Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6660&N=6594+6600+4294966767 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708702 Of Hercsville, Long Islands many remarkable ladies, four in particular stand out. Newest in town is Asha, an ambitious young woman with a voracious sexual appetite. Not so licentious, clinical psychologist Penelope is disgusted but the decadent rich and famous--especially Shareeka, a rap stars glamorous wife. None, however, are quite so intriguing as Nancy, a tormented soap opera actress harboring demons from her past. Whether these women begin the story as friends, enemies, or strangers, their lives will all be permanently linked by the end--for better or for worse. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088908 Holling Hoodhood is really in for it. Hes just started seventh grade with Mrs. Baker, a teacher he knows is out to get him. The year is 1967, and everyone has bigger things to worry about, especially Vietnam. Then theres the family business. As far as Hollings father is concerned, the Hoodhoods need to be on their best behavior: the success of Hoodhood and Associates depends on it ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=706091 Feel the texture of Fitzgeralds language as master reader Alexander Scourby, with cool precision, unfolds the mystery of Jay Gatsby. A true classic of American literature, The Great Gatsby celebrates a heightened sensibility to the promises of life, an American capacity for hope that remains unsullied even by the falsity of what it pursues. Fitzgeralds clean, elegant style evokes to perfection the glitter and charm of the Jazz Age, as well as the falseness of its values. Gatsby embodies the naive American notion that it is possible to invent oneself and persuade the world to accept that definition. Gatsbys youthful neighbor, Nick Carraway, fascinated by both the display of enormous wealth and the essential integrity that he perceives in Gatsbys vision, becomes his confidante and accomplice in his plan to recapture the heart of Daisy Buchanan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=665611 Those who survived still remember the Great Hurricane as the most terrifying moment of their lives. Using newspaper reports, survivor testimony, and archival sources, Burns reconstructs this harrowing day in September of 1938 and the amazing tales of heroism, survival, and loss that occurred. Her masterful storytelling follows the storms monstrous path and preserves for posterity the way the Great Hurricane changed New England forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=584556 East Hampton, New York is the summer playground for Wall Street big shots, Hollywood starlets, and all forms of glitterati in between. Its also the site of the first terrorist suicide bombing to hit U.S. shores when a man blows himself up in a crowded local restaurant. Then a small plane taking off from the Hamptons airport crashes in the middle of East End Harbor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=569551 It looked for all the world like a terrible, tragic accident. Susanna Morgan had gotten up in the middle of the night, tripped, fallen, and broken her neck. Yet when detective Justin Westwood inspects the victims apartment, he cant help noticing that the details dont quite add up. The glass on the bedside table is knocked over but there are no cuts on her body. The scrape on her knee looks suspiciously fresh. And then a terrified witness comes forward, confirming his worst fear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646010 The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgeralds portrait of the Jazz Age in all its decadence and excess, is, as editor Maxwell Perkins praised it in 1924, a wonder. It remains one of the most widely read, translated, admired, imitated and studied twentieth-century works of American fiction. This deceptively simple work, Fitzgeralds best known, was hailed by critics as capturing the spirit of the generation. In Jay Gatsby, Fitzgerald embodies some of Americas strongest obsessions: wealth, power, greed, and the promise of new beginnings. The recording includes a selection of letters written by Fitzgerald to his editor, Maxwell Perkins, his agent, Harold Ober, and friends and associates, including Willa Cather, H.L. Mencken, John Peale Bishop and Gertrude Stein. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=646985 It is the timeless story of Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. Gatsby lives in the New York suburb of West Egg, where those with new money reside. Gatsbys mansion is right across the bay from the home of his wartime love, Daisy Buchanan, pictured always in white. Gatsby seeks to keep his illusion of Daisy as perfect alive. He uses his money, gained through illegal means, to do so, and uses his neighbor, Nick Carroway, to try to reach Daisy. The love of money as the root of evil is a pervading theme.