Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=6594+6600 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748883 Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, wont let her go without a fight. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748884 When she is rescued from a psychotic vampire by Anders, an immortal creature who claims that she is the woman destined to be his life mate, Valerie Moyers tries to resist her fate as Anders battles her former captor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703547 Being a teenager has never been easy, but in recent years, with the rise of the Internet and social media, it has become exponentially more challenging. Bullying, once thought of as the province of queen bees and goons, has taken on new, complex, and insidious forms, as parents and educators know all too well. No writer is better poised to explore this territory than Emily Bazelon, who has established herself as a leading voice on the social and legal aspects of teenage drama... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748885 Set in a small town in Mississippi, The Cherry Cola Book Club is the touching and sometimes hilarious story of a young, upbeat librarian who has been given an ultimatum to increase the librarys circulation dramatically--or risk having to close its doors. Maura doesnt just start a book club; she gets involved in unique and unexpected ways with her library patrons. She entertains and advises them, she has potluck dinners, and life in the town begins to imitate art. The patrons begin to relate their own lives to the work of writers like Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee. In moving and personal ways, Maura helps them deal with such subjects as long-lost love and a brush with death, offering advice on nearly everything--including romance. No topic is off limits. Along the way, Maura raises the profile of the library--but will it be enough? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748792 From the bestselling authors of Black Mass comes the definitive biography of Whitey Bulger, the most brutal and sadistic crime boss since Al Capone. Drawing on a trove of sealed files and previously classified material, Whitey digs deep into the mind of James J. Whitey Bulger, the crime boss and killer who brought the FBI to its knees... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703548 Milk Glass Moon, the third book in Adriana Trigianis bestselling Big Stone Gap series, continues the life story of Ave Maria Mulligan MacChesney as she faces the challenges and changes of motherhood with her trademark humor and honesty. With twists as plentiful as those found on the holler roads of southwest Virginia, this story takes turns that will surprise and enthrall the reader... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748662 When over eighty prominent childrens authors learn they are suspects in the murder of despicable book editor Herman Mildew, they provide less-than-credible alibis. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748304 Saunders presents a collection of his short stories. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748886 Ali ODay, a dedicated young neurosurgeon, might have a Nobel Prize in her future--if she can survive the next eleven hours. Under the glare of live television cameras--and with her lover, Dr. Richard Helvelius, and her estranged husband, Kevin, both looking on--Ali is about to implant a revolutionary minicomputer into the brain of a blind boy. If it works, he will see again. But someone wants to stop her triumph. No sooner has she begun to operate than the hospital pagers crackle with the chilling announcement, Code White. A bomb has been found in the medical center. But this is no ordinary bomb--and no ordinary bomber. As minutes tick off toward the deadline, Ali suspects that a vast, inhuman intellect lies behind the plot--and that she herself may be the true ransom demand. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748671 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749148 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748130 Alyshia DCruz, daughter of Indian tycoon Frank DCruz, has grown up in London and Mumbai wanting for nothing. But one night, after a boozy evening out, she gets in the wrong cab home. Charles Boxer, ex-army, ex-police, has found his niche in private security. His specialty: kidnap and recovery. When DCruz hires Boxer to find Alyshia, Boxer knows Franks crooked business empire has made him plenty of enemies. MI6 officers in India follow Boxers leads and soon it seems more lives than Alyshias are at stake, as the trail crosses paths with a terrorist plot on British soil. To save Alyshia, Boxer must dodge religious fanatics, Indian mobsters, and Londons homegrown crime lords. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749138 Tiring of commitment-phobic boyfriends, Lottie readily accepts her exs offer of marriage in fulfillment of a safety pact made years earlier that they would marry if they were still single in their thirties, a rushed arrangement that prompts family disapproval and an unexpected renewal of passion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748783 Long before I met him, I was a fan of his writing, and his merciless wit. Hes bigger than food.--Anthony Bourdain Eddie Huang is the thirty-year-old proprietor of Baohaus--the hot East Village hangout where foodies, stoners, and students come to stuff their faces with delicious Taiwanese street food late into the night--and one of the food worlds brightest and most controversial young stars... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748367 Its every parents nightmare : a fifteen-year old girl has disappeared. She was last seen hitch-hiking along a scenic highway in rural Scotland, and the only other clue is a photograph sent from her phone. Two detectives, one of them retired, are working the case when they learn that there may be other victims out there, stretching back a decade and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748405 Meet Marvin Redpost, the Master of Mayhem! Kidnapped at Birth?: Marvin Redpost has finally figured out why he doesnt look like anyone in his family. Hes not really Marvin Redpost--hes Robert, the lost prince of Shampoon! Why Pick on Me?: Marvin is shunned by his classmates and teacher after he is unfairly fingered as a nose-picker by the class bully... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748793 A profoundly moving, piercingly frank memoir of grief--of learning to live with grief--that begins in Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004, when the author lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748992 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703525 Farside, the side of the moon that never faces Earth, is the ideal location for an astronomical observatory. It is also the setting for a tangled web of politics, personal ambition, love, jealousy, and murder. Telescopes on Earth have detected an Earth-sized planet circling a star some thirty light-years away. Farside observatory will have the largest optical telescope in the solar system as well as a vast array of radio antennas, the most sensitive radio telescope possible, insulated from the interference of Earths radio chatter by a thousand kilometers of the moons solid body. Building Farside is a complex, often dangerous task. Breakdowns--mechanical and emotional--are commonplace. Accidents happen, some of them fatal. But what they ultimately find will stun everyone, and the human race will never be the same. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748738 Pressured by her mother to marry a proper gentleman, Caroline Maxwell reluctantly considers Lord Bremerton while harboring a secret longing for adventure and passion with her brothers world-traveling friend, Jack, whose new money and lack of title render him an unsuitable candidate in her mothers eyes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703549 Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning. In her forties -- a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role -- Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five other young widows to test these unconventional ideas... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748663 Cora Kensington finds herself on the journey of a lifetime with unexpected twists. As she embarks across Europe with her newfound family, an unseen enemy remains close behind. And Cora finds herself torn between two dashing men along the way: a suave Frenchman dramatically pursuing her, and a man who has been quietly laying claim to her affection for a while. Along the way, Cora must find the faith to make the right choices, because the wrong ones have grave consequences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748305 Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and makes a terrifying discovery: She doesnt recognize the face she sees in the mirror. She remembers what she looks like, but her reflection is someone elses. To add to the shock, two years seem to have disappeared from her life. Someone has gone to great and inexplicable lengths to keep those missing years hidden forever. But the past always finds a way to return. Strange memories soon begin to surface and, along with them, some unusual skills and talents that Lizette hasnt a clue about acquiring. Sensing that shes being monitored, Lizette suddenly knows how to search for bugs in her house and tracking devices in her car. Whats more, she can elude surveillance-- like a trained agent. Enter a mysterious and seductive stranger named Xavier, who claims he wants to help-- but who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator. With memories returning, she suddenly becomes a target of anonymous assassins. On the run with nowhere to hide, Lizette has no choice but to rely on Xavier, a strong and magnetic man she doesnt trust, with a powerful attraction she cannot resist. As murky waters become clear, Lizette confronts a conspiracy that is treacherous and far-reaching and a truth that, once revealed, may silence her and Xavier once and for all -- from publishers web site. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748887 Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past--a past of death, suffering, and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England with his beloved wife, Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and defined him. As Georgy remembers days gone by, we are transported to Saint Petersburg, to the Winter Palace of the czar, in the early twentieth century--a time of change, threat, and bloody revolution. As Georgy overturns the most painful stone of all, we uncover the story of the house of special purpose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707301 A bomb goes off while Rabbi David Small is teaching a course at the community college. Soon everyone--from professors and students to the indefatigable rabbi himself--is suspected of murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748672 The tale of a mans journey from impoverished rural boy to corporate tycoon, it borrows from the business self-help books devoured by youths all over rising Asia. It follows its nameless hero to the metropolis where he begins to amass an empire built on that most scarce of goods: water. Yet his heart is set on the pretty girl whose star rises along with his, their paths re-crossing, a lifelong affair sparked and snuffed and sparked again by the forces that careen their fates along. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749072 A follow-up to Death and the Girl Next Door finds Lorelei working with best friend Brooklyn to hone her abilities while struggling with the demon that would take over her body and fighting her crush on the Angel of Death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748131 Sixth graders Jack and Ruthie return in their third adventure in the Art Institute of Chicagos magical Thorne Rooms! During a school presentation, Ruthie and Jack discover that their classmate Kendra is descended from Phoebe Monroe, the young slave they befriended when they traveled to 19th-century South Carolina... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749081 Brooke has only loved one man, her late husband. Owens rebuilding after a painful divorce. Can a mysterious house bring them together for a second chance at love? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749089 Maria Kendall is stunningly beautiful, impeccably mannered, effortlessly graceful--in short, a perfect candidate for marriage. Thus all of polite London society is astonished that she is the latest charge of Amy and Effy Tribble, eccentric spinsters... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748423 Joy Randalls Top 5 Tips for Vampire Hunters: Location, location, location. Vampires wont be caught dead (ha!) in places like discos, ten-minute lube shops, or Switzerland. Trust your eyes. You know the handsome, annoyingly arrogant, self-assured man in the shadows with long hair and a cleft in his chin? Hes your vampire. No matter how tempting it might be, do not accidentally acquire a paper cut on your finger and suggest your vampire kiss it to make it better. Play it cool. Dont offer to accompany your prince of the night on the talk-show circuit, and whatever you do, dont offer him your heart! Most of all, remember: being a vampire is nothing to laugh about. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707307 Living in post-Katrina New Orleans, John Keller has a new name, career, and wife, with a baby on the way. But when his financial situation takes a turn for the worse, he finds himself drawn back into his old profession. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749174 How could you forget whether or not you murdered somebody? Thats exactly what Albuquerque lawyer-cum-sleuth Neil Hamel asks herself when she takes on the defense of an elderly client who cant remember whether she ran over the girl her car surely did kill. Early in the morning of November 1st, Neil and her boyfriend, the Kid, are shaken out of their post-coital bliss when they find a surprise visitor at Neils apartment door. The visitor is Martha Conover, a pinched, elegant older woman who looks askance at Neils just-had-sex aura but still pleads for her help. Marthas been accused of running over Justine Virga, the girl who accidentally killed her grandson, Michael, in a car crash three years--to the day--earlier. Though Justines crushed corpse is found outside Marthas home and Marthas car bears an incriminating dent, Neil gradually discovers clues from Marthas prim past and Justines wild one that point to other suspects, from drug dealers to South American death squads to Michaels Latino father, wronged two decades earlier by Marthas bigotry. While Neil searches for Justines killer, she treats us to her wry take on every stratum of todays Southwest, from its breathtaking landscape to the real estate boondoggles that the S&L crisis has inflicted upon it, from Santa Fes polo set and new age entrepreneurs to a homeless man who coaxes poetry out of used typewriters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749139 A follow-up to Firefly Lane returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tullys mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748784 Megastar Jonny Valentine, eleven-year-old icon of bubblegum pop, knows that the fans dont love him for who he is. His image, his voice, and even his hairdo have been packaged; by his LA label and by his hard-partying manager-mother; into bite-size pieces for easy digestion, sliding down the gullet of mass culture, the biggest appeal to the widest demographic. But somewhere inside the relentless marketing machine is still a little boy, devoted to his mother and determined to find his absent father among the countless, faceless fans - isnt there? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749134 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748368 The last thing Ford Elkhart remembers is walking his girlfriend back to her car. Now hes lying tied and gagged on a cold, dark floor, with only one chance to escape before he ends up like the bones surrounding him. Assistant States Attorney Daphne Montgomery is devastated by her sons disappearance and is immediately convinced that his kidnapping is connected to the white supremacist shes just had jailed for murder. FBI Special Agent Joseph Carter isnt so sure--especially when he learns that Fords girlfriend is also missing. Is Fords abduction payback for Daphnes courtroom victory, or is he a pawn in an even more dangerous game? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749027 When Mauds perfect twin sister, Milly, plans a sleepover, Mum forces Maud to have her friends over too. What can possibly go wrong? Nothing much... just that Mauds mum might find out about Rotwood High being a school for real monsters! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748794 The slyly funny, sweetly moving memoir of an unconventional dads relationship with his equally offbeat son--complete with fast cars, tall tales, homemade explosives, and a whole lot of fun and trouble Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasnt a model dad either. Diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome at the age of forty, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748994 A murder investigation sends a beat cop into the dark side of the city--and of his soul. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748678 The only thing more troublesome than a Cynster man is a Cynster lady who believes love is not her destiny. Famously known in London society as the Matchbreaker, Henrietta Cynster has an uncanny skill in preventing ill-fated nuptials, not in falling victim to Cupids spell. But when she disrupts one match too many, she feels honor bound to help dashing James Glossup find a suitable bride for a marriage-of-convenience--a task infernally complicated by the undeniable, unquenchable attraction that flares between James and Henrietta, who continues to believe she will never fall. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748739 When the Boxcar Children uncover a strange puzzle in a friends backyard, its just the beginning of the spy game--a search for clues leading to gold! The children must make sense of a mysterious old photo and a riddle. But soon the children begin to suspect that theres a mystery inside the mystery. Just who is behind the spy game, anyway? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748372 Jane, Buzz, Carter, and Vanessa, aged nine to thirteen, are on a sailing trip in the South Pacific intended to help them bond in their newly-blended family when a massive storm strands them on a deserted island. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703550 An instant American icon--the first Hispanic on the U.S. Supreme Court--tells the story of her life before becoming a judge in an inspiring, surprisingly personal memoir. With startling candor and intimacy, Sonia Sotomayor recounts her life from a Bronx housing project to the federal bench, a progress that is testament to her extraordinary determination and the power of believing in oneself... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748438 In this pulse-pounding and thrillingly sensual novel, New York Times bestselling author Lara Adrian returns to the mesmerizing world of the Midnight Breed, following new characters into a dark future where an uneasy peace can unravel into war--and a great betrayal can mask an all-consuming love. Twenty years after the terror of First Dawn--when mankind learned that vampires lived secretly among them--the threat of violence reigns as the two species struggle to coexist... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748664 The second in an exclusive 6-consecutive-month release Amish serial novel. Weaving a compelling love story brilliantly mingled with an unexpected twist. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749097 Sixteen-year-old Mila discovers she is not who--or what--she thought she was, which causes her to run from both the CIA and a rogue intelligence group. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748412 In a future world baked dry by the sun and divided into those who live inside the wall and those who live outside it, sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is forced into a difficult choice when her parents are arrested and taken into the city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748888 David Stockman was the architect of the Reagan Revolution meant to restore sound money principles to the United States government. It failed, derailed by politics, special interests, welfare, and warfare. In The Great Deformation, Stockman describes how the working of free markets and democracy has long been under threat in America and provides a surprising nonpartisan catalog of the corrupters and defenders. His analysis overturns the assumptions of Keynesians and monetarists alike, showing how both liberal and neoconservative interference in markets has proved damaging and often dangerous. Over time, crony capitalism has made fools of us all, transforming Republican treasury secretaries into big-government interventionists and populist Democrat presidents into industry-wrecking internationalists. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748941 When I died two months ago, my killer told my twin sister to become me--or else. Now Emma has it down to a T. She tosses her hair with the signature Sutton Mercer flip and can lead a Lying Game prank with the best of them. Shes even repairing my relationship with my adoptive family. The only thing she hasnt done is solve my murder. Then our birth mother, the woman who abandoned us, showed up in Tucson. Emma hasnt seen Becky in twelve years, but Becky recognizes Emma immediately--as Emma. Is it a mothers intuition--or does Becky know Im already gone? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707291 Set in the early 60s, this novel is a very funny and completely raunchy satire of life in Texas and in California, and a true and very American portrait of an artist as a young man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707302 In eighteenth-century Scotland, Claire Randall and her raven-haired daughter, Brianna, return to the majestic hills where Claire recalls the love of her life--gallant warrior James Fraser. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748673 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749073 Nearing the end of his life, financier Harry Wainwright journeys to a rustic fishing camp in Maine and leaves a profound legacy for a haunted young man, a Vietnam draft evader, and a spirited young woman who holds a key to the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748132 A girl scarred by her past. A refugee mother uncertain of her future. Five little girls who brought them together. After nearly dying of breast cancer in her twenties, Sarah Thebarge fled her successful career, her Ivy League education, and a failed relationship on the East Coast and started over in Portland, Oregon. She was hoping to quietly pick up the pieces of her broken life, but instead she met Hadhi and her daughters, and set out on an adventure shed never anticipated. Hadhi was fighting battles of her own. A Somali refugee abandoned by her husband, she was struggling to raise five young daughters in a culture she didnt understand. When their worlds collided, Hadhi and the girls were on the brink of starvation in their own home, invisible in a neighborhood of strangers. As Sarah helped Hadhi and the girls navigate American life, her outreach to the family became a source of courage and a lifeline for herself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749033 Mauds beloved Rotwood, a secret school for monsters, is under a cloud... literally! The pupils monstrous games and spooky spells are filling the area with noise and smoke. Local residents are fed up and the school is facing closure! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749203 Life for indentured servants in pioneer Virginia is hard. It is doubly hard for Richard Ayre, a London orphan who had been scooped off the streets as a child and sent to the Jamestown Colony. But a chance encounter with an Indian boy his own age gives him a friend, the first real friend he has had in years--until his masters plan to raid an Indian village for corn turns Richards world upside down. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748798 Dennis Mansfield and his wife, Susan, planned for and expected every parents dream, but instead lived every parents nightmare. This haunting memoir tells the story of a father who diligently followed all the parenting rules that he learned from conservative Christian experts--yet life with his son Nate went terribly wrong when the young man died at twenty-seven of drug-related causes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749082 Peter Diamond, head of Bath CID, takes a city break in Vienna, where his favorite film, The Third Man, was set, but everything goes wrong, and his companion, Paloma, calls a halt to their relationship. Meanwhile, strange things are happening to jobbing... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749167 Everyone knows the Frankenstein monster was played by Boris Karloff. His portrayal is so famous that the play Arsenic and Old Lace was filled with Karloff monster jokes even when the part of the monstrously deformed villain was played by another actor. But before Karloffs memorable portrayal, another famous 1930s Hollywood icon, Bela Lugosi, tested for the part of the monster. The screen test footage was lost for decades, until Valentino, the never-say-die film archivist, gets a hot tip about the whereabouts of the incriminating (for really bad, heavily accented acting) footage. But it comes with a price far greater than the money hell have to pay. Someone would kill to get that reel of film, and that makes Valentino a mortal obstacle who would rather not die for art. People have already been murdered for the film, and Val doesnt want to push his luck--but boy, that reel is too good to let go. Enter a crew of steampunk fans. Loving the arcane strangeness that is Valentinos life--not to mention the completely glam prospect of seeing the original filmic Count Dracula as the Frankenstein monster--they will find a way to save Valentino and Lugosis infamous screen test. Or if they cant do that, have a great party anyway. Val just hopes its not a wake. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749090 When Eugene starts hearing a voice inside his head telling him to do awful things, it leads him to look into his small towns past before the Depression, and to discover long-hidden secrets about his neighbors and his town. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748424 Allie Telford is a Summoner--and she needs to rustle up a ghost pretty darn quick or her paranormal career will be over. Luckily, shes just stumbled upon a naked and unquestionably hot specter in a haunted hotel, who looks disturbingly like the tall, dark, handsome fantasy man whos been coming to Allie in her dreams. But it seems hes no phantom after all--hes a real flesh-and-blood-fed immortal whos determined to make Allie his lover for forever--or longer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748344 After a shy and rather withdrawn eight-year-old begins receiving frightening supernatural images and messages, he learns about a family legacy which could be considered a curse or a rare gift. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749065 Francine and Colville were childhood friends whose families belonged to an extreme religion, the Church Universal and Triumphant, whose members built elaborate underground shelters to protect themselves from a nuclear apocalypse that never came. Reunited twenty years later by the search for an abducted girl, Francine and Colville must reckon with the powerful memories of their former churchs teachings and the haunting feeling of leading adult lives in a world they once believed would be destroyed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1757177 Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert want to save their school from destruction! Just when it seems theyve finally gotten the upper hand over that awful Janitor Lyman, theyre caught off guard by his next move: Lyman has called in reinforcements, and now Benjamin, Jill, and Robert find themselves dodging not one evil janitor, but two. Thats right: Lymans got himself a partner. And it quickly becomes clear that Wally, the new guy, is even more corrupt and menacing than Lyman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748634 Mute fledgling witch Morgana is married for her safety to a kind farmer in the mountains of Wales before she is targeted by townspeople who are being manipulated by a dark force that compels Morgana to harness her powers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749175 At first glance, Josh Hanagame seems an improbable librarian. He stands 67, competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette Syndrome. But books are his first love. Joshs earliest memories involve fantastic adventures between the pages of Gullivers Travels and a passionate infatuation with Fern from Charlottes Web. Everything in Joshs life--from his Mormon upbringing, to finally finding love, to learning to control his tics through lifting--circles back to a close connection with books. Today, Josh is a librarian at the Salt Lake City Public Library, founder of a popular blog about books and weight lifting--and the proud father of four-year-old Max, who has already started to show his own symptoms of Tourettes. The Worlds Strongest Librarian illuminates the mysteries of this little-understood disorder as well as the very different worlds of strongman training and modern libraries. With humor and candor, this unlikely hero traces his journey to overcome his disability, navigate his wavering Mormon faith, spread the word about the wonder of books, and ultimately, find love and create a life worth living. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748785 One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it back for an audience, giving birth to visual media and screen entertainments of all kinds. Yet the artist and inventor Muybridge was also a murderer who killed coolly and meticulously, and his trial is one of the early instances of a media sensation. His patron was railroad tycoon (and former California governor) Leland Stanford, whose particular obsession was whether four hooves of a running horse ever left the ground at once. Stanford hired Muybridge and his camera to answer that question. And between them, the murderer and the railroad mogul launched the age of visual media. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748712 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748279 11-year-old Robert Arthur must vanquish Professor Gargoyle and learn the creepy origin story of the brand new Lovecraft Middle School (LMS). http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748659 In this explosive debut thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of Empire of blue water, a brilliant homicide detective returns home, where she confronts a citys dark demons and her own past while pursuing a brutal serial killer on a vengeful rampage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749135 In 2005, T. Colin Campbells The China Study showed that a diet based on whole, plant-based foods dramatically reduces your risk of a broad spectrum of diseases, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Whole picks up where The China Study left off. While The China Study revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer, Whole answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? Whole demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten off track and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism. Whole is a marvelous journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, led by one of the masters of the science. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748988 Its a terrible case of mistaken identity when a gang of bank robbers think that Charlie is a famous movie star. Disappointed with their take from the bank, they decide that a hefty ransom will be their ticket to riches. But what will happen when the real star steps forward? Charlie knows that only her wits will save her from this band of desperate men. Meanwhile, in a race against the clock, Charlies husband Drake is working with the FBI and local authorities to get Charlie back before her captors realize their mistake. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749078 Always following her parents wishes and ignoring her psychic inner voice takes eighteen-year-old Rebecca Muir from her beloved cottage and boyfriend on Puget Sound to New York City, where revelations about herself and her family help her find a path to becoming the architect she wants to be. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749131 Once upon a time, a historical romance author created a family, but not just any family. Eight brothers and sisters, assorted in-laws, sons and daughters, nieces and nephews (not to mention an overweight corgi) plus an irrepressible matriarch whos a match for any of them. These are the Bridgertons: less a family than a force of nature. Through eight bestselling novels, readers laughed, cried, and fell in love. But they wanted more. And so the readers asked the author: what happens next? Does Simon ever read his fathers letters? Do Francesca and Michael become parents? Who would win in a Pall Mall grudge match? Does The End really have to be the end? Now, with The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After, Julia Quinn delivers eight sexy, funny, and heartwarming 2nd Epilogues plus a bonus story about none other than the wise and witty matriarch Violet Bridgerton herself. So get to know the Bridgertons all over again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748369 For twenty-five years, John E. Douglas worked for the FBI, where he headed the elite Investigative Support Unit. Hes had a brilliant and terrifying career, getting inside the minds of notorious murderers and serial killers. Through a series of character-driven case histories--from the earliest trials in Salem, Massachusetts, to the bungled trial of Amanda Knox--Douglas shows what happens when the system breaks down and bias, media coverage, and other influences get in the way of a dispassionate pursuit of the evidence. Here also are Douglas personal reflections on his ongoing search for the truth, from painful lessons learned early in his career to his controversial findings in the West Memphis Three and JonBenet Ramsey investigations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749029 The Green Hand of Doom will get you all! Someone is playing ghostly tricks on the staff and pupils of St Aubergines School. But it isnt Trixie Tempest, oh no! She is far too busy Saving the Planet, being Nice to Nits and practising her solo for the Save... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748795 When a copycat killer emerges, forcing her to relive her nightmarish past, heiress Caitlyn Cahill, who helped the FBI link her troubled brother to several brutal murders, turns to FBI agent Reid Novak for protection. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749215 When all signs point to heartbreak, can love still be a rule of the road? A poignant and romantic novel from the author of Bittersweet and Twenty Boy Summer. Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. Shes seen the tears and disasters that dating a Vargas boy can cause, and she swore an oath--with candles and a contract and everything--to never have anything to do with one... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749128 In the stunning conclusion to Anna Careys thrilling dystopian trilogy, Eve has the fate of The New America in her hands. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748447 Welcome to the most magical house in London. The family of eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily have inherited it, together with the mysterious shop downstairs. Long ago, the shops famous chocolate-makers, who also happen to be Oz and Lilys great uncles, were clever sorcerers. Now evil villians are hunting for the secret of their greatest recipe. The terrifying powers of this magic chocolate have the ability to destroy the world... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703527 Parkers in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy love of explosions. When things go sour, Parker finds himself shot and trapped--and forced to rely on a civilian to survive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748679 On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, a young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless but secure marriage or to follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien not only helps others cope with their grief but also begins to understand the devastation of her own terrible loss. The surprising connection between these two women will change Claires life in unexpected and extraordinary ways. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748386 Recycling magic turns a garbage-filled park into a greentastic garden. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749120 While on the trail of a stolen relic, P.I. Dana Cutler is called back to Virginia where she must stop Charles Benedict, a criminal defense lawyer, amateur illusionist and professional hit man, from framing a millionaire for the murder of his much younger wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748614 The hunter becomes prey, as a heist goes sour and Parker finds himself trapped in a shuttered amusement park, besieged by a bevy of local mobsters. 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=1748256 From the beloved and best-selling author comes a story of life and death, family and community, once again set out on the high plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife must work together, along with their daughter, to make his final days as comfortable as possible, despite the bitter absence of their estranged son... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749013 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748373 In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703551 Stop battling your weight and slim down for life with this no-nonsense, insiders plan from Americas health, wellness, and weight-loss guru: Jillian Michaels. She has helped millions lose weight and feel great, and now she can help you, too. Bestselling author and Biggest Loser trainer Jillian Michaels swore shed never write another diet book... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748439 For years, 10-year-old Zelly Fried has tried to convince her parents to let her have a dog. After all, practically everyone in Vermont owns a dog, and it sure could go a long way helping Zelly fit in since moving there from Brooklyn. But when her eccentric grandfather Ace hatches a ridiculous plan involving a practice dog named OJ, Zellys not so sure how far shes willing to go to win a dog of her own. Is Aces plan so crazy it just might work . . ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749104 Jeremy Scahill reveals that President Barack Obama has kept in place many of the most dangerous and secret programs that thrived under his predecessor. Scahill exposes how Obama has escalated these secret US wars and has built up an elite secret US military unit that answers to no one but the president himself. Scahill reveals the existence of previously unreported secret prisons, kidnappings, assassinations, and cover-ups of covert operations gone terribly wrong. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749189 Kicking off her final week of police field training, Maureen Coughlin takes a punch from a panicked suspect bursting out of an apartment. Her training officer laughs it off, and the incident even yields a small victory: the cops recover a stash of pot and guns. But out on the street, on the fringes of the action, Maureen sees something sinister transpire between two neighborhood boys that leaves her shaken, and she knows theres more to the story than shes seen. As we follow Maureens dangerous hunt for answers, we are led around New Orleans most hidden corners and into its darkest outposts. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748665 Baseball star Cory Brand knows how to win. But off the field, hes spiraling out of control. Haunted by old wounds and regrets, his future seems as hopeless as his past. Until one moment -- one mistake -- changes everything. To save his career, Cory must go back to the town where it all began. His plan is simple: coach the local baseball team, complete a recovery program, and get out as fast as possible. Instead, he runs headfirst into memories he cant escape ... and the love he left behind. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749098 Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706633 On her own since the age of 14, freelance photographer Suzanne Paris has no intention of settling down in tiny Walton, Georgia. But to her surprise, Walton residents have a way of making even reluctant guests feel right at home. And the new connections she builds come in handy when a dark figure from her past returns, determined to ruin her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749112 Fleeing home from his military service in Afghanistan when his wife dies in an apparent freak household accident, Dr. Mike Scanlon struggles with the tragedy, his inability to bond with his new baby daughter, and a downsizing in his medical practice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748640 Discovering that the U.S. is being targeted by a secret and lethal conspiracy, disgraced television host Jack Hatfield taps the expertise of an idealistic staffer from the Office of Naval Intelligence to expose an imminent biochemical attack. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703503 Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded by school friends and family in busy, modern-day Ibadan, Nigeria. An adoring little sister, their traditional parents, and a host of aunties and cousins make Morayos home their own, so theres nothing unusual about her charming but troubled cousin, Bros T, moving in with the family. At first Morayo and her sister are delighted, but in her innocence, nothing prepares Morayo for the shameful secret Bros T forces upon her. Thrust into a web of oppressive silence woven by the adults around her, Morayo must learn to protect herself and her sister from a legacy of silence shared by the women in her family. Only her Aunt Morenike provides Morayo with a safe home and a sense of female community that sustains her as she develops into a young woman in a bustling, politically charged, and often violent country.