Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+6644+7517+4294966793 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=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=1687353 Three days before Christmas, Matt Jensen is traveling the Denver and Pacific railway when an avalanche slams down onto the train, trapping it in desolate Trout Creek Pass. But it wasnt an act of nature that caused the accident; it was a gang of outlaws attempting to rescue their leader, who is being taken to Red Cliff to be hanged. As Smoke Jensen and Duff MacCallister frantically try to make their way to the scene, Matt struggles to save the survivors, among them a beautiful young woman with a dark past, a merchant seaman turned rancher, and a senator with his very ill young daughter. Starving under a bitter, driving snow in the brutal, unforgiving Rocky Mountains, and surrounded by armed and desperate outlaws, Matt still dreams of making it home for Christmas. But unless fate lends a hand, nobody will. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733295 Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father. His days of investigating the crimes of Victorian London are now years behind him. He plans a trip to his uncles estate, Everley, in the expectation of a few calm weeks to write an important speech. When he arrives in the quiet village of Plumley, however, what greets him is a series of strange vandalisms upon the local shops: broken windows, minor thefts, threatening scrawls. Only when a far more serious crime is committed does he begin to understand the great stakes of those events, and the complex and sinister mind that is wreaking fear and suspicion in Plumley. Now, with his protg, John Dallington, at his side, the race is on for Lenox to find the culprit before he strikes again. And this time his victim may be someone that Lenox loves. 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=1735305 Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732106 The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks. 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=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=1712063 After and accident leaves his wife Elle brain dead, Matt Beaulieu, resolving to take her off life support, changes his mind when the doctors discover that she is pregnant--a decision that results in a controversial legal battle with Elles family--Provided by the publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1745387 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706150 When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687169 Love is in the air in the colorful Ulster village of Ballybucklebo, where Dr. Fingal Flahertie OReilly has finally proposed to the darling of his youth, Kitty OHallorhan. Theres a wedding to be planned, but he and colleague Barry Laverty must deal with the usual round of eccentric patients and crises large and small. Much has changed in the village, but the lives and practices of these Irish country doctors remain as captivating as ever. (Bestseller) 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=1731011 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=1739220 Imagine a 32-year-old Nancy Drew whos seen a thing or two, has a sophisticated career as a wine magazine writer, is not interested in monogamy, and has the kind of sex appeal only an independent woman can possess. Jean Applequist boards an elegant yacht for the wedding of her friend Diane and wealthy developer Martin Wingo. But things go terribly wrong: the evening ends in tragedy when, after exchanging vows, Wingo disappears into San Francisco Bay. Diane asks Jean ot investigate, and the list of potential suspects is long. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735554 As the lone female in a houseful of men, Merrill Krause dedicates her life to caring for her family and their business, as her dying mother asked. Besides, it suits her; shes never felt like she fits what most people expect in a girl. Shed rather work with her fathers horses and assist with the ice harvest. And though shes been mostly content up to this point, a part of her wonders if there will ever be anyone who will notice her amid the bevy of brothers determined to protect her from any possible suitors. When Rurik Jorgenson arrives in their small Minnesota town to join his uncles carpentry business, he soon crosses paths with Merrill. But unlike other men, Rurik isnt intimidated by Merrills brothers or by her strength and lack of femininity. The attraction between them begins to build, until Ruriks former fiancee shows up with wild claims that bring serious consequences to Rurik. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712809 A man about to leave his marriage is poisoned to death while his wife, the logical suspect, is hundreds of miles away. Tokyo Police Detective Kusanagi and his assistant agree to disagree about the guilty party: was it his wife, his girlfriend, his business associate, or a random crime? They call on physics professor Manubu Yukawa, and even the brilliant mind of Detective Galileo is challenged by a crime that is implausible, methodical - and perfect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704661 Returning to the Oregon small town where fellow members of a research team were killed two years earlier, psychic counselor Gwen Frazier, convinced that her mentors untimely death is related, searches for answers at the side of psychic investigator Judson Coppersmith, who is haunted by urgent dreams and a primal attraction to Gwen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735538 Draws on new archival research to examine Pope Pius XIs effort to reject Nazism, discussing how he enlisted the assistance of John La Farge, a virtually unknown American Jesuit, to craft a papal encyclical condemning Hitlers campaign against the Jews. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735905 London, 1933. Two months after the body of an Indian woman named Usha Pramal is found in the brackish water of a South London canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs to find out the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, evidence indicates that they failed to conduct a full and thorough investigation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716090 A tenacious reporter turns to a handsome private detective to help her solve a mysterious disappearance the police say never happened--but someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden. 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=1743336 Death has come twice to Ravenbank, a remote community in Englands Lake District, each time on Halloween. Just before the First World War, a young womans corpse was found, with a makeshift shroud frozen to her battered face. Her ghost - the Faceless Woman - is said to walk through Ravenbank on Halloween. Five years ago, another woman, Katya Moss, was murdered, and again her face was covered to hide her injuries. Daniel Kind, a specialist in the history of murder, becomes fascinated by the old cases, and wonders whether the obvious suspects really did commit the crimes. He spends Halloween at a party in Ravenbank - only to find death returning to this beautiful but isolated spot. Once more, the victim is a woman, once more her damaged face is shrouded from view. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729363 June and Day make their way to Las Vegas where they join the rebel Patriot group and become involved in an assassination plot against the Elector in hopes of saving the Republic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732982 China, 1957. Chairman Mao declared Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend, to encourage a new openness in society. However, for many outspoken intellectuals, this turned out to be a trap. Kai Yings husband, Sheng, was one of them. A year later, Sheng remains imprisoned in a labor camp, while Kai Ying and her family struggle to find a sliver of peace and hope in a world full of guilt and secrets. 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=1735543 When a local woman tells Sergeant Hamish Macbeth that she doesnt remember what happened the previous evening, he doesnt begin to worry. She had been out drinking, after all, and hed prefer not to be bothered with such an arrogant and annoying woman. But when her body is discovered, Hamish is forced to investigate a crime that the only known witness--now dead--had forgotten http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730853 When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness--a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682503 An adrenaline-fueled thriller debut in the tradition of Three Days of the Condor from the famed creator of TVs Law & Order, featuring NYPD Special Agent Jeremy Fisk, who is New York Citys last hope against an ingenious, multi-pronged terrorist attack-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716080 Few know the tragedy and heartbreak that shaped The Loner. When the once happily married businessmans wife was murdered, Conrad Browning, son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan, set off on a new course, complete with a new name: Kid Morgan. Bounty hunters are stalking the man known as Kid Morgan, which is how he learns theres a price on his head. A victim of mistaken identity, he had broken out of Hell Gate Prison in New Mexico to clear his name. When the right man had been brought to justice, The Kid was assured there would be no charges leveled against him, so this poster offering a 10,000 dollar reward, Dead or Alive, is a potentially deadly mistake. Riding into the little mining town of Las Vegas, The Kid plans to lie low while his San Francisco lawyer clears up the error. But theres a bank robbery going down, and The Kid cant ignore it. When he steps in to help the marshal, he becomes the town hero, until hes recognized and he finds himself behind bars again. Someone is blocking all attempts to clear The Kids name, and its uncertain that hell live long enough to ever be free again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735762 After journalist Spencer-Wendel learns of her diagnosis of ALS, more commonly known as Lou Gehrigs disease, she embarks on several adventures. This includes taking her fourteen-year-old daughter, Marina, to New York Citys Kleinfelds Bridal to shop for Marinas future wedding dress-- an occasion Spencer-Wendell knows she will never see. This is her account of living a full life with humor, courage, and love, accepting death with grace and dignity, and showing the people we love and care about how very much they mean to us. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685043 When Detective Inspector Bill Reid is found murdered, Chief Inspector Alan Banks, suspecting police corruption, handles the investigation with the utmost discretion until he discovers that Reids murder is linked to the disappearance of a young English girl six years earlier. 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=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=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=1687170 A tale inspired by the lives of famous twentieth-century female photographers traces the progression of feminism and photography in various world regions as each woman explores private and public goals while balancing the demands of family and creativity. 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=1711928 Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and hes made sure that no one will recognize him--by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth-floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, hes called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C., is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all-out frenzy. Alexs investigations are going nowhere, and hes too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him--and will stop at nothing until hes dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698248 Honor Bright, a modest English Quaker who moves to Ohio in 1850, is drawn into the clandestine activities of the Underground Railroad; when she befriends two women who embody the remarkable power of defiance, she must decide if she too can act on what she believes in, whatever the personal cost. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695701 Caterina Pellegrini is a native Venetian, and like so many of them, shes had to leave home to pursue her career. With a doctorate in baroque opera from Vienna, she lands in Manchester, England. Manchester, however, is no Venice. When Caterina gets word of a position back home, she jumps at the opportunity. The job is an unusual one. After nearly three centuries, two locked trunks, believed to contain the papers of a baroque composer have been discovered. Deeply-connected in religious and political circles, the composer died childless; now two Venetians, descendants of his cousins, each claim inheritance. Caterinas job is to examine any enclosed papers to discover the testamentary disposition of the composer. But when her research takes her in unexpected directions she begins to wonder just what secrets these trunks may hold. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739221 In the small English village of Nether Monkslip, Max Tudor - Anglican priest, former MI5 agent, and village heartthrob - investigates two deaths at Chedrow Castle. But a growing attraction to Awena Owen complicates his case, as does the recent arrival at Chedrow Castle of a raucous group of long-lost, greedy relatives, any one of whom has a motive for murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741733 Amanda Knoxs account of her hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved after spending four years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696548 The Berlin office of the worlds most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715693 When Detective Logan Riske goes undercover to find Pepper Yates, a potential link to his best friends unsolved murder, he vows to gain cooperation by any means necessary. But the elusive beauty is more suspicious - and in far more danger - than he expected. Pepper has spent the past five years dodging the corrupt club owner who will stop at nothing to keep her silenced. She can trust no one, not even her handsome new neighbor. (Bestseller) 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=1704662 In the aftermath of the surrenders of Germany and Japan in October 1945, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS are given the life-threatening task of maintaining security during a covert U.S. deal with Germany for intelligence about the identities of Soviet spies in the American atomic bomb program. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693140 When Dr. Georges Moutte is found murdered, Judge Antoine Verlaque is stumped. Moutte, the director of theology at the Universit d Aix, was just about to name the recipient of an elite fellowship as well as his own successor - a highly coveted position that includes a lavish apartment in a seventeenth-century mansion - when his lips were sealed permanently. Yet Verlaque isnt convinced that any of the academics are capable of murder. Turning Provence upside down, he uncovers a world far more complicated than universiy politics. 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=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=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=1705386 During a tumultuous period in the Four Lands, young Druid Aphenglow stumbles on a dangerous secret about an Elvan girls heartbreak and the vanished Elfstones. Set seven years after the High Druid series. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684986 The rascally Thomas of Hookton, aka Le Batard, and his band of not-so-merry mercenaries are bidden by the Earl of Northhampton to unearth the lost sword of Saint Peter in this recreation of the Battle of the Poitiers in 1356 wherein a severely outnumbered English army defeats the French and captures the Poiters and French King John II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743337 When animal psychic Pru Marlowe is called in to retrain an African gray parrot after its owners death, she discovers that the parrot witnessed its owners murder, and Pru begins to investigate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729364 Gill Underwood and his jewel-heisting partner Trudy Elwell have been set up, and Trudy has paid the ultimate price. Now Underwood, a former Naval intelligence officer, is holding $150 million worth of hot sparks, running from ruthless gangs of Serbians, Chinese, Israelis, and Cubans - and the Feds are closing in. With speed, technology, brains, and brawn, Underwood must turn the tables in a heart pounding game of cat-and-mouse that leads to the most deadly enemy of all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730878 Selling her home and taking time off from her career as a successful motivational speaker, Cecilia Ross moves into a beautiful old house in St. Paul and bonds with three roommates, including one who would reconnect with a daughter she gave up for adoption, one who would visit her long-absent ex and a professional chef who would find inspiration from other restaurants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732017 Kat may be new in her faith, but shes embraced the more radical implications of Christianity with reckless abandon. She invited a homeless mother and her son to move into the apartment she shares with two other housemates. And shes finally found a practical way to channel her passion for healthy eating by starting a food pantry at the church. But not everyone thinks the food pantry is a good idea. When the woman she thought would be her biggest support just wants to pray about it, Kat is forced to look deeper at her own motives. Only when she begins to look past the surface does she see people who are hungry and thirsty for more than just food and drink and realizes the deeper significance of inviting them to come to the table. 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=1702014 A young New York lawyer and his wife link their destinies forever in a follow-your-dream move to rural Wyoming. Thirty-eight years later a Manhattan publisher and a young Amish woman become irresistibly drawn together through her writing. Somehow these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways as lovers are lost, and find each other again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693089 Inheriting their late grandmothers sprawling, book-filled home in London, siblings Grace and Andrew Easton move in together and initially enjoy a shared life that is complicated by Andrews gay relationship with a strident novelist, the shattering murder of a friend, and Graces discovery of a long-lost manuscript. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749035 Victoria McQueen has a knack for finding things. Riding her bicycle through an old covered bridge, she always emerges where she needs to be. Charles Talent Manx has a gift of his own. He takes children for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate and they slip away to an astonishing playground he calls Christmasland. But the journey through Charlies twisted imagination transforms his precious passengers, leaving them as terrifying and unstoppable as their benefactor. And then comes the day when Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manxs unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx is on the road again, and he wont slow down until hes taken his revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713805 Four friends, recent college graduates, travel to Kenya to work at a giant refugee camp for Somalis; needing a break after twelve weeks on the job, they pile into a Land Cruiser for an adventure but wake up in a hut, hooded, bound, no food or water. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730963 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=1735541 When her ex-boyfriend asks her to investigate a stolen Civil War artifact, Tai tries to unravel the mystery while facing off against a modern-day killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729579 Hoping to bring some Tinseltown money to the Valley, the mayor lures a movie studio to town to shoot their next production, a big-budget classic Western. The star is none other than ruggedly handsome - and notoriously badly behaved - Thad Perry. When the mayor decides that someone needs to keep an eye on Thad, P.I. Bernie Little and his canine sidekick Chet are handpicked for the job. The money is good - but something smells fishy. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739622 A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsays homicide department to report a murder that hasnt yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says hes ready to tell where the bodies are buried, but does he have a much more sinister plan in mind? Lindsay doesnt have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when she is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life.%% http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712059 Sheriff Boone Taylor has his job, friends, a run-down but decent ranch, two faithful dogs and a good horse. He doesnt want romance. The widowed Montanan has loved and lost enough for a lifetime. But when a city woman buys the spread next door, Boones peace and quiet is in serious jeopardy. With a marriage and a career painfully behind her, Tara Kendall is determined to start over in Parable. Re-inventing herself and living a girlhood dream is worth the hard work. Sure, she might need help from her handsome, wary neighbor once in awhile, but shes overjoyed to be a rancher in her own right! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722570 Margaret OBrien prides herself on her competence as a rancher. But her father believes shes made for more than just dawn-to-dusk work. He wants her to have the love of a good man, to raise children, to build a life. But Margaret gave up such dreams years ago--p. [4] of cover http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735537 Returning to Ashuant Point to escape from the chaos of rapidly changing times, Helen Porter and her son Charlie soon discover that the Point has not remained unscathed from events unfolding beyond its borders. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716089 The veteran singer and songwriter recounts his life and career, beginning from his teenage performances in dive bars and playing to provide for his family, through selling more than 53 million albums and singles worldwide. 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=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=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=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=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=1687315 Sister Jane Arnold tracks clues during an outbreak of crimes related to the world of competitive hunting and the tobacco industry. 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=1736414 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732100 For much of her life, Anne Morrow has stood in the shadows of those around her. Then Anne, a college senior, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted by an insatiable press, Charles shields himself and his new bride from prying eyes, leaving Anne to feel her life falling back into the shadows. In the years that follow, despite her own major achievements, Anne is viewed merely as the aviators wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, lifes infinite possibilities for change and happiness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741848 In the heart of Italy, Harvard professor of symbology Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on one of historys most enduring and mysterious literary masterpieces: Dantes Inferno. Against this backdrop, Langdon battles a chilling adversary and grapples with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classic art, secret passageways, and futuristic science -- vendor summary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735257 From the grand master of the historical novel comes a dazzling epic portrait of Paris that leaps through centuries as it weaves the tales of families whose fates are forever entwined with the City of Lights. The breathtaking multigenerational saga takes listeners on a journey through thousands of years of glorious Parisian history, through intimate and vivid tales of characters both fictional and true, and with the sights, scents, and tastes of Paris come to sumptuous life. 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=1697524 History has been kind to the American generals of World War II and less kind to the generals of the wars that followed. Setting out to explain why, Thomas E. Ricks cites a widening gulf between performance and accountability. Then, scores of American generals were relieved of command simply for not being good enough. Today, as one American colonel said bitterly, A private who loses a rifle suffers far greater consequences than a general who loses a war. 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=1735273 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693088 For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart. Edie is obsessed with food - and if she doesnt stop, she wont have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, its up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going family man, just wants to smooth things over. And his wife Rachelle, a whippet-thin perfectionist, is intent on saving her mother-in-laws life. Through it all, they wonder: do Edies devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too? 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=1735540 When an old friend opens his own detective agency, PI Cat DeLuca sees a train wreck. Everything Billy Bonham knows about being a private dick he learned from Humphrey Bogart. The bungling detective is in way over his head on a case involving murder and a stolen pair of dazzling diamond earrings. His outrageous client is pursued by men who want her dead. Five minutes after meeting her, Cat would cheerfully kill her too. Then Billy is gunned down on the street, and its up to Cat to save his crazy client and nail a murderer. With a cast of zany characters and a pace thats unrelenting, this laugh-out-loud mystery is best served hot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704164 Readers will discover Gods plan for how they can become genuinely good (holy) and how that process frees them from all the emotional and behavioral problems that plague them--Provided by the publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735536 A wild journey through Dennis Hoppers many lives as one of Americas most unconventional actors who staged one of the greatest Hollywood comebacks of all time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694399 Newly appointed as territorial marshals, Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch step into a whirlwind of danger as they climb aboard a train traveling through the Indian Territories. A simple mission to escort Mexican prisoners to the border grows a lot more complicated when the Texas governor boards the train with his entourage and they must strive to fend off a pack of ruthless bandits. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693226 When Cryptessa Muldoon, a Hollywood has-been who spends her days making enemies with everyone on the street, is found murdered on Halloween night, Jaine Austen, to prove her own innocence, must unmask a killer among a neighborhood filled with suspects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735890 For years Libby Morgan dreamed only of making partner in her competitive, high-pressure law firm. She sacrificed everything for her career, her friends, her marriage, her chance at creating a family. When her boss calls Libby into his office, she assumes it will finally be good news, but nothing can prepare her for the shocking reality: Shes been let go and must rebuild her entire life...starting now. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732102 One day in 2009, twenty-four-year-old Susannah Cahalan woke up alone in a strange hospital room, strapped to her bed, under guard, and unable to move or speak. A wristband marked her as a flight risk, and her medical records--chronicling a monthlong hospital stay of which she had no memory at all--showed hallucinations, violence, and dangerous instability. Cahalan tells the astonishing true story of her inexplicable descent into madness and the brilliant, lifesaving diagnosis that nearly didnt happen. A team of doctors would spend a month--and more than a million dollars--trying desperately to pin down a medical explanation for what had gone wrong. Then, at the last minute, celebrated neurologist Souhel Najjar joined her team and, with the help of a lucky, ingenious test, saved her life. He recognized the symptoms of a newly discovered autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks the brain, a disease now thought to be tied to both schizophrenia and autism, and perhaps the root of demonic possessions throughout history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730973 When Sophie Brinkmann meets Hector Guzman, her life is perfectly uneventful. Shes a nurse and a single mother, living with her son in a sleepy Stockholm suburb. She likes Guzmans quiet charm and easy smile; she likes the way he welcomes her into his family. She quickly learns, though, that his smooth faade masks something much more sinister, hes the head of an international crime ring that is at war with a rival organization. Before she can fully grasp the extent of his dangerous world, her life starts to come undone, her family is at risk, a long-lost friend mysteriously resurfaces, and she realizes that she can trust no one. 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=1736413