Arnold: 1995 books

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...

When Sheriff John Everett Sage returns from California to the town of Bear Creek, Colorado, he’s prepared to get married. He’s not prepared to confront a bunch of killers in the company of both a bounty hunter and a preacher.A daring daylight bank robbery puts him on the trail of murderous outlaws....

An award-winning contemporary romance about love, betrayal and forgiveness. Curt and Ellie fell in love as college students, in a grungy apartment on Hope Street. When Curt asked Ellie to marry him, he promised her that as long as they were together, they would always live on a metaphorical...

Mary's happy life is turned on end when her husband Joseph is caught embezzling 250,000 from the bank where he works. Although his brother, the powerful Judge Abadon, could easily 'pull a few strings', Joseph is sentenced to 20 years at Stormville prison, where the huge, gruff black man, Lucifer Pigeon,...

There’s a reason three women are drawn to Burning Bright, a small candle shop tucked away in snowy Crescent Cove, Vermont Return of the Light by Maggie Shayne Dori Stewart’s six-figure Manhattan job has vanished, and her lover and friends have vanished with it. She’s scraping by...

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...

Odette Zyskowski has a list: Things That Aren’t Fair. At the top of the list is her parents’ decision to take the family on the road in an ugly RV they’ve nicknamed the Coach. There’s nothing fair about leaving California and living in the cramped Coach with her parents and exasperating younger...

Have you ever been swept away by a story? If you have, you know the magic of the storyteller--and you know that magic is real. That is seventeen-year-old Toren's magic . . . but is she brave enough to accept the power that lies within her? In book one, TOREN THE APPRENTICE’S TALE, Toren tells...

Have you ever been swept away by a story? If you have, you know the magic of the storyteller--and you know that magic is real. That is seventeen-year-old Toren's magic . . . but is she brave enough to accept the power that lies within her? When Toren returns home, her little sister, Noa, is...

Have you ever been swept away by a story? If you have, you know the magic of the storyteller--and you know that magic is real. That is seventeen-year-old Toren's magic . . . but is she brave enough to accept the power that lies within her? When Toren returns home, her little sister, Noa, is...

Dan Quixote: Boy of Nuevo Jersey is a funny and touching middle grade novel about friendship, bullying, school pressure, first love, and learning to appreciate the differences that make us special. Daniel Tyler and Sandra Day Goldberg are like two sides of the same coin. Dan is an artist and...

The first book in a funny, heartfelt, and irresistible young middle grade series starring an unforgettable young boy on the autism spectrum, from acclaimed author Elana K. Arnold and with illustrations by Charles Santoso. For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises—some...

"As he did in his fantastic debut Mosquitoland, David Arnold again shows a knack for getting into the mind of an eccentric teenager in clever, poignant fashion." —USA Today This is Noah Oakman → sixteen, Bowie believer, concise historian, disillusioned swimmer, son, brother, friend. Then...