Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7401&N=3+7432+7268 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=1713996 Kweku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside his home in suburban Accra. The news of Kwekus death sends a ripple around the world, bringing together the family he abandoned years before--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735974 Seduced by a Pirate: Should Colin throw propriety to the wind, imitate his pirate father, and simply take what he most desires? After years at sea, Sir Griffin Barry comes home to claim his wife. But is Phoebe his wife if their marriage was never consummated? As an infamous pirate, Griffin claimed and kept gold and jewels-- but this is one treasure that will not be so easy to capture. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=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=1671712 When her investigation of a find from a remote Philippines dig leads her to the scene of her ex-fiancs murder, forensic anthropologist Kelsey Quinn turns to Navy SEAL Gage Brewer for help in unraveling a deadly conspiracy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1575662 Tired of being taken advantage of by her boss Corinne, Shari Nance, posing as Corinne, takes on a major account to prove whos the real talent and goes up against a rival agencys top executive, who just so happens to be Corrines boyfriend. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1682362 Tracking down a porn star-turned-psychic who has promised to reunite an eccentric billionaire with her dead child, a suspicious Sarah Booth goes undercover as a maid at the billionaires estate, where she discovers multiple murders and a host of suspects. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1680099 A holiday tale inspired by the biblical story of Joseph and the coat of many colors follows the modern story of Joe, who after being forced out of the family business by jealous siblings becomes the chief advisor to the CEO of another company and his own familys savior in the face of a troubled economy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1656534 Leaving behind Power, the boy shes come to love, Tanya Beauty Long makes a name for herself in New York Citys fashion industry, while Power becomes trapped in a world of drugs, women, and money where he makes a shocking discovery that brings Tanya back to him. 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=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=1604882 Best friends Annette and Rhoda find their lives in turmoil as Annette tries to balance her new found love life as she tries to reconcile with her husband Pee Wee and discovers a devastating secret while Rhoda must deal with her daughter Jade, whose antics lead Rhoda to throw her out of the house. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1585454 Leaning on her beloved Sheltie after a lifetime of painful losses, Justine Meade struggles with a difficult separation when she returns to her childhood home after a twenty-year absence and encounters an estranged couple torn by the loss of their daughter. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1680118 Granted, an albino alligator on the loose in San Francisco is pretty darn exciting. But my two cats, Rupert and Isabella, and I have better things to do than tail a reptile from Nob Hill to Fishermans Wharf. Were investigating the mysterious Steinhart brothers--the 1900s-era benefactors who provided the original funding for Clive the alligators aquarium. Follow the money, as my uncle Oscar used to say. In the media circus surrounding Clive, one clown gets a little too close to the renegade gator--our very own aspiring mayor, Montgomery Carmichael. Wed hate to see Monty meet an undignified end, but were on a hunt of our own--for Uncle Oscars latest treasure. Of course, thats assuming the whole thing isnt a crock. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1557047 The lyrical and haunting story of a great American dream--the progress of a utopian community and its lasting impact on a gifted young man. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1559579 When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his fathers life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1629259 When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock and the empty seat left by Barry on the parish council soon becomes the catalyst for the biggest war the town has yet seen. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=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=1585485 Its Hazels 30th birthday and she has everything shes ever wanted: a kickass job at a video-game company, a dream New York City apartment, and the perfect boyfriend - who also happens to be a personal chef, and has just proposed in the most romantic way. With good food, video games and love, Hazel thinks shes happy -- but not ready to get married. So when her most far-fetched fantasy suddenly enters the realm of the possible, shouldnt she drop everything to see it through? The morning after her birthday, Hazel leaves for a business trip and receives a surprise upgrade to first class, boards the plane, and sees the person in seat 3B: its her celebrity crush, rock star Finn Schiller. Just the night before, she had confessed her infatuation with Finn at her birthday party, and her boyfriend joked that she had a free pass if she ever met him. Hazel cant believe fate has actually thrown them together. Even more unbelievable is the flight that follows, as they genuinely connect - even after he sees her vomit due to plane turbulence. Finn likes her uncensored cursing, wicked sense of humor, and that shes not like all his groupies; Hazel likes his killer looks, ripped physique and soulful music. But what started as a fantasy quickly becomes a real attraction and after a dream date and taste of the rock-star life with Finn in Los Angeles, Hazel is forced to examine the track her life is on. Indulging in a passionate affair with a rock star seems crazy - but could she ever forgive herself if she walked away from her wildest dreams coming true? Seasoning with her signature wit and hilarious dialogue, Jill Kargman presents a fairytale romance with a twist-- 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=1310966 Valerie Wyatt is at the top of her game--she has parlayed her talent for entertaining and home decorating into a multimedia empire, and her name is synonymous with class and exquisite taste. And yet, though she has achieved enviable professional success, her ambition and hard work have given her little room for a personal life. She is divorced, and though she has a strong relationship with her daughter, she finds herself alone as her 60th birthday approaches. Valeries daughter, April, is also a dynamo in her chosen field. A top-notch chef, she owns her own restaurant--a cozy place that dishes up both comfort food and rare delicacies. The restaurant is a smashing success, and April devotes herself to it body and soul. Like her mother, she values professional success more than romance, and she cannot find any room for a man in her life as her 30th birthday grows nearer. The closest she has come to a relationship in years is an ill-advised one night stand. Jack Adams is a famous former NFL player, who is now an immensely successful sportscaster. He is also an incorrigible womanizer, who makes a habit of bedding models who are half his age. Nearing age 50 he begins to wonder if his wild ways still suit him, or if its finally time to grow up. These three driven professionals share the same birthday. And this year, the day that they share will prove to be one that changes their lives forever. Their birthday will set into motion a dramatic series of events--danger, adventure, laughter, heartbreak, and joy...and, ultimately, the most fulfilling birthday gift of all-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1347452 Ayla and Jondalar have reached home: the Ninth Cave of the Zelandonii, the old stone age settlement in the region known today as south-west France. Ayla has much to learn from the Zelandonii as well as much to teach them. Jondalars family are initially wary of the beautiful young woman he has brought back, with her strange accent and her tame wolf and horses. She is delighted when she meets Zelandoni, the spiritual leader of her people, a fellow healer with whom she can share her medicinal skills. After the rigours and dangers that have characterised her extraordinary life, Ayla yearns for peace and tranquillity; to be Jondalars mate and to have children. But her unique spiritual gifts cannot be ignored, and even as she gives birth to their eagerly-awaited child, she is coming to accept that she has a greater role to play in the destiny of the Zelandonii--Authors website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1393409 From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Secrets of Eden, comes a riveting and dramatic ghost story. In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The homes new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old daughters. Together they hope to rebuild their lives there after Chip, an airline pilot, had to ditch his 70-seat regional jet in Lake Champlain after double engine failure. Unlike the Miracle on the Hudson, however, most of the passengers aboard Flight 1611 died on impact or were drowned. The body count? Thirty-nine, a coincidence not lost on Chip when he discovers the number of bolts in that basement door. Meanwhile, Emily finds herself wondering about the women in this sparsely populated White Mountain village, self-proclaimed herbalists, and their interest in her fifth-grade daughters. Are the women mad? Or is it her husband, in the wake of the tragedy, whose grip on sanity has become desperately tenuous? The result is a powerful ghost story with a palpable sense of place, an unerring sense of the demons that drive us, and characters we care about deeply. The difference this time? Some of those characters are dead. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1364664 Two daring American adventurers must stop the Nazis from acquiring a mythical substance that promises them immortality and world domination. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1213264 Charlie Giles watches his life slowly unravel as he becomes the prime suspect in the murders of his former employers, who are being picked off one by one, and, with nowhere else to turn, enlists the help of his schizophrenic brother to find the truth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293873 Owner of a struggling art gallery and newly separated from her boyfriend, Francesca Thayer does the math and then the unimaginable. She puts out an advertisement for boarders, and soon her Greenwich Village house becomes a whole new world. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1279346 Jack, terminally ill and preparing to say goodbye to his family, has a miraculous recovery after his wife is killed in a car accident and struggles to reunite his family at her childhood home on the South Carolina oceanfront. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1306873 After her husbands sudden death from a heart attack and to keep her family in their beloved Nantucket home, Carley Winsted transforms her expensive, expansive house into a bed-and-breakfast . But complications arise: Carleys mother-in-law disapproves; a friend forces Carley to keep a secret that, if revealed, will undo families and friendships; and, her late husbands former law partner keeps showing up at the most unexpected times. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1576233 Eriks rescue from the Phoenix animal shelter is far from happenstance, though Andrea could not comprehend the impact of her decision to adopt the mangy wolf-dog. Hes a handful from the start, immediately testing her readiness to fully engage in lifes joys and trials. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1274693 When a wealthy socialite and her secretary are found murdered in a stately West Village townhouse, a flurry of seemingly unrelated people spring into action. A reporter chases the story while a tabloid executive holds the presses, a ruined financer attempts to leave the country, a war veteran plots revenge, and a terrorist plans an attack. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1401347 The sibling celebrities provide a fictional glimpse into their lives, revealing the inner workings of a glamorous, high-profile, and complicated family, and leaving it up to readers to determine which storylines are based on their actual experiences and which ones are purely imaginary. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1281262 Liza Martin has booked a June wedding, the first major event at her inn, and hopes everything comes together after noticing tensions between the bride and groom. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1262777 A vicious roadside attack has interrupted Alans trek and robbed him of his one source of solace: the ability to walk. When a mysterious woman enters his life and invites him into her home, Alan realizes he must help her with her journey before he can return to his own. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298407 On the eve of their Silver Anniversary, Mary Gooch is waiting for her husband Jimmy to come home. As night turns to day, it becomes frighteningly clear to Mary that he is gone. Through the years, disappointment and worry have brought Marys life to a standstill, and she has let her universe shrink to the well-worn path from the bedroom to the refrigerator. But her husbands disappearance startles her out of her inertia, and she begins a desperate search. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1148470 In this compelling novel, a young woman overnight becomes mother to her sisters three small children. Grown now, each of them will choose a different path. Through it all, one thing will remain: family ties. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298850 Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and looking at a bright future. Then he has a chance meeting in a restaurant that results in a series of actions that cost him his family, his money, his very identity. Utterly alone, Adam joins Londons underground society of dispossessed and tries to figure out what happened to his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303210 Three unusual people--defense intellectual Richard Elster, who was involved in the management of the countrys war machine; young documentary filmmaker Jim Finley, who is intent on documenting Elsters experience; and Elsters daughter Jessica, who behaves like an otherworldly woman from New York--train their binoculars on the desert landscape of California and build an odd, tender intimacy, something like a family. Then a devastating event throws everything into question. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302010 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1066063 Amelia and Emerson follow an expedition searching for the vanished treasures of the Temple in Jerusalem. Besides suspecting the leader of the expedition of inept excavation practices, they believe him to be secretly working for German intelligence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1163523 Brigitte Nicholson becomes hooked after she discovers a mystery in their familys past: how did a Dakota Sioux princess end up buried in Brittany as a noblewoman alongside a distant relative? Brigittes quest to learn the story of the Marquise de Margerac (ne Wachiwi) takes her from Salt Lake City to Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually to Paris, where she meets Marc Henri, a fetching Sorbonne literature professor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1090783 To each of the men and women in The last time I saw you, this reunion means something different. A last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear--BOT website. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1171096 Rose is determined and focused, keeping the sheep out of danger and protecting the other creatures on the farm she calls home. But of all those shes looked after since coming to the farm as a puppy, it is Sam, the farmer, whom she watches most carefully. Awoken one cold midwinter night during lambing season, Rose and Sam struggle into the snowy dark to do their work. The ever observant Rose has seen a change in her master of late, ever since Sams wife disappeared one day. She senses something else in the air as well: a storm is coming... This storm feels different, bigger, more foreboding. When an epic blizzard hits the region, it will take all of Roses resolve, resourcefulness, and courage to help Sam save the farm and the creatures who live there.--p. [2] of jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302841 When the United States develops a new, state-of-the-art missile defense weapon, it threatens global stability and pits the worlds superpowers in a contest for dominance in the space around Earths orbit. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1297987 Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son hed let slip away. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303239 To each of the men and women in The last time I saw you, this reunion means something different. A last opportunity to say something long left unsaid, an escape from the bleaker realities of everyday life, a means to save a marriage on the rocks, or an opportunity to bond with a slightly estranged daughter, if only over what her mother should wear. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1099080 The story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1192203 Locals in the English coastal town of Blackpool dont take kindly to strangers, but newcomers Michael and Molly Graham have managed to make a few good friends. Dylan Stewart has encouraged them to join him and go native during the towns annual Seafaring Days celebrations. The event makes for lively crowds, colorful costumes and a perfect cover for murder. Troublemaker Willie Myners is found stabbed in his boat and the polices main suspect is Dylan himself. Michael and Molly cant help but be pulled into the mystery and deeper into the dark history of Blackpool. Amid whispers of cursed sixteenth-century coins and gypsy gold, what they discover is something far more sinister than the revenge of a jealous husband. And much more dangerous. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295419 In a pretty suburban town, Lauren Walsh is going through a messy divorce and her greatest desire is to protect her children from any unnecessary pain. Then her soon-to-be ex goes missing and a case of mistaken identity puts Lauren and the children in danger. When she tries to unravel the truth, a cold-blooded predator decides she shouldnt live to tell to what she discovers. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1053578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965516 Wrongly accused of spying after the Iranian Revolution, Isaac Amin is tossed into prison, forcing his wife to desperately search for him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=963844 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298413 Set in the fictional town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, the story of fifth grader Felix Funicello in the months leading up to Christmas 1964--Provided by publisher. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1298548 Judd Foxmans wife, Jen, has left him for his boss, but after the death of his father and a week of sitting shivah with his enjoyably dysfunctional family presided over by their mother, a celebrated parenting expert despite her childrens difficulties, the mourning period brings each of the family members to unexpected epiphanies about their own lives and each other. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=945764 When Fabiola Mays hits the stage, all eyes are on her. She has the looks, the moves, and the voice to be the hottest diva alive. Her talent and sex appeal attracts the attention of the music industrys most influential (and shadiest) mogul, one who will do whatever it takes to get Fabiola into his bed. Too fly to bow down to such sleaze, Fabiola earns herself powerful enemies and an unlikely ally. When Casino, an older gangster battling demons of his own in the music biz and on the streets, crosses her path, they pool their hopes and their assets to fight for a brighter future. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965506 A 17-year-old boy in Tehran finds his rooftop the perfect escape for taking in the night sky, smoking cigarettes and catching occasional glimpses of his beautiful neighbor. But when his lofty perch allows him to witness the brutality of the regime under which he lives, everything changes for the boy and those close to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295543 The murder of Paul Wheeler has all the elements of a blockbuster: family rivalries, incalculable wealth, and a prominent man dying in the arms of his beautiful mistress. Its a case that could earn Derek Mitchell even greater star power. When the Wheeler family approaches him about defending Creighton for his uncles murder -- even before hes charged -- he jumps at the chance. But the more Derek learns about Creighton and his darker side, the more he doubts the young mans innocence. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=936345 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1301984 When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303286 From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=965502 Step-brothers Baldy Li and Song Gang couldnt be more different. While Baldy is a girl-chasing teen, Song is quiet and studious. The two come of age in a vibrant Chinese culture struggling with constant change. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302902 John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels its his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1007872 Eleven years ago Alexa Hamilton left the South behind, fleeing the pain of her ex-husbands betrayal and the cruelty of his prominent Charleston family. Now an assistant D.A. in Manhattan, shes made a name for herself as a top prosecutor while juggling her role as devoted single mom to a teenage daughter. But everything changes when Alexa is handed her latest case: the trial of accused serial killer Luke Quentin. Facing a high-stakes trial, her private life thrown in turmoil by a series of threatening letters, she is forced to send her daughter back to the very place she swore she would never return to: the place where her marriage ended in heartbreak. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1023972 Waking up in jail after an alcoholic blackout, history professor Patsy McLemoore learns that she accidentally killed two people, an event for which she spends decades atoning and transforming her life for the better before learning a perspective-changing truth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715424 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1249349 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=725632 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302369 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295213 No one knows us quite the same way as the men and women who sit beside us in department meetings and crowd the office refrigerator with their labeled yogurts. Every office is a family of sorts, and the ad agency Joshua Ferris depicts in his debut novel is family at its strangest and best, coping with a business downturn in the time-honored way: through gossip, pranks, and increasingly frequent coffee breaks. Among the coworkers fighting for their jobs and their precious perks: Tom Mota, recently divorced and inexplicably wearing three company polo shirts, one on top of the other, every day; Joe Pope, a workaholic and perpetual victim of office sabotage; Carl Garbedian, whose unchecked depression has led him to borrow Janine Gorjancs medication and blackout his windows; Chris Yop, suspected of stealing Tom Motas chair; and Marcla Dwyer, with whom Benny Shassburger is in love, despite her mean streak and badly dated haircut. As one colleague after another is laid off, everyone strikes their best business-as-usual pose, pretending to make headway on the mysterious pro bono ad campaign that is their only remaining work. Meanwhile tempers flare, office furniture disappears, and the survivors parse their bosses decisions in ever-more-paranoid sessions at the nearest bar.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=693248 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=706193 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=695492 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=726178 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=696012 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=750872 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=677035 In this sequel to the acclaimed Duanes Depressed, the author of Lonesome Dove has written a haunting, elegiac, and occasionally erotic novel about one of his most beloved characters. Duane Moore first made his appearance in The Last Picture Showand, and he has aged but not lost his vigor or his taste for life. Back from a two-week trip to Egypt, Duane finds he cannot readjust to life in Thalia, the small, dusty, West Texas hometown in which he has spent all of his life. In the short time he was away, it seems that everything has changed alarmingly. His office barely has a reason to exist now that his son Dickie is running the company from Wichita Falls, his lifelong friends seem to have suddenly grown old, his familiar hangout, once a good old-fashioned convenience store, has been transformed into an Asian Wonder Deli, his daughters seem to have taken leave of their senses and moved on to new and strange lives, and his own health is at serious risk. Its as if Duane cannot find any solace or familiarity in Thalia and cannot even bring himself to revisit the house he shared for decades with his late wife, Karla, and their children and grandchildren. He spends his days aimlessly riding his bicycle (already a sign of serious eccentricity in West Texas) and living in his cabin outside town. The more he tries to get back to the rhythm of his old life, the more he realizes that he should have left Thalia long ago - indeed everybody he cared for seems to have moved on without him, to new lives or to death. The only consolation is meeting the young, attractive geologist, Annie Cameron, whom Dickie has hired to work out of the Thalia office. Annie is brazenly seductive, yet oddly cold, young enough to be Duanes daughter, or worse, and Duane hasnt a clue how to handle her. Hes also in love with his psychiatrist, Honor Carmichael, who after years of rebuffing him, has decided to undertake what she feels is Duanes very necessary sex reeducation, opening him up to some major, life-changing surprises. For the lesson of When the Light Goes is that where theres life, there is indeed hope - Duane, widowed, displaced from whatever is left of his own life, suddenly rootless in the middle of his own hometown, and at risk of death from a heart that also doesnt seem to be doing its job, is in the end saved by sex, by love, and by his own compassionate and intense interest in other people and the surprises they reveal.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295175 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=679956 Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevadas Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=710625 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=607127 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=651798 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303052 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=663387 Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme paranoia, cut off from the outside world, the men reenact the signal event of their youth, with even more catastrophic results. And as the full horror of their predicament unfolds, a prisoner, in jail for an unnamed crime, recounts an unforgettable story - a story about two cousins who unite to renovate a castle - that brings the crimes of the past and present into piercing relation. Egans relentlessly gripping page-turner plays with rich forms - ghost story, love story, gothic - and transfixing themes: the undertow of history, the fate of imagination in the cacophony of modern life, the uncanny likeness between communications technology and the supernatural. In a narrative that shifts seamlessly from an ancient European castle to a maximum security prison, Egan conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep - the last stand, the final holdout, the place you run to when the walls are breached - is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered in order to survive.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=642208 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1021848 After a black drug dealer goes to jail in Brooklyn, his ruthless 17-year-old daughter takes over his empire. A look at the mores and manners of the black underclass, this one with money. First novel by a hip-hop artist, author of No Disrespect. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=624582 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=617087 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=641481 A successful commercial artist with three very different ex-wives, a daughter who adores him, and two sons who despise him, the protagonist finds his confidence, sense of independence, and well-being undermined by an attack of illness in middle age. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=666124 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=552737 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=591473 At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emilys father sees their guest as an entree to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emilys magical water world apart and let the real one in - but at a terrible price.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1302076 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=603212 When it is discovered that one of Covingtons former pastors had never been ordained, thus rendering invalid a number of weddings performed forty years earlier, the ladies of Covington plan a group wedding for several affected couples. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1565747 Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses-until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into-a government job? By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, its Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position-and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295110 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1145475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1295133 Having made his name by killing notorious bank robber Emmet Long, twenty-one-year-old Carl Webster, the most famous Deputy U.S. Marshal in the country, embarks on a dangerous search for Jack Belmont, the blacksheep son of an oil millionaire, who dreams of becoming Public Enemy Number One, in a thriller set against the backdrop of 1930s Oklahoma. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1293737 A thriller told in reverse centers on a woman who is undergoing a murder trial that is being overseen by a prosecutor who is strongly pursuing a death penalty and an FBI agent who would force the defendant to betray her family. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=559111 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1303045 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1677815 Recounts the connected stories of people from the past and the distant future, from a nineteenth-century notary and an investigative journalist in the 1970s to a young man who searches for meaning in a post-apocalayptic world.