Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+6603+6634 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743529 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743562 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743523 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716081 A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster revealed to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that hed once considered spying for the enemy. For Cage, the news story created a brief but embarrassing sensation and heralded the beginning of the end of his career. More than two decades later, Cage, now a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743487 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716091 Whether youre an experienced genealogist or just getting started with your family tree, let this guide be your ticket to the past. Youll learn how easy it is to find ancestral details, communicate with other online genealogists, and leverage social networking sites to locate family and friends. As you piece together your genealogy, youll also discover how to build your own website to share the information youve uncovered with the rest of your family. You wont believe how much fun youll have learning about your roots! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687316 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743530 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743563 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743524 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733150 Leaving her sales job behind to start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent, Genevieve finds her dreams shattered by the discovery of a body that is linked to her own secret past as a dancer at a private members club, forcing her to recall the moment when things started to go horribly wrong. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697516 A man named Nicholas Edwards lives in New Orleans renovating houses, doing honest work and making decent money at it. Between his family and his stamp collection, all his spare time is happily accounted for. Sometimes its hard to remember that he used to kill people for a living. But when the nations economy tanks, taking the construction business with it, all it takes is one phone call to drag him back into the game. It may say Nicholas Edwards on his drivers license and credit cards, but hes back to being the man he always was: Keller. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716082 Within the FBI, there exists a team of psychics whose powers cannot be denied. Months ago Sarah Gallagher woke from a coma with psychic abilities she couldnt control. Now, someone is playing games with Sarahs mind. It begins with Sarahs home being destroyed by fire, an act of arson that draws novelist Tucker Mackenzie into Sarahs confidence. But he has other reasons for pursuing a woman who can see what others cannot. So does a mysterious enemy intent on eliminating Sarah, and everyone she cares about. Because it is only a matter of time before her visions lead her and Tucker to a secret many will kill to hide. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743488 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704663 Taking a year off from her medical studies and leaving New York City, Pia Grazdani accepts a job at Nanobots, a nanotechnology institute, where she is quickly warned not to investigate the other work done at the facility and not to ask questions about their source of funding. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743573 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712060 When a murdered body is discovered in the sacred Temple in 29 C.E. Jerusalem, ranking rabbi Gamaliel teams up with the physician Loukas to solve the crime and restore peace, a situation that is further complicated by additional killings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743531 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743564 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743525 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743483 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716083 When Karlina Richter finds out that a new shepherd will be sent to East Amana, she fears shell no longer be able to help her father with the sheep. Her fears increase when Anton Becker arrives and shows little interest in the flock- or in divulging why hes been sent. Dovie Cates decides to visit the Amana Colonies, where her mother spent her formative years. But when Dovie begins to ask questions about her mothers past, no one seems willing to tell her anything. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731010 What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743489 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696717 Wedding cake decorator and maid of honor in her beloved cousins wedding, Piper Donovan must save the day when the impending nuptials are threatened by the disappearance of a bridesmaid, the discovery of a body on the wedding beach and the arrival of the lecherous, ex-drug dealer best man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739226 Librarian Phoebe ODunn deals in stories, but her passion for history has taught her that happy endings are rare. Her life in Knights Bridge, Massachusetts, is safe and uneventful until she discovers the hidden room. Among its secrets is a cache of vintage clothing, including a spectacular gown perfect for a gala masquerade in Boston. In the guise of a princess, Phoebe is captivated by a handsome swashbuckler whos also adopted a more daring persona. Noah Kendricks wealth has made him wary, especially of women: everybody wants something. When Noah and Phoebe meet again in Knights Bridge, at first neither recognizes the other. And neither one is sure they can trust the magic of the night they shared until an unexpected threat prompts them to unmask their truest selves. After all, it takes more than just the right costume to live out your personal fairy tale. It takes heart and the courage to be more than you ever dreamed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704728 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694402 In the slums of Kampala, Uganda, Phiona Mutesi sleeps in a decrepit shack with her mother and three siblings and struggles to find a single meal each day. Phiona is also one of the worlds best chess players. One day in 2005 while searching for food, nine-year-old Phiona met Robert Katende, a war refugee turned missionary. Katende had an improbable dream: to empower slum kids through chess - a game for which there is no word in their language. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704744 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687373 Reggie, a successful architect who left her hometown and the horrific memories of a long ago summer behind, gets a call revealing that her mother has been found alive--a call that forces Reggie to confront the ghosts of her past and find the serial killer known as Neptune before he kills again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743582 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743574 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743549 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712061 Tike and Ella May Hamlin struggle to plant roots in the arid land of the Texas Panhandle. The husband and wife live in a precarious wooden farm shack, but Tike yearns for a sturdy house that will protect them from the treacherous elements. Thanks to a five-cent government pamphlet, Tike has the know-how to build a simple adobe dwelling, a structure made from the land itself-fireproof, windproof, Dust Bowl-proof. A house of earth. Though they are one with the farm and with each other, the land on which Tike and Ella May live and work is not theirs. Due to larger forces beyond their control - including ranching conglomerates and banks - their adobe house remains painfully out of reach.--back cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698358 Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier - - a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743565 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743526 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743484 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732045 When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis with the hallmarks of a killing hes investigating on the mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin MacLeod is dispatched to see if the two deaths are connected. His return after nearly two decades not only represents a police investigation, but a voyage into his troubled past. Every step in solving the murder takes him closer to a dangerous confrontation with the tragic events that shaped his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743543 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743504 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739434 Suffering an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being wrongly implicated in his soon-to-be-ex-wifes murder, Boston lawyer Eli Landon takes sanctuary in a centuries-old family home and falls in love with resident housekeeper Abra Walsh, with whom he is entangled in an old, life-threatening mystery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716084 Red Cross nurse Nina Borg risks her marriage to assist her friend Peter at a camp of mysteriously ill Roma refugee children whose circumstances prove more complicated and dangerous than originally believed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712068 If youre one of the 25 million single women over 45 living in the United States today, this book is your new best friend. Walking you through the challenges of retired or pre-retired life, it covers the issues that matter to you. Packed with specific details, The Single Womans Guide to Retirement includes real-life stories from women just like you to illustrate your options and give you fresh new ideas about how to make the most of your retirement years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731011 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743490 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704680 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687362 In 1962, Jackie Hart moves from Boston to Florida, with her family. Wanting something fulfilling to do, she starts a reading club and hosts a local late-night radio show as Miss Dreamsville. The conservative, segregated town loves Miss Dreamsville, but doesnt know what to make of Jackie. Her book club welcomes everyone - even a black woman, a gay man, and a convict - who found there what had so far eluded them: a place in the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704712 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743507 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687330 The year is 2042 and for the first time in human history, the economic pyramid has flipped. The feeble old now outnumber the vigorous young. An intensifying battle is forming between competing cultural agendas. Reporter Julia Davidson is investigating the crisis and becomes a pawn in an ominous conspiracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743496 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716087 Joe Gunther and his team at the Vermont Bureau of Investigation are alerted to a string of unrelated burglaries across Vermont. Meanwhile, in Boston, an elderly woman surprises thieves in her Beacon Hill home and is viciously murdered. The police find that the loot is similar to whats been stolen in Vermont, and it may have the same destination. Word is that someone powerful is purchasing the items in the Paradise City of Northampton, Mass. Now Gunther, the Boston police, and the old ladys vengeful niece converge on the city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698247 Includes stories that detail Alphabet series heroine Kinsey Millhones origins, as well as true tales of the authors past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704730 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743539 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730963 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712052 Studying competitive arenas from the workplace, the stock market, sport, politics, the military and schools and usingthe latest findings in genetics, neuroscience and behavioural psychology, Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman unveil the astounding, often counter-intuitive truths about how we compete and the crucial ingredients that sometimes stand between winning and losing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743335 Kate Reilly cant remember a worse time in her life, on-track or off. She wrecks her racecar at Road America in Wisconsin, sending a visiting NASCAR star to the hospital, and loses her cool on-camera, only to end the day by discovering her boyfriend with a friend of hers. A dead friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687166 An unlikely group of campers including a woman, her two oddball friends, her teen daughter and her exs fiance embark on a trip in the Adirondacks only to be targeted by a pair of teenage killers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743474 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735289 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687374 When a series of blond, pregnant teens go missing from the Magdalene Laundry in 1929 Melbourne and a pushy woman reporter disappears while investigating, Phryne and Dot uncover a dark plot involving piracy, convents, and creepy cellars. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693141 When three elderly men are gunned down over coffee at a local diner, the town of Ackers Gap is shaken. But a pattern of violence is taking shape that prosecutor Bell Elkins is becoming all too familiar with. Bells daughter, Carly, a witness to the crime and desperate to prove that she is an adult, decides to help her mother work the case. As Bells investigation unfolds, one thing is certain: the very idea of a simple way of life is coming to an end. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743583 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743575 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743550 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735265 Environmental conservancy advocate Shayne and big city cop Tanner join forces to uncover the truth behind Tanners uncles death. When Shaye becomes a killers target, Tanner realizes hed give up anything to protect her -- including his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743588 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712062 When Harry and Madeleine Winslow meet Claire, they are drawn to her youth, quiet intelligence, and naivete, and over the course of the summer, reverence transforms into dangerous desire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743533 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743566 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712810 Recently returned from the experience of a lifetime in fin de sicle Vienna, where she met and tragically lost the first great love of her life, Eleanor Burden has no choice but to marry and settle into her expected place in society. Her story is not unlike those of the other privileged young women she grew up with in 1890s Boston, with one exception: Eleanors unshakable belief that she has advance knowledge of every major historical event to come in her lifetime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697548 Ken Jennings wants to find out if mother and father always know best. Yes, all those years you were told not to sit too close to the television (youll hurt your eyes!) or swallow your gum (it stays in your stomach for seven years!) or crack your knuckles (arthritis!) are called into question by our countrys leading trivia guru. Jennings separates myth from fact to debunk a wide variety of parental edicts: no swimming after meals, sit up straight, dont talk to strangers, and so on. Armed with medical case histories, scientific findings, and even the occasional experiment on himself (or his kids), Jennings exposes countless examples of parental wisdom run amok. Whether youre a parent who wants to know what you can stop worrying about or a kid (of any age) looking to say, I told you so, this is the anti-helicopter parenting book youve been waiting for. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743527 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743560 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743485 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735275 Alexandra Horowitzs brilliant On Looking: Eleven Walks with Expert Eyes shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary - to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, the observation of trifles. It is structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes with experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, a well-known artist, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. She also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, and how they see it, reveals the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer. Alexandra Horowitz is charmingly adept at explaining the mysteries of human perception as she discovers a feast of fascinating detail, all explained with her generous humor and self-deprecating tone. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729597 In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the towns most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743493 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743580 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715485 While investigating the murder of a well-respected barrister who was found dead at a seedy hotel in Crystal Palace, Detective Inspector Gemma James and her partner, Detective Sergeant Melody Talbot, begin to question everything they think they know about their world and those they trust most. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743547 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735328 Robin Monarch is not your ordinary spy. As an orphan in the worst slum of Buenos Aires, he became a thief to survive until a near-fatal injury changed the course of his life forever. Now, after abruptly walking out on the CIA in the middle of a mission, he is back to his old ways. But when he becomes a pawn in an intricate plot to finish the mission he abandoned, those who thought they knew him best discover the truth about Robin Monarch. And about just how far he is willing to right the wrongs of his own past. -- from cover p. [4] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743544 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704704 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743505 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1692963 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716085 After her husbands death, Susan Lindley moves into her late great-uncles Pasadena mansion and restores his taxidermy collection while being joined in the residence by an equally strange human menagerie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695671 Now, in this collection of interconnected short stories, Jennifer Haigh returns to the vividly imagined world of Bakerton, Pennsylvania, a coal mining town rocked by decades of painful transition. From its heyday during two World Wars through its slow decline, Bakerton is a town that refuses to give up gracefully, binding--sometimes cruelly - succeeding generations to the place that made them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735886 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743558 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743491 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694398 As the youngest bureau chief and head of the Chicago PDs Major Case Squad, Boone Drake seems to have it all under control. Only those closest to him know that a few years ago hed lost everything that mattered to him. Recently, Boone married a wonderful woman named Haeley, adopted her son, bought a beautiful home, and rediscovered his faith. Then an all-too-personal case takes Boone to Beijing at a time when Haeley can least afford to let him go. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704666 As China plans to invade Taiwan, and launches a cyber attack on the U.S., President Jack Ryan, his son, and the team at the Campus have to act fast if they are going to stop the increasingly rogue nation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704681