Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+7265+7432+7268 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687798 A luxurious yacht in the Sea of Cortez, a birthday cruise for one of the worlds most beautiful women, and an invitation no one can refuse. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735974 Seduced by a Pirate: Should Colin throw propriety to the wind, imitate his pirate father, and simply take what he most desires? After years at sea, Sir Griffin Barry comes home to claim his wife. But is Phoebe his wife if their marriage was never consummated? As an infamous pirate, Griffin claimed and kept gold and jewels-- but this is one treasure that will not be so easy to capture. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575662 Tired of being taken advantage of by her boss Corinne, Shari Nance, posing as Corinne, takes on a major account to prove whos the real talent and goes up against a rival agencys top executive, who just so happens to be Corrines boyfriend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656534 Leaving behind Power, the boy shes come to love, Tanya Beauty Long makes a name for herself in New York Citys fashion industry, while Power becomes trapped in a world of drugs, women, and money where he makes a shocking discovery that brings Tanya back to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629259 When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615712 After being punished for trying to measure Gods greatest gift, Father Time returns to Earth along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518702 Officer Dan France investigates who pushed the beautiful Margot down the stairs and discovers a number of people with motives, including a potential lover and a defrauded newlywed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671712 When her investigation of a find from a remote Philippines dig leads her to the scene of her ex-fiancs murder, forensic anthropologist Kelsey Quinn turns to Navy SEAL Gage Brewer for help in unraveling a deadly conspiracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548494 Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559579 When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his fathers life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293873 Owner of a struggling art gallery and newly separated from her boyfriend, Francesca Thayer does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders, and soon her Greenwich Village house becomes a whole new world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213264 Charlie Giles watches his life slowly unravel as he becomes the prime suspect in the murders of his former employers, who are being picked off one by one, and, with nowhere else to turn, enlists the help of his schizophrenic brother to find the truth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1310966 Valerie Wyatt is at the top of her game--she has parlayed her talent for entertaining and home decorating into a multimedia empire, and her name is synonymous with class and exquisite taste. And yet, though she has achieved enviable professional success, her ambition and hard work have given her little room for a personal life. She is divorced, and though she has a strong relationship with her daughter, she finds herself alone as her 60th birthday approaches. Valeries daughter, April, is also a dynamo in her chosen field. A top-notch chef, she owns her own restaurant--a cozy place that dishes up both comfort food and rare delicacies. The restaurant is a smashing success, and April devotes herself to it body and soul. Like her mother, she values professional success more than romance, and she cannot find any room for a man in her life as her 30th birthday grows nearer. The closest she has come to a relationship in years is an ill-advised one night stand. Jack Adams is a famous former NFL player, who is now an immensely successful sportscaster. He is also an incorrigible womanizer, who makes a habit of bedding models who are half his age. Nearing age 50 he begins to wonder if his wild ways still suit him, or if its finally time to grow up. These three driven professionals share the same birthday. And this year, the day that they share will prove to be one that changes their lives forever. Their birthday will set into motion a dramatic series of events--danger, adventure, laughter, heartbreak, and joy...and, ultimately, the most fulfilling birthday gift of all-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262777 A vicious roadside attack has interrupted Alans trek and robbed him of his one source of solace: the ability to walk. When a mysterious woman enters his life and invites him into her home, Alan realizes he must help her with her journey before he can return to his own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1401347 The sibling celebrities provide a fictional glimpse into their lives, revealing the inner workings of a glamorous, high-profile, and complicated family, and leaving it up to readers to determine which storylines are based on their actual experiences and which ones are purely imaginary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306873 After her husbands sudden death from a heart attack and to keep her family in their beloved Nantucket home, Carley Winsted transforms her expensive, expansive house into a bed-and-breakfast . But complications arise: Carleys mother-in-law disapproves; a friend forces Carley to keep a secret that, if revealed, will undo families and friendships; and, her late husbands former law partner keeps showing up at the most unexpected times. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393409 From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The homes new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, had to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 died on impact or were drowned. The body count? Thirty-nine, a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village, self-proclaimed herbalists, and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous? The result is a powerful ghost story with a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply. The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279346 Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302841 When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the worlds superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earths orbit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297987 Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son hed let slip away. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303239 To each of the men and women in The last time I saw you, this reunion means something different. A last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303304 What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, hes tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1090783 To each of the men and women in The last time I saw you, this reunion means something different. A last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear--BOT website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1148470 In this compelling novel, a young woman overnight becomes mother to her sisters three small children. Grown now, each of them will choose a different path. Through it all, one thing will remain: family ties. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1163523 Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their familys past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a noblewoman alongside a distant relative? Brigittes quest to learn the story of the Marquise de Margerac (ne Wachiwi) takes her from Salt Lake City to Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually to Paris, where she meets Marc Henri, a fetching Sorbonne literature professor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1099080 The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298413 Set in the fictional town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, the story of fifth grader Felix Funicello in the months leading up to Christmas 1964--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945764 When Fabiola Mays hits the stage, all eyes are on her. She has the looks, the moves, and the voice to be the hottest diva alive. Her talent and sex appeal attracts the attention of the music industrys most influential (and shadiest) mogul, one who will do whatever it takes to get Fabiola into his bed. Too fly to bow down to such sleaze, Fabiola earns herself powerful enemies and an unlikely ally. When Casino, an older gangster battling demons of his own in the music biz and on the streets, crosses her path, they pool their hopes and their assets to fight for a brighter future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303286 From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298548 Judd Foxmans wife, Jen, has left him for his boss, but after the death of his father and a week of sitting shivah with his enjoyably dysfunctional family presided over by their mother, a celebrated parenting expert despite her childrens difficulties, the mourning period brings each of the family members to unexpected epiphanies about their own lives and each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1007872 Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husbands betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, shes made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private life thrown in turmoil by a series of threatening letters, she is forced to send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295543 The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. Its a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncles murder -- even before hes charged -- he jumps at the chance. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more he doubts the young mans innocence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1301984 When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302902 John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels its his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715424 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=696012 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725632 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679956 Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevadas Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=607127 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303052 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1021848 After a black drug dealer goes to jail in Brooklyn, his ruthless 17-year-old daughter takes over his empire. A look at the mores and manners of the black underclass, this one with money. First novel by a hip-hop artist, author of No Disrespect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1145475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591473 At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emilys father sees their guest as an entree to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emilys magical water world apart and let the real one in - but at a terrible price.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1565747 Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, its Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552737 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1471075 Her future was ambition. His future was wealth. But their past was a secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677815 Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalayptic world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516870 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=487082 Zoe is about to discover her true courageous spirit. She must find the key of valor--on the last of three dangerous quests that will force her to confron her darkest fears...or suffer immeasurable loss. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1301621 When an infamous serial killer known as the Poet reemerges, FBI agent Rachel Walling, long haunted by her unsuccessful efforts to bring him to justice, receives assistance from LAPD detective Harry Bosch, who finds the case to be the most terrifying of his career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=477778 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=448881 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=459925 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687443 In the late 1940s, twin boys are separated at birth, Nat going home with his middle-class parents, and Fletcher to be raised by a wealthy couple, but their lives come together when they both run for governor of Connecticut. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=478370 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293714 This novel begins when a teenage couple drives up, late at night, headlights out, to Blessings, the estate owned by Lydia Blessing. They leave a box and drive away, and in this instant, the world of Blessings is changed forever. Richly written, deeply moving, beautifully crafted, Blessings tells the story of Skip Cuddy, caretaker of the estate, who finds a baby asleep in that box and decides he wants to keep her, and of matriarch Lydia Blessing, who for her own reasons, decides to help him. The secrets of the past, how they affect the decisions and lives of people in the present; what makes a person, a life, legitimate or illegitimate, and who decides; the unique resources people find in themselves and in a community - these are the center of this novel of love, redemption, and personal change by the writer about whom The Washington Post Book World said, Quindlen knows that all the things we ever will be can be found in some forgotten fragment of family.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=417244 Nealy Coleman Diamond faces her greatest challenge yet--to produce another Derby winner--in the grand finale to Fern Michaels epic story of the Coleman and Thornton families. A Literary Guild Alternate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=315177 It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyns own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist. And inspired by the beautiful and elusive Rosa Saks, a woman who will be linked to both men by powerful ties of desire, love, and shame, they create the otherworldly mistress of the night, Luna Moth. As the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe and the world, the Golden Age of comic books has begun.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283426 Imagine the risks of such a journey. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=3335 In this scorching contemporary thriller, Ken Follett has crafted an electrifying tale of the chilling possibilities of genetic manipulation. Jeannie Ferrami, a brilliant young research scientist studying the genetic components of aggression, makes a startling discovery. Using a restricted FBI database, she locates two young men who appear to be identical twins: Steve, a law student, and Dennis, a convicted murderer. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers, in hospitals hundreds of miles apart. When she delves into their backgrounds, forces as powerful as the Pentagon and the New York Times take notice. The more she learns, the worse it gets. Steve is accused of a terrible crime, which he swears he did not commit. As Jeannie finds herself falling in love with him, she has to ask herself how she can be sure he is different from his murderous twin brother. When her life is threatened, she realizes there is much more than just a scientific problem facing her. Unwittingly, she has stumbled upon evidence of a conspiracy involving a top biotech company, right-wing politicians, and her own university. Their aim is as shocking as it is technologically possible in this era of genetic manipulation: the reshaping of American society according to their own reactionary, racist, and sexist principles.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=105 Its a summer afternoon in Wentworth, Ohio, and on Poplar Street everythings normal. The paper boy is making his rounds; the Carver kids are bickering at the corner convenience store; a Frisbee is flying on the Reeds lawn; Gary Soderson is firing up the backyard barbecue. The only thing that doesnt quite fit is the red van idling just up the hill. Soon it will begin to roll, and the killing will begin. A quiet slice of American suburbia is about to turn to toast. The mayhem rages around a seemingly still point, a darkened house lit fitfully from within by a flickering television screen. Inside, where things havent been normal for a long time, are Audrey Wyler and the autistic nephew she cares for, eight-year-old Seth Garin. Theyre fighting their own battle, and its intensity has turned 247 Poplar Street into a prisonhouse. By the time night falls on Poplar Street, the surviving residents will find themselves in another world, one where anything, no matter how terrible, is possible...and where the regulators are on their way. By what power they have come, how far they will go, and how they can be stopped - these are the desperate questions. The answers are absolutely terrifying.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=118244 Happily married with a beautiful young daughter, a handsome husband, and a sprawling house in one of Bostons most comfortable suburbs, Bonnie Wheeler has an enviable life. Even her husbands ex-wife, Joan, with her tendency toward bad timing, is merely a nuisance. But one morning Bonnie must grasp the fragility of her perfect world. When she finds Joan shot through the heart, it becomes terrifyingly clear that someone is also after her - and her exquisite child.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1378 James Baldwins portrayal of black people in Harlem caught up in a dramatic struggle, and of a society confronting inevitable change. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303043 Here, from the author of such monumental bestsellers as Kane and Abel and As the Crow flies, is an ingeniously plotted thriller that is as up-to-the-minute as todays headlines. In Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1993, it is the dawn of a new political era - but six thousand miles away in the impoverished streets of Baghdad, there is a growing disillusionment with the unelected president. Sensing the mood of the people, Saddam Hussein moves boldly to settle scores with the United States. Using $100 million as bait, Saddam gathers into his web three key players: a powerful American Mafia boss; the worlds greatest forger; and, most crucially a special assistant to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton. Saddams goal is to embarrass the U.S. by stealing part of its history - then destroying that symbol in front of the worlds media. With the help of a sophisticated criminal underworld that exhibits Swiss-watch timing, and a skilled actor who is transformed through plastic surgery into a stand-in for Bill Clinton, he sets about his brilliant scheme. As the countdown begins to July 1993 - potentially the most humiliating day in U.S. history - two lovers, a beautiful Mossad agent and a dashing American professor who advises the CIA, turn out to be a far more formidable weapon than any Patriot missile. In what is sure to be hailed as the suspense novel of the year, master storyteller Jeffrey Archer reminds us that the things worth dying for are sometimes to be found in the words that define our historic values.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=115944 Mitchell Y. McDeere has worked hard to get where he is: third in his class at Harvard Law. Aggressively recruited by all the top firms, and initially headed for Wall Street, Mitch surprised everyone by joining Bendini, Lambert & Locke, a very private, very rich tax firm in Memphis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840106 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=767428 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=187392 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=237992 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=228620 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733140 The town is Galloway in Massachusetts, birthplace of the five sons and three daughters of the Martin family in the early 1900s. The city is New York, the vast and heaving melting pot which lures them all in search of futures and identity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=231553 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=188989