Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=6594+6600+6601 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703505 Describes a day in the life of several members of a Harlem fundamentalist church. The saga of three generations of people is related through flashbacks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703506 It is the most sensational murder trial since O. J. Simpson. The nation is obsessed with Sydney Bennett, a sexy nightclub waitress and good-time girl accused of murdering her two-year-old daughter for cramping her party life. Agreeing to defend Sydney, Jack Swyteck knew he was taking on the toughest and most controversial case of his career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703490 This collection of novellas is Jim Harrison at his most memorable--a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive--a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years--reluctantly returns to his familys Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal--of ardor for his high school love, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting. In Water Baby, Harrison ventures into the magical as an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to the water as an escape and sees otherworldly creatures there. Faced with the injustice and pressure of coming of age, he takes to the river and follows its siren song all the way across Lake Michigan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703507 On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, Which one are you? This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. Included is a trove of Frank Hurleys famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706639 Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, with her brother Nash, hoping the fresh start will help him kick a debilitating drinking habit. And Rubys not the only one with renewed hope, as saddlemaker Lucas McGavin redoubles his efforts to win her heart--even if Ruby is his brothers widow. Soon, all three learn that building a better future means first making peace with the past. 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=1703508 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729321 Joe Grey cant believe his human housemate Clyde would even consider volunteering him for the Animal Therapy program at the local nursing home, just when Joe was on the verge of solving the string of burglaries that has Molena Point residents shaking in their collective boots. But it turns out its Dulcie, Joes pretty little cat-friend, who came up with the idea of subjecting Joe to the cooing attentions of a bunch of doddering old coots. Dulcie believes theres more going on at the old folks home than the care and feeding of lonely seniors. And she needs Joes help in getting to the bottom of a conspiracy...and a very suspicious set of deaths. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729283 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703501 Godin shows how we can thrive in an economy that rewards art, not compliance. He explains why true innovators focus on trust, remarkability, leadership, and stories that spread. And he makes a passionate argument for why you should be treating your work as art. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729233 Diandra Casey and Gregory York are childhood rivals and longtime adversaries, both vying for the same powerful position at one of the countrys most elite department stores. To determine who is best suited for the job, the two are confined together for a week in an elegant Boston town house, where they must catalog and store a priceless collection of antiques. But away from the pressures of corporate life, their feelings for each other suddenly seem less clear as attraction flares between them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728907 Arthur Bannister has been unexpectedly accepted into Shiverton Hall - an incredibly spooky school, full of surprises. It is just as well Shiverton Hall made its offer, because Arthur had a horrible time at his previous school, and was desperate to leave... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729262 Edith Hamiltons Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture--the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to today... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706640 Horse trader Will Summers is known for his ability to intimidate just about anyone. When the infamous Bendigo Brothers steal Summers horses, they cant imagine the trouble theyve just gotten themselves into. Tracking the men like a bunch of animals, Summer will make sure theyre marked with his own special brand--one theyll never forget. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729208 In the title story, two drug-addicted friends return to the farm where they worked as boys to steal their bosss unusual but valuable war trophies. In The Trusty, a convict sent to fetch water tries to sweet talk a farmers young wife into helping him escape, only to find she too is imprisoned in her own way. In Something Rich and Strange, a diver is called upon to pull a drowned girls body free from under a falls, but finds her eerily at peace below the surface. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728880 After being nearly killed by both a hired hit man and her former secretary, Agatha Raisin could use some low-key cases. So when Robert Smedley walks through the door of her detective agency, determined to prove that his wife is cheating on him... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728986 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703541 The sensation of the 2011 Frankfurt Book Fair: a stunningly dark first novel that is sure to become a major publishing event. When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from Jack. Only thirty or so people are sure this man exists, some believe hes dead, and none know anything at all about his true identity... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729009 The Special Class Prize will be awarded to the children who make the most money at the Pudding Bag School Summer Fair. With their magical teacher Miss Gilhoolie ill in bed, Class 4b conjure up something special. But could it be a bit too special? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729237 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=1703509 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729322 Theres a bad new cat in sleepy little Molena Point: a renegade tom with a penchant for robbery, a scorn for his fellow felines, and a disdain for human laws. And hes masterminding a crime spree thats quickly escalating toward murder most foul. Dulcie and Joe Grey both know the score--theyve seen Azrael in action. But how can they expose the criminal without letting ordinary, untrustworthy humans in on the secret that certain select cats can think--and talk? Cats like them... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703531 Now that they have some unexpected free time, freshly unemployed Wisconsinites Patrick and Barbara McDougal are going to treat themselves to a modest vacation in sunny Florida. Sitting poolside at a pretty motel, theyre going to drown their sorrows... 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=1729284 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729039 In the summer of 1985, teenaged Reggies mother was the victim of a serial killer called Neptune, who left his victims severed hands on the police department steps. Her body was never found; the killer was never caught. Twenty-five years later, Reggie is a successful architect who has left her hometown. But when she gets a call revealing that her mother has been found alive, Reggie must confront the ghosts of her past--and find Neptune before he kills again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729317 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=1729230 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729259 When handsome British viscount Major Lord Peter Tremayne commandeers her home, rebel Kate Grey throws caution to the wind and responds to his seduction. But a spy in her own household steals the military dispatches Tremayne carries, ensuring his disgrace--and implicating Kate in high treason. Months later, having narrowly escaped court martial and hanging, Tremayne returns to decadent, British-occupied Philadelphia with a new assignment--to capture the woman he believes betrayed him. Worse, the glamorous fiancee of his own dissolute cousin is none other than Kate Grey, now an undercover spy. And so begins their dangerous dance, between passion and patriotism, between certain death and the promise of a brave new future together. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729234 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=1728908 Twins Sarah and Sylvia Price, two monsters in disguise at Lovecraft Middle School, are campaigning for student council with a secret plan to abduct the entire seventh grade, and Robert Arthur and his strange friends must stop their evil plot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729263 Bound by her oath of confidentiality and tortured by unrequited love, sixteen-year-old Devon, a peer counselor at a prestigious California boarding school, finds herself on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of a popular students apparent suicide. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706641 For a gambler locked in a claims war, the stakes are life or death! A plague of killings has descended on Green Meadow, Oklahoma. A villain called the Fat Man wants the town--and the black gold beneath it. And Fat Man is willing to wipe out every man, woman, and child to get it. Only two underdogs stand in his way: seedy gambler Chauncey Drake and scrappy Pinkerton agent Reuben Withers. The pair will have to work hard and work together to force-feed the Fat Man a steady diet of hot lead--or Green Meadow will run red. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729051 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729209 When the celebrated Russian-born architect Roman Guttman is injured in a bus bombing, his perceptions become heightened and disturbed, leading him on an ill-advised journey into Palestinian territory. His odyssey alternates with the bittersweet diary of his teenage daughter Anyusha on her own perilous path and the startlingly alive observations of Amir, the young Palestinian who pushed the button and is now damned to watch the havoc he has wrought from a shaky beyond. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729062 Sheryl Sandberg--Facebook COO, ranked eighth on Fortunes list of the 50 Most Powerful Women in Business--has become one of Americas most galvanizing leaders, and an icon for millions of women juggling work and family. In her Lean In, she urges women to take risks and seek new challenges, to find work that they love, and to remain passionately engaged with it at the highest levels throughout their lives... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728881 On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly, the crusading young female reporter for Joseph Pulitzers World newspaper, left New York City by steamship on a quest to break the record for the fastest trip around the world. Also departing from New York that day--and heading in the opposite direction by train--was a young journalist from The Cosmopolitan magazine, Elizabeth Bisland... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729266 A riveting and poignant novel of one womans journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home--perfect for readers of Elizabeth Gilberts Eat, Pray, Love and Alex Garlands The Beach. It starts as a trip to paradise. Sent on assignment to Bali, Jamie, an American adventure guide, imagines spending weeks exploring the islands lush jungles and pristine white sand beaches... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729031 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=1729244 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=1729308 Amy learned a lot in her babysitting course, but not what to do if two thugs show up, intent on kidnapping. Armed with misinformation and a weapon, the men take Amy and little Kendra to a remote cabin in the woods. There they make videos of the girls and mail them to Kendras wealthy parents in an effort to get ransom money. After several of her escape attempts fail, Amy is forced to make one last, desperate move. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728987 When thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods in Roma, Kentucky one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery--a choice that begins to haunt her. Susanna Mitchell has always been a good girl, the dutiful daughter, wife and mother, while her older sister Ronnie trolled bars for men and often drove home at sunrise. But when Ronnie goes missing and Susanna realizes that shes the only person in Roma who truly cares about her sisters fate, she starts to question her quiet life and its value. Emily; Susanna; Tony, a failed baseball star turned detective, aspiring to be the countys first black sheriff; and Wyatt, a fifty-five-year-old factory worker tormented by a past he cant change and by a love he doesnt think he deserves. Their stories converge in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie but all of their secret selves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703542 Noted science writer Virginia Morell explores the frontiers of research on animal cognition and emotion, offering a surprising and moving exploration into the hearts and minds of wild and domesticated animals... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707233 Handsome, strong, and just a bit dangerous, Comanche Chase Wolf is used to getting what he wants. So when he sees Franny--a golden-haired angel with deep green eyes, delicate features, and the sweetest smile--he sets out to make her his. But Franny is far from the innocent she seems. And the truth may be more than Chase can bear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729279 Lucy Stone has always loved covering the annual Easter egg hunt for the Pennysaver. Hosted by elderly socialite Vivian Van Vorst at Pine Point, its a swanky event where the eggs are as likely to contain savings bonds as they are jelly beans. But when Lucy arrives, a man dressed as the Easter Bunny emerges, only to drop dead moments later. Lucy discovers the victim is VVs grandson, and soon learns that not all is as it seems at idyllic Pine Point. Always a social butterfly, VV has been skipping lunch dates with friends, and her much-needed donations to local charities have stopped with no explanation. Maybe shes going senile, or maybe her heirs are getting a little too anxious to take over her estate... 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=1703518 Shubin takes an expansive approach to the question of why we look the way we do. Starting with fossils, he turns his gaze skyward, showing us how the entirety of the universes fourteen-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies. As he moves from our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system) through the workings of our eyes, Shubin makes clear how the evolution of the cosmos has profoundly marked our own bodies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706644 As reluctant savior Arlen Bales denies he is the Deliverer, the one prophesied to unite the remnants of humanity against the army of demons that rises each night, Ahmann Jardir initiates a bitter rivalry with Arlen when he claims the title for himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729177 As a member of the thoroughbred horse-racing set in California, Conn was well-respected. But Honor was about to discover the real man beneath the controlled exterior. Too late she realized she was falling for someone who was seeking to avenge a legacy of murder and betrayal. A piece of her past was mysteriously linked to Conn, and now they were tangled together in the web of deception and desire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729250 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=1729181 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729223 From Dorothys modest Kansas farm, to the yellow-brick road, from the Wicked Witch of the West to the Emerald City, unforgettable icons abound in L. Frank Baums classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. One of the most memorable stories in American history, this tale has spawned plays, sequels, and most notably the innovative 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. With this brand new recording, follow Dorothy as she meets Munchkins, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodsman and the Cowardly Lion... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729010 Aunt Susan - an unstoppable force, and possibly the bossiest woman alive - is on the phone, and thats never good. Shes insisting that Harry and his family help her at a local event shes promised to organise: the Great Toadpool Show. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729238 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728893 You or your Alt? Only one will survive. Dualed is a thrilling high-concept YA where citizens must prove their worth by killing their Alts--twins raised by other families. The city of Kersh is a safe haven, but the price of safety is high. West Grayer has trained as a fighter, preparing for the day when her assignment arrives and she will have one month to hunt down and kill her Alt. Survival means advanced schooling, a good job, marriage--life...But then a tragic misstep shakes Wests confidence. Stricken with grief and guilt, shes no longer certain that shes the best version of herself, the version worthy of a future. If she is to have any chance of winning, she must stop running not only from her Alt, but also from love... though both have the power to destroy her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703510 While preparing for the most dreaded assignment at the prestigious Irving School, the Tragedy Paper, Duncan gets wrapped up in the tragic tale of Tim Macbeth, a former student who had a clandestine relationship with the wrong girl, and his own ill-fated romance with Daisy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729212 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=1729065 The unbelievably riveting adventure of an unlikely young explorer who emerged from the jungles of Africa with evidence of a mysterious, still mythical beast--the gorilla--only to stumble straight into the center of the biggest debate of the day: Darwins theory of evolution. In 1856 Paul Du Chaillu marched into the equatorial wilderness of West Africa determined to bag an animal that, according to legend, was nothing short of a monster. When he emerged three years later, the summation of his efforts only hinted at what hed experienced in one of the most dangerous regions on earth. Armed with an astonishing collection of zoological specimens, Du Chaillu leapt from the physical challenges of the jungle straight into the center of the biggest issues of the time--the evolution debate, racial discourse, the growth of Christian fundamentalism--and helped push each to unprecedented intensities. He experienced instant celebrity, but with that fame came whispers--about his past, his credibility, and his very identity--which would haunt the young man. Grand in scope, immediate in detail, and propulsively readable, Between Man and Beast brilliantly combines Du Chaillus personal journey with the epic tale of a world hovering on the sharp edge of transformation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729323 A big, powerful, gray feline, Joe Grey is perfectly content with his remarkable ability to understand and communicate with humans--especially now that he has company. A mysterious accident similar to the one that enabled him to speak and read has transformed his friend Dulcie as well. The trouble is, the cute tabby female not only hears human words, she believes them. Now shes convinced the man who was jailed for murdering a famous local artist and burning down her studio is innocent--simply because he says so--and shes willing to do whatever it takes to dig up the evidence that will exonerate the accused. Joe would much prefer just lazing around the house doing kitty things, but the lady cat is determined. And Joe must admit that he is curious...though everyone knows what that can lead to! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729254 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=1703532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707303 In 1945, a former combat nurse, back from the war and on her honeymoon, touches a boulder in an ancient Scottish ruin and is instantly transported to a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in 1743. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728980 In the collections marvelous title story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year marriage tested when one of them develops a fear of flying. In The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979, a dejected teenager discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left in a seagulls nest. Proving Up and The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis--stories of children left to fend for themselves in dire predicaments--find Russell veering into more sinister territory, and ultimately crossing the line into full-scale horror. In The New Veterans, a massage therapist working with a tattooed war veteran discovers she has the power to heal by manipulating the images on his body. In all, these wondrous new pieces display a young writer of superlative originality and invention coming into the full range and scale of her powers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729040 A memoir exploring the steps and missteps of the eight-decade career of the American actress best known for her portrayal of Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. 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. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729318 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=1728877 Almost bigamy and absolute murder. Agatha Raisins life is never dull. The morning of Agathas longed-for marriage to James Lacey dawns bright and clear. But her luck runs out in the church when Jimmy, the husband she had believed long dead, turns up... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703523 At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider has disappeared. The Private team is led to an abandoned Nazi slaughterhouse where all hope vanishes. As Private digs further into Chriss past, a terrifying history is revealed, and they begin to suspect that someone very dangerous and very depraved is responsible for Chriss disappearance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703499 In belle poque Paris, the Van Goethem sisters struggle for survival after the sudden death of their father, a situation that prompts young Maries ballet training and her introduction to a genius painter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729227 Winter in Alpine should be quiet, but the town is humming. At the Alpine Advocate, editor Emma Lord and her staff are on deadline with a feature about the opening of RestHaven, a new rehab and mental health facility. Front Street is buzzing with gossip about Emmas recent engagement to Sheriff Milo Dodge. And now that fool Wayne Eriks has climbed an electric pole in the middle of a storm and got himself electrocuted. Sheriff Dodge doesnt buy the idea that Waynes death is an accident... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729231 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=1729260 Seattle prosecutor Mia Quinns best friend and coworkier Colleen is shot to death while they are on the phone with each other. Already reeling from her husbands recent death, Mias life is further turned upside down. When the DA asks Mia to investigate Colleens death and its connection to another Seattle prosecutors murder four years earlier, she learns that there are many people who could have wanted Colleen dead, including some that Mia thought she could trust. Can Mia solve the mystery before its too late? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703539 This is An Inconvenient Truth for everything, a sober assessment of the facts of the matters at hand, from population and partisanship to health and wealth to religion and technology. The consequential age we are living in will be remembered as one of the great turning points in civilization. Once we turn, though, where will we be? That is the compelling question Al Gore sets out to answer by examining the drivers of global change, and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729007 When Lenny stumbles into the old Toffee Museum he finds out its terrible secret - a Toffee Monster, if frozen for over a hundred years. Not only is it dead, but its broken up into little pieces. Theres no way a monster can come back to life, is there? Thats what Lenny thinks... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729235 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=1710414 A collection of poems that celebrates the wonder, mystery, and danger of the night and describes the many things that hide in the dark. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728909 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=1729264 Mercy Thompsons life has undergone a seismic change. Becoming the mate of Adam Hauptman--the charismatic Alpha of the local werewolf pack--has made her a stepmother to his daughter Jesse, a relationship that brings moments of blissful normalcy to Mercys life. But on the edges of humanity, a minor mishap on an ordinary day can turn into so much more. After an accident in bumper-to-bumper traffic, Mercy and Jesse cant reach Adam--or anyone else in the pack for that matter... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729242 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706642 When four Americans are kidnapped, John Wells heads to East Africa to track the Somali bandits responsible--and to keep the U.S. out of an unnecessary war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728891 A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaedas 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729210 This is a dark yet often funny novel told from the point of view of a man who for the past two months has been a patient at a New York City mental ward. Having suffered a breakdown--due to his shattered marriage and an irrational fear of fading away as a human--he now finds himself caught between two worlds, neither of which is a place of comfort or fulfillment: the world of the ward, where abnormality and an odd sort of freedom reign, and the outside world, where convention and restrictive behavior rule. Finally on his way to becoming reasonably normal again, he requests and is granted a solo pass, which allows him to leave the locked ward for several hours and visit the city, with the promise that he will return to the hospital by evening. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703537 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729172 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729170 Instead of experiencing newlywed bliss, Meredith and Luke Stoltzfus are faced with the greatest challenge of their young lives. When Luke Stoltzfus loses his job at a furniture store in Lancaster Country, Pennsylvania, he is given an opportunity to learn... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729168 The mystery of the mummys curse: The Greenfield Museum is holding a special exhibit all about ancient Egypt, and the main attraction is a 4,000-year-old mummy. Ever since the mummy arrived, nothing has gone right for the museum or its workers. Has the museum been cursed? The Alden children are about to find out. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729021 Welcome to Humbug Mountain. Little did Wiley, the son of a traveling newspaperman, imagine that the search for his grandfather would lead him into the hands of those nasty villains of the West--Shagnasty John and the Fool Killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729267 In a futuristic urban wasteland, evil Overlords have decreed that no human shall live a day past their fourteenth birthday. On that Sad Birthday, the child is the object of an obscene harvest resulting in the construction of a machinelike creature whose sole purpose is to kill. The mysterious Shade--once a man, but now more like the machines he fights--recruits the few children fortunate enough to escape... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728884 A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infants body, buried sixty years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctors vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729023 Playing the cornet is the first thing that twelve-year-old Paulie Horvath has taken seriously, but his obsession with becoming a jazz musician leads him into conflict with his parents and into the tough underworld of Chicago in the 1920s. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729269 The gripping memoir of Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart recipient SEAL Lieutenant Mark L. DonaldAs A SEAL and combat medic, Mark served his country with valorous distinction for almost twenty-five years and survived some of the most dangerous combat actions imaginable... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728897 A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation--the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter the idea that art--via a classic film or a classical education--could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenicas unconventional coming of age--a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729202 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729245 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729309 A young black girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728886 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=1728988 Bernard Elliot, a poet, and Frances Reardon, a fiction writer, meet at a writers colony during the summer of 1957 and begin a friendship and correspondence. Bernard, well-born and Harvard-educated, is gregarious, reckless, and passionate; Frances, the precocious daughter of a middle-class Irish family, is circumspect, wry, and more than a little judgmental. What starts as an exploration of faith eventually becomes a romance, a development complicated by Bernards fall into manic depression and Frances struggle to decide whether she is strong enough to weather the illness with him for the long term. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703543 Spellbinding in its narration,A Teaspoon of Earth and Seais the story of an Iranian girl who, separated from her mother and twin sister during the turmoil following the Iranian Revolution, invents a rich, imaginative world in which they live.Growing up in a small fishing village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister Mahtab are fascinated by America. They keep lists of English vocabulary words and collect contraband copies ofLifemagazine and Beatles cassettes... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729159 Drawn from research performed with thousands of leaders, this audio program will teach you their top twelve characteristics. You can add these leadership traits to your arsenal to create passionate believers in your vision rather than compliant followers of your instructions. This program will make the difference as you try to create high performing teams. Propel your team to the next level of performance with a clear understanding of what makes a passionate follower. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729025 Nisha lives in the City of a Thousand Dolls, a remote estate where orphan girls in the Empire become apprentices as musicians, healers, and courtesans, her closest companions the mysterious cats that trail her shadow. When girls begin to die, Nisha begins to uncover the secrets that surround the deathers--jeopardizing not only her own future within the City but her own life.