Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7401&N=3+7432+6609 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734652 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737959 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=1711927 The people who orbit around actor Renn Ivins long to experience the glow of his flame. His children are both drawn to and repelled by the man who overshadows every part of them. This novel offers a clear-eyed story of the fallout of fame and fortune on family members and others who can neither fully embrace nor ignore the superstar in their midst. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1711922 Its been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she saw her parents, her sisters and brothers-- everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy. Their daughter Prima was raised on the lore of the Old Country. And as she sees her parents aging, she hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy-- hoping to reunite Maddalena with her estranged sister and let her parents see their homeland one last time. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712131 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731321 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=1684647 In the fall of 1938, as Germany rapidly changes under Hitlers regime, 17-year-old Christine Bolz, a domestic forbidden to return to the wealthy Jewish family she works for - and to her employers son Isaac, confronts the Gestapos wrath and the horrors of Dachau to survive and to be with the man she loves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731291 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697960 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738592 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731322 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742786 Summer, 1942. Kitty, an army driver stationed in Sussex, meets Ed, a Royal Marine commando, and Larry, a liaison officer with Combined Ops. She falls instantly in love with Ed, who falls in love with her. So does Larry. Both men go off to war, and Ed wins the highest military honor for his bravery. But sometimes heroes dont make the best husbands. [This novel] follows Kitty, Ed, and Larry from wartime England and the brutally tragic Dieppe raid to Nazi-occupied France, India after the war, and Jamaica before independence. Against this ever-changing backdrop--as they witness history being made and participate in the smaller dramas of romance, friendship, and parenthood--these three friends make choices that will determine the challenges and triumphs of their lives--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738750 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712102 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731323 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=1737952 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=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=1738658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715460 Mala and Ronak are surprisingly less comfortable with their dual Indian and American roots than their parents, part of an immigrant community that has happily embraced the New World. Told that their mother is about to die, they return home to the Midwest, where Mala persuades Ronak that they should immerse themselves in Indian culture by learning to cook their mothers favorite recipes. Then Ronak hits upon the idea of capturing their experience in book and film, and all hell breaks loose.--Library Journal. 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=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=1740368 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734658 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713995 An exploration of the shifting relationships among parents and children, and between the surface trappings that symbolize success and the real values that give meaning to lives. 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=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=1731282 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1720684 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712103 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729577 On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life shed aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Then one determined medical engineer noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an asymptomatic carrier of Typhoid Fever. With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman.--Dust jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715732 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=1729372 Former professional athlete Sonya Richardson agrees to appear on a reality dating program to show America what a real black woman is like, but she is thrown off her game by former pastor John Bond, the shows designated white guy. 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=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=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=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=1729558 Growing up, Kaylie was shuffled from foster home to foster home before being welcomed into Winton and May Wises family. Years later, May leaves Kaylie the money she needs to open her own caf in the charming Victorian house they once shared in Hope Springs. Kaylies determined to finally make all her dreams a reality-- and unearth answers to lingering questions about her past. Tennessee Keller, the carpenter Kaylie hires, is proving to be a very unneeded distraction. Kaylie must decide where her heart lies: with the ghosts of her past or the love and promise of her future. 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=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=1694678 Motherlunge is an eloquent and irreverent novel about first sex, true love, chronic sibling rivalry; its about the deepest fear of young (and not-so-young) adulthood: the fear of inheriting a disappointing live. Its motherly advice, too--featuring wigs, dogs, road trips, and medicine--a guide to the essential experiences of being female, born unto a librarian, named for the goddess of sight, waiting for the future to arrive. With sly wit and surprising joy, Motherlunge considers the flaws in the family line and celebrates the promise that staggers alongside--Front flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731317 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=1698041 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=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=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=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=1628039 A stunningly imaginative, sharp, funny, and slyly tender novel featuring the Devil himself, John Scratch. Hes made of wood. He cooks an excellent gumbo. Cows love him. And hes the worlds first love story . . . and the worlds first broken heart. Meet the darkly handsome, charming John Scratch, aka the Devil. Ever since his true love, a fellow fallen angel named Arden, decided that Earth was a little too terrifying and violent, John Scratch has been trying to lure her back from the forgiving grace of Heaven. Though neither the wonders of Egypt nor the glories of Rome were enough to keep her on Earth, John Scratch believes hes found a new Eden: America. John Scratch capitalizes on the bounty of this arcadia as he shapes it into his pet nation. Then, one dark night in the late 1960s, he meets three down-on-their-luck musicians and strikes a deal. In exchange for their souls, hell grant them fame, wealth, and the chance to make the world a better place. Soon, the trio is helping the Devil push America to the height of civilization--or so he thinks. But theres a great deal about humans he still needs to learn, even after spending so many millennia among them. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1609167 With lots of dangerous people after him and his restaurant in flames, Charles Shake Bouchon, who thought he had left his life of crime behind for good, agrees to follow a mysterious man to Mexico and help pull off a big score. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1608967 Engineer Jean-Baptiste Baratte is tasked with emptying an overflowing cemetery in Paris in 1785, work he considers noble until he begins to suspect that the destruction of the cemetery parallels his own fate and the demise of social order. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575477 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577917 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736247 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687490 Largo Bay is the background for this explosive novel about love and fear, the second in Gillian Royess mystery series featuring Shad, a Jamaican bartender-detective. With the arrival of Joseph, estranged son of Eric, the bars owner, hopes for the villages future come alive but are soon to be threatened. Janna, who has returned to the island, falls for Josephs good looks and charm, but she isnt the only one with an eye for this mysterious man. As questions about Josephs sexuality arise, Shad struggles with protecting the survival of his beloved birthplace amid the deeply ingrained culture of intolerance that surrounds him. What it means to be a man and a father raises questions within the bartenders own home, as his longtime love, Beth, pressures him to make a commitment. In a land where religion is strong, but life is cheap and violence is often the answer, what will it take for Shad to protect Eric and his family? In this truth-telling sequel to The Goat Woman of Largo Bay, the village must confront its own darkness or lose a bright future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1519951 Ally Green returns home to bury her father and must decide if she can stop her wandering existence, as her life becomes intertwined with a that of a young woman fleeing the rock quarries of Nepal. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1622755 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=1609168 Thessaloniki, Greece, 1917: As Dimitri Komninos is born, a fire sweeps through the thriving multicultural city where Christians, Jews, and Muslims live side by side. It is the first of many catastrophic events that will forever change this place and its people. Five years later, as the Turkish army pushes west through Asia Minor, young Katerina loses her mother in the crowd of refugees clambering for boats to Greece. Landing in Thessalonikis harbor, she is at the mercy of strangers in an unknown city. For the next eighty years, the lives of Dimitri and Katerina will be entwined with each other and-through Nazi occupation, civil war, persecution, and economic collapse-with the story of their homeland. Thessaloniki, Greece, 2007: A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents remarkable story for the first time and understands he has a decision to make. For decades, Dimitri and Katerina have looked after the treasures of those who have been forced from their beloved city. Should he stay and become their new custodian?--P. [4] of cover. 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=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=1577734 Follows the life of a liberated Jewish woman who refuses to follow societys rules, lives life to the fullest, and has a child with each of the three men she loves, all as World War I, the Roaring Twenties, and Nazism take over Europe. 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=1734770 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=1684417 Miranda Fox has devoted much of her life to caring for her elderly father. After his tragic death, she starts to make plans for her future, funded by the inheritance she is sure will be coming her way, but it seems her arrogant and domineering half-brother has very different ideas ... Then a chance encounter with a man who has been given months to live boosts Mirandas confidence, and as their friendship grows she finally learns to stand up for herself and her dreams. Can Miranda find the happiness that she deserves? http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671232 At a military academy in Peru in which savage initiation ceremonies, lewdness, and bullying take place, one of the most put-upon cadets is thought to have revealed the name of a perpetrator of a minor crime and is shot during maneuvers. 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=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=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=1682591 Detective Nick Belsey is broke. Now it looks like hes out of a job - something happened last night, something with the boss wife ... At dawn, on what should be the last day of Belseys career, Hampstead CID is ghostly quiet. Belsey checks the overnight files. Theres a missing-person report. But this ones different. Its on the Bishops Avenue, Londons richest street. Belsey sees a scam, an escape route. But someone else has got there first. Furiously paced and thrillingly plotted, The Hollow Man is a deadly love letter to Londons shadow world. 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=1575557 Its the first summer of her retirement and librarian Maggie Lewis is relishing the unfolding of sweet summer days on Vashon Island: walking on the beach, reading the classics, and kayaking. But in June when a sudden storm hits the island, Maggies summer becomes about as peaceful as navigating whitewater. Not only does her wealthy sister arrive uninvited with a startling announcement, but Maggie finds herself entangled with her new Bakers Beach neighbor, Walter Hathaway. A famous childrens author and recovering alcoholic, Walter has a history with Maggie they would each like to forget.--P. [4] of 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=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=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=1678355 Mouna Al-Husseini es la propietaria del Cleopatra, un saln de belleza algo decadente en un barrio de Beirut. Mouna es una mujer atrevida y liberal, que lucha por desmarcarse de la rgida tradicin, a pesar de que a sus 37 aos su madre todava le recuerda da a da lo mal que ha encaminado su vida. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1653178 Every August, Florence shimmers in the summer heat. But this year the heatwave is fiercer than usual, and the citys inhabitants have fled to the cool of the hills and beaches of the surrounding countryside. So it is no surprise that amidst the shrubbery of a normally busy roundabout, a corpse lies unnoticed, bloating in the humid air. Sandro Cellini will not be joining the crowds of holidaymakers this year. The former policeman turned private detective has a case: a man who seems to have vanished into thin air -- leaving his pregnant young wife alone in the city. Meanwhile, bank teller Roxana Delfino is also stuck in the city for the season, with nothing to do but worry for her aging mother and puzzle over the disappearance of one her regular clients. As all Florence sweats it out, Cellini attempts as best he can to grapple with his case and the complications it throws up. And when the weather finally breaks, it brings with it a shocking revelation--Jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696304 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1695505 At a pivotal point when Fidel Castro is trying to garner worldwide opinion, an over-zealous Fidelista kidnaps the young daughter of a United States Sugar Company executive, to Castros dismay. This story follows Gretchens captivity in Cubas Sierra Mountains, at the base camp of Fidel Castro. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1595264 She has gone numb inside, and cannot find a way to live her life with the honesty and passion that once drove her. Even her husband, whom she loves, has never truly touched the core of her being. In desperation, she returns to the memory of an old love affair. Revisiting her past, she will begin an exhilarating journey into her sexuality while finally confronting the hidden truths of her heart. 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=1675695 Bonnie and Clyde, they thought. And whats-his-name, the sidekick. Three teenagers with dead-end lives, and chips on their shoulders, and guns. The first person they killed was a highway patrolman. The second was a woman during a robbery. Then, hell, why not keep on going? As their crime spree cuts a swath through rural Minnesota, some of it captured on the killers cell phones and sent to a local television station, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run them down. But even he doesnt realize whats about to happen next. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1519956 Its 1995, and Louise Shapiro has left California to start a new life in rural Michigan with her husband, Richard, and their daughter, Molly. Within weeks, an explosion destroys the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, leaving innocent civilians dead and maimed. As the accusations and conspiracy theories proliferate--about Arabs, Jews, Christians, the FBI, the government--Louise discovers startling secrets about her neighbors, her colleagues, and even her own husband. Can she live in a town where most of the residents are members of the Michigan Militia? Can she work in a school where her students consider homosexuality the work of Satan? Whom can she trust? Em, the local Wiccan? The charismatic Unitarian minister Ames Wye? Her troubled student, Parker Rosenkrantz?--From inside front cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1577992 A dissection of the American way of life in all its sordid glory. Set in the California desert, the novel lives at the intersection of the Old Testament and Elmore Leonard. A fiercely contested congressional election is in progress. The wily incumbent, Randall Duke, is unburdened by ethical considerations and his opponent, Mary Swain, is a sexy and well-financed newcomer who does not have a firm grip on American history or elemental economics. This is the ideal setting and cast of characters for Seth Greenland, one of Americas finest satirists. The Angry Buddhist convincingly explores mendacity in its modern American forms: contemporary politics, middle class sexual more, the criminal justice system, and the limits and cost of filial love--Cover p. [4]. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1684658 Kate Skylar is an ordinary seventeen-year-old with an extraordinarydestiny. A virgin,Kate suddenly finds herself pregnant with what she believesis the Son of God. But the Catholic Church is convinced Kate is carrying theAntichrist and, assisted by an artificial intelligence known as GrandInquisitor, will stop at nothing to kill Ethan, her son. 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=1565325 After the death of Lauras nine-year-old daughter, Betty, is ruled an accident in a hit-and-run, Laura decides to take revenge into her own hands, determined to track down the man responsible. All the while, her inner turmoil is reopening the old wounds of her passionate love affair with Bettys father, David, and his abandonment of the family for another woman. Haunted by her past and driven to a breaking point by her thirst for retribution, Laura discovers the unforeseen lengths she is willing to go to for love and vengeance.--from cover, p. [4] http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1566275 When Rachel and Neil host their eccentric friends Mike and Tilda Spender and their daughter Addie for dinner, the night spins out of control, threatening Rachel and Neils marriage. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557910 Violinist Maddie elopes with Lane Moritomo, the ambitious son of Japanese immigrants, but after Pearl Harbor is bombed, Lane is seen as the enemy and she must sacrifice her Juilliard ambitions when he is interned at a war relocation camp. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1574957 Introverted Gi and radiant Il-sun are sold as sex workers by Il-suns suitor, first in South Korea and then in the U.S. Though their captivity outside North Korea is even crueler than the oppression, they endure on their path to freedom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1548494 Living deep within a cove in the Appalachians of North Carolina during World War I, Laurel Shelton finally finds the happiness she deserves in Walter, a mysterious stranger who is mute, but their love cannot protect them from a devastating secret. 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=1563036 A European vacation. A luggage mix-up. A note from a secret admirer. Meet two single parents who think theyre too busy to date. And two teenagers who cant stop writing flirty emails. This is a tale of connections, missed and made, in a universe that seems to have its heart set on reuniting Ms. 6B and Mr. 13C. -- Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694726 Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Maos Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.