Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7107&N=3+7432+7517 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743530 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684677 For two years, Diamond and Black have been living comfortably on their high-class cul-de-sac with their daughter, ready to leave the drug business behind them. However, Johnny can feel nothing but rage for the woman he once loved, and on his death bed he sets a plan in motion to tear Diamonds world apart. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708662 A string of murders being committed by a mysterious voodoo assassin on the exotic island city of Key West pits a crusading environmental shock-jock and a homicide detective against a maelstrom of unscrupulous developers, scammers, and everyday citizens. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715746 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715972 An 80 year-old, third-generation beekeeper who relates better to the constant companions in his hives than most people must come to terms with the loss of his long-time friend, Claire, who was killed during a burglary gone awry. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697960 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743533 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739476 The residents, staff, and neighbors of the Pine Haven retirement center (from twelve-year-old Abby to eighty-five-year-old Sadie) share some of lifes most profound discoveries. What they eventually learn about themselves and one another will transform them all. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734652 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715286 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731321 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=1743543 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735992 The year is 1975 and Reno--so-called because of the place of her birth--has come to New York intent on turning her fascination with motorcycles and speed into art. Her arrival coincides with an explosion of activity in the art world--artists have colonized a deserted and industrial SoHo, are staging actions in the East Village, and are blurring the line between life and art. Reno meets a group of dreamers and raconteurs who submit her to a sentimental education of sorts. Ardent, vulnerable, and bold, she begins an affair with an artist named Sandro Valera, the semi-estranged scion of an Italian tire and motorcycle empire. When they visit Sandros family home in Italy, Reno falls in with members of the radical movement that overtook Italy in the seventies. Betrayal sends her reeling into a clandestine undertow. - from cover p. [2] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705111 Based on twelve years of research, thought leader Dr. Brene Brown argues that vulnerability is not weakness, but rather our clearest path to courage, engagemen,, and meaningful connection. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696137 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715486 In the declining Weimar Republic, Egon Loeser works as a stage designer for New Expressionist theatre. His hero is the greatest set designer of the seventeenth century, Adriano Lavicini, who devised the so-called Teleportation Device for the whisking of actors from one scene to another-a miracle, until the thing malfunctioned, causing numerous deaths and perhaps summoning the devil himself. Apolitical in a dangerous time, sex-driven in a dry spell, Loeser leaves the tired scene in Berlin in pursuit of the lubricious Adele Hitler (no relation), who couldnt care less about him. Heading first to Paris and then to Los Angeles, he finds his entire tired Berlin social circle reconstituted in exile, under the patronage of a crime writer and his possibly philandering wife. He also finds himself uncomfortably close to a string of murders at Caltech, where a physicist, assisted by Adele herself, is trying to develop a device for honest-to-God teleportation.Following his breathtaking debut, Boxer, Beetle, Ned Beauman ups the ante, creating in The Teleportation Accident a marvelous mash-up of historical fiction, L.A. noir, science fiction, and satire, and proving himself a star on the rise-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713996 Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kwekus death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735974 Seduced by a Pirate: Should Colin throw propriety to the wind, imitate his pirate father, and simply take what he most desires? After years at sea, Sir Griffin Barry comes home to claim his wife. But is Phoebe his wife if their marriage was never consummated? As an infamous pirate, Griffin claimed and kept gold and jewels-- but this is one treasure that will not be so easy to capture. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705530 We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, 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. In Thief, a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In We Live in Water, a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In Anything Helps, a homeless man has to go to cardboard to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In Virgo, a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. And the collections final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walters hometown into a moving contemplation of our times--Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738592 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738957 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714079 Englishwoman Liese Campbell visits the Melbourne country mansion of heir Alexander Colquhoun, with whom she shares a no-strings-attached affair until discovering deeper, more erotic aspects of his character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733295 Charles Lenox is at the pinnacle of his political career and is a delighted new father. His days of investigating the crimes of Victorian London are now years behind him. He plans a trip to his uncles estate, Everley, in the expectation of a few calm weeks to write an important speech. When he arrives in the quiet village of Plumley, however, what greets him is a series of strange vandalisms upon the local shops: broken windows, minor thefts, threatening scrawls. Only when a far more serious crime is committed does he begin to understand the great stakes of those events, and the complex and sinister mind that is wreaking fear and suspicion in Plumley. Now, with his protg, John Dallington, at his side, the race is on for Lenox to find the culprit before he strikes again. And this time his victim may be someone that Lenox loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698367 After eighteen years of marriage, Kathy Walker has settled into a pattern of comfortable routines--ferrying her two teenagers between soccer practice and piano lessons, running a film production business with her husband, Robert, and taking care of the beautiful Boston home they share. Then one day, Kathy discovers a suspicious number on her husbands phone. Six years before, Kathy accused Robert of infidelity--a charge he vehemently denied--and almost destroyed their marriage in the process. Now Kathy must decide whether to follow her suspicions at the risk of losing everything, or trust the man with whom shes entwined her past, present, and future. As she grapples with that choice, she is confronted with surprising truths not just about her relationship, but about her friends, family, and her own motivations.--from cover, p. [4] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733136 Ruby never thought shed return to Cardinal, but shes hoping the place and people who gave her so much can give her brother Nash, whos been drowning in drink in Nashville, the fresh start he so desperately needs. Saddlemaker Lucas McGavin is thrilled that Ruby has come back. He hasnt given up on his love for her, despite the awkward fact that she is his brothers widow, and hes well aware that this may be his last chance to win Rubys heart. When Nash starts drinking again and ends up in a devastating accident, Ruby decides she must find her estranged mother to help with an intervention. Two states away, Etta Walker harbors a horrible secret that keeps her from reconnecting with the children she deserted so many years ago. As they struggle with the present and confront the past, Ruby, Lucas, and Etta learn the power of forgiveness, and reach for a new future filled with hope, grace, and love. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729560 Follows a young couple over one life-changing weekend during which the husband flees lower Manhattan with his newborn daughter for a weekend in the Caribbean, while his wife tries to recapture who she was before the baby. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734868 Possessing no memories of his life before entering an orphanage, young Duncan recites fantastical stories about his origins and is astonished when his singer mother claims him into an adult world of hazy bars and a salty Vietnam veteran lover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729549 Its 1989, the Berlin Wall is coming down, and Kate has just graduated from Yale, eager to pursue her dreams as a fledgling painter. When she receives a job offer to work as the assistant to Lydia Schell, a famous American photographer in Paris, she immediately accepts. Kate may speak fluent French, but she arrives at the Schell household in the fashionable Sixth Arrondissement both dazzled and wildly impressionable. She finds herself surrounded by a seductive cast of characters, including the bright, pretentious Schells, with whom she boards, and their assortment of famous friends; Kates own flamboyant cousin; a fellow Yalie who seems to have it all figured out; and a bande of independently wealthy young men with royal lineage. As Kate rediscovers Paris and her roots there, while trying to fit into Lydias glamorous and complicated family, she begins to question the kindness of the people to whom she is so drawn as well as her own motives for wanting them to love her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1703960 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=1622411 Schoolteacher Stanley Mercer relocates to a small town expecting a quiet country life, but he soon becomes involved with the mother of one of his pupils and develops an interest in the struggles of two special education students. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1644635 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=1556280 In a post-apocalyptic world, Pressia, a sixteen-year-old survivor with a dolls head fused onto her left hand meets Partridge, a Pure dome-dweller who is searching for his mother, sure that she has survived the cataclysm. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1594926 Lured by the hope of a better life for her and her son, Celeste Vanek must deal with the emotional and physical resistance of her compulsive gambler husband when she tries to make a clean break from her marriage. She wants to start a new life with her young son, Jake, but her husband demands his family back, and things get violent. Jake, who witnesses the shocking scene between Celeste and her husband, struggles with his own emotional and ethical issues while attempting to help her. And at the same time, a married and childless police detective has a private agenda to pursue when a crime is committed that will link all the characters together. Can any of them make a clean break from their troubled lives?--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1584682 Set in war-torn Kabul, a harrowing yet tender novel--think Bend It Like Beckham in a burka--about one womans courage and guile in the face of terror and tyranny. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556283 The wife of the late Patrick Swayze presents an account of grief, loss, caregiving and moving on while sharing stories about their final months together and discussing their teenage romance, dance careers, and thirty-four-year marriage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576476 When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorneys home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1653810 Minister King Brooks daughter, Princess, is about to marry the man she thinks she loves, until a disaster leaves her lavish wedding and her life in shambles. And those around Princess have problems of their own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675452 When the government comes for her mother, Emmeline embarks on a plan to save her family and expose the truth behind the objectives of the United Nations agenda 21. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1658230 When a CIA black ops master with ties to disreputable figures in Afghanistan goes missing, Mitch Rapp is ordered to track down the missing man at all costs and finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous plot involving the interests of numerous countries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1608988 A novel that spans fifty years. The Italian housekeeper and his long-lost American starlet; the producer who once brought them together, and his assistant. A glittering world filled with unforgettable characters. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684528 Sean Doran has spent twenty years in third-world war zones and natural disaster areas, fully embracing what hed always felt was his purpose: doing as much good as possible. But when burnout sets in, Sean finds himself reluctantly drawn home to Belham, Massachusetts, the setting of Juliette Fays much-loved Shelter Me. There, he discovers that his steely elderly aunt, dramatic sister, and quirky nephew are having a little natural disaster of their own and that midlife romance gets complicated fast when the high school queen bee is involved. But its an old friend--the class wallflower--who has Sean wondering if his destiny is about to be rewritten all over again. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624804 In Yok, Mollisan Towns seediest neighborhood, Antonio Ortega Fox, Erik Gecko, Mike Chimpanze, and Vincent Hare finally get a chance to overcome their desperate circumstances and discover the freedom to achieve their dreams. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557049 In 1862 London, the vampiric ghost of John Polidori, the one-time physician of Lord Byron, is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent young girl, and a group of mismatched allies must enter into a supernatural underworld in order to stop him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1623049 Triburbia draws the lives of Tribecas various residents, uncovering the deep betrayals theyve committed against themselves and each other. Thrown together by circumstance, a group of fathers meet each morning at a local coffee shop after walking their children to their exclusive school. Over the course of a single year, we learn about their dreams deferred, their secrets and mishaps, their passions and hopes, as they confront terrible truths about ambition, wealth, and sex. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687942 Set in 18th century England, this mystery tells the story Thaddeus Grainger, sentenced to life in prison for a murder he may not have committed. His friends must decode the meaning of a wax seal and prove his innocence to gain his release from the infamous Bellstrom Gaol prison. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1554019 When Marianne receives an invitation to spend the summer with her twin sister in Edenbrooke, she has no idea of the romance and adventure that await her once she meets the dashing Sir Philip. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1580571 In a small, tight-knit Jewish suburb of London, one young mans pre-wedding panic illuminates the universal conflict between responsibility and passion. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548552 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 the lobby, Poppy spots a phone in a trash can. Finders keepers! Now she can leave a number for the hotel to call when they find her ring. Except the phones owner dosent agree. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695502 So often we hold back and fail to express our feelings of love and joy to the ones we hold dear. This year, the residents of Cape Light and Angel Island will learn to speak whats in their hearts... After a serious medical scare, Adele realizes that her greatest regret is that she sat idly by while a petty dispute tore her family apart. She has returned to Cape Light determined to mend the relationship between her feuding sons and bring everyone together for the holidays. Lucky for Adele, miracles can happen at the Inn at Angel Island. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1627950 When a tragic superhero battle destroys much of Stamford, Connecticut, the government demands that all superheroes reveal their identities and register their powers, dividing the superhero community and pitting allies against one another. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670902 In awe of his strikingly beautiful, highly strung wife and her equally volatile mother, novelist Guy Ableman finds his work persistently interrupted by their drama and dreams of squeezing out one more great book in spite of growing fears that reading is a cultural activity of the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679156 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575657 In a small Virginia town, Cal, Harlan and Buddy grow up and get into --and out of-- all the trouble that boys manage to think up. A local restaurateur, Uncle Vic, calls them the Mulligans, because they always seem to find a way through a thicket of trouble -- family problems, girls, college, war service -- to success. On an early morning in 1959, police lieutenant Buddy receives a startling phone call: Harlan has been shot in a break-in. Together, Cal and Buddy begin to unravel what might have happened to Harlan, uncovering more questions than answers-- and they begin to wonder what secrets lie beneath years of friendship. After a lifetime of pulling through scrapes together, are the Mulligans out of second chances?--p. 4 of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1544912 A visionary scientist creates a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes billions. But after an intruder breaks into his home, he has to try to discover who is trying to destroy him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1650275 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=1487417 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1669296 Keema is back and dirtier than ever in this sequel to bestselling novel, Welfare Grind. After oddly maneuvering her way out of the blood bath she left behind in Arizona, Keema is up to her old tricks again. Between sex, greed and murder it s almost impossible to escape from the hood life shes grown accustomed to. From one scam to the next, she finally comes up with a new hustle that rains money and is sure to give her the riches she thinks she deserves That is, until someone from her past emerges sending her into mental shock. The stakes become high as Keema fights for her life, still with her mind on her money. While stacking paper Keema also stacks enemies, old and new. Unfortunately for her, her street savvy mentality may not be enough to get her off this time.--Back cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1556269 Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind the untimely death of their friend Vincent van Gogh, which leads them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl deep into the art world of late-nineteenth-century Paris. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615712 After being punished for trying to measure Gods greatest gift, Father Time returns to Earth along with a magical hourglass and a mission: a chance to redeem himself by teaching two earthly people the true meaning of time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1627750 A Georgia Bureau of Investigation search into a shocking crime from 1975 poses unprecedented personal and professional challenges for top agent Will Trent, who encounters threats against his life and everything he thought he understood about his past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694423 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629259 When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685389 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660599 Sandwich, Illinois, represents hope for Maddie and Kyle, the brother Maddie wants to spring out of foster care. When she loses her job the first day, its Reubens fault, and he reluctantly gives her a job at his restaurant, The Sandwich Emporium. Can Maddie learn the art of humbling herself and accepting the help God has arranged-- risking her heart to Reuben in the process? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629462 When the CIAs Department of Tourism is dismantled by an elaborate Chinese intelligence scheme that has caused numerous agent deaths, survivor Milo Weaver is placed at risk by his former boss, Alan Drummond, who uses one of Milos aliases to exact revenge. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684875 A novel based on the true story of Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179), who was offered by her parents as a tithe to the Church as a young child and who triumphed to become a powerful abbess, composer, prophet and polymath. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1675694 Visiting sixteen-year-old Rat Perkins at isolated Evenson 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=1677538 Witnessing the murder of a Pakistani woman by a high-ranking official, Boston nurse Abby Monroe teams up with New York Times reporter Nick Sinclair to reveal what happened and uncover sinister links to a human trafficking operation. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1616153 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685401 Mathieu Etchiberri wants nothing more than to leave his familys Arizona sheep ranch and go to college, but his father insists that he take over the ranch instead. Then his father is killed in an accident, and Matt discovers that he is not the heir to the ranch. So he travels to the French Pyrenees from which his father and grandparents came to settle the questions about his legacy. Instead, he discovers a vast Basque family and a mystery that drove his father to America and still festers in the mountain village--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548508 Her Boston family shattered by the deaths of her mother and sister on the Titanic, Sibyl attempts to contact her departed loved ones at a mediums table before reconnecting with former flame Ben, with whom she tackles a harrowing mystery. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1595179 Preparing to move on four years after a divorce, Annajane realizes that she is not over her ex-husband when his wedding to another woman is abruptly canceled, a situation that is further complicated by her engagement to another man, dark secrets in her sleepy lake town and individuals who want to thwart her happiness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559579 When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his fathers life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1627620 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=1534644 When Nashville private investigator Jared McKean is accused of murder, he works to prove his innocence while keeping up with his reponsibilities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671712 When her investigation of a find from a remote Philippines dig leads her to the scene of her ex-fiancs murder, forensic anthropologist Kelsey Quinn turns to Navy SEAL Gage Brewer for help in unraveling a deadly conspiracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1674757 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1554724 This novel follows the friendship and support among a group of five women on Manhattans Upper East Side. Did you know that the origin of the word gossip in English is god-sibling? It is the talk between people who are godparents to the same child, people who have a legitimate loving interest in the person they talk about. It is talk that weaves a net of support and connection beneath the people you want to protect. This is a novel about all the ways we talk about one another, the sometimes fine line between showing concern and doing damage, and the difficulty of knowing the true obligations of friendship. The main character, Loviah Lovie French owns a small, high-end dress shop on Manhattans Upper East Side. Renowned for her taste and discretion, Lovie is the one to whom certain women turn when they need just the thing for major life events like baptisms and balls, weddings and funerals, or when they just want to dish in the dressing room. Among the people who depend on Lovies confidence are her two best friends since boarding school: Dinah Wainwright and Avis Metcalf. Outspoken and brimming with confidence, Dinah made a name for herself as a columnist covering the doings of New Yorks wealthiest and most fabulous. Shy, proper Avis, in many ways Dinahs opposite, rose to prominence in the art world with her quiet manners, hard work, and precise judgment. Despite the deep affection they both feel for Lovie, they have been more or less allergic to each other since a minor incident decades earlier that has been remembered and resented with what will prove to be unimaginable consequences. Dinahs favorite son and Aviss only daughter fall in love and marry, and these uneasy acquaintances become unwillingly bound to each other. On the surface, Nick and Grace are the perfect match, a playful, romantic, buoyant, and beautiful pair. Over the years, as their marital commitment is strained by time and change, career setbacks, reckless choices, the birth of a child, jealousies, and rumors. Secrets surface and friendships alter, having a shattering effect on all their lives. At the center of their orbit is Lovie, who knows everyones secrets and manages them as wisely as she can. Which is not wisely enough, as things turn out. This story is a tale of intimacy and betrayal, trust and fidelity, friendship, competition, and motherhood that explores the myriad ways we use and abuse information about others, be it true, false, or imagined, to sustain, and occasionally destroy, one another. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575662 Tired of being taken advantage of by her boss Corinne, Shari Nance, posing as Corinne, takes on a major account to prove whos the real talent and goes up against a rival agencys top executive, who just so happens to be Corrines boyfriend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1680060 Forging a friendship at the peak of McCarthyism in 1953, Nick Carraway from Fitzgeralds The Great Gatsby and Jake Barnes from Hemingways The Sun Also Rises embark on an endeavor to save the country from a CIA plot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557047 The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557051 A stunning new novel of secrets and survival from an acclaimed literary voice--the story of the collision of a forensic investigator, his tormented mentor, and the woman who comes between them-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624538 Creating an algorithm to improve his internet dating employers match success rate only to be fired for being too effective, Sam Elliot develops a computer program that creates compelling human simulations that allow people to say final goodbyes to lost loved ones. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1670894 If your old life vanished completely, should you try to get it back or create a whole new one? Thats the intriguing question at the heart of Catherine McKenzies Forgotten. The smart, funny, and provocative story of a woman who returns home after being stranded for months in Africa by an earthquake only to find that everyone in her life believed she was dead and moved on-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685444 Phoebe is an artist making very little money designing wine labels for a winery in Sonoma. Her house is in foreclosure, shes divorced, turning forty, and beleaguered on every front. Enter Marc Chagalls ghost, visible only to her, who appears to help her retrieve one of his own paintings that Phoebes father found during the liberation of France. Meant for Phoebe and her mother, the painting never made it into their hands. In this debut comic novel, Phoebe and Chagall hunt down the painting in the South of France with help from a cast of characters including two sisters who are witches, a San Francisco Art dealer, and a misguided French innkeeper. Their snooping also leads Chagall to a few out of the hundred paintings that went missing during his lifetime. With skill and tension this book pits characters who appreciate art for its beauty against black market art dealers, evil collectors, and the mysterious German pawn hired to deliver the goods. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1678519 Christmas approaches. Three sets of people make their way to Amsterdam... Alan, divorced, travels to Amsterdam to see a Bob Dylan concert - unaware that he will be accompanied by his troubled teenage son, Jack. Karen, a single mother, struggles to give her daughter the best wedding possible, working as a carer and cleaning offices. However, on the plane with her daughters hen party, shell question her life of sacrifices. Meanwhile middle-aged couple Marion and Richard are also on their way, celebrating Marions birthday. But her anxieties over age, motherhood and desire influence a decision that could change the course of their marriage. And in Amsterdam their lives are transfigured as they encounter the complexities of love in a city that challenges what has gone before. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679469 Two years after a messy breakup and move to Los Angels, Allie Zenet has finally found happiness. Brad offers stability, companionship, great sex--and a domineering mother. While her friends are busy with their own chaotic lives, Allie works through her pre-wedding jitters with good-looking acquaintance Jax Montgomery. And soon warm feeling give way to cold feet. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671711 A sexy supernatural male uses the Midnight Liaisons dating service to find the perfect mate--a she-wolf in need of a protector, but who is not afraid to explore her wild side. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1569104 One late spring evening in 1912, in the kitchens at Sterne, preparations begin for an elegant supper party in honor of Emerald Torringtons twentieth birthday. But only a few miles away, a dreadful accident propels a crowd of mysterious and not altogether savory survivors to seek shelter at the ramshackle manor-and the household is thrown into confusion and mischief. The cook toils over mock turtle soup and a chocolate cake covered with green sugar roses, which the hungry band of visitors is not invited to taste. But nothing, it seems, will go according to plan. As the passengers wearily search for rest, the house undergoes a strange transformation. One of their number (who is most definitely not a gentleman) makes it his business to join the birthday revels. Evening turns to stormy night, and a most unpleasant parlor game threatens to blow respectability to smithereens: Smudge Torrington, the wayward youngest daughter of the house, decides that this is the perfect moment for her Great Undertaking--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696304 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1569642 A satire set in Texas during Americas war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive Victory Tour at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557853 Glasgow shipyard worker Mick Little is unmoored when his beloved wife, Cathy, dies of cancer. Blamed by his son for her death, Mick withdraws and slides into despondency and drink. Unable to bear the pitying stares of his friends or the memories of home, he moves to London, but finds few opportunities and little to distract him from his sorrows and submits to a dissolution scarcely imaginable. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734770 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1566223 Returning home, along with her autistic son Henry, to care for her ailing father, Callie Wyeth must face Linden FInch, the man she left behind, and is delighted when a relationship develops between Henry and Lindens menagerie of rescued farm animals, which brings about hope and a second chance at love.