Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+4294957082 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714492 Schooled in an exotic form of martial arts, and with the ability to detect the auras of dangerous psychic criminals, Rachel Bonner and her dust bunny companion have found peace and quiet on Rainshadow Island, operating a bookstore and caf. But her tranquil new life is thrown into chaos when Harry Sebastian, the descendant of a notorious pirate, arrives to investigate strange developments in the privately owned woods known as the Preserve. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687167 Tom Harry has a streak of frost in his black pompadour and a bar called the Medicine Lodge, the chief watering hole of the northern Montana town of Gros Ventre. Tom also has a son named Rusty, whose mother deserted them years ago. An odd kind of family, they manage just fine. Until the summer of 1960, when Rusty turns twelve. Change arrives in the person of Proxy, a taxi dancer Tom knew back when, and her beatnik daughter, Francine. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735691 Nurse Sean Doran returns from Africa and assumes the parental burden of caring for his aunt and nephew, a responsibility for which he is ill equipped. Soon, he reconnects with Becky, his childhood friend, but their budding romance is threatened by Seans pathological reluctance to put down roots, and he has to finally decide whats most important to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728745 Searing and superbly written, She Matters illuminates the friendships that have influenced, nourished, inspired, and haunted Susanna Sonnenberg - and sometimes torn her apart. Each has its own lessons that Sonnenberg seeks to understand. Her method is investigative and ruminative; her result, fearlessly observed portraits of friendships that will inspire all readers to consider the complexities of their own relationships. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1662130 On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nicks wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amys friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isnt true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they arent his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nicks beautiful wife? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590824 Shes got the face of an angel and the body of ... well, what youd expect from an exotic dancer. Theres something about this girl that Johnnie Riggs cant shake. The former army ranger is hot on the trail of an elusive drug lord - and suddenly very hot under the collar. But Amy has her own agenda. Her sister is missing and Amy seems to be the only one who cares. Shell enlist Johnnies help and try to ignore her growing attraction to finally get some answers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1627660 Struggling with the death of his wife in childbirth at the end of the nineteenth century, John Kerney gives up his Texas ranch to pursue the outlaws responsible for his brothers murder and participates in nearly half a century of turbulent history in New Mexico Territory. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576551 To fulfill his grandmothers ultimatum, Lord Gabriel Sharpe pursues a spitfire he believes desperately needs him. Like everything daredevil Gabe does, wooing Virginia Waverly is a high-stakes game. Ever since her brother, Roger, died racing him, Virginia has yearned to take revenge on the reckless lord by beating him at his own sport. But when she challenges Lord Gabriel to a race, the so-called Angel of Death counters with a marriage proposal! (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1604884 Arriving in Paris on the eve of the Munich Appeasement in 1938, Hollywood star Frederic Stahl is unwittingly entangled in the regions shifting political currents when he discovers that his latest film is linked to the destinies of fascists, German Nazis, and Hollywood publicists. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684999 Love and tomato sauce are thick in the Scottoline/Serritella household, and Lisa and Francescas mother-daughter turned best-friends bond will strike a familiar note to many. But now that Lisa is a suburban empty-nester and Francesca is an independent twenty-something in the big city, they have to learn how to stay close while living apart. Youll laugh out loud as they face off in another hilarious collection of essays about motherhood, daughterhood, and womanhood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667588 Kims happiness seems as distant as the childhood summer when she played the hours away with young Travis, who came to Edilean with his mother under mysterious circumstances. At the end of that innocent season, he promised Kim he would return one day-- and then vanished without even a goodbye. When she least expects it, Travis, now a savvy Manhattan attorney, will crash into her life once more. Will Kim see the boy she knew under the man hes become? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1481891 Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shaynes impending divorce, Morwennas slavish devotion to work, and Bobbies reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585476 Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy, especially since a freak accident took her husband much too soon. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoops her up in his arms after a fall, she feels a sensation that both shocks and emboldens her. Hugo never intends to kiss Lady Muir, and frankly, he judges her to be a spoiled, frivolous, if beautiful, aristocrat. He is a gentleman in name only: a soldier whose bravery earned him a title; a merchants son who inherited his wealth. He is happiest when working the land, but duty and title now demand that he finds a wife. He does not wish to court Lady Muir, nor have any role in the society games her kind thrives upon. Yet Hugo has never craved a woman more; Gwens guileless manner, infectious laugh, and lovely face have ruined him for any other woman. He wants her, but will she have him? The hard, dour ex-military officer who so gently carried Gwen to safety is a man who needs a lesson in winning a womans heart. Despite her cautious nature, Gwen cannot ignore the attraction. As their two vastly different worlds come together, both will be challenged in unforeseen ways. But through courtship and seduction, Gwen soon finds that with each kiss, and with every caress, she cannot resist Hugos devotion, his desire, his love, and the promise of forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1578477 When a joke about making illicit money escalates to a kidnapping scheme, four friends enjoy the proceeds of a low-risk operation until they abduct the wrong target and capture the attentions of the law and a vengeful organized-crime ring. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585477 Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, escaping the consequences of long-buried family secrets and forced to accept that hell never marry the woman he desires, joins the Merchant Navy. But his ship is sunk in the Atlantic by a German U-boat. An American cruise liner rescues a handful of sailors, among them Harry and an American who dies in the night, providing Harry the chance to escape his tangled past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624563 While assisting in the case of a high-profile politician who has been arrested for allegedly attacking a maid in his hotel, Alexandra Cooper begins to suspect a connection to a murder case with ties to her boyfriend, restaurateur Luc Rouget. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1665612 Former soldier-turned-traveling weaver Will Rees tracking down his mistreated son to a Shaker settlement in late-18th-century Maine, where his efforts to reconcile are challenged by the murder of a young woman and dark community secrets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678913 In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682582 When race caller and television presenter Mark Shillingford calls a race in which his twin sister, Clare, an accomplished and successful jockey, comes in second when she could have won, he believes the worst: that she lost on purpose, and the race was fixed. That night, Mark confronts Clare with his suspicions, she storms off after an argument--and its the last time Mark sees her alive. Hours later, Clare jumps to her death from the balcony of a London hotel; or so it seems. Devastated and guilty over her death, Mark goes in search of answers. What had led Clare to take her own life? Or was it not suicide at all? -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646048 As the family wallflower, Dierdres only worth seems to be as gatekeeper to her New Age guru brother, Tag, at his New England seaside compound. When her boyfriend dumps her, she drowns her sorrows in vodka, and drunkly decides to use Tags massive online following to get herself voted on as a last-minute Dancing with the stars replacement. Her fifteen minutes of fame have begun... and maybe a new life... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522384 Lady Georgiana Rannoch has once again been called into service by Her Majesty the Queen. This time shes sent to Nice on a secret assignment thats nothing to sneeze at: recover the Queens stolen snuff box. While in Nice, Coco Chanel herself asks Georgie to model her latest fashion - and a necklace belonging to the Queen is stolen on the catwalk. Now, Georgie has to find two priceless items - and solve a murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644719 An intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself worthwhile. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622109 Suffering public contempt after the Metropolitan Polices failure to capture Jack the Ripper, Walter Day, a member of Victorian Londons recently formed Murder Squad, partners with Scotland Yards first forensic pathologist to track down a killer who is targeting their colleagues. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582407 Working alongside his mother and brother restoring a historic hotel in Boonsboro, Maryland, Owen Montgomery falls for a childhood friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1512081 Theres an uneasy and unholy alliance building across the Caribbean. Few in the U.S. government want to believe that a Third World country and its chest-thumping leader could pose a credible threat-but then why are the Chinese helping to train its special forces? Why are the Russians helping to build a nuclear power plant? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544891 Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and she wants Bostons top detective, D.D. Warren, to handle the death investigation. Each year at 8:00 pm on January 21st a woman has died, and all have been childhood friends from a small town in New Hampshire. Grant is the only remaining member of the group, but is she the next victim or the perfect perpetrator? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1568324 Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesnt recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1545100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609055 Paul Ross accepts a job working on the legal team for his billionaire father-in-laws hedge fund and must determine where his loyalties lie when a scandal and a regulatory investigation threaten the family business. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1567025 Jane Whitefield spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wifes murder, out of the heavily guarded criminal court building in downtown Los Angeles. Jane makes her living helping people disappear - but the price of Shelbys freedom is high. Within minutes, men posing as police officers kidnap Jane and, when she tries to escape, shoot her. Janes captors are employees of the man who murdered Shelbys wife and framed him for the crime . . . http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1545030 When Pandora Blake is murdered at San Franciscos 1940 Worlds Fair and her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Miranda Corbie is soon entangled in a web of deceit and betrayal that is only overshadowed by the threat of impending war. With a strong female protagonist more steel than silk and a mystery that will grip you until the last page, this sequel to the critically-acclaimed City of Dragons will appeal to fans of noir and historical mysteries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1523579 In 1952 Leningrad, Andrei, a young doctor, and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together in the postwar, post-siege wreckage. Like millions of Russians, their happiness depends on avoiding the claws of Stalins merciless Ministry of State Security. When Andrei is forced to treat the seriously ill child of a senior secret police officer, his every move is scrutinized, and it becomes painfully clear that his fate, and that of his family, is bound to the childs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1568332 Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his fathers death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559748 In the 1930s, fresh from a stint in the Royal Navy Reserve and against his fathers wishes, Fingal OReilly goes to Dublin to study medicine. Facing the arduous demands of Trinity College and Sir Patrick Duns Hospital, Fingal still manages to box and play rugby - and romance a fetching nurse named Kitty OHallorhan. But Dublin is a city of slums, tenements, and brutal poverty. Can Fingal harden himself to the suffering all around him? (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1582229 When Hazel Maries hotheaded private investigator husband, J.D., goes missing during a latest job, Miss Julia and Etta Mae struggle to free a man matching his description from a West Virginia jail, while Agnes Whitman returns to town with a following of misfits who might be members of a zealous cult. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647931 Summer 1943. Two of the Allies most important plans for winning World War II are at grave risk - Operation Overlords invasion of France, and the Manhattan Projects race to build the atomic bomb. A furious FDR turns to OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan - and Donovan turns to his top agent, Dick Canidy, and his team. Their work is cut out for them. In the weeks to come they will fight not only the enemy in the field - but also the enemy within. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624557 Jamie Wagner is a young lawyer who is happy to be flying under the radar at a large firm doing background research for the partners. Its not that he isnt smart. He is. Its just that hard work, the whole legal world, isnt really his thing. Underachiever? Yes. Content? At least until the firm puts him on a case that turns his whole world upside down.--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687168 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518675 Since being taken in by wealthy Mrs. Jordan March and living in her exquisite home like a daughter, Sasha Porters traumatic past seems like a fading nightmare. Beautiful and sophisticated, as bold and daring as her sister, Kiera March, Sasha attracts the attention of Ryder Garfield, a shy, handsome athlete, and maneuvers her way into his heart. But Ryders hidden torment soon explodes in a horrific tragedy that pulls Sasha into a flood of guilt and despair. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1604883 London society has its very own Cupid. Renowned horse breeder and occasional matchmaker Devin Baldwin pairs eligible young ladies with suitable gentlemen based on his theory of animal magnetism. Amanda Locke, the daughter of a duke, is everything a nobleman could desire, yet she enters her third Season still searching for a match. When an earl passionate about horses becomes the target of her husband hunt, Amanda knows its time to overcome her fear of riding. With her sister-in-law Ophelia hastening the romance along by arranging riding lessons, Amanda is soon taking instruction from infuriating Devin Baldwin. Astonishingly, in her daily encounters with Devin, Amanda experiences passion for the first time -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667587 1777: In the throes of the Revolutionary War, Landon Mansion is commandeered by British Lord Butcher Bedford. He stabs Lucy Tarleton, leaving her to die in her fathers arms. Now: After the days final tour, docent Allison Leigh makes her rounds while locking up... and finds a colleague slumped over Bedfords desk, impaled on his own replica bayonet. Has Butcher Bedford resurfaced? Or is there another malevolent force at work in Landon Mansion? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585457 A terrorist hit is coming. The CIA, FBI, and Department of Defense systems have spiked, but traditional intel is going nowhere. It falls to the Taskforce - a top-secret team outside the bounds of U.S. law charged with finding and destroying asymmetric threats - to stop the unknown conspirators. A shadowy trail leads the Taskforce into Egypt where they suffer losses in an attack, forcing Pike Logan and partner Jennifer Cahill to helm the mission. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667718 Tracee is a runaway bride and kleptomaniac. Lanas an audacious beauty and a recovering alcoholic. Rita is a holy-roller ministers wife, desperate to escape her marriage and discover whether she actually has a mind of her own. One warm summers night, these three women go on the lam together. Their car breaks down on a rural highway in North Carolina and theyre forced to seek shelter in a seemingly abandoned nightclub. Which is where they meet Marcel. And soon everything changes. Marcel, you see, is a lion, a retired circus performer stuck in a cage in this godforsaken roadhouse. And through admiration - one might even say love - for Marcel, our heroines find a way to confront their complicated pasts and fight for the strange, embracing relationships theyve formed out in the middle of nowhere. They ultimately navigate their way back to their own hearts - and ours. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1638633 In the exquisite setting of Friday Harbor, Zoe Hoffman, an innkeeper who has all but given up on love, is attracted to Alex Nolan, a bitter and cynical man battling his demons with the help of a whiskey bottle, until he is visited by a mysterious ghost who is stuck in the Nolans Victorian house. All the ghost knows is that he loved a girl once. And Alex and Zoe hold the key to unlocking the mystery that keeps him trapped there. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522388 Having watched her life turn into a noreaster, 34-year-old LeeLee Satterfield is back home in the South, ready to pick back up where she left off. But thats a task easier said than done. LeeLees a single mom, still dreaming of the Vermonter who stole her heart. Accompanied by her three best friends who pepper her with advice and peach daiquiris, LeeLee opens another restaurant and learns she has to prove herself yet again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684368 London, 1501; Young widow and candle maker Varina Westcott agrees to perform a clandestine service for Queen Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry VII: carve wax figures of her two lost infants and her two brothers, the Princes of the Tower, who vanished years ago. Varina, who lost a child herself, feels sympathy for the queen. And as she works under the watchful eye of handsome Nicholas Sutton, she develops feelings of quite a different nature... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660589 When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mothers murder, hes not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie has been left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser where he lives. Mattie believes the man convicted of the crime is innocent, and points Spenser to the Southie toughs she saw carrying her mother away hours before her murder. He will need Hawks help to find peace for Mattie.--From back cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646074 When a visiting actress becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert. And when Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectmen, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678502 On a summer night, police recover the body of a young woman from a pleasure boat drifting around the Stockholm archipelago. The forensics team is sure she drowned. But the boat was afloat, with no trace of water on her body. The next day a man turns up dead in his apartment, hanging from a high lamp hook, with nothing near him to climb on. Joona Linna begins to piece together the two mysteries, but the logistics are a mere prelude to danger. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577845 One of only two survivors of a plane crash, Nell Slattery wakes in the hospital with no memory of the horrific experience - or who she is. Now she must piece together both body and mind with the help of family and friends who have their own agendas. Soon, in tiny bits and pieces, Nell starts remembering - and it isnt long before she learns to question the stories presented by her mother, her sister and business partner, and her husband. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1569105 San Antonio has become a dumping ground for battered bodies. All young women, many of them long missing, almost all forgotten. Texas Ranger Logan Raintree is approached to lead a new group of elite paranormal investigators working the case because of his powerful ability to commune with the dead. Among Logans new team is Kelsey OBrien, a U.S. marshal known for her razor-sharp intuition. Kelsey has been waiting to work with someone who can understand her ability to see the past unfolding in the present. If the spirits of long-dead Texans are really appearing to the latest victims before their deaths, Kelsey and Logan have the skills to find out why. -- Cover, p. [4]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678924 A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647389 1898: Bound for Chicago, the freighter Jerry McGuen goes down in Lake Michigan with all aboard. What other fate could befall a vessel carrying the ill-gotten sarcophagus of an Egyptian sorcerer? Because a curse unspoken is no less deadly. Now: A veteran diver and ghost ship expert exploring the wreck for a documentary dies inexplicably inside the freighter and rumors rise like bubbles: ancient demons have awakened. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559751 Embittered when her fianc abandons her for her own sister, Washington state glass artist Lucy is unknowingly set up by her ex with his friend Sam, a relationship that is threatened by her exs second thoughts and Lucys discovery of the truth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684941 Lamott has coalesced everything she knows about prayer to three simple fundamentals. Asking for assistance from a higher power, appreciating what we have that is good, and feeling awe at the world around us-- that can get us through the day and can show us the way forward. Lamott recounts how she came to these insights, explains what they mean to her and how they have helped, and explores how others have embraced these same ideas. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1595172 Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger whos mute, but their love cant protect them from a devastating secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590285 When Olivia Rutledge spends the summer at her seaside cottage she meets visiting biologist Russell Bennett, and with Russell she finds a love far more passionate and profound than ever before, but this new love forces her to risk losing everything, including her reputation, her wealth, and even her children. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1566389 The little girl appeared in Central Park: red-haired, blue-eyed, smiling, perfect -- except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky. she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree. Poor child, people thought. Then they found the body in the tree. For Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit after three months lost time, the girl is a kindred spirit -- one that will lead her to a story of extraordinary crimes--Publishers web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1628569 When the body of a murdered starlet is found in a Hollywood shrine, Sean Cameron and his FBI paranormal forensics team, including special-effects artist Madison Darvil, investigate a malevolent force terrorizing the Black Box Cinema. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609097 When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorneys home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1525769 When the Bergamots move from an upstate college town to New York City, theyre not sure how theyll adapt. Soon Richard is consumed by his executive role at a large university. Liz, who gave up an academic career to raise her children, is busy ferrying young Coco around. And fifteen-year-old Jake is taken into the fold at an elite private school. But their upper class cocoon is ripped apart by scandal when Jake causes a good family to face bad choices. Bestseller http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1566877 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694675 She may be thirty-fifth in line for the throne, but Lady Georgiana Rannoch cannot wait to ring in the new year, before a Christmas killer wrings another neck. On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, well, actually, my true love, Darcy OMara, is spending a feliz navidad tramping around South America. Meanwhile, Mummy is holed up in a tiny village called Tiddleton-under-Lovey with that droll Noel Coward! And Im snowed in at Castle Rannoch with my bumbling brother, Binky, and sourpuss sister-in-law, Fig. So its a miracle when I contrive to land a position as hostess to a posh holiday party in Tiddleton. The village is like something out of A Christmas Carol! But no sooner have I arrived than a neighborhood nuisance, a fellow named Freddie falls out of a tree, dead. Dickensian, indeed. Freddies merely a stocking stuffer. On my second day in town, another so-called accident turns up another mincemeat pie, and yet another on my third. The village is buzzing that a recent prison break could have something to do with it, that, or a long-standing witchs curse. Im not so sure. But after Darcy shows up beneath the mistletoe, anything could be possible in this wicked wonderland. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694674 If driving a piece-of-crap tow truck through the seediest part of town with a Smith & Wesson beside her means putting a roof over her sons head, then Samantha Jones is going to be the best damn repo woman on the books. The streetwalkers, the drug pushers, the bands of looking-for-trouble punks haunting the mean streets at midnight dont intimidate her. These are her people. The guy she finds bound and bloodied in the trunk of her latest conquest, a flashy new BMW, is a different breed entirely. Daniel Panterro was certain he was going to die. Instead, by a stroke of luck, he was beaten to within an inch of his life and left for dead. But if hes having a bad day, Sams day is about to get way worse. Danny knows he hasnt seen the last of the vicious drug runners who kidnapped him from protective custody. His only recourse is to take his pretty savior hostage and force her to help him. Theres no going back for Sam and her four-year-old son, Tyler. Theyre in way too deep. With ruthless killers stalking their trail, Sams only choice is to trust this handsome, menacing stranger. But as she relinquishes control, Sam feels an unmistakable desire. Could she be tempted by Danny, who seems intent on protecting her and Tyler from even his own darkest secrets? And what is the price of falling in love with a man who operates on the edge of danger, her heart, her life or both? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1595170 Accompanying a future famous actress from her Wichita home to New York, chaperone Cora Carlisle shares a life-changing five-week period with her ambitious teenage charge during which she discovers the promise of the 20th century and her own purpose in life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518677 At the urging of her dear friend Kim, Jecca Layton put the ruthless New York City art world on hold to spend the summer pursuing her passion for painting while enjoying Edileans artistic community. For years, Kims cousin Dr. Tristan Aldredge - the towns handsome and dedicated doctor - felt a deep connection to Kims college sister Jecca, though they had met only once before; now, Jecca is swept off her feet by this strong, sensitive man in a summer of sensual delights. But when long shadows announce Jeccas return to real life and the big city, the lovers must decide: Can they survive the distance? Or who will sacrifice so they can be together? -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518676 The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Ministers private army are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new recruit: Afghan war hero Sara Gideon. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1367519 There was nothing but time at Iron House. Time to burn, time to kill, and time for Michael to emerge strong and unforgiving while his brother, Julian, became a tormented soul at the orphanage for boys. Two decades later Michael returns to North Carolina with a sentence on his head, the mob in hot pursuit, and his disturbed brother in trouble of a different kind. One man is destined to break the chains of his fate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213186 Serial killer Dexter Morgan has always lived by a single golden rule: kill only people who deserve it. But the Miami blood-spatter analyst has just become the daddy of an eight-pound curiosity named Lily Anne - and Dexs dark urges seem to have left him. Has he become a normal overprotective father? But then an eighteen-year-old girl is abducted by a bizarre group of vampires or possibly cannibals. Suddenly, Dexter is back in business. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1425910 Descended from a river goddess, Jacquetta has always had the gift of second sight. Wed to the Duke of Bedford, she is introduced to the world of learning and alchemy. When his death leaves her a wealthy young widow, Jacquetta marries the Dukes squire, Richard Woodville. They return to England and have a daughter, Elizabeth, for whom Jacquetta senses an extraordinary future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1255600 In 1862 Waters Ford, Pennsylvania, abolitionism is prevalent, even passionate, so the local men rally to answer Mr. Lincolns call to arms - propelling the women of Elm Creek Valleys quilting bee into the unknown. The women support each other through loneliness and fear, and devise an ingenious business plan to keep Waters Ford functioning. That plan may forever alter the patchwork of town life in ways that transcend even the ultimate sacrifices of war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1375476 Kamila Sidiqis life changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of Kabul. Kamila had a teaching degree - a rare achievement for an Afghan woman - but was banned from school and confined to her home. When her father and brother were forced to flee, Kamila became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Armed only with grit and determination, she picked up a needle and thread and created a thriving business. Here is the incredible true story of this unlikely entrepreneur who mobilized her community under the Tailban. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222876 A disturbing tape has made its way to British intelligence, and from them to the new President of the United States: battlefield chatter from an ambush in Afghanistan, in which twelve U.S. Army Rangers and a British medical team died. Most of the Taliban voices are Afghan; however, the voice of the commander bears an Irish accent. The idea that one of their own could be responsible for such a massacre is appalling, and Sean Dillon is put in charge of hunting the traitor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1326036 Mia, Laney, Betts, and Ginger, best friends since law school, have reunited for a long weekend as Betts awaits Senate confirmation of her appointment to the Supreme Court. Nicknamed the Ms. Bradwells during their first class at the University of Michigan Law School in 1979, the four have supported each other through lifes challenges. But when the Senate hearings uncover a deeply buried skeleton in their collective closet, the Ms. Bradwells retreat to a summer house on chesapeake Bay to relive a much darker period in their past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222789 A German shepherd police dog witnesses a murder and if his owner - an Iraq war vet and cop-turned-thief - is convicted of the crime, the dog could be put down. No one loves mans best friend more than attorney Andy Carpenter, and he decides to represent the poor canine. When he discovers that the dog and his owner have unwittingly become involved in a case of much larger proportions, Andy will need the help of the police-trained dog. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474407 Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years, as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues, the author has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering. Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apples hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values. -- From publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1226699 With her hateful brother, Binky, in town, Lady Georgiana Rannoch is desperately seeking an escape, which comes in the form of an invitation from the queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. The bride happens to be her old school chum, Marty. But staying in her macabre-looking castle proves to be unnerving - especially when she finds dear Marty with blood running down her chin, and a prominent wedding guest is poisoned. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1473413 So this is what being dead feels like. Vampire queen Betsy Taylor has awoken in a Chicago morgue, naked as a corpse. Her last memory is reconciling with her husband, Eric Sinclair, after a time-traveling field trip, including an indirect route to hell (literally), with her sister, Laura. Now shes Jane Doe #291, wrapped in plastic with a toe tag. Betsy cant help but wonder, what in hell happened? Grabbing clean scrubs, Betsy hits the pavement and heads back to her St. Paul mansion to find everyone frantically searching for her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1367522 Struggling with a need for closure, Sara Gallagher attempts to reconnect with her birth parents only to learn that her biological father is an infamous serial killer, a discovery that causes her to fear she has inherited violent tendencies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1367517 Living on the streets with her destitute mother, Sasha Porter dreams of having a real house and family. But she never dreamed a devastating tragedy would bring her those very things. On a stormy night by a rain-spattered highway, a speeding car veers out of control, killing her mother and badly injuring Sasha. In the hospital, Sasha is whisked off to a private suite at the request of wealthy Mrs. Jordan March, a complete stranger who keeps watch by her bedside . . .(Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1368822 In the wake of a former U.S. Presidents appointment to the United Nations, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath is wrongly implicated for a string of national emergencies and assassinations, a situation that forces him to race against time to uncover the real culprit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1222874 His career derailed by the vengeful billionaire Curtlee family for his part in convicting one of their number for murder, former homicide detective Abe Glitsky learns that the killer has won a retrial at the same time a star witness has been murdered. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1276269 When a teaching position opens up in Oklahoma, Charlotte Tucker jumps at the opportunity to take a room on John Grants ranch in Sawyer to begin her new career. She soon befriends Owen and Hannah Wallace, a brother and sister who have come from Colorado following the death of their mother. Abandoned at an early age by a father they never knew, they are set on revenge against the man who left them -- a man they believe is John Grant. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1271173 A secret government unit is formed under the oversight of Adam Harrison, famed paranormal investigator. The six members hes gathered know a little of the otherworldly: each has honed a psychic talent of their own. Jackson Crowe, part English, part Cheyenne, heads the group. Haunted by his experience with an ancestral ghost who saved his life as a child, and the recent murders of two previous teammates, Jackson cant tell if Adams demoted him or given him an extraordinary opportunity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1394218 Three generations of women converge on the family beach house in this wickedly funny, emotionally resonant story of love and dysfunction from the author of Commencement. By turns uproarious and achingly sad, Maine reveals the sibling rivalry, alcoholism, social climbing, and Catholic guilt at the center of one family, along with the abiding, often irrational love that keeps them coming back, every summer, to the family house and to each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1401306 A professional home stager in the Boston suburbs, Sandy Sullivan, after reading her family the riot act, takes a job staging a boutique hotel in Atlanta where she becomes immersed in other peoples lives while trying to fix up her own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1255580 Traces an incrementally violent confrontation between a National Park Service biologist who would eradicate invasive wildlife on the Channel Islands and two locals who are fiercely opposed to the killing of any creatures. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1481901 When Colonel de Luce, needing funds, rents his beloved estate of Buckshaw over to a film company at Christmastime, the company begins its scenes with a famous and reclusive star who is widely despised; when the star turns up murdered, eleven-year-old Flavia de Luce must negotiate with the suspects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1256620 In the small Irish village where he hopes to become a full partner in the local medical practice, Barry Laverty questions his ambitions in the face of a romantic reversal, while housekeeper Kinky Kincaid dreads the loss of her status to Dr. OReillys new paramour. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1260440 Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter? As the homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic statewide search for a missing child, D. D. Warren must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break the case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1476072 Inspired by the wartime experiences of her late father-in-law, Bobbie Ann Mason offers an unforgettable novel about an American pilot shot down in occupied Europe in World War II. Returning to his crash site decades later, Marshall Stone is drawn back to the brave people who helped him escape from the Nazis. Marshalls search becomes a wrenching odyssey that threatens to break his heart - and sets him on a new course for the rest of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1372923 Criminal attorney Jessica Ford is in the Secret Services unofficial witness protection program. But winning a high-profile case is not exactly keeping a low profile. Jess joins her firms elite defense team, and in her new case, the prosecutions star witness makes revelations involving the son of a U.S. senator. Was the young mother intimidated? Why wont she return Jesss calls? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1372903 Struggling through early sobriety when his AA sponsor is murdered, police officer Cody Hoyt follows clues that point to a Yellowstone National Park guide who is leading Hoyts son and other tourists into the wilderness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1363778 Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mothers death and their fathers disappearance, sharing a preternatural connection and a fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, this is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and miracles. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1281672 Growing up in the tiny settlement of Great Harbor amid a small band of pioneers and Puritans, Bethia Mayfield yearns for an education that is closed to her due to her gender. As soon as she can, she slips away to explore the islands glistening beaches and observes its native Wampanoag inhabitants. At twelve, she encounters Caleb, the young son of a chieftain, and the two forge a secret friendship that draws each into the alien world of the other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1473414 Meditating on the weddings she has attended in Elm Creek Manor throughout the years on the morning of her daughters wedding day, Sarah McClure evaluates the symbolic features on a wedding quilt designed to display the signatures of beloved guests. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1473363 Jake Epping is a thirty-five-year-old high school English teacher in Lisbon Falls, Maine, who makes extra money teaching adults in the GED program. He receives an essay from one of the students-- a gruesome, harrowing first person story about the night 50 years ago when Harry Dunnings father came home and killed his mother, his sister, and his brother with a hammer. Harry escaped with a smashed leg, as evidenced his crooked walk. Not much later, Jakes friend Al, who runs the local diner, divulges a secret: his storeroom is a portal to 1958. He enlisted Jake on an insane -- and insanely possible -- mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination. So begins Jakes new life as George Amberson and his new world of Elvis and JFK, of big American cars and sock hops, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian named Sandie Dunhill, who becomes the love of Jakes life -- a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1480947 Grace Lyndon is a rising ingenue in the world of perfumes and flavors; a stiletto-wearing workaholic in Atlanta, she develops aromas and tastes to enthrall the senses. Dylan Jackson is a widowed single father whose heart and hands have grown calloused in the fields of his North Georgia apple farm. When Grace happens to taste an apple picked from Dylans trees, her determination to track down the apples origin changes both of their lives forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1318809 Richard Kilmer is head over heels in love with Jennifer Ryan, who takes him home to meet her parents. There she accepts his marriage proposal, and they set out on a drive up to Kendrick Falls. But a freak storm causes Richard to lose control of his car, and it rolls. And Jen is gone. Richard cant find her. The police cant find her. No one in Richards life will even confirm Jens existence, and all traces of her have disappeared. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1497961 Told in the first person, this narrative of Lilly Beres life over seventeen days opens as she mourns the loss of her grandson. Lilly revisits her past, going back to the moment she was forced to flee Ireland at the end of World War I, and continues her tale in America, a world filled with hope and danger. At once epic and intimate, her story unfolds as Lilly tries to make sense of the sorrows and troubles of her life and of the people whose lives she has touched.