Barbara Holland Books in Order

Jean Monroe wins a pony named Hopscotch in a contest and suddenly has the thing she wanted most. Keeping a pony in an ordinary neighborhood proves much harder, especially when hostile neighbors start looking for ways to take Hopscotch away.

Josh and Polly are kidnapped by small-time crooks and trapped in a wilderness hideout while their families scramble to raise ransom. Their friendship shifts under pressure as fear, boredom, and a chance to escape turn into a real test of nerve.

Two children are lured into a car by criminals pretending to be relatives and end up held for ransom in a remote shack. Quiet, careful Josh becomes the one who must think clearly enough to get them both home.

Holland's autobiographical account of motherhood follows her shift from advertising work to full-time domestic life. Funny, restless, and candid, it captures the loneliness, absurdity, and constant labor hidden inside an ordinary household.

This essay collection brings together British feminist perspectives on women's lives in the Soviet Union. It looks at work, childcare, politics, and daily expectations, asking how official promises of equality matched the realities women actually faced.

With their mother away at work, Jeremy has to protect his sister and her baby from the charming but violent man she married. A vacant-lot fort and a pet snake become part of this tense, unusual children's suspense story.

Holland mixes history, folklore, observation, and cat behavior in this affectionate study of feline life. It is funny, curious, and knowingly baffled by the creatures that share our homes while keeping their own counsel.

A children's introduction to environmental care that explains ecosystems, shared resources, endangered wildlife, and human impact. It connects plants, animals, and people in simple terms and encourages young readers to think about how to protect the world around them.

A brisk, funny tour through the lives of American presidents, built from memorable details instead of textbook solemnity. Holland turns the chief executives back into human beings, complete with bad habits, odd choices, and moments of luck or disaster.

A candid, practical reflection on living alone, written for readers who want both sympathy and usable advice. Holland mixes humor with thoughts on money, safety, solitude, cooking, and how to make an independent life feel full rather than empty.

Holland makes the case for naps, bacon, profanity, gardening, whistling, and other ordinary pleasures modern life keeps squeezing out. The essays are witty, contrary, and deeply fond of the small habits that make people feel at home.

After inheriting a cabin in Virginia's Blue Ridge, Holland leaves Philadelphia and learns the rhythms of a rural community. Part memoir and part social history, the book records local rituals, neighbors, and the slow pressure of encroaching suburbia.

In this candid reissue of Mother's Day, Holland writes about marriage, housework, children, and the strange loss of self that can come with domestic life. It is funny, sharp, and unsentimental about the daily work women are expected to absorb.

More nostalgic, and more cranky in the best way, this essay collection remembers ordinary pleasures that seemed easier to find in earlier decades. Holland is not asking for perfection, just a world with more room for skating ponds, manners, and fun.

A lively grab bag of short historical and biographical pieces first written for magazines. Holland jumps from famous figures to offbeat subjects with curiosity, wit, and the pleasure of making the past feel quick, vivid, and human.

This book gathers brisk portraits of women who refused the lives they were supposed to lead. Pirates, spies, travelers, and rebels fill these pages, linked by nerve, independence, and a talent for making trouble.

Holland traces the long, strange life of the duel, from swords and codes of honor to pistols at dawn. It is a witty history of ego, ritual violence, and the real people who risked everything over insult and reputation.

Holland looks back on childhood and early adulthood in the Washington area during the 1940s and 1950s. The memoir is funny, unsentimental, and alert to family tension, gender rules, first jobs, and the slow end of innocence.

Part cultural history and part argument for conviviality, this book follows alcohol through ritual, custom, and everyday social life. Holland is funny and opinionated, but she is really writing about company, celebration, and the pleasures people keep trying to police.

This brief faith-centered work appears to focus on prayerful surrender and devotion. It reads like a simple Christian meditation on trusting God, offering your heart fully, and trying to live that commitment day by day.

This edited academic collection explores how the internet of things and related technologies are reshaping library work. It covers smart spaces, automation, cloud services, virtual and augmented reality, blockchain, and the practical questions that come with building more connected libraries.