Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7236&N=3+7514+7238 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=1519605 When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1368824 Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1392715 In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses. 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=1189042 Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. 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=935097 A collection of short one-person plays featuring characters, between ten and fifteen years old, who live in or near a thirteenth-century English manor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=931111 Inspired by a near-mythic event of the wild Florida frontier at the turn of the twentieth century, Shadow Country reimagines the legend of the inspired Everglades sugar planter and notorious outlaw E. J. Watson, who drives himself relentlessly toward his own violent end at the hands of neighbors who mostly admired him, in a killing that obsessed his favorite son.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=724674 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=716436 In this novel of social drama, a casual murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II and the resulting court case cleave open the ugly divisions of race and class. The man accused of shooting a black girl, a storekeeper named Paris Trout, has no great feeling of guilt, nor fear that the system will fail to work his way. Trout becomes an embarrassment to the polite white society that prefers to hold itself high above such primitive prejudice. But the trial does not allow any hiding from the stark reality of social and racial tensions. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=676630 Describes the devastating effect of the Vietnam War on a wounded soldier. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=767115 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=661697 On a winter night on a remote Nebraska road, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near-fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only near kin, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted coma, Mark believes that this woman - who looks, acts, and sounds just like his sister - is really an impostor. Shattered by her brothers refusal to recognize her, Karin contacts the cognitive neurologist Gerald Weber, famous for his case histories describing the infinitely bizarre world of brain disorders. Weber recognizes Marks condition as a rare case of Capgras syndrome - the delusion that people in ones life are doubles or imposters - and eagerly investigates. What he discovers in Mark slowly undermines even his own sense of being. Meanwhile, Mark, armed only with a note left by an anonymous witness, attempts to learn what happened the night of his inexplicable accident. The truth of that evening will change the lives of all three beyond recognition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=502268 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=544991 Kansas sixteen-year-old Jeff Bussey is thrilled to join the Union army so he can fight against the Confederates, but he faces a difficult decision when he is sent to infiltrate enemy forces as a spy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=554682 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=252283 Mr. Artur Sammler, a survivor of the Holocaust, haunted by memories of his literal escape from the grave, is living out his days in New York City. An intellectual who once thrived on the great works of Western literature and philosophy, he now occasionally lectures at Columbia University. A registrar of madness, he records the degradations of city life while looking deep into the sufferings of the human soul. While the world anticipates the first lunar landing and visions of utopia vie with predictions of imminent apocalypse, Sammler finds himself intrigued by the possibilities of the future, and edges closer toward empathy with his fellow mortals.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=463770 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516382 After her father returns from the war moody and tired, Marlys family decides to move from the city to Maple Hill Farm in the Pennsylvania countryside where they share many adventures which help restore their spirits and their bond with each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=483463 Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=412516 Three Junes is a novel set on both sides of the Atlantic during three fateful summers in the lives of a Scottish family. In June of 1989, Paul McLeod, the recently widowed patriarch, becomes infatuated with a young American artist while traveling through Greece and is compelled to relive the secret sorrows of his marriage. Six years later, Pauls death reunites his sons at Tealing, their idyllic childhood home, where Fenno, the eldest, faces a choice that puts him at the center of his familys future. A lovable, slightly repressed gay man, Fenno leads the life of an aloof expatriate in the West Village, running a shop filled with books and birdwatching gear. He believes himself safe from all emotional entanglements - until a worldly neighbor presents him with an extraordinary gift and a seductive photographer makes him an unwitting subject. Each man draws Fenno into territories of the heart he has never braved before, leading him toward an almost unbearable loss that will reveal to him the nature of love. Love in its limitless forms - between husband and wife, between lovers, between people and animals, between parents and children - is the force that moves these characters lives, which collide again, in yet another June, over a Long Island dinner table. This time it is Fenno who meets and captivates Fern, the same woman who captivated his father in Greece ten years before. Now pregnant with a son of her own, Fern, like Fenno and Paul before him, must make peace with her past to embrace her future. Elegantly detailed yet full of emotional suspense, often as comic as it is sad, Three Junes is a glorious triptych about how we learn to live, and live fully, beyond incurable grief and betrayals of the heart - how family ties, both those were born into and those we make, can offer us redemption and joy.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=389531 After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinsons disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of their own lives. The oldest, Gary, a once-stable portfolio manager and family man, is trying to convince his wife and himself, despite clear signs to the contrary, that he is not clinically depressed. The middle child, Chip, has lost his seemingly secure academic job and is failing spectacularly at his new line of work. And Denise, the youngest, has escaped a disastrous marriage only to pour her youth and heart down the drain of an affair with a married man - or so her mother fears. Desperate for some pleasure to look forward to, Enid has set her heart on an elusive goal: bringing her family together for one last Christmas at home.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=371347 In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=466102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=632450 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=292993 In America is about many things: a womans search for self-transformation; the fate of idealism; a life in the theatre; the many varieties of love; and, not least of all, stories and storytelling itself. Operatic in the scope and intensity of the emotions it depicts (Minnie from Puccinis Girl of the Golden West makes a startling appearance), richly detailed and visionary in its account of America, and peopled with unforgettable characters, In America is Susan Sontags largest achievement.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=522853 The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=516383 When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dogs real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=285178 This is the story of Lin Kong, a man living in two worlds, struggling with the conflicting claims of two utterly different women as he moves through the political minefields of a society designed to regulate his every move and stifle the promptings of his innermost heart. For more than seventeen years this devoted and ambitious doctor has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in the traditional world of his home village lives the wife his family chose for him when he was young - a humble and touchingly loyal woman, whom he visits in order to ask, again and again, for a divorce. In a culture in which the ancient ties of tradition and family still hold sway and where adultery discovered by the Party can ruin lives forever, Lins passionate love is stretched ever more taut by the passing years. Every summer, his compliant wife agrees to a divorce but then backs out. This time, Lin promises, will be different. Tracing these lives through their summer of decision and beyond, Ha Jin vividly conjures the texture of daily life in a place where the demands of human longing must contend with the weight of centuries of custom.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=803301 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=239452 Everyone loved him. If you knew Billy at all, then you loved him. The late Billy Lynchs family and friends, a party of forty-seven, gather at a small bar and grill somewhere in the Bronx to remember better times in good company, and to redeem the pleasure of a drink or two from the miserable thing that a drink had become in Billys life. His widow, Maeve, is there and everyone admires the way she is holding up, just as they always admired the way she cared for Billy after the alcohol had ruined him. But one cannot think of Billy Lynchs life, ones own relentless affection for him, without saying at some point, There was that girl. The Irish girl. And one cant help but think that the real story of his life lay there.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=130987 As further evidence of his familys bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=8503 Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who choses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=311445 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=25558 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=165925 Liberated for a year from her parents restrictions, ten-year-old Lucinda discovers true freedom in the care of her temporary guardians as she roller skates around the streets of turn-of-the-century New York. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=124354 As much as he wants to be the Marquis de Sade, he is not. As much as he wants to be seventeen, he is not. As much as he wants to be dead, he is not. He is Mickey Sabbath, the aging, raging powerhouse whose savage effrontery and mocking audacity are at the heart of Philip Roths new novel. Once a scandalously inventive puppeteer, Sabbath at sixty-four is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose adulterous daring exceeds even his own - Sabbath embarks on a turbulent journey into his past. Bereft and grieving, besieged by the ghosts of those who loved and hated him most, he contrives a succession of farcical disasters that take him to the brink of madness and extinction.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=151502 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=95731 After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mothers route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=213895 With the publication of the Recognitions in 1955, William Gaddis was hailed as the American heir to James Joyce. His two subsequent novels, J R (winner of the National Book Award) and Carpenters Gothic, have secured his position among Americas foremost contemporary writers. Now A Frolic of His Own, his long-anticipated fourth novel, adds more luster to his reputation, as he takes on life in our litigious times. Justice? - You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law. So begins this mercilessly funny, devastatingly accurate tale of lives caught up in the toils of the law. Oscar Crease, middle-aged college instructor, savant, and playwright, is suing a Hollywood producer for pirating his play Once at Antietam, based on his grandfathers experiences in the Civil War, and turning it into a gory blockbuster called The Blood in the Red White and Blue. Oscars suit, and a host of others - which involve a dog trapped in an outdoor sculpture, wrongful death during a river baptism, a church versus a soft drink company, and even Oscar himself after he is run over by his own car - engulf all who surround him, from his freewheeling girlfriend to his well-to-do stepsister and her ill-fated husband (a partner in the white-shoe firm of Swyne & Dour), to his draconian, nonagenarian father, Federal Judge Thomas Crease, who has just wielded the long arm of the law to expel God (and Satan) from his courtroom. And down the tortuous path of depositions and decrees, suits and countersuits, the most lofty ideas of our culture - questions about the value of art, literature, and originality - will be wrung dry in the meticulous, often surreal logic and language of the law, leaving no party unscathed. Gaddis has created a whirlwind of a novel, which brilliantly reproduces the Tower of Babel in which we conduct our lives. In A Frolic of His Own we hear voices as they speak at and around one another: lawyers, family members, judges, rogues, hucksters, and desperate men (and women) looking for a buck. Above all these is Oscars voice - the outraged cry of the new anachronism, the self-proclaimed last civilized man rendered frail before the behemoth of the law, the servant and warrior of the soul of our century: money.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=210644 The experiences of a mouse-colored horse from his birth in the wild, through his capture by humans and his work in the rodeo and on the range, to his eventual old age. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=135810 After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=85786 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=194671 Joe Allston is a retired literary agent whose parents and only son are dead, and who feels that he has been a mere spectator through life. Than a postcard from a friend causes him to return to the journals of a trip he took to his mothers birthplace to search for his roots; memories of that journey reveal tha t he is not quite spectator enough. Winner of the National Book Award. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=193570 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=124049 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=175155 A crippled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns recognition from the King. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=245222 When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamins father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=258180 A collection of poems describing the characteristics and activities of a variety of insects. 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=258794 A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=58651 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=13155 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=35498 Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=64526 A collection of poems describing the curious menagerie of guests who arrive at William Blakes inn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138426 Cusi, a modern Inca boy, leaves his home high in the Andes mountains to learn the mysterious secret of his ancient ancestors. Accompanied by his pet Ilama, Misti, he slowly discovers the truth about his birth and his peoples ancient glory--now he must prove himself worthy to be entrusted with the fabulous secret from the past. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=59866 The journal of a 14-year-old girl, kept the last year she lived on the family farm, records daily events in her small New Hampshire town, her fathers remarriage, and the death of her best friend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=242475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=97275 The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=158888 The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=161326 Follows the adventures of an Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed, and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=71141 In this fourth book of The Dark Is Rising sequence, Will Stanton, visiting in Wales, is swept into a desperate quest to find the golden harp and to awaken the ancient Sleepers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138443 In the 1920s a Chinese youth from the country comes to Chungking with his mother where the bustling city offers adventure and his apprenticeship to a coppersmith brings good fortune. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33639 Set in a little-known backwoods region of Florida, Strawberry Girl is the first of the Lenski regional books and the winner of the Newbery award. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=27307 When new folks come to live in the Big House, the animals of Rabbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden, so food will be more plentiful. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=110589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=29581 A teen-age girl gains new insight into herself and her family when her mentally retarded brother gets lost http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=251585 Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138427 A legendary adventure story of how Mafatu, the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, a Polynesian race who worship courage, conquers his fear of the sea and proves he isnt a coward. Mafatus story has a strength and simplicity that appeal to a wide range in age, and it is beautifully told.--New York Times Book Review. Newbery Medal; ALA Notable Childrens Book. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=247081 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=2644 A Polish family in the Middle Ages guards a great secret treasure and a boys memory of an earlier trumpeter of Krakow makes it possible for him to save his father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=69599 Manolo Olivar has to make a decision: to follow in his famous fathers shadow and become a bullfighter, or to follow his heart and become a doctor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=54091 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138446 His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=179231 The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the birds courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138440 A series of fascinating Chinese stories, strong in humor and rich in Chinese wisdom, in which the author has caught admirably the spirit of Chinese life and thought. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=194882 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=82308 John Newbery medal for the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. 1951. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=138451 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=233389 Relates the adventures of a country doll made of an apple-wood twig with a hickory nut for a head. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=251971 This Newbery Medal winner is a timeless classic about a very special doll of great charm and character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1077735 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=33173 A little cat comes to the home of a poor Japanese artist and, by humility and devotion, brings him good fortune.