Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7095&N=6594+7104&No=100 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727151 Anusha Laurens is in danger. The daughter of an Indian princess and an English peer, shes the perfect pawn in the opulent courts of Rajasthan. Even so, she will not return to the father who rejected her. Arrogant angrezi Major Nicholas Herriard is charged with bringing the alluring princess safely to her new life in Calcutta. Nicks mission is to protect, to serve--but under the searing Indian sun an initial attraction unfurls into a forbidden temptation. This beautiful, impossible princess tests the very limits of his honor--especially when Nick is left with only one option to keep Anusha safe: marriage. But the fast-flowing waters of the Ganges determine a different fate, and duty may separate them forever.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748124 On November 5, 1942, a U.S. cargo plane slammed into the Greenland ice cap. Four days later, a B-17 on the search-and-rescue mission also crashed. Miraculously, all nine men on the B-17 survived. The U.S. military launched a second daring rescue operation, but the Grumman Duck amphibious plane sent to find the men vanished. In this thrilling adventure, Mitchell Zuckoff offers a spellbinding account of these harrowing crashes and the fate of the survivors and their would-be saviors. Frozen in Time places us at the center of a group of valiant airmen fighting to stay alive through 148 days of a brutal Arctic winter until an expedition attempts to bring them to safety. But that is only part of the story. In present-day Greenland, Zuckoff joins the Coast Guard and North South Polar Inc. on a dangerous expedition to recover the remains of the lost planes crew. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727091 After hes blamed for a botched assignment during war, former cavalry officer Rhys Warrick turns his back on honor. He spends his nights in brothels doing his best to live down to the expectations of his disapproving family. But one last mission could restore the reputation hes so thoroughly sullied. All he has to do is seduce and ruin Miss Olivia Symon and his military record will be cleared. For a man with Rhyss reputation, ravishing the delectably innocent miss should be easy. But Olivias honesty and bold curiosity stir more than Rhyss desire. Suddenly the heart he thought he left on the battlefield is about to surrender.-- P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748376 Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athletes body and a poets brain. But when shes rejected at her new college party, she knows there isnt a boy alive wholl ever measure up. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camilles dream boy, Frankenstein-style. But can she make him love her? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1726972 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700616 Fifteen-year-old Claire Ryan has always felt invisible, always lived beyond peoples notice, which causes trouble when she instantly connects with seventeen-year-old Nix, who really can become invisible and has been sent to assassinate her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748266 From one of the worlds leading experts on how the brain works, a step-by-step, practical program for women to achieve greater health, energy, and lasting happiness by harnessing the power of the female brain. For the first time, bestselling author and brain expert Dr. Daniel G. Amen offers insight on the unique characteristics and needs of the female brain and a practical, prescriptive program targeted specifically for women to help them thrive... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699077 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748383 The Special Class Prize will be awarded to the children who make the most money at the Pudding Bag School Summer Fair. With their magical teacher Miss Gilhoolie ill in bed, Class 4b conjure up something special. But could it be a bit too special? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749106 Neil Hamel is hired to watch over Juan Sololobo who wants to reintroduce wolves into New Mexico as a government official is murdered. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727572 As the smallest mouse, Albert gets the smallest bag when he collects fruit in the People Kitchen with his sister, Wanda, and Cousin Pete, but he wants to carry more than just a blueberry so he makes a bigger bag. Introduces the concept of comparing sizes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727367 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748447 Welcome to the most magical house in London. The family of eleven-year-old twins Oz and Lily have inherited it, together with the mysterious shop downstairs. Long ago, the shops famous chocolate-makers, who also happen to be Oz and Lilys great uncles, were clever sorcerers. Now evil villians are hunting for the secret of their greatest recipe. The terrifying powers of this magic chocolate have the ability to destroy the world... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748113 Neglected by her parents, nineteen-year-old Maya Nidal has grown up in Berkeley with her grandparents. Her grandmother Nini is a force of nature, a woman whose formidable strength helped her build a new life after emigrating from Chile in 1973. Popo, Mayas grandfather, is a gentle man whose solid, comforting presence helps calm the turbulence of Mayas adolescence... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727118 Bronc-buster Mack Boyd can ride a wild stallion to a standstill, but he cant say no when his family prevails on him to come home and help run the ranch. The last person he expects to find there is a high-class Easterner like Cat Crandall. When Cat Crandall gives up a lucrative advertising job to follow her artistic dreams, shes thinking Paris, Tuscany-- not the vast and lonely open country of Wyoming. Her success at Boyds Ranchs artists retreat could be her ticket to far more exotic places-- but the rough and rugged cowboy she meets there is giving Cat a different kind of inspiration -- p. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703523 At Private Berlin, agent Chris Schneider has disappeared. The Private team is led to an abandoned Nazi slaughterhouse where all hope vanishes. As Private digs further into Chriss past, a terrifying history is revealed, and they begin to suspect that someone very dangerous and very depraved is responsible for Chriss disappearance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749208 Matt Thorsen grew up in Blackwell, South Dakota knowing the stories his family had passed down: every Norse myth, every saga, every god like it was family history. Because the Thorsens are direct descendants of Thor. Like their ancestor, every Thorsen is charged with keeping order, especially in regard to the descendents of the trickster god, Loki. And quite a few of his descendents live in Blackwell, too, including Matts classmates: Fen and Laurie Brekke. For the most part, their lives arent too different from those of normal kids, aside from a few minor powers. But everything changes when the rune readers tell of the impending Ragnarok--also known as the apocalypse. According to legend, in the time of Ragnarok, the gods must fight the monsters to stop the end of the world. But the gods are dead, leaving their human descendents to fight on their behalf. And Thors Champion is Matt. He has a little trouble with the slay the giant serpent and save the world idea, but hes not the only one whose world will be turned upside down, because representatives of each of the major gods--kids, like Matt, Fen, and Laurie--have their roles to play in the final fight as well, and its up to Matt to find them and put together an unstoppable team against the end of the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748640 Discovering that the U.S. is being targeted by a secret and lethal conspiracy, disgraced television host Jack Hatfield taps the expertise of an idealistic staffer from the Office of Naval Intelligence to expose an imminent biochemical attack. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748682 George suddenly finds himself the darling of a New York television company where plans are made to turn him into a singing, guitar-playing teen-age idol. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727634 Hired by the wife of one of Greeces richest men to find her missing fourteen-year-old daughter, half Greek, half Scots PI, Alex Mavros faces an uphill battle. But hes not the only one looking for Lia. When a mans charred corpse is discovered in a remote farmhouse, and the headless body of another is found in the ancient stadium at Delphi, Mavros confronts the possibility that one of his deadliest foes has returned to Greece, and that there may be a connection with the Lia Poulou case. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727623 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703540 From award-winning author Molly OKeefe comes a wonderfully written contemporary romance about second chances at life and at love. Victoria Baker, the penniless widow of a disgraced financier, is ready to stand up, be counted, and make a new life for herself and her beloved son in Texas. Shes taking over Crooked Creek ranch, her birthright, and turning it into something special... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749072 A follow-up to Death and the Girl Next Door finds Lorelei working with best friend Brooklyn to hone her abilities while struggling with the demon that would take over her body and fighting her crush on the Angel of Death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727493 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1700510 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748405 Meet Marvin Redpost, the Master of Mayhem! Kidnapped at Birth?: Marvin Redpost has finally figured out why he doesnt look like anyone in his family. Hes not really Marvin Redpost--hes Robert, the lost prince of Shampoon! Why Pick on Me?: Marvin is shunned by his classmates and teacher after he is unfairly fingered as a nose-picker by the class bully... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749041 In a place called The Ridge of White Waters, Sean made a life-long friendship, mined a fortune of gold, and met his own demons. Then an act of cunning betrayal struck--and ignited a new adventure to a new frontier. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749061 Sergeant Hamish Macbeth pays no mind to a bothersome woman who went out drinking and forgot all the events of the previous evening, until she turns up murdered. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748891 Midwife Patience Murphy has a gift: a talent for escorting mothers through the challenges of bringing children into the world. Working in the hardscrabblle conditions of Appalachia during the Depression, Patience takes the jobs that no one else wants, helping those most in need. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748119 Riley, a teen orphan boy living in Victorian London, has had the misfortune of being apprenticed to Albert Garrick, an illusionist who has fallen on difficult times and now uses his unique conjuring skills to gain access to victims dwellings. On one such escapade, Garrick brings his reluctant apprentice along and urges him to commit his first killing. Riley is saved from having to commit the grisly act when the intended victim turns out to be a scientist from the future, part of the FBIs Witness Anonymous Relocation Program (WARP) Riley is unwittingly transported via wormhole to modern day London, followed closely by Garrick. In modern London, Riley is helped by Chevron Savano, a nineteen-year-old FBI agent sent to London as punishment after a disastrous undercover, anti-terrorist operation in Los Angeles. Together Riley and Chevie must evade Garrick, who has been fundamentally altered by his trip through the wormhole. Garrick is now not only evil, but he also possesses all of the scientists knowledge. He is determined to track Riley down and use the timekey in Chevies possession to make his way back to Victorian London where he can literally change the world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748261 A clear-sighted revelation, a deep penetration into the world of Scientology by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the The Looming Tower, the now-classic study of al-Qaedas 9/11 attack. Based on more than two hundred personal interviews with both current and former Scientologists--both famous and less well known--and years of archival research, Lawrence Wright uses his extraordinary investigative ability to uncover for us the inner workings of the Church of Scientology... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749081 Brooke has only loved one man, her late husband. Owens rebuilding after a painful divorce. Can a mysterious house bring them together for a second chance at love? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727568 When her father is murdered and the police obtain an e-mail confession that implicates her, Alice Robie realizes she will have to flee and prove her innocence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748109 Forging an intense friendship in their senior year at Harvard, Ed, a Jewish, girl-crazy scholarship student; and Hugh, a Boston Brahmin who dedicatedly pines for the one who got away; abruptly and mysteriously go their separate ways years later and pursue very different lives that are shaped by their past bond. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748105 Life has been hard for fourteen-year-old Mehrigul, a member of the Uyghur tribal group scorned by the Chinese communist regime, so when an American offers to buy all the baskets she can make in three weeks, Mehrigul strives for a better future for herself and her family despite her fathers opposition. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749201 While Logan and his friends, leaders of the Markless revolution, face Chancellor Cyliss army, the Dust seeks a cure for an epidemic sweeping through the Marked, Logans sister Lilys allegiance remains unclear, and climatic changes become ever more threatening. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1710434 As the lone young lady on a transatlantic voyage in 1832, Charlotte learns that the captain is murderous and the crew rebellious. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748373 In an alternate England of 1851, spirited fourteen-year-old Sophronia is enrolled in a finishing school where, she is suprised to learn, lessons include not only the fine arts of dance, dress, and etiquette, but also diversion, deceit, and espionage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749205 After an alien force known as the Icon colonizes Earth, decimating humanity, four surviving teenagers must piece together the mysteries of their pasts--in order to save the future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727620 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748874 Les Standiford reveals how this group of intelligent, committed men, motivated by economics and political belief, began a careful campaign of interlocking events that would channel feelings of vague injustice into an armed rebellion of common cause, which would defeat an empire and give birth to a radical political experiment--a new nation known as the United States. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749069 In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the towns most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748616 Former Marine lieutenant Robin Duncan has never had trouble telling good guys from bad. Stationed in the Congo jungle, this setting at first seems no different. Assigned to a security team that is charged with tracking down an insurgent killer, things are further complicated for Robin when she has to face a man who broke her trust years before. Along the way, Robin learns that the gray areas of trust extend farther into the jungle than she thought. Now, she must figure out who she can trust so that she can protect the innocent Congolese people. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699839 Jodi Marshall isnt sure how she went from normal teenager to walking disaster. One minute shes in her junior year of high school, spending time with her amazing boyfriend and her best friend. The next shes being stalked by some guy no one seems to know. After the stranger, Alex, reveals himself, Jodi learns hes not a normal teenager and neither is she. With a kiss that kills and a touch that brings the dead back to life, Jodi discovers shes part of a branch of necromancers born under the 13th sign of the zodiac, Ophiuchus. A branch of necromancers that are descendants of Medusa. A branch of necromancers with poisoned blood writhing in their veins. Jodis deadly to the living and even more deadly to the deceased. She has to leave her old, normal life behind before she hurts the people she loves. As if that isnt difficult enough, Jodi discovers shes the chosen one who has to save the rest of her kind from perishing at the hands of Hades. If she cant figure out how to control her power, history will repeat itself, and her race will become extinct. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749129 When she returns to the carnival circuit, Leila faces danger from a killer in the shadows as she struggles to choose between her emotionally distant vampire lover and a tortured knight who longs to be more than a friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748619 Joe and Alices new Greenfield home seems to be haunted by a singing ghost. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699662 Returning to the insular Galveston home town of her youth in the wake of a family tragedy, photographer Clare Porterfield is drawn into a century-old mystery involving a woman who drowned during the Hurricane of 1900. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748691 Bound by her oath of confidentiality and tortured by unrequited love, sixteen-year-old Devon, a peer counselor at a prestigious California boarding school, finds herself on a solitary mission to get to the bottom of a popular students apparent suicide. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749132 Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughters exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kates stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then its already too late for Amelia. And for Kate. An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that is the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didnt jump. The novel is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. But, most of all, its the story of how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldnt save. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748877 Walters collection of short fiction the first collection of short fiction is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699403 Kiri Palger knew the difference between reality--new house, hard work and not too many friends--and fantasy--the fun she had playing online games. So when the chance to work for the best gaming company in the world came up, giving her a chance to merge business with pleasure, how could she not apply? Suddenly she has more friends, interesting neighbors and an intriguing love interest. But when the game begins to awaken something inside her, Kiri is shocked by the talents she never knew she had... and evil shed never imagined. Her nice, safe life is imploding around her--and if she takes up the mantle of her powers, it will never be the same again... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749052 Its the week before Christmas when a lone robber bursts into a busy Glasgow post office carrying an AK-47. An elderly man suddenly hands his young grandson to a stranger and wordlessly helps the gunman fill bags with cash, then carries them to the door. He opens the door and bows his head; the robber fires off the AK-47, tearing the grandfather in two. DS Alex Morrow arrives on the scene and finds that the alarm system had been disabled before the robbery. Yet upon investigation, none of the employees can be linked to the gunman. And the grandfather--a life-long campaigner for social justice--is above reproach. As Morrow searches for the killer, she discovers a hidden, sinister political network. Soon it is chillingly clear: no corner of the city is safe, and her involvement will go deeper than she could ever have imagined-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749086 Discusses the placement of over 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children in homes throughout the Midwest from 1854 to 1929 by recounting the story of one boy and his brothers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727190 The government has legalised assisted dying, and one man is staging the ultimate reality TV show--where the audience get to help him on his way. As the clock ticks down, and those for and against the impending broadcast argue their case, we travel back in time to discover what lead Peter to this terrible point in his life. A list of unsolved murders, suicides and destroyed friendships have been left scattered wherever Peter has set foot. As we discover a family torn apart by his brief presence in their lives so many years ago, we also see the effect hes had on one impressionable young man who sticks by him the whole time: Neville. Peters biggest fan, and wholehearted believer in the book Peter wrote, Neville treats his idol as a messianic figure. The two are their own worst enemies, finding themselves embarking on a murderous journey to the depths of depravity together with a host of other damaged souls. That one of them, OAP getaway driver Gerty, might finally redeem... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749101 Leaving her sales job behind to start a new life aboard a houseboat in Kent, Genevieve finds her dreams shattered by the discovery of a body that is linked to her own secret past as a dancer at a private members club, forcing her to recall the moment when things started to go horribly wrong. 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=1748730 A young black girl living in New York City in the late eighteenth century observes the historic events taking place around her and at the same time solves the mystery of her own identity. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749170 Susanna desperately wants to join the circle of girls who meet every week at the parsonage. What she doesnt realize is that the leader of the group, the malicious Ann Putnam, is about to set off a torrent of false accusations leading to the imprisonment and execution of countless innocent people. When Susanna puts the pieces together, she faces a painful choice. She can keep quiet and let the witch-hunt panic continue, or she can break charity with the group and risk having her family named as witches. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699581 Sequel to Anatomy of a Boyfriend, in which college pre-med Dominique explores love and lust--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1706632 All of North America is covered in ash after the eruption in Yellowstone, and Colin Fergusons family is scattered across the United States. With food running low and cities uninhabitable, can they hope to survive long enough for whats left of civilization to rebuild? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749194 When two opposing sides--environmentalist Shaye and big city cop Tanner--are forced to work together to investigate a suspicious death on the track of land Shaye wants to preserve, passion explodes between them as a killer closes in. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748274 He was the one man I couldnt avoid. And the one man I couldnt resist. Damien Stark could have his way with any woman. He was sexy, confident, and commanding: Anything he wanted, he got. And what he wanted was me... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727156 Louiss sister, Emily, is blind. Shes also in the marching band, sculpts, and has the biggest bedroom in the house to accommodate her Braille machine. Everyone thinks her accomplishments are extraordinary, and most think that she can do no wrong. The single person who doesnt feel awe or pity for her is Louis, who wishes people would just stop comparing them. He wants his own life. Only a family tragedy can begin to bridge the widening gap between brother and sister. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727165 The year is 29 C.E., and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empires oppressive rule. A badly scorched body is found behind the Veil of the Holy of Holies-- the Temples inner sanctum. Gamaliel, the rabban of the Sanhedrin, finds himself drawn into solving this delicate mystery while dark agents with unholy interests plot to seize control of much of the trade in certain highly profitable imports from the east and west. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727613 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698696 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748597 The disappearing staircase mystery: When the Alden children join a group of volunteers to fix up an old house for senior citizens, they try to explain the puzzling behavior of their coworkers as well as investigate some unusual events. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749153 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699795 Who Stole the Cookies from the Cookie Jar is given a new twist using vegetables in this delightful book using different animals. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1707306 One summer in Lake Eden, Minnesota, Hannah Swensen attends the grand opening of a newly refurbished hotel, where her famous red velvet cupcakes will be served in the new Red Velvet lounge. But when a party guest falls from the hotel roof, festivities come to a screeching halt--and Hannah becomes the surprising target of a murder investigation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748361 When thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods in Roma, Kentucky one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery--a choice that begins to haunt her. Susanna Mitchell has always been a good girl, the dutiful daughter, wife and mother, while her older sister Ronnie trolled bars for men and often drove home at sunrise. But when Ronnie goes missing and Susanna realizes that shes the only person in Roma who truly cares about her sisters fate, she starts to question her quiet life and its value. Emily; Susanna; Tony, a failed baseball star turned detective, aspiring to be the countys first black sheriff; and Wyatt, a fifty-five-year-old factory worker tormented by a past he cant change and by a love he doesnt think he deserves. Their stories converge in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie but all of their secret selves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727127 Ireland, 1917: Darcy is a light gray Connemara pony with silver dapples. Shes fast and tough, whether shes pulling a load of peat from the bog or riding around the rugged countryside with Shannon McKenna, her human familys eldest daughter. But when Mrs. McKenna needs a doctor, Darcy discovers a skill that will change her and her familys life forever. Like Black Beauty, this moving novel is told in first person from the horses point of view and includes an appendix full of photos and facts about Connemara ponies and Irish history. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748398 A twelve-year-old boy, whose problems include having to take Square music lessons, an attachment to a childhood teddy bear, and a father who earns a living creating comic strips, gets involved with jewel thieves in an attempt to break the dull routine. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727033 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699031 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699591 In the wake of a series of baffling murders committed by children, anthropologist Hesketh Lock investigates a scandal in the Taiwan timber industry and wonders at his stepsons odd behavior before making a shocking connection upon the death of his Taiwan contact. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748694 A riveting and poignant novel of one womans journey to Bali in search of love, renewal, and a place to call home--perfect for readers of Elizabeth Gilberts Eat, Pray, Love and Alex Garlands The Beach. It starts as a trip to paradise. Sent on assignment to Bali, Jamie, an American adventure guide, imagines spending weeks exploring the islands lush jungles and pristine white sand beaches... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727450 Teenager Heidi Landseth helps rescue people from a plane crash on her familys property, and the experience changes her life forever. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749175 At first glance, Josh Hanagame seems an improbable librarian. He stands 67, competes in strongman contests, and was diagnosed in high school with Tourette Syndrome. But books are his first love. Joshs earliest memories involve fantastic adventures between the pages of Gullivers Travels and a passionate infatuation with Fern from Charlottes Web. Everything in Joshs life--from his Mormon upbringing, to finally finding love, to learning to control his tics through lifting--circles back to a close connection with books. Today, Josh is a librarian at the Salt Lake City Public Library, founder of a popular blog about books and weight lifting--and the proud father of four-year-old Max, who has already started to show his own symptoms of Tourettes. The Worlds Strongest Librarian illuminates the mysteries of this little-understood disorder as well as the very different worlds of strongman training and modern libraries. With humor and candor, this unlikely hero traces his journey to overcome his disability, navigate his wavering Mormon faith, spread the word about the wonder of books, and ultimately, find love and create a life worth living. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703509 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748129 Echoes of My Soul relates the inside story of how Mel Glass, an assistant district attorney under the legendary DA Frank Hogan, took it upon himself to investigate the Career Girls Murders in Manhattan and another murder in Brooklyn, believing that the accused man, with an IQ of about seventy, had been coerced into confessing murders he did not commit. It meant, of course, embarrassing the DAs office and the police if they withdraw the charges of a confessed killer but Mel was convinced of the wrong being done and DA Hogan told him, Find the truth, Mel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748421 LA burglar Junior Bender has, unfortunately, developed a reputation as a competent private investigator for crooks. Now Junior is being bullied into proving aging music-industry mogul Vinnie DiGaudio is innocent of the murder of a nasty tabloid journalist hed threatened to kill a couple times. It doesnt help that the dead journalists widow is one pretty lady, and shes trying to get Junior to mix business with pleasure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699676 Marcus Atkinson is a taekwondo master (not!). But his dad is convinced that Marcus has magic in his kicks. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749135 In 2005, T. Colin Campbells The China Study showed that a diet based on whole, plant-based foods dramatically reduces your risk of a broad spectrum of diseases, including heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and cancer. Whole picks up where The China Study left off. While The China Study revealed what we should eat and provided the powerful empirical support for this answer, Whole answers the question of why. Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? Whole demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten off track and reveals the elegant wonders of the true holistic workings of nutrition, from the cellular level to the operation of the entire organism. Whole is a marvelous journey through cutting-edge thinking on nutrition, led by one of the masters of the science. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698861 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1749096 After she is laid off, high-powered lawyer Libby Morgan, with no job prospects in sight, volunteers at a hospital where she meet a handsome doctor and rediscovers the joy of knitting, but when she is offered her job back, she must decide what matters most. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698940 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1699586 Odyssey-like adventure of two boys incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748437 The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . . When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petherams beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation--on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting--from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi... http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748125 Every fall, the men of Loyalty Island sail from the Olympic Peninsula up to the Bering Sea, to spend the winter catching king crab. To Cal, Alaska remains as mythical and mysterious as Treasure Island. But while Cal is too young to accompany his father, he is old enough to know that everything depends on the fate of those boats thousands of miles north. He is also old enough to wonder about his mothers relationship with John Gaunt, owner of the fleet. Then Gaunt dies suddenly, leaving the business in the hands of his son. Soon Cal stumbles on evidence that his father may have taken measures to salvage their way of life. As winter comes on, he is forced to make a terrible choice. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698979 In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link human together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, hes thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage -- for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748647 Hearing the click behind him, Parker threw his glass straight back over his right shoulder, and dove off his chair to the left. When a job looks like amateur hour, Parker walks away. But even a squad of seasoned professionals cant guarantee against human error in a high-risk scam. Can an art dealer with issues unload a truck of paintings with Parkers aid? Or will the heist end up too much of a human interest story, as luck runs out before Parker can get in on the score? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748253 The critically acclaimed author of American Nerd makes his fiction debut with this romantic tragicomedy about a teenage boy and girl who discover his dad is having an affair with her mom. At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silverglate-Dunn catch Joshs father and Khadijahs mother kissing in a natural foods store. They make a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow--until they meet again at twenty-eight, both struggling with career and identity, and both engaged to other people. Part inter-ethnic romance, part intergenerational conflict, Good Kids is a hilarious, sad, handsomely plotted story of love and class in the era of the redefined household. Stylistically adventurous but always accessible, Nugent trains a keen ear on the vernaculars of Generation Y and the baby boomers, as young and middle-aged alike try to decide what parenting, background, and loyalty mean in late twentieth and early twenty-first century America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1727019 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=1727437 Brody is a vigilante for hire who tracks down womens abusive husbands to repay pain with pain. He wants to help the women and doesnt like accepting their money, but he has no choice. Injured in the military and sent home, Brody needs expensive batteries to power his carotene lenses. Without them, he is completely blind. When Thorp Ashbury, an old friend from the service, invites him to rural Illinois, Brody seizes the opportunity to escape the city and violence. Instead, he uncovers a conspiracy that could shake the foundation of everything he stands for -- p. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748742 Joe Grey cant believe his human housemate Clyde would even consider volunteering him for the Animal Therapy program at the local nursing home, just when Joe was on the verge of solving the string of burglaries that has Molena Point residents shaking in their collective boots. But it turns out its Dulcie, Joes pretty little cat-friend, who came up with the idea of subjecting Joe to the cooing attentions of a bunch of doddering old coots. Dulcie believes theres more going on at the old folks home than the care and feeding of lonely seniors. And she needs Joes help in getting to the bottom of a conspiracy...and a very suspicious set of deaths. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748267 A haunting, unforgettable mother-daughter story for a new generation--the debut of a blazing new lyrical voice Domenica Ruta grew up in a working-class, unforgiving Italian town north of Boston where in the seventeenth century women were hanged as witches. Her mother, Kathi, a notorious figure in this hardscrabble place, was a drug addict and sometime dealer whose life swung between welfare and riches, whose highbrow taste was at odds with her base appetites. And yet she managed, despite the chaos she created, to instill in her daughter the idea that art--via a classic film or a classical education--could transcend this life of undying grudges, self-inflicted misfortune, and the crooked moral code that Kathi and her cohorts lived by. With or Without You is the story of Domenicas unconventional coming of age--a darkly hilarious chronicle of a misfit 90s childhood and the necessary and painful act of breaking away, and of overcoming her own addictions and demons in the process. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748344 After a shy and rather withdrawn eight-year-old begins receiving frightening supernatural images and messages, he learns about a family legacy which could be considered a curse or a rare gift. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748880 Pinkalicious is going to be the best flower girl ever--as soon as she figures out just what a flower girl is!