Bøger af Bill Arnold

This love story is about a 19-year old young girl and her newly discovered passion, bursting out into full-blown romances set in New York City, in 1911. Her page-turning diary opens with a secret uninhibited "crush" on her female French teacher Marie-Yvonne, her spiritual mentor who woke her to her French heritage and the âme soeurs--soul sisters--feelings of her heart, then records her secret affair with the infamous Henry "Valentine" Miller, destined to become America's illustrious writer and author of Tropic of Cancer. Their world views collide in her diary! It is an iconic search for liberation, a timeless tale of women's rights and her free-spirited self-discovery. Their social mores, Henry's antiquated and Aimée's enlightened views on women's rights, suffrage and abortion, dress for success philosophy, and yes, Love, as it happened, are all faithfully recorded. Her Henry Miller will be seen as a truly-gifted and intellectually-thirsty young man with an appetite for pretty and smart young ladies. She and he were protégées. She wrote, "I was the lady of his youth who educated him beyond his wildest dreams!" If you love to watch a chick-flick movie or read a chick-lit novel, then you will resonate with reading Aimée's Secret, a passionate romance as told by the endearing and self-absorbed heroine diarist in a sympathetic and powerful tale. Fresh from confinement of Convent life, she lives with her mother in the Bronx and attends Normal college east of Central Park during the heyday of strolling in long dresses and parasols. Her story is fraught with emotional roller-coaster relationships, from fits and bouts of loneliness to heady heights filled with joy, and an upbeat happy ending. Love and lockets, candles and flowers, décolletage and French haute couture, make this a must read at Valentine's Day. When she discovers her youthful body, her mother watches her like a hawk but to no avail, as Aimée strives to understand the world around her, with a surprise ending in celebration of her womanhood. She shares her secret diary she'd kept locked in her heart for years. So, bring your dictionnaire française along for an absolute romp and sweet delight any Henry Miller fan will find delicious, funny, and hopefully entertaining.

SPOOF is a satiric spoof on tabloids the world over, the truth and nothing but the truth. As we journalists say, "Trust me on this!" No matter what language they appear in, they are still yellow-journal rags at their best and worst. From the fast-paced murder hook opening to the action-packed thrilling climax amid the Camelot-ambiance of Palm Beach, Boca Raton, gated communities and environs, you are drawn into a world of the American Inquirer, centered in the coconut capital of the world, Palm Beach county, with its sunny beaches, green palms, and bright sunshine. This novel spoofs the whodunnit mystery genre like Westlake's TRUST ME ON THIS and Waugh's SCOOP. It is an inside tell-all tale of America's greatest fictional tabloid, and rips the lid off the real untold story of the bizarre clash between Hollywood-TV celebrities and chain-smoking tabloid editors. Both camps have a bitter Love-Hate relationship that goes back to the most infamous tabloid story ever written, the unsolved mystery of Jack The Ripper, who roamed the dark alleys of Whitechapel, London, in 1888. But it also is a touching love story of Will Buck, a nice-guy poet and tough-guy private eye who hunts down the "killer" of a lady close to his heart. There is enough mistaken identity subplots in this fast-action mind-numbling thriller for any whodunnit reader who loved the classic tea-cozies of Agatha Chistie's Miss Marple or the harboiled detective mysteries of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. Will Buck, a humor-prone unlikely hero, in search of a brutal murderer, enters the inner sanctum of the Inquirer newsroom, and rips the cover off the truly savage beasts of today's computerized world of media mavens, exposing their Hour-of-the-Wolves mentality and frenzy-for-feeding on the spotlight lives of celebrities, movie stars and TV personalities, politicians and royalty. Nothing is sacred within the walls of a tabloid newsroom, nor the salacious pages of its printed stories. Get ready to rumble with the flash-bulb-brained paparazzi and the hard-nosed newshounds of the dirtiest rag ever printed, the American Inquirer.

Quiet of Darkness is an epic tale of the Old South, timeless, in its dramatic story of young lovers caught up in the turmoil of race relationships of their conflicted time and place. Ghosts from the past, in the world they found themselves in, worked against the simplicity of love. The color of their skin did not bother them, but the world in which they lived was the hidden world of the Klan. Hate was the message festering in the evil hearts of their country-folk neighbors. And though nobody spoke openly about it, the memory of the nearby Rosewood massacre was always on everybody's minds.

Poetry, they say, can be an expression incapable of being put in words. That is certainly not true of Bill Arnold's Beachcomber. It is a book which resonates with feelings, things felt, and sensed, with all the vivid senses of the human soul, including the author's personal history and blended with a genuine sense of Florida. This is a work that exists in the heart of reader, and freely shares emotions we all share in our closest relationships, especially love, and all its manifestations: between the poet and his deepest experiences while growing up in Florida, falling in love amid the lush tropics. It is full of things felt, not known; things dreamed and starkly realized, not reasoned but thrust upon the soul. It is descriptive moments realized, quietly and beautifully, and cast into rich words. just you and the a poetry talker, reliving the past of family members made real, through how the poet engaged the colorful world of Florida and puts the reader there, experiencing through the poet's eyes: the rich panoply of life, the give-and-take of the personal, amid the weighty news of the world, as filtered in a readable and widely accessible exploration. Beachcomber focuses Florida as it is away from the maddening crowd, as seen through the mind over time: as the poet wrote, "When I was a kid in St. Pete, barely a year old, my mother's friend Joe LaRocca took the picture on the cover of this book of me with the million dollar pier in the background and published it on the front page of the St. Pete Times. I was the "beachcomber." Finding poems in your mind is like finding shells on a beach. My father always told me there was nothing to find in our past, as his father's father ran away with a lady of the night and left my great-grandmother Ella with a slew of kids and he was forever the black sheep of the family. All he knew was that renegade had ferried people back-and-forth between St. Pete and Bradenton, back before bridges. So: I set off in search of the renegade skeletons in my own mental closets. My mother was an Irish O'Neill and Portuguese Tarvis, from the north, and had met my father on a beach at spring break way back before the second world war and the rest is history. Then I found out I was a six month premie baby, and my father had to marry my mother. God, the poetic shells I found on my beach!"

College Town is a story of campus life a long long time ago: the epic story of Faust, with a touch of bitter-sweet love, just enough to melt hard hearts. All the while, the country was in the throes of a movement never recorded in its history. Protest marches against establishment values captured the imagination of the young: sex, drugs, rock n' roll ruled the day. Folk-music lyrics challenged a nation suffering under hardened conservatives. The Nifty Fifties died a natural death. Hippies now roamed the land in bright colored vans painted with peace signs, hearts, and flowers. Society was integrated as never before. America became the melting-pot it had always claimed to be but never was. By sheer magnitude of numbers, the children of flower-power took over the land and led an assault against narrow-minded hypocrisy, out-of-touch politicians, arrogant antiquated law, as a new sense of responsibility marched upon the shoulders of in-your-face educated youths: flashing peace signs, wearing the colorful headbands of their new counterculture, and yes, smoking pot in public defiance. Times had changed, and led to the mantra, "Change is the word." At its core, College Town is a maturation story of young college students and young married couples everywhere--trying to get degrees, make a living, and raise kids at the same time. The fact America came of age and the old order was overcome during that time is more than a footnote to history. College Town was where it all began. Follow Herr Doktor Faust, students Wagner and Maggie, Ring and Lily, Chinaman and Rachel Hightower, and a cast of characters who take readers on a romp into our past--not to be missed.

By the 1980s the Troubles in Northern Ireland had become a sophisticated conflict between two immovable objects: the security forces and the terrorists. With no end in sight and no compromise possible, it was decided that an 'acceptable level of violence' was the only attainable status quo. This is just one story from thousands of that era.