Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=6594+4294956635 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699645 A father and son embark on a road trip to a distant animal shelter to save a homeless border collie puppy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748682 George suddenly finds himself the darling of a New York television company where plans are made to turn him into a singing, guitar-playing teen-age idol. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748398 A twelve-year-old boy, whose problems include having to take Square music lessons, an attachment to a childhood teddy bear, and a father who earns a living creating comic strips, gets involved with jewel thieves in an attempt to break the dull routine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748125 Every fall, the men of Loyalty Island sail from the Olympic Peninsula up to the Bering Sea, to spend the winter catching king crab. To Cal, Alaska remains as mythical and mysterious as Treasure Island. But while Cal is too young to accompany his father, he is old enough to know that everything depends on the fate of those boats thousands of miles north. He is also old enough to wonder about his mothers relationship with John Gaunt, owner of the fleet. Then Gaunt dies suddenly, leaving the business in the hands of his son. Soon Cal stumbles on evidence that his father may have taken measures to salvage their way of life. As winter comes on, he is forced to make a terrible choice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749206 A young writer, living abroad, returns home to his native Argentina to say goodbye to his dying father. In his parents house, he finds a cache of documents--articles, maps, photographs--and unwittingly begins to unearth his fathers obsession with the disappearance of a local man. Suddenly he comes face to face with the ghosts of Argentinas dark political past and long-forgotten memories of his familys resistance against an oppressive military regime. Told through the fragments of the narrators investigation as he pieces together not only a portrait of his father but also the legacy of an entire generation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748731 Back before the stock market crash, Jacks dad had been working steadily and their family had had plenty of money. But now, in the middle of the 1930s depression, there isnt much work for a trombone player--just a gig down in New York City once in a while. So 14-year-old Jack is doing his best to help out. And hes lucky enough to get a weekend job at the town boat club where the rich folks hang out. But Jack wishes his dad would at least try to get a regular job. Sometimes there isnt even enough money to buy decent food and clothes for Jack, his sister Sally, and their young brother Henry. Its bad enough that their mother has had a nervous breakdown and gone to live in a home. Jacks father keeps telling them to look on the bright side--his favorite song is Happy Days Are Here Again. But Jack isnt sure there can be a bright side when you dont have enough money to live decently. Then, at the boat club, Jack sees an opportunity to steal a lot of money--enough to pay the familys back rent and keep them all together. For the first time in his life Jack is seriously tempted to steal--especially now that he realizes that his dad cant really be depended upon, that its up to him to take care of the family... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749134 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727044 A man of enormous size and strength, Gordon Rankin, Jr., has been plagued with misfortune his entire life, which culminates in an old, trusted college friend publishing a novel that borrows freely from the traumatic events of Ranks own life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748403 An astonishing story of sons and fathers and mothers, of the rewards and betrayals of male friendship, and a large-spirited, hilarious, and exhilarating portrait of a man tearing his life apart in order to put himself back together. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749188 A teenager comes into conflict with his father when he decides to be a rock musician instead of going to college. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703515 A father and son embark on a road trip to a distant animal shelter to save a homeless border collie puppy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699271 Nursed back to health by the Master Wizards son, Anton, after nearly being killed on the battlefield, vampire soldier Tyra is drawn to her savior but is unable to trust her feelings for this mysterious wizard who, harboring a violent secret, might be using her to get revenge on his father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749091 Angry and frustrated that his entire family is considered to be poor trash, fourteen-year-old Harry defies his father and attempts to prove that a factory is polluting their small Adirondack community. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561799 Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agents doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699200 Ali?s father is a Turkish circus musician performing in Kabul when Ali?s mother, a young pediatrician from Melbourne, meets him in a bar. He plays the trumpet, the saz, the flute, hears voices that urge him to violence, sees angels in the skies and djinns in the street, inscribes prayers and invocations on the walls of his room, and across the suburb. lgezer offers a remarkable portrait of this crazed visionary, a madman and a mystic, intoxicated with hashish and Sufism, who wrecks the family, but is also an enchanted being. Ali?s mother has grown up on Australia?s outback frontiers? their c. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561747 Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guys recently-deceased father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644038 The classic story of sons rising against their father reflects the conflict between the old and new in China as revolution sweeps across the nation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644010 While a serial killer stalks his small Georgia town, sixteen-year-old Henry tries to find the truth about the terrible accident that robbed him of his mother and his memories, aided by his friend Justine but not by his distant father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699331 Miles McGregor had dedicated his life to justice, and with his latest arrest behind bars, the detective finally had more time to spend with his son, Timmy. Then the unthinkable happened--Timmys mother was murdered before his eyes. Miless only choice was to bring his little boy to the Bucking Bronc Lodge, a ranch where young boys heal ... . Jordan Keys is an expert at rehabilitating children. But when it comes to Miles, she is lost. The sexy detective is harder to reach ... and a whole lot less willing to try. Before long, though, a killer comes calling and Jordan witnesses the true power of Miles McGregor. And just how far hell go to rescue them from this living nightmare--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561784 An intense, psychological novel about one doctors suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political assassin: his 20-year old son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646652 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646603 The careers of a golden boy rookie hitter for the Cubs and a hard-hitting Mets pitcher take very different paths. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640019 A remarkable work showing the authors power to depict Russian character and his understanding of human nature. Driven by intense, uncontrollable emotions of rage and revenge, the four Karamazov brothers all become involved in the brutal murder of their despicable father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707190 Tom Harry and his son Rusty live alone and run a bar in a small Montana town in the early 1960s. Their lives are upended when a woman from Toms past and her beatnik daughter breeze into town. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1543175 As biracial Brendan Buckley enters middle school, he deals with issues with his African American father, a new girl at school, and his changing friendship with his best friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711216 In 1921 thirteen-year-old Luke finds himself torn between accepting his left-handedness or conforming to the belief of his preacher-father that such a condition is evil and must be overcome. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644311 A thrillingly inventive novel about spies and their secrets, fathers and sons, lovers and fate, and duplicity and loyalty - a maze of intrigue built from the espionage classics of the Cold War. A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, spook-turned-novelist Edwin Lemaster reveals to up-and-coming journalist Bill Cage that hed once considered spying for the enemy. More than two decades later, Cage, by then a lonely, disillusioned PR man, receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper. A novel with references throughout to famous spy novels. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642596 When Josh learn that a special artifact, the Bracelet of Itzamna, is the key to both his fathers death and the mystery of the codex, he returns to the hidden city of Ek Naab--alone this time, because as the stakes rise he can no longer trust even his closest allies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1726739 In Murder on Kilimanjaro, Scott Devlon, Afghanistan war veteran, mountaineer and occasional agent for the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency has been invited by the sitting President of the United States to join him on his climb of the highest point in Africa. The president is returning to his family roots and will be accompanied by his recently surfaced son, product of the presidents youthful laison with a local tribal chiefs daughter in Africa 20 years before. With the primary election season finished and the convention still a few months off, the presidents PR staff have determined that this expedition will jump start his campaign for re-election and set at ease any lingering questions about the sudden appearance of this unexpected son. What follows is murder, terrorist attacks, an assassination attempt and treachery, all set against the exotic backdrop of East Africa--Publishers website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639827 This story, based on the Cubs and Mets 1973 season follows the divergent paths of Joe Castle, a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and Warren Tracey, a hard-throwing Mets pitcher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699780 Their family farms devastated by a Minnesota drought in 1987, a father searches for answers after his son commits a heinous murder, while a pastors wife returns to the town for mysterious reasons of her own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703354 What happens when the dad you dont know suddenly invades your life? Gabe Mendoza is off to the library when his long-absent father appears--and looks to be homeless. His father wants to reestablish a relationship, but thirteen-year-old Gabe is hesitant. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644504 Enjoying his position as the headmaster of Saigons best English school while indulging in a gambling and womanizing lifestyle, Percival Chen becomes aware of the local violence when his son lands in trouble with the authorities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710235 David Starkman leaves Canada and returns to Israel after his war hero father, Isser, is murdered. Once there, David learns of an unusual request in his fathers will. Isser had long-ago written a controversial play about the Debba, a mythical hyena and heroic symbol of the Arabs. It was performed once, causing a riot. Now, Issers will insists it be staged again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703290 As Christmas approaches, Clem and his five-year-old son, Jakey, move to be closer to Clems mother, Dossie, in Cornwall. Clem realizes that he has to be strong to keep his family together. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703416 Finn Maguire becomes the prime suspect after he finds his own father bludgeoned to death and, as he scrambles to provehis innocence, Finn uncovers dark families secrets hidden in Londons brutal underworld. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1726931 NON-FICTION -- Full of colorful characters and the fascinating wheeling and dealings of the pawn shop Rick Harrison owns and runs with his father and his son, UNTITLED is a tie-in to Pawn Stars, one of the most popular shows on all of cable. It will take readers behind the scenes of Harrisons family-run pawn shop and bring its lovable cast to vivid life on the page. But it will also present Harrisons amazing personal story. While he registered a near-200 IQ at an early age, Rick developed a similarly uncanny ability to find ever-deepening trouble that nearly ruined his life. Yet the birth of his son and a reconnection with his father would bring Harrison peace at a time of desperation and, together, they would build the booming business where The Antiques Road Show meets American Chopper and millions of viewers--and potential readers--find they cannot get enough-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711130 In the fortress of King Eldred the Moody, Dane the Defiant receives honors and a magical rune sword that belonged to his father, but he also finds treachery that sends him and his friends on a quest to retrieve the sword from a thief who hopes it will lead to a fabled treasure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710645 In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296744 A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him. Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysomething Benicio--aka Benny--travels to Manila to reconnect with his estranged father, Howard. But when he arrives his father is nowhere to be found... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707135 Adam and Charles Trask are raised by their stern father to become soldiers. But even as boys, they are at war. Adams gentle passivity enrages the competitive Charles, who is sure his father favors Adam. Cathy Ames is beautiful but amoral; she uses the world to get what she wants. When Adam falls under her spell, she becomes a force that will poison both brothers -- and the future generations of two families. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540232 Ten-year-old Bobby is passionate about baseball and convinced that he is a great player. The only problem is to get a chance to prove his skill, especially to his father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427894 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698574 Ally Bishop knows the settling kind when she sees one. And Tyler Adamson is definitely one. Ordinarily this never-in-one-place-long girl would stay far, far away. Maybe its the way he looks in jeans, or the way he looks at her, but suddenly Ally is breaking her own rules with dizzying speed. All that Australian temptation right next door ... well, theres only so much resistance one girl can have. As she dives into a fling with Tyler, Ally assures herself she can maintain perspective. After all, hes only here long enough to care for his ailing father. That gives them a time limit, right? With each passing day, however, she falls for Tyler more. And soon she has the strongest urge to unpack her suitcase and stay a while--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642384 When a gift is accidentally left behind on Christmas Eve, Arthur, Santas son, sets out on a mission that must be completed before Christmas morning. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710676 Just before his thirteenth birthday, Jeremy Fink receives a keyless locked box--set aside by his father before his death five years earlier--that purportedly contains the meaning of life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708744 When Tyrone Stokes was sent to prison, he left his wife to raise their son, Marcus, alone. Now Tyrone is free, but 17-year-old Marcus is on Louisianas death row for the murder of a young white girl. Convinced of his sons innocence, Tyrone will sacrifice everything to keep Marcus alive. But first he must overcome his wifes insistence that he stay away from his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710831 Determined, after his mothers accidental death, to foil his stepfathers plans for his future, fourteen-year-old Jacob travels alone to Africa in search of his father, a biologist studying elephants in a remote area of Kenya. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574630 The tragedy of Jay Follets sudden death destroys his familys secure and loving world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709844 Birkenhead wields his cuts-to-the-bone prose in a memoir focusing largely on a father who is at once a magnetic personality and a violent, cruel force. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708527 Apparently directionless since his divorce, Frank Bascombe migrates from one non-committal relationship to another. He freely indulges his tendencies to self absorption, over-intellectualization, and neurotic ambivalence. But all of that changes one fateful Fourth of July weekend, when, armed with the Declaration of Independence, he embarks on a mission to save his troubled teenaged son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709559 Sitting by his fathers deathbed, William Bloom tries to understand the man quickly slipping away, who is more interested in evading his sons questions than answering them. So William reconstructs his fathers life through a series of stories, and in doing so finds a way to say goodbye. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708725 When she inherits her aunts home, Susan Pettiford returns to North Carolina following a 16-year absence. After undergoing a hysterectomy, she seeks comfort in the arms of Lucas Hamilton. Although there is a palpable connection between the two, their fling lasts exactly one night--for Susan knows she can never provide a family, so she pushes Lucas away. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707751 In the Civil War, Robey Child, only 14, must go to the battlefield to bring his injured father home. Clad in a homemade uniform--gray on one side, blue on the other--and riding a powerful coal black horse, Robey sets out on a journey that will make him a man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710480 Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706923 Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540472 After his brutally violent cop father kills his mother in a heinous fashion on Christmas day, a young boy is raised on the streets of Brooklyn to become the deadliest hitman for the Mob. But even while he carves out a life and reputation for himself dispatching enemies of the syndicate, the hitter is planning his revenge against those who helped to make him what he is. From the cruel mob family to his own murderous old man, who sends threats and taunts from the safety of his jail cell. As the time approaches when his father will be free again, a Christmas nightmare of bloody retribution begins to unfold. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709219 Detective Dan Reles is settling into his new life with a wife, a son, and a career in Austins homicide division. Then his deadbeat, ex-mafia enforcer father rolls into town. It seems that Ben Reles has had a run-in with Sam Zelig, a powerful mob godfather who will do anything to get what he wants out of Ben. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646463 Born into exile, eleven-year-old Nuri, the son of worldly parents who fled the revolution in their Arab country, is transfixed along with his widowed father by an Arab-English woman who joins their family, a situation that is complicated by Nuris fathers disappearance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710951 Determined to avenge the death of his swineherd father at the hands of the Sheriff of Nottingham, Rook finally gets his chance when the Sheriffs son is captured by Robin Hood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709818 When the husband and wife team of Walt and Jocelyn Gaines travel to South America to contribute their archaeological expertise at a newly uncovered Mayan site, no one could predict what happens next. Fallen Idols is a riveting novel of uncommon discoveries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251093 In this follow-up to Once a Spy, Charlie and Drummond Clark are hiding out in Switzerland and trying to retrieve Drummonds memory. When NSA operative Alice Rutherford, with whom Charlie has fallen in love, is kidnapped, the Clarks must dodge a formidable CIA case officer and his team to get her back. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1543285 A Christmas odyssey: Ten days before Christmas, James Wentworth feels not joy but grief. His reckless son, Lucien, has been lured into a world of drugs and wild passion. Wentworths only hope, he believes, is his old friend Henry Rathbone, who volunteers to search for the wayward young man with the help of two new companions--Squeaky Robinson, a reformed brothel-keeper, and Crow, a mysterious slum doctor. As this odd trio gathers clues about Luciens disappearance on Londons dark streets, they find themselves on a mission whose outcome they cannot begin to guess. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538958 In 1895, after his mothers death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving station, despite his fathers objections. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1607002 Twelve-year-old Chase Masters travels the country with his father, a storm runner, but he is tested in ways he never could have imagined when he and a new friend are caught in a hurricane near St. Petersburg, Florida. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640110 Santa and his elves use a variety of high-tech gadgets to deliver presents on Christmas Eve. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542739 When their long-imprisoned con-artist father reaches the end of his life, Arthur and his twin sister become the owners of an undiscovered play by William Shakespeare that their father wants published, a final request that represents either a great literary gift or their fathers last great heist. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709442 Set against the serene backdrop of the Russian countryside, Fathers and Sons is the story of Arcady Kirsanov, a young man who returns from college to his fathers country manor with his radical friend Bazarov in tow. Behind Bazarovs chilling intellect hides a heart of compassion and kindness -- a heart that will unwittingly change the Kirsanovs lives forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574190 Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. At first it looks like the suicide of a man whos fallen off the wagon, but Cody knows Hank better than that. Sober for fourteen years, Hank took pride in his hard-won sobriety and never hesitated to drop whatever he was doing to talk Cody off a ledge. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friends death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand. After years of bad behavior with his deparment, hes in no position to be investigating a homicide, but this man was a friend and Codys determined to find his killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709557 When a little girl is missing on the morning after his teenaged son baby-sits for her, Eric Moore watches his world crumble as suspicion falls on his son. Although Eric hires a lawyer to prepare his sons defense, a haunting thought slithers into his mind. What if he has been nurturing a monstrous fiend? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296718 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574449 Gifts from Gwyns grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sisters mysterious disappearance four years before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707797 Nine-year-old Oskar Schell is a precocious Francophile who idolizes Stephen Hawking and plays the tambourine extremely well. Hes also a boy struggling to come to terms with his fathers death in the World Trade Center attacks. As he searches New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he left behind, Oskar discovers much more than he could have imagined. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641437 Six-year-old Gwen writes a letter to Santa Claus asking for a pink Twinkle Bike. But when Gwens bike accidentally gets left behind at the North Pole, its up to Santas son Arthur to get the bike to Gwen and save Christmas! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707397 Lexa McCaskell and Mitch Rozier leave their Seattle home to visit Mitchs dying father in Montana. There Mitch clashes with both Lexa and his father as events from the past are explored and difficult memories resurface. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709837 Son of Vietnam vet and black awareness advocate Paul Coates--a poor man who set out to publish lost classics of black history--Ta- Nehisi drifts toward salvation at Howard University, while his ominous brother Big Bill finds his own rhythm hustling. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708778 Just as Frank and his son begin to bond, a criminal mastermind designs an evil plan to kill them both. Harvard-educated businessman Conrad Browning is so desperate he hires his estranged father Frank to neutralize the trouble plaguing his New Mexico railroad line. As the unlikely pair rides to the remote railroad site, they outshoot vengeful bushwhackers and hostile Apaches. But when a gorgeous young lady stumbles into their camp one night, they soon find themselves under her disarming spell. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574691 Sixteen-year-old Joeys life takes a very strange turn when his mothers tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father hes never known, and whos the town pariah. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642822 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711005 When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709728 Canadian Langston Cane V finds his writing career (and, indeed, his life) in stasis until inspired by his mentor to write about an ancestor who purportedly died fighting alongside John Brown at Harpers Ferry. Traveling to Baltimore, the latter-day Cane delves into history and in so doing awakens to new possibilities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708070 When Work Pickens finds his father murdered, the investigation pushes a repressed family history to the surface and he sees his own carefully constructed fade begin to crack. Works troubled sister, her combative girlfriend, his gold digging socialite wife, and an unrequited lifelong love join a cast of small town characters that create no shortage of drama in this extraordinary, fast-paced suspense novel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711164 Twelve-year-old Mokes is torn between obeying his father, the police chief in the small town of Kailua, Hawaii, and being with his friends who plan to go see a fight between an island boy and a sailor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708562 America is a barren landscape of smoldering ashes, devoid of life except for those people still struggling to scratch out some type of existence. Amidst the destruction, a father and his young son walk, always toward the coast, but with no real understanding that circumstances will improve once they arrive. Still they persevere, and their relationship comes to represent goodness in a world that is utterly devastated. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708523 Warren Spooner is a troubled boy whose father dies shortly after hes born. When his mother marries Calmer Ottosson, a decorated Navy officer fallen from grace, Warren is saved by Calmers inexhaustible patience. As Warren grows up, the two men forge a bond that will carry them both through the hard times ahead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574698 Twelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, now fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasnt revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that hes hidden. Sam, Dwights estranged college-age son, has shown up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. In its way, Sams sense of guilt is as crushing as his fathers. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption and love. In turn, they dramatically transform the lives of the women around them: the ex-wives, mothers, and lovers they have turned to in their desperate attempts to somehow rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708777 Rolling into the small town of San Remo, Frank Morgan and his faithful companion Dog bear witness to a violent range war. Frank gets drawn in deeper when hes recruited by one side against the other. Weary from a life of settling scores with pistols, Morgan sides with the townsfolk and reluctantly accepts their marshals badge in the hopes of ending the bloodshed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541835 Francis Gil Gilheaney is a sculptor of boundless ambition. But bad fortune and his own prideful spirit have driven him from New York into artistic exile in Texas just after World War I. His adult daughter, Maureen, serves as his assistant, although she has artistic ambitions of her own and is beginning to understand how her own career--perhaps even her life--has become hostage to her driven fathers wild pursuit of glory. When Lamar Clayton, an aging, heartbroken rancher, offers Gil a commission to create a memorial statue of his son Ben, who was killed in the war, Gil seizes the opportunity to create what he believes will be his greatest achievement. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646559 Tom Violet always thought that by the time he turned thirty-five, hed have everything going for him. Fame. Fortune. A beautiful wife. A satisfying career as a successful novelist. A happy dog to greet him at the end of the day.The reality, though, is far different. Hes got a wife, but their problems are bigger than he can even imagine. And hes written a novel, but the manuscript hes slaved over for years is currently hidden in his desk drawer while his father, an actual famous writer, just won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His career, such that it is, involves mind-numbing corporate buzzwords, his pretentious archnemesis Gregory, and a hopeless, completely inappropriate crush on his favorite coworker. Oh...and his dog, according to the vet, is suffering from acute anxiety. Toms life is crushing his soul, but hes decided to do something about it. (Really.) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707811 Ten years have passed since Joe Lakota left Laurel Creek, Oregon for the allure of the big city and a career in professional football. Now a single father, Joe returns to Laurel Creek hoping to rekindle his romance with Marilee Nelson. But their separation was painful, and Marilees wounds are deeper than anyone knows. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708180 Murder suspect E.J. Watson is gunned down by an enraged mob, each claiming self-defense. Over four decades later, his son returns to the Florida Everglades in order to discover the truth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708186 Some Hope traverses cultural and social landscapes that range from British manor houses to Bronx alleyways. A remarkable trilogy, it is the story of a wealthy young man who, after a horrific childhood, finds his life filled with both decadence and grace. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573978 When Aarons long-absent father returns, Aaron must cope with bullying at school, his grandmothers illness and his fathers pregnant new wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542121 Born into exile, eleven-year-old Nuri, the son of worldly parents who fled the revolution in their Arab country, is transfixed along with his widowed father by an Arab-English woman who joins their family, a situation that is complicated by Nuris fathers disappearance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646546 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539659 After all Melanie Porter has been through recently, its time to put her dreams first. And she starts by opening a vacation retreat outside of Melbourne. As she considers her next step, the unexpected happens. One of her guests--a friend--the very attractive Flynn Randall makes it clear hes in pursuit. Mel is definitely tempted. Who wouldnt be? But Flynn comes with strings that could derail her plans. First, hes part of the world she eagerly left behind. Second, hes ready for a commitment, while shes still embracing life on her own. A resolution seems impossible until Flynn proves that shes still in the drivers seat!--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709703 For years, Lampassas has given up cowpunching to be an obedient husband and south Texas shopkeeper. But when his wife dies of influenza, the aging cowboy puts on his spurs again. With his 17-year-old son at his side, Lampassas heads out on a longhorn cattle drive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707780 Maintaining tenuous contact only by means of coded messages and cryptic notes with her husband, Sherlock Holmes, and with Holmes young granddaughter in her safekeeping, Russell will have to call on instincts she didnt know she had as the famous husband and wife sleuths are pursued by a killer immune from the sting of justice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710126 Clarke introduces nine-year-old Miller, who becomes convinced that his father--who left without explanation--must have run away to join the military, and is now lying comatose in a VA hospital. Thinking a visit from his fathers favorite writer will help revive him, Miller decides to track down A Fans Notes author Frederick Exley.