Gerald Jones: 27 books

Book cover of Bonfire of the Vanderbilts: Scholar's Edition
by Gerald Everett Jones
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

This special scholar's courseware edition of The Bonfire of the Vanderbilts includes the full text of the novel, along with the author's research whitepaper "Deconstructing the Scandalous Narrative of The Baptism," which appeared in the Fall 2016 issue of The Journal of Art Crime. Also included...
Book cover of Farnsworth’s Revenge

Farnsworth’s Revenge

A Rollo Hemphill Misadventure

by Gerald Everett Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018

Rollo Hemphill has a history with a life-sized rubber doll he dressed up to look like glamorous Hollywood star Monica LaMonica. For a time, the doll's worldwide travels provided convenient cover and sensational press for her living counterpart. But now, rubber-Monica has disappeared from crusty Hugo...
Book cover of Mr. Ballpoint
by Gerald Everett Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2018

In 1945, Milton Reynolds introduced the ballpoint pen to the United States and triggered the biggest single-day shopping riot in history. Reynolds, an exuberant huckster who had already made and lost several fortunes, again became an overnight millionaire and then bragged that he “stole it fair...
Book cover of The Light in His Soul

The Light in His Soul

Lessons from My Brother's Schizophrenia

by Rebecca Schaper, Gerald Everett Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2018

Call Richmond went missing. Twenty years later he showed up on a family member's doorstep. He was homeless, broken, and suffering from paranoid schizophrenia. For the next fourteen years, his sister Rebecca took on the struggle to restore him as they faced the dark traumas and painful memories of...
Book cover of Choke Hold

Choke Hold

An Eli Wolff Thriller

by Gerald Everett Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2017

Hank Ellis was murdered in his own home for dissing the cops. Cynical personal-injury attorney Eli Wolff rediscovers his idealism for simple justice when he sues the city for the wrongful death of an unarmed African-American man at the hands of two police officers. Ellis was killed in his own...
Book cover of The Misadventures of Rollo Hemphill
by Gerald Everett Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2016

 Youthful hacker-turned-slacker Rollo Hemphill can’t help failing ever upward in three previously published comic novels, combined in this ebook edition. In My Inflatable Friend, he devises a screwball scheme with a life-sized rubber doll to make his girlfriend jealous and stumbles into a gig on...
Book cover of Race and Reconciliation in America
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009

Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
Book cover of The Myths of Standardized Tests

The Myths of Standardized Tests

Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do

by Bruce M. Smith, Joan Harris, Larry Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...
Book cover of Terminus: Tales of the Black Fantastic from the ATL
by Balogun Ojetade, Marcus Haynes, Kyoko M
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2018

Atlanta. ATL. The Rising Phoenix. The City too Busy to Hate. The Black Mecca. Capital of the Deep South. There, between flitting shadows and full moons, exists another world filled with dark creatures, demons, and immortals. Only a thin veil separates the Atlanta you know from this mysterious realm....
Book cover of Jesus Our Priest

Jesus Our Priest

A Christian Approach to the Priesthood of Christ

by Gerald O'Collins, SJ, Michael Keenan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2010

In recent years many books have been published in the area of Christology (who is Jesus in himself?) and soteriology (what did he do as Saviour?). A number of notable, ecumenical documents on Christian ministry have also appeared. But in all this literature there is surprisingly little reflection...
Book cover of A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority

Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States

by Peter McLaren, Hasan Hüseyin Aksoy, Birol Algan
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017

A Language of Freedom and Teacher’s Authority: Case Comparisons from Turkey and the United States explores dimensions of authority that are deeply embedded in the profession of teaching. It examines critical dimensions of the foundations of Turkish and U.S. public education, both of which are under...
Book cover of My Poetic Journey
by Gerald W. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012

"My Poetic Journey" is a collection of poems from over the years, that I've written expressing my thoughts, moods, feelings and views of things, as well as people and issues which had an influence on my life.
Book cover of Bonfire of the Vanderbilts
by Gerald Everett Jones
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018

In 1892 Paris, Julius Stewart painted The Baptism, a Vanderbilt family scene that contains an embarrassing secret. In the present day, art historian Grace Atwood becomes obsessed with the painting and its hidden clues for reasons that have more to do with her personal ghosts. Either her doting husband...
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