C Gardner: 35 books

With Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008, many believed the United States had entered a new era: Obama came into office with high expectations that he would end the war in Iraq and initiate a new foreign policy that would reestablish American values and the United States’ leadership role...

Four days before Pearl Harbor, in December 1941, someone leaked American contingency war plans to the Chicago Tribune. The small splash the story made was overwhelmed by the shock waves caused by the Japanese attack on the Pacific fleet anchored in Hawaii-but the ripples never subsided, growing quietly...

When protesters in Egypt began to fill Cairo’s Tahrir Square on January 25th—and refused to leave until their demand that Hosni Mubarak step down was met—the politics of the region changed overnight. And the United States’ long friendship with the man who had ruled under Emergency Law for...

Lawyers, Swamps, and Money is an accessible, engaging guide to the complex set of laws governing America's wetlands. After explaining the importance of these critical natural areas, the book examines the evolution of federal law, principally the Clean Water Act, designed to protect them. Readers...

Werewolves, zombies, and vampires don’t frighten fifteen-year-old Jenny Hatchet. A new polygamous stepfather, Gomer Obadiah Darken, who has tricked her mother into marriage, terrifies her. In this young adult trilogy, Jenny must pit her wits and skills against a cabal of fanatics who take underage...

Nightmarish events unfold in the final novel of this must-read Land Trilogy, Land of Lyonesse, an exhilarating story of a fifteen-year-old girl captured by a polygamist cult. After finding temporary safety on a nearby Native American reservation in the second novel, Land of the Bong Tree, Jenny Hatchet...

The dark and twisted past of her ancestor, Octavius Wolfe, ensnares his only living descendant in a web of century-old murders. Desperate to discover the link between recent deaths and the hasty burial of two young girls in her family cemetery, Isabella Wolfe challenges an instrument of death—hanging near her own family tree.

Images of Being There addresses issues regarding the form and structure of ideation, as well as the source of thought, as the process of connectivity and juxtaposition leads to the poetic leap. It is an adventure into the unknown where mind leaves the here and now for the province of a parabola of...

When fifteen-year-old Jenny Hatchet escapes from a forced “Celestial Marriage” in the Land of Nod, she finds temporary refuge on a reservation with the eccentric and charming Earnshaw family. Stricken with guilt for leaving her mother and little sister in a polygamy compound, Jenny faces new emotional...

An unsolved crime . . . When eleven-year-old Clio’s WWII-correspondent mother dumps her at her great-aunts’ mansion in Southern Oklahoma, Clio embroils herself in a decades-old mystery of missing women. Three missing women . . . Transported from freedom in New York City to...

Suspending the Muse addresses issues regarding the authentic article of living in the present. It is an adventure into the unknown where the mind leaves the body to unearth what is concealed. There is a meaningful focus on redeeming time past through time present as time future becomes a grain of...

A poem that depicts the fight and survival of depression, as well as how it drives a person to do such a thing that would change their life forever. The poem also shows the reality of suicide and explains why a person might think it is their only option.

When Al Garcia takes his special operations team into southeastern Arizona, he uncovers massive corruption leading right back to Washington DC. Garcias probe of cross-border drug smuggling and brutal drug related murders of innocent American citizens exposes a network of criminals and terrorists entwined...

An expressive dialogue between Deleuze's philosophical writings on cinema and Beckett's innovative film and television work, the book explores the relationship between the birth of the event – itself a simultaneous invention and erasure - and Beckett's attempts to create an incommensurable space within the interstices of language as a (W)hole.