Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=6594+6606+7260+6669 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644541 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698861 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644151 Ten-year-old Mallory, determined to find out what her brother Max does while spending time with his girlfriend, Winnie, spies an innocent kiss on the cheek then tells her babysitter and friends a more exciting tale. Includes a recipe for double chocolate chip cookies and directions for playing four games. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698696 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640092 Marketing director Mimi Burdette is not sure if it is the tea she drank, her fortune cookies predictions, or just plain magic that is filling her days and her dreams with an irresistible attraction to her next-door neighbor and firefighter Xander McKinley. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642157 In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint LOuverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644152 Plant-eating dinosaurs face meat-eating dinosaurs in a football game at the Lava Dome on Mega Bowl Sunday. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642076 Examines the life of the Italian scientist from a first-person perspective that surveys his achievements while covering his world-changing ideas about a heliocentric solar system and his imprisonment for heresy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562702 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641973 What could be worse for a ghost than not being frightening enough? Thats Spookers problem as he faces his Practical Haunting examinations at the Anne Boleyn Secondary School, under the watchful eye of the Inspectre-ate and Sir Rupert Grimsdyke (whos definitely not Spookers favourite teacher). He isnt helped by the fact that hes sent for training to a brand-new house in Buttercup Avenue - not at all the kind of dingy, creaky building in which ghosts feel most comfortable. Spooker must find a way to spook the most unspookable people imaginable . . . Or maybe ghosts dont have to be scary http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643228 When sparks fly between Katie Dane and her new bartender, Ryan, the sexy heartbreaker of Station One, she decides to mix business with pleasure as their passion burns wildly out of control. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640270 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573530 Two little peas think about what it would be like to have peas on Earth, and finally live in harmony with other people and the environment. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561728 Zenon and Nebula, of Space Station 9, need help from an Earth boy when they sneak away from a class field trip to enter Zenons Galaxy Glue in the 34th Intergalactic Science Fair in Cleveland. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644455 Elmo learns how important it is to get a good nights sleep. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641453 A. J. and his teachers are in for a wacky time when a hot new reality show starts filming at Ella Mentry School--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539966 A robot who hungers for adventure and a goat who wants to avoid trouble set out to find the missing mate to a single sock. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541656 A technology-enabled management philosophy to accelerate your organizationBusiness at the Speed of Need delivers a new real-time management philosophy and system to leaders looking for better results in todays constantly changing market. Companies that inspire and equip employees and expect them to seize opportunities and solve problems in the now will enjoy a distinct competitive advantage in a world where speed matters most. Get systematic advice on how to build an integrated and transparent management methodology, enabled by cloud computing and internal social networks. Use this comprehensive guide to create a NOW organization where everyone boldly pursues every opportunity every time.The vast majority of businesses cling to a THEN management model and philosophy designed to prevent immediate action. In this practical handbook, youll learn how to apply technology to the three essential types of work: Fundamentals (routine work that consumes ninety-five percent of all resources), Breakthroughs (initiatives that can change the game), and Problems (daily challenges and crises that occur in all organizations). Provides a wealth of real-world examples, assessments, tools, guidelines and checklists that enable readers to apply the concepts immediately Offers practical tools for building accountability and transparency into every position, thereby eliminating the loose ends that so often cause business execution to stumble Presents the groundbreaking insights of John Bernard, an expert on management theory and practice and the modern workforce, whose company, Mass Ingenuity, consults around the world and develops web-based tools to support real-time management Set your organization free from the old THEN management thinking that no longer gets the results you need. Adopt the new NOW management thinking and the state-of-the-art tools that will get your organization doing business at the speed of need--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539843 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573623 Examines the sport of baseball, offering information on the history, players, statistics, ballparks, how to organize a game, how to set up a fantasy baseball team, and more. Includes activities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644493 Things start looking up for Emily and Jackson when Emilys inheritance clears and Aunt Hilda becomes her legal guardian and offers to become Jacksons, as well, but Uncle Victor reappears, willing to do anything to steal Emilys fortune. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641536 Rookie cop Katya Danske didnt ask to become a member of Manhattans Paranormal Investigation Team--or to be partnered with a sexy-as-hell demon. Then a zombie literally drops into her lap and shes recruited to help Blaise Michaels battle an impending zombie outbreak. Blaise is as exasperating as he is arousing, but while Katyas head tells her she should keep her distance, her body wants something else entirely. Forced to work closely together, their investigation takes them into the darkest shadows of the Manhattan underworld--and makes their attraction impossible to deny. But with the zombie threat rising, their hot nights together may be their last.... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640267 An introduction to fairy folklore shares historical tales of fairy sightings from various cultures, from the West African forest fairies to Scotlands magical brownies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727004 In a slow-cooking grill book that covers everything from stove-top smokers to backyard grills, the author offers recipes for competition-style beef brisket, bacon and blue cheese coleslaw, and more than sixty other dishes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561654 Elmer the patchwork elephant distracts his animal friends from noticing Super Els torn costume until he can escort him to Aunt Zelda who mends Super Els clothes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641897 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644013 Veggieboy practices flying, lifting, and helping people to hone his superhero skills, and finally Veggiemans training as a superhero is complete, but he is surprised when children want to change his name. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542714 Todays biggest trends --the mobile web, social media, real-time-- are forcing us to rewire the way we think, act, and run our businesses. They have produced a global culture, shrinking the world one tweet at a time. These new tools have created an ever expanding Egosystem, in which we all believe our lives deserve 24-hour broadcasts. Now, everyday people are looking to understand what is going on as a result of the social and mobile web. Educators are looking to connect with their students and business leaders are seeking to steer the company toward a new generation of customers. Are we in the age of enlightenment or are we lost in translation? Soliss The End of Business As Usual explores each layer of this complex world from the government to the everyday consumer, defining this social and business upheaval-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641212 A young child from the northern United States spots a Monarch butterfly laying eggs and keeps watch as the eggs hatch and the new caterpillars munch away on leaves. Readers will follow along as the narrator observes the butterflies behavior up close, including the amazing metamorphosis of caterpillars into adult Monarch butterflies and their migration to Mexico. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641980 Adam Sharp and others of IM-8 go back to spy school to learn the newest tricks, but an enemy spy has infiltrated the top-secret classes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561792 Brown is a superstar ... Full-throttle fun.--Wendys Minding Spot A marriage made in Vegas ... Hunky cowboy Ace Riley wasnt planning on settling down, but his family had other plans for him ... The only way to save his hide, and his playboy lifestyle, is to discreetly marry his best friend, Jasmine King. Cant possibily last ... Fiesty city-girl Jasmine as just helping out her friend--that is, until their first kiss stirs up a whole mess of trouble, and suddenly discretion is thrown to the wind. One hot cowboy, one riled up woman ... And theyll be married for a year, like it or not! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639859 With the help of her friends, caterer Shelby Dixon is taking justice into her own hands--shes going after the sleazebag who swindled her parents out of their life savings. Its a little vigilante, but hey, no ones perfect. That is, except the sleazebags half brother. Millionaire businessman Trevor Banfield is perfect. Perfect looks, perfect everything. And Shelby cant help herself from, well, helping herself. But mixing a sexy fling with revenge seems to be a recipe for disaster. Now shes torn between her taste for Trevor...and her thirst for righting wrongs! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561935 Stink and his friends try to earn money to buy the latest book in the Nightmare on Zombie Street series and go to the book release party. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639786 A little fly who anticipates enjoying a big bowl of hot soup is unexpectedly joined by a sequence of interlopers who help themselves to his lunch one by one until their number reaches ten. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562006 A clever farmer wins the hand of a princess when he uses a counting activity to make the watchful king fall asleep. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643455 When Yann the centaur is stabbed through the heart by a unicorn horn, the life-threatening injury needs a magical remedy. Helen and her fabled-beast friends unite, with the help of the dragons, to find a magical token with the power to heal him. But they only have until tomorrow night. The friends split into teams: Lee, Helen and Sapphire search for King Arthurs scabbard; Catesby, Lavender and Sylvie search for hidden gems in a cliff face; Rona and Tangaroa wash a flower in seven waterfalls at sunrise. But will they complete their missions in time to save Yann? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562044 Jack and Annie explain about all the different types of dinosaurs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561958 Provides advice for business leaders on ways to meet the demands of the fast-paced digital age through new technology and business intelligence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561584 In early nineteenth century England, a spirited young woman copes with the suit of a snobbish gentleman as well as the romantic entanglements of her four sisters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640832 Skinwalker Hunter Ortiz had been forced to leave Lena Coble, the only woman hes ever wanted since his tumultuous teen years. Now hes back in time for her first heat and to claim her before other wolf shifters can take advantage of the unfamiliar desire taking hold of her. But once he saves her, will he be able to walk away from her again? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542436 This intense new novel follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he has never much thought about until his oldest friends return with a vengeance, one of them from the grave another maddeningly present. Tony Webster thought hed left all of this behind as he built a life for himself, and by now his marriage and family and career have fallen into an amicable divorce and retirement. But he is then presented with a mysterious legacy that obliges him to reconsider various things, and to revise his estimation of his own nature and his place in the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640844 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539712 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642271 In the early 1970s, trainer Tommy Hansel attempts a horse racing scam at a small, backwoods track in West Virginia, but nothing goes according to his plan when the horses refuse to cooperate and nearly everyone at the track seems to know his scheme. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542074 The secret to the best barbecue from the man who barbecues the best: Keep it simple! In the world of competitive barbecue, nobodys won more prize money, more trophies, or more adulation than Myron Mixon. And he comes by it honestly: From the time he was old enough to stoke a pit, Mixon learned the art of barbecue at his fathers side. He grew up to expand his parents sauce business, Jacks Old South, and in the process became the leader of the winningest team in competitive barbecue. Its Mixons combination of killer instinct and killer recipes that has led him to three world championships and more than 180 grand championships and made him the breakout star of TLCs BBQ Pitmasters. Now, for the first time, Mixons stepping out from behind his rig to teach you how he does it. Rule number one: People always try to overthink barbecue and make it complicated. Dont do it! Mixon will show you how you can apply his keep it simple mantra in your own backyard. Hell take you to the front lines of barbecue and teach you how to turn out cue like a seasoned pro. Youll learn to cook like Mixon does when hes on the road competing and when hes at home, with great tips on the basics, from choosing the right wood to getting the best smoker or grill the formulas for the marinades, rubs, injections, and sauces youll need the perfect ways to cook up hog, ribs, brisket, and chicken, including Mixons famous Cupcake Chicken Mixon shares more than 75 of his award-winning recipes--including one for the most sinful burger youll ever eat--and advice that will end any anxiety over cooking times and temps and change your backyard barbecues forever. He also fills you in on how he rose to the top of the competitive barbecue universe and his secrets for succulent success. Complete with mouth-watering photos, Smokin with Myron Mixon will fire you up for a tasty time-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540902 Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644183 A product of genetic manipulation, Melanie Milan shares a body with her malevolent sister, Phoebe. A sleek, blond predator with a heart of pure darkness, Phoebe puts their body through the wicked underbelly of sex for thrills--when shes not igniting her pyrokinetic skills for an evil organization bent on taking over the world. Melanie rarely gets out to play, much less fall in love, but that changes when rival ACRO agent Stryker Wills shows up, with a mission to terminate the woman who torched his partner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1543133 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562151 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186474 In this tough, tender memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith transports readers to what seemed like halcyon days for art and artists in New York as she shares tales of the denizens of Maxs Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribners, Brentanos and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplthorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147880 Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first immortal human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro fertilization, cloning, and gene mapping; and have been bought and sold by the billions. Yet Henrietta Lacks is buried in an unmarked grave. Her family did not learn of her immortality until more than twenty years after her death, when scientists began using her husband and children in research without informed consent. The story of the Lacks family is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bioethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268674 Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1201921 La mujer Pajarita comienza una estirpe indmita e independiente, tres generaciones de mujeres que lucharn por crearse una vida en su querida Uruguay, una patria que nutre sus almas a la vez que pone a prueba sus espritus. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561586 Set in the staunchly Puritan world of 1600s Boston Hester Prynne has committed adultery and given birth to an illegitimate daughter, Pearl, while her elder husband is away. Refusing to reveal Pearls father Hester is punished and scorned by the community and forced to wear a red letter A. Over seven years Hester, Pearls father, and Hesters estranged husband Roger Chillingworth, suffer the consequences of betrayal, guilt revenge, and humiliation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1428456 When Macy OJames returns home to Sugarville, Washington, to help out her family, she vows to hold her head high despite the gossip about her scandalous life, especially when sparks fly between her and fire chief Gabriel Donovan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561569 Looking for a new pet, Miranda is instinctively drawn to Abyssinian kitten Tadhg. Hes inquisitive, intelligent and the perfect companion--and hes also a shifter, of regal blood. When Miranda wakes to find him lying in bed beside her in his human form, its the start of a passionate love affair. But Mirandas ex, Finn, is also a shifter, and Tadhgs sworn enemy. Tadhg knows Finn is prepared to destroy both him and Miranda in his pursuit of power. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1202147 Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561536 After a year in medical school, Dakota Holden returned home to take care of the family business full time and help his father cope with multiple sclerosis. Devoted to his family, Dakota allows himself just one week of vacation a year, which he spends in some exotic location having all the fun he can stand. On his last vacation, a cruise, Dakota struck up a friendship with Phillip Reardon, and it fills an important role in Dakotas life. So when Phillip decides to take Dakota up on his invitation to visit the ranch, Dakota is happy to see him and meet his veterinarian friend, Wally Schumacher. Despite Wallys inclination to help the wolves Dakotas men shoot to protect the cattle, he and Dakota find they have a lot in common, including a fierce attraction. But theyll have to decide if the Wyoming range is big enough for Dakotas cattle, Wallys wolves, and their love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212804 Financial coach, David Bach points out that in difficult times there is no good or bad debt, only debt! He believes the best investment you can make today is to pay down your debt, faster and smarter than you have ever attempted before. He unveils the Debt Wise program that empowers you to pare down your debt automatically.--[book cover] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194435 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1146564 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1428461 On his deathbed, surrounded by his family, George Washington Crosbys thoughts drift back to his childhood and the father who abandoned him when he was twelve. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1187077 A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. A 38-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCanns allegory comes alive in the voices of the citys people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the artistic crime of the century--a mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539024 After a cyclone transports her to the land of Oz, Dorothy must seek out the great wizard in order to return to Kansas. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186346 Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are shocked to discover a bottle of a rare wine taken from Napoleons lost cellar. However, someone else is also searching for this treasure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185815 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1201885 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1153951 The Count of Monte Cristo is the tense and exciting story of Edmond Dantes, a man on the threshold of a bright career and a happy marriage, who is imprisoned in the island fortress of the Chateau dIf on a false political charge. After staging a dramatic escape, he finds the fabulous treasure of Monte Cristo which makes him wealthy. He then sets upon the course of revenge against his old enemies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541057 Paranormal investigators Amanda LaGrange and Jacob Caine, from PARA, the Paranormal Assessment and Recovery Agency, are brought together to investigate psychic phenomena in a haunted property. They find themselves unusually drawn to each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1195193 Presents Shakespeares tragic tale of star-crossed lovers and feuding families along with a retelling of the play from Juliets perspective. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1269007 Here is the story of an intransigent young architect, Howard Roark, of his violent battle against a mindless status quo, and of his explosive love affair with a beautiful woman who worships him yet struggles to defeat him. In order to build his kind of buildings according to his own standards, Roark must fight against every variant of human corruption. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147837 Huckleberry Finn, an abused outcast, rafts with Jim, a runaway slave, down the Mississippi River, where they have a variety of experiences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249257 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1388422 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=810434 Analyzes the underlying causes of childrens negative attitudes and provides strategies to help parents and their children manage negative thoughts, build optimism, and establish emotional resilience. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028359 Salem, Massachusetts, 1692: The witch-hunts begin. Neighbors are turning on one another. A smallpox epidemic has broken out. People are dying. One man is responsible, a warlock of great power--The Necromancer--and he has just seduced one of Salems purest women into a perdition that will haunt her the rest of her life. Using actual historical events as the backdrop for the fictional story of Reverend Ambrose Blayne and Susanna Harrington, it is a novel of passion, horror, love, and the cruelty which man is capable of. It is a deeply disturbing, often graphic depiction of those brutal and uncertain times. The series of events culminates in the warlocks summoning of a Lovecraftian demon which threatens to unknit the fabric of the world and an ending that will chill the readers blood. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=730955 When Andres Segovia and his three siblings lose their parents in an auto accident, the oldest brother sneaks them away from their El Paso foster family to Juarez to raise them himself. But poverty leads to drugs, prostitution, and sexual abuse, and the family becomes unglued. Andres finally makes his way back to El Paso, where he meets Grace Delgado, a social worker to whom he goes for court-mandated counseling after his first arrest. Grace is a widow and cancer patient, and her empathy for Andres leads her to examine her shaky relationship with her own son, as well as her inability to relate to his wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=750744 The story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot. Heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which is based on the authors own experiences, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the characters art, chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he was destined to live. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=763822 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249312 Publisher description: Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuk-the curse that has haunted the Oscars family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar, still waiting for his first kiss, is just its most recent victim. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=759549 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=759503 The narrators dying fiance sends him to an abandoned amusement park where, with his host, Henry, he begins a journey of self-discovery filled with allegorical amusement park rides and wise carnies. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=718711 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=759553 In a series of letters to his two children, Paola and Nicols, author and television personality Jorge Ramos discusses love, death, religion, sex, family, the immigrant experience, success, and other topics. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1244977 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=759550 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=763705 Ornithologist and bird enthusiast Ken Dial travels to locations in the United States and Costa Rica to observe a variety of bird species. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=731003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=668488 All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwells classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Joness Manor Farm into Animal Farm, a wholly democratic society built on the credo that all animals are created equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is re-established with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: but some animals are more equal than others. War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=760149 The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide. The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits. A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth. The Director of Companies was our captain and our host. We four affectionately watched his back as he stood in the bows looking to seaward. On the whole river there was nothing that looked half so nautical. He resembled a pilot, which to a seaman is trustworthiness personified. It was difficult to realize his work was not out there in the luminous estuary, but behind him, within the brooding gloom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=705026 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=717769 A poverty-striken young man, seeing his family making sacrifices for him, is faced with an opportunity to solve his financial problems with one simple but horrifying act - the murder of a pawnbroker. She is, he feels, just a parasite on society. But does the end justify the means? Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov makes his decision and then has to live with it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=705041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1388623 March leaves behind his family to aid the Union cause in the Civil War, but his experiences will utterly change his marriage and challenge his most ardently held beliefs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=705024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1380382 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639519 From the Publisher: Ed McMahon is the only person who was with Johnny Carson, even before The Tonight Show, when they both first appeared on Who Do You Trust. Now, with Johnnys blessing before he died, McMahon can finally share all the stories that only he knows. From the sofa at Johnnys right to backstage to their personal relationship-McMahon will provide a real view of the man who was so careful to only show one side of himself to the public. Brilliant in front of the camera, but shy in person, Carson seldom gave interviews. Only McMahon can tell the stories and provide the insights into the personality that made Johnny Carson more of a friend we invited into our home than a television star. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=760141 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185857