Gardner: 1155 books
John Gardner on Writing
On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from “one of the greatest creative writing teachers we’ve ever had” (Frederick Busch).
In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops,...
by Peter Evans, Ava Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
The wickedly candid New York Times bestesller that Ava Gardner dared not publish during her lifetime—“the heartbreaking memoir of the ultimate heartbreaker” (Philadelphia Inquirer).
Ava Gardner was one of Hollywood’s biggest and brightest stars during the 1940s and ’50s, an Oscar-nominated...
Journeys to the Edge
In the Footsteps of an Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
In this fascinating and vivid account, Peter M. Gardner takes us along with him on his anthropological field research trips. Usually, the author’s family is there, too, either with him in the field or somewhere nearby. Family adventures are part of it all. Travel into the unknown can be terrifying...
by John Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
“Fearless, illuminating” criticism from a New York Times–bestselling author and legendary teacher, “proving . . . that true art is moral and not trivial” (Los Angeles Times).
Novelist John Gardner’s thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: “True art is by its nature moral.” It...
by Danny Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In 1952, after a year on the run, disgraced Chicago Police Officer Elliot Caprice wakes up in a jailhouse in St. Louis. His friends from his hometown secure his release and he returns to find the family farm in foreclosure and the man who raised him dying in a flophouse. Desperate for money, he accepts...
The FBI Profiler Series 6-Book Bundle
The Perfect Husband, The Third Victim, The Next Accident, The Killing Hour, Gone, Say Goodbye
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2013
Throughout this electrifying series from “one of the best thriller writers in the business” (Associated Press), brilliant FBI profiler Pierce Quincy faces off against all manner of serial killers and psychopaths alongside his partner, Rainie Conner, and his daughter, Kimberly Quincy. Now this...
by John Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
Gardner’s relentlessly honest and moving portrayal of a broken marriage, and his ambitious unfinished masterpiece—a metafictional mystery centering around one man’s struggle to recover his lost identity—together in one accomplished volume
Stillness:
Martin and Joan Orrick—distant...
by Carson Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Carson Gardner is an enthusiastic amateur poet. He did not begin seriously writing poetry until after a shocking grief in young adulthood. He has been writing poetry now for nearly 40 years. He has had poems purposefully published in local venues, and on very rare occasions accidentally published...
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus
The Autobiography of Martin Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Martin Gardner wrote the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American for twenty-five years and published more than seventy books on topics as diverse as magic, religion, and Alice in Wonderland. Gardner's illuminating autobiography is a candid self-portrait by the man evolutionary theorist Stephen...
Creating Minds
An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, G
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Howard Gardner changed the way we think about intelligence. In his classic work Frames of Mind, he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a single capacity that every human being possesses to a greater or lesser extent. Now building on the framework he developed for understanding intelligence,...
by Marshall B. Gardner
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
A Journey to the Earth's Interior
by Marshall B. Gardner
"Marshall B. Gardner, a hollow-earth proponent, published the first edition of this book in 1913, after Peary reached the North Pole in 1909. Gardner thus had a much harder job than William Reed; that is, overcoming the public perception...
Extraordinary Minds
Portraits Of 4 Exceptional Individuals And An Examination Of Our Own Extraordinariness
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
Fifteen years ago, psychologist and educator Howard Gardner introduced the idea of multiple intelligences, challenging the presumption that intelligence consists of verbal or analytic abilities only-those intelligences that schools tend to measure. He argued for a broader understanding of the intelligent...
Self-Renewal
The Individual and the Innovative Society [First Edition]
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
“The only stability possible is stability in motion.”—John William Gardner
In his classic treatise Self-Renewal, John W. Gardner examines why great societies thrive and die. He argues that it is dynamism, not decay, that is dramatically altering the landscape of American society. The...
The Court of Last Resort
The True Story of a Team of Crime Experts Who Fought to Save the Wrongfully Convicted
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Edgar Award Winner: True stories of miscarriages of justice, legal battles, and landmark reversals, by the creator of Perry Mason.
In 1945, Erle Stanley Gardner, noted attorney and author of the popular Perry Mason mysteries, was contacted by an overwhelmed California public defender who believed...