Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6661&N=6594+4294966367 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699672 At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as The face on the milk carton, but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnappers tale. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644151 Ten-year-old Mallory, determined to find out what her brother Max does while spending time with his girlfriend, Winnie, spies an innocent kiss on the cheek then tells her babysitter and friends a more exciting tale. Includes a recipe for double chocolate chip cookies and directions for playing four games. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729010 Aunt Susan - an unstoppable force, and possibly the bossiest woman alive - is on the phone, and thats never good. Shes insisting that Harry and his family help her at a local event shes promised to organise: the Great Toadpool Show. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703538 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727477 As the battle against the Black Wings and Their minions looms on the horizon, part-angel Clara Gardner is finally ready to fulfill her destiny, even though she knows she may have to make the ultimate sacrifice-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703503 Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded by school friends and family in busy, modern-day Ibadan, Nigeria. An adoring little sister, their traditional parents, and a host of aunties and cousins make Morayos home their own, so theres nothing unusual about her charming but troubled cousin, Bros T, moving in with the family. At first Morayo and her sister are delighted, but in her innocence, nothing prepares Morayo for the shameful secret Bros T forces upon her. Thrust into a web of oppressive silence woven by the adults around her, Morayo must learn to protect herself and her sister from a legacy of silence shared by the women in her family. Only her Aunt Morenike provides Morayo with a safe home and a sense of female community that sustains her as she develops into a young woman in a bustling, politically charged, and often violent country. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1728886 From the beloved and best-selling author comes a story of life and death, family and community, once again set out on the high plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife must work together, along with their daughter, to make his final days as comfortable as possible, despite the bitter absence of their estranged son... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706639 Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, with her brother Nash, hoping the fresh start will help him kick a debilitating drinking habit. And Rubys not the only one with renewed hope, as saddlemaker Lucas McGavin redoubles his efforts to win her heart--even if Ruby is his brothers widow. Soon, all three learn that building a better future means first making peace with the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729310 Back before the stock market crash, Jacks dad had been working steadily and their family had had plenty of money. But now, in the middle of the 1930s depression, there isnt much work for a trombone player--just a gig down in New York City once in a while. So 14-year-old Jack is doing his best to help out. And hes lucky enough to get a weekend job at the town boat club where the rich folks hang out. But Jack wishes his dad would at least try to get a regular job. Sometimes there isnt even enough money to buy decent food and clothes for Jack, his sister Sally, and their young brother Henry. Its bad enough that their mother has had a nervous breakdown and gone to live in a home. Jacks father keeps telling them to look on the bright side--his favorite song is Happy Days Are Here Again. But Jack isnt sure there can be a bright side when you dont have enough money to live decently. Then, at the boat club, Jack sees an opportunity to steal a lot of money--enough to pay the familys back rent and keep them all together. For the first time in his life Jack is seriously tempted to steal--especially now that he realizes that his dad cant really be depended upon, that its up to him to take care of the family... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699657 Bewildered by a new student at her Manhattan high school who does not know her but seems to be Philip Walker, her lost love from her time travels, and threatened by Rebecca, who has held a grudge against her family for 120 years, sixteen-year-old Michele Windsor seeks help in her father journals and The Handbook of The Time Society. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729061 For years, 10-year-old Zelly Fried has tried to convince her parents to let her have a dog. After all, practically everyone in Vermont owns a dog, and it sure could go a long way helping Zelly fit in since moving there from Brooklyn. But when her eccentric grandfather Ace hatches a ridiculous plan involving a practice dog named OJ, Zellys not so sure how far shes willing to go to win a dog of her own. Is Aces plan so crazy it just might work . . ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729300 Marcus Hardy had hoped to enjoy a year away at college while he put the summer hed rather forget behind him. But instead, hes jerked right back to the coastal town of Sea Breeze, Alabama due to a family crisis. The only bright spot is Willow, Low, the fascinating red head who sleeps over several times a week. The problem is shes sleeping in bed with his new roommate, Cage Watson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703512 When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729184 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729003 Amy already has one naughty little sister, so why do her parents need another baby? Will there be any room left for Amy? At least she has her dog, Choc. He makes Amy feel like shes the most important person in the world. But can Choc help Amy to see that... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727146 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727123 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729042 Complications arise throughout his family when churchgoing and respected community member Robert John Browns caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699602 In 1586 England, sixteen-year-old Mercy Hart, daughter of one of Londons wealthiest and most devout merchants, considers renouncing her family for love of Kit, a lowly actor and playboy, until Kit is accused of treason, testing Mercys resolve. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699675 When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727613 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641279 The lucky penny in Judy Moodys pocket sure does seem to be working. She cant stop winning-at bowling, spelling, the unbeatable Prize Claw, everything! For sure and absolute positive, shell ride that wave of good fortune all the way to Washington, D.C.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640111 Taking the family sailboat on a summer-long trip excites everyone except sixteen-year-old Clementine, who feels stranded with her parents and younger sister and guilty over a falling-out with her best friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703361 A novel about four generations of a British family--their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks--captured in a series of individual moments that span the years from World War I, to World War II, to the 1960s, and up to the present. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643701 In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699267 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641995 A fascinating new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703368 Astrid Jones copes with her small towns gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that shes sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe theyll know what to do with it. Maybe itll make them happy. Maybe theyll need it. Her mother doesnt want it, her fathers always stoned, her perfect sisters too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. Theres no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that shes trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers lives, and her own, for the better. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643951 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642186 When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561748 As a little girl growing up in Boston, Miriam Bluestein fantasized about a life lived on stage, specifically in a musical. Get married, have a family--sure, maybe shed do those things, too, but first and foremost there was her career. As a woman, she is both tormented and consoled by those dreams in her day-to-day existence with her family, including a short-tempered husband, a cranky mother, and three demanding children, one of whom, Ethan, shows real talent for the stage. It is through Ethan that Miriam strives to realize her dreams. As she pushes him to make the most of his talent, the rest of her life gradually comes undone, with her husband becoming increasingly frustrated and her other two children--Sam, a mass of quirks and idiosyncrasies, and Julie, hostile and bitter--withdrawing into their own worlds. Still Miriam dreams, praying for that big finale, which, when it comes, is nothing that she ever could have imagined.--from publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644517 When a third person in three years goes missing, presumed dead, July Fourth weekend in Winston, California, sixteen-year-old budding fashion designer Clare Knight uses her gift of seeing visions of peoples pasts while touching their clothing to seek the truth, at risk of her own life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700098 When the cubs get too noisy while playing, Mama and Papa Bear try different ways of quieting them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639580 Looking for an engaging and emotionally resonant read from a novelist who was inspired by the works of both Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte? Elizabeth Gaskells 1850 short novel The Moorland Cottage offers up a unflinching slice of nineteenth-century family life, with a particular focus on family dynamics in an era where sons were openly favored. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727383 Anne is about to marry her childhood friend, Gilbert Blythe, and set up home with him in her house of dreams. Life really does seem perfect for a while, but suddenly Annes charmed life is touched by tragedy. Who would have thought that the honesty of her enigmatic friend, Leslie Moore, would help her to overcome her sorrow? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703098 It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss Mary Bayly, the current owner of the legendary Mason family estate, the Retreat. Miss Mary is dying. She plans to give the Retreat to the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward believes he can charm the old lady, secure the estate and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of a long day, he hears the stories that will forever bind him and his family to the land. He hears of Miss Marys grandfather brutally selling all his slaves in 1857 in order to avoid the reprisals he believes will come with Emancipation. He hears of the doomed efforts by Wyatt Bayly, Miss Marys father, to turn the Retreat into a vast peach orchard, and of Miss Mary and her brother growing up in a fractured and warring household. He learns of Abel Terrell, son of free blacks who becomes head orchardist, and whose family becomes intimately connected to the Baylys and to the Mason legacy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640069 After graduating from a Phoenix, Arizona, high school, aspiring artist Amanda Zero Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, her falling out with her best friend, and her parents personal problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642644 Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his fathers efforts to start a new business, his mothers extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643898 Divergent: In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710336 By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700566 In this lively celebration of Jewish traditions, a family must balance giving their children the freedom to make a mess and having a tidy home for Shabbos. On Sunday the Schmutzys drag in dirt from the malodorous Feldman Swamp. On Monday they make mud pies, and on Tuesday they smear spaghetti sauce. So it goes until Friday morning, when its time to be no-so-schmutzy. The family members soap, scour, and shower. And on Friday night they are ready to celebrate Shabbos with prayer, song, and supper. A glossary defines Yiddish words and an authors note explains Shabbos traditions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643923 At the turn of the 20th century in a rural stretch of the Pacific Northwest, a gentle solitary orchardist, Talmadge, tends to apples and apricots. Then two feral, pregnant girls and armed gunmen set Talmadge on an irrevocable course not only to save and protect but to reconcile the ghosts of his own troubled past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729163 As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703459 Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729125 Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643196 The year is 1985, and twenty-two-year-old Galen, a New Age believer, lives with his emotionally dependent mother in a suburb of Sacramento, surviving on the family trust fund--old money that his aunt and seventeen-year-old cousin are determined to get their hands on. When the family takes a trip to a cabin near South Lake Tahoe, tensions cause Galen to discover the shocking truth of just how far he will go to attain the transcendence he craves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642521 Rising high school senior Maggie remembers little about the accidental death of her boyfriend, Joey, but as she slowly begins to recall that day at the gorge with their long-time friends, she realizes he was keeping some terrible secrets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1542822 With love and determination befitting the worlds greatest family, twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan during the Great Depression. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641913 Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretchs Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641370 Its the lazy end of summer and Freya is about to start her A levels. Her brother Joe died a year ago, but she is slowly coming to terms with his death. She is beginning to feel ready for something new - a change. And then a railway accident brings her by chance into contact with the gorgeous Gabes. Freya is drawn not just to Gabes himself and his blond good looks, but everything about him, including his large, shambolic, warm and loving family, which seems to Freya so different to her own family of three. And then Gabes clearly troubled older brother makes it clear he is interested in Freya - and Freya has some decisions to make about what she really wants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562038 When Candice Candy Hardaway, the daughter of deceased New York drug kingpin Eric Easy Hardaway, set out to get revenge on the people who killed her entire family, she positioned herself knee deep in the game. While getting close to her fathers alleged enemies, Candy uncovered some long-buried secrets that were never meant for her to find out. ... Who will fulfill their need for revenge first-- the people who really destroyed her family or the hustlers that Candy wrongfully targeted?--Publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703412 In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster familys legacy of violence may prove impossible. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644102 Caitlin Eckhart finds her past coming back to haunt her when her six-year-old stepson is kidnapped from school, jeopardizing her relationship with her husband and everything she loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641965 It begins with a free and joyful act--but from then on, Michael finds it impossible even to remember what it felt like to be free and joyful. When he fires his new rifle into the air on his seventeenth birthday, he never imagines that the bullet will end up killing someone. But a mile away, a man is killed by that bullet as he innocently repairs his roof. And Michael keeps desperately silent while he watches his world crumble. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729082 In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640259 When a Swiss couple and their four sons are shipwrecked on an isolated island, they adapt to their New Switzerland using many imaginative methods of farming and animal taming. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639727 Whatever happens, school comes first. Her mother said it like she meant it. These words played over and over again in Dani Garcias head. But life got in the way. There were mouths to feed and rent to pay. Plus someone had to watch baby Benny. Dani knew adversity, but she was the kind of strong that comes from within: strong mind, body, and soul. Then a horrible rape and its powerful aftermath threaten to bring Danis life crashing down-- forever. Shes trapped in a reality that she cannot control, but she gains the strength to never back down and finally has faith in her own power. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640185 Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the four Chinese classics. The novel is semi-autobiographical and it gives an incredibly detailed insight into 18th-century life in China, particularly that of the aristocracy. The plot is grand in scale, peopled with a complex array of characters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574653 Life isnt easy for Melinda Radford. Shes the lone girl on the Ashton High wrestling team, and her parents have forbidden her from seeing her new boyfriend. But through a strange twist of tragedy and fate, Mel is given an unexpected opportunity to accomplish something no girl in her schools history has ever done, and to redeem herself in the eyes of many. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643759 Having a baby is...complicated. Dimple knows. Shes a successful actress who is turning forty-though her agent and her resume insist shes only thirty-six-and she figures its now or never. Certainly its not a good time for an intriguing director to show up at her door with a great script. Eva, fabulous agent to the stars, doesnt want kids-and never wanted kids. Why is her decision so damned hard for everyone else to accept? When Maryn was undergoing treatment for cancer, she and her husband both agreed to have embryos frozen. But that was way before their divorce and her remission-and now shes single and childless, and caught in the middle of a controversy she never saw coming. The traditional and nontraditional couples desperate for a baby...the adoptive parents...the single mom...the two who want nothing to do with parenthood...This is a thoroughly modern story of the pursuit of family in all its forms-and of five very different ways of getting there.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698577 Unfortunately, its the wrong wedding. Olivia Arnold is arranging the festivities--and its the hardest thing shes ever done. Because she should be marrying Kyle Houseman. They were together for more than a year but her jealous sister, Noelle, stole him away--and now shes pregnant. All their friends in Whiskey Creek know as well as Olivia does that Kyles making a mistake. His stepbrother, Brandon, knows it, too. But Kyles determined to go through with it, for his childs sake. Olivias devastated, but surprisingly Brandon--the black sheep of the family--is there to provide comfort and consolation. The intensity between them, both physical and emotional, shows Olivia that maybe Kyle wasnt the right man for her. But is Brandon? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640263 The six Bastable children try to restore their familys fortune using a variety of schemes taken from books, including finding buried treasure, rescuing someone from bandits, and starting a newspaper. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703127 Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Fraziers uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommys Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Dillers and Sylvia Plaths: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699614 Miranda Fox has devoted much of her life to caring for her elderly father. After his tragic death, she starts to make plans for her future, funded by the inheritance she is sure will be coming her way, but it seems her arrogant and domineering half-brother has very different ideas ... Then a chance encounter with a man who has been given months to live boosts Mirandas confidence, and as their friendship grows she finally learns to stand up for herself and her dreams. Can Miranda find the happiness that she deserves? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643961 Nine-year-old Katie and her four-year-old brother, Tyler, have an emotional summer during which their father considers moving them to Portland and they are surprised by a visit with their mother, a country singer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707158 In the South Carolina Lowcountry, three generations of a family--a grandmother, a mother, and a son--discover the indelible power of love as they share a memorable summer on Sullivans Island. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729273 Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574276 For generations, a grand estate house was the crowning glory of more than 3,000 acres of Iowa farmland. Named Aurelia, it was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaways dream to elevate the family name--no matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. Now, Lavinias youngest grandchild, Meredith Pincetti, is thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her familys once-great name. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639310 When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie enter a world full of wonder and magic--lush green and chocolate grasslands and dazzling red, orange, and magenta evening skies; the heady pungency of Lowcountry Pluff mud and fresh seafood on the grill; bare toes snuggled in warm sand and palmetto fronds swaying in gentle ocean winds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646602 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 market. 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. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639414 Chronicles the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in nineteenth-century New England. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643204 When Ruth returns home to the South for the summer after her freshman year at college, a near tragedy pushes her to uncover family truths and take a good look at the woman she wants to become. Growing up in Alabama, all Ruth Wasserman wanted was to be a blond Baptist cheerleader. But as a curly-haired Jew with a rampant sweet tooth and a smart mouth, this was an impossible dream. Not helping the situation was her older brother, David, a soccer star whose good looks, smarts, and popularity reigned at school and at home. College provided an escape route and Ruth took it. Now home for the summer, shes back lifeguarding and coaching alongside David, and although the job is the same, nothing else is. Shes a prisoner of her low self-esteem and unhealthy relationship with food, David is closed off and distant in a way hes never been before, and their parents are struggling with the reality of an empty nest. When a near drowning happens on their watch, a storm of repercussions forces Ruth and David to confront long-ignored truths about their town, their family, and themselves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641892 First-grader Monty Morris includes his new baby sister in a school project, gives his mother a surprising gift, gets a little more than he can handle with his friend Joeys dogs, and learns that sometimes a day filled with excitement is not the best thing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642574 As she travels with her new family from England to France, Cora faces the hardships as well as the privileges of the family name. But her journey of self-discovery is only just beginning. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644520 After surviving being possessed by a demon, sixteen-year-old Mia leaves her family in New York to stay with cousins in Milan, Italy, where she must study her familys heritage of demon catching in order to stay alive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699413 Returning to his small Texas hometown, a writer delves into an investigation of an unsolved arson case, a cotton fire twenty-five years earlier that split the community and turned family members against each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643998 As a demolition expert, Brick Pendleton is used to being in complete control. So hes shaken when his lover extinguishes their explosive affair before hes ready to say goodbye. Hes never felt about any woman the way he feels about Lisa Ransom, but that doesnt mean he can give her what she wants most of all: marriage and family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700266 Papa tells Mama not to worry when she leaves home to visit her cousin. But when Mama calls to say shes coming home sooner than expected, all of the Bears forest friends will have to help undo Papas caretaking. --Cover, pg. 4. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646676 Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earths rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699013 The Alden children suspect someone of trying to sabotage the local dog show. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646658 Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. After his ship is sunk, Harry seizes on the chance to escape his tangled past by assuming the identity of an American officer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707642 Living in a cozy Iowa farmhouse with her kindly grandmother, 24-year-old Julia Desmit struggles to support her five-year-old son and 10-year-old halfbrother. Though her boyfriend is away at medical school, Julia harbors hope for a better life. And then the man who abandoned her six years ago rocks her happy world with one question: Do I have a son? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700213 Robin and her family have spent several years moving from place to place, trying to find work and a place to live. When Robins father finds a job, all are happy but Robin. She explores the countryside near her home, meets new friends, and discovers a secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729173 In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644010 While a serial killer stalks his small Georgia town, sixteen-year-old Henry tries to find the truth about the terrible accident that robbed him of his mother and his memories, aided by his friend Justine but not by his distant father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573806 Angelina Neatolinis wish for a pet, denied by her family on the grounds that pets are too messy, is overheard by a hard-of-hearing ladybug, who fills their tidy new home with assorted pests. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641330 Thirteen-year-old Katie Sutton, a self-proclaimed expert on grown-up behavior, begins writing a users manual to help other teens train and operate their parents, but when her own mother starts dating Yellow Tie Man, Katie needs all of her expertise to get rid of him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639220 When Alice-Miranda goes home to her familys lavish estate for the school holidays, along with her best friend Jacinta, their break is not exactly what they expected because of a cranky boy causing mischief, a visiting movie star, a snooping stranger, and a grandmother with a family secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707146 When a bankers entire family is found massacred, the only clue is the message Were coming scrawled in blood. Detective Lucas Davenport isnt surprised when he learns of the bankers shady past. But as the investigation deepens, he discovers this familys murder isnt an isolated act of violence--its part of a war. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561755 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=1642266 Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earths rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646610 Two star-crossed lovers--Enzo and Ciro--meet and separate, until, finally, the power of their love changes both of their lives forever. Set during the years preceding and during World War I. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1539910 Melinda Radford has difficulty everyday because she is on the boys wrestling team. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639244 Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far-out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the flickering presence of ghosts. This is the story of a woman whose life is shaped by tragedy. Quinn is thirtysomething, a survivor of a fractured and eccentric childhood marred by the death of her younger sister. Twenty years later, she is in the midst of a decade-long slide down the other side of punk-rock stardom after her successful music career was abruptly halted. Sassy and smart, tough but broken, Quinn is at loose ends. She develops unique strategi. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729155 The Aldens are bound for the Science and Hobby Fair, but when a bad storm hits, theyre forced to stay in the bus station. Before they know it, the Boxcar Children are in the middle of a mystery involving a polluted river, two strange boys, and a bus... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642711 Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will forever change this place and its people. Five years later, as the Turkish army pushes west through Asia Minor, young Katerina loses her mother in the crowd of refugees clambering for boats to Greece. Landing in Thessalonikis harbor, she is at the mercy of strangers in an unknown city. For the next eighty years, the lives of Dimitri and Katerina will be entwined with each other and-through Nazi occupation, civil war, persecution, and economic collapse-with the story of their homeland. Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007: A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents remarkable story for the first time and understands he has a decision to make. For decades, Dimitri and Katerina have looked after the treasures of those who have been forced from their beloved city. Should he stay and become their new custodian?--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641808 We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnsons award-winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7-Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith.When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her stu. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639500 Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself. Numerous following sequels have been written by various authors. Pollyannas crippling spinal injury has been cured, and she begins to teach a new town the glad game. She makes many friends and two of her childhood friends, Jimmy and Jamie, court her. Jimmy is an energetic, healthy young architect and Jamie is a crippled literary genius. Jimmy also discovers secrets of his past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640196 Mae Wilkeys sweet next-door neighbor, Pauline, is suffering from old age and dementia and desperately needs family to come help her. But Pauline cant recall having kin remaining. Mae searches through her desk and finds a name--Tom Curtis, who may just be the answer to their prayers.--P. [4] of cover.