Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=6594+4294966367&No=70 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=1699115 Eleven-year-old Jermaines quest for fame as the creator of a reality television show based on her less-than-exciting family and friends teaches her important lessons about unbridled ambition, selfishness, and the upside of ordinary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574653 Life isnt easy for Melinda Radford. Shes the lone girl on the Ashton High wrestling team, and her parents have forbidden her from seeing her new boyfriend. But through a strange twist of tragedy and fate, Mel is given an unexpected opportunity to accomplish something no girl in her schools history has ever done, and to redeem herself in the eyes of many. 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=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=1643951 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643189 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=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=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=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=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=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=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=1644292 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640250 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643886 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=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=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=1643961 Nine-year-old Katie and her four-year-old brother, Tyler, have an emotional summer during which their father considers moving them to Portland and they are surprised by a visit with their mother, a country singer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640185 Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the four Chinese classics. The novel is semi-autobiographical and it gives an incredibly detailed insight into 18th-century life in China, particularly that of the aristocracy. The plot is grand in scale, peopled with a complex array of characters. 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. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729163 As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love-- 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=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=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=1643204 When Ruth returns home to the South for the summer after her freshman year at college, a near tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at the woman she wants to become. Growing up in Alabama, all Ruth Wasserman wanted was to be a blond Baptist cheerleader. But as a curly-haired Jew with a rampant sweet tooth and a smart mouth, this was an impossible dream. Not helping the situation was her older brother, David, a soccer star whose good looks, smarts, and popularity reigned at school and at home. College provided an escape route and Ruth took it. Now home for the summer, shes back lifeguarding and coaching alongside David, and although the job is the same, nothing else is. Shes a prisoner of her low self-esteem and unhealthy relationship with food, David is closed off and distant in a way hes never been before, and their parents are struggling with the reality of an empty nest. When a near drowning happens on their watch, a storm of repercussions forces Ruth and David to confront long-ignored truths about their town, their family, and themselves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643177 In 1956, Dell Parsons family came to a stop in Great Falls, Montana, the way many military families did after the war. His father, Bev, was a talkative airman from Alabama with an optimistic and easy-scheming nature. Their mother Neeva - shy, artistic - was alienated from their fathers small-town world. It was more bad instincts and bad luck that Dells parents decided to rob the bank. They werent reckless people. In the days following the arrest, Dell is saved before the authorities think to arrive. Driving across Montana, his life hurtles towards the unknown; a hotel in a deserted town, the violent and enigmatic Arthur Remlinger, and towards Canada itself. But, as Dell discovers, in this new world of secrets and upheaval, he is not the only one whose past lies on the other side of a border. 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=1542822 With love and determination befitting the worlds greatest family, twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression. 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=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=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=1728858 At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What is wrong with my husband?! In David Finchs case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains Davids ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down in social exchanges, and his clinical-strength inflexibility. But it doesnt make him any easier to live with. Determined to change, David sets out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband--no easy task for a guy whose inability to express himself rivals his two-year-old daughters, who thinks his responsibility for laundry extends no further than throwing things in (or at) the hamper, and whose autism-spectrum condition makes seeing his wifes point of view a near impossibility. Nevertheless, David devotes himself to improving his marriage with an endearing yet hilarious zeal that involves excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, the Journal of Best Practices: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies that result from self-reflection both comic and painful. They include Dont change the radio station when shes singing along, Apologies do not count when you shout them, and Be her friend, first and always. Guided by the Journal of Best Practices, David transforms himself over the course of two years from the worlds most trying husband to the husband who tries the hardest, the husband hed always meant to be. 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=1541426 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=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=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=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=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=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=1699013 The Alden children suspect someone of trying to sabotage the local dog show. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562405 James Carlos Blake is a master at weaving historical fact into fiction. Two generations of Wolfe men--begat by an English pirate in New Hampshire in 1828--track their violent but manifest destiny through the Diaz Regime in Mexico in the early 1900s and back to Gulf Coast Texas. The novel centers on two sets of identical hero twins, each with a violent history that mirror the authors belief on the primacy of violence in the evolution of civilization. Their lives are intertwined with important events through the history of the United States, beginning in the 1820s. Crucial are the histories of the infamous Saint Patricks Battalion (revered in Mexico as los San Patricios) who deserted the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the rise and fall of Porfirio Diaz Regime (1876-1910), which marked the beginning of the Mexican Revolution-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646621 As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love-- 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=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=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=1639099 Kansas,1881. On a trip to visit relatives, Emmas Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them destitute and stranded on the prairie. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down at him and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. Luke Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, is not planning on being the answer to anyones prayers, but it looks as though God has something else in mind for this kind and gentle man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562351 Down on their luck, the Tooting family buys an old camper van and begins repairing it, but after installing an engine that once belonged to an extraordinary car, they are off to find other original parts, pursued by a sinister man who wants Chitty for himself. 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=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=1699206 Aaaa! Thats the sound heard often from the Fox siblings as only sister Paige discovers Quincy the iguana has eaten her homework, older brother Peter applies permanent marker on his face drawing a fake goatee, and younger brother and expert video gamer Jason loses to Paige. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646676 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=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=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=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=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=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=1639727 Whatever happens, school comes first. Her mother said it like she meant it. These words played over and over again in Dani Garcias head. But life got in the way. There were mouths to feed and rent to pay. Plus someone had to watch baby Benny. Dani knew adversity, but she was the kind of strong that comes from within: strong mind, body, and soul. Then a horrible rape and its powerful aftermath threaten to bring Danis life crashing down-- forever. Shes trapped in a reality that she cannot control, but she gains the strength to never back down and finally has faith in her own power. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641893 This unforgettable story, filled with empathy, humor and emotional wisdom, follows four generations of an American family living under one roof as they each look for meaning in all the wrong places. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700566 In this lively celebration of Jewish traditions, a family must balance giving their children the freedom to make a mess and having a tidy home for Shabbos. On Sunday the Schmutzys drag in dirt from the malodorous Feldman Swamp. On Monday they make mud pies, and on Tuesday they smear spaghetti sauce. So it goes until Friday morning, when its time to be no-so-schmutzy. The family members soap, scour, and shower. And on Friday night they are ready to celebrate Shabbos with prayer, song, and supper. A glossary defines Yiddish words and an authors note explains Shabbos traditions. 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=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=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=1703098 It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss Mary Bayly, the current owner of the legendary Mason family estate, the Retreat. Miss Mary is dying. She plans to give the Retreat to the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward believes he can charm the old lady, secure the estate and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of a long day, he hears the stories that will forever bind him and his family to the land. He hears of Miss Marys grandfather brutally selling all his slaves in 1857 in order to avoid the reprisals he believes will come with Emancipation. He hears of the doomed efforts by Wyatt Bayly, Miss Marys father, to turn the Retreat into a vast peach orchard, and of Miss Mary and her brother growing up in a fractured and warring household. He learns of Abel Terrell, son of free blacks who becomes head orchardist, and whose family becomes intimately connected to the Baylys and to the Mason legacy. 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=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=1646748 Fancy Nancy needs a unique costume for Halloween, something no one else will think to be. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643759 Having a baby is...complicated. Dimple knows. Shes a successful actress who is turning forty-though her agent and her resume insist shes only thirty-six-and she figures its now or never. Certainly its not a good time for an intriguing director to show up at her door with a great script. Eva, fabulous agent to the stars, doesnt want kids-and never wanted kids. Why is her decision so damned hard for everyone else to accept? When Maryn was undergoing treatment for cancer, she and her husband both agreed to have embryos frozen. But that was way before their divorce and her remission-and now shes single and childless, and caught in the middle of a controversy she never saw coming. The traditional and nontraditional couples desperate for a baby...the adoptive parents...the single mom...the two who want nothing to do with parenthood...This is a thoroughly modern story of the pursuit of family in all its forms-and of five very different ways of getting there.--P. [4] of cover. 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=1561755 In this novel the author explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances in their house, on the roadway, in the markets. Only Dorothys unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothys unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the familys vanity publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye. This book is a subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with the authors humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles. 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=1703186 Isabelle Scotts life may not be easy, but she loves it. She is a star swimmer and lifeguard, has great friends, and has been spending the summer with Brayden, a cute surfer--though theyre just friends. But her grandmother, with whom shes lived since her mother died five years earlier, is declining quickly, and Izzies whole world is upended. Shes whisked away from the poor, rough neighborhood where she grew up to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in the exclusive Emerald Cove. Mirabelle Monroe leads a charmed life: her father is a former baseball star about to run for the United States Senate. Shes popular and beautiful and has a super cute jock boyfriend. But when her cousin, Izzie, comes to live with her family, her well-ordered world starts to unravel. It doesnt help that Miras best friend and queen bee, Savannah, hates Izzie from the start, maybe because Izzie seems to be so close to Savannahs boyfriend, Brayden. And Mira doesnt know whether to choose her friends and status at school or her family. As Izzie and Mira try to navigate their new lives, family secrets are dug up and the girls learn what friends and family truly mean. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710276 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642574 As she travels with her new family from England to France, Cora faces the hardships as well as the privileges of the family name. But her journey of self-discovery is only just beginning. 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=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=1639176 As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love-- 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=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=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=1573316 Follows a young boy as he helps to care for the new baby in his family. 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=1729155 The Aldens are bound for the Science and Hobby Fair, but when a bad storm hits, theyre forced to stay in the bus station. Before they know it, the Boxcar Children are in the middle of a mystery involving a polluted river, two strange boys, and a bus... 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=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=1643478 There exists a secret society where ones ability to travel through time is gifted to members only by blood. Those who try to enter the society quickly come to realize that time is a force not to be reckoned with. Alexandra Monirs short story exclusive ebook, Secrets of the Time Society, sheds light upon the world created in her novel Timeless and forecasts the fate that lies ahead for its protagonist, Michelle Windsor. Now that Michelle is gifted, there are some who will do anything to take that power away. 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=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=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=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=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=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=1646602 A middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances, in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothys unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the familys vanity publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye. 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=1574260 Every family photograph hides a story. Some are suffused with warmth and joy, others reflect the dull ache of disappointed dreams. For thirteen-year-old Trevor Kennedy, taking photos helps make sense of his fractured world. His father, Kurt, struggles to keep a business going while also caring for Trevors aging grandfather, whose hoarding has reached dangerous levels. Trevors mother, Elisabeth, all but ignores her son while doting on his five-year-old sister, Gracy, and pilfering useless drugstore items. Trevor knows he can count on little Gracys unconditional love and his art teachers encouragement. None of that compensates for the bullying he has endured at school for as long as he can remember. But where Trevor once silently tolerated the jabs and name-calling, now anger surges through him in ways hes powerless to control. Only Crystal, a store clerk dealing with her own loss, sees the deep fissures in the Kennedy family - in the haunting photographs Trevor brings to be developed, and in the palpable distance between Elisabeth and her son. And as their lives become more intertwined, each will be pushed to the breaking point, with shattering, unforeseeable consequences.--Cover, p. [2]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641965 It begins with a free and joyful act--but from then on, Michael finds it impossible even to remember what it felt like to be free and joyful. When he fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone. But a mile away, a man is killed by that bullet as he innocently repairs his roof. And Michael keeps desperately silent while he watches his world crumble.