Federation--a plot that Sarek has seen for nearly his entire career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=946948 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=839016 Eight students gather in Lillian Restaurant every Monday night for cooking class, but it soon becomes clear that each seeks a recipe for something beyond the kitchen. Chef Lillian, whose connection with food is both soulful and exacting, helps them to create dishes using techniques that expand beyond the restaurant and into the secret corners of her students lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998444 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=932750 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965326 When local minister Sam Kinkades plans to welcome the areas growing Hispanic community to the church are met with resistance, he asks Elisa Martinez for guidance, and together they make things work with the help of a special group of women. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=933023 Nathan Cooper is an expert scout and tracker. Arriving home one afternoon, he is shocked to find his wife, niece and her betrothed violently murdered. Swearing revenge, Cooper sets off on a quest to track down the killers--and heaven help them when his righteous anger delivers them to their maker. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=837194 The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now, the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dunes power, have colonized a green world--and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836924 In the bucolic mountain town of Trafalgar, British Columbia, a young woman is found dead of a heroin overdose, her baby lying at her side. While this should be an open-and-shut drug case, restraint marks on the victim suggest to Probationary Constable Molly Smith and Sergeant John Winters that the death might not have been completely accidental. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1013828 Sophie Sky Lee is a washed-up rocker who yearns for the days when she poured her soul into music. She gets a second chance when a charity event reunites the old band, and her savvy manager boyfriend puts the group back on tour. But Sophie is pulled in another direction when she finds that Ari, the lead guitarist and her ex, has cleaned up his heroin-addled ways and wants her back. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991110 The vast road network of Honce, completed a decade before, had brought great optimism to the people of the land. Commerce could travel more freely and so could armies, and those armies, it was hoped, would rid the land at long last of the vicious, bloody cap dwarfs and goblins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=947454 The military-industrial complex unwittingly unleashes a devastating threat to humanity after government programmers experiment with viruses and worms. But what escapes is no ordinary computer virus, and when the deadly artificial life-form reaches the Internet, humanitys very existence is at stake. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=942399 Years ago, Ben Kincaid successfully defended professional activist George Zakin against a charge of murder. Now, accused of killing a lumberjack, Zakin is counting on Ben to save him a second time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965507 Living in the late 1970s, brothers J.T. and Roland Cole build an impressive economic empire from their fathers humble bank enterprise. Now they have their eyes on endeavors promising more wealth and power--but at what cost? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1017440 When she pledges herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town, Claire is faced with a past stalker, murder, and an ancient bloodsucker who extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988250 Starting a new life as the sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas, Hackberry Holland is drawn into a murder investigation when nine dead prostitutes are dug up in the desert, forcing him to focus on something other than his own demons. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1054379 Science Fiction writer, Rod Everlar, is lost in a magical world of his own creation. He is believed to be the Dark Lord of legend, able to hurl world shattering spells, is feared and hated by everyone but cant cast a single spell. In this third installment of the Falconfar Saga, Everlar faces his greatest challenge. The evil wizard Malrauns tower is falling around his ears, and the evil wizard Narmarkoun is seemingly defeated. As Falconfar descends into war, Rod must find the power and the knowledge to fight the first Archwizard, the most feared of the Dooms: Lorntar. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1005747 Diamant pens the tale of four women who flee Nazi Europe. Landing in a postwar British camp in Palestine, the women make extraordinary discoveries about themselves, humanity, and each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=935219 A young Victorian Englishwoman runs from love in Florence, but returns to England where she must be taught how to listen to her heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999046 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1019987 Left in the cold care of a loveless foster family and alienated at school, Sarah Crane finds a kindred spirit in classmate Nick Dunnigan, a former mental patient still plagued by voices and visions. And in eccentric art instructor Bettina Phillips who is eager to mentor Sarahs artistic talent. But within the walls of Bettinas ancestral home, Sarah finds something altogether different and disturbing--a gateway from the grave into the world of the living that she and Nick will use to take control of their lives and to exact revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=970009 Marla Cahill survives a horrific car accident, but comes out of it with near total amnesia--unable to recognize her own face. Now, confined to the Cahill mansion among strangers who claim to be her family, she begins fearing for her life. Someone was counting on Marlas death in the accident--and they may finish the job the moment her memory returns. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836620 A local curmudgeon who has been campaigning to end state-sponsored school funding is brutally killed. A recent graduate of a public high school for the gifted is arrested for the crime and turns to Lew for help. A semi-retired and much beloved singer of childrens songs is being anonymously pushed to leave Sarasota, threatened with exposure as a sexual predator. It is up to Lew to uncover the blackmailer and determine whether there is any truth to the accusation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993846 The bond between restauranteur Verity Ames and her lover, Jonas Quarrel, a Renaissance scholar and dishwasher, is tested when the pair, along with a group of New Age eccentrics, hunt for medieval treasure off the coast of Washington state. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=947460 First published in 1936, this book is a historical novel set against the dramatic backdrop of the Civil War. It tells the love story of Scarlett OHara and Rhett Butler. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1046733 Jack Winters, descendant of genetically altered Nicholas, has been experiencing nightmares and blackouts--just the beginning, he believes--of the manifestation of the Winters family curse. The legend says that he must find the Burning Lamp or risk turning into a monster. But he cant do it alone; he needs the help of private investigator Chloe Harper who possesses the gift to read the lamps dreamlight.--From publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=946949 A story of what happens after we die and a love that transcends even death itself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=974947 Much to his wifes dismay, Conrad Harrison buys a large, old house in Wisconsin. After a few paranormal incidences in the new house, Conrads wife returns to her life in California. Isolated and depressed, Conrad finds comfort in a friendship with Nadia, his pregnant neighbor. However, Nadia claims to have been victimized by the eerie house and Conrad discovers a body hidden within his homes wall, the duo commence a terrifying investigation into the houses history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1040906 Practical advice from his new housekeeper helps Seth Webster, a widower with six-year-old twins, rebuild his life after the loss of his wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965062 Reggie is thrilled when he learns that his new office is in the same space where famous sleuth Sherlock Holmes used to ply his trade. However, when he starts to receive mysterious mail, written for Holmes, his excitement soon turns into intrigue. As Reggies brother, Nigel, begins to investigate one of these letters, he inexplicably disappears. Now, Reggie must find his brother while simultaneously solving a murder case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999053 Influential San Francisco attorney Mark Dooher, affluent, powerful, totally in control, is accustomed to getting what he wants. When he meets a beautiful young attorney, he decides he wants her, too. But Mark Dooher is a married man, and as legal counsel for San Franciscos Archdiocese, divorce is not exactly an option. Then Doohers wife is murdered, and Mark becomes a suspect in the case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=998445 On Spains Costa Brava, passion and intrigue are everywhere, especially in the hearts of those who dwell there. As the dictator Franco teeters on the edge of overthrow, two couples are entwined. One is a husband and wife bored with the existence they have drifted into, the other a passionate, combative pair who relish every moment of life. Into this potent mix comes a young American seeking his missing lover, bringing a shadow of danger into the machinations already at work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=978353 Captain Leland Stottlemayer is faced with budget cuts and trims Monks services as an expense. Though he insists its nothing personal, when Monks offers to help for no charge are declined, he and Natalie suspect otherwise. But Monk is too compulsive to stop investigating. So when Stottlemayer is arrested for the killing of another cop with overwhelming evidence against him, he must turn to the only detective who can prove his innocence--Publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=929041 Genghis must act when trouble brews west of the Mongolian plains. Dividing his army and using his sons as generals, he sets out to accomplish two important goals--conquer those who resist, and determine which son should succeed him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=938509 A rancher and his wife face a conflict over his actions to preserve his family land. What was planned as a final trip together causes them to see their marriage in a new light. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=837196 Pursuing a string of senseless murders of clean-cut young adults, detectives M.C. Riggio and Kitt Lundgren find the investigation shattered by M.C.s fiances murder, which strains M.C.s relationship with Kitt and brings the fiances true nature into question. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836639 Hannah Swensen, like most women in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is not a fan of Ronni Ward--the man-stealing gym bunny. So when Ronni turns up lifeless in a jacuzzi--accompanied by one of Hannahs cream puffs--the long list of suspects begins with Hannah. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=959752 Its a new beginning for bodyguard Atticus Kodiak. Dead to the world, no longer hunted, he has lived with his commonlaw wife Alena for more than a year in a small town in the Republic of Georgia. But when their new neighbors are brutally murdered, leaving behind their son, it falls to Atticus to rescue him. To do so, he must enter a web that takes him from Russia to Istanbul and that stretches from Dubai to Las Vegas. But what troubles Atticus the most is that Alena--once one of the worlds most dangerous assassins and a woman who fears nothing--is clearly terrified of what hes uncovered. As Atticus gets closer to learning why, the closer he gets to destroying the life they have made, and each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=947470 After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991560 Elevated to the ranks of the aristocracy due to an inheritance, Amelia Hathaway is ill-prepared to deal with the intricacies of the ton, especially her growing attraction to Cam Rohan, a man who dreams of returning to his gypsy roots. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=939471 A locked room mystery that goes from stolen books to stolen lives and the hunt for a phantom stalker with a penchant for pouring acid to make his point give Nameless and his partner Jake more than enough work to earn their fees; As long as neither turns his back at the wrong moment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836926 American pathologist Margaret Campbell returns from China to her home soil only to be faced with a truck full of dead Chinese and an inevitable confrontation with her past. Beijing detective Li Yan, now based at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, is dispatched to find out how his fellow countrymen suffocated in a sealed refrigeration unit in southern Texas - only to find himself face to face with the woman who walked out of China, and his life, to return to the US. Working together again and wrestling with the demons of their past, Li and Margaret discover that the immigrants were unwitting carriers of a deadly cargo. They must race against time to defuse a biological time-bomb that threatens to wipe out not only their future but that of mankind. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=929799 Mark Genevich is a South Boston P.I. with a little problem: hes narcoleptic, and he suffers from the most severe symptoms, including hypnogogic hallucinations. These waking dreams wreak havoc for a guy who depends on real-life clues to make his living. Clients havent exactly been beating down the door when Mark meets Jennifer Times--daughter of the powerful local D.A. and a contestant on American Star--who walks into his office with an outlandish story about a man who stole her fingers. He awakes from his latest hallucination alone, but on his desk is a manila envelope containing risqu photos of Jennifer. Are the pictures real, and if so, is Mark hunting a blackmailer, or worse? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=947455 Featuring authors Jim Butcher, Simon R. Green, Kat Richardson and Thomas E. Sniegoski, Mean streets offers four novellas of paranormal suspense. Running the gamut from demons and werewolves to zombies and black magic, these whodunits crackle with otherworldly secrets, making for a noir collection with an extra set of fangs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1000181 Serial killer Gretchen Lowell is on the loose and Detective Archie Sheridan is hospitalized after his ploy to catch her went spectacularly wrong. Theyve entered a detente of sorts--Archie agrees not to kill himself if she agrees not to kill anyone else. But suddenly theres something else to contend with. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965322 Eager to exploit a potentially highly-lucrative energy source, billionaire Dennis Cavendish has begun to tap the crystalline methane under the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. Eco-terrorism kills his science team and releases gigatons of poisonous methane into the water and atmosphere, causing untold deaths. If the release isnt stopped, all life on Earth will soon disappear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836617 As a toddler, in a room illuminated only by the flames of a fallen candle, Jacobia Tiptree watched a man kill her mother. Jake once believed that man to be her father. Now, thirty-five years after the murder, as the real killers long-delayed trial is about to begin, the defendant has vanished. Jake tries to distract herself from murder with the constant attempts to keep her 1823 Federal-style fixer-upper from tumbling down on her head. But when her best friends infant daughter suddenly goes missing, Jake feels her dark past wrapping itself around her--and needless to say, its nowhere near as charming as her rickety old house. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=934866 In an investigation that begins to point toward international intrigue and terrorism, Hercule Poirot searches for his dentists murderer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=837817 Henry Lee comes upon a crowd gathered outside the Panama Hotel, once the gateway to Seattle Japantown. It has been boarded up for decades, but now the new owner has made an incredible discovery, the belongings of Japanese families, left when they were rounded up and sent to internment camps during World War II. As Henry looks on, the owner opens a Japanese parasol. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988251 Medical examiner Jack Stapleton has been out of touch with college buddies Shawn and Kevin for three decades. An esteemed archeologist and Bible scholar, Shawns still reeling from a recent find. But when Kevin, now the Bishop of New York, gets wind of this discovery, he turns to his old buddy Jack for help in suppressing an explosive secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999059 With the Earth in the path of the rapacious Posleen, the peaceful and friendly races of the Galactic Federation offer their resources to help the backward Terrans, for a price. Humanity now has three worlds to defend. As Earths armies rush into battle and special operations units scout alien worlds, the humans begin to learn a valuable lesson: You can protect yourself from your enemies, but may the Lord save you from your allies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=946956 Cheryl Beth Wilson, a nurse at Cincinnati Memorial Hospital, finds a doctor brutally murdered in a secluded office. Wilson had been having an affair with the doctors husband, a surgeon, and now she is a person of interest, if not an outright suspect. But someone other than the police is also watching Cheryl Beth. The murder comes as former homicide detective Will Borders is just out of surgery. But as his stretcher is wheeled past the crime scene, he knows this is no random act of violence--in fact, it has all the marks of a serial-killer case he supposedly solved years before. Unable even to walk, Borders starts to investigate, teaming up with Cheryl Beth, who is desperate to clear her name. But as the killer grows closer, the two are running out of time to unlock the secrets of the murder at the brooding old hospital--container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=999199 Still unattached and childless at fifty-nine, world-renowned anthropologist Gray Kaiser is seemingly invincible, and untouchable. Returning to make a documentary at the site of her first great triumph in Kenya, she is accompanied by her faithful middle-aged assistant, Errol McEchern, who has loved her for years in silence. When sexy young graduate assistant Raphael Sarasola arrives on the scene, Gray is captivated and falls hopelessly in love, before an amazed and injured Errols eyes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991463 While fighting in the Peninsular War, Richard Sharpe, a British Napoleonic soldier, must prove himself at the Battle of Fuentes de Ooro, May 1811. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=936526 During World War II, the hospital ship Benevolence is providing relief to victims in the South Pacific when she is torpedoed and sunk. Among the survivors are a troubled nurse named Annie and the wounded Japanese soldier named Akira who saves her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965511 When Walt Longmire meets a woman jailed for her husbands death, he travels outside his usual haunts to discover the truth behind this unusual murder case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1017849 FBI profiler Maggie ODell must crack a case where an unknown terrorist group is duping college students into becoming unwitting suicide bombers, and the case takes a personal turn when she realizes her own brother is involved. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1019988 It is January 1944. The whole world awaits the Allied invasion of Europe. But in England, Winston Churchill has learned that Nazi scientists have developed Sarin, a horrifying new weapon that could turn the tide for Hitler. Only a desperate gamble can avert disaster. Two men, a pacifist American doctor and a fanatical Jewish assassin, must embark on a murderous mission into the heart of Germany. Their target: a human hell where Jews fuel Hitlers last hope for victory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=970010 After a shocking archaeological find at Thomas Jeffersons Monticello home sparks controversy, Mary Minor Harry Haristeen goes hunting for the truth. Her friends Mrs. Murphy the tiger cat and Tee Tucker the corgi go hunting too--for a killer out to keep Harry quiet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=888030 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988100 Seven-year-old Autumn Backman communicates telepathically with FBI agent Dillon Savich for his help when she witnesses her uncle burying bodies in her fathers grave. A huge manhunt ensues, with Titusville Sheriff Ethan Merriweather racing to reach the girl before her Uncle Blessed can get his hands on her. Blesseds got big things planned for Autumn and her gift, and hell stop at nothing to force her into his growing army of exploited children. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=836621 A spellbindingly woven tale about a girl who grows physically and emotionally beyond her small towns wildest expectations--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=962214 In the first story, Agatha is alarmed when her new wizard of a hairdresser seems keen to take on more than just her split ends. She soon discovers that everyone in his salon has a secret, and that he practices a very dark magic indeed. However, James refuses to help. Has he really ceased to care for her? In the second story, after pursuing him for nearly four years, Agatha is finally about to marry James Lacey, the handsome Colonel next door. But theres just one little problem. With her marriage dreams in tatters, Agatha has the small task of returning the wedding presents, and the slightly larger one of clearing her name of murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=993847 Allon, now in the British capital, finds himself once more on the front lines of the secret war between East and West, where Russian spies and dissidents engage in the old game of cat and mouse. There, Allon uncovers a much greater conspiracy, a plot by an old enemy to resurrect a network of death, to bring the world to the precipice of a new confrontation. In order to stop it, he must risk everything. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=959762 Julian of Macedon was cursed into a book as a love-slave for eternity, But when he was summoned to fulfill Grace Alexanders sexual fantasies, he found the first woman in history who saw him as a man with a tormented past. She, alone, bothered to take he out of the bedroom and into the world. She taught him to love again. But he was not born to know love. He was cursed to walk eternity alone. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1007151 Bossy, impulsive, yet hopelessly romantic, Agatha is dreading the upcoming marriage of her ex-husband, James Lacey. Her best intentions to move on with her life are put on hold when James young bride is shot to death just minutes before saying I do, and Agatha is named the prime suspect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965516 Wrongly accused of spying after the Iranian Revolution, Isaac Amin is tossed into prison, forcing his wife to desperately search for him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1046734 The fairy tales Cinderella and Beauty and the beast are retold as modern love stories. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=946950 Cordelia Naismith, Betan Survey Captain, was on a routine mission to study life forms on an uninhabited neutral planet. She was not, however, expecting to find hostile humans on an uninhabited planet. And she wasnt really expecting to fall in love with a 40-plus barbarian known to cosmopolitan galactics as the Butcher of Komarr. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1043302 Major David Valentine and his fugitive battalion are the remnants of an expeditionary force shattered in its long retreat from disaster in the Appalachians. Between a raging blizzard, bands of headhunters, and the need to recover wounded soldiers lost during the retreat, Valentine is in for the toughest winter of his life. And Valentine is losing allies fast. Some of the clans in the region have declared themselves in favor of the Kurians, throwing Kentucky into civil war.