Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&N=8031+7104 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694698 Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he has made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he is called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C. is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all out frenzy. Alexs investigations are going nowhere, and he is too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him and will stop at nothing until he is dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687797 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 chilling case - and draw out the disturbing truth. Backtracking six decades into the past stirs up tales of a beautiful nurse with a mystery lover, a handsome, wealthy doctor who seems too good to be true, and a hospital with a notorious reputation - all of them long gone, along with any records of a newborn, and destined for anonymity. But the specter of fame rears its head when the case unexpectedly twists in the direction of the highest echelons of celebrity privilege. Entering this sheltered world, Alex little imagines the macabre layer just below the surface - a decadent quagmire of unholy rituals and grisly sacrifice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735129 A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsays homicide department to report a murder that hasnt yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says hes ready to tell where the bodies are buried, but does he have a much more sinister plan in mind? Lindsay doesnt have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when she is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697903 Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722574 Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly games they play. With no checks on their ambition, the wealthy will go to any ends to increase their power, and only Stone stands in the way of their dark schemes. Two unexpected invitations may be the first clues in the intricate puzzle Stone must unravel to learn the truth, a puzzle that will lead him deep into the rarefied world of European ultrawealth and privilege, where billionaires rub elbows with spooks, insider knowledge is traded at a high premium, and murder is never too high a price to pay for a desired end. It soon becomes clear that beneath the bright lights of Europe lurks a shadowy underworld, and its only rule is deadly ambition. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678855 Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins crimes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693987 A collection of stories which includes Home, a wryly whimsical account of a soldiers return from war; Victory lap, a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682630 Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687798 A luxurious yacht in the Sea of Cortez, a birthday cruise for one of the worlds most beautiful women, and an invitation no one can refuse. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743326 While investigating a mobsters mysterious death, police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross come into contact with a strange artifact and accidentally develop the Sight. Suddenly they can see the true evil haunting Londons streets. Now the four officers take on the otherworldly creatures secretly prowling London. Football lore and the tragic history of a Tudor queen become entwined in their pursuit of an age-old witch with a penchant for child sacrifice. But when Londons monsters become aware of their meddling, the officers must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to clean up their city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735132 Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether its across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing--and terrifying--playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manxs unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. Hes on the road again and hes picked up a new passenger: Vics own son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677512 After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christs own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681208 Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Max Kent is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partners killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682631 In this poignant story of two parallel destinies, a young New York lawyer and his wife link their destinies forever in a follow-your-dream move to rural Wyoming. Thirty-eight years later a Manhattan publisher and a young Amish woman become irresistibly drawn together through her writing. Somehow these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways, as lovers are lost, and find each other again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738826 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Ministers personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be--or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher (Kit) Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kits beautiful daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary to the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, how can he keep silent? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685239 When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far the are willing to go. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677520 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=1715980 Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698377 The stunning sequel to The Coldest Winter Ever. Sharp-tongued, quick-witted Porsche worships her sister Winter. Cut from the same cloth as her father, Ricky Santiaga, Porsche is also a natural-born hustler. Passionate and loyal to the extreme, she refuses to accept her new life in group homes, foster care, and juvenile detention after her family is torn apart. Unselfish, she pushes to get back everything that ever belonged to her wealthy, loving family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696006 Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743734 Presents a multigenerational saga detailing the history of Paris, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734524 Catalyzed by a nephews thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677517 Returning to the Oregon small town where fellow members of a research team were killed two years earlier, psychic counselor Gwen Frazier, convinced that her mentors untimely death is related, searches for answers at the side of psychic investigator Judson Coppersmith, who is haunted by urgent dreams and a primal attraction to Gwen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681209 The Berlin office of the worlds most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733084 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=1715458 After being let go from her competitive, high-pressure Seattle law firm, Libby Morgan reaches out to old friends and spends her afternoons at A Good Yarn, the local knitting store, where she forms close bonds with three women and finds time for romance with a charming and handsome doctor who seems to be her perfect match. But just as everything is coming together, Libby must make a choice that could forever change the life she holds so dear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715451 When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness - - a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722576 In this novel the author exposes a dark secret from a familys past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions and questions. Was the explosion deliberately set? What was Kate, tall, gorgeous, blond, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and sister of a rising fashion designer, doing in the museum when it burst into flames? Why was Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, with her at that time of night? What if someone is not who he claims to be? Now Gus is dead, and Kate lies in the hospital badly injured and in a coma, so neither can tell what drew them there, or what the tragedy may have to do with the hunt for a young woman missing for many years, nor can they warn that somebody may be covering his tracks, willing to kill to save himself. Step by step, the author once again presents the reader with a perplexing mystery, a puzzling question of identity, and a fascinating cast of characters, one of whom may just be a ruthless killer http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685238 Contacted to investigate the gruesome murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is simultaneously drawn into another case that could be related to hers and must stop a dangerous killer from striking again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711623 Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years havent come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todds obituary, he cant keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todds wife hes hoping for . . . but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, shes been married to Todd for more than a decade, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life--a time he has never gotten over--is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either cant be found or dont remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jakes search for the woman who broke his heart, and who lied to him. soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715966 The werewolf pack and Mercy Thompsons mate Adam have been abducted. Outclassed and on her own, Mercy may be forced to seek assistance from any ally she can get, no matter how unlikely. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732048 Bestselling author Ann B. Ross cooks up a batch of fun in this latest novel in her popular series With a crisp bite in the air, Miss Julia is enjoying a well-earned respite by her new fireplace. But autumn leaves arent the only things falling: James, Hazel Maries housekeeper, has had a nasty tumble down some stairs. How can Hazel Marie feed and take care of him--not to mention a husband and two babies--when she barely knows how to boil water? Miss Julia jumps in to help by convincing the ladies of Abbotsville to put on their aprons and give cooking lessons. With success so close she can taste it, Miss Julia isnt thrilled when an unexpected visitor shows up. Brother Vern Puckett, Hazel Maries no-good uncle, started life on the wrong foot and stayed there. What could he possibly want from his frazzled niece this time? With a delightful helping of madcap antics, Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble is a perfect next course in this charming series. --Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734597 A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her fathers opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647018 Anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey and his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, search for the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574993 After his parents are arrested and imprisoned for robbing a bank, fifteen-year-old Dell Parsons is taken in by Arthur Remlinger who, unbeknownst to Dell, is hiding a dark and violent nature that interferes with Dells quest to find grace and peace on the prairie of Saskatchewan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649493 A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miamis Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestors life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the hoods, de-skilled conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, spectators at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that nights orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an Active Adult condo, and a nest of shady Russians. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647019 Entreated by her mother to help find a missing woman who has escaped from a mental hospital, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked to discover the womans true identity and enlists the help of rogue FBI profiler Kendra Michaels to survive a plot by a killer who is targeting her family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1526709 In this novel the author explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances in their house, on the roadway, in the markets. Only Dorothys unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, and they have a relatively happy, unremarkable marriage. But when a tree crashes into their house and Dorothy is killed, Aaron feels as though he has been erased forever. Only Dorothys unexpected appearances from the dead help him to live in the moment and to find some peace. Gradually he discovers, as he works in the familys vanity publishing business, turning out titles that presume to guide beginners through the trials of life, that maybe for this beginner there is a way of saying goodbye. This book is a subtle exploration of loss and recovery, pierced throughout with the authors humor, wisdom, and always penetrating look at human foibles. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1523431 When award-winning film maker Justine Nolan returns to her beautiful childhood home, she is intrigued by an envelope she finds in her absent mothers post. But the letter inside contains a shocking revelation. If genuine it will change everything she believes about her familys recent history, her mother and her adored grandmother, Gabriele. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649494 Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the paintings wealthy owner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647021 In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, and her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time--against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1673171 Britain, 1972. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year as a student at Cambridge. Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War, Serena, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government. This secret mission brings her into the literary world of writer Tom Haley. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556269 Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late-nineteenth-century Paris. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649495 Taking an apprentice angel to Times Square to show him the delights and opportunities of the city, angels Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy help Will to introduce a lonely chef and food critic who after a year-long separation are reunited during the holiday season. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1487452 Not since Jack the Ripper terrorized the London slums has there been such a gruesome crime scene. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadnt a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1578984 Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477332 From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harms way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family. An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war on a single American family, HOME FRONT is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honor, loss, forgiveness, and the elusive nature of love-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1645553 In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544111 Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a skin man, Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beasts most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, The Wind through the Keyhole. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474184 When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, If I have to pull my gun Ill shoot to kill. Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows theres big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out all the bad guys Raylan is after are girls this time: the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand apiece. Carol Conlan, the mine company executive who comes to Harlan County to sell mountaintop removal, shoots a miner who wastes her time, then meets the miners widow in a scene you wont forget. The third girls only offense is missing a court date. Jackie Nevada plays high-stakes poker for a living and is last seen in the shower with Raylan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453983 In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when hes sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the mans uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trios digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborahs investigation of the prime suspect, Bernards prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict, leads her to Nicholas wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victims bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough familys veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1533816 This story, based on the Cubs and Mets 1973 season follows the divergent paths of Joe Castle, a rookie hitter for the Chicago Cubs and Warren Tracey, a hard-throwing Mets pitcher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624254 Stone Barrington is in Bel-Air, overseeing the grand opening of the ultra-luxe hotel, The Arrington, built on the grounds of the mansion belonging to his late wife, Arrington Carter. The star-studded gala will be attended by socialites, royalty, and billionaires from overseas. and according to phone conversations intercepted by the NSA, it may also have attracted the attention of international terrorists. To ensure the safety of his guests--and the city of Los Angeles--Stone may have to call in a few favors from his friends at the CIA. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559509 A dedicated female archaeologist and a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer must recover priceless South American artifacts that could bring deadly chaos into the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658229 Its Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577814 A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615813 After he and his team refurbish Americas aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431774 Stone Barrington, his former NYPD partner Dino Bachetti and CIA agent Holly Barker investigate a possible serial killer with ties to the White House-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442871 A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Ministers private army are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new recruit, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon. She has her own deep contacts, but the more she investigates, the more she discovers herself in a very dark place indeed. For the assassination plan is only the beginning. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1664884 As China plans to invade Taiwan, and launches a cyber attack on the U.S., President Jack Ryan, his son, and the team at the Campus have to act fast if they are going to stop the increasingly rogue nation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538102 When CIA operative Catherine Lings old friend Hu Chang creates something so deadly, and completely untraceable, the chase is on to be the first to get it. With rogue operative John Gallo also on the hunt, Catherine finds herself pitted against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive the quest to protect those she cares about. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482154 Continues the story of the ancient Forerunners engineering race, who are worshiped as gods by the Covenant while their mysterious connection to humanity slowly unfolds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1652968 Having missed much of her childrens lives while she built a home-furnishings empire, Olivia Grayson arranges a family vacation in the Mediterranean in the hopes of rekindling ties only to confront painful interpersonal dynamics and unexpected revelations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622359 NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579707 Lucy Jorik, the daughter of the former president of the U.S., jilts her soon-to-be husband at the altar and embarks on the adventure she has been waiting for. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1523428 Tallie Jones is happy with life. Shes at the top of her career as a hugely successful, renowned movie director, shes in a relationship with a handsome producer and her personal assistant is also her devoted best friend. But Tallies perfect life comes crumbling down around her when she discovers that her boyfriends been unfaithful and, worse yet, someones been stealing from her for years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1481917 Private, the worlds most renowned investigation firm, has been commissioned to provide security for the 2012 Olympic games in London. Its agents are the smartest, fastest, and most technologically advanced in the world, and 400 of them have been transferred to London to protect over 10,000 competitors who represent more than 200 countries. The opening ceremony is still hours away when Private investigator and single father of twins, Nigel Steele, is called to the scene of a ruthless murder. A high-ranking member of the games organizing committee and his mistress have been killed. Its clear that it wasnt a crime of passion, but one of precise calculation and execution. Newspaper reporter Karen Pope receives a letter from a person who calls himself Cronus claiming responsibility for the murders. He also proclaims that he will restore the Olympics to their ancient glory and will destroy all who have corrupted the games with lies, cheating, and greed. Karen immediately hires Private to examine the letter, and she and Nigel uncover a criminal genius who wont stop until hes ended the games for good. Americas #1 storyteller (Forbes) delivers an exhilarating, action-packed thriller that brings the splendor and emotion of the Olympics to a wildly powerful climax-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1526097 PI Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, investigate an L.A.-based business scam that extends up and down the coast of California. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615765 Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are intrigued when an archaeologist friend requests their help excavating a top secret historical site. What they find will set them on a hunt for a prize greater than they could ever imagine. The clues point to the hidden tomb of Attila the Hun, the High King who was reportedly buried with a vast fortune of gold and jewels and plunder . . . a bounty that has never been found. As they follow the trail through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia, and Kazakhstan--a trail that they discover leads them not to one tomb, but five--the Fargos will find themselves pitted against a thieving group of amateur treasure hunters, a cunning Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian who claims direct descent from Attila himself . . . and will stop at nothing to claim the tombs riches as his own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615795 As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547250 Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise teen-age girl, who believes her mothers murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for. When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mothers murder, hes not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left to care for her younger siblings and an alcoholic grandmother in a dilapidated apartment in South Boston. But her need for closure and her determination to make things right hit Spenser where he lives, they are the very characteristics he abides by. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1566122 When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, its up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, shes faced with something shes never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where theres one martyr, there will be more... But even vampires have monsters that theyre afraid of. And Anita is one of them..-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1632777 Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattans wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615801 The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of Fez, and Holmes badly wants the wisdom and courage of his wife, whom hes learned, to his horror, has gone missing. As Holmes searches for her, and Russell, suffering a temporary memory loss, searches for herself, each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before its too late for them, for Africa, and for the peace of Europe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551787 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474185 In this novel, the latest in the authors series of novels featuring Anna Pigeon, the author gathers together the many strings of Annas past and finally reveals the story that her many fans have been long asking for. In 1995 and 35 years old, fresh off the bus from New York City and nursing a broken heart, Anna Pigeon takes a decidedly unglamorous job as a seasonal employee of the Glen Canyon National Recreational Area. On her day off, Anna goes hiking into the park never to return. Her co-workers think shes simply moved on; her cabin is cleaned out and her things gone. But Anna herself wakes up, trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, without supplies and no clear memory of how she found herself in this situation. As she slowly pieces together her memory, it soon becomes clear that some one has trapped her there, in an inescapable prison, and no one knows that she is even missing. Plunged into a landscape and a plot she is unfit and untrained to handle, Anna Pigeon must muster the courage, determination and will to live that she didnt even know she still possessed to survive, outwit and triumph. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522258 Michelle Mac Mackenzie, a super-human Greater-Than with unique abilities, teams up with a former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin to stop the spread of a highly addictive drug called Destiny, which gives anyone the same abilities as a Greater-Than. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575487 Dazzling her patrons with scrumptious cupcakes at her Salem, Massachusetts, bakery, Elizabeth Tucker continues to fall for the irresistible Diesel, who protects her from a villain who is seeking mystical stones tied to the seven deadly sins. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453984 A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientists body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538482 Tohrment, a Black Dagger Brother, is given a second chance at love and life after losing everything. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590270 Kateria Avani is driven by a lifetime of perplexing dreams to Las Vegas, where she meets a compellingly familiar warrior who has returned from the dead to prevent the fulfillment of a prophecy that could end the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453986 Within the pages of very rare books some centuries old lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwells unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes-and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared on the black market. Convinced that she needs an investigator who can also play bodyguard, she hires Sam Coppersmith, a specialist in paranormal crystals and amber-hot rocks. Passion flares immediately between them, but neither entirely trusts the other. When it comes to dealing with a killer who has paranormal abilities, and a blackmailer who will stop at nothing to obtain an ancient alchemical code, no one is safe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624255 Basing her bestselling novel on the night her older sister Susan was murdered on a stormy Memorial Day eighteen years earlier, Bellamy Lyston Price, writing under a pseudonym, becomes the target of an unnamed assailant who either wants the truth about Susans murder to remain unknown or, even more threatening, is determined to get vengeance for a man wrongfully accused and punished. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658230 When a CIA black ops master with ties to disreputable figures in Afghanistan goes missing, Mitch Rapp is ordered to track down the missing man at all costs and finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous plot involving the interests of numerous countries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527004 Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britains Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure Austrian royal, or are the rumors designed to distract Pitt from an even more devastating plot? He must resolve this riddle at once, before the damage is done. Meanwhile, in a London sickroom, an old Italian woman--at the end of a romantic career as a revolutionary spy--is terrified that as she sinks into dementia, she may divulge secrets that can kill. And a beautiful young Croatian woman, married to a British power broker, hoards her own mysteries. Apparently all roads lead to the Continent, and Pitt suspects that between them these two fascinating women could tell him things he desperately needs to know. But as the hours tick by, it seems that the only woman Pitt can count on is his clever wife, Charlotte. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614974 Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656207 Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navys latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the worlds supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547300 When telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates the body of a woman discovered in vampire Eric Northmans yard, she has no idea the murderer is an enemy out to get her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677533 Anthony Spencer is egotistical, proud of being a self-made business success at the peak of his game, even though the cost of winning was painfully high. A cerebral hemorrhage leaves Tony comatose in a hospital ICU. He awakens to find himself in a surreal world, a living landscape that mirrors dimensions of his earthly life, from the beautiful to the corrupt. It is here that he has vivid interactions with others he assumes are projections of his own subconscious, but whose directions he follows nonetheless with the possibility that they might lead to authenticity and perhaps, redemption. The adventure draws Tony into deep relational entanglements where he is able to see through the literal eyes and experiences of others, but is blind to the consequences of hiding his personal agenda and loss that emerge to war against the processes of healing and trust. Will this unexpected coalescing of events cause Tony to examine his life and realize he built a house of cards on the poisoned grounds of a broken heart? Will he also have the courage to make a critical choice that can undo a major injustice he set in motion before falling into a coma?-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1543950 Moving to a country cottage where she seeks refuge in a paranormally charged garden, Evangeline Ames is rescued from a would-be assassin by the gardens owner, Lucas Sebastian, who taps Evangelines detective skills to solve a buried-treasure mystery and stop a common enemy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622275 When a downtown bar erupts in sudden violence that leaves eighty people dead, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the bars patrons were exposed to a lethal cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that a sinister killer administered through an airborne method. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556879 Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. Theres something about the scene that pokes at Lucass cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution hes seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesnt seem to fit. Until it does. And where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1481935 What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Merriman years before as a counselor after Johns medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Lou is in shock like everyone else, but mostly hes incredulous. And when he begins to look into it further, the terrifying evidence he finds takes him down a path to an unspeakable conspiracy that seems to lead directly to the White House and those in the highest positions of power-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478908 A 28-year-old police dispatcher seeks out Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren Grant at a crime scene and asks the homicide detective to investigate her expected murder. Meanwhile, Warren is looking into the execution-style slayings of two pedophiles with the assistance of a female rookie sex crime detective. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590255 Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission in Germany while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442946 Kate Appleton wants to turn her parents summer house, the Nutshell, into a bed and breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and if Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But there are complications. Kate hates beer, no one likes her, and shes falling for her boss. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576473 After a fatal car crash during a summer celebration on Nantucket island, four teenagers question if the roots of the accident lie further in the past than they seem; is true healing possible, in even these most devastating circumstance; and, can true friendship ever really die? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1581416 When last seen in The Glass Rainbow, the previous book in the Dave Robicheaux series, Robicheaux was recovering in a New Orleans hospital from a near-fatal bullet wound. Immobilized and heavily medicated by morphine, he was visited there by a beautiful Creole woman named Tee Jolie Melton. After shes gone, his fond, hazy remembrances of her are rekindled by one song, Creole Belle on the iPod that she left behind. Now obsessed by the song and thoughts of her, he goes in search of her. He finds instead the frozen corpse of her sister floating at sea. As he grapples with that mystery, an oil rig explodes on the Gulf threatening the cherished environs of the bayous. Robicheaux then swings into action, leading the charge against the destruction of both the land and the people he has sworn to protect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622745 A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615712 After being punished for trying to measure Gods greatest gift, Father Time returns to Earth along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time.