Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6662&N=6594+4294957844&No=90 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708517 Having grown up at the Yokota Air Base in Japan, and having moved six times in the last eight years, Bernadette Bernie Root and her five siblings are quintessential military brats. Its 1968, and eighteen-year-old Bernie is returning to the regimented life at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa after her first year away at college. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1251114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562404 As a travel escort for seniors, Emily Andrew-Miceli has led her feisty Iowa clan all over the world. This time, theyre off to see historic windmills, classic Rembrandts, and picturesque canals in Holland, if they can ever unplug from their smartphones, that is. Joining them is the high school class from Bangor, Maine, whose 50th reunion celebration goes south faster than a fallen Brussel sprout souffl as old rivalries start heating up. Worse, Emilys hopes for a 100% survival rate on this trip are dashed when an important member of the tour suffers a tragic (and highly suspicious) accident. Then the saucy seniors, wild night of drug-laced desserts and risqu shows in Amsterdams infamous Red Light District gets even more mysterious when one unpopular reunioner goes missing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708490 When Sam Houston organizes an attack into Mexico, the gloryseeking Texans are overwhelmed. Captured, they face the terrible Diezmo--a game of chance that ensures every 10th man will be killed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640097 Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are on holiday in the idyllic English village of Broadway when they stumble across the body of a man who appears to have fallen down a disused quarry. When it is revealed that the man, a local farmer, was probably pushed over the edge, and that the police have failed to find any suspects or motives for the murder, Dorothy can{u2019}t help but get involved ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562586 Dr. Gabrielle Winslow joins the Underground in Holland to help smuggle Jews out of the country. She teams up with an OSS agent to rescue her uncle in Berlin. Will they succeed in bringing him out of Germany only to be trapped in Holland? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706919 Its the 1930s, and while Harrison Shepherd works for Mexican painter Diego Rivera, hes also becoming the confidante of Diegos wife, Frida Kahlo. Later forced to flee to the U.S., Shepherd retells his remarkable story through a series of letters and diary entries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709902 Having suffered a tremendous loss, 17-year-old Rosie decides to make a fresh start. Taking a job as a nanny on a houseboat in Paris, she fills the void with a new family and almost immediately lets the three children and their needy father into her heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708449 Something sinister is brewing. A chilling video has already cast its ominous spell over the White House situation room. Now scientists connected to the top-secret Sword of Allah project are dropping dead. Seeking to unravel the enigma, Scot Harvath reaches England just in time to rescue British paleopathologist Jillian Alcott from al-Qaedas top assassin. This expert soon confirms Scotts worst fears--and triggers an adrenaline-fueled rush for survival. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562388 John Winslow, Annie Rogers, and Jeanine Quintana all start out on different paths that lead them to Africa where they become involved with one another and in service to God. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708665 In the grand tradition of Edith Wharton, Le Divorce delightfully recounts the adventures of two sisters from California who make a modern pilgrimage to Paris, the City of Light. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296744 A singularly effervescent novel pivoting around the disappearance of an American businessman in the Philippines and the long-suffering son, jilted lover, slick police commissioner, misguided villain, and supernatural saviors who all want a piece of him. Mourning the recent loss of his mother, twentysomething Benicio--aka Benny--travels to Manila to reconnect with his estranged father, Howard. But when he arrives his father is nowhere to be found... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1560267 After a particularly bad streak of luck in Vegas, Charlie has retreated to Venice, having vowed to give up a life of crime to write crime fiction full-time. But inspiration has yet to strike. And to make matters worse, Charlies agent Victoria shows up at his door just as his prized first edition of The Maltese Falcon flies out the window with a femme-fatale burglar. Blackmailed into committing a dastardly crime in order to get his book back, Charlie is catapulted into yet another adventure, this one even more explosive than the last. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707888 The Solitary Envoy begins the glorious Heirs of Acadia series of historical novels set in the early days of the American Republic. Erica Langstons comfortable life in Georgetown is threatened when the British invade. Soon she must begin a journey that will change her life forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707066 First published in 1970, nine years after Hemingways death, this is the story of an artist and adventurer--a man much like Hemingway himself. Beginning in the 1930s, Islands in the Stream follows the fortunes of Thomas Hudson, from his experiences as a painter on the Gulf Stream island of Bimini through his antisubmarine activities off the coast of Cuba during World War II. Hemingway is at his mature best in this beguiling tale. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710052 Jonathan is a Jewish college student searching Europe for the one person he believes can explain his roots. Alex, a lover of all things American and unsurpassed butcher of the English language, is his lovable Ukrainian guide. On their quixotic quest, the two young men look for Augustine, a woman who might have saved Jonathans grandfather from the Nazis. As past and present merge, hysterically funny moments collide with episodes of great tragedy -- and an unforgettable story of one familys extraordinary history unfolds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561867 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573821 A novelist who moonlights as a thief for hire, Charlie Howard is suspicious when an enigmatic American offers to pay him to steal two small monkey figurines, a suspicion that becomes all-too-real when his employer is nearly beaten to death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708095 Allie Fox is a brilliant inventor. Hes also a deeply paranoid man who is disenchanted with American materialism and conformity. Abandoning his old life, he believes he can build a better existence for his family in the Honduran jungle. But Allies utopian ideals are more easily imagined than realized, and soon his dark obsessions lead his family down an extremely angerous path. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710042 Therouxs novel unfolds around Jerry Delfont, a travel writer living in Calcutta and suffering from writers block. But when Jerry receives a letter from a wealthy fan requesting help, he soon finds himself entangled in a mystery involving a dead boy and an innocent man fleeing for his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708091 Sebba reveals it took an American beauty just three days to land Lord Randolph Churchill. Eight months after the marriage, Lady Jennie bore their son Winston. Using her charms to advance her husband and son, Jennie discreetly seduces 200 or more paramours--including the Prince of Wales. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1709818 When the husband and wife team of Walt and Jocelyn Gaines travel to South America to contribute their archaeological expertise at a newly uncovered Mayan site, no one could predict what happens next. Fallen Idols is a riveting novel of uncommon discoveries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540971 When reluctant bride Katie lets a modern-day Prince Charming spirit her away for a month to his Scottish castle, she hopes to figure out what she really wants. Graham brought her there to satisfy a ridiculously outdated marriage pact. Now if he can only keep their all-too-sizzling attraction at arms length... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1146872 Lady Amelia Plume has many admirers; its too bad theyre all fortune hunters and fops who cant provide the exotic adventures she seeks. But the ballrooms of Mayfair have become much more appealing since the arrival of Major Lucas Winter, an American with a dark past and a dangerous air. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1540489 When Jerry Delfont, a travel writer with writers block, receives a letter from an American philanthropist, Mrs Merrill Unger, with news of a scandal involving an Indian friend of her sons, he is sufficiently intrigued to pursue the story. Who is the dead boy found on the floor of a cheap hotel room, how and why did he die? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194513 Experiencing relationship troubles with Mac during a visit to Monte Carlo, Sunny is enmeshed in a series of jewelry store robberies involving a sociopath acquaintance and a dowdy friends makeover by movie star Allie Ray. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194523 After his daughter is murdered while on vacation in Rome, NYPD detective Jack Kanon travels to Europe in pursuit of the culprit. Teaming up with the Swedish reporter Gabby Larsen, Kanon discovers that his daughters death was at the hands of the serial killer who taunts the press by sending cryptic postcards to various newspapers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646548 A novel on the Spanish-American War featuring adventurer Ben Tyler, an Arizona horse dealer. Just as he arrives in Cuba with a shipment of guns and horses, war breaks out. To get his money, he is sucked into fighting between Spain, the U.S. and Cuban revolutionaries seeking independence from both. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194644 When Reuben Tarz meets Marchioness Michelene Fonsard, known as Madame Mickey, he is a wounded American soldier desperate to escape the hell of the French trenches. Madame Mickey offers another option -- for Reuben and his best friend, Daniel Bishop, to live at her lavish chateau, where she will help them heal in body and soul. Madame Mickeys sophistication captivates the ambitious Reuben, and their affair is as tender as it is sensual... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541957 A smart, sexy novel about getting what you want-- but still wanting more. Georgie has a husband she loves, three boys she adores, and her acting career has been revived since they moved to London. But she risks it all for an affair that will have consequences no one could anticipate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1252800 Mystery writer Jessica Fletcher accompanies her publisher to Mexico for a little R&R. San Miguel de Allende is the perfect place for Jessica to soak up the sun, bask in Mexican culture, and spend some time with her good friends Vaughan and Olga Buckley. But when Vaughan is kidnapped for a large ransom, Jessica must put her life on the line to find her old friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646545 Al Rosen was doing just fine, hiding out in Israel -- until he decided to play Good Samaritan and rescue some elderly tourists from a hotel fire. Now his pictures been carried in the stateside press, and the guys hes been hiding from know exactly where he is. And theyre coming to get him -- crooked lawyers, men with guns and money, and assorted members of the Detroit mob who are harboring a serious grudge ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646555 Father Terry Dunn thought hed seen everything on the mean streets of Detroit, but that was before he went on a little retreat to Rwanda to evade a tax-fraud indictment. Now the whiskey-drinking, Nine Inch Nails T-shirt-wearing padre is back trying to hustle up a score to help the little orphans of Rwanda. But the fund-raising gets complicated when a former tattletale cohort pops up on Terrys tail. And then theres the lovely Debbie Dewey... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541577 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574790 In 1936 Moscow, Stalins diabolical reign is in its infancy. Under a volatile political situation, Captain Alexei Dimitrevich Korolev is tasked with investigating the death of a woman whose body was found in a church. But when he discovers that the victim is actually American, his investigation is seized by the NKVD, Russias most feared government arm, and his activities come under suspicion. Facing exile, Korolev seeks help from the citys underworld. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186224 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562322 En la profundidad de la selva amaznica una joven estadounidense y el hijo de los dueos de una plantacin se enamoran locamente. Para Tanya y Shannon, la vida es un paraso con el que la mayora slo suea. Pero el da de hoy el paraso termina. La selva ha dado a luz ms que un amor idlico. Tambin ha producido perversidad insidiosa. Perversidad envuelta en una trama tan diablicamente brillante que Estados Unidos caer completamente de rodillas a manos de unos cuantos terroristas. El plan se ejecuta a la perfeccin. No hay salida, excepto una anciana cuyo oscuro pasado la ha llevado a una vida de oracin en preparacin para el terror inefable que est a punto de desatarse--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1195030 For the first time, the author, a young wife, mother, and film editor detained in North Korea, tells a harrowing, but ultimately inspiring, story of survival and faith in one of the most isolated parts of the world. On March 17, 2009, the author and her Current TV colleague Laura Ling were working on a documentary about the desperate lives of North Koreans fleeing their homeland for a chance at freedom when they were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers. For nearly five months they remained detained while friends and family in the United States were given little information about their status or conditions. For Lee, detention would prove especially harrowing. Imprisoned just 112 miles from where she was born and where her parents still live in Seoul, South Korea, she was branded as a betrayer of her Korean blood by her North Korean captors. After representing herself in her trial before North Koreas highest court, she received a sentence of twelve years of hard labor in the countrys notorious prison camps, leading her to fear she might not ever see her husband and daughter again. This book draws us deep into her life before and after this experience: what led to her arrival in North Korea, her efforts to survive the agonizing months of detainment, and how she and her fellow captive, Ling, were finally released thanks to the efforts of many individuals, including Bill Clinton. She explains in unforgettable detail what it was like to lose, and then miraculously regain, life as she knew it. This is the story of faith and love and a personal conviction that God will sustain and protect us, even in our darkest hours. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212865 Romance and adventure drive this unabridged audio download of Blood Ransom, by Lisa Harris, a powerful thriller about the modern-day slave trade and those who dare to challenge it. Deep in the heart of Africa, two American lives are about to change forever. Natalie Sinclair and Dr. Chad Talcott want to make a difference in underdeveloped African villages ... but they didnt count on risking their lives in the process. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1428036 Deep in the Amazon jungle a young American woman and the son of plantation owners fall madly in love. For Tanya and Shannon, life is a paradise most only dream about. But today paradise ends. The jungle has hatched more than idyllic love. It has also spawned insidious evil. An evil shrouded in a plot so diabolically brilliant that all of America will be brought to her knees at the hands of a few terrorists. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296618 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212989 Deep in the heart of Africa, two American lives are about to change forever. Natalie Sinclair and Dr. Chad Talcott want to make a difference in underdeveloped African villages ... but they didnt count on risking their lives in the process. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1386999 After spending three London seasons searching for a husband, Daisy Bowmans father has told her in no uncertain terms that she must find a husband. Now. And if Daisy cant snare an appropriate suitor, she will marry the man he chooses -- the ruthless and aloof Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, and she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone...anyone...other than Matthew. But she doesnt count on Matthews unexpected charm..... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1147887 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1146603 With fourteen years left on a twenty-year sentence, notorious Washington power broker, Joel Blackman, receives a surprise pardon from a lame-duck president. He is smuggled out of the country on a military cargo plane, given a new identity, and tucked away in a small town in Italy. But Blackman has serious enemies from his past. As the CIA watches him closely, the question is not whether he will be killed, but rather who will kill him first. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1726759 Claire Prescott doesnt understand Mr. Darcys appeal. Shes been comfortably dating Neil, a nice--if a bit negligent--sports fanatic. But when she agrees to stand in for her sister at a Jane Austen seminar in Oxford, England, she finds herself holding a lost version of Pride and Prejudice. Scholars thought Austens original manuscript was destroyed centuries ago, but as Clair reads the beloved authors first draft, she discovers that Austen didnt always have Darcy in mind for Lizzie Bennet. And when a tall, dark, and dashing stranger crosses Claires path, will she suddenly discover her inner Lizzie Bennet? Neils unexpected arrival in Oxford complicates Claires journey to find her true romantic lead, and she discovers that finding the right hero can be more difficult than she ever imagined--Cover, p. 4. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699686 Set in the richly evoked pathways and environs of Cambridge, England, The Whole World unearths the desperate secrets kept by its many complex characters?students, professors, detectives, husbands, mothers?secrets that lead to explosive consequences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639504 Heavens wager: Kent Anthony is a brilliant software engineer who is cashing in on a brilliant career. Hes finally living the idyllic life, far from thoughts of theft and murder and other kinds of horrible criminal behavior. Hes left his past far behind ... or so he thinks. This story brings the reader face to face with a hidden world more real than most people ever realize; a world where the unseen is more powerful than anything seen. Thunder of heaven: Deep in the Amazon, the jungle has hatched more than idyllic love; it has spawned insidious evil so diabolically brilliant that America will be brought to its knees. Nothing stands in the way of total destruction. Except for the love of one woman. When heaven weeps: Jan Jovic visited a village in Bosnia at the end of WWII. Now, many years later Jan has become a world renowned writer in the U.S., but his memories will come back to haunt him. And falling madly in love will come at a price. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1194600 When the body of an American archaeologist is found floating in the Yangzi River, Ministry of Public Security agent Liu Hulan and her husband, American attorney David Stark, are dispatched to Site 518 to investigate. As Hulan scrutinizes this death--or is it a murder?--David, on behalf of the National Relics Bureau, tries to discover who has stolen from the site an artifact that may prove to the world Chinas claim that it is the oldest uninterrupted civilization on earth... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562669 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1146941 Set partly in London, partly in South Carolina, the story follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and the single. Children whose parents were the swingers of the 60s find life difficult because of too many choices, indecision, inflexibility of tradition - and the marital history of their parents. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1368668 After spending three London seasons searching for a husband, Daisy Bowmans father has told her in no uncertain terms that she must find a husband. Now. And if Daisy cant snare an appropriate suitor, she will marry the man he chooses -- the ruthless and aloof Matthew Swift. Daisy is horrified. A Bowman never admits defeat, and she decides to do whatever it takes to marry someone...anyone...other than Matthew. But she doesnt count on Matthews unexpected charm..... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297010 Conflict erupts into violence between two decadent American expatriots living in Italy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249687 Semi-retired scoundrel General Harry Flashman is puzzled by the dark past and present schemings of Mark Franklin, an American frontiersman who is taking London by storm. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1195015 Father Tim and Cynthia arrive in the west of Ireland, intent on researching his Kavanagh ancestry. The charm of their lakeside B&B is broken when Cynthia startles a burglar and sprains her already-injured ankle. Then a cherished and valuable painting is stolen from the lodge owners, and Cynthias pain pales in comparison to the wound at the center of this bitterly estranged Irish family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1170963 Acclaimed journalist Glass looks to the American expatriate experience of Nazi-occupied Paris to reveal a fascinating forgotten history of the greatest generation. A moving and deeply thought-provoking book.--Sunday Telegraph. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541649 Sophie Broadmoor adores fancy balls, beautiful gowns, and expensive jewelry. Indeed, she enjoys everything the Broadmoor wealth provides and has earned a reputation as the wildest of the Broadmoor cousins. During a trip to England, she falls head over heels for Wesley Hedrick, a wealthy widower who promises her the world. But Wesleys promises never seem to come true, and soon Sophie finds herself in a very compromising situation. Why does it have to be Paul Medford, the young minister working with her father, who shows up during her worst moment? Paul is full of promises, too--and its clear that he has feelings for Sophie. But after all shes been through, dare she trust him? --From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186215 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1146983 The Lotus Eaters is a sweeping debut novel following the story of Helen Adams, an American combat photographer covering the Vietnam War, as she captures the chaos of the conflict on film, breaks into the mans world of war photojournalism, and finds herself torn between the love of two men. Its 1975, and the North Vietnamese army is poised to roll into Saigon. As the chaos of the fall of the city begins in earnest, two lovers make their way across the city to escape to a new life... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1244792 The never-before-told story of Laura Lings capture by the North Koreans and the role her sister played in bringing about her rescue by President Bill Clinton. A piercing look inside the worlds most secretive nation as well as a moving tale of sisterhood and love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1146778 In this sequel to her Under the Tuscan Sun and Bella Tuscany, the author chronicles her two decades-long love affair with Tuscanys people, art, cuisine, and lifestyle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186044 Visiting Florence to study art history and finish her thesis on the lost works of Michelangelo, American student Kate Westcott befriends Italian student Marco. They discover three missing sculptures, only to be violently targeted by a master art thief. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028877 Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award. Madame X, John Singer Sargents most famous and scandalous portrait, caused an immediate furor when Sargent unveiled it at the 1884 Paris Salon. The subjects bold pose, provocative dress, and decadent pallor shocked the public, and the critics panned the picture, smashing Sargents dream of a Paris career. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1215523 Hercule Poirots vacation in the Holy Land is interrupted by death in Petra, where the lifeless body of Mrs. Boynton, a detestable English woman who cowed her family and strangers alike, is found atop the rose red cliffs. Though her family claims her heart failure was a natural event, the tiny puncture mark on her wrist is a clear sign of the fatal injection that really killed her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644370 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186256 Marie-Ange Hawkins has the kind of childhood that most people dream of. Freedom, love, security in a beautiful old French chteau. But when Marie-Ange is just eleven, a tragic accident marks the end of her idyllic life. Orphaned and alone, she is sent to America, to live with her great-aunt on a farm in Iowa. Bitterly resented by the old woman, cut off from everything she has known and loved, Marie-Ange is forced to work tirelessly on the farm, dreaming only of the day she can return to her beloved Chteau de Marmouton. In Marie-Anges isolated existence, only the friendship of a local boy, Billy Parker, offers comfort and hope. But her only wish is to gain an education -- and escape. Then, just after her twenty-first birthday, an unexpected visitor brings startling news and an extraordinary gift: the freedom to return to France, to Chteau de Marmouton. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1030067 When Napoleon Bonaparte died in exile in 1821, he took to the grave a powerful secret. As general and emperor, he had stolen immeasurable riches from palaces, national treasuries, and even the Knights of Malta and the Vatican. In his final days, his British captors hoped to learn where the loot lay hidden. But he told them nothing, and in his will he made no mention of the treasure... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1380862 Eleanor travels back in time to prevent a deadly duel. She gets help from Jane Austin on how to navigate countryhouse society and her own heart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028996 Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel dHiv roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother, Michel, in a cupboard in the familys apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hours. Paris, May 2002: On Vel dHivs 60th anniversary, Julia Jarmond is asked to write an article about this black day in Frances past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1325299 In the years immediately following World War II, a young American woman, married and living in Afghanistan against her parents wishes, suddenly and mysteriously disappears. Micheners magnificent novel combines historical fact with a gripping adventure of romance, danger, and intrigue as it follows the story of the military man who is assigned the task of finding and returning the young woman to her distraught family. Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistans remarkable history, the allure of the past, and the inescapable pull of the future.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1243785 Daisy Miller is a beautiful and flirtatious rich young American visiting a Swiss spa. There she meets upper class expatriate American, Frederick Winterbourne, who is warned about her reckless ways with men by his aunt. Their relationship and Daisys with the Italian lawyer Mr. Giovanelli leads to a climactic scene in the Coliseum in Rome, followed by tragedy and regret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028606 A widows coming to terms with her grief. She is Gloria, an American teacher in England whose husband died of leukemia and left her with a small son. Helping overcome the womans sorrow is an acquaintance of her husband, a widower who in addition to losing his wife, lost his child. A first novel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296563 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186282 As editor-in-chief of New Yorks leading fashion magazine, Fiona Monaghan was utterly content with her life, jetting back and forth between Manhattan and Europe--until the sweltering day John Anderson strolled into her office. A widower with two daughters, John was as conservative as Fiona was freewheeling, both amused and appalled by her world of high-strung designers, anorexic models, Fendi-stuffed closets, and Sir Winston, her snoring bulldog. But after Fiona impulsively invited John to the Paris couture shows, somewhere between the magic of the runway and the stroll along the Seine, she let him into her heart. And within weeks of their return to New York, John was making friends with Sir Winston--and Fiona was making room in her closets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427962 The novel examines the midlife crisis of Eugene Henderson, an unhappy millionaire. The story concerns Hendersons search for meaning. A larger-than-life 55-year-old who has accumulated money, position, and a large family, he nonetheless feels unfulfilled. He makes a spiritual journey to Africa, where he draws emotional sustenance from experiences with African tribes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028649 Childrens book illustrator Irina McGovern enjoys a quiet and settled life in London with her partner, fellow American expatriate Lawrence Trainer, a smart, loyal, disciplined intellectual at a prestigious think tank. To their small circle of friends, their relationship is rock solid. Until the night Irina unaccountably finds herself dying to kiss another man: their old friend from South London, the stylish, extravagant, passionate top-ranking snooker player Ramsey Acton. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186329 The romance of two Americans in Paris, both staying at the Ritz hotel. He is Peter Haskell, 44, a pharmaceutical executive working on a cancer cure who is the father of three sons. She is Olivia Thatcher, 34, wife of a U.S. senator with presidential ambitions, and she is grieving for her son, dead from cancer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1543050 A Korean fortuneteller is being bothered by a long dead American soldier who wants his bones found and buried. An underage officers daughter and a Latino soldier she was secretly dating are missing. Several of the most notorious of the Korean gangsters who own bars in Itaewon--Seouls red light district--have been killed. Sergeants Geroge Sueo and Ernie Bascom, Military Intelligence MPs, must go back to the founding of Itaewon--the ville--in order to find out who the dead soldier was and where his body has been hidden, as well as who murdered him and why. In the course of this investigation, they discover a connection to the ganglord killings and the killers motive, and to the case of the missing girl -- inside cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1088986 Roger Wagner, CIA sleuth with a gift for wry jokes, is given ten days to uncover an assassination plot against the President of the United States, who is scheduled to give a crucial speech in Munich. Wagners frantic search leads him through the German underworld, neo-Nazi dens, glossy jet-set salons, and the highest levels of government. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1143330 Pat Conroy is without doubt Americas favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the dark memories that haunt generations, in a story that spans South Carolina and Rome and reaches back into the unutterable terrors of the Holocaust. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1243793 A blow on the head sends a practical Yankee back in time to King Arthurs court in medieval England. There, his Yankee ingenuity and knowledge of scientific theories startle the Knights of the Round Table. In the course of describing his heros adventures, Mark Twain, the great satirist, takes the opportunity to make objects of mirth out of the ways of the Old World, the chivalry of knights, and the pomposity of kings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186432 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028850 In a renovated Gothic church on Long Island lives Jonathan Hemlock, an art professor and a world-renowned mountain climber who finances his black-market art collection by working as a freelance assassin. Now, Hemlock is being tricked into a hazardous assignment that involves an attempt to scale one of the most treacherous mountain peaks in the Swiss Alps: the Eiger. His target is one of his three fellow climbers. The problem is that the CII cant tell him which one. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029914 Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, an octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo. When Hap Collins saves the life of his employers daughter, he is rewarded with a Caribbean cruise, and he convinces his best friend, Leonard Pine, to come along. However, when the cruise ship sailes on without them, standing them in Playa del Carmen with nothing but their misfortune and Leonards ridiculous new hat, the two quickly find themselves drawn into a vicious web of sordid violence. When they return to East Texas, they find trouble has beaten them back, and when troubles around it doesnt take long for Hap and Leonard to find it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1726880 Denied tenure in the wake of the scandal and left penniless by the ensuing divorce, English professor Emma Grant packs up what few worldly possessions she has left and heads to England on a quest to find the missing letters of Jane Austen. Laced with fictional excerpts from the missing letters, this is the story of a woman betrayed who uncovers the deeper meaning of loyalty. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212952 While on a routine assignment in the remote region of Calabria, police detective Aurelio Zen is drawn into two suspicious cases involving the disappearance of an advance scout for an American film company and a hunt for buried treasure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1186262 To look at one was to see the other. For family, even the girls own father, it was a constant guessing game. For strangers, the surprise was overwhelming. And for the twins Olivia and Victoria Henderson, two remarkable young women coming of age at the turn of the century, their bond was mysterious, marvelous, and often playful--a secret realm only they inhabited. Olivia and Victoria were the beloved daughters of a man who never fully recovered from his wifes death bearing them in 1893. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate, managing not only a household but her rebellious twins flights of fancy. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world. She embraced the womens suffrage movement and dreamed of sailing to war-torn Europe. Then, in the girls twenty-first year, as the first world war escalated overseas, a fateful choice changed their lives forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1044714 This story picks up just over a year after the end of Knit Two. The heart of the book focuses on college-age Dakota Walker and her trip to Scotland to spend the Christmas holidays with her Gran. The visit results in the sharing of happy memories about previous Christmases with Dakotas late mother, Georgia Walker, when Georgia was a child, a teen, a young woman in love, and a doting new mom. Her return to New York City concludes in a special celebration of the new year at the Walker & Daughter yarn shop with all the members of the club. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029429 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029253 According to several Maya calendars, time will end on December 27, 2012. A man discovers that if he performs human sacrifices at ancient Maya sites in Mexicos Yucatan Peninsula, the location of a valuable key to extend time beyond that date will be revealed. He must consummate the first offering under the full moon on a Mayan equinox. Russell Palmer, a Los Angeles professor of Central American civilizations, learns of the first sacrifice and rushes to Cancun to prevent future murders... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1029408 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1185983 Divorced, alone, and unexpectedly unemployed, Sylvia Landsman flees to Italy, where she meets Henry, a wistful, married, middle-aged expatriate. Taking off on a grand tour of Europe bankrolled with his wifes money, Henry and Sylvia follow a circuitious route around the continent as Sylvia entertains Henry with stories of her peculiar family and her damaged friends.--From publishers description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296810 Hap Collins and Leonard Pine find mucho trouble, this time in Mexico, when they come face to face with a nudist mobster, his seven-foot strong-arm, a octogenarian knife-touting fisherman, and, somehow, an armadillo. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1215530 Hercule Poirot is summoned to solve a case involving the murder of a seductive woman accompanying a scientific party investigating the secrets of ancient Babylon. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1638925 One of the most sophisticated and elegant members of Londons elite society, Lady Emeline Gordon is stunned when she falls for Samuel Hartley, an uncouth American raised in the uncivilized wilderness, who has come to London to seek revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1153997 After he is cut from the Cleveland Browns, Rick Dockery is hired by the Panthers of Parma, Italy, and finds himself confronted by the confusing diversity of Italian culture, language, and romance--Rsum de lditeur. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1146532 A tale of revenge by a woman who was sold in England for a million pounds to a sadist. After 12 years Belladonna escapes, inherits a fortune from an Italian count, buys a swank nightclub in New York and plots to settle scores with her captor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1268682 Temperance ONeil is a womans rights activist devoted to helping single mothers on the streets of New York City. Temperance is, at 29, happily married to her work--which she funds with a substantial inheritance. Unfortunately, her new stepfather feels very differently on the subject. Angus McCain insists she quit her career and live in his house in Edinburgh as any respectable, unmarried daughter should. So Temperance heads to Scotland with one mission--to drive Angus crazy ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1028627 A bittersweet story of a perfect but impossible love, set against the teeming, complex energy and hidden dangers of contemporary China. Miranda Graham, a clothing designer and the widowed mother of two teenagers, travels to China to work with the factories that will produce her designs. Sheltered, uncertain of herself, Miranda has always stayed close to her parents and her home. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1380451 Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Lifes become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings--not necessarily her own--as Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding at her fiances chateau in the south of France. But is Lizzie really ready to embrace her new role as wife and mistress of Chateau Mirac? Or is she destined to fall into another mans arms ... and into the trap of becoming a Bad Girl instead?