Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6670&N=3+8031+6644&No=30 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687798 A luxurious yacht in the Sea of Cortez, a birthday cruise for one of the worlds most beautiful women, and an invitation no one can refuse. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722574 Stone Barrington is no stranger to schemes and deceptions of all stripes; as an attorney for the premier white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld, he has seen more than his share. But when he travels to Europe under highly unusual circumstances, Stone finds himself at the center of a mystery that is, even by his standards, most peculiar. While investigating a high-profile murder, he uncovers a puzzling conspiracy involving the European elite and the deadly games they play. With no checks on their ambition, the wealthy will go to any ends to increase their power, and only Stone stands in the way of their dark schemes. Two unexpected invitations may be the first clues in the intricate puzzle Stone must unravel to learn the truth, a puzzle that will lead him deep into the rarefied world of European ultrawealth and privilege, where billionaires rub elbows with spooks, insider knowledge is traded at a high premium, and murder is never too high a price to pay for a desired end. It soon becomes clear that beneath the bright lights of Europe lurks a shadowy underworld, and its only rule is deadly ambition. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687797 A series of horrifying events occur in quick succession in the same upscale L.A. neighborhood. A backyard renovation unearths an infants body, buried sixty years ago. And soon thereafter in a nearby park, another disturbingly bizarre discovery is made not far from the body of a young woman shot in the head. Helping LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis to link these eerie incidents is brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware. But even the good doctors vast experience with matters both clinical and criminal might not be enough to cut down to the bone of this chilling case - and draw out the disturbing truth. Backtracking six decades into the past stirs up tales of a beautiful nurse with a mystery lover, a handsome, wealthy doctor who seems too good to be true, and a hospital with a notorious reputation - all of them long gone, along with any records of a newborn, and destined for anonymity. But the specter of fame rears its head when the case unexpectedly twists in the direction of the highest echelons of celebrity privilege. Entering this sheltered world, Alex little imagines the macabre layer just below the surface - a decadent quagmire of unholy rituals and grisly sacrifice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715966 The werewolf pack and Mercy Thompsons mate Adam have been abducted. Outclassed and on her own, Mercy may be forced to seek assistance from any ally she can get, no matter how unlikely. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677139 Following his death by a mystery assailant, Harry Dresden, Winter Knight to Mab, the Queen of Air and Darkness, must gather his friends and allies, prevent the annihilation of countless innocents, and find a way out of his eternal subservience before his newfound powers claim the only thing he has left to call his own ... his soul. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577814 A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1481935 What if a well respected doctor inexplicably goes on a murderous rampage? When Dr. John Meacham goes on a shooting spree at the office, his business partner, staff, and two patients are killed in the bloodbath. Then Meacham turns the gun on himself. The blame falls on Dr. Lou Welcome. Welcome worked with Merriman years before as a counselor after Johns medical license had been revoked for drug addiction. Lou knew that John was an excellent doctor and deserved to be practicing medicine and fought hard for his license to be restored. After hearing the news of the violent outburst, Lou is in shock like everyone else, but mostly hes incredulous. And when he begins to look into it further, the terrifying evidence he finds takes him down a path to an unspeakable conspiracy that seems to lead directly to the White House and those in the highest positions of power-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478840 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677483 Returning to New York where he is approached by CIA assistant director and sometime lover Holly Barker, Stone Barrington is drawn into a dangerous game of murder and vengeance against an enemy who is engaged in a nefarious plot beyond Stones imagining. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522692 No husbands allowed. Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days theyre free to live someone elses life. As the weekend brings pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and more, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known. What happened last night? In the mornings harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened--something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime--for survival. Guilty wives is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create-- Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647018 Anti-terrorist task force agent John Corey and his FBI agent wife, Kate Mayfield, search for the mastermind behind the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511974 Andy Barber has been an assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for more than twenty years. When a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is blindsided by what happens next: his fourteen-year-old son is charged with the murder of a fellow student. As the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will face a trial of his own-- between loyalty and justice, between truth and allegation, between a past hes tried to bury and a future he cannot conceive. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1673171 Britain, 1972. The cultural cold war continues and the country is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, the beautiful daughter of an Anglican bishop, finds herself being groomed for the intelligence services in her final year as a student at Cambridge. Recruited into MI5 against a backdrop of the Cold War, Serena, a compulsive reader, is assigned to infiltrate the literary circle of a promising young writer whose politics align with those of the government. This secret mission brings her into the literary world of writer Tom Haley. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614974 Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan examines the bodies of three babies while Detective Ryan investigates their mother in a case with ties to the high-stakes world of diamond mining. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615712 After being punished for trying to measure Gods greatest gift, Father Time returns to Earth along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622274 When a visiting actress becomes the subject of a death threat, Jesse and the rest of the Paradise police department go on high alert. And when Jesse witnesses a horrifying collision caused by a distracted teenage driver, the political repercussions of her arrest bring him into conflict with the local selectmen, the DA, and some people with very deep pockets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615801 The shadows of war are drawing over the ancient city of Fez, and Holmes badly wants the wisdom and courage of his wife, whom hes learned, to his horror, has gone missing. As Holmes searches for her, and Russell, suffering a temporary memory loss, searches for herself, each tries to crack deadly parallel puzzles before its too late for them, for Africa, and for the peace of Europe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580581 On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nicks wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amys friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isnt true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they arent his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what really did happen to Nicks beautiful wife? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647019 Entreated by her mother to help find a missing woman who has escaped from a mental hospital, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is shocked to discover the womans true identity and enlists the help of rogue FBI profiler Kendra Michaels to survive a plot by a killer who is targeting her family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442866 Since former Marine helicopter pilot Jack Morgan started Private, it has become one of the worlds most powerful investigation firms, sought out by the rich and famous to discretely handle their most sensitive problems. Privates investigators are the smartest, the fastest, and the most technologically advanced in the world, and they always uncover the truth. When a former lover is found murdered in Jacks bed, he is instantly the number one suspect. While the police are investigating Jack, the mob strong arms him into recovering $30 million in stolen pharmaceuticals, and the beautiful manager of a luxury hotel chain persuades him to quietly investigate a spree of murders occurring on their properties. Fighting for his life on both sides of the law, Jack realizes that he may not be able to save himself this time. Contains more action, more intrigue, and more twists than ever before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658229 Its Christmas Eve and Detective Alex Cross is called away from his family to resolve a horrific hostage situation that is spiraling out of control. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590270 Kateria Avani is driven by a lifetime of perplexing dreams to Las Vegas, where she meets a compellingly familiar warrior who has returned from the dead to prevent the fulfillment of a prophecy that could end the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622275 When a downtown bar erupts in sudden violence that leaves eighty people dead, Lieutenant Eve Dallas discovers that the bars patrons were exposed to a lethal cocktail of chemicals and illegal drugs that a sinister killer administered through an airborne method. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660371 After he receives a posthumous note from his aunt hinting that things are horribly amiss in her Florida Gulf Coast town, Army Special Agent John Puller uncovers a shocking conspiracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682104 The story of an African American family held together with a mothers grit and monumental courage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1578984 Detective Michael Bennett takes his family to upstate New York in an effort to escape a lawless crime wave erupting in Manhattan only to find themselves immersed in another nightmare, one that endangers his relationship with his wife. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671096 Special Agent Pendergast assists NYPD Lieutenant DAgosta in the investigation of a number of killings that ultimately prove to be messages from his wifes kidnappers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622745 A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551887 The authors most political novel since The Cider House Rules and A Prayer for Owen Meany, this novel is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself worthwhile. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647021 In Alberta, Canada, an eminent paleontologist disappears from a dinosaur dig site, and at the Cambridge Forensic Center, Kay Scarpetta receives a grisly communication that gives her a dreadful reason to suspect this may become her next case. Then, with shocking speed, events begin to unfold. A body recovered from Boston Harbor reveals bizarre trace evidence hinting of a link to other unsolved cases that seem to have nothing in common. Who is behind all this? And whom can Scarpetta trust? Her lead investigator, Pete Marino, and FBI agent husband, Benton Wesley, are both unhappy with her because of personnel changes at the CFC, and her niece Lucy has become even more secretive than usual. Scarpetta fears she just may be on her own this time--against an enormously powerful and cunning enemy who seems impossible to defeat.--Publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577793 Believing she is realizing her dreams when her sitcom is bought, television writer Ruth Saunders finds her happiness threatened by demanding actors and executives as well as an unrequited crush on her boss and her septuagenarian grandmothers upcoming wedding. 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=1649495 Taking an apprentice angel to Times Square to show him the delights and opportunities of the city, angels Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy help Will to introduce a lonely chef and food critic who after a year-long separation are reunited during the holiday season. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547272 Vowing to destroy his fathers killer while outmaneuvering alter ego Kere, Darling Cruel, a dictator member of an elite ruling family, is shattered when Resistance leader Zarya, his most trusted ally, turns a specially designed weapon against Darlings family in her effort to rekindle his humanity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556269 Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late-nineteenth-century Paris. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658230 When a CIA black ops master with ties to disreputable figures in Afghanistan goes missing, Mitch Rapp is ordered to track down the missing man at all costs and finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous plot involving the interests of numerous countries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1533632 Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughters lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her--though it is stressful--and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jills life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news: Jills ex-husband is dead. Abby insists that he was murdered and pleads with Jill to help find his killer. Jill reluctantly agrees to make a few inquiries and discovers that things dont add up. As she digs deeper, her actions threaten to rip apart her new family, destroy their hard-earned happiness, and even endanger her own life. Yet Jill cant turn her back on a child she loves and once called her own. Come Home reads with the breakneck pacing of a thriller while also exploring the definition of motherhood, asking the questions: Do you ever stop being a mother? Can you ever have an ex-child? What are the limits to love of family? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1652953 Dani OMalley uses her rare talents and the powerful Sword of Light to survive Dark Fae attacks in Dublin, where she is also challenged by a murderous former friend and a police force head who covets her sword. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622359 NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat arrives at her latest crime scene to find an unidentified woman stabbed to death and stuffed inside a suitcase left on a Manhattan street. Nikki is in for a big shock when this new homicide connects to the unsolved murder of her own mother. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584674 When his name is added to a top-secret government list of individuals slated for assassination, counterterrorism operative Scot Harvath engages in a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game of survival while struggling to prevent a cataclysmic terrorist attack and learn who has framed him for treason. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624254 Stone Barrington is in Bel-Air, overseeing the grand opening of the ultra-luxe hotel, The Arrington, built on the grounds of the mansion belonging to his late wife, Arrington Carter. The star-studded gala will be attended by socialites, royalty, and billionaires from overseas. and according to phone conversations intercepted by the NSA, it may also have attracted the attention of international terrorists. To ensure the safety of his guests--and the city of Los Angeles--Stone may have to call in a few favors from his friends at the CIA. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527004 Thomas Pitt, once a lowly policeman, is now the powerful head of Britains Special Branch, and some people fear that he may have been promoted beyond his abilities. He, too, feels painful moments of self-doubt, especially as rumors reach him of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover-London rail line--on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure Austrian royal, or are the rumors designed to distract Pitt from an even more devastating plot? He must resolve this riddle at once, before the damage is done. Meanwhile, in a London sickroom, an old Italian woman--at the end of a romantic career as a revolutionary spy--is terrified that as she sinks into dementia, she may divulge secrets that can kill. And a beautiful young Croatian woman, married to a British power broker, hoards her own mysteries. Apparently all roads lead to the Continent, and Pitt suspects that between them these two fascinating women could tell him things he desperately needs to know. But as the hours tick by, it seems that the only woman Pitt can count on is his clever wife, Charlotte. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559509 A dedicated female archaeologist and a former Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officer must recover priceless South American artifacts that could bring deadly chaos into the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1563204 A fictional account of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War, told from the perspectives of participants on both sides, recreates the April 1862 surprise attack by Confederate forces on the Union Army at Shiloh. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1483630 NYC Lt. Eve Dallas investigates the death of a young actress with the assistance of her husband Rourke and Detective Peabody. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556879 Lucas Davenport has seen many terrible murder scenes. This is one of the worst. In the small Minnesota town of Deephaven, an entire family has been killed--husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. Theres something about the scene that pokes at Lucass cop instincts--it looks an awful lot like the kind of scorched-earth retribution hes seen in drug killings sometimes. But this is a seriously upscale town, and the husband was an executive vice president at a big bank. It just doesnt seem to fit. Until it does. And where it leads Lucas will take him into the darkest nightmare of his life-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1453986 Within the pages of very rare books some centuries old lie the secrets of the paranormal. Abby Radwells unusual psychic talent has made her an expert in such volumes-and sometimes taken her into dangerous territory. After a deadly incident in the private library of an obsessive collector, Abby receives a blackmail threat, and rumors swirl that an old alchemical text known as The Key has reappeared on the black market. Convinced that she needs an investigator who can also play bodyguard, she hires Sam Coppersmith, a specialist in paranormal crystals and amber-hot rocks. Passion flares immediately between them, but neither entirely trusts the other. When it comes to dealing with a killer who has paranormal abilities, and a blackmailer who will stop at nothing to obtain an ancient alchemical code, no one is safe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579879 A follow-up to the best-selling A Discovery of Witches finds Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont in Elizabethan London, where Diana seeks a magical tutor and Matthew confronts elements from his past at the same time the mystery of Ashmole 782 deepens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622272 In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well until a former NFL quarterback, one of the countrys richest African Americans, decides to build his latest Dogpile megastore on nearby Telegraph Avenue. Not only could this spell doom for the little shop and its cross-race, cross-class dream, but it opens up past history regarding Archys untethered dad and a Black Panther-era crime. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551791 The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590268 Investigating the brutal murders of two vacationing families in sunny Virginia Beach, FBI agents Ryan Sinclair and Buzz Crane suspect the work of a notorious serial killer and tap the skills of preeminent clinical expert Charlotte Stone, who is also the culprits only known survivor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551787 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577762 Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughters leukemia. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1554742 Two star-crossed lovers--Enza 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=1453984 A top nuclear scientist turns homicidal, taking an innocent family hostage at gunpoint. Gideon Crew, a colleague of the scientist at Los Alamos, is called in to talk the man down. But the standoff ends in an explosion of violence. When the authorities discover the scientists body is intensely radioactive, and that he had recently embraced Islamic extremism, all hell breaks loose. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1431774 Stone Barrington, his former NYPD partner Dino Bachetti and CIA agent Holly Barker investigate a possible serial killer with ties to the White House-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538102 When CIA operative Catherine Lings old friend Hu Chang creates something so deadly, and completely untraceable, the chase is on to be the first to get it. With rogue operative John Gallo also on the hunt, Catherine finds herself pitted against a group so villainous and a man so evil that she may not survive the quest to protect those she cares about. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1487452 Not since Jack the Ripper terrorized the London slums has there been such a gruesome crime scene. By all accounts, acid-tongued Vita Berlin hadnt a friend in the world, but whom did she cross so badly as to end up arranged in such a grotesque tableau? One look at her apartment-turned-charnel house prompts hard-bitten LAPD detective Milo Sturgis to summon his go-to expert in hunting homicidal maniacs, Alex Delaware. 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=1538134 Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1581620 Using carefully honed sensory skills gleaned from a childhood spent blind to solve cases, music therapist Kendra Michaels is tapped by a former FBI agent, who is investigating the work of a serial killer who may be responsible for the disappearance of Kendras ex. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660762 When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614971 Visiting sixteen-year-old Rat Perkins at isolated Evensong boarding school, Maura Isles is astonished to learn that all of his classmates are survivors of violence and are being instructed in scientific detective skills, a discovery that coincides with Jane Rizzolis investigation into the murder of a boys foster family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1650288 This is a collection of stories that explores the power of love in all its forms, obssessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love as it is shaped by passion, betrayal, and the echoes of intimacy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522256 Adam Blaine arrives at the funeral of his estranged father, Ben Blaine, a famous and charismatic writer who left behind him a string of secret legal and financial arrangements. Using his training as a CIA operative, Adam seeks to find the truth of his fathers death, even if it means exposing one or more of his own family members as the killer and discovering secrets about himself that he was never supposed to know. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624255 Basing her bestselling novel on the night her older sister Susan was murdered on a stormy Memorial Day eighteen years earlier, Bellamy Lyston Price, writing under a pseudonym, becomes the target of an unnamed assailant who either wants the truth about Susans murder to remain unknown or, even more threatening, is determined to get vengeance for a man wrongfully accused and punished. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1538141 A brand new novel--and a stunning new heroine--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577323 After retrieving a nearly-dead gunshot victim from beneath a frozen lake, Jason Bourne must help the injured man regain his memory and find out who did this to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1566122 When a fifteen-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, its up to U.S. Marshal Anita Blake to find her. And when she does, shes faced with something shes never seen before: a terrifyingly ordinary group of people--kids, grandparents, soccer moms--all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where theres one martyr, there will be more... But even vampires have monsters that theyre afraid of. And Anita is one of them..-- 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=1675452 When the government comes for her mother, Emmeline embarks on a plan to save her family and expose the truth behind the objectives of the United Nations agenda 21. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1527005 Private investigator Dana Cutler and attorney Brad Miller rush to uncover a terrorist cells plot to destroy a packed professional football stadium in one of the biggest attacks on American soil. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576474 A yacht bearing a young American couple is attacked by Somali pirates, leading to bloodshed and the violent kidnapping of the pregnant woman on board. To aid in her rescue from the lawless and war-torn jungles of coastal Africa, Sigma Force enlists the aid of a unique search team. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1579021 Professor Jeremy Logan is brought onto famed explorer Porter Stones archaeological team to investigate a series of harrowing and inexplicable occurrences that are causing people on the expedition to fear a centuries-old curse behind Pharoah Narmers elusive double crown of the two Egypts. As paranoia and fear run rampant, Logan must delve into the mysteries of ancient Egyptology and near death experience in order to understand what might be plaguing the archaeological site. He is forced to confront whether a vicious ancient curse, buried for millennia along with the unimagined riches of King Narrmer may now actually be coming true. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575486 When a Chinese National working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off the streets of Shanghai in broad daylight and his one-man security detail goes missing, the security firm Rutherford Risk hires two unique outsiders to locate the two hostages ahead of the deadline. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1474184 When Federal Marshall Raylan Givens squares off against a known offender, he will warn the man, If I have to pull my gun Ill shoot to kill. Except this time he finds the offender naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows theres big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who is making the cuts, he is lying naked in a bathtub himself, Layla, the cool transplant nurse, about to go for his kidneys. It turns out all the bad guys Raylan is after are girls this time: the nurse who collects kidneys and sells them for ten grand apiece. Carol Conlan, the mine company executive who comes to Harlan County to sell mountaintop removal, shoots a miner who wastes her time, then meets the miners widow in a scene you wont forget. The third girls only offense is missing a court date. Jackie Nevada plays high-stakes poker for a living and is last seen in the shower with Raylan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556880 Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist Tom Sagan and an unscrupulous zealot, Zachariah Simon, square off in a dangerous game to find the key to a 500 year-old mystery--a treasure with explosive political significance in the modern world: the lost treasures of the Temple of Jerusalem. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1647017 Survivors of a government-induced apocalypse endure their violent and disease-stricken world while protecting their loved ones; while a century into the future, members of a transformed society determinedly search for the original twelve virals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1551759 The sequel to Hilary Mantels 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantels Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Annes head?-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1614973 As commander of the River Police, Monk is accustomed to violent death, but the mutilated female body found on Limehouse Pier one chilly December morning moves him with horror and pity. The victims name is Zenia Gadney. Her waterfront neighbors can tell him little, only that the same unknown gentleman had visited her once a month for many years. She must be a prostitute, but, described as quiet and kempt, she doesnt appear to be a fallen woman. What sinister secrets could have made poor Zenia worth killing? And why does the government keep interfering in Monks investigation? While the public cries out for blood, Monk, his spirited wife, Hester, and their brilliant barrister friend, Oliver Rathbone, search for answers. From dank waterfront alleys to Londons fabulously wealthy West End, the three trail an ice-blooded murderer toward the unbelievable, possibly unprovable truth, and ultimately engage their adversaries in an electric courtroom duel. But unless they can work a miracle, a monumental evil will go unpunished and an innocent person will hang. This is a novel of intrigue and suspense in which Monk is driven to make the hardest decision of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622273 Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, eyes on the road. Another man next to him, telling stories that dont add up. A woman in the back, silent and worried. And next to her, a huge man with a broken nose, hitching a ride east to Virginia. An hour behind them, a man lies stabbed to death in an old pumping station. He was seen going in with two others, but he never came out. He has been executed, the knife work professional, the killers vanished. Within minutes, the police are notified. Within hours, the FBI descends, laying claim to the victim without ever saying who he was or why he was there. All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. All he did was stick out his thumb. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat to both sides at once. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1661816 In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Boschs ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the black box, the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1477332 From a distance, Michael and Joleen Zarkades seem to have it all: a solid marriage, two exciting careers, and children they adore. But after twelve years together, the couple has lost their way; they are unhappy and edging toward divorce. Then the Iraq war starts. An unexpected deployment will tear their already fragile family apart, sending one of them deep into harms way and leaving the other at home, waiting for news. When the worst happens, each must face their darkest fear and fight for the future of their family. An intimate look at the inner landscape of a disintegrating marriage and a dramatic exploration of the price of war on a single American family, HOME FRONT is a provocative and timely portrait of hope, honor, loss, forgiveness, and the elusive nature of love-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1526979 Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590269 When his carefully planned FBI sting is foiled by IRS attorney Olivia MacKenzies efforts to untangle an elaborate Ponzi scheme, agent Grayson Kincaid becomes the womans protector against dangerous and corrupt adversaries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660370 After a slow summer of chasing low-level skips for her cousin Vinnies bail bonds agency, Stephanie Plum finally lands an assignment that could put her checkbook back in the black. Geoffrey Cubbin, facing trial for embezzling millions from Trentons premier assisted-living facility, has mysteriously vanished from the hospital after an emergency appendectomy. Now its on Stephanie to track down the con man. The problem is, Cubbin has disappeared without a trace, a witness, or his money-hungry wife. Rumors are stirring that he must have had help with the daring escape, or that maybe he never made it out of his room alive. Since the hospital staffs lips seem to be tighter than the security, and it is hard for Stephanie to blend in to assisted living, Stephanies Grandma Mazur goes in undercover. But when a second felon goes missing from the same hospital, Plum is forced into working side by side with Trentons hottest cop, Joe Morelli, in order to crack the case. Solving the case is harder than she imagined and to make sure the rent is paid she takes on a second job, protecting her mentor Ranger from a deadly special forces adversary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629763 Buried alive in a volcano in the Carpathian mountains for hundreds of years, Dax discovers that Mitro, the evil vampire he has been hunting for centuries, is still alive. 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=1652968 Having missed much of her childrens lives while she built a home-furnishings empire, Olivia Grayson arranges a family vacation in the Mediterranean in the hopes of rekindling ties only to confront painful interpersonal dynamics and unexpected revelations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544111 Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a skin man, Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beasts most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, The Wind through the Keyhole. (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V.) http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649494 Investigating the theft of a valuable painting that was supposed to be donated to the Scottish National Gallery, Isabel harbors a growing suspicion that the thieves may be close to the paintings wealthy owner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584673 Forging inseparable bonds in childhood that reinforce them throughout their teen years, two girls and three boys go their separate ways as adults and encounter respective tragedies and transformations. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1522258 Michelle Mac Mackenzie, a super-human Greater-Than with unique abilities, teams up with a former Navy SEAL Shane Laughlin to stop the spread of a highly addictive drug called Destiny, which gives anyone the same abilities as a Greater-Than. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1547300 When telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse investigates the body of a woman discovered in vampire Eric Northmans yard, she has no idea the murderer is an enemy out to get her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1590255 Tapped by FDR to assist the Allies efforts to secure France and build an atomic bomb, OSS spy chief Wild Bill Donovan and top agent Dick Canidy coordinate a sabotage mission in Germany while countering a mole who is leaking Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1645553 In the midst of a bloody battle in the Iraq War, two soldiers, bound together since basic training, do everything to protect each other from both outside enemies and the internal struggles that come from constant danger. 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=1538110 When a hedge fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington to talk some sense into his wayward son, it seems like an easy enough job; no one knows the hidden sins and temptations of the ultra-wealthy better than Stone. But as Stone and his erstwhile protege, Herbie Fisher, probe deeper into the case--and an old one comes back to haunt him---he realizes that even he may have underestimated just how far some people will go to cover up their crimes...and plan new ones. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1475421 When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his own kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike-and Cole soon determines that it was no fake. The boy and his secret girlfriend have been taken, and are now lost in the gray and changing world of the professional border kidnappers who prey not only on innocent victims but also on one another-buying, selling, and stealing victims like commodities. Fortunately, the kidnappers dont yet know who the boy is, but when Cole goes undercover to try to buy the two hostages back, he himself is taken and disappears. Now it is up to Pike to retrace Coles steps, burning through the hard and murderous world of human traffickers ... before it is too late. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656598 This novel continues the stories of five interrelated families who struggle with social, political, and economic turmoil in the mid-twentieth century, during which they witness the rise of Nazi Germany, the Spanish Civil War, and the horrors of World War II. It picks up right where the first book left off, and continues up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich, born of German and English parents, finds her life engulfed by the Nazi tide until she commits a deed of great courage and heartbreak. American brothers Woody and Chuck Dewar, each with a secret, take separate paths to momentous events, one in Washington, the other in the bloody jungles of the Pacific. English student Lloyd Williams discovers in the crucible of the Spanish Civil War that he must fight Communism just as hard as Fascism. Daisy Peshkov, a driven American social climber, cares only for popularity and the fast set, until the war transforms her life, not just once but twice, while her cousin Volodya carves out a position in Soviet intelligence that will affect not only this war, but the war to come. These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as their experiences illuminate the cataclysms that marked the century. From the drawing rooms of the rich to the blood and smoke of battle, their lives intertwine, propelling the reader into dramas of ever increasing complexity.