Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7236&N=3+7240+7517+7514 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1660762 When his mother, a tribal enrollment specialist living on a reservation in North Dakota, slips into an abyss of depression after being brutally attacked, 14-year-old Joe Coutz sets out with his three friends to find the person that destroyed his family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302341 Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and Sasha, the passionate, troubled young woman he employs confront their pasts in this powerful story about how rebellion ages, influence corrupts, habits turn to addictions, lifelong friendships fluctuate and turn, and how art and music have the power to redeem. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1198585 At the rock-bottom end of the sport of kings sits the ruthless and often violent world of cheap horse racing, where trainers and jockeys, grooms and hotwalkers, loan sharks and touts all struggle to take an edge, or prove their luck, or just survive. Equal parts Nathanael West, Damon Runyon and Eudora Welty, Lord of Misrule follows five characters, scarred and lonely dreamers in the American grain, through a year and four races at Indian Mount Downs, downriver from Wheeling, West Virginia.--book jacket http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988072 A rich vision of the pain, loveliness, mystery, and promise of New York City in the 1970s. A radical young Irish monk struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes in the middle of the burning Bronx. A group of mothers gather in a Park Avenue apartment to mourn their sons who died in Vietnam, only to discover just how much divides them even in grief. A young artist finds herself at the scene of a hit-and-run that sends her own life careening sideways. A 38-year-old grandmother, turns tricks alongside her teenage daughter, determined not only to take care of her family but to prove her own worth. Weaving together these and other seemingly disparate lives, McCanns allegory comes alive in the voices of the citys people, unexpectedly drawn together by hope, beauty, and the artistic crime of the century--a mysterious tightrope walker dancing between the Twin Towers.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=991271 At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesnt always recognize the changes in those around her. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725001 Living with an old-world mother and rebellious sister, an urban New Jersey misfit dreams of becoming the next J. R. R. Tolkien and believes that a long-standing family curse is thwarting his efforts to find love and happiness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724674 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=417840 In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls school in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking strawberry blond classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callies failure to develop - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all. The explanation for this shocking state of affairs is a rare genetic mutation - and a guilty secret - that have followed Callies grandparents from the crumbling Ottoman Empire to Prohibition-era Detroit and beyond, outlasting the glory days of the Motor City, the race riots of 1967, and the familys second migration, into the foreign country known as suburbia. Thanks to the gene, Callie is part girl, part boy. And even though the genes epic travels have ended, her own odyssey has only begun.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=291208 Traveling from India to New England and back again, the stories in this debut collection unerringly chart the emotional journeys of characters seeking love beyond the barriers of nations and generations. Imbued with the sensual details of Indian culture, they also speak with universal eloquence to everyone who has ever felt like a foreigner. Like the interpreter of the title story - Lahiri translates between the strict traditions of her ancestors and the baffling New World.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=115278 Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet hes still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. Hes still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay, has remarried and moved, along with their two children, to Connecticut. (He bought her old house and made it his home.) In the midst of his so-called Existence Period, Frank is happy enough in his peculiar way, more or less sheltered from fresh pain and searing regret. And he has high hopes for this 4th of July weekend (while the nation lurches toward another election, Bush vs. Dukakis, in uncertain prosperity). As a realtor hes seeking a house and a lifes accommodation for deeply hapless clients relocating from Vermont; in his free time he takes pride in managing his entrepreneurial, and civic, sidelines. Then he will travel to the Jersey Shore, where his girlfriend and delight awaits him. Finally, up the Northeast Corridor, to Connecticut, there to pick up his larcenous and emotionally troubled teenage son, and together they will visit as many sports halls of fame as they can in two days. But Franks Independence Day turns out not as hed planned. This decent, appealingly bewildered, profoundly observant man is wrenched, gradually and inevitably, out of his private refuge. And in this embattled ascent Richard Ford captures the mystery of life - in all its conflicted glory - with grand humor, intense compassion and transfixing power.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=85786 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=196457 Small-time journalist John Converse thinks to cash in on the last days of the Vietnam War by becoming involved in a major drug deal, but things go very wrong when he gets back to the U.S. and finds himself hunted by a corrupt government agent. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=58651 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1077735