Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=6670&N=3+8034+8031 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733084 A follow-up to Firefly Lane returns readers to the world of Tully, Kate, and Tullys mother, who explore their understandings about love, family, loss, and redemption while turning to each other in the hopes of salvaging their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735129 A week after giving birth, Lindsay Boxer is investigating two cases: a grisly murder where the main suspect is an NFL player and an eccentric professor who thinks his dreams of a murder are real. Will Detective Lindsay Boxer be pushed to breaking point? An eccentric professor walks into Lindsays homicide department to report a murder that hasnt yet happened. A convicted serial killer wakes from a two-year coma. He says hes ready to tell where the bodies are buried, but does he have a much more sinister plan in mind? Lindsay doesnt have much time to stop a terrifying future from unfolding. But all the crimes in the world seem like nothing when she is suddenly faced with the possibility of the most devastating loss of her life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735132 Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photography, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether its across Massachusetts or across the country. Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing--and terrifying--playground of amusements he calls Christmasland. Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble--and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manxs unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. Hes on the road again and hes picked up a new passenger: Vics own son. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681208 Struggling to reclaim his career after the devastating murder of his partner eight months earlier, LAPD cop Max Kent is teamed with a traumatized military canine named Maggie who assists Max in an effort to track down his late partners killer. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698377 The stunning sequel to The Coldest Winter Ever. Sharp-tongued, quick-witted Porsche worships her sister Winter. Cut from the same cloth as her father, Ricky Santiaga, Porsche is also a natural-born hustler. Passionate and loyal to the extreme, she refuses to accept her new life in group homes, foster care, and juvenile detention after her family is torn apart. Unselfish, she pushes to get back everything that ever belonged to her wealthy, loving family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682630 Astonished by his imminent marriage to a woman he believed out of his league, Seth flies to their destination wedding in Florida only to be swept up in a maelstrom of violence involving rioters, Russian gangsters, angry strippers, and a desperate python. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1681209 The Berlin office of the worlds most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693987 A collection of stories which includes Home, a wryly whimsical account of a soldiers return from war; Victory lap, a tale about an inventive abduction attempt; and the title story, in which a suicidal cancer patient saves the life of a young misfit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743326 While investigating a mobsters mysterious death, police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross come into contact with a strange artifact and accidentally develop the Sight. Suddenly they can see the true evil haunting Londons streets. Now the four officers take on the otherworldly creatures secretly prowling London. Football lore and the tragic history of a Tudor queen become entwined in their pursuit of an age-old witch with a penchant for child sacrifice. But when Londons monsters become aware of their meddling, the officers must decide what they are willing to sacrifice to clean up their city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685238 Contacted to investigate the gruesome murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of the woman accused of the crime, police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is simultaneously drawn into another case that could be related to hers and must stop a dangerous killer from striking again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677512 After a shocking discovery in Masada, Israel, Sergeant Jordan Stone, Father Rhun Korza and Dr. Erin Granger, racing against time to recover a book written by Christs own hand, must contend with a force of ancient evil with impossible ambitions and a secret sect within the Vatican called the Sanguines. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732048 Bestselling author Ann B. Ross cooks up a batch of fun in this latest novel in her popular series With a crisp bite in the air, Miss Julia is enjoying a well-earned respite by her new fireplace. But autumn leaves arent the only things falling: James, Hazel Maries housekeeper, has had a nasty tumble down some stairs. How can Hazel Marie feed and take care of him--not to mention a husband and two babies--when she barely knows how to boil water? Miss Julia jumps in to help by convincing the ladies of Abbotsville to put on their aprons and give cooking lessons. With success so close she can taste it, Miss Julia isnt thrilled when an unexpected visitor shows up. Brother Vern Puckett, Hazel Maries no-good uncle, started life on the wrong foot and stayed there. What could he possibly want from his frazzled niece this time? With a delightful helping of madcap antics, Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble is a perfect next course in this charming series. --Provided by publisher. 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=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=1704185 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682631 In this poignant story of two parallel destinies, a young New York lawyer and his wife link their destinies forever in a follow-your-dream move to rural Wyoming. Thirty-eight years later a Manhattan publisher and a young Amish woman become irresistibly drawn together through her writing. Somehow these two remarkable relationships come together in unexpected and surprising ways, as lovers are lost, and find each other again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711623 Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years havent come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todds obituary, he cant keep himself away from the funeral. There he gets the glimpse of Todds wife hes hoping for . . . but she is not Natalie. Whoever the mourning widow is, shes been married to Todd for more than a decade, and with that fact everything Jake thought he knew about the best time of his life--a time he has never gotten over--is turned completely inside out. As Jake searches for the truth, his picture-perfect memories of Natalie begin to unravel. Mutual friends of the couple either cant be found or dont remember Jake. No one has seen Natalie in years. Jakes search for the woman who broke his heart, and who lied to him. soon puts his very life at risk as it dawns on him that the man he has become may be based on carefully constructed fiction. 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=1697903 Vowing to meet eleven years after sealing letters they wrote to each other in an old metal box, best friends Ellie and Nolan both have reservations about seeing each other again as loneliness, personal tragedies, and a lack of faith haunt both of them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715980 Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685239 When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far the are willing to go. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682791 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677517 Returning to the Oregon small town where fellow members of a research team were killed two years earlier, psychic counselor Gwen Frazier, convinced that her mentors untimely death is related, searches for answers at the side of psychic investigator Judson Coppersmith, who is haunted by urgent dreams and a primal attraction to Gwen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682843 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677520 Pressured by her mother to marry a proper gentleman, Caroline Maxwell reluctantly considers Lord Bremerton while harboring a secret longing for adventure and passion with her brothers world-traveling friend, Jack, whose new money and lack of title render him an unsuitable candidate in her mothers eyes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693084 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738826 2008. A counter-terrorist operation, codenamed Wildlife, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar. Its purpose: to capture and abduct a high-value jihadist arms-buyer. Its authors: an ambitious Foreign Office Minister, a private defense contractor who is also his bosom friend, and a shady American CIA operative of the evangelical far-right. So delicate is the operation that even the Ministers personal private secretary, Toby Bell, is not cleared for it. Cornwall, UK, 2011. A disgraced Special Forces Soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be--or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Summoned by Sir Christopher (Kit) Probyn, retired British diplomat, to his decaying Cornish manor house, and closely observed by Kits beautiful daughter, Emily, Toby must choose between his conscience and duty to his Service. If the only thing necessary to the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, how can he keep silent? 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=1686005 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694698 Detective Alex Cross arrests renowned plastic surgeon Elijah Creem for sleeping with teenage girls. Now, his life ruined, Creem is out of jail, and he has made sure that no one will recognize him by giving himself a new face. A young woman is found hanging from a sixth floor window, and Alex is called to the scene. The victim recently gave birth, but the baby is nowhere to be found. Before Alex can begin searching for the missing newborn and killer, he is called to investigate a second crime. All of Washington, D.C. is in a panic, and when a third body is discovered, rumours of three serial killers send the city into an all out frenzy. Alexs investigations are going nowhere, and he is too focused on the cases to notice that someone has been watching him and will stop at nothing until he is dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678855 Archivist Beecher White discovers a connection that may link the individuals responsible for the only four successful assassinations of American Presidents after discovering a modern-day killer who is recreating the assassins crimes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713990 Actress, activist, and entrepreneur Jessica Alba inspires moms to make affordably healthy choices for themselves and their families without sacrificing style-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1722576 In this novel the author exposes a dark secret from a familys past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery, and provoke a host of suspicions and questions. Was the explosion deliberately set? What was Kate, tall, gorgeous, blond, a CPA for one of the biggest accounting firms in the country, and sister of a rising fashion designer, doing in the museum when it burst into flames? Why was Gus, a retired and disgruntled craftsman, with her at that time of night? What if someone is not who he claims to be? Now Gus is dead, and Kate lies in the hospital badly injured and in a coma, so neither can tell what drew them there, or what the tragedy may have to do with the hunt for a young woman missing for many years, nor can they warn that somebody may be covering his tracks, willing to kill to save himself. Step by step, the author once again presents the reader with a perplexing mystery, a puzzling question of identity, and a fascinating cast of characters, one of whom may just be a ruthless killer http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734524 Catalyzed by a nephews thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715451 When a chance encounter with a stranger in a hotel results in murder, Wendy Gould, framed for the crime and desperate to clear her name, forms an unlikely alliance with the only witness - - a woman who knows a shocking secret that could get them both killed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1730981 Snyder, author of the bestselling The Beauty Detox Solution and one of Hollywoods top celebrity nutritionists and beauty experts, shares the top 50 beauty foods that will make readers more beautiful from the inside out. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743734 Presents a multigenerational saga detailing the history of Paris, from its founding under the Romans to the hotbed of cultural activity during the 1920s and 1930s. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696006 Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734597 A tale inspired by the marriage of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald follows their union in defiance of her fathers opposition and her abandonment of the provincial finery of her upbringing in favor of a scandalous flapper identity that gains her entry into the literary party scenes of New York, Paris and the French Riviera. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715458 After being let go from her competitive, high-pressure Seattle law firm, Libby Morgan reaches out to old friends and spends her afternoons at A Good Yarn, the local knitting store, where she forms close bonds with three women and finds time for romance with a charming and handsome doctor who seems to be her perfect match. But just as everything is coming together, Libby must make a choice that could forever change the life she holds so dear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1649493 A colorful cast of residents and visitors to Miami go about their daily activities, both legal and illegal. This is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. The police launch speeds across Miamis Biscayne Bay with officer Nestor Camacho on board. Into the feverous landscape of the city, he introduces the Cuban mayor, the black police chief, a wanna-go-muckraking young journalist and his Yale-marinated editor; an Anglo sex-addiction psychiatrist and his Latina nurse by day, loin lock by night-until lately, the love of Nestors life; a refined, and oh-so-light-skinned young woman from Haiti and her Creole-spouting, black-gang-banger-stylin little brother; a billionaire porn addict, crack dealers in the hoods, de-skilled conceptual artists at the Miami Art Basel Fair, spectators at the annual Biscayne Bay regatta looking only for that nights orgy, yenta-heavy ex-New Yorkers at an Active Adult condo, and a nest of shady Russians. 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=1623488 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=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=1526097 PI Regan Reilly and her husband Jack, head of the NYPD Major Case Squad, investigate an L.A.-based business scam that extends up and down the coast of California. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584672 In the aftermath of a brutal attack that left a woman in intensive care and her husband and young children dead, brash cop Scorcher Kennedy and his rookie partner, Richie, struggle with perplexing clues and Scorchers haunting memories of a shattering incident from his childhood. 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=1632777 Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattans wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1442944 Raised by loving adoptive parents, San Francisco private investigator Wyatt Hunt never had an interest in finding his birth family--until he gets a chilling text message from an unknown number: How did ur mother die? The answer is murder, and urged on by curiosity and the mysterious texter, Hunt takes on a case he never knew existed, one that has lain unsolved for decades. 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=1554197 In the summer of 1914, the transatlantic ocean liner carrying Grace Winter, 22 and her new husband Henry suffers a mysterious explosion. Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Graces. The survivors quickly realise the boat is over capacity. For any to live, some must die. As the castaways battle the elements, and each other, Grace watches and waits. Her journey to a life of glittering privilege has been far from straightforward, and now it is in jeopardy. Over the course of three perilous weeks, the passengers plot, scheme and console one another while sitting inches apart. Their deepest beliefs about goodness, humanity and God are tested to the limit as they discover what they will do in order to survive. 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=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=1487261 Twenty-four-year-old Edward Warren, has been living in Thailand for five years, a prodigal son who left his family after an irreparable fight with his father, Luke. But he gets a frantic phone call: his dad lies comatose, gravely injured in the same accident that has also injured his younger sister Cara. With her fathers chances for recovery dwindling, Cara wants to wait for a miracle. But Edward wants to terminate life support and donate his fathers organs. Is he motivated by altruism or revenge? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1567017 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=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=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=1523428 Tallie Jones is happy with life. Shes at the top of her career as a hugely successful, renowned movie director, shes in a relationship with a handsome producer and her personal assistant is also her devoted best friend. But Tallies perfect life comes crumbling down around her when she discovers that her boyfriends been unfaithful and, worse yet, someones been stealing from her for years. 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=1568316 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=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=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=1551791 The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister-- 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=1522257 Three people--a suburban housewife, a talented documentary photographer, and a detective--living lives they never wanted, hiding secrets that even those closest to them would never suspect, will find that the past doesnt recede ... and that desperation and hunger can lurk behind even the prettiest facades. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1550302 When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, Lindsay Boxer discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Franciscos most untouchable criminals. Then shes called next to the most bizarre crime scene shes ever witnessed: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor. 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=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=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=1579712 This is a ripped-from-the-headlines thriller that takes Alexandra Cooper into the dark underside of New York Citys most storied restaurants and a murder case spanning continents. Forty-eight hours after Alexandra Cooper arrives in France to visit her boyfriend and famed restaurateur, Luc Rouget, her vacation in paradise is cut short when a young woman from the village is found murdered. The only evidence discovered on the body is one of Lucs matchboxes promoting his new restaurant in New York. But before the investigation begins, Alex is summoned back to New York to handle a high profile case. Mohammed Gil-Darsin, the distinguished and wealthy head of the World Economic Bureau, has been arrested and accused of attacking a maid in his hotel. As the world watches in fascination to see how the scandal will unfold, Alex finds her attention torn between preparing the alleged victim to testify and a murder case with ties too close to home. A second body is found with Lucs matchbox, this time in Brooklyn, and Alex begins to fear that the two cases may not be as unrelated as she thought, and that uncovering the sordid secrets of the citys most wealthy and powerful could cost her and her loved ones everything they hold dear. 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=1442946 Kate Appleton wants to turn her parents summer house, the Nutshell, into a bed and breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his company, and if Kate finds the culprit, Matt will pay her a $20,000 bonus. Needless to say, Kate is highly motivated. But there are complications. Kate hates beer, no one likes her, and shes falling for her boss. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1478840 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576473 After a fatal car crash during a summer celebration on Nantucket island, four teenagers question if the roots of the accident lie further in the past than they seem; is true healing possible, in even these most devastating circumstance; and, can true friendship ever really die? 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=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=1568532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584670 Her carefully constructed life thrown into turmoil by the appearance of an eighteen-year-old girl with ties to her past, New York television producer Marian Caldwell is swept up in a maelstrom of personal discovery that changes both of their perceptions about family. 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=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=1662324 A hilarious, brilliant offering of cat comics, facts, and instructional guides from the creative wonderland at TheOatmeal.com. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1482154 Continues the story of the ancient Forerunners engineering race, who are worshiped as gods by the Covenant while their mysterious connection to humanity slowly unfolds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1672050 Appearing daily on ABC stations, The Chew celebrates and explores life through food, with a group of dynamic, engaging, fun, relatable co-hosts who serve up everything to do with food--from cooking and home entertaining to food trends, restaurants, holidays, and more--all aimed at making life better, fuller, and more fun. The Chews first cookbook, titled THE CHEW, will feature recipes from the show, broken into chapters that feature some of The Chews most loved themes and segments, as well as new content exclusive to the book. The book will be attractively designed throughout, with two eight-page color photo inserts. The hosts of the show--all contributors to the book--are chef, best-selling author, and TV personality Mario Batali; Iron Chefs Michael Symon; Top Chefs Carla Hall; What Not to Wears Clinton Kelly; and best-selling author and nutritionist Daphne Oz-- 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=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=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=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=1579956 When a San Francisco judge is shot at the same time a once-relentless federal prosecutor turns cautious, FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich receive an ominous note from the culprit that blames them for the incident. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615813 After he and his team refurbish Americas aging weapon systems, Patrick McLanahan heads to Guam to oversee strategy, which causes the Chinese to take the offensive, launching a preemptive strike on a small American fleet that ignites a battle for the Pacific. 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=1511912 On the ocean liner Mauretania, two European scientists with a dramatic new invention are barely rescued from abduction by the Van Dorn Detective Agencys intrepid chief investigator, Isaac Bell. Unfortunately, they are not so lucky the second time. The thugs attack again-and this time one of the scientists dies. What are they holding that is so precious? Only something that will revolutionize business and popular culture-and perhaps something more. For war clouds are looming, and a ruthless espionage agent has spotted a priceless opportunity to give the Germans an edge. It is up to Isaac Bell to figure out who he is, what he is up to, and stop him. But he may already be too late, and the future of the world may just hang in the balance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1664884 As China plans to invade Taiwan, and launches a cyber attack on the U.S., President Jack Ryan, his son, and the team at the Campus have to act fast if they are going to stop the increasingly rogue nation. 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=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=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=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=1572282 Special Agent Kathryn Dance must use her considerable skills at investigation and body language analysis to stop a celebrity stalker set in the world of country music.