Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?browse=true&Ne=7431&N=3+7453 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705400 A novel of love, family, and justice follows Lina Sparrow, an ambitious first-year associate in a Manhattan law firm, as she searches for the perfect plaintiff to lead a historic class-action lawsuit worth trillions of dollars in reparations for descendants of American slaves. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1742978 Israeli detective Avraham Avraham must find a teenage boy gone missing from the suburbs of Tel Aviv in this first volume in a new literary crime series. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738651 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715730 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738604 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732031 An inventive and witty debut about a young mans quest to become a writer and the misadventures in life and love that take him around the globe From as early as he can remember, the hopelessly unreliable--yet hopelessly earnest--narrator of this ambitious debut novel has wanted to become a writer. From the jazz clubs of Manhattan to the villages of Sri Lanka, Kristopher Jansmas irresistible narrator will be inspired and haunted by the success of his greatest friend and rival in writing, the eccentric and brilliantly talented Julian McGann, and endlessly enamored with Julians enchanting friend, Evelyn, the green-eyed girl who got away. After the trio has a disastrous falling out, desperate to tell the truth in his writing and to figure out who he really is, Jansmas narrator finds himself caught in a never-ending web of lies. As much a story about a young man and his friends trying to make their way in the world as a profoundly affecting exploration of the nature of truth and storytelling, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards will appeal to readers of Tom Rachmans The Imperfectionists and Jennifer Egans Pulitzer Prize-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad with its elegantly constructed exploration of the stories we tell to find out who we really are. -- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1731847 The lives of twin sisters born in 1940s Turkey diverge when one stays in their childhood village and becomes a revered midwife while the other moves to London with her bitter husband and three children. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696015 When the pressures of early 1800s westward expansion and debt threaten to destroy everything hes built, a troubled Revolutionary War veteran embarks on an audacious plan involving setting one of his male slaves as his breeding sire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738610 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698363 Mickey Brandeis, a brilliant doctoral candidate in medieval literature, lives in her parents garage and swears too often, but she hasnt killed a man since she was ten. Mickeys carefully created adult existence is upended when she is led to a condemned house where she discovers a mutilated corpse. When she is later asked by a timid student to solve a murder that occurred twenty years earlier, Mickey begins to lose hold on her tenuous connection to reality. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705437 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705405 Rebecca and her beautiful, reckless friend Alex dream of lives beyond their mothers narrow expectations. Their struggle to define themselves against the backdrop of an American cultural revolution unites them, until one sweltering summer evening, when a single act of betrayal changes everything. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715841 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698074 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715734 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713992 Two brothers from a small Iranian mountain village--Saladin, who has always dreamed of leaving, and Ali, who has never given it a thought--are forced to flee for their lives in the aftermath of a political killing. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1686005 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705438 In 2008 Antigone Perifanis returns to her old family home in Athens after 60 years in exile. She has come to attend the funeral of her only son, Nikitas, who was born in prison, and whom she has not seen since she left him as a baby. At the same time, Nikitas English widow Maud - disturbed by her husbands strange behavior in the days before his death - starts to investigate his complicated past. She soon finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, and discovers a heartbreaking story of a young mother caught up in the political tides of the Greek Civil War, forced to make a terrible decision that will blight not only her life but that of future generations -- Cover verso. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738550 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737945 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732117 South Africa, 1880. Frances Irvine, destitute in the wake of her fathers sudden death, is forced to abandon her life of wealth and privilege in London and emigrate to the Cape. In this remote and inhospitable land she becomes entangled with two very different men, leading her into the dark heart of the diamond mines. Torn between passion and integrity, she makes a choice that has devastating consequences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736237 Si hay alguien capaz de describir con maestra, personalidad y humor la naturaleza caprichosa del amor, es Isabel Allende. Esta recopilacin de escenas de amor, seleccionadas de entre sus libros, es una invitacin a sumergirse en la lectura, soar y sonrer. La gran narradora chilena escribe abiertamente, haciendo un guio a sus lectores, sobre sus experiencias en el sexo y el amor. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685689 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704635 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732108 Members of an extended family draw upon supernatural powers in times of crisis, and, over three decades, endeavor to come to terms with their fate as their magic is tested against the human traits of love and acceptance. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715756 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696148 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733131 A middle-aged woman, irritated with her wealthy young neighbors yard improvements, offers a corner of her lawn to a Croatian immigrant who wants a vegetable garden. A daughter accompanies her father to Israel, where, seeing a new side of him away from her mother, she makes an unusual bargain. In twelve stories about the difficult, sometimes impermeable boundaries between friends, neighbors, and family relations, Jessica Francis Kane explores just how close we can come to love, success, happiness, and forgiveness.--P. [4] of cover. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738618 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713993 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705417 Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the writer Christa Wolf was granted access to her newly declassified Stasi files. She was not surprised to discover forty-two volumes of documents produced by the East German secret police. But what was surprising was a thing green folder whos contents told an unfamiliar story: in the early 1960s, Wolf had been an informant for the Communist government. And yet, thirty years on, she had absolutely no recollection of it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694348 This collection of novellas is Jim Harrison at his most memorable--a brilliant rendering of two men striving to find their way in the world, written with freshness, abundant wit, and profound humanity. In The Land of Unlikeness, sixty-year-old art history academic Clive--a failed artist, divorced and grappling with the vagaries of his declining years--reluctantly returns to his familys Michigan farmhouse to visit his aging mother. The return to familiar territory triggers a jolt of renewal--of ardor for his high school love, of his relationship with his estranged daughter, and of his own lost love of painting. In Water Baby, Harrison ventures into the magical as an Upper Peninsula farm boy is irresistibly drawn to the water as an escape and sees otherworldly creatures there. Faced with the injustice and pressure of coming of age, he takes to the river and follows its siren song all the way across Lake Michigan. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729597 In 20th century Princeton, New Jersey, a powerful curse, which besets the wealthiest of families, causes the disappearance of a young bride, and when her brother sets out to find her, he crosses paths with the towns most formidable people, including Grover Cleveland and Upton Sinclair. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1732155 A young man comes to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film, in particular with his relationships with family, friends, lovers, and adversaries. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712025 Sam Savages novel follows Harold Nivenson, a decrepit, aging man who was once a painter and arts patron. The death of Peter Meinenger, his friend turned romantic and intellectual rival, prompts him to ruminate on his own career as a minor artist and collector and make sense of a lifetime of gnawing doubt. Over time, his bitterness toward his family, his gentrifying neighborhood, and the decline of intelligent artistic discourse gives way to a kind of peace within himself, as he emerges from the shadow of the past and finds a reason to live, every day, in the now. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1741688 Constantly trying to fend off attempts by her daughter to move her into assisted living, Esther Lustig, an elderly Jewish woman, finds herself lost in a world which has disappeared along with many who had inhabited it. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738624 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713868 When his life perceptions are altered by injuries incurred during a suicide bus bombing, Russian architect Roman Guttman embarks on a journey into Palestinian territory, while the spirit of the young Palestinian bomber witnesses from beyond. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736005 Elm Howells has a loving family and a distinguished career at an elite Manhattan auction house. But after a tragic loss throws her into an emotional crisis, she pursues a reckless course of action that jeopardizes her personal and professional success. Meanwhile, talented artist Gabriel Connois wearies of remaining at the margins of the capricious Parisian art scene, and, desperate for recognition, embarks on a scheme that threatens his burgeoning reputation--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715827 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=1706385 A rich multigenerational story about the intense, often fraught bond sisters share and the dreams and sorrows that lay at the heart of the immigrant experience. It has been more than sixty years since Elaine Greensteins twin sister, Barbara, ran away, cutting off contact with her family forever. While sifting through old papers as she prepares to move to Rancho Maana, Elaine is stunned to find a possible hint to Barbaras whereabouts. It pushes her to confront the fierce love and bitter rivalry of their youth during the 1920s and 30s, in the Los Angeles Jewish neighborhood of Boyle Heights. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715438 Not long ago, John Shirting held down a beloved job as a barista at Capo Coffee Family, a coffee chain and global business powerhouse. When he is deemed too passionate about his job, he is let go. Shirting makes it his mission to return to the frothy Capos fold by single-handedly breaking into a new market and making freshly post-communist Prague safe for free-market capitalism. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1735838 All his life, Luther Gaunt has heard songs in his head songs of sweet evil and blue ruckus, odes to ghosts, drinking hymns. In search of his past, he hits the road with his band, the Long Gone Daddies, and his grandfathers cursed guitar. While his band mates just want to make it big when they get to Memphis, Luther retraces the steps of his father and grandfather, who each made the same journey with the same guitar years earlier. Malcolm Gaunt could have been Elvis that white man who could sing black except his rounders ways got him shot before he could strike that first note for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. At least thats what Luthers father--Malcolms son--always told him when fame came calling and he disappeared down south, too. As Luther discovers the truth about the two generations of musicians that came before him, he must face the ghosts of history, the temptations of the road, and the fame cravings of a seriously treacherous woman. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743562 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738555 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1702013 At fifteen, Josh Paquette and Khadijah Silvergate-Dunn catch Joshs father and Khadijahs mother kissing in a natural foods store. As both of their families fall apart, the teenagers sign a pact never to cheat on anyone, ever. They have no problem keeping the vow-- until they meet again at twenty-eight, both struggling with career and identity, and both engaged to other people -- dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738733 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704325 A high-school senior caring for her younger brother and his best friend, Trusty, a mute Siberian Husky, packs up their car and sets out for Alaska in an effort to find inspiration and follow her dreams. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704422 When Harry and Madeleine Winslow meet Claire, they are drawn to her youth, quiet intelligence, and naivete, and over the course of the summer, reverence transforms into dangerous desire. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743318 Determined to put his past behind him and start a new life, hitman Ray Lamar, agreeing to one last heist, discovers that the road to redemption is much harder than he thought when things start to go very wrong. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713178 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738613 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705311 When he was a younger man, Alistair McPhee was fond of escaping in his 56 Chevy Bel Air, Lucy, named for the cherished wife who died and left him and their nine-year-old son Colin behind. Yearning for a way to connect to his itinerant father, Colin turned to writing screenplays inspired by the classic films they used to watch together, while Colins own son, Finn, grew up listening to his grandfather spin tales of danger, heartbreak, and redemption on the road. Now, at the end of his life and wishing to feel the wind in his hair one last time, Alistair charges his grandson with a task: bring Lucy to him in San Francisco from New York, where a man named Yip has been keeping her safe. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1694757 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=1743735 Amateur astronomer Hannah Gardner Price has lived all twenty-four years of her life according to the principles of the Nantucket Quaker community in which she was raised. Then she meets Isaac Martin, a young, dark-skinned whaler from the Azores who, like herself, has ambitions beyond his expected station in life. Drawn to his intellectual curiosity and honest manner, Hannah agrees to take Isaac on as a student. But when their shared interest in the stars develops into something deeper, Hannahs standing in the community begins to unravel. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1712997 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715851 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715736 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1683303 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714514 When his bicycle is intentionally run off the road by a neighbors SUV, something snaps in Bob Coffin. Modern suburban life has been getting him down and this is the last straw. To avoid following in his own fathers missteps, Bob is suddenly desperate to reconnect with his wife and his distant, distracted children. And hes looking for any guidance he can get. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1714949 The writer son of a quiet sympathizer with the Pinochet regime reflects on the progress of his novel, in which an unnamed boy from a Chilean suburb witnesses an earthquake and meets an older girl who asks him to spy on her uncle. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715725 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736008 Kate is in the middle of the biggest meeting of her career when she gets the telephone call from Grace Hall, her daughters exclusive private school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Amelia has been suspended, effective immediately, and Kate must come get her daughter now. But Kates stress over leaving work quickly turns to panic when she arrives at the school and finds it surrounded by police officers, fire trucks, and an ambulance. By then its already too late for Amelia. And for Kate. An academic overachiever despondent over getting caught cheating has jumped to her death. At least that is the story Grace Hall tells Kate. And clouded as she is by her guilt and grief, it is the one she forces herself to believe. Until she gets an anonymous text: She didnt jump. The novel is about secret first loves, old friendships, and an all-girls club steeped in tradition. But, most of all, its the story of how far a mother will go to vindicate the memory of a daughter whose life she couldnt save. 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=1686030 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737950 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715766 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738595 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696013 The story of Serena and Dan Shine, estranged from one another as they separately grieve over the recent loss of Serenas father and Dans older brother. Serenas actions cause the couple and their two small children to be banished from New York City, and they settle in the only town that will offer Dan employment: Waring, North Carolina. There, in the Bible belt of America, Serena becomes enmeshed with the small Jewish congregation in town led by an esoteric rabbi, whose increasingly erratic behavior threatens the future of his flock. Dan and their young son are drawn into the Boy Scouts by their mysterious and vigilant neighbor, who may not have their best intentions at heart. Tensions accrue when matters of faith, identity, community, and family all fall into the crosshairs of contemporary, small-town America. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738608 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715443 Set in a small New Hampshire town, a story of the crisscrossing of lives, within and without family, and of one woman, given up for adoption as a baby, searching for the truth about her life--Dust jacket flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743327 Working as a birdwatching guide to scrape together enough money to survive, Nathan Lochmueller performs nature research in backwater Indiana, where he falls in love with a heartbreaking free spirit named Lola and confronts the accidental turns of his life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738552 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1713024 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738590 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715810 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1696104 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1736006 Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to aging out out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian arent as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds of other children whose destinies would be determined by luck and chance. Molly discovers that she has the power to help Vivian find answers to mysteries that have haunted her for her entire life--answers that will ultimately free them both. Rich in detail and epic in scope, Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline is a powerful novel of upheaval and resilience, of unexpected friendship, and of the secrets we carry that keep us from finding out who we are.--from publishers description http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1720293 After she is attacked by a stranger, Kim Lystanders attempt to identify her assailant draws her family and the others who try to comfort her into a web of past sins, recriminations, and complicated relationships. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1737964 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715674 A writers family life unravels when he begins editing an odd, unpublished biography, his ex-wife embarks on a dangerous geological expedition, his daughter travels on sexually charged trips, and the writer descends into madness. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1676027 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698356 Wearying of endless visits to the myriad points of human history, a time traveler attends his own one-hundredth birthday celebration every year with other versions of himself and encounters in his thirty-ninth year his murdered forty-year-old body, a situation that compels him to prevent his own death. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1733224 In her first collection of short stories, Laura Kasischke exposes the dark heart of the domestic?its wrapped in shabby silk, tucked away in a dresser drawer. If A Stranger Approaches You reminds us that intersection of the bizarre and the quotidian is always at play. Memorial statues and raggedy dolls seem to come to life, a man listens to the electric menace of suburban power lines while he struggles with his failed marriage, and the little boy and his dog knocking on the door might be Death in disguise. Surreal and darkly comic, these are stories that know the unexpected graces and random collisions that drive and haunt us. As one of her narrators remarks, What a thing, this life. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1705087 Resolving to reunite with her missing physicist husband as Mumbai is evacuated in the wake of a nuclear threat, statistician Sarita journeys through the surreal landscape of a dangerous near-abandoned city and meets an incarnation of the patron goddess Devi Ma. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1729380 By way of Italy, the Felice family puts down new roots in Southern California, settling into a grand Victorian home and buying a share of the great American Dream. But for their five, first-generation children, an idyllic childhood didnt quite translate into success and happiness. Rather, the pressures of living up to expectations drove a wide rift through the family. After decades apart, the five siblings find themselves together again at their ailing mothers bedside, caught in a deadlocked feud over her hospice care. Into the morass steps Murron Teinetoa, one of their bastard children, who carries an idealistic hope of finally fitting in among her estranged relatives. In an interweaving narrative, Malae portrays the Felices in their formative years of the fifties; he excavates the personal lives of the siblings in the eighties and nineties; and he follows Murron in the present as she raises her son as a single mother. A powerful and fiery multi-generational story, Our Frail Blood captures the beauty and horror, the strength and fragility, the selfishness and love comprising the threads of familial bonds--Inside cover flap. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743970 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1708654 Built around the events of the Soviet Budapest Offensive at the end of World War II, Siege 13 is a series of linked stories that alternate between the siege itself and a contemporary community of Hungarian migrs who find refuge in the West (Canada, the U.S., and parts of Europe). Dobozy constructs an intentionally faulty history of war and its aftermath. Blurring the line between right and wrong, he portrays a world in which one mans betrayal is another mans survival, and in which common citizens are caught between the pincers of aggressors, leading to actions at once deplorable, perplexing, and heroic-- http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738556 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1744364 Presents a story inspired by human love, how people take care of one another, and how choices resonate through subsequent generations. Afghanistan, 1952. Abdullah and his sister Pari live with their father and step-mother in the small village of Shadbagh. Their father, Saboor, is constantly in search of work and they struggle together through poverty and brutal winters. To Adbullah, Pari, as beautiful and sweet-natured as the fairy for which she was named, is everything. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743522 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1734524 Catalyzed by a nephews thoughtless prank, a pair of brothers confront painful psychological issues surrounding the freak accident that killed their father when they were boys, a loss linked to a heartbreaking deception that shaped their personal and professional lives. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1697970 Blending historical facts with imaginative fiction, interweaves the story of George Mallorys ill-fated 1924 attempt to be the first man to conquer Mount Everest and a single day in the life of his wife as she waits at home in England for news of his return. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1738949 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704419 When Hilly finds himself falling for Lems niece, Savannah, his affection for her collides with his fathers dark secrets. The results shatter his family, and hers. Years later, haunted by his memories of that summer, Hilly sets out to find Savannah. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1704299 Offers eleven interwoven macabre short stories that take an ominous look at grotesque characters, violent emotions, and murder. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1743524 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1715825 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1698083