arkansas

Recounts how President Dwight D. Eisenhower dealt with the desegregation of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

When Lily Bard's landlord is murdered in the small town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, she finds her job as the owner of a cleaning and errand-running service gives her the perfect opportunity to play detective, but while her snooping uncovers some interesting secrets, it also draws the attention of the killer.

Arkansas bookstore owner Claire Malloy and her daughter Caron, forced out of their apartment by emergency repairs, are thrilled to accept an offer to stay at the palatial home of a customer who is traveling, but a series of unsettling events, including the recurring appearance and disappearance of a dead body, sets off Claire's sleuthing instincts once again.

Reveals the character and accomplishments of Clinton, based on four years of research and interviews.

Arly Hanks, chief of police in the town of Maggody, must use all her low-tech resourcefulness to quiet down the townfolks--already riled up over the installation of a computer lab at the new high school--when a dead body is discovered in an abandoned shack.

Presents a minute-by-minute account of an H-bomb accident that nearly caused a nuclear disaster, examining other near misses and America's growing susceptibility to a catastrophic event.

Autumn of 1986 in the Ozarks finds eleven-year-old April Grace adjusting to middle school, coping with her mother's difficult pregnancy, helping Isabel with the church play, and trying to figure out why the new boy at school will not leave her alone.

In the summer of 1986, eleven-year-old April Grace, who lives on a rural Arkansas farm with her family, across a field from her grandmother, has her sense of Christian charity tested when a snooty couple from San Francisco moves into a dilapidated house down the road and her grandmother takes up with a loud, obnoxious, and suspicious-acting Texan.