Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+6601+6643+6644 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696195 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675720 In 1923, fifteen-year-old Hattie Shepherd flees Georgia and settles in Philadelphia, hoping for a chance at a better life. Instead, she marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment and watches helplessly as her firstborn twins succumb to an illness a few pennies could have prevented. Hattie gives birth to nine more children whom she raises with grit and mettle and not an ounce of the tenderness they crave. She vows to prepare them for the calamitous difficulty they are sure to face in their later lives, to meet a world that will not love them, a world that will not be kind. Captured here in twelve luminous narrative threads, their lives tell the story of a mothers monumental courage and the journey of a nation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738318 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736161 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 Saint 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=1694334 All Christian parents today wrestle with the challenge of how to raise kids in a God-honoring, morally sound way. Jill Kelly offers up the unforgettable episode of her living epistle to her daughters. Jill Kelly provides down to earth reflections for other Christian mothers who would like to pass on their hard-won knowledge of Gods steadfast love and healing to their daughters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705082 A cautionary tale about how creative ideas can harden into dogma and how smart strategists, the best and the brightest, of today, can win bureaucratic battles but still lose the wars. Includes information from previously unavailable documents and interviews with key players, including General David Petraeus. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713547 Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch, newly appointed as Territorial Marshals, find themselves traveling by train through Indian Territories. Their first marshaling duty starts as a simple prisoner escort mission, but becomes complicated when the Texas Governor and his family board the train--along with $500,000. The men have to watch for and contend with Bloody Bob Brandice, who was left with two .44 slugs in his chest during his last meeting with Virgil-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735662 Retirement. Youve worked for it, planned for it, and dreamed about it, lifes great permanent vacation. But what if retirement could be measured in more than hours on the beach, days on the golf course, and weeks of travel? What if retirement was the beginning, not the end, of your lifes greatest work? What if the rest of life could be the best of your life? New Man Journey is for any man who longs to make retirement about more than recreation. Author Steve Silver offers a practical, powerful field guide for catching a big vision, charting a new territory, and finding a fresh perspective that will change how you see yourself, your relationships, and your world. Get ready to take on your biggest adventure yet: You--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738319 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696188 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713112 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694335 Two-time Edgar award-winning author Daniel Stashower uncovers the riveting true story of the Baltimore Plot, an audacious conspiracy to assassinate Abraham Lincoln on the eve of the Civil War. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704120 NPR looks back at one of America?s most controversial wars with a collection featuring accounts from the various players including soldiers, government officials, protesters, and those who lived in Vietnam during the war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705075 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705092 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696170 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735663 For more than four decasdes, Bob Dotson has been travelling all over the United States searching for those who have made a difference. With American Story, he shares their stories along with inspiration that can help anyone reach their goals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738320 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696190 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739408 A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from a captured Al Qaeda operative indicates that there is a far more dangerous conspiracy afoot. Once the ransom is paid, Islamic militants intend to swoop in and slaughter the passengers in an orgy of terror, hoping to provoke a massive American military response that will set the Muslim world aflame. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the brutal pirate chief while his right hand man, Tommy Carmellini, and a team of CIA and Navy SEAL operatives mount an undercover operation to save the hostages and keep the U.S. from being maneuvered into a murderous war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696365 Two decades after the tragic accident that killed their father, Theodora, Josh, and Claire return to their childhood home to confront painful realities about their incapable mother and the devoted aunt who raised them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704121 The man who was selected by President Barack Obama to come out of retirement and turn around the nearly bankrupt General Motors after its financial bailout in 2009 offers a memoir of his successes at that company, as well as AT&T. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713194 For more than twenty-five years John Thavis has reported on the inner workings of the Vatican. His daily exposure to the power, politics, and personalities in the seat of Roman Catholicism gave him a unique, behind-the-scenes perspective on an institution that is far less monolithic and unified than it first appears. Thavis reveals Vatican City as a place where Curia cardinals fight private wars, scandals threaten to undermine papal authority, and reverence for the past is continually upended by the practical considerations of modern life. Thavis takes listeners from a bell tower high above St. Peters to the depths of the basilica and the saints burial place, from the politicking surrounding the election of a new pope and the ever-growing sexual abuse scandals around the world to controversies about the Vaticans stand on contraception and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741718 To Anne Serling, the imposing figure the public saw hosting The Twilight Zone each week, intoning cautionary observations about fate, chance, and humanity, was not the father she knew. He was her best friend, her playmate, and her confidant. After his unexpected death at 50, Anne, just 20, was left stunned. As I Knew Him is a lyrical, intimate tribute to Rod Serlings legacy as visionary, storyteller, and humanist and a moving testament to the love between fathers and daughters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705084 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705076 Science tell s us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its power. Emphasizing surprising and personal stories of scientists both famous and unsung, this audiobook traces the march of science through the centuries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732081 The daughters of a celestial demigod and a human woman, Makeda and Abby were raised by their magical father, the god of growing things. Today, Makeda has decided its high time to move out and make her own life among the other nonmagical, claypicken humans. But when her father goes missing, Makeda will have to find her own talent if shes to have a hope of saving him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715312 Draws on the recently opened archives of Ted Hughes to offer new insights into the iconic poets psyche and literary achievements, in a portrait that includes previously unpublished papers and dozens of letters exchanged between Plath and Hughes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738338 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696171 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738321 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736190 Fixtures on the society pages, in international boardrooms, and in the highest echelons of government, the members of the powerful De Vere family lead charmed and envied lives, moving between their London mansion, Oxfordshire country house, and exclusive Marthas Vineyard estate, when they are not jet-setting around the globe. But beneath their gilded facade and seemingly unbreakable familial bonds lie secrets, ugly, dirty, and deadly. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742623 At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, hes waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. When the car stops, a voice says, Hey, I think hes breathing, and another voice says, Yeah? Give me the bat. And thats the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the mans disappearance, then--very troublingly--to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then--most troublingly of all--to a woman who could give Machiavelli lessons. She has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, the money, ruthlessness, and sheer will to make it happen. No matter who gets in the way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736164 The creativity that is rewarded at age fifteen is not always enough to propel one through life at age thirty, and in adulthood not everyone can sustain what seemed to be their adolescent specialness. Jules Handler, an aspiring comic actress, eventually resigns herself to a more practical occupation and lifestyle. But her two best friends, now married to each other, become shockingly successful - true to their initial artistic dreams. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740139 This is the third book in the Clifton Chronicles series. Opens a moment after the end of The Sins of the Father, with the resolution of the trial and the triumphant marriage of Harry Clifton and Elizabeth Barrington, finally uniting their family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732003 Chronicles the authors harrowing ordeal at the hands of an obsessed former student whose campaign of hate mail, violently anti-Semitic online postings, and false public accusations were orchestrated to destroy his professional and personal life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741714 Examines the most spectacular failure in real estate history, the sale of Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village, using this single deal as a lens to see how and why the real estate crisis happened. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696191 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679049 Kinsey and Me has two parts: The nine Kinsey stories (1986-93), each a gem of detection; and the And Me stories, written in the decade after Graftons mother died. Together, they show just how much of Kinsey is a distillation of her creators past even as they reveal a child who, free of parental interventions, read everything and roamed everywhere. But the dark side of such freedom was that very parental distance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742910 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731995 For more than half a century, C.S. Lewis Narnia series has captured the imaginations of millions. In C.S. Lewis : A Life, Dr. Alister McGrath recounts the unlikely path of this Oxford don, who spent his days teaching English literature to the brightest students in the world and his spare time writing a bestselling fantasy series for children. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742889 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713115 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685509 This collection of novellas is Jim Harrison at his most memorable--a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive--a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years--reluctantly returns to his familys Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal--of ardor for his high school love, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting. In Water Baby, Harrison ventures into the magical as an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to the water as an escape and sees otherworldly creatures there. Faced with the injustice and pressure of coming of age, he takes to the river and follows its siren song all the way across Lake Michigan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706264 Danger intensifies for the Shadowhunters as the New York Times bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy comes to a close. If the only way to save the world was to destroy what you loved most, would you do it? The clock is ticking. Everyone must choose. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. Danger closes in around the Shadowhunters in the final installment of the bestselling Infernal Devices trilogy -- from publishers web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732008 Presents a collection of stories featuring such characters as a possibly deranged male doula, an aerobics instructor trying to save her soul, and a doomsday hustler. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742572 Katherine Yoder has loved Johnny Mullet since the two were children, but hes never returned her affections. Now Johnny is trying to forge a new life for himself by purchasing a farm and building a business of his own. But times are tough, and he soon learns that he cant take anything for granted--especially Katherine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744429 Thomas Tessler, devastated by a tragedy, has cloistered himself in his bedroom and shut out the world for the past three years. Desperate to salvage their life together, his wife hires Megumi, a young Japanese woman attuned to the hikikomori phenomenon, to lure Thomas back into the world. In Japan, Megumi is called a rental sister, though her job may involve much more than familial comforts. And what must these three broken people surrender in order to find hope? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741719 Every salesperson needs help when it comes to developing skills to influence people. Learn the secrets to the trade, which when used effectively can turn any salesperson into a powerful force of persuasion. Imagine what you can accomplish by using this system to shape the opinions of buying committees, tough buyers, and resistant shoppers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705077 Gary Thomas will transform the way people look at romantic relationships. Whether they are single, dating, or engaged, Garys unique perspective on dating will prepare listeners for a satisfying, spiritually enriching marriage even before you walk down the aisle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734687 For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. Hes had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers. Through a series of character-driven case histories--from the earliest trials in Salem, Massachusetts, to the bungled trial of Amanda Knox--Douglas shows what happens when the system breaks down and bias, media coverage, and other influences get in the way of a dispassionate pursuit of the evidence. Here also are Douglas personal reflections on his ongoing search for the truth, from painful lessons learned early in his career to his controversial findings in the West Memphis Three and JonBenet Ramsey investigations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687691 In the title story, two drug-addicted friends return to the farm where they worked as boys to steal their bosss unusual but valuable war trophies. In The Trusty, a convict sent to fetch water tries to sweet talk a farmers young wife into helping him escape, only to find she too is imprisoned in her own way. In Something Rich and Strange, a diver is called upon to pull a drowned girls body free from under a falls, but finds her eerily at peace below the surface. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696197 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705094 Johnny Bowden, Ph.D., and Stephen Sinatra, M.D. give listeners expert advice for effectively preventing, managing, and reversing heart disease. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713079 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685500 From John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald, there have been fourteen assassination attempts on the President of the United States. Four have been successful. But now, Beecher White discovers a killer in Washington, DC whos meticulously recreating the crimes of the worlds most famous assassins: John Wilkes Booth, Charles Guiteau, Leon Czolgosz, and Lee Harvey Oswald. But whats scariest of all is what all four assassins have in common. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738339 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696173 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735665 This is the true story of the two pilots whose lives collided in the skies that day--the American, Second Lieutenant Charlie Brown, a former farm boy from West Virginia who came to captain a B-17--and the German, Second Lieutenant Franz Stigler, a former airline pilot from Bavaria who sought to avoid fighting in World War II. A Higher Call follows both Charlie and Franzs harrowing missions during the war. Ultimately, Charlie and Franz would stare across the frozen skies at one another. What happened between them, the American Eighth Air Force would later classify as top secret. It was an act that Franz could never mention without facing a firing squad. It was the encounter that would haunt both Charlie and Franz for forty years until, as old men, they would search for one another, a last mission that could change their lives forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713180 On October 25, 1944, the Samuel B. Roberts, along with the other twelve vessels comprising its unit, stood between Japans largest battleship force ever sent to sea and MacArthurs transports inside Leyte Gulf. Faced with the surprise appearance of more than twenty Japanese battleships, cruisers, and destroyers the Samuel B. Roberts turned immediately to action with six other ships. The ship churned straight at the enemy in a near-suicidal attempt to deflect the more potent foe, allow the small aircraft carriers to escape, and buy time for MacArthurs forces. Of 563 destroyers constructed during WWII, the Samuel B. Roberts was the only one sunk. The men who survived faced a horrifying three-day nightmare in the sea, where they battled a lack of food and water, scorching sun and numbing nighttime cold, and natures most feared adversary--sharks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696826 When the celebrated Russian-born architect Roman Guttman is injured in a bus bombing, his perceptions become heightened and disturbed, leading him on an ill-advised journey into Palestinian territory. His odyssey alternates with the bittersweet diary of his teenage daughter Anyusha on her own perilous path and the startlingly alive observations of Amir, the young Palestinian who pushed the button and is now damned to watch the havoc he has wrought from a shaky beyond. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740140 Brittany McGuire is the beautiful, twenty-three-year-old daughter of Susan Weiss and Moses McGuire--and the niece of defense attorney Dismas Hardy. Popular and pretty, Brittany has always moved easily from one boyfriend to the next, but her most recent ex, a young man named Rick Jessup, cant seem to get over her. His abuse escalates, culminating in a terrible night when Brittany is raped. Within twenty-four hours, Rick Jessup is dead, Moses McGuire is the prime suspect in the investigation, and Dismas Hardy has been hired to defend his old friend. Making things even more complicated, this case threatens to bring to light old secrets that could destroy the careers of Hardy and police lieutenant Abe Glitsky. As the overwhelming evidence against Moses piles up, Dismas Hardy focuses on planting doubt in the minds of the jurors--until, in a feat of legal ingenuity that is staggering in both its implications and its simplicity, Hardy sees a new way forward that might just save them all. But at what price? For the first time since 2009, the authors most popular protagonist returns in a masterful novel that bears all the hallmarks of John Lescroarts extraordinary storytelling gifts: a cast of flesh-and-blood characters, morally complex situations with no easy answers, and--of course--relentless, nail-biting suspense that will leave you breathless. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732004 An easy to maintain plan that has people eating real, delicious food in specific combinations carefully designed to turn the body into an extreme fat burner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744629 They live among us. They are our neighbors, our mothers, our lovers. They change. When government agents kick down Claires front door and murder her parents, Claire realizes just how different she is. Patrick was nothing special until the day he got on a plane and hours later stepped off it, the only passenger left alive, a hero. Chase has sworn to protect the people of the United States from the menace in their midst, but he is becoming the very thing he has promised to destroy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734684 Using examples from his long career, a legendary basketball coach outlines the benefits of negative thinking, which helps build a realistic strategy that takes all potential obstacles into account. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696193 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742914 Join us on a journey to find a faith of your own. A faith that isnt your parents or your youth pastors or your churchs. Start from scratch, question everything, and get hold of a faith thats real. We call it firsthand faith. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742911 Backed by five years of rigorous scientific research, Paul and Shou-Ching Jaminets Perfect health diet tells you exactly how to optimize health and make weight loss effortless with a clear, balanced, and scientifically proven plan to change the way you eat, and feel forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738299 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736182 Almost overnight, Arthur Wise has become one of the most powerful attorneys in America. His first big purchase is a simple beach house in a place called Bluepoint. Its in Bluepoint, during the summer of 1952, that Arthurs teenage son, Hilly, makes friends with Lem Dawson, a black man whose job it is to take care of the house. When Hilly finds himself falling for Lems niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his fathers dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713384 Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped by Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business). Finally the first week of paying guests arrive: John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a holiday together; Nuala and Henry, husband and wife , both doctors who have been shaken by seeing too much death; Anders, the Swedish boy, hates his fathers business, but has a real talent for music; Miss Nell Howe, a retired school teacher, who criticizes everything and leaves a day early, much to everyones relief; the Walls who have entered in 200 contests (and won everything from a microwave oven to velvet curtains, including the week at Stone House); and Freda , the psychic who is afraid of her own visions. You will laugh and cry as you spend the week with this odd group who share their secrets and might even have some of their dreams come true. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731996 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731988 Challenges readers to find their Christlike identity and embrace life boldly to be the person God intended. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712584 A revered yoga instructor reveals her own struggles with body image and the student-prompted journey of self-discovery that led her to visit other world regions, including the drought-stricken Indian countryside and the center of the 2011 earthquake in Japan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742890 Gabe, Jace, and Ash: three of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the country. Theyre accustomed to getting anything they want. For Gabe, its making one particular fantasy come true with a woman who was forbidden fruit. Now shes ripe for the picking. When Gabe Hamilton saw Mia Crestwell walk into the ballroom for his hotels grand opening, he knew he was going to hell for what he had planned. After all, Mia is his best friends little sister. Except shes not so little anymore. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738302 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713116 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704140 Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister Mahtab are fascinated by America. When Saba suddenly finds herself abandoned, alone with her father in Iran, she is certain that her mother and sister have moved to America without her. Bereft, she aches for their company, and for the Western life. All her life she had been taught that fate is in the blood, which must mean that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. Thus, over the next several years, as Saba falls in and out of love and struggles with the limited possibilities available to her as a woman in Iran, she imagines a simultaneous, parallel life, a Western version, for her sister. But where Sabas story has all the grit and brutality of real life in postrevolutionary Iran, her sisters life--as Saba envisions it--gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1692787 At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider has disappeared. Chris had taken a secretive personal leave and hadnt spoken to anyone from the office in days. The Private team retraces his footsteps to the cases he was investigating before his disappearance: a billionaire, a world-famous soccer player, and a seedy nightclub owner - and theyre all suspects. As Private digs further into Chriss past, a terrifying history is revealed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739410 Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henrys condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston into a sprawling casino. Bitter rivals emerge, alliances turn, and the uglier pieces of the Boston political machine look to put an end to Spensers investigation. Aspiration, greed, and twisted dreams all focus on the old Wonderland dog track where the famous amusement park once fronted the ocean. For Spenser and Z, this simple favor to Henry will become the fight of their lives -- from the Robert B. Parker web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694338 Eddie Huang is the 30-year-old proprietor of Baohaus - the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night - and one of the food worlds brightest and most controversial young stars. But before he created the perfect home for himself in a small patch of downtown New York, Eddie wandered the American wilderness looking for a place to call his own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738310 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740131 In the last years of the Forerunner empire, chaos rules. The Flood--a horrifying shape-changing parasite--has arrived in force, aided by unexpected allies. Internal strife within the ecumene has desperately weakened Forerunner defenses. Too little, too late, the legal rate of Juridicals is only now investigating possible crimes by the Master Builder and others. Evidence-gathering agents known collectively as Catalog have been dispatched to collect testimony from the Librarian and both Didacts: the Ur-Didact, treacherously abandoned in a Flood-infested system, and the Bornstellar Didact, who accompanies the Librarian as she preserves specimens against the dire possibility of Halo extermination. Facing the imminent collapse of their civilization, the Librarian and the Ur-Didact reveal what they know about the relationship between the long-vanished Precursors and the Flood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1740038 For a posse chasing a murderous band of outlaws, a quiet kid with a lightning fast gun is good company. And when the outlaws turn around and attack the posse, The Loner doesnt have a choice, hes now caught up in a running gun battle across West Texas. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733237 Los Angeles County sheriffs deputy Charlie Hood is attached to the ATF, working undercover on the iron river that flows across the U.S.-Mexican border. The diamond fillings he wears in his left canine glimmer, distracting the men who sell the illegal firearms that enable the unspeakable violence on both sides of the map. Spotting the sparkle when Charlie Diamonds opens his mouth is often their first step toward life behind bars. Meanwhile, Bradley Jones, sheriffs deputy and employee of the Baja Cartel, son of the love of Charlies life, the deceased L.A. outlaw Suzanne Jones, is expecting a son of his own. Suzanne was descended from famed Mexican desperado Joaquin Murrieta, whose embalmed head Bradley inherited from her and keeps nestled among piles of cash, proceeds from Bradleys own life of crime. Charlie knows all of Bradleys secrets; the question is what hell do with the information. Until he decides, his obsession remains the inexplicable existence of Mike Finnegan, the diminutive devil who flits in and out of both mens lives, knowing things he shouldnt, seemingly immortal. Three men: earnest law-enforcer, inveterate lawbreaker, and the man who pits them against each other--hurtle toward one another in the jaw-dropping conclusion to T. Jefferson Parkers mesmerizing vision of the border. Their climactic showdown brings to a spectacular close a crime series that obliterated the boundaries of the genre. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733262 The story follows a far flung group of individuals now settled in the San Francisco valley, each wrestling with economic, social and personal issues, and who cross paths by way of the bizarrely innocent idea for a Humanity Project. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706265 After the death of her father in 1855, seventeen-year-old Sophia goes to live with her wealthy and mysterious godfather at his gothic mansion, Wyndriven Abbey, in Mississippi, where many secrets lie hidden. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713196 Documents the true story of a small-town lawman in upstate New York who exposed the Mafia to 1950s America, describing the political turf war between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General Robert Kennedy that led to Sergeant Edgar D. Croswells heroic arrests at a Cosa Nostra conference. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742586 Stepping stone: Truman is a gentle unassuming soul, he has worked in the mailroom of a corporation for decades without making waves, until the day he spots a mysterious woman in yellow. A woman nobody else can see. Love Machine: The brainchild of an eccentric, possibly deranged scientist, the Love Machine can merge individual psyches and memories into a collective Co-Mind. Tricked into joining the Co-Mind, Lois Kim struggles to adapt to her new reality and abilities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744649 The dead of night... The town of Lily, Arizona, has its share of Old West history and mystery. Its also home to the Gilded Lily, a former theater...and bawdy house. These days, it offers theatrical productions geared to tourists, but the recent discovery of a skull, a real skull, among the props and costumes has shaken everyone up. So, who do you call? The Krewe of Hunters, a special FBI unit of paranormal investigators. In this case, its agent Jane Everett. Janes also a talented artist who creates images of the dead as they once were. But the Krewe always works with local law enforcement, and here that means Sloan Trent, ex-Houston cop and now sheriff. He has connections that go deep within this small town. His great-great--grandmother was an actress at the Gilded Lily...as well as a Confederate spy. Shes not resting in peace and she lets him know it! Then more remains appear in the nearby desert. As they search for answers, using all the skills at their disposal, Jane and Sloan find themselves falling into danger--and into love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694355 Displaying a rare courage that transcends battlefield heroics, eleven soldiers and marines share the truth about their wars. Journalist Kevin Sites gets answers to what it is like to kill; to be under fire; what can never be forgotten; and more. Sites compiles the accounts of the soldiers, their families, and their friends, and also shares the unsettling narrative of his own failures during war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715241 Sasha Miller arrives at Cambridge University with a single goal: to earn a place among the great scientists of her time. But that dream comes crashing down when the naive student is seduced by her womanizing professor, Theo Dexter. Now Theo is claiming her work as his own, and a devastated Sasha vows revenge. Eight years later, now head of a successful business empire, Sasha has spent years laying the groundwork for the payback Theo so richly deserves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705086 Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. Whitey Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees. He is an American original--a psychopath who fostered a following with a frightening mix of terror, deadly intimidation and the deft touch of a politician who often helped a family in need meet their monthly rent. But the history shows that despite the early false myths portraying him as a Robin Hood figure, Whitey was a supreme narcissist, and everything--every interaction with family and his politician brother Bill Bulger, with underworld cohorts, with law enforcement, with his South Boston neighbors, and with his victims--was always about him. In an Irish-American neighborhood where loyalty has always been rule one, the Bulger brand was loyalty to oneself. Whitey deconstructs Bulgers insatiable hunger for power and control. Building on their years of reporting and uncovering new Bulger family records, letters and prison files, Dick Lehr and Gerard ONeill examine and reveal the factors and forces that created the monster. Its a deeply rendered portrait of evil that spans nearly a century, taking Whitey from the streets of his boyhood Southie in the 1940s to his cell in Alcatraz in the 1950s to his cunning, corrupt pact with the FBI in the 1970s and, finally, to Santa Monica, California where for fifteen years he was hiding in plain sight as one of the FBIs Ten Most Wanted. In a lifetime of crime and murder that ended with his arrest in June 2011, Whitey Bulger became one of the most powerful and deadly crime bosses of the twentieth century. This is his story.--from cover http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744466 Frances has been forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Southern Cape of Africa. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, one driven by ambition, the other by his ideals. Only when the rumor of a smallpox epidemic takes her into the dark heart of the diamond mines does she see her path to happiness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705078 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731999 Devised by Dr Pierre Dukan, a French medical doctor who has spent his career helping people to lose weight permanently, The Dukan Diet is the culmination of thirty-five years clinical experience. Without any of the usual marketing hype, The Dukan Diet swept across France, championed by the people who had successfully lost weight following the diet. It is now estimated that the Dukan community numbers over 5 million people in France. Easy to follow with no calorie counting, The Dukan Diet offers clear simple guidelines, menu planners and delicious recipes for long term success. Beyond its immense success in France, The Dukan Diet has been adopted by 20 countries and translated into 10 languages. Many international observers agree that this is the method most likely to put a stop to the world s weight problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734688 Charlie Hood struggles with the moral challenges of arresting his late loves cartel-connected son, Bradley Jones, while the enigmatic Mike Finnegan uses his unsettling knowledge to infiltrate both of their lives.