Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7091&N=6594+4294966367 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703538 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748133 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer continues his beloved Clifton Chronicle series as Harry and Emma finally begin building a happy life--but a dangerous family enemy is about to resurface. Best Kept Secret opens a moment after the end of The Sins of the Father, with the resolution of the trial and the triumphant marriage of Harry Clifton and Elizabeth Barrington, finally uniting their family. Harry, now a bestselling novelist, Emma, their son Sebastian, and orphaned Jessica make a new life for themselves, but all is not as happy and secure as it could be. Emmas brother, Giles, is engaged to a woman who may be more interested in Barringtons fortune and title than in a long and happy marriage. And Sebastian, though he is bright, isnt quite the hard worker that his father was at school, and finds a hard time resisting the temptations that his somewhat unsavory friends provide.It all comes to a head when a new villain is uncovered, a face from the past with grudges against both Harry and Giles--Fisher, who tortured Harry at school and later took credit for Giles heroics during the war. Fisher teams up with Giles now ex-wife to wreak havoc on Giles latest election as well as meddle with affairs inside Barringtons, while Harry and Emma must deal with a new scheme that Sebastian has unwittingly fallen into with a supposed friend. The drama continues for Harry Clifton and his family, bringing this mesmerizing saga into the 1960s. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748881 Descended from witches, high school senior Nadia can tell as soon as her family moves to Captives Sound that the town is under a dark and powerful spell. Then she meets Mateo, the teenage local whose cursed dreams predict the future, and they must work together to prevent an impending disaster that threatens the entire town. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749204 The Morels--Arthur, Penny, and Will--are a happy family of three living in New York City. So why would Arthur choose to publish a book that brutally rips his tightly knit family unit apart at the seams? Arthurs old schoolmate Chris, who narrates the book, is fascinated with this very question as he becomes accidentally reacquainted with Arthur. A single, aspiring filmmaker who works in a movie theater, Chris envies everything Arthur has, from his beautiful wife to his charming son to his seemingly effortless creativity. But things are not always what they seem. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749111 Amid preparations for their preppy Southern towns Founders Day celebration and their own shared sweet sixteen, sisters Isabelle Scott and Mirabelle Monroe long to break free from the tight constraints that come with being the daughters of a prominent public figure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727123 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699672 At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as The face on the milk carton, but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnappers tale. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748377 Amy already has one naughty little sister, so why do her parents need another baby? Will there be any room left for Amy? At least she has her dog, Choc. He makes Amy feel like shes the most important person in the world. But can Choc help Amy to see that... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699602 In 1586 England, sixteen-year-old Mercy Hart, daughter of one of Londons wealthiest and most devout merchants, considers renouncing her family for love of Kit, a lowly actor and playboy, until Kit is accused of treason, testing Mercys resolve. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748721 Marcus Hardy had hoped to enjoy a year away at college while he put the summer hed rather forget behind him. But instead, hes jerked right back to the coastal town of Sea Breeze, Alabama due to a family crisis. The only bright spot is Willow, Low, the fascinating red head who sleeps over several times a week. The problem is shes sleeping in bed with his new roommate, Cage Watson. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644151 Ten-year-old Mallory, determined to find out what her brother Max does while spending time with his girlfriend, Winnie, spies an innocent kiss on the cheek then tells her babysitter and friends a more exciting tale. Includes a recipe for double chocolate chip cookies and directions for playing four games. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699675 When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749176 Ashamed of his parents way of life traveling around the country peddling honey for medicinal purposes and stealing, Fergy takes his young sister and runs away to find his mothers wealthy parents and a better way to live. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748256 From the beloved and best-selling author comes a story of life and death, family and community, once again set out on the high plains in Holt, Colorado. When Dad Lewis is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he and his wife must work together, along with their daughter, to make his final days as comfortable as possible, despite the bitter absence of their estranged son... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699657 Bewildered by a new student at her Manhattan high school who does not know her but seems to be Philip Walker, her lost love from her time travels, and threatened by Rebecca, who has held a grudge against her family for 120 years, sixteen-year-old Michele Windsor seeks help in her father journals and The Handbook of The Time Society. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748439 For years, 10-year-old Zelly Fried has tried to convince her parents to let her have a dog. After all, practically everyone in Vermont owns a dog, and it sure could go a long way helping Zelly fit in since moving there from Brooklyn. But when her eccentric grandfather Ace hatches a ridiculous plan involving a practice dog named OJ, Zellys not so sure how far shes willing to go to win a dog of her own. Is Aces plan so crazy it just might work . . ... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748612 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727477 As the battle against the Black Wings and Their minions looms on the horizon, part-angel Clara Gardner is finally ready to fulfill her destiny, even though she knows she may have to make the ultimate sacrifice-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748384 Aunt Susan - an unstoppable force, and possibly the bossiest woman alive - is on the phone, and thats never good. Shes insisting that Harry and his family help her at a local event shes promised to organise: the Great Toadpool Show. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748731 Back before the stock market crash, Jacks dad had been working steadily and their family had had plenty of money. But now, in the middle of the 1930s depression, there isnt much work for a trombone player--just a gig down in New York City once in a while. So 14-year-old Jack is doing his best to help out. And hes lucky enough to get a weekend job at the town boat club where the rich folks hang out. But Jack wishes his dad would at least try to get a regular job. Sometimes there isnt even enough money to buy decent food and clothes for Jack, his sister Sally, and their young brother Henry. Its bad enough that their mother has had a nervous breakdown and gone to live in a home. Jacks father keeps telling them to look on the bright side--his favorite song is Happy Days Are Here Again. But Jack isnt sure there can be a bright side when you dont have enough money to live decently. Then, at the boat club, Jack sees an opportunity to steal a lot of money--enough to pay the familys back rent and keep them all together. For the first time in his life Jack is seriously tempted to steal--especially now that he realizes that his dad cant really be depended upon, that its up to him to take care of the family... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749215 When all signs point to heartbreak, can love still be a rule of the road? A poignant and romantic novel from the author of Bittersweet and Twenty Boy Summer. Jude has learned a lot from her older sisters, but the most important thing is this: The Vargas brothers are notorious heartbreakers. Shes seen the tears and disasters that dating a Vargas boy can cause, and she swore an oath--with candles and a contract and everything--to never have anything to do with one... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706639 Ruby McGavin returns to Cardinal, California, with her brother Nash, hoping the fresh start will help him kick a debilitating drinking habit. And Rubys not the only one with renewed hope, as saddlemaker Lucas McGavin redoubles his efforts to win her heart--even if Ruby is his brothers widow. Soon, all three learn that building a better future means first making peace with the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749199 Sixteen-year-old San Franciscan Lucy Beck-Moreau once had a promising future as a concert pianist. Her chance at a career has passed, and she decides to help her ten-year-old piano prodigy brother, Gus, map out his own future, even as she explores why she enjoyed piano in the first place.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703512 When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action in 1944, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703532 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703503 Spirited and intelligent, Morayo grows up surrounded by school friends and family in busy, modern-day Ibadan, Nigeria. An adoring little sister, their traditional parents, and a host of aunties and cousins make Morayos home their own, so theres nothing unusual about her charming but troubled cousin, Bros T, moving in with the family. At first Morayo and her sister are delighted, but in her innocence, nothing prepares Morayo for the shameful secret Bros T forces upon her. Thrust into a web of oppressive silence woven by the adults around her, Morayo must learn to protect herself and her sister from a legacy of silence shared by the women in her family. Only her Aunt Morenike provides Morayo with a safe home and a sense of female community that sustains her as she develops into a young woman in a bustling, politically charged, and often violent country. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749207 When fourteen-year-old Micah Darling travels to Los Angeles to reunite with the mother, who deserted him seven years ago, he finds himself out of his league in a land of magical freedom. He does new drugs with new people, falls in love with an enchanting but troubled equestrienne named Charlotte, and gets thrown out of school over the activities of a club called the New Luddites. Back in the Midwest, an ethereal young woman comes to Stone City on a mission that will unsettle the lives of everyone she meets--including Micahs half-sister, Lyris, who still fights fears of abandonment after a childhood in foster care, and Micahs father, Tiny, a petty thief. An investigation into the strangers identity uncovers a darkly disturbed life, as parallel narratives of the comic and tragic, the mysterious and the everyday, unfold in both the country and the city. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748419 Complications arise throughout his family when churchgoing and respected community member Robert John Browns caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727613 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727146 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744653 Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert want to save their school from destruction! Just when it seems theyve finally gotten the upper hand over that awful Janitor Lyman, theyre caught off guard by his next move: Lyman has called in reinforcements, and now Benjamin, Jill, and Robert find themselves dodging not one evil janitor, but two. Thats right: Lymans got himself a partner. And it quickly becomes clear that Wally, the new guy, is even more corrupt and menacing than Lyman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749098 Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639186 A place to heal. Thats all Brooke McKaslin yearns for. Shes returned to Montana on family business, hoping to leave her past behind. And to shield the secret she carries. Shes not planning on staying long until she begins working for reporter Liam Knightly. Liam is handsome, good-hearted, and as leery of relationships as Brooke is. Even as they realize how much they have in common, Brooke fears a threat to their growing love. Will her secret stand in the way of their happiness? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699267 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644010 While a serial killer stalks his small Georgia town, sixteen-year-old Henry tries to find the truth about the terrible accident that robbed him of his mother and his memories, aided by his friend Justine but not by his distant father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640196 Mae Wilkeys sweet next-door neighbor, Pauline, is suffering from old age and dementia and desperately needs family to come help her. But Pauline cant recall having kin remaining. Mae searches through her desk and finds a name--Tom Curtis, who may just be the answer to their prayers.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748701 Sixteen-year-old Gwen, the newest and final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve, searches through history for the other time-travelers, aided by friend Lesley, James the ghost, Xemerius the gargoyle demon, and Gideon, the Diamond, whose fate seems bound with hers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646743 Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700211 When his widowed mother meets a man she wants to marry, thirteen-year-old Bernie decides he will go to live with his grandfather in Florida rather than live in the house with his new stepfather. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639310 When Jimmy McMullen, a fireman with the NYFD, is killed in the line of duty, his wife, Jackie, and ten-year-old son, Charlie, are devastated. Charlie idolized his dad, and now the outgoing, curious boy has become quiet and reserved. Trusting in the healing power of family, Jackie decides to return to her childhood home on Sullivans Island. Crossing the bridge from the mainland, Jackie and Charlie enter a world full of wonder and magic--lush green and chocolate grasslands and dazzling red, orange, and magenta evening skies; the heady pungency of Lowcountry Pluff mud and fresh seafood on the grill; bare toes snuggled in warm sand and palmetto fronds swaying in gentle ocean winds. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639584 John Galsworthys The Forsyte Saga collects together three novels and two interludes, all published between 1906 and 1921. Not far removed from their farming history, the members of an upper-middle-class British family are painfully aware of being new money. As a man of property, Soames Forsytes abilities bring him material wealth, but they grant him no quarter in the happiness stakes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748460 In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707158 In the South Carolina Lowcountry, three generations of a family--a grandmother, a mother, and a son--discover the indelible power of love as they share a memorable summer on Sullivans Island. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699127 While trying to hide an incriminating report card and dodge meddling siblings, fifth-grade twins Hunter and Zack set out to save their town from a diabolical dentist who is planning to blow it to smithereens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643886 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699103 The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641995 A fascinating new look at the infamous story of the Hatfields and the McCoys and their blood feud that began in 1865 with the murder of Harmon McCoy, a Union soldier, by a Confederate Hatfield relative. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643694 When Skyes cousin Hiroshi and his family move to Virginia from Japan, the cultural differences lead to misunderstandings and both children are unhappy at the changes in their lives--will flying the dragon kite finally bring them together? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643921 Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1562405 James Carlos Blake is a master at weaving historical fact into fiction. Two generations of Wolfe men--begat by an English pirate in New Hampshire in 1828--track their violent but manifest destiny through the Diaz Regime in Mexico in the early 1900s and back to Gulf Coast Texas. The novel centers on two sets of identical hero twins, each with a violent history that mirror the authors belief on the primacy of violence in the evolution of civilization. Their lives are intertwined with important events through the history of the United States, beginning in the 1820s. Crucial are the histories of the infamous Saint Patricks Battalion (revered in Mexico as los San Patricios) who deserted the U.S. Army during the Mexican-American War (1846-1848) and the rise and fall of Porfirio Diaz Regime (1876-1910), which marked the beginning of the Mexican Revolution-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699614 Miranda Fox has devoted much of her life to caring for her elderly father. After his tragic death, she starts to make plans for her future, funded by the inheritance she is sure will be coming her way, but it seems her arrogant and domineering half-brother has very different ideas ... Then a chance encounter with a man who has been given months to live boosts Mirandas confidence, and as their friendship grows she finally learns to stand up for herself and her dreams. Can Miranda find the happiness that she deserves? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643916 Meet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women-an unbroken line of daughters-living together in the same house on a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and determined to become the oldest person in the world. An indomitable force, strong in mind and firm in body, she rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great-granddaughter Erin. Though they lead ordinary lives, there is an element of the extraordinary to these women: the eldest two are defying longevity norms. Their unusual lifespans have caught the attention of a geneticist who believes they hold the key to breakthroughs that will revolutionize the aging process for everyone. But Anna is not interested in unlocking secrets the Keller blood holds. She believes there are some truths that must stay hidden, including certain knowledge about her origins that she has carried for more than a century. Like Anna, each of the Keller women conceals her true self from the others. While they are bound by blood and the house they share, living together has not always been easy.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643701 In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700213 Robin and her family have spent several years moving from place to place, trying to find work and a place to live. When Robins father finds a job, all are happy but Robin. She explores the countryside near her home, meets new friends, and discovers a secret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703127 Based on his widely read columns for The New Yorker, Ian Fraziers uproarious first novel, The Cursing Mommys Book of Days, centers on a profoundly memorable character, sprung from an impressively fertile imagination. Structured as a daybook of sorts, with the Cursing Mommy--beleaguered wife of Larry and mother of two boys, twelve and nine--trying (more or less) valiantly to offer tips on how to do various tasks around the home, only to end up on the ground, cursing, surrounded by broken glass. Her voice is somewhere between Phyllis Dillers and Sylvia Plaths: a hilariously desperate housewife with a taste for swearing and large glasses of red wine, who speaks to the frustrations of everyday life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703355 After her youngest son, and last one to marry, brings home his wife, Rachel feels her role of family matriarch slipping away and must deal with the loss that comes with it, while maintaining the relationships she holds dear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1541426 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641808 We first met Avery in two of the stories featured in Dana Johnsons award-winning collection Break Any Woman Down. As a young girl, she and her family escape the violent streets of Los Angeles to a more gentrified existence in suburban West Covina. This average life, filled with school, trips to 7-Eleven to gawk at Tiger Beat magazine, and family outings to Dodger Stadium, is soon interrupted by a past she cannot escape, personified in the guise of her violent cousin Keith.When Keith moves in with her family, he triggers a series of events that will follow Avery throughout her life: to her stu. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640111 Taking the family sailboat on a summer-long trip excites everyone except sixteen-year-old Clementine, who feels stranded with her parents and younger sister and guilty over a falling-out with her best friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639244 Hypnotic and profoundly disquieting, The Listeners explores a far-out world where a patchwork of memory, sensation, and imagination maps the flickering presence of ghosts. This is the story of a woman whose life is shaped by tragedy. Quinn is thirtysomething, a survivor of a fractured and eccentric childhood marred by the death of her younger sister. Twenty years later, she is in the midst of a decade-long slide down the other side of punk-rock stardom after her successful music career was abruptly halted. Sassy and smart, tough but broken, Quinn is at loose ends. She develops unique strategi. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644016 When twelve-year-old Hailees family wins the lottery, her life changes in unexpected--and not always good--way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639727 Whatever happens, school comes first. Her mother said it like she meant it. These words played over and over again in Dani Garcias head. But life got in the way. There were mouths to feed and rent to pay. Plus someone had to watch baby Benny. Dani knew adversity, but she was the kind of strong that comes from within: strong mind, body, and soul. Then a horrible rape and its powerful aftermath threaten to bring Danis life crashing down-- forever. Shes trapped in a reality that she cannot control, but she gains the strength to never back down and finally has faith in her own power. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641892 First-grader Monty Morris includes his new baby sister in a school project, gives his mother a surprising gift, gets a little more than he can handle with his friend Joeys dogs, and learns that sometimes a day filled with excitement is not the best thing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748517 Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639099 Kansas,1881. On a trip to visit relatives, Emmas Amish family is robbed of all their possessions, leaving them destitute and stranded on the prairie. Walking into the nearest trading settlement, they pray to the Lord for someone to help. When a man lands in the dust at her feet, Emma looks down at him and thinks, The Lord might have cleaned him up first. Luke Carson, heading up his first cattle drive, is not planning on being the answer to anyones prayers, but it looks as though God has something else in mind for this kind and gentle man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642521 Rising high school senior Maggie remembers little about the accidental death of her boyfriend, Joey, but as she slowly begins to recall that day at the gorge with their long-time friends, she realizes he was keeping some terrible secrets. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639500 Pollyanna Grows Up is the first sequel to Pollyanna, and the only one written by Porter herself. Numerous following sequels have been written by various authors. Pollyannas crippling spinal injury has been cured, and she begins to teach a new town the glad game. She makes many friends and two of her childhood friends, Jimmy and Jamie, court her. Jimmy is an energetic, healthy young architect and Jamie is a crippled literary genius. Jimmy also discovers secrets of his past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646612 Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees these reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope if he cant? To what extent can Alexa, Dans wife, sacrifice her own needs and fulfillment to support his commitment to a way of life that demands everything, not just of him, but of her and the children as well? What happens when love and a vocation collide head on? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703361 A novel about four generations of a British family--their secrets, their loves and losses, dreams and heartbreaks--captured in a series of individual moments that span the years from World War I, to World War II, to the 1960s, and up to the present. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727383 Anne is about to marry her childhood friend, Gilbert Blythe, and set up home with him in her house of dreams. Life really does seem perfect for a while, but suddenly Annes charmed life is touched by tragedy. Who would have thought that the honesty of her enigmatic friend, Leslie Moore, would help her to overcome her sorrow? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699013 The Alden children suspect someone of trying to sabotage the local dog show. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748332 Ten-year-old Jamie Matthews has just moved to the Lake District with his Dad and his teenage sister, Jasmine for a Fresh New Start. Five years ago his sisters twin, Rose, was blown up by a terrorist bomb. His parents are wrecked by their grief, Jasmine turns to piercing, pink hair, and stops eating. The family falls apart. But Jamie hasnt cried in all that time. To him Rose is just a distant memory. Jamie is far more interested in his cat, Roger, his birthday Spiderman T-shirt, and in keeping his new friend Sunya a secret from his dad. And in his deep longing and unshakeable belief that his Mum will come back to the family she walked out on months ago. When he sees a TV ad for a talent show, he feels certain that this will change everything and bring them all back together once and for all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574260 Every family photograph hides a story. Some are suffused with warmth and joy, others reflect the dull ache of disappointed dreams. For thirteen-year-old Trevor Kennedy, taking photos helps make sense of his fractured world. His father, Kurt, struggles to keep a business going while also caring for Trevors aging grandfather, whose hoarding has reached dangerous levels. Trevors mother, Elisabeth, all but ignores her son while doting on his five-year-old sister, Gracy, and pilfering useless drugstore items. Trevor knows he can count on little Gracys unconditional love and his art teachers encouragement. None of that compensates for the bullying he has endured at school for as long as he can remember. But where Trevor once silently tolerated the jabs and name-calling, now anger surges through him in ways hes powerless to control. Only Crystal, a store clerk dealing with her own loss, sees the deep fissures in the Kennedy family - in the haunting photographs Trevor brings to be developed, and in the palpable distance between Elisabeth and her son. And as their lives become more intertwined, each will be pushed to the breaking point, with shattering, unforeseeable consequences.--Cover, p. [2]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1646621 As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703368 Astrid Jones copes with her small towns gossip and narrow-mindedness by staring at the sky and imagining that shes sending love to the passengers in the airplanes flying high over her backyard. Maybe theyll know what to do with it. Maybe itll make them happy. Maybe theyll need it. Her mother doesnt want it, her fathers always stoned, her perfect sisters too busy trying to fit in, and the people in her small town would never allow her to love the person she really wants to: another girl named Dee. Theres no one Astrid feels she can talk to about this deep secret or the profound questions that shes trying to answer. But little does she know just how much sending her love--and asking the right questions--will affect the passengers lives, and her own, for the better. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642766 Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644046 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1641829 Richard, a wealthy doctor, invites his estranged sister Angela and her family to join him for a week at a vacation home in the English countryside, which results in a symphony of long-held grudges, fading dreams, and rising hopes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640730 A young Amish woman, searching for truth and love amidst tradition, returns to her home state of Indiana after a season in Montana, hoping to understand where exactly her heart belongs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1642644 Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his fathers efforts to start a new business, his mothers extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703098 It is 1920, and Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss Mary Bayly, the current owner of the legendary Mason family estate, the Retreat. Miss Mary is dying. She plans to give the Retreat to the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward believes he can charm the old lady, secure the estate and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of a long day, he hears the stories that will forever bind him and his family to the land. He hears of Miss Marys grandfather brutally selling all his slaves in 1857 in order to avoid the reprisals he believes will come with Emancipation. He hears of the doomed efforts by Wyatt Bayly, Miss Marys father, to turn the Retreat into a vast peach orchard, and of Miss Mary and her brother growing up in a fractured and warring household. He learns of Abel Terrell, son of free blacks who becomes head orchardist, and whose family becomes intimately connected to the Baylys and to the Mason legacy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703298 Watching their children move out and live independently is a difficult task for many parents--but for George and Mary Ann McCray, its nearly impossible. Even though Todd, their disabled son, is in his twenties, George and Mary Ann fear that he cannot thrive without their support and supervision. But Todd is determined to be his own person--and he has a dog named Christmas and an entire community ready to help him find his way. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644517 When a third person in three years goes missing, presumed dead, July Fourth weekend in Winston, California, sixteen-year-old budding fashion designer Clare Knight uses her gift of seeing visions of peoples pasts while touching their clothing to seek the truth, at risk of her own life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1561993 When a new glassblower arrives to help in the family business, the attraction Maria feels for him causes a web of conflicting emotions to grow even more tangled. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640069 After graduating from a Phoenix, Arizona, high school, aspiring artist Amanda Zero Walsh unexpectedly begins a relationship with a drummer in a punk rock band, which helps her come to terms with her feelings about herself, her falling out with her best friend, and her parents personal problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643502 Wealthy New York City high school student Jonathan and his upper-class friends spend their time dating, partying, and dealing with each others family problems. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1573806 Angelina Neatolinis wish for a pet, denied by her family on the grounds that pets are too messy, is overheard by a hard-of-hearing ladybug, who fills their tidy new home with assorted pests. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1640263 The six Bastable children try to restore their familys fortune using a variety of schemes taken from books, including finding buried treasure, rescuing someone from bandits, and starting a newspaper. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574276 For generations, a grand estate house was the crowning glory of more than 3,000 acres of Iowa farmland. Named Aurelia, it was a monument to matriarch Lavinia Hathaways dream to elevate the family name--no matter what relative or stranger she had to destroy in the process. Now, Lavinias youngest grandchild, Meredith Pincetti, is thrust into conflict with the legacy that destroyed her familys once-great name. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748228 At some point in nearly every marriage, a wife finds herself asking, What is wrong with my husband?! In David Finchs case, this turns out to be an apt question. Five years after he married Kristen, the love of his life, they learn that he has Asperger syndrome. The diagnosis explains Davids ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, his lifelong propensity to quack and otherwise melt down in social exchanges, and his clinical-strength inflexibility. But it doesnt make him any easier to live with. Determined to change, David sets out to understand Asperger syndrome and learn to be a better husband--no easy task for a guy whose inability to express himself rivals his two-year-old daughters, who thinks his responsibility for laundry extends no further than throwing things in (or at) the hamper, and whose autism-spectrum condition makes seeing his wifes point of view a near impossibility. Nevertheless, David devotes himself to improving his marriage with an endearing yet hilarious zeal that involves excessive note-taking, performance reviews, and most of all, the Journal of Best Practices: a collection of hundreds of maxims and hard-won epiphanies that result from self-reflection both comic and painful. They include Dont change the radio station when shes singing along, Apologies do not count when you shout them, and Be her friend, first and always. Guided by the Journal of Best Practices, David transforms himself over the course of two years from the worlds most trying husband to the husband who tries the hardest, the husband hed always meant to be. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703186 Isabelle Scotts life may not be easy, but she loves it. She is a star swimmer and lifeguard, has great friends, and has been spending the summer with Brayden, a cute surfer--though theyre just friends. But her grandmother, with whom shes lived since her mother died five years earlier, is declining quickly, and Izzies whole world is upended. Shes whisked away from the poor, rough neighborhood where she grew up to live with her aunt, uncle, and cousins in the exclusive Emerald Cove. Mirabelle Monroe leads a charmed life: her father is a former baseball star about to run for the United States Senate. Shes popular and beautiful and has a super cute jock boyfriend. But when her cousin, Izzie, comes to live with her family, her well-ordered world starts to unravel. It doesnt help that Miras best friend and queen bee, Savannah, hates Izzie from the start, maybe because Izzie seems to be so close to Savannahs boyfriend, Brayden. And Mira doesnt know whether to choose her friends and status at school or her family. As Izzie and Mira try to navigate their new lives, family secrets are dug up and the girls learn what friends and family truly mean. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700098 When the cubs get too noisy while playing, Mama and Papa Bear try different ways of quieting them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710336 By day, the Duncans are an upstanding family who run a thriving car dealership in Queens. By night, they live a dangerous secret life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703317 Awaiting the arrival of her grandchildren in her home outside Istanbul, bed-ridden widow Fatma shares memories and grievances with her late husbands illegitimate son until his nephew, a right-wing nationalist, involves the family in the Turkish military coup of 1980. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699413 Returning to his small Texas hometown, a writer delves into an investigation of an unsolved arson case, a cotton fire twenty-five years earlier that split the community and turned family members against each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639580 Looking for an engaging and emotionally resonant read from a novelist who was inspired by the works of both Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte? Elizabeth Gaskells 1850 short novel The Moorland Cottage offers up a unflinching slice of nineteenth-century family life, with a particular focus on family dynamics in an era where sons were openly favored. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1639232 The story follows a young girl as she helps to care for the new baby in her family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643814 When her pet dog Zoe is diagnosed as overweight, Kate tells her mother that kids at school call her fat and dont want to be friends with her, leading the whole family to adopt a healthier lifestyle through diet and exercise. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748764 Thirty-something mid-westerner Mark Fife believes he has successfully moved past the accidental death of his young son Brendan, as well as his subsequent divorce from his college sweetheart Chloe. Hes successful, hes in love again, and he believes hes mastered his own memories. But then he is contacted by a strange woman who tells him not only that she owns his old house, but that she believes it to be haunted by Brendans ghost. Will Mark--who does not believe in ghosts--come to accept the mounting evidence that Brendans is real? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1643483 Meet the Mudcrusts! Lowbrow Mudcrust is the lumbering, lazy head of the family, who is happiest when he is squelching his toes in the slime. That doesnt stop his wife Flora from nagging him and reminding him that hes not the chief of the tribe. Their two children, Bogweed and Fungus, are always fighting. Although Fungus doesnt have Bogweeds brute strength, he does have more brains. The first book in the Mudcrusts series, Dirty Deeds follows the quest of Flora to move out of their hut into a nice cave with a view...