Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+6669+4294966744 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1597998 When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1581620 Using carefully honed sensory skills gleaned from a childhood spent blind to solve cases, music therapist Kendra Michaels is tapped by a former FBI agent, who is investigating the work of a serial killer who may be responsible for the disappearance of Kendras ex. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544921 Chester Nez, the only surviving member of the original twenty-nine Navajo code talkers, shares the fascinating inside story of his life and service during World War II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1277483 For the first time ever, a Navy SEAL Team Six sniper chronicles how he became an elite warrior and the ferocious battle that nearly cost him his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1256497 The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1264476 Homeland Security agent Jack McClure sets out to save 23-year-old Alli Carson after shes accused of murdering her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Alli, whos training to be an FBI special ops agent, must escape from the clutches of her uncle, Henry Holt Carson, who has ties to a lengthy list of criminals engaged in dirty deeds ranging from a burgeoning trade in sex slaves to causing the recent financial meltdown in the U.S. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1202784 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1117383 A merciless man with a haunted past, FBI agent Kilraven cant help being attracted to Winnie Sinclair, a shy 911 operator. When he makes the disturbing discovery that her familys unsavory past might have a bearing on his cold case, Winnie is determined to help him crack it--and the ice around this Texans heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1272382 On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared--Lt. Louis Zamperini. Captured by the Japanese and driven to the limits of endurance, Zamperini would answer desperation with ingenuity; suffering with hope, resolve, and humor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302806 California, 1985. Detective Tony Mendez, fresh from a law enforcement course at FBI headquarters, is charged with discovering the identity of a brutal, calculating psychopath. His search pushes him ever deeper into the lives of three children, and closer to the young teacher whose interest in recent events becomes as intense as his own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303237 A group of female warriors from the nations most elite counter-terrorism unit-- the United States Armys 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment Delta--deploys on a dangerous international assignment. Their code name: Athena Project. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1188302 As Detective Alex Cross contends with a D.C. sniper, FBI agent Siegel, and his upcoming wedding to Bree, he receives a call from his deadliest adversary, Kyle Craig. The Mastermind is in D.C. and will not relent until he has eliminated Cross and his family for good. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1162013 A newly discovered fruit takes Tony Chu, a federal agent with the ability to get psychic impressions from the things he eats, to a remote island full of secrets and a shadowy killer with a particularly sinister appetite. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1471959 An elite military cop, Jack Reacher was one of the armys brightest stars. He is on the case after a general is found dead, and within hours the generals wife is murdered. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130256 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988508 Lyndon Johnson got the call a few minutes after 7 p.m.: Mr. President, Martin Luther King has been shot. Within hours, rioting had engulfed Washington, D.C. Before the violence was over, the US Army occupied three major American cities, and National Guard units patrolled a dozen more. The riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, delivered a death blow to the liberal dream of the 1960s, gave new life to the faltering conservative political movement, and launched urban America into a downward spiral from which much of it has never recovered. In an epic narrative, Risen shows how a mere ten days - between Lyndon Johnsons withdrawal from the 1968 campaign on March 31 to Kings death on April 4 to Johnsons signature of the 1968 Civil Rights Act on April 11 - literally rewrote the course of American history, from race relations to urban decline to presidential politics.--Book jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945667 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=957861 660 tons of Semtex is detonated in a massive explosion in Libya. The operation seems to have gone smoothly, but within minutes of the explosion, CIA agent Richard Lawrence discovers that one shipment of the explosive has been hijacked. Days later, a glory-seeking Emir broadcasts to the world that he is planning a massive terrorist strike against a U.S. landmark. And he gives a time line of one month. Now a desperate chase is on, as the men bent on attacking the U.S. use every weapon at their disposal to evade American authorities. Time and again they prove willing to destroy anything--and anyone--standing in their way. But Hamilton Turbee, an autistic computer mastermind at the newly created TTIC agency, discovers a way to track them. His flawed genius gives the nation its only chance at stopping the attack--if the American leadership will listen. As the enemies near their destination, it is up to the TTIC team to stop the massive explosion that could destroy the lives of millions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840019 A biography of the commander of the Union forces in the Civil War who became the eighteenth president of the United States. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1001492 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1021005 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1000854 Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy, was first elected as a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts in 1962, after playing a key role in his brother Johns Presidential campaign. In 2004 he began interviews at the Miller Center of the Univ. of Virginia for an oral history project about his life. Since then he has drawn from his fifty years of contemporaneous notes from personal diaries and worked closely on this book with ... Ron Powers. In his revealing autobiography, Kennedy discusses his distinguished career, his family and personal relationships, and the tragedies that have befallen his family over the many years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1000255 Because Secret Service agents are sworn to secrecy, the American public rarely knows what presidents, vice presidents, presidential candidates, and Cabinet officers and their families are really like. If they did, says a former Secret Service agent, They would scream. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1054785 Samantha Brennan, a scam psychic and fake ancient deity, encounters a Celtic goddess, hidden beneath the steely exterior of FBI Special Agent Annabelle Haggerty. They have to use Annabelles magical powers to help save Americas sweet and sexy movie star, Molly Claire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1017844 An in-depth look at the much talked-about -- but never fully revealed -- relationship between Jackie Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy that began as a result of their shared grief over the assassination of the president in 1963 and lasted until Bobby began his run for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1114269 Tony Chu is a detective with a secret. A weird secret. Tony Chu is Cibopathic, which means he gets psychic impressions from whatever he eats. It also means hes a hell of a detective, as long as he doesnt mind nibbling on the corpse of a murder victim to figure out whodunit, and why. Hes been brought on by the Special Crimes Division of the FDA, the most powerful law enforcement agency on the planet, to investigate their strangest, sickest, and most bizarre cases--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773500 After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=885042 A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=762275 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=811498 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=754584 Fleeing a shameful past, seventeen-year-old Ned Thorne joins the U.S. Army and, in 1871, is sent to the dangerous Arizona territories, where he joins his captain and a ragtag troop in the search for a missing woman supposedly kidnapped by the Apache. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=734239 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268469 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=894635 Journalist and historian Thomas writes with a knowing feel for the clash of cultures as he follows four men through the naval war of 1941-1945 in the South Pacific: Admiral William (Bull) Halsey, the macho, gallant, racist American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo Kurita, the Japanese battleship commander charged with making what was, in essence, a suicidal fleet attack against the American invasion of the Philippines; Admiral Matome Ugaki, a self-styled samurai who was the commander of all kamikazes and himself the last kamikaze of the war; and Commander Ernest Evans, a Cherokee Indian and Annapolis graduate who led his destroyer on the last great charge in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever fought. From new documents and interviews with American and Japanese veterans, Thomas was able to piece together and answer mysteries about the battle that have puzzled historians for decades--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=835266 Discover the 28 Principles of Freedom our Founding Fathers said must be undersood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom. Learn how adherence to these belifs during the past 200 years has brought about more progress than was made in the previous 5000 years--P. 4 of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=615958 Enjoying the freedom afforded her while dressing as a boy in order to earn higher pay after emigrating from Ireland, Jennie Hodgers serves in the 95th Illinois Infantry as Private Albert Cashier, a Union soldier in the American Civil War. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651701 The assassination of the Speaker of the House sets the members of the Camel Club in a race to prevent a silent yet bloody coup in Washington--Provided by the publisher http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=652108 As they leave a Fourth of July celebration with the President of the United States, KC and Marshall see unauthorized fireworks at the FBI Building and decide to unmask the culprit and his plans for blackmail. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=585620 We were as brothers, William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible. Their growing mutual admiration and trust, which President Lincoln increasingly relied upon, set the stage for the crucial final year of the war. While Grant battled with Lee in the campaigns that ended at Appomattox Court House, Sherman first marched through Georgia to Atlanta, continued with his epic March to the Sea, and turned north from Savannah for his Carolina campaigns. Not only did Grant and Sherman come to think alike, but, even though their headquarters at that time were hundreds of miles apart, they were in virtually daily communication, strategizing the final moves of the war and planning how to approach the peace that would follow.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=606497 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=481711 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=540287 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=523546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=388241 What was it in Sandra Day OConnors background and early life that helped make her the woman she is today - the first female justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, and one of the most powerful women in America? In this beautiful, illuminating, and unusual book, Sandra Day OConnor, with her brother, Alan, tells the story of the Day family and of growing up on the harsh yet beautiful land of the Lazy B Ranch in Arizona. Laced throughout these stories about three generations of the Day family, and everyday life on the Lazy B, are the lessons Sandra and Alan learned about the world, about people, self-reliance, and survival, and the reader will learn how the values of the Lazy B shaped them and their lives. Sandras grandfather first put some cattle on open grazing land in 1880, and the Lazy B developed and continued to prosper as Sandras parents, who eloped and then lived on the Lazy B all their lives, carved out a frugal and happy life for themselves and their three children on the rugged frontier. As you read about the daily adventures, the cattle drives and roundups, the cowboys and horses, the continual praying for rain and fixing of windmills, the values instilled by a self-reliant way of life, you see how Sandra Day OConnor grew up. This glimpse of life in the American Southwest in the last century recounts an interesting time in our history, and gives us an enduring portrait of an independent young woman on the brink of becoming one of the most prominent figures in America today.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=358233 On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected trooops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: March thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. The prisoners included the last survivors of the Bataan Death March left in the camp, and their extraordinary will to live might soon count for nothing - elsewhere in the Philippines, the Japanese Army had already executed American prisoners as it retreated from the advancing U.S. Army. As the Rangers stealthily moved through enemy-occupied territory, they learned that Cabanatuan had become a major transshipment point for the Japanese retreat, and instead of facing the few dozen prison guards, they could possibly confront as many as 8,000 battle-hardended enemy troops. Hampton Sides explores the mystery of human behavior under extreme duress - the resilience of the prisoners, who defied the Japanese authorities even as they endured starvation, tropical diseases, and unspeakable tortures; the violent cultural clashes with Japanese guards and soldiers steeped in the warrior ethic of Bushido; the remarkable heroism of the Rangers and Filipino guerillas; the complex motivations of the U.S. high command, some of whom could justly be charged with abandoning the men of Bataan in 1942; and the nearly suicidal bravado of several spies, including priests and a cabaret owner, who risked their lives to help the prisoners during their long ordeal.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=300405 In this chronicle of perhaps the most famous moment in American military history, James Bradley has captured the glory, the triumph, the heartbreak, and the legacy of the six men who raised the flag at Iwo Jima. Here is the true story behind the immortal photograph that has come to symbolize the courage and indomitable will of America. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima - and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the islands highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of his Company. Following these mens paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacifics most crucial island - an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=289529 One of only 150 Signal Corps women assigned to the Southwest Pacific area in the World War II, Selena Weise offers a unique perspective to the role of Signal Corps. In October 1941, Ms. Weise started a career as a clerk-typist at Camp Wallace, Texas. Joining the Womens Army Corps in 1944, she was trained by the Army Signal Corps to be a cryptographer before being shipped overseas in October of that year. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=158982 Lt. Kara Hultgreen was just twenty-nine and the U.S. Navys first fully qualified female fleet fighter pilot when her Tomcat slammed into the Pacific Ocean in October 1994. Her death was not only a tragic loss to her family but a serious blow to a navy struggling to redefine the role of women in its ranks. The image of this beautiful and vibrant young woman with her fierce warplane - plastered across the front pages of newspapers around the world after the crash - provoked strong emotions and gave new life to the controversy. Written by Karas mother, Sally Spears, the book goes behind the headlines to tell the story of a remarkable woman who made history. Spears presents Karas shortcomings along with her strengths - the ups and downs in her personal life along with her professional career. She draws freely from Karas journals, kept from the time Kara entered the navy, and from extensive interviews with her daughters friends and peers as well as some of her commanding officers. From the athletic teenager who dreamed of becoming an astronaut to her pursuit of that dream earning a degree in aerospace engineering and joining the navy, this book chronicles Karas efforts to become a navy pilot. It demonstrates how her outspokenness sometimes created problems in an environment hostile to women and how her sense of humor allowed her to cope. It describes how her ambition to fly combat aircraft collided with the customs of the navy, the mores of society - and, until the repeal of the combat exclusion rules in 1991, with the laws of the United States.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=255308 Digital Fortress transports the reader deep within the most powerful intelligence organization on earth - the National Security Agency (NSA), an ultra-secret, multibillion-dollar agency, which (until now) less than 3 percent of Americans knew existed. When the NSAs invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. The NSA is being held hostage...not by guns or bombs, but by a code so ingeniously complex that if released it would cripple U.S. intelligence. Caught in an accelerating tempest of secrecy and lies, Susan Fletcher battles to save the agency she believes in. Betrayed on all sides, she finds herself fighting not only for her country but for her life, and in the end, for the life of the man she loves. From the underground hallways of power to the skyscrapers of Tokyo to the towering cathedrals of Spain, a desperate race unfolds. It is a battle for survival - a crucial bid to destroy a creation of inconceivable genius...an impregnable code-writing formula that threatens to obliterate the post-cold war balance of power. Forever.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=113566 In a quiet Chicago suburb, a dentist is attacked in his office parking lot and forced into the trunk of his Lexus. On a sidewalk downtown, Jack Reacher and an unknown woman are abducted in broad daylight. Wordlessly and without warning, two armed men - confident and rehearsed - hustle them into the same sedan. Then Reacher and the woman are switched into a second vehicle and hauled away. Reacher and this mysterious woman are caught between a group of men holding them for an impossible ransom and her colleagues, who will risk everything - even their lives - to save her. With only their wits and mutual trust between them, she and Reacher must escape an ingenious wilderness prison and the grasp of a man hell-bent on revenge.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=246026 In 1942, four days after Congress passed a law allowing women to serve as commissioned officers in the military, Winifred Quick joined the navy. In her role as Personnel Director of the Midshipmens School at Smith College, she developed procedures for the classification of the 6000 women officer candidates who reported for duty during the ensuing year. She continued to help shape the navys personnel policies for women during the next twenty years, working alongside such celebrated navy leaders as Chester Nimitz, Bill Halsey, George Anderson, Arleigh Burke, and Hyman Rickover. She retired in 1962 at the rank of captain, the highest rank a woman could then hold. Overcoming a troubled and poverty-stricken childhood to eventually win top college scholarships then head a jobs program during the Depression, Collins made it to the top of every ladder she climbed. As a pioneer among female commissioned officers, she was in a unique position to observe not only how navy women overcame discriminatory obstacles, but also how the navy came to depend on women as an essential component of its standard operations.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=128928 One of the First Women in the United States to train as a military pilot, the author was part of a little-known World War II experiment called the WASP (Women Airforce Service Pilots) program, which gave young women the then unheard-of opportunity to fly military aircraft. Marion Hodgson tells an exuberant story of the time back in 1943 when she and other WASPs earned their hard-won wings. They learned to fly everything from open-cockpit primary trainers to P-51 Mustangs, B-26 Marauders, and B-29 Superfortresses, and their stateside missions freed their male counterparts for combat duty overseas. An unlikely volunteer, Hodgson was at first terrified of flying, but she and other WASPs succeeded not only in winning their wings but in breaking the barriers against women in military cockpits. This is an action-packed story, often humorous and sometimes harrowing, told mostly through letters Hodgson wrote to a Marine pilot fighting for his life after a fiery crash. Some of her letters describe the crashes their killed thirty-eight WASPs. Others reveal what it was like for these pioneering women as they ferried planes from factories to airfields, test-flew repaired aircraft, and performed a variety of other duties traditionally assigned to men. On a more personal level, the book is a coming-of-age story and a love story - Hodgson married the Marine pilot.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=108537 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=99030 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1008