Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6670&N=3+6670+4294967124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551789 A second installment in a planned five-part series finds Harry despairing of a marriage to Emma and joining the Merchant Navy before assuming the identity of a fallen American soldier whose past proves even more turbulent than Harrys own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1572278 When an Earl passionate about horses becomes the target of her husband hunt, Amanda Locke knows its time to overcome her fear of riding. With her sister-in-law Ophelia hastening the romance along by arranging riding lessons, Amanda is soon taking instruction from infuriating Devin Baldwin. Astonishingly, in her daily encounters with Devin--who treats her as an ordinary young woman, not a prize to be won at the marriage mart--Amanda experiences passion for the first time. Now, her search for a match takes her in an unexpected direction as she finds herself falling in love with Cupid himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585868 Shares insights into the iconic rock-and-roll performers life, from his substance abuse challenges and his bisexual history to his connections to the British royal family and the secret attempt on his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1601804 Kingmaker Richard, Earl of Warwick, uses his daughters as political pawns before their strategic marriages place them on opposing sides in a royal war that will cost them everyone they love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1667625 The legendary lead guitarist and principal songwriter for The Who, one of the most influential rock-and-roll bands of all time, pens his own story. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442871 A devil is indeed waiting. The President is coming to London, but not to an entirely warm welcome. A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the President, and though most London Muslims think the mullah has crossed the line, a few think otherwise. Urgently, Sean Dillon, General Charles Ferguson, and the rest of the small band known as the Prime Ministers private army are called in, augmented by an extraordinary new recruit, an intelligence captain and Afghan war hero named Sara Gideon. She has her own deep contacts, but the more she investigates, the more she discovers herself in a very dark place indeed. For the assassination plan is only the beginning. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548515 Peaches Alexander is thrilled to receive an unexpected invitation to a weekend party given by the handsome, eligible Duke of Kenneworth. The only problem: Stephen de Piaget, a stuffy medieval studies scholar who seems determined to get in the way. Peaches has absolutely no desire to get involved with Stephen, until a quirk of Fate sends her hurtling through time...Stephen de Piaget has been leading a double life: respectable professor by day, knight-in-training during holidays and summer terms. When Peaches goes missing, Stephen knows hes the only one who can rescue her from medieval peril. Little do they know that the greatest danger theyll face wont be the business end of a sword, but their own unruly hearts...--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649501 A personal portrait by the legendary singer recounts his life on and off the stage, from his humble British roots and his riotous years on tour with The Jeff Beck Group and The Faces to his three marriages and his decades as a solo performer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1481931 After she loses her engagement ring and her phone is stolen during a hotel fire drill, Poppy Wyatt, discovering an abandoned phone in a trash can, crashes into the life of the phones owner, businessman Sam Roxton, when she uses his phone to make her wedding preparations. I ve lost it. The only thing in the world I wasnt supposed to lose. My engagement ring. It has been in Magnuss family for three generations. And now the very same day his parents are coming, Ive lost it. The very same day! Do not hyperventilate, Poppy. Stay positive! Poppy Wyatt has never felt luckier. She is about to marry her ideal man, Magnus Tavish, but in one afternoon her happily ever after begins to fall apart. Not only has she lost her engagement ring in a hotel fire drill but in the panic that follows, her phone is stolen. As she paces shakily around the lobby, she spots an abandoned phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to contact her when they find her ring. Perfect! Well, perfect except that the phones owner, businessman Sam Roxton, doesnt agree. He wants his phone back and doesnt appreciate Poppy reading his messages and wading into his personal life. What ensues is a hilarious and unpredictable turn of events as Poppy and Sam increasingly upend each others lives through emails and text messages. As Poppy juggles wedding preparations, mysterious phone calls, and hiding her left hand from Magnus and his parents, she soon realizes that she is in for the biggest surprise of her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660433 The Chronicles of Downton Abbey, carefully pieced together at the heart and hearth of the ancestral home of the Crawleys, takes readers deeper into the story of every important member of the Downton estate.This lavish, entirely new book focuses on each character individually, examining their motivations, their actions, and the inspirations behind them.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453983 In this novel Inspector Thomas Lynley is mystified when hes sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell at the request of the mans uncle, the wealthy and influential Bernard Fairclough. The death has been ruled an accidental drowning, and nothing on the surface indicates otherwise. But when Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James, the trios digging soon reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives. Deborahs investigation of the prime suspect, Bernards prodigal son Nicholas, a recovering drug addict, leads her to Nicholas wife, a woman with whom she feels a kinship, a woman as fiercely protective as she is beautiful. Lynley and Simon delve for information from the rest of the family, including the victims bitter ex-wife and the man he left her for, and Bernard himself. As the investigation escalates, the Fairclough familys veneer cracks, with deception and self-delusion threatening to destroy everyone from the Fairclough patriarch to Tim, the troubled son Ian left behind. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629259 When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642024 Though they have the vote and the Pill and havent been burned as witches since 1727, life isnt exactly a stroll down the catwalk for modern women. They are beset by uncertainties and questions: Why are they supposed to get Brazilians? Why do bras hurt? Why the incessant talk about babies? And do men secretly hate them? Caitlin Moran interweaves provocative observations on womens lives with laugh-out-loud funny scenes from her own, from the riot of adolescence to her development as a writer, wife, and mother. With rapier wit, Moran slices right to the truth--whether its about the workplace, strip clubs, love, fat, abortion, popular entertainment, or childred--to jump-start a new conversation about feminism. With humor, insight, and verve, How To Be a Woman lays bare the reasons why female rights and empowerment are essential issues not only for women today but also for society itself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1234777 A hero called Cate, whos not at all effeminate, and a heroine called Prudence, who isnt particularly prudent. They meet one dark night in Yorkshire, both impoverished and at their limit, so how do they end up as Earl and Countess of Malzard. And can they survive the trouble that brings?--from authors website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1284208 After they survive a deadly fever and the worlds worst musical performance, Honoria Smythe-Smith, a really bad violinist, and Marcus Holroyd, her older brothers best friend, fall desperately in love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1296147 Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the Cleopatra Emerald from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1242032 After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hunted by the Eye--and haunted by Elodie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1365439 From the popular author of Kane and Abel and A Prisoner of Birth comes the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Cliftons life begins in 1920, with the words, I was told that my father was killed in the war. A dock worker in Bristol, Harry never knew his father, but he learns about life on the docks from his uncle who expects Harry to join him at the shipyard once hes left school. But then his unexpected gift wins him a scholarship to an exclusive boys school, and his life will never be the same again. As he enters into adulthood, Harry finally learns how his father really died, but the awful truth only leads him to question who was his father? Is he the son of Arthur Clifton, a stevedore who spent his whole life on the docks, or the first-born son of a scion of West Country society, whose family owns a shipping line? This introductory novel in The Clifton Chronicles includes a cast of colorful characters and takes us from the ravages of the Great War to the outbreak of the Second World War, when Harry must decide whether to take up a place at Oxford or join the navy and go to war with Hitlers Germany. From the docks of working-class England to the bustling streets of 1940 New York City, Only Time Will Tell takes readers on a journey through to future volumes, which will bring to life one hundred years of recent history to reveal a family story that neither the reader nor Harry Clifton himself could ever have imagined-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1256575 Historical romance novel featuring the Arcane Society, second in The Looking Glass Trilogy-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1427493 Pemberley is thrown into chaos after Elizabeth Bennetts disgraced sister Lydia arrives and announces that her husband Wickham has been murdered. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1087519 A second entry in a trilogy that began with Fired Up finds hallucination-prone crime lord Griffin Winters believing he has been struck with the Winters Curse and engaging in a dangerous psychic experiment with the mysterious Adelaide Pyne, who holds Nicholas Winterss missing lamp. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1138710 Married to a man twice her age, quickly widowed, and a mother at only fourteen, Margaret Beaufort is determined to turn her lonley life into a triumph. She sets her heart on putting her son on the throne of England regardless of the cost to herself, England, and even her son. Disregarding rival heirs and the overwhelming power of the York dynasty, she names him Henry, like the king; sends him into exile; and pledges him in marriage to her enemy Elizabeth of Yorks daughter. As the political tides constantly move and shift, Margaret charts her own way through another loveless marriage, treacherous alliances and secret plots, always with her ultimate goal before her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=963629 Geoffrey Mason is well known (as Perry Mason) among the pro riders, including Steve Mitchell and Scot Barlow--arguably the two top pros. So when Scot Barlow is murdered--with Mitchells pitchfork nonetheless--Geoff finds himself pulled into the case as a junior barrister. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=966787 At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones girlfriend gets pregnant and Sams life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes dramatically. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765423 When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Wills archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward Topsoilers like Will and his father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=803974 Its Christmastime in London and Rafe Bowman has arrived from America for his arranged meeting with Natalie Blandford, the very proper and beautiful daughter of Lady and Lord Blandford. His chiseled good looks and imposing physique are sure to impress the lady in waiting and, if it werent for his shocking American ways and wild reputation, her hand would already be guaranteed. Before the courtship can begin, Rafe realizes he must learn the rules of London society. But when four former Wallflowers try their hand at matchmaking, no one knows what will happen. And winning a bride turns out to be more complicated than Rafe Bowman anticipated, especially for a man accustomed to getting anything he wants. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=765158 Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself at the crossroads of love and duty as she runs one of the most powerful business dynasties in history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=749270 After her mother died, vivacious Katey Tyler fled her dull Connecticut town, hoping to meet her relatives in England and find adventure and romance on a grand tour of Europe. She had no idea that her life-changing travels would have both in spades, as well as danger and intrigue, when she catches the eye of ship owner Boyd Anderson and inadvertently stumbles upon a high-stakes kidnapping. When Sir Anthony Malorys young daughter is abducted from Londons Hyde Park, her kidnapper mistakenly sends the ransom note to the home of Sir Anthonys brother, James. With James and his wife, Georgina, in the Caribbean, the demands are received by their houseguest, Georginas youngest brother, Boyd Anderson. Searching for the girl with Anthony, the notoriously hot-headed American sea captain fully intends to make the foolhardy villain pay. But he hardly expects to find exquisite Katey Tyler, recently a passenger on his ship, at the center of the plot! Little does Katey realize that in having caught the attention of Boyd Anderson, and in meeting up with the Malorys, shes about to experience more excitement than the typical young lady encounters on a grand tour, and her life will never be dull again. A multitude of surprises await Katey, from the startling truth about her mothers early life to the lengths a man will go to win the affections of a lady who has every reason to despise him, but who cant resist the seductive, impassioned love he has to offer her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=715260 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=684302 Born On A Blue Day is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today - guided by its owner himself. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn to speak new languages fluently, from scratch, in a week. In 2004, he memorized and recited more than 22,000 digits of pi, setting a record. He has savant syndrome, an extremely rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers, much like those portrayed by Dustin Hoffman in the film Rain Man. Daniel has a compulsive need for order and routine - he eats the same precise amount of cereal for breakfast every morning and cannot leave the house without counting the number of items of clothing hes wearing. When he gets stressed or is unhappy, he closes his eyes and counts. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among people who have severe autistic disorders in that he is capable of living a fully independent life. He has emerged from the other side of autism with the ability to function successfully - he is even able to explain what is happening inside his head. Born on a Blue Day is a triumphant and uplifting story, starting from early childhood, when Daniel was incapable of making friends and prone to tantrums, to young adulthood, when he learned how to control himself and to live independently, fell in love, experienced a religious conversion to Christianity, and most recently, emerged as a celebrity. The worlds leading neuroscientists have been studying Daniels ability to solve complicated math problems in one fell swoop by seeing shapes rather than making step-by-step calculations. Here he explains how he does it, and how he is able to learn new languages so quickly, simply by absorbing their patterns.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=712950 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=929243 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=684419 When an old friend pulls Richard Jury into the investigation of a wealthy bachelors murder, Jurys not sure whats more perplexing: the circumstances of the fellows death, the conflicting stories of the mans past, or the motivations of the cases chief inspecting officer, the beautiful and forbidding Lu Aguilar. What Jury is sure of is that hes in over his head, both with the inscrutable and challenging Aguilar and the false leads surrounding the once-charismatic Billy Maples, last seen in a club named Dust. A web of clues draws Jury to Londons trendy Clerkenwell galleries, clubs, and hotels, to the dark stories behind Mapless family, and to the Sussex town of Rye, where Billy had temporarily cared for Lamb House, the charming home where Henry James composed his three masterworks ... a place with secrets of its own. With Melrose Plants investigating Lamb House and with Aguilars interceding, Scotland Yards finest, and now infamous, Richard Jury, will need every bit of his intelligence and quiet charm to close in on a mysterious young cousin of Mapless, and crack the case.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=741588 At the age of fifteen, Sam Joness girlfriend gets pregnant and Sams life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=733866 Follows the relationship between Berengaria, who is forced into marriage with a nefarious squire, and her beloved Raven, a Scottish soldier determined to save her from an evil fate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=605234 Gabriel Allon is recovering from his grueling showdown with a Palestinian master terrorist, when terrorism comes to find him once again. An al-Qaeda suspect is killed in London, and photographs are found on his computer - photographs that lead Israeli intelligence to suspect that al-Qaeda is planning one of the most audacious attacks ever, straight at the heart of the Vatican. Allon warns his old friend Monsignor Luigi Donati, the popes private secretary, and rushes to Rome to assist in security, but what neither he nor Donati knows is that the Vatican has been thoroughly penetrated. An extraordinary enemy walks among them ... and hes just getting started. In the days and weeks to come, Allon and his colleagues will find themselves in a deadly duel of wits against one of the most dangerous men in the world - a hunt that will take them across Europe to the Caribbean and back. But for them, there may simply not be enough of anything: enough time, enough facts, enough luck. All Allon can do is set his trap - and hope that he is not the one caught in it.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651705 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=674475 In desperate need of a wife, Deverell, Viscount Paignton, sets his sights on Phoebe Malleson, who is determined to avoid marriage to promote a secret cause. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=655996 Having reluctantly accompanied his academic mother and pesky younger sister to Oxford, twelve-year-old Blake Winters is at loose ends until he stumbles across an ancient and magical book, secretely brought to England in 1453 by Gutenbergs mute apprentice to save it from evil forces, and which now draws Blake into a dangerous and life-threatening quest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591495 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=581882 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=573648 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=566563 Headstrong Arabella Lacey is stunned when her brother loses the family mansion and her hand in marriage in a high-stakes wager with Jack Fortescu and sets out to teach the winner a lesson in love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=555600 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=590603 Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=592965 Sent to live in a foster home in a remote Yorkshire village, Matt, a troubled fourteen-year-old English boy, uncovers an evil plot involving witchcraft and the site of an ancient stone circle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=607979 The product of almost a decade of research, hundreds of unprecedented interviews, and the discovery of scores of never-before-revealed documents, Bob Spitzs The Beatles is the biography fans have been waiting for - a vast, complete account as brilliant and joyous and revelatory as a Beatles record itself. Spitz begins in Liverpool, a hard city knocked on its heels. In the housing projects and school playgrounds, four boys would discover themselves - and via late-night radio broadcasts, a new form of music called rock n roll. Never before has a biography of musicians been so immersive and textured. Spitz takes us down Penny Lane and to Strawberry Field (John later added the s), to Hamburg, Germany, where - amid the squalor and the violence and the pep pills - the Beatles truly became the Beatles. We are there in the McCartney living room when Paul and John learn to write songs together; in the heat of Liverpools Cavern Club, where jazz has been the norm before the Beatles show up; backstage the night Ringo takes over on drums; in seedy German strip clubs where George lies about his age so the band can perform; on the lonely tours through frigid Scottish towns before the breakthrough; at the Abbey Road studios, where a young producer named George Martin takes them under his wing; at the Ed Sullivan Show as America discovers the joy and the madness; and onward and upward: up the charts, from Shea to San Francisco, through the London night, on to India, through marmalade skies, across the universe - all the way to a rooftop concert and one last moment of laughter and music.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=840291 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=488211 After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=512630 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=524573 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=514978 The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=544363 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=519428 In their continuing adventures, magicians apprentice Nathaniel, now fourteen years old, and the djinni Bartimaeus travel to Prague to locate the source of a golems power before it destroys London. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=458140 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=879809 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742427 Embarking on a shared family life, Harry, Emma, Sebastian, and Jessica find their happiness challenged by Emmas brothers engagement to a fortune-seeker, Sebastians hedonist pursuits, and a grudge-bearing enemy from the past who would destroy their careers.