Arnold: 220 books

Oh, what interesting dolls the undertaker's daughter has to play with... Andrew Byrd figured his mother had been over-protective; the way she stood in his doorway at night, watching him fall asleep, the way she'd call him her baby doll, even after he was much too old for that sort of thing. ...Sometimes...

Loretta D’Angelo doesn’t want to get married. Being dumped by her fiancé just months before her wedding was fine with her. She loves her life as a single woman in New York City, indulging in gourmet ice-cream, getting the occasional mud-mask facial, and working for a tacky talk show that specializes...

Poems inspired mostly by growing up in the religious Bible Belt of the South, thrown into a meatloaf with a few other random ingredients.

If there was anything unglamorous about working for Lavisav Limited, a company that manufactured chemical toilets, it hadn’t occurred to fifteen-year-old Jo Hackett. On her first day as secretary to the Advertising Manager, nothing could quench her enthusiasm – not the smell of the garlic cough...

A huge sum of money has gone missing from the Hopwell School’s parent-teacher organization. The evidence points to a ditzy school secretary, but when she dies abruptly, Lainie Lovett’s colleagues turn to her to figure out where the money went. Did the secretary embezzle it before she died? Did...

In the season of miracles, the greatest miracle of all is love. For Robin Greer, Christmas is about tradition and family. After her army-brat childhood, she wants nothing more than to plant solid roots and create a stable, permanent home for her young son, Philip. Christmas is a time to celebrate...

Summertime, and the living should be easy. School’s out, and fourth-grade teacher Lainie Lovett is on vacation, spending her mornings running sports clinics for children and her evenings playing with the Rockettes, her recreation-league soccer team. But things get a whole lot less easy when one...

Molly lives by the beach, and misbehaves all the time. There's a reason why she acts up. It's the monsters of Monster Land! The monsters are free to act and do as they please and that's what Molly wants to do as well. For awhile... In her day to day life, she is restless and finds everything...

Mick and Jim, the drunken, accident-prone, socially incompetent directors of Implosion Productions are forced into an unexpected visit to the little seaside town of Playa Blanca in Lanzarote. They book into Sea View, a bizarre re-creation of a 1950's Blackpool boarding house, right next to the beach. Sea...

The Magic Jukebox sits in the Faulk Street Tavern in the quiet seaside town of Brogan’s Point, Massachusetts. No one knows what classic rock songs will come out of the jukebox when a coin is inserted, but every now and then, the jukebox will play a song that casts a spell on two bar patrons—a...

Who ever heard of all-day recess or drawing pictures instead of doing math? Certainly no one at Rachel Steerman Elementary. But that's exactly what happens one Monday morning, prompting five fourth-graders to investigate the strange behavior of their teacher, Mrs. Winfred, and all the other adults...

As a court-appointed guardian for Alix Medina, Hayley Baines has only one job: to represent the best interests of the little girl at the center of a difficult custody battle between the child’s widowed father, Kevin Medina, and Kevin’s in-laws. That Kevin is a working-class guy who runs a lawn...

Louis is a Fox Terrier. By all accounts he is a good dog. Yet, his owner, Edna was treating him badly to say the least. She would keep him chained outside and serve him bowls of left over food or bones dipped in beer batter. Louis’s only refuge from her frequent abuse was his dog house. And that,...

When a young man is forced into hiding after rescuing a helpless woman from the leader of a vicious street gang, Private Investigator John Wesley Tucker is sent to find him. While trying to avoid a firefight in the belly of a Cyprus bayou, Tucker finds himself in need of help from an old friend. His...