M Thomas: 101 books

During a company picnic, a child wanders off to get a soda and finds something even stranger hiding in the nearby bushes.

Poems regarding ups and downs of growing up in a Federal Housing Project.

Eighty-Five poems about work: bookstore, supermarket, restaurant, house painting, landscaping, warehouse and factory labor as well as asphalting, school bus and truck piloting. Observations on the toil of others are also included, boxers and circus performers, for example.

Twenty-five poems about thoroughbreds, racetracks, jockeys, trainers and gamblers.

It's another average day for door-to-door salesman Paul, who wants to do nothing but sell cookware. However, a series of events lead to problems as he crashes parties and witnesses a murder. How will he sell himself out of it all?

A man wakes up one day to discover that his beloved cat has went disappearing and decides to go look for it.

Former dishwasher Jeff Gardener is confined to the one-star rated Crestwood House nursing home after suffering a paralyzing stroke. A nurse's aide named Diane is the one bright spot in his existence. Events in her life, combined with a pastime of his, impact his being and fate in eerie and fantastical ways hard to imagined.

Odd relationship between divorced textile worker and his precocious daughter.

Bill Dean, a sailor on the USS Ramply DD-810 strikes up a friendship with an oddball shipmate working in the scullery. Through the streets of Catania, Sicily, mysteries unravel and tangle for both men. This is not your typical drunken liberty port gob tale but there are of course, women, beautiful...

Memories of Naval duty aboard the USS Miller, DE/FF-1091 out of Norfolk, Virginia and service ashore at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck Virginia Beach, VA.

Ups and downs in an unlikely relationship between an occasional Rhode Island thoroughbred horse trainer who is a full time barroom philosopher, and an unemployed waiter. The trainer's friends and acquaintances add to the appeal of this tale and the astonishment of the waiter.

Thirty-two poems regarding my many years of racetrack experiences and observations.

In a desert town, a little girl asks the weatherman for an El Nino. When he doesn't deliver on his promise, she heads out to experience one for herself.

During the grand reopening of the nostalgic burger joint, the workers run into a murdering time traveler who has a change of conscience.