Carpenter: 783 books
Gone Feral
Tracking My Dad Through the Wild
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
Elizabeth Gilbert, author of The Signature of All Things and Eat, Pray, Love
"I'm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book... The resulting journey is both brave and honest."
San Francisco Chronicle
“[R]iveting... Carpenter reminds us that sometimes the self is the thorniest...
The Hollywood Trilogy
A Couple of Comedians, The True Story of Jody McKeegan, and Turnaround
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Don Carpenter wrote about Hollywood like no one else. Hollywood Trilogy collects, for the first time, Carpenter’s most significant Hollywood novels-A Couple of Comedians, The Turnaround and The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan-into a single volume. Here readers will find the jungle of B” movie...
The Intermediate Sex
A Study of Some Transitional Types of Men and Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2018
“Anyone who realizes what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the...
by Paul Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Paul Carpenter is an artist worth looking at. He has shown at influential galleries on both coasts of America. The book contains fascinating comments not only on Carpenter's work, but the state of modern art in general.Writing about his own work under the pseudonym Olivero del Santos,...
by David Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2010
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""The two greatest things about Carpenter's sterling hunting memoir is how well-informed and precise it is -- positively erudite; but never show-offish or exclusive. The second involves how much this knowing-ness is the natural tropism of the author’s great and generous heart,...
Fridays at Enrico's
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
“Don Carpenter’s semi-”autobiographical Fridays at Enrico’s can be read as the swan song of the entire Love Generation.” —The New York Times Book Review
The author of A Hard Rain Falling and A Couple of Comedians, Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists working in the west....
by Francis Bicknell Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
In February of 1864, Francis Carpenter left New York for the White House to fulfill a dream born of the previous year's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation. With Lincoln's enthusiastic support, Carpenter would paint the now-famous life-sized portrait of the President and his Cabinet depicting...
W. H. Auden
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011
W. H. Auden disapproved of literary biography. Or did he? The truth is far more equivocal than at first seems apparent. There is no denying he delivered himself of such unambiguous pronouncements as 'Biographies of writers are always superfluous and usually in bad taste.'; and that he asked for his...
by Ron Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
For author Ron Carpenter, his foray into the world of flying and airplanes began with a guy named Hank, a policeman who loved to fly in his off-duty time. After their first flight over Glendale, Arizona, in a Cessna 172, Carpenter was hooked. In So You Think You Want to Fly!, he shares his detailed...
Aesthetics of Fraudulence in Nineteenth-Century France
Frauds, Hoaxes, and Counterfeits
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
In his engagingly written and original book, Scott Carpenter analyzes multiple manifestations of the false in nineteenth-century France. Under Carpenter's thorough and systematic analysis, fraudulence emerges as a cultural preoccupation in nineteenth-century literature and society, whether it be in...
The Philosopher King
T Bone Burnett and the Ethic of a Southern Cultural Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Texas-born T Bone Burnett is an award-winning musician, songwriter, and producer with over forty years of experience in the entertainment industry. In The Philosopher King, Heath Carpenter evaluates and positions Burnett as a major cultural catalyst by grounding his work, and that of others abiding...
Farm City
The Education of an Urban Farmer
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Urban and rural collide in this wry, inspiring memoir of a woman who turned a vacant lot in downtown Oakland into a thriving farm
Novella Carpenter loves cities-the culture, the crowds, the energy. At the same time, she can't shake the fact that she is the daughter of two back-to-the-land hippies...
by Carleton Carpenter
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016
You may know his name, but you’ve certainly heard the gold record novelty song, “Aba Daba Honeymoon,” that he recorded with Debbie Reynolds; you’ve seen the 1950 MGM musicals Three Little Words and Summer Stock; you’ve laughed and loved Father of the Bride with Elizabeth Taylor, Two Weeks...
You Are Worth It
Building a Life Worth Fighting For
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2019
From the youngest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, an extraordinary inspirational memoir that will change the life of every reader.
“Kyle displayed a heroism in the blink of an eye that will inspire for generations” —President Barack Obama, at Kyle Carpenter's Medal of Honor ceremony
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