Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=6594+4294966367&No=60 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644102 Caitlin Eckhart finds her past coming back to haunt her when her six-year-old stepson is kidnapped from school, jeopardizing her relationship with her husband and everything she loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699267 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640250 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644520 After surviving being possessed by a demon, sixteen-year-old Mia leaves her family in New York to stay with cousins in Milan, Italy, where she must study her familys heritage of demon catching in order to stay alive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699013 The Alden children suspect someone of trying to sabotage the local dog show. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643921 Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639500 Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself. Numerous following sequels have been written by various authors. Pollyannas crippling spinal injury has been cured, and she begins to teach a new town the glad game. She makes many friends and two of her childhood friends, Jimmy and Jamie, court her. Jimmy is an energetic, healthy young architect and Jamie is a crippled literary genius. Jimmy also discovers secrets of his past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561748 As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family--sure, maybe shed do those things, too, but first and foremost there was her career. As a woman, she is both tormented and consoled by those dreams in her day-to-day existence with her family, including a short-tempered husband, a cranky mother, and three demanding children, one of whom, Ethan, shows real talent for the stage. It is through Ethan that Miriam strives to realize her dreams. As she pushes him to make the most of his talent, the rest of her life gradually comes undone, with her husband becoming increasingly frustrated and her other two children--Sam, a mass of quirks and idiosyncrasies, and Julie, hostile and bitter--withdrawing into their own worlds. Still Miriam dreams, praying for that big finale, which, when it comes, is nothing that she ever could have imagined.--from publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639414 Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703355 After her youngest son, and last one to marry, brings home his wife, Rachel feels her role of family matriarch slipping away and must deal with the loss that comes with it, while maintaining the relationships she holds dear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699184 When their favorite pizza restaurant almost goes out of business, the Alden children try to help their friends stay open while they find out who is behind all their problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639186 A place to heal. Thats all Brooke McKaslin yearns for. Shes returned to Montana on family business, hoping to leave her past behind. And to shield the secret she carries. Shes not planning on staying long until she begins working for reporter Liam Knightly. Liam is handsome, good-hearted, and as leery of relationships as Brooke is. Even as they realize how much they have in common, Brooke fears a threat to their growing love. Will her secret stand in the way of their happiness? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561850 By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life. L.C. Duncan, patriarch of the family, is at the age when hes starting to think about retirement in sunny Florida. But the recession is taking a bite out of the business and, worrying more, he has to decide which of his children should take over. When his workaholic son Orlando gets the nod, Orlandos siblings--including the favorite son Vegas, conniving daughter London, glamorous party girl Paris and flamboyant nightclub owner Rio--are up in arms. But so are the Zunigas, a rival family whose fragile business alliance with the Duncans may explode at any moment. When Vegas suddenly breaks away from the family, Londons lawyer husband, Harris, makes a play for the company and all hell breaks loose. Selling cars, it turns out, is only a small part of the Duncans family business. Each member of the family has a secret expertise to reveal. And now, under siege from the Mafia, Mexican drug cartels and the Zunigas, the Duncans will have to stick together--or die separately. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700213 Robin and her family have spent several years moving from place to place, trying to find work and a place to live. When Robins father finds a job, all are happy but Robin. She explores the countryside near her home, meets new friends, and discovers a secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640263 The six Bastable children try to restore their familys fortune using a variety of schemes taken from books, including finding buried treasure, rescuing someone from bandits, and starting a newspaper. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643701 In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700211 When his widowed mother meets a man she wants to marry, thirteen-year-old Bernie decides he will go to live with his grandfather in Florida rather than live in the house with his new stepfather. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639556 When their father is taken away by strangers, the lives of three children are altered forever. They move with their mother to a cottage by a railway. The railway becomes their playground, and they befriend the rail workers and passengers who eventually help to reunite them with their father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643694 When Skyes cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646610 Two star-crossed lovers--Enzo and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644521 A Jewish teenager struggles to find something to believe in and keep his family together in the cultural confusion of modern-day Los Angeles-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642644 Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his fathers efforts to start a new business, his mothers extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640196 Mae Wilkeys sweet next-door neighbor, Pauline, is suffering from old age and dementia and desperately needs family to come help her. But Pauline cant recall having kin remaining. Mae searches through her desk and finds a name--Tom Curtis, who may just be the answer to their prayers.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707558 In 1970s Boston, the glossy veneer of 16-year-old Sarah Kunitzs wealthy family is starting to show cracks. Her parents constant fighting and her mothers prescription pill abuse drive Sarah into two romantic relationships with unforeseen consequences. With grief fresh in her heart, Sarah wonders if she or her family will ever love again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639310 When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie enter a world full of wonder and magic--lush green and chocolate grasslands and dazzling red, orange, and magenta evening skies; the heady pungency of Lowcountry Pluff mud and fresh seafood on the grill; bare toes snuggled in warm sand and palmetto fronds swaying in gentle ocean winds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646612 Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees these reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope if he cant? To what extent can Alexa, Dans wife, sacrifice her own needs and fulfillment to support his commitment to a way of life that demands everything, not just of him, but of her and the children as well? What happens when love and a vocation collide head on? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646743 Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639580 Looking for an engaging and emotionally resonant read from a novelist who was inspired by the works of both Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte? Elizabeth Gaskells 1850 short novel The Moorland Cottage offers up a unflinching slice of nineteenth-century family life, with a particular focus on family dynamics in an era where sons were openly favored. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642186 When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703407 As Robert watches the townspeoples hostility toward the German Artist Hoffman build, he worries about his sensitive cousin Elliots friendship with the artist. And he wonders more and more about the family secret everyone seems to be keeping from him--a secret involving Roberts father, a bomber pilot in Europe. Will Elliots ability to detach himself from the turmoil around him be enough to sustain him when prejudice and suspicions erupt into violence? And can Robert find his own way to deal with the shocking truth about his familys past? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729120 A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699127 While trying to hide an incriminating report card and dodge meddling siblings, fifth-grade twins Hunter and Zack set out to save their town from a diabolical dentist who is planning to blow it to smithereens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703298 Watching their children move out and live independently is a difficult task for many parents--but for George and Mary Ann McCray, its nearly impossible. Even though Todd, their disabled son, is in his twenties, George and Mary Ann fear that he cannot thrive without their support and supervision. But Todd is determined to be his own person--and he has a dog named Christmas and an entire community ready to help him find his way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644016 When twelve-year-old Hailees family wins the lottery, her life changes in unexpected--and not always good--way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573806 Angelina Neatolinis wish for a pet, denied by her family on the grounds that pets are too messy, is overheard by a hard-of-hearing ladybug, who fills their tidy new home with assorted pests. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639808 Charlie was looking forward to summer vacation until he realized he would be stuck at home with his little brother the entire time, but Charlie ends up making new friends and finding adventure in his own neighborhood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561993 When a new glassblower arrives to help in the family business, the attraction Maria feels for him causes a web of conflicting emotions to grow even more tangled. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729129 The Alden family is spending sunny days at the shore and summer nights in the mobile home right on the beach! What will the Boxcar Children find at the strange old mansion nearby? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639220 When Alice-Miranda goes home to her familys lavish estate for the school holidays, along with her best friend Jacinta, their break is not exactly what they expected because of a cranky boy causing mischief, a visiting movie star, a snooping stranger, and a grandmother with a family secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707146 When a bankers entire family is found massacred, the only clue is the message Were coming scrawled in blood. Detective Lucas Davenport isnt surprised when he learns of the bankers shady past. But as the investigation deepens, he discovers this familys murder isnt an isolated act of violence--its part of a war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710336 By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642266 Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earths rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639766 In Depression-era Mississippi, Millie Reynolds longs to escape the madness that marks her world. With an abusive father and a nothing mama, she struggles to find a place where she really belongs. For answers, Millie turns to the gypsies who caravan through town each spring. The travelers lead Millie to a key that unlocks generations of shocking family secrets. When tragedy strikes, the mysterious contents of the box give Millie the tools she needs to break her familys long-standing cycle of madness and abuse.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639244 Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far-out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the flickering presence of ghosts. This is the story of a woman whose life is shaped by tragedy. Quinn is thirtysomething, a survivor of a fractured and eccentric childhood marred by the death of her younger sister. Twenty years later, she is in the midst of a decade-long slide down the other side of punk-rock stardom after her successful music career was abruptly halted. Sassy and smart, tough but broken, Quinn is at loose ends. She develops unique strategi. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703127 Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Fraziers uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommys Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Dillers and Sylvia Plaths: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727811 Two couples meet for dinner at a fashionable restaurant in Amsterdam. Behind their polite conversation, terrible things need to be said, and with every forced smile and every new course, the knives are being sharpened. Each couple has a fifteen-year-old son. The two boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act; an act that has triggered a police investigation and shattered the comfortable, insulated worlds of their families. As the dinner reaches its culinary climax, the conversation finally touches on their children. As civility and friendship disintegrate, each couple show just how far they are prepared to go to protect those they love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643937 When a mission gone wrong kills his best friend, navy SEAL Matthew Parker will stop at nothing to destroy the demons who threaten his team. To do so, Matt must locate a mysterious orb before the demons use it to destroy the world. But the only woman who can help him - Sienna McClare - has her own agenda...and every reason for hating his kind.A half blood, Sienna hopes returning the orb to her people will gain her acceptance back into the only family shes known. But working with a Draicon werewolf like Matt comes with a high price - one that could cost Sienna her dreams.A natural-born leader, her werewolf lover must now teach Sienna to listen to her heart - and go where their all-consuming passion leads them -- Cover verson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698577 Unfortunately, its the wrong wedding. Olivia Arnold is arranging the festivities--and its the hardest thing shes ever done. Because she should be marrying Kyle Houseman. They were together for more than a year but her jealous sister, Noelle, stole him away--and now shes pregnant. All their friends in Whiskey Creek know as well as Olivia does that Kyles making a mistake. His stepbrother, Brandon, knows it, too. But Kyles determined to go through with it, for his childs sake. Olivias devastated, but surprisingly Brandon--the black sheep of the family--is there to provide comfort and consolation. The intensity between them, both physical and emotional, shows Olivia that maybe Kyle wasnt the right man for her. But is Brandon? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643916 Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women-an unbroken line of daughters-living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. An indomitable force, strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great-granddaughter Erin. Though they lead ordinary lives, there is an element of the extraordinary to these women: the eldest two are defying longevity norms. Their unusual lifespans have caught the attention of a geneticist who believes they hold the key to breakthroughs that will revolutionize the aging process for everyone. But Anna is not interested in unlocking secrets the Keller blood holds. She believes there are some truths that must stay hidden, including certain knowledge about her origins that she has carried for more than a century. Like Anna, each of the Keller women conceals her true self from the others. While they are bound by blood and the house they share, living together has not always been easy.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644046 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642766 Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641892 First-grader Monty Morris includes his new baby sister in a school project, gives his mother a surprising gift, gets a little more than he can handle with his friend Joeys dogs, and learns that sometimes a day filled with excitement is not the best thing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728958 Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a Fresh New Start. Five years ago his sisters twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair, and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasnt cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his birthday Spiderman T-shirt, and in keeping his new friend Sunya a secret from his dad. And in his deep longing and unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. When he sees a TV ad for a talent show, he feels certain that this will change everything and bring them all back together once and for all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699579 Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574276 For generations, a grand estate house was the crowning glory of more than 3,000 acres of Iowa farmland. Named Aurelia, it was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaways dream to elevate the family name--no matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. Now, Lavinias youngest grandchild, Meredith Pincetti, is thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her familys once-great name. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703459 Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643502 Wealthy New York City high school student Jonathan and his upper-class friends spend their time dating, partying, and dealing with each others family problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703368 Astrid Jones copes with her small towns gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that shes sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe theyll know what to do with it. Maybe itll make them happy. Maybe theyll need it. Her mother doesnt want it, her fathers always stoned, her perfect sisters too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. Theres no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that shes trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers lives, and her own, for the better. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699103 The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642711 Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will forever change this place and its people. Five years later, as the Turkish army pushes west through Asia Minor, young Katerina loses her mother in the crowd of refugees clambering for boats to Greece. Landing in Thessalonikis harbor, she is at the mercy of strangers in an unknown city. For the next eighty years, the lives of Dimitri and Katerina will be entwined with each other and-through Nazi occupation, civil war, persecution, and economic collapse-with the story of their homeland. Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007: A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents remarkable story for the first time and understands he has a decision to make. For decades, Dimitri and Katerina have looked after the treasures of those who have been forced from their beloved city. Should he stay and become their new custodian?--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729082 In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640259 When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their New Switzerland using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641995 A fascinating new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699493 Merry Christmas, Cowboy: A wild snowstorm strands Colt Johnson in Eden Valley, where the storekeepers daughter exudes welcome warmth. Shes even offered to give the two orphans in his charge a Christmas to remember. An outcast, Colt doesnt dare hope for more--even though Beccas love would be a Christmas wish come true.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562038 When Candice Candy Hardaway, the daughter of deceased New York drug kingpin Eric Easy Hardaway, set out to get revenge on the people who killed her entire family, she positioned herself knee deep in the game. While getting close to her fathers alleged enemies, Candy uncovered some long-buried secrets that were never meant for her to find out. ... Who will fulfill their need for revenge first-- the people who really destroyed her family or the hustlers that Candy wrongfully targeted?--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646658 Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. After his ship is sunk, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past by assuming the identity of an American officer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699614 Miranda Fox has devoted much of her life to caring for her elderly father. After his tragic death, she starts to make plans for her future, funded by the inheritance she is sure will be coming her way, but it seems her arrogant and domineering half-brother has very different ideas ... Then a chance encounter with a man who has been given months to live boosts Mirandas confidence, and as their friendship grows she finally learns to stand up for herself and her dreams. Can Miranda find the happiness that she deserves? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727720 When sixteen-year-old Chelsea Martins future stepmother gives her a total makeover, she attracts all of the wrong boys and drives away many girls, but her friend Janelle keeps telling Chelsea to be true to herself, while helping her find a way to catch the eye of Nicholas, the one non-jerk at school. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703361 A novel about four generations of a British family--their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks--captured in a series of individual moments that span the years from World War I, to World War II, to the 1960s, and up to the present. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640069 After graduating from a Phoenix, Arizona, high school, aspiring artist Amanda Zero Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, her falling out with her best friend, and her parents personal problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729125 Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641279 The lucky penny in Judy Moodys pocket sure does seem to be working. She cant stop winning-at bowling, spelling, the unbeatable Prize Claw, everything! For sure and absolute positive, shell ride that wave of good fortune all the way to Washington, D.C.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643951 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729133 The Aldens have found a mystery under their very own roof! When the children found an old journal behind the closet wall in the guest room, they never dreamed it would lead them on a search for valuable coins. What happened to the girl who wrote the journal... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729173 In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573591 Worn down by the constant petitions of the villagers who think she has special powers, sixteen-year-old Sonia leaves behind her shawl covered with milagros and her mountain home and sets out to live a life of her own choosing in the capital city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643998 As a demolition expert, Brick Pendleton is used to being in complete control. So hes shaken when his lover extinguishes their explosive affair before hes ready to say goodbye. Hes never felt about any woman the way he feels about Lisa Ransom, but that doesnt mean he can give her what she wants most of all: marriage and family. 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=1727383 Anne is about to marry her childhood friend, Gilbert Blythe, and set up home with him in her house of dreams. Life really does seem perfect for a while, but suddenly Annes charmed life is touched by tragedy. Who would have thought that the honesty of her enigmatic friend, Leslie Moore, would help her to overcome her sorrow? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643189 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703320 Living on an island where all faiths coexist peacefully, precocious teen Peter and his siblings are shocked when their devout vicar father and eccentric artisan mother go missing at the height of an effort to boost church attendance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641829 Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join him for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside, which results in a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams, and rising hopes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700266 Papa tells Mama not to worry when she leaves home to visit her cousin. But when Mama calls to say shes coming home sooner than expected, all of the Bears forest friends will have to help undo Papas caretaking. --Cover, pg. 4. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639584 John Galsworthys The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes, all published between 1906 and 1921. Not far removed from their farming history, the members of an upper-middle-class British family are painfully aware of being new money. As a man of property, Soames Forsytes abilities bring him material wealth, but they grant him no quarter in the happiness stakes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573316 Follows a young boy as he helps to care for the new baby in his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646728 Penny comes home from school eager to share her very own song, but must wait until the time is right to teach it to her parents and the babies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703412 In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster familys legacy of violence may prove impossible. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710276 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699011 The Alden children have another mystery to solve when they visit a castle and must figure out which of the guests has stolen the Stradivarius violin. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641370 Its the lazy end of summer and Freya is about to start her A levels. Her brother Joe died a year ago, but she is slowly coming to terms with his death. She is beginning to feel ready for something new - a change. And then a railway accident brings her by chance into contact with the gorgeous Gabes. Freya is drawn not just to Gabes himself and his blond good looks, but everything about him, including his large, shambolic, warm and loving family, which seems to Freya so different to her own family of three. And then Gabes clearly troubled older brother makes it clear he is interested in Freya - and Freya has some decisions to make about what she really wants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707158 In the South Carolina Lowcountry, three generations of a family--a grandmother, a mother, and a son--discover the indelible power of love as they share a memorable summer on Sullivans Island. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643923 At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a gentle solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots. Then two feral, pregnant girls and armed gunmen set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728953 When the old woman died, she left her grandchild Nancy with the extraordinary gift of magic. Nancy can read peoples minds, know their thoughts, and make them do what she wants. Will she use her gift for good, or satisfy her own selfish desire? Lois Duncan presents a paranormal rollercoaster ride with goosebumps at every turn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640209 If you loved Little Women, Louisa May Alcotts moving account of the upbringing of four sisters in nineteenth-century Massachusetts, dont miss Eight Cousins, a similarly stirring novel that follows the childhood and young adulthood of plucky protagonist Rose Campbell, the sole female child born to her extended family. Rose struggles to fit in with her seven male cousins, and learns a thing or two about genteel Boston Brahmin society along the way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699413 Returning to his small Texas hometown, a writer delves into an investigation of an unsolved arson case, a cotton fire twenty-five years earlier that split the community and turned family members against each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700098 When the cubs get too noisy while playing, Mama and Papa Bear try different ways of quieting them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641808 We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnsons award-winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7-Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith.When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her stu. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641330 Thirteen-year-old Katie Sutton, a self-proclaimed expert on grown-up behavior, begins writing a users manual to help other teens train and operate their parents, but when her own mother starts dating Yellow Tie Man, Katie needs all of her expertise to get rid of him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707642 Living in a cozy Iowa farmhouse with her kindly grandmother, 24-year-old Julia Desmit struggles to support her five-year-old son and 10-year-old halfbrother. Though her boyfriend is away at medical school, Julia harbors hope for a better life. And then the man who abandoned her six years ago rocks her happy world with one question: Do I have a son? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646771 When they were children, Erica Calcott and her sister, Beth, spent their summer holidays at Storton Manor. Now, following the death of their grandmother, they have returned to the grand, imposing house in Wiltshire, England. Unable to stem the tide of childhood memories that arise as she sorts through her grandmothers belongings, Erica thinks back to the summer her cousin Henry vanished mysteriously from the estate, an event that tore their family to pieces. It is time, she believes, to lay the past to rest, bring her sister some peace, and finally solve the mystery of her cousins disappearance. But sifting through remnants of a bygone time is bringing a secret family history to light--one that stretches back over a century, to a beautiful society heiress in Oklahoma, a haunting, savage land across the ocean. And as past and present converge, Erica and Beth must come to terms with two shocking acts of betrayal... and the heartbreaking legacy they left behind.