Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=3+7432+4294966908+7104 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729577 On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life shed aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715976 A tale inspired by the historic Tri-State tornado of 1925 follows the experiences of businessman Paul Graves and his family, who throughout a year after the storm watch their community struggle to rebuild and who miscalculate growing resentment about the twist of fate that left their home and business untouched. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684647 In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitlers regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employers son Isaac, confronts the Gestapos wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves. 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=1729669 Dos familias. Dos nios. Dos mundos diferentes y un solo destino. Elena Lamarc y Carlos Company nacen en una Espaa convulsa, separados por la distancia y las diferencias sociales. Crecen en mundos paralelos, sin conocer el afecto de una familia al uso. Elena como una ms de las posesiones materiales de sus padres, un matrimonio frvolo y de clase alta que consigue escapar de los efectos de la contienda aunque entre las paredes de su lujosa mansin las miserias del alma tapicen cada rincn. Carlos, el pequeo de una familia modesta, pierde a su madre sin apenas conocerla y se cra bajo el mando austero de sus tos, con la familia dividida y soportando los rigores de la guerra. Dos nios que nada tienen en comn de su niez. En la edad adulta Carlos y Elena comparten una tormentosa relacin en la que los negocios y la pasin se entremezclan peligrosamente. En un entorno plagado de intrigas y situaciones lmite, Elena tendr que luchar contra su familia y contra la poca que le toca vivir, para forjarse el futuro que ambiciona en un mundo de hombres. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671814 Transported back in time to medieval Scotland, former special ops agent Chase Nobel, a descendant of the Fae, must rescue Christiana MacDowylt, who, possessing the gift of foresight, has used fairy magic to call him to the past to save her from evil. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548508 Her Boston family shattered by the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl attempts to contact her departed loved ones at a mediums table before reconnecting with former flame Ben, with whom she tackles a harrowing mystery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685369 1062, a time many fear is the End of Days. With the English King Edward heirless and ailing, across the grey seas in Normandy the brutal William the Bastard waits for the moment when he can drown England in a tide of blood. The ravens of war are gathering. But as the kings closest advisors scheme and squabble amongst themselves, hopes of resisting the naked ambition of the Norman duke come to rest with just one man: Hereward. To some a ruthless warrior and master tactician, to others a devil in human form, Hereward is as adept in the art of warfare as the foes that gather to claim Englands throne. But in his countrys hour of greatest need, his enemies at court have made him an outlaw. To stay alive-and a free man-he must carve a bloody swathe from the frozen lands outside the court, in this evocative tale of a man whose deeds will become the stuff of legend.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1597183 1856. Mormon converts Nannie, Louisa, Jessie, and Anne, all from the British Isles, travel in the Martin Handcart Company, making the 1,300-mile journey on foot from Iowa City to Salt Lake City, while enduring unimaginable hardships. Each woman will test the boundaries of her faith and learn the true meaning of survival and friendship along the way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1602278 In 1871, Moth, a 12-year-old girl sold into servitude by her mother, struggles to survive in the Bowery until she finds a friend in Dr. Sadie, a female physician who, teaching her to question and observe the world around her, vows to protect her from falling victim to the virgin cure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1569104 One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torringtons twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor-and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of visitors is not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems, will go according to plan. As the passengers wearily search for rest, the house undergoes a strange transformation. One of their number (who is most definitely not a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685445 Relocating to her aunt and uncles farm after the death of a beloved grandmother in 1955, Tessa offers guidance to a bad-tempered disabled girl and pursues a promising romance with the girls father that is challenged by unexpected heartache. By the author of When the Bough Breaks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1680100 In the mid-19th century, Leonie Monroe Russell works alongside her husband, Junius, an oysterman in Shoalwater Bay in the Pacific Northwest. At night she continues her father{u2019}s lifelong obsession: collecting artifacts and studying the native culture that once thrived in the Washington Territory. On her 37th birthday, Leonie discovers a mummy protruding from the riverbank bordering her property--a mummy that by all evidence shouldn{u2019}t exist. As Leonie searches for answers to the mummy{u2019}s origins, she begins to feel a mystical connection to it that defies all logic. Leonie{u2019}s sense that otherworldly forces are at work only grows when news of the incredible discovery brings Junius{u2019}s long lost son, Daniel, to her doorstep. Upon his unexpected arrival, a native elder insists that Leonie wear a special shell bracelet for protection. But protection from whom? The mummy? Or perhaps Daniel? Leonie has always been a good daughter and good wife, but for the first time, these roles do not seem to be enough. Finding the mummy has changed everything, and now Leonie must decide if she has the courage to put aside the expectations of others to be the woman she was meant to be. From award-winning author Megan Chance, Bone River is a haunting, lyrical tale of passion and identity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672149 In 1791 Stockholm, self-satisfied bureaucrat Emil Larsson is informed by a fortune teller that in order to find love and connection, he must first find eight individuals who can help him realize his vision--a search that becomes dangerous when he must pull his country back from rebellion and chaos. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614000 Money, Mississippi narrates its own infamous and troubled story following the arrival of the Hilson and Bryant families. Tass Hilson and Emmett Till were young and in love when Emmett was brutally murdered in 1955. Anxious to leave, Tass married and relocated to Detroit. Forty years later, the widowed Tass returns to Money and fantasy takes flesh when Emmetts spirit is finally released from the dank, dark waters of the Tallahatchie River. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624531 Set 20 years after Treasure Island, Natty, the daughter of Long John Silver, teams up with Hawkins son, Jim, on a dangerous voyage to the legendary island in search of their fathers hidden treasure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678518 When recently orphaned Woodley Sharpless encounters Ben Pinkerton -- known to all as Trouble -- for the first time at the exclusive Blaze Academy, he is instantly enraptured. They are polar opposites; Ben is exotic and daring; Woodley is bookish and frail, yet their lives quickly become inextricable intertwined. First at school, then in the staccato days of twenties New York, Woodley sees flashes of another person in his friend and slowly discovers a side of Bens nature that belies a dark and hidden history. As the curtain falls on the frivolity of the twenties and rises to reveal the cruelty of a new decade, Woodley and Bens friendship begins to fragment. Over the coming years the two men meet intermittently; in Japan before the outbreak of the Second World War and then in the midst of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Change in both their lives, their relationship and their suffering, stand for a generation; one dispersed by depression and upheaval, brutality and confusion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1608967 Engineer Jean-Baptiste Baratte is tasked with emptying an overflowing cemetery in Paris in 1785, work he considers noble until he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery parallels his own fate and the demise of social order. 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=1284912 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1284929 The year is 1911. In Cold Spring Harbour, New York, the newly formed Eugenics Records Office is sending its agents to catalogue the infirm, the insane, and the criminal - with an eye to a cull, for the betterment of all. Near Cracked Wheel, Montana, a terrible illness leaves Jason Thistledown an orphan, stranded in his dead mothers cabin until the spring thaw shows him the true meaning of devastation - and the barest thread of hope. At the edge of the utopian mill town of Eliada, Idaho, Doctor Andrew Waggoner faces a Klansmans noose and glimpses wonder in the twisting face of the patient known only as Mister Juke. And deep in a mountain lake overlooking that town, something stirs, and thinks, in its way: Things are looking up. Eutopia follows Jason and Andrew as together and alone, they delve into the secrets of Eliada - industrialist Garrison Harpers attempt to incubate a perfect community on the edge of the dark woods and mountains of northern Idaho. What they find reveals the true, terrible cost of perfection - the cruelty of the surgeons knife - the folly of the cull - and a monstrous pact with beings that use perfection as a weapon, and faith as a trap.--Cover p. [4]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1347452 Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalars family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses. She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills. After the rigours and dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life, Ayla yearns for peace and tranquillity; to be Jondalars mate and to have children. But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored, and even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child, she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii--Authors website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477753 Determined to prove her worth as a budding archaeologist, Ginesse Braxton vows to solve one of the worlds greatest mysteries--to find the location of the lost city of Zerzura. Unfortunately, no man dares take the risk of escorting the resolute young scholar across the open desert. But on her way to Egypt, Ginesse engages in a daring deception: She will switch places with Mildred Whimpelhall, who is traveling to meet her fianc. Years before, cynical adventurer Jim Owen would do anything to escape the dark secrets of his troubled past. Betrayed by the woman he loved and scorned by proper society, he agrees to carry out a danger-fraught task: escort Mildred Whimpelhall across a lawless desert to her intended. But Jim is about to learn that Mildred isnt exactly what she seems-- and the dangers they face together are eclipsed by an even greater peril: falling in love, against all reason, with another guys bride -- p. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629091 Penniless, pregnant, and newly widowed immigrant Rachel Gordon doesn;t believe her situation could get any worse...until she meets her new neighbors. Shortly after the War of 1812, Rachel and her husband set out from England for a plantation in South Carolina, which he had purchased sight unseen. However, while en route, Tom Gordon fell overboard and drowned, leaving Rachel, frightened and alone, to make a home for her and her newborn. Can a battle-scarred American physician who comes to her rescue also heal her wounded heart?--Amazon.com. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1361492 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1254873 As a famous actress and director descend on the town of 1950s Bakersfield, California, to work on a suspense film at a roadside motel, the townspeople are unaware that local lovers Teresa and Dans ill-fated affair is about to give any Hollywood film a run for its money. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1412437 To earn her fathers inheritance, Lady Vivienne Bancroft must profitably run a diamond business worth millions in colonial South Africa, and when her estranged husband unexpectedly arrives on her doorstep, she convinces him to join her on this massive--and exotic--undertaking. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303288 Arriving in the ancient Byzantine city in the year 1273, Anna Zarides has only one mission: to prove the innocence of her twin brother, Justinian, who has been exiled to the desert for conspiring to kill Bessarion, a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves freely about in society, using her skills as a physician to manoeuver close to the key players involved in her brothers fate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1131112 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302015 The author harks back to the twelfth century with a sensuous and tempestuous tale that brings vividly to life Englands most passionate and destructive royal couple: Eleanor of Aquitaine and King Henry II. Nearing her thirtieth birthday, Eleanor has spent the past dozen frustrating years as consort to the pious King Louis VII of France. For all its political advantages, the marriage has brought Eleanor only increasing unhappiness and daughters instead of the hoped for male heir. But when the young and dynamic Henry of Anjou arrives at the French court, Eleanor sees a way out of her discontent. For even as their eyes meet for the first time, the seductive Eleanor and the virile Henry know that theirs is a passion that could ignite the world. Returning to her duchy of Aquitaine after the annulment of her marriage to Louis, Eleanor immediately sends for Henry, the future King of England, to come and marry her. The union of this royal couple will create a vast empire that stretches from the Scottish border to the Pyrenees, and marks the beginning of the celebrated Plantagenet dynasty. But Henry and Eleanors marriage, charged with physical heat, begins a fiery downward spiral marred by power struggles, betrayals, bitter rivalries, and a devils brood of young Plantagenets including Richard the Lionheart and the future King John. Early on, Eleanor must endure Henrys formidable mother, the Empress Matilda, as well as his infidelities, while in later years, Henrys friendship with Thomas Becket will lead to a deadly rivalry. Eventually, as the couples rebellious sons grow impatient for power, the scene is set for a vicious and tragic conflict that will engulf both Eleanor and Henry. This is an historical novel that encompasses the building of an empire and the monumental story of a royal marriage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1099089 Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1167286 After the British establish a fort on the Penobscot River, the Massachusetts patriots--among them General Peleg Wadsworth and Colonel Paul Revere--mount an expedition to oust the redcoats. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1201279 The court of James I is a dangerous place, with factions led by warring cousins Robert Cecil and Francis Bacon. While Europe seethes with conflict between Protestants and Catholics, James sees himself as a grand peacemaker -- and wants to make his mark by trading his children for political treaties.Henry, Prince of Wales, and his sister, Elizabeth, find themselves far more popular than their distrusted father, a perilous position for a child of a jealous king. When Elizabeth is introduced to one suitor, Frederick, the Elector Palatine, she feels the unexpected possibility of happiness. But her fate is not her own to choose -- and when her parents brutally withdraw their support for the union, Elizabeth must take command of her own future, with the help of an unexpected ally, the slave girl Tallie, who seeks her own, very different freedom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1066063 Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1166284 Not long after arriving at the English resort of Brighton, Jane finds herself caught up in the towns turmoil when the body of a beautiful young society miss is discovered, lifeless, in the bedchamber of none other than George Gordon--otherwise known as Lord Byron. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1064786 This is a tale of revenge and redemption, justice is the ultimate illusion. Stephen Swan follows the tale of his long-imprisoned uncle about stolen paintings that disappeared. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110139 Anna Zarides arrives in Constantinople in 1273 to prove the innocence of her twin brother Justinian, who has been exiled for conspiring to kill a nobleman. Disguising herself as a eunuch named Anastasius, Anna moves freely, using her skills as a physician to get close to key players in her brothers fate. Then she meets Giuiliano Dandolo, a ships captain conflicted not only by his own mixed heritage, but by his growing feelings for Anastasius. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1057416 This is the story of unlikely heroes: the lively beautiful Flora and her husband, the brooding studious Simon, two immigrants who were each sent to America by their families to find better lives. An improbable match, they meet in New York City and fall in love. Simon, inventor of the jigsaw puzzle, eventually makes his fortune. Now wealthy, but still outsiders, Flora and Simon become obsessed with rescuing the loved ones they left behind in Europe whose fates are determined by growing anti-Semitism on both sides of the Atlantic. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295025 Rahotep, the stalwart chief detective of the Thebes division, is summoned to the palace to investigate a threat to the newly crowned Tutankhamun. As he begins to piece together the clues, he realizes that a series of mysterious gifts have much in common with a string of sadistic murders plaguing the city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110167 Committed to justice and the law, New York City defense attorney Henry Clinton will aid the vulnerable widow Emma Cunningham in her desperate fight to save herself from the gallows as they both seek to discover who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298511 1799, Dejima in Nagasaki Harbor. Jacob de Zoet, a devout and resourceful young clerk, has a chance encounter with Orito Aibagawa, the disfigured daughter of a samurai doctor and midwife to the citys powerful magistrate. The borders between propriety, profit, and pleasure blur until Jacob finds his vision clouded, one rash promise made and then fatefully broken--the consequences of which will extend beyond Jacobs worst imaginings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1130682 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298529 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293806 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295476 As war approaches northern Greece, the spies begin to circle--from the Turkish legation to the German secret service. In the ancient port of Salonika, Costa Zannis, a senior police official, head of an office that handles special political cases, risks everything to secure an escape route for those hunted by the Gestapo. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1055597 Bess Heaths father is a broken man and her mother is struggling to keep the family afloat. Isabel, the charismatic sister Bess has always relied on is almost unrecognisable. Her engagement called off, she languishes in her bedroom, brooding and refusing to eat. Through all of this Bess finds solace in Tom Cole, a man she met by chance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298382 The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth centurys most tumultuous events--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298091 Catherine de Valois, widow of Henry V, finds both strength and kinship with her childhood friend, Owain Tudor. When their friendship turns to love she risks her life, her sons life, and the uneasy balance of power in England and France. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1024018 Tehran, 1979. As the Iranian Revolution reaches a dangerous crescendo, CIA agent Jack Teller returns to the capital on a seeming suicide mission. An old friend is in trouble with Islamic justice and the determined operative will do whatever it takes to save him. This isnt the first time Jacks risked his life in this beautiful and mysterious country. Back in 1953, as an idealistic young recruit, Jack had to make an ugly choice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1018772 The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth centurys most tumultuous events--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298788 Max Chadwick is the British officer charged with manipulating the news on Malta in 1942 to bolster the populations fragile esprit de corps. When he learns of the brutal murder of a young island woman, along with the evidence that the crime was committed by a British officer, he knows that the Maltese loyalty to the war effort could be instantly shattered unless he can solve the crime quickly. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=997801 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1003645 1915. The dawn of the hydroelectric power era in Niagara Falls. The sheltered daughter of the director of the Niagara Power Company is drawn to a man her family objects to, and is forced to make a painful choice between what she wants and what is best for her family and future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1133082 In 1879 a stalwart group of Mormon pioneers are called to create a settlement that will serve as a buffer between the established communities of Utah and the lawless frontier of the Four Corners area. Their challenges will be enormous--but the biggest part of their mission may well be getting there in the first place! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988070 Tehran 1953. Jack Teller, a new recruit to the recently established Central Intelligence Agency, finds himself in Iran posing as a high-level American oil executive as part of Operation Ajax, the agencys first attempt to overthrow the government of a sovereign nation. Torn between loyalty to his countrys policies and sympathy for the hopes of a fledgling democracy, Jack must ultimately pick which side he will betray. It is a decision that will affect the future of the Middle East and, eventually, the world. Twenty-six years later, in 1979, Jack returns to a very different Iran. The country is in the grip of a religious revolution, and the streets of the capital city are filled with daily rantings against The Great Satan. Jacks attempt to save one man from Islamic justice -- a man whom he had, at one time, called a friend -- leads him into the heart of an emerging struggle between the West and a new and dangerous ideology--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=997506 Rural Wisconsin, 1907. In the bitter cold, wealthy businessman Ralph Truitt stands alone on a train platform waiting for the woman who has answered his advertisement for a reliable wife. But when Catherine Land steps off the train from Chicago, shes not the simple, honest woman Ralph is expecting. She is both complex and devious, but her plan is simple: she will win this mans devotion, then slowly poison him and leave Wisconsin a wealthy widow. What she has not counted on is that Truitt has a plan of his own for his new wife. (Bestseller) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=806275 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=787937 A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of the real Grand Mughal. He claims to be the child of a lost Mughal princess, the youngest sister of Akbars grandfather Babar. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=788106 In 1959, Haruko marries the Crown Prince of Japan, becoming the first commoner to enter the mysterious and reclusive world of Japanese royalty, confronting the cruelty and suspicions of the court, until, three decades later, she helps arrange the marriage of her son, in a novel inspired by the real-life stories of the reigning empress and crown princess of Japan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=786929 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692509 From the author of Snow Mountain Passage, a saga of the Donner Party, comes a new novel, set in both our time and the late nineteenth century. It centers on a California woman, half Indian, half Hawaiian, who became consort and confidante to the last king of Hawaii. The story is told by her great-grandson, Sheridan Brody, a Bay Area talk show host, whose life has reached an unexpected standstill. He cant quite commit - he doesn t know why - to his Japanese-American girlfriend and her five-year-old son. A corporate merger may soon threaten his job. But when he receives an on-air call from a woman claiming to be his grandmother, Sheridan feels compelled to uncover all he can about this previously unknown branch of his family, embarking on a quest that will change how he sees his future and his past. What he finds, through the journals of his great-grandmother, Nani Keala (aka Nancy Callahan), and through his own investigations, is an almost mythic tale: how Nani, a shy girl from a remote Indian village, learns English at a local white ranchers school and meets the Hawaiian king, David Kalakaua, on his grand progress by train across the United States in 1881, and returns with him to Honolulu. There, as his young ally and protegee, ever more assured and charming, she plays an integral role in his attempt to revive the monarchy and spirit of his people and, eventually, witnesses the mysterious circumstances surrounding his downfall. Bird of Another Heaven is rich in historical scene and character, based in part on actual events. Nanis life unfolds against the backdrop of the opening of northern California and Americas rising ambitions in Asia and the Pacific during the 1800s. It is also a story of emotional intensity and compassion, equally compelling for Sheridans contemporary journey of self-discovery and the journey of Nani, a woman of extraordinary power and appeal.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741533 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741534 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=742989 A novel of star-crossed lovers, set in the circus world circa 1932. When Jacob Jankowski, recently orphaned and suddenly adrift, jumps onto a passing train, he enters a world of freaks, grifters, and misfits, a second-rate circus struggling to survive during the Great Depression, making one-night stands in town after endless town. A veterinary student who almost earned his degree, Jacob is put in charge of caring for the circus menagerie. It is there that he meets Marlena, the beautiful young star of the equestrian act, who is married to August, the charismatic but twisted animal trainer. He also meets Rosie, an elephant who seems untrainable until he discovers a way to reach her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=772866 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=692585 Claire Donovan always dreamed of visiting Venice, though not as a chaperone for a surly teenager. But she cant pass up this chance to complete her Ph.D. thesis on Alessandra Rossetti, a mysterious courtesan who wrote a secret letter to the Venetian Council warning of a Spanish plot to overthrow the Venetian Republic in 1618. Claire views Alessandra as a heroine and harbors a secret hope that her findings will elevate Alessandra to a more prominent place in history. But an arrogant Cambridge professor is set to present a paper at a prestigious Venetian university denouncing Alessandra as a co-conspirator - a move that could destroy Claires paper and career. As Claire races to locate the documents that will reveal the courtesans true motives, Alessandras story comes to life with all the sensuality, political treachery, and violence of seventeenth-century Venice. Claire also falls under the citys spell. She is courted by a handsome Italian, matches wits with her academic adversary, bonds with her troubled young charge, and, amid the boundless beauty of Venice, recaptures the joy of living every moment.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=689647 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724288 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=746147 The life of Omar Khayyam, the 11th Century Persian poet who wrote The Rubaiyaat, chronicling his adventures and romances. The novel is in two parts, the second describing the manner in which the manuscript reached the West. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=745672 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724284 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=773163 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=707681 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=750872 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=756211 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=709199 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=745137 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=617415 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303052 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=684143 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648540 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=700835 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=617142 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=732985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=746046 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=689602 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=607189 In the second adventure of Arturo Perez-Revertes Captain Alatriste series, the courageous swordsman-for-hire considers rejoining his old regiment to fight at Breda - but there is a job to do first. A desperate father, Don Vicente de la Cruz, hires Alatriste to rescue his daughter from a convent where a powerful priest is said to be using the girl as his personal concubine. And he cant complain, because the priest has threatened to reveal the mans family to be not of pure blood - of Jewish descent - which will all but destroy the family name. Alatriste agrees to help, and several nights later, under the cloak of darkness, a rescue is attempted - but things go very badly, and Alatriste soon discovers that he has become entangled in a religious and political conspiracy that leads all the way to the highest levels of the Inquisition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=612093 In the summer of 1959, as Castro clamps down on Cuba and its first wave of exiles flees to the States to wait out what they hope to be his short-lived reign, Emma Gant, fresh out of college, begins her career as a reporter. Her fierce ambition and belief in herself are set against the stories swirling around her, both at the newspaper office and in her downtown Miami hotel, which is filling up with refugees. Emmas avid curiosity about life thrives amid the tropical charms and intrigues of Miami. While toiling at the news desk, she plans the fictional stories she will write in her spare time. She spends her nights getting to know the Cuban families in her hotel - and rendezvousing with her married lover, Paul Nightingale, owner of a private Miami Beach club. As Emma experiences the historical events enveloping the city, she trains her perceptive eye on the people surrounding her: a newfound Cuban friend who joins the covert anti-Castro training brigade, a gambling racketeer who poses a grave threat to Paul, and a former madam, still in her twenties, who becomes both Emmas obsession and her alter ego. Emmas life, like a complicated dance that keeps sweeping her off her balance, is suddenly filled with divided loyalties, shady dealings, romantic and professional setbacks, and, throughout, her adamant determination to avoid usurpation by others and remain the protagonist of her own quest.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=631687 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=648487 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=721646 The year is 1941. Planning an attack on the Soviet Union, Germany wants complete surprise. An agent known by the code-name Wasser receives the task of causing the Russians to make crucial mistakes. The special group Plan attempts to trace this agent of the Abwehry and discover that Hitler will move east and invade the USSR. Commander Pazdziernicyn and his assistant Dorin guess that there is a key to solving the riddle of Wasser. But the machine of totalitarian state which they serve may turn out to be a worse opponent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=624622 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=647209 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=607320 With the same riveting historical narrative that made The Kitchen Boy a national bestseller, Robert Alexander returns to Russia for the harrowing tale of Rasputins final days as told by his young and spirited daughter, Maria. After the fury of the Russian Revolution has swept Nicholas and Alexandra from the throne of Imperial Russia, a special commission is set up to investigate the dark forces that caused the downfall of the House of Romanov. The focus, of course, turns to Grigori Rasputin, the notorious holy man and healer who was never far from that throne. To discover the truth, the commission interrogates Maria Rasputin, the oldest of the Rasputin children, in the ransacked Winter Palace. There, she vividly recounts a politically tumultuous Russia, where Rasputins powerful influence over the Romanovs is unsettling to all levels of society, and the threats to his life are no secret. While vast conspiracies mount against her father, Maria must struggle with the discovery of Rasputins true nature - his unbridled carnal appetites, mysterious relationship with the Empress, rumors of involvement in secret religious cults - to save her father from his murderers. With clarity and courage, Maria shatters the myths of Rasputins murder, revealing how she tried to save her father, who really killed Rasputin and, most importantly, the devious secrets his murderers still guard.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=609257 It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elviss birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently - and violently - across the state. But in Paige Dunns small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fit - with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie. Diana is trying in her own fashion to live a normal life. As a fourteen-year-old, she wants to make money for clothes and magazines, to slough off the authority of her mother and Peacie, to figure out the puzzle that is boys, and to escape the oppressiveness she sees everywhere in her small town. What she can never escape, however, is the way her life is markedly different from others. Nor can she escape her ongoing responsibility to assist in caring for her mother. Paige Dunn is attractive, charming, intelligent, and lively, but her needs are great - and relentless. As the summer unfolds, hate and adversity will visit this modest home. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each of the women will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace. And Dianas mother, so mightily compromised, will end up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=617078 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=766346 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=693215 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=653414 London, 1806 - William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence: to be transported to New South Wales for the term of his natural life. The Thornhills arrive in this harsh and alien land that they cannot understand and which feels like a death sentence. But among the convicts there is a rumour that freedom can be bought, that unclaimed land up the Hawkesbury offers an opportunity to start afresh, far away from the township of Sydney. When William takes a hundred acres for himself he is shocked to find aboriginal people already living on the river. And other recent arrivals - Thomas Blackwood, Smasher Sullivan and Mrs Herring - are finding their own ways to respond to them Soon Thornhill, a man neither better nor worse than most, has to make the most difficult decision of his life.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=592445 Meet the unforgettable Leifur Nils Kristjansson Saint Marie du Cotton (you can call him Lee). From his Icelandic father come his porcelain skin, flaxen hair, and azure eyes; from his mixed-race mother comes his black identity; from his Mambo grandmother comes his gift of hearing Les Voix - the spirits, living and dead. Lee begins life as a black boy born white-skinned in segregated Eureka, Mississippi, in 1950. Over the course of Lees first twenty years, he will fall in love with the daughter of a local Klansman, get kicked senseless and left for dead on a freight train headed north, end up in St. Louis as a white man, and be drafted into the psychops corps in Nevada. There, a drunken accident will separate Lee from another part of his identity and change his fate yet again. Lee Cottons voice - guileless, charming, equal parts Delta Blues and Motown - takes us on a hilarious, exhilarating freedom ride through Americas preoccupation with identity politics. Lee travels widely in a variety of skin colors and genders, transforming others as he has transformed himself. This very American novel was written by a British citizen, though Lee Cotton wouldnt want us to hold that against him. Indeed, perhaps only an outside witness could so ingeniously create a character who experiences the tragic absurdities of our cultural exclusions while at the same time represents the better angels of our nature.--BOOK JACKET.