Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7401&N=3+7432&No=50 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712994 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743530 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743589 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713018 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738924 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732017 Kat may be new in her faith, but shes embraced the more radical implications of Christianity with reckless abandon. She invited a homeless mother and her son to move into the apartment she shares with two other housemates. And shes finally found a practical way to channel her passion for healthy eating by starting a food pantry at the church. But not everyone thinks the food pantry is a good idea. When the woman she thought would be her biggest support just wants to pray about it, Kat is forced to look deeper at her own motives. Only when she begins to look past the surface does she see people who are hungry and thirsty for more than just food and drink and realizes the deeper significance of inviting them to come to the table. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743582 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697960 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1692955 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696101 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683314 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731317 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738915 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=1713033 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738906 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712990 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743506 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704725 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737952 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712059 Sheriff Boone Taylor has his job, friends, a run-down but decent ranch, two faithful dogs and a good horse. He doesnt want romance. The widowed Montanan has loved and lost enough for a lifetime. But when a city woman buys the spread next door, Boones peace and quiet is in serious jeopardy. With a marriage and a career painfully behind her, Tara Kendall is determined to start over in Parable. Re-inventing herself and living a girlhood dream is worth the hard work. Sure, she might need help from her handsome, wary neighbor once in awhile, but shes overjoyed to be a rancher in her own right! http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715295 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713007 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713000 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732992 Its Christmas Eve in Manhattan. An eminent plastic surgeon slips on the ice, lands on his butt, and sprains his ankle. So far, so good. A woman such as hes never known yanks him to his feet and conjures the miracle of a taxi. Harrison recuperates with Franz Schubert, Bette Davis, and a foundling cat. Then its back to rhinoplasties, liposuction, and the peccadilloes of his obnoxious colleagues. It is only when he collides again with that strangely helpful woman that things take a wild and revolutionary turn. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731291 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743566 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713020 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743564 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715290 When a Chinese assassin shows up at Jim Pierces lab looking for his daughter, he knows shes uncovered some serious secrets: a malevolent, artificial life form created by military scientists that threatens to destroy humanity. 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=1732100 For much of her life, Anne Morrow has stood in the shadows of those around her. Then Anne, a college senior, travels to Mexico City to spend Christmas with her family. There she meets Colonel Charles Lindbergh, fresh off his celebrated 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic. Charles sees in Anne a kindred spirit, a fellow adventurer, and her world will be changed forever. The two marry in a headline-making wedding. Hounded by adoring crowds and hunted by an insatiable press, Charles shields himself and his new bride from prying eyes, leaving Anne to feel her life falling back into the shadows. In the years that follow, despite her own major achievements, Anne is viewed merely as the aviators wife. The fairy-tale life she once longed for will bring heartbreak and hardships, ultimately pushing her to reconcile her need for love and her desire for independence, and to embrace, at last, lifes infinite possibilities for change and happiness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743499 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731321 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696113 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743510 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743545 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743550 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738926 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693088 For more than thirty years, Edie and Richard Middlestein shared a solid family life in the suburbs of Chicago. But now things are splintering apart. Edie is obsessed with food - and if she doesnt stop, she wont have much longer to live. When Richard abandons his wife, its up to the next generation to take control. Robin, their schoolteacher daughter, is determined that her father pay for leaving Edie. Benny, an easy-going family man, just wants to smooth things over. And his wife Rachelle, a whippet-thin perfectionist, is intent on saving her mother-in-laws life. Through it all, they wonder: do Edies devastating choices rest on her shoulders alone, or are others at fault, too? 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=1738905 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1716408 Newlyweds Holly and Tom have just moved into an old manor house in the picturesque English countryside. When Holly discovers a moondial in the overgrown garden little does she suspect that it will change her life forever. The moondial lets Holly see into the future -- a future which holds Tom cradling their baby daughter, Libby, and mourning Hollys death in childbirth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715732 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=1713006 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1693226 When Cryptessa Muldoon, a Hollywood has-been who spends her days making enemies with everyone on the street, is found murdered on Halloween night, Jaine Austen, to prove her own innocence, must unmask a killer among a neighborhood filled with suspects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743526 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=1712103 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731323 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743533 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743584 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687358 A traumatic experience as a college freshman left Gussie Milton afraid of relationships, but the widows think shed be a perfect wife for the churchs young pastor, who shares a mutual attraction with Gussie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743559 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713003 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=1743525 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1739228 Wanting to remarry when her health-care costs eat up all of her money, widow Cassie Jones enlists the grudging help of reclusive fellow patient Jack and devises a pragmatic but unconventional solution when dating proves unsuccessful. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715300 A portrait of 1970s Botswana is told through the intertwined stories of three people, including a medical student who is forced to flee apartheid South Africa after witnessing a murder and an American Ph.D. student who abandons her studies to follow her husband to Africa. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695480 Sixteen linked stories explore the marginalized humanity in communities, hospitals, and nursing homes in San Francisco, including an elderly Chinese immigrant who is forced to make a painful sacrifice and a young veteran whose injuries symbolize the rest of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743553 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715976 A tale inspired by the historic Tri-State tornado of 1925 follows the experiences of businessman Paul Graves and his family, who throughout a year after the storm watch their community struggle to rebuild and who miscalculate growing resentment about the twist of fate that left their home and business untouched. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743583 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=1743558 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=1738917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1748555 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=1716085 After her husbands death, Susan Lindley moves into her late great-uncles Pasadena mansion and restores his taxidermy collection while being joined in the residence by an equally strange human menagerie. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715286 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1624531 Set 20 years after Treasure Island, Natty, the daughter of Long John Silver, teams up with Hawkins son, Jim, on a dangerous voyage to the legendary island in search of their fathers hidden treasure. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713183 Celia Graves, bodyguard, part siren, part vampire is called upon by her aunt, who is the queen of the sirens, to act as her cousin Adrianas bodyguard during Adrianas wedding since a conspiracy is afoot. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1673233 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1627605 A scabrous, Southern send-up of WAITING FOR GODOT by the novelist Sam Lipsyte hails as one of the few truly important American writers of our time.-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685458 When Vianne Rocher receives a letter from beyond the grave, she and her daughters return to Lansquenet, a French village where she first learned the meaning of home; they find everything changed in unexpected ways: women veiled in black and on the bank of the river facing the church, a minaret. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621948 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1518702 Officer Dan France investigates who pushed the beautiful Margot down the stairs and discovers a number of people with motives, including a potential lover and a defrauded newlywed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1621218 Christmas is fast approaching, and New Bern, Connecticut, is about to receive the gift of a new pastor, hired sight unseen to fill in while Reverend Tucker is on sabbatical. Meanwhile, Margot Matthews friend, Abigail, is trying to match-make even though Margot has all but given up on romance. She loves her job at the Cobbled Court Quilt Shop and the life and friendships shes made in New Bern; she just never thought shed still be single on her fortieth birthday. Its a shock to the entire town when Phillip A. Clarkson turns out to be Philippa. Truth be told, not everyone is happy about having a female pastor. Yet despite a rocky start, Philippa begins to settle in -- finding ways to ease the townspeoples burdens, joining the quilting circle, and forging a fast friendship with Margot. When tragedy threatens to tear Margots family apart, that bond -- and the help of her quilting sisterhood -- will prove a saving grace. And as she untangles her feelings for another new arrival in town, Margot begins to realize that it is the surprising detours woven into lifes fabric that provide its richest hues and deepest meaning. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682510 Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1615025 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1480493 Jo MacKenzie yearns for some quiet time alone as she tries to manage three rambunctious children, a busy new shop and cafe, a fledgling romance, and the antics of her friends and family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729669 Dos familias. Dos nios. Dos mundos diferentes y un solo destino. Elena Lamarc y Carlos Company nacen en una Espaa convulsa, separados por la distancia y las diferencias sociales. Crecen en mundos paralelos, sin conocer el afecto de una familia al uso. Elena como una ms de las posesiones materiales de sus padres, un matrimonio frvolo y de clase alta que consigue escapar de los efectos de la contienda aunque entre las paredes de su lujosa mansin las miserias del alma tapicen cada rincn. Carlos, el pequeo de una familia modesta, pierde a su madre sin apenas conocerla y se cra bajo el mando austero de sus tos, con la familia dividida y soportando los rigores de la guerra. Dos nios que nada tienen en comn de su niez. En la edad adulta Carlos y Elena comparten una tormentosa relacin en la que los negocios y la pasin se entremezclan peligrosamente. En un entorno plagado de intrigas y situaciones lmite, Elena tendr que luchar contra su familia y contra la poca que le toca vivir, para forjarse el futuro que ambiciona en un mundo de hombres. 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=1478915 Skyy takes readers on another wild ride with former college friends Denise, Lena, and Cooley. These women still have the heart and the drama, but now theyre all grown up. Denise, the sexy star basketball player, has recovered from the injuries she suffered during the incident with crazy stalker girl Rhonda. She is off to New York to follow her basketball dreams, with her true love Lena not far behind, only to hit a bump in the road. Lena is off to New York to get hers. You have to admire that in a woman--maybe. Life with a female basketball star can bring its own set of complications, especially if you havent been able to make up your mind. Cooley is finally far away from Memphis and all its heartache. There is nothing to remind her of her past--except for the huge scar across her face. Have all of her past transgressions finally robbed her of her swagger? Can she handle the women, or even the job for that matter, without being the Cooley we all once knew and loved? Denise, Lena, and Cooley have come to the Crossroads. Where will they lead?--Amazon.com, viewed January 3, 2011. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705068 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705064 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=1687168 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1511876 When she accidentally turns her best friend into a vessel for a vengeful god while trying to save her life, Kyana, along with her demigod lover Ryker, races against time to save Haven from herself--and to save humanity from hell on earth. 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=1577917