Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6642&N=3+7432 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=1743558 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711927 The people who orbit around actor Renn Ivins long to experience the glow of his flame. His children are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them. This novel offers a clear-eyed story of the fallout of fame and fortune on family members and others who can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743559 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703960 In the wake of a series of baffling murders committed by children, anthropologist Hesketh Lock investigates a scandal in the Taiwan timber industry and wonders at his stepsons odd behavior before making a shocking connection upon the death of his Taiwan contact. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738592 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738905 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684677 For two years, Diamond and Black have been living comfortably on their high-class cul-de-sac with their daughter, ready to leave the drug business behind them. However, Johnny can feel nothing but rage for the woman he once loved, and on his death bed he sets a plan in motion to tear Diamonds world apart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713008 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715300 A portrait of 1970s Botswana is told through the intertwined stories of three people, including a medical student who is forced to flee apartheid South Africa after witnessing a murder and an American Ph.D. student who abandons her studies to follow her husband to Africa. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695480 Sixteen linked stories explore the marginalized humanity in communities, hospitals, and nursing homes in San Francisco, including an elderly Chinese immigrant who is forced to make a painful sacrifice and a young veteran whose injuries symbolize the rest of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715286 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729372 Former professional athlete Sonya Richardson agrees to appear on a reality dating program to show America what a real black woman is like, but she is thrown off her game by former pastor John Bond, the shows designated white guy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738906 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743550 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705111 Based on twelve years of research, thought leader Dr. Brene Brown argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagemen,, and meaningful connection. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743526 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715972 An 80 year-old, third-generation beekeeper who relates better to the constant companions in his hives than most people must come to terms with the loss of his long-time friend, Claire, who was killed during a burglary gone awry. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742786 Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. So does Larry. Both men go off to war, and Ed wins the highest military honor for his bravery. But sometimes heroes dont make the best husbands. [This novel] follows Kitty, Ed, and Larry from wartime England and the brutally tragic Dieppe raid to Nazi-occupied France, India after the war, and Jamaica before independence. Against this ever-changing backdrop--as they witness history being made and participate in the smaller dramas of romance, friendship, and parenthood--these three friends make choices that will determine the challenges and triumphs of their lives--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716408 Newlyweds Holly and Tom have just moved into an old manor house in the picturesque English countryside. When Holly discovers a moondial in the overgrown garden little does she suspect that it will change her life forever. The moondial lets Holly see into the future -- a future which holds Tom cradling their baby daughter, Libby, and mourning Hollys death in childbirth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693226 When Cryptessa Muldoon, a Hollywood has-been who spends her days making enemies with everyone on the street, is found murdered on Halloween night, Jaine Austen, to prove her own innocence, must unmask a killer among a neighborhood filled with suspects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731317 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716080 Few know the tragedy and heartbreak that shaped The Loner. When the once happily married businessmans wife was murdered, Conrad Browning, son of legendary gunfighter Frank Morgan, set off on a new course, complete with a new name: Kid Morgan. Bounty hunters are stalking the man known as Kid Morgan, which is how he learns theres a price on his head. A victim of mistaken identity, he had broken out of Hell Gate Prison in New Mexico to clear his name. When the right man had been brought to justice, The Kid was assured there would be no charges leveled against him, so this poster offering a 10,000 dollar reward, Dead or Alive, is a potentially deadly mistake. Riding into the little mining town of Las Vegas, The Kid plans to lie low while his San Francisco lawyer clears up the error. But theres a bank robbery going down, and The Kid cant ignore it. When he steps in to help the marshal, he becomes the town hero, until hes recognized and he finds himself behind bars again. Someone is blocking all attempts to clear The Kids name, and its uncertain that hell live long enough to ever be free again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731291 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697960 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731321 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714079 Englishwoman Liese Campbell visits the Melbourne country mansion of heir Alexander Colquhoun, with whom she shares a no-strings-attached affair until discovering deeper, more erotic aspects of his character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1692955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712059 Sheriff Boone Taylor has his job, friends, a run-down but decent ranch, two faithful dogs and a good horse. He doesnt want romance. The widowed Montanan has loved and lost enough for a lifetime. But when a city woman buys the spread next door, Boones peace and quiet is in serious jeopardy. With a marriage and a career painfully behind her, Tara Kendall is determined to start over in Parable. Re-inventing herself and living a girlhood dream is worth the hard work. Sure, she might need help from her handsome, wary neighbor once in awhile, but shes overjoyed to be a rancher in her own right! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737952 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713003 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696101 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731282 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735992 The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world--artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandros family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow. - from cover p. [2] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684647 In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitlers regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employers son Isaac, confronts the Gestapos wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743521 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734652 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1720684 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696137 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712103 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696113 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743506 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705530 We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In Thief, a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In We Live in Water, a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In Anything Helps, a homeless man has to go to cardboard to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In Virgo, a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. And the collections final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walters hometown into a moving contemplation of our times--Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694678 Motherlunge is an eloquent and irreverent novel about first sex, true love, chronic sibling rivalry; its about the deepest fear of young (and not-so-young) adulthood: the fear of inheriting a disappointing live. Its motherly advice, too--featuring wigs, dogs, road trips, and medicine--a guide to the essential experiences of being female, born unto a librarian, named for the goddess of sight, waiting for the future to arrive. With sly wit and surprising joy, Motherlunge considers the flaws in the family line and celebrates the promise that staggers alongside--Front flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737959 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713020 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698041 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716085 After her husbands death, Susan Lindley moves into her late great-uncles Pasadena mansion and restores his taxidermy collection while being joined in the residence by an equally strange human menagerie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704712 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713018 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733295 Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father. His days of investigating the crimes of Victorian London are now years behind him. He plans a trip to his uncles estate, Everley, in the expectation of a few calm weeks to write an important speech. When he arrives in the quiet village of Plumley, however, what greets him is a series of strange vandalisms upon the local shops: broken windows, minor thefts, threatening scrawls. Only when a far more serious crime is committed does he begin to understand the great stakes of those events, and the complex and sinister mind that is wreaking fear and suspicion in Plumley. Now, with his protg, John Dallington, at his side, the race is on for Lenox to find the culprit before he strikes again. And this time his victim may be someone that Lenox loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731304 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713995 An exploration of the shifting relationships among parents and children, and between the surface trappings that symbolize success and the real values that give meaning to lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713005 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698367 After eighteen years of marriage, Kathy Walker has settled into a pattern of comfortable routines--ferrying her two teenagers between soccer practice and piano lessons, running a film production business with her husband, Robert, and taking care of the beautiful Boston home they share. Then one day, Kathy discovers a suspicious number on her husbands phone. Six years before, Kathy accused Robert of infidelity--a charge he vehemently denied--and almost destroyed their marriage in the process. Now Kathy must decide whether to follow her suspicions at the risk of losing everything, or trust the man with whom shes entwined her past, present, and future. As she grapples with that choice, she is confronted with surprising truths not just about her relationship, but about her friends, family, and her own motivations.--from cover, p. [4] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743564 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713035 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713169 It is 1832 in South Africa, the year before slavery is abolished and the slaves are emancipated. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. When Francoiss father orders him to marry a woman from a prominent Cape Town family, Francois reneges on his promise to give Philida her freedom, threatening instead to sell her to new owners in the harsh country up north. Here is the remarkable story-based on individuals connected to the authors family-of a fiercely independent woman who will settle for nothing and for no one. Unwilling to accept the future that lies ahead of her, Philida continues to test the limits and lodges a complaint against the Brink family. Then she sets off on a journey-from the southernmost reaches of the Cape, across a great wilderness, to the far north of the country-in order to reclaim her soul.--Container. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715746 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705069 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713007 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743577 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693088 For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart. Edie is obsessed with food - and if she doesnt stop, she wont have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, its up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going family man, just wants to smooth things over. And his wife Rachelle, a whippet-thin perfectionist, is intent on saving her mother-in-laws life. Through it all, they wonder: do Edies devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716090 A tenacious reporter turns to a handsome private detective to help her solve a mysterious disappearance the police say never happened--but someone will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734868 Possessing no memories of his life before entering an orphanage, young Duncan recites fantastical stories about his origins and is astonished when his singer mother claims him into an adult world of hazy bars and a salty Vietnam veteran lover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732017 Kat may be new in her faith, but shes embraced the more radical implications of Christianity with reckless abandon. She invited a homeless mother and her son to move into the apartment she shares with two other housemates. And shes finally found a practical way to channel her passion for healthy eating by starting a food pantry at the church. But not everyone thinks the food pantry is a good idea. When the woman she thought would be her biggest support just wants to pray about it, Kat is forced to look deeper at her own motives. Only when she begins to look past the surface does she see people who are hungry and thirsty for more than just food and drink and realizes the deeper significance of inviting them to come to the table. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743525 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738957 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687358 A traumatic experience as a college freshman left Gussie Milton afraid of relationships, but the widows think shed be a perfect wife for the churchs young pastor, who shares a mutual attraction with Gussie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731323 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713016 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743553 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715460 Mala and Ronak are surprisingly less comfortable with their dual Indian and American roots than their parents, part of an immigrant community that has happily embraced the New World. Told that their mother is about to die, they return home to the Midwest, where Mala persuades Ronak that they should immerse themselves in Indian culture by learning to cook their mothers favorite recipes. Then Ronak hits upon the idea of capturing their experience in book and film, and all hell breaks loose.--Library Journal. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738926 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743510 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739228 Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713000 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738924 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743533 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712131 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696157 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743516 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704725 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729577 On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life shed aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743530 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732100 For much of her life, Anne Morrow has stood in the shadows of those around her. Then Anne, a college senior, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted by an insatiable press, Charles shields himself and his new bride from prying eyes, leaving Anne to feel her life falling back into the shadows. In the years that follow, despite her own major achievements, Anne is viewed merely as the aviators wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, lifes infinite possibilities for change and happiness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738915 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729560 Follows a young couple over one life-changing weekend during which the husband flees lower Manhattan with his newborn daughter for a weekend in the Caribbean, while his wife tries to recapture who she was before the baby. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735974 Seduced by a Pirate: Should Colin throw propriety to the wind, imitate his pirate father, and simply take what he most desires? After years at sea, Sir Griffin Barry comes home to claim his wife. But is Phoebe his wife if their marriage was never consummated? As an infamous pirate, Griffin claimed and kept gold and jewels-- but this is one treasure that will not be so easy to capture. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712994