Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6660&N=3+7240+7293 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670850 Vowing to get her sister Gemma back from the siren sisters no matter what the cost, Harper must face dangers unlike any shes ever experienced. Fortunately, she has Daniel by her side, a gorgeous guy whos devoted to helping her find her sister--and whos immune to the girls dark powers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1619099 Gemma Fisher lives an ordinary life in the quiet seaside town of Capri, where she shares a close bond with her sister Harper and a budding attraction with her gorgeous neighbor Alex. But everything changes when three stunningly beautiful girls arrive in Capri and seem to cast a spell over the whole town. After a chance encounter with the girls, Gemma finds herself with a host of new powers she cant control or understand. What did they do to her? And why? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1613433 In 1901, on an alternate Earth, sixteen-year-old Noli rejoices when a mysterious man transports her from reform school to the Realm of Faerie, until Noli learns his sinister reason. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1545282 Maya and her friends--all of whom have supernatural powers--have been kidnapped after fleeing from a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set, and after a terrifying helicopter crash they find themselves pursued by evil-doers in the Vancouver Island wilderness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609106 Savannah Levine emerges from the rescue of her half-brother and summons formidable powers to halt a supernatural war that is being complicated by the forces of heaven and hell. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1565388 After Allison is forced to flee the city, she joins a band of humans who are seeking a legend -- a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the creatures threatening humans and vampires alike. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1531527 Alice Bonham thinks shes finally found a balance in her life between the supernatural and real life with her brother Milo. Jack, her vampire boyfriend, keeps her at arms length to keep her safe. As for his brother Peter, shes not sure where hes at, or what he wants with her. Worse still, shes not even sure what she wants with Peter. When tragedy happens, Alice finds herself struggling with a terrible choice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511975 The son of an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1523800 Unable to defend herself since swearing off her powers, Savannah Levines life is in danger from a variety of dangerous beings--as are the lives of the rest of Otherworlds inhabitants. And as the peril grows, it seems the greatest threat to the supernaturals may come from within their own ranks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1263171 Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1350028 Elena Michaels has created a (mostly) normal and happy life for herself despite being a werewolf but, when her past comes to call, it begins to unravel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1047352 Talk radio host and werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TVs first all-supernatural reality show. Shes expecting cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as a publicity stunt will turn into a fight for her life. The cast members, including Kitty, arrive at the remote mountain lodge where the show is set. As soon as filming starts, violence erupts and Kitty suspects that the show is a cover for a nefarious plot. Then the cameras stop rolling, cast members start dying, and Kitty realizes she and her monster housemates are ironically the ultimate prize in a very different game. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1116509 Bree Tanner, a character introduced in Eclipse, and the army of newborn vampires prepares to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1161794 Jessie and her gang of zombies have a wonderful life in Hicksville, Indiana. But now new beings are in the woods; they arent human nor are they zombes. But a new disease has come that makes the undead more alive and the living to exist on the brink of death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1142611 Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire world she inhabits. In another irresistible combination of danger, mystery, and romance, Stephenie Meyer tells the devastating story of Bree and the newborn army as they prepare to close in on Bella Swan and the Cullens, following their encounter to its unforgettable conclusion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1163375 Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friends sister disappears he goes against his familys and towns deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302341 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=1117967 Photojournalist Katie James is working on a story of international importance. But shortly after her meeting with a potential inside source, she is smuggled unconscious onto an airplane headed to an undisclosed destination. In the days to come, Katie and Shaw will be reunited in a deadly duel of nerve and wits against a surprising, secretive enemy and led around the world at a breakneck pace. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1129272 Alisa has changed from a vampire to a human now its up to her to build her new identity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298501 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1115914 The only survivors of a nuclear war, six high school students, hiding out in a high-tech bomb shelter, soon discover that they are no longer alone when a new form of terror rises out of the ashes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1110172 A lonely, unhappy teenager without friends, Toby befriends a creature in the woods who, needing to feed, agrees to take care of the bullies who wont leave Toby alone, resulting in a macabre friendship that lasts for decades. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1066613 When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=955382 Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob, a werewolf, and her relationship with Edward, a vampire, but when Seattle is ravaged by a mysterious string of killings, the three of them need to decide whether their personal lives are more important than the well-being of an entire city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1154612 When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1019860 Kay Scarpetta--now a senior forensic analyst for CNN--becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=984849 When vampire hunter Laura Caxton is locked up in a maximum-security prison, the cop-turned-con finds herself surrounded by murderers and death-row inmates. But soon she learns that an even greater threat--Justinia Malvern, the worlds oldest living vampire--has taken up residence, and her strength grows by the moment as she raids the inmate population like an open bar. The crafty old vampire knows just how to pull Caxtons strings, and shes issued an ultimatum that Laura cant refuse. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252022 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1005077 Being the worlds only female werewolf has its advantages, such as having her pick of the Otherworlds most desirable males. And Elena Michaels couldnt have picked a more dangerously sexy and undyingly loyal mate than Clayton Danvers. Now their bond will be put to the ultimate test as they follow a bloody trail of gruesome slayings deep into Alaskas frozen wilderness--a trail left by a werewolf more wolf than human and more unnatural than supernatural. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=934369 Seventeen-year-old Jessica, adopted and raised in Pennsylvania, learns that she is descended from a royal line of Romanian vampires and that she is betrothed to a vampire prince, who poses as a foreign exchange student while courting her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1112205 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=833580 This compendium of four tales introduces the Men of the Otherworld, a werewolf pack, and includes a new story. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1021589 Kay Scarpetta becomes embroiled in a surreal plot that includes a famous actor accused of an unthinkable sex crime and the disappearance of a beautiful millionairess with whom her niece Lucy seems to have shared a secret past. In the seventeenth installment of the Kay Scarpetta series, the police are stumped by a particularly baffling crime. After exhausting all leads, authorities implore the help of Scarpetta, now a CNN senior forensic analyst. Presented with the opportunity to have her own show, she must choose between taking the case and following her television career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991271 At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesnt always recognize the changes in those around her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=752726 Tabloid reporter Hope Adams appears to live the life of an ordinary working girl. But in addition to possessing the beauty of a Bollywood princess, Hope has other unique traits. For she is a half demon--a human fathered by a demon. When shes chosen by the head of the powerful Cortez Cabal to solve a demon problem in Miami, she and her jewel-thief werewolf ex-boyfriend go to work. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=880599 A medieval devil speaks directly to the reader, his tone murderous one moment, seductive the next, in a memoir allegedly penned in the year 1438. The demon has embedded himself in the very words of this tale of terror, turning the book itself into a dangerous object, laced with menace only too ready to break free and exert its power. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725001 Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=712955 Oliver Stone and the Camel Club are back in their most dangerous adventure yet, a war on two fronts--Provided by the publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=687838 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=629582 When Lilith, the consort of the Un-Named One, releases the Damned to wreak havoc on all humankind, Damali, Carlos, and the Guardians race against time to stop the horrific infection spawned by these creatures of hell by finding and beheading the evil Lilith. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627243 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=682407 When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a cult and changes in terrible ways. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=593247 On visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her devious cousin, Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old Sandry must rely on her childhood friends and fellow mages, Daja, Tris, and Briar, despite the distance that has grown between them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=645758 It begins in the most boring place in the world: Chickentown, U.S.A. There lives Candy Quackenbush, her heart bursting for some clue as to what her future might hold. When the answer comes, its not one she expects. Out of nowhere comes a wave, and Candy, led by a man called John Mischief (whose brothers live on the horns on his head), leaps into the surging waters and is carried away. Where? To the Abarat: a vast archipelago where every island is a different hour of the day, from The Great Head that sits in the mysterious twilight waters of Eight in the Evening, to the sunlit wonders of Three in the Afternoon, where dragons roam, to the dark terrors of Gorgossium, the island of Midnight, ruled over by the Prince of Midnight himself, Christopher Carrion. Candy has a place in this extraordinary world: she is here to help save the Abarat from the dark forces that are stirring at its heart. Forces older than Time itself, and more evil than anything Candy has ever encountered. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=542907 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=459932 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511411 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=417840 In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callies failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs is a rare genetic mutation - and a guilty secret - that have followed Callies grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the familys second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the genes epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=315177 It is New York City in 1939. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat to date: smuggling himself out of Nazi-occupied Prague. He is looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. His cousin, Brooklyns own Sammy Clay, is looking for a collaborator to create the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. Out of their fantasies, fears, and dreams, Joe and Sammy weave the legend of that unforgettable champion the Escapist. And inspired by the beautiful and elusive Rosa Saks, a woman who will be linked to both men by powerful ties of desire, love, and shame, they create the otherworldly mistress of the night, Luna Moth. As the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe and the world, the Golden Age of comic books has begun.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291208 Traveling from India to New England and back again, the stories in this debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, they also speak with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story - Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and the baffling New World.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=133840 In The Hours, Michael Cunningham draws inventively on the life and work of Virginia Woolf to tell the story of a group of contemporary characters who are struggling with the conflicting claims of love and inheritance, hope and despair. The novel opens with an evocation of Woolfs last days before her suicide in 1941, and moves to the stories of two modern American women who are trying to make rewarding lives for themselves in spite of the demands of friends, lovers, and family. Clarissa Vaughan is a book editor who lives in present-day Greenwich Village; when we meet her, she is buying flowers to display at a party for her friend Richard, an ailing poet who has just won a major literary prize. Laura Brown is a housewife in postwar California who is bringing up her only son and looking for her true life outside of her stifling marriage. With rare ease and assurance, Cunningham makes the two womens lives converge with Virginia Woolfs in an unexpected and heart-breaking way during the party for Richard.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=115278 Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet hes still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. Hes still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved, along with their two children, to Connecticut. (He bought her old house and made it his home.) In the midst of his so-called Existence Period, Frank is happy enough in his peculiar way, more or less sheltered from fresh pain and searing regret. And he has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend (while the nation lurches toward another election, Bush vs. Dukakis, in uncertain prosperity). As a realtor hes seeking a house and a lifes accommodation for deeply hapless clients relocating from Vermont; in his free time he takes pride in managing his entrepreneurial, and civic, sidelines. Then he will travel to the Jersey Shore, where his girlfriend and delight awaits him. Finally, up the Northeast Corridor, to Connecticut, there to pick up his larcenous and emotionally troubled teenage son, and together they will visit as many sports halls of fame as they can in two days. But Franks Independence Day turns out not as hed planned. This decent, appealingly bewildered, profoundly observant man is wrenched, gradually and inevitably, out of his private refuge. And in this embattled ascent Richard Ford captures the mystery of life - in all its conflicted glory - with grand humor, intense compassion and transfixing power.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=224860 The Stone Diaries is one ordinary womans story of her journey through life. Born in 1905, Daisy Stone Goodwill drifts through the roles of child, wife, widow, and mother, and finally into her old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her place in her own life, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography. Her life is vivid with incident, and yet she feels a sense of powerlessness. She listens, she observes, and through sheer force of imagination she becomes a witness of her own life: her birth, her death, and the troubling misconnections she discovers between. Daisys struggle to find a place for herself in her own life is a paradigm of the unsettled decades of our era. A witty and compassionate anatomist of the human heart, Carol Shields has made distinctively her own that place where the domestic collides with the elemental. With irony and humor she weaves the strands of The Stone Diaries together in this, her richest and most poignant novel to date.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=471498 After a mysterious stranger promises to end his boredom with a trip to the magical Holiday House, ten-year-old Harvey learns that his fun has a high price. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=28856 Butlers acclaimed first novel, The Alleys of Eden, is one of the finest books ever written about the tragic American experience in Vietnam. Now, in his first book of short fiction, Butler offers a compelling chorus of voices that together depict the experiences of the many Vietnamese expatriates living in America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511619 Being undead doesnt make life any easier for Alice Bonham. Her younger brothers love life is heating up, while hers is more complicated. Mae is falling apart, her best friend Jane is addicted to vampire bites, and if Alice doesnt get her bloodlust under control, someone will end up dead. Alice volunteers for a rescue mission with Ezra. But going up against a pack of rabid vampires might be too much, even for him.