"Welcome to this fictional version of Darlington, South Carolina--a town full of characters who are rough, down-on-their-luck, and beautifully flawed. This fictional town provides a backdrop for the tragedies and comedies of life to unfold. If you linger in these stories for awhile and belly-up at the Paradise Lounge, the local watering hole, you'll meet Vapor, a man without a face, Coach, a washed-up former high school football coach wh ..."
"SOMEONE TO CRAWL BACK TO is a novel-in-stories, a collection of hearts in search of what they ve always wanted or what they ve eternally lost. Set in small town South Carolina, those hearts belong to wrecker drivers, drive-thru fast food workers, college professors, bartenders, insurance and mobile homes salesmen. Their common ground is The Paradise Lounge. The death of a marriage, Joshua and Rene Serverance s, forms the spine of the bo ..."
Dorfman's Army by PhillipGardner Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2017 by Authorhouse ISBN-13: 978-1-5246-7295-9, ISBN: 1-5246-7295-5
"Alex Dorfmann and his retired mercenaries have to go back into action when their accrued wealth comes under attack by a mysterious and powerful group. They re-form and train a mercenary army to take back what is theirs but find themselves pitted against a fanatic from deep in Dorfmann’s past."
Was Jesus a Bookseller? Five Days at a Bookstore by PhillipGardner Paperback, 174 Pages, Published 2014 by Authorhouse ISBN-13: 978-1-4969-3883-1, ISBN: 1-4969-3883-6
"An aging, conflicted man and his band of quirky booksellers toil in the modern retail world, where a lone customer (or fellow bookseller) can at anytime cause an uproar. Beyond work, this man must also navigate a homelife that is most often a wilderness of confusion."
Available Light by PhillipGardner Paperback, 226 Pages, Published 2013 by Bitingduck Press ISBN-13: 978-1-938463-15-0, ISBN: 1-938463-15-3
"Fiction. Eighteen tragicomic short stories that explore love, tragedy, and loss. As he disassembles an infant's nursery, a father struggles for ways to tell his young daughter her brother is dead; a boy learns the truth about his parents' divorce; an out of work rock musician finds himself custodian of an abandoned child; a wife who sets out to find her husband's secret lover discovers a secret she's kept from herself; while settling th ..."
"Phillip Gardner's collection of stories Somebody Wants Somebody Dead pretty much corners the market when it comes to people living on the wrong side of the law—which is usually the right side of the law in these locales —and taking matters into their own hands. Throw in a garbage collecting voyeur, an obese drowning victim, a Bicycle Man, and a whole knot of ne'er-do-wells and these fantastic stories will make you think, "My life's bad ..."
Son of Liberty A Patriot's Odyssey, Volume 1 by PhillipGardner, Melvin Theriault Paperback, 377 Pages, Published 2006 by Publishamerica ISBN-13: 978-1-4241-5216-2, ISBN: 1-4241-5216-X
"This powerful, compelling story, based on historical truth, captures all the raw excitement of a dynamic revolutionary age as an adventurous, ambitious, youthful patriot gives his all for the “Sacred Cause of Liberty.” The main character, John Mansfield, is a charismatic born leader of men who successfully engages the English on land and sea as the Great Democratic American Republic is being forged out of the burning hot fires of bloody ..."
The Weekend Carpenter(Updated) by PhillipGardner Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 2002 by Caxton Editions ISBN-13: 978-1-84067-332-6, ISBN: 1-84067-332-X
"A practical project book for woodworkers with an eye for good design. Projects include shelving, a bed, a coffee table, a gothic-style bathroom cabinet and a Shaker-style kitchen cabinet, using soft and hardwoods as well as manmade boards. Exploded diagrams and templates are provided to ensure precise results and there is also a practical, illustrated reference section of tools and techniques."
The Weekend Carpenter(Updated) by PhillipGardner Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2001 by New Holland Publishers (Uk) Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85974-104-7, ISBN: 1-85974-104-5
"Featuring over 25 projects, this text is a practical project book for woodworkers. With use of exploded diagrams and templates, the book shows the reader how to create shelving, a bed, a coffee table, a bathroom cabinet and more."
"Sometimes it's just better to keep your mouth shut. It's not that you don't know the
truth. It's just that when you do know something, and you know that it's true and
somebody tells you to explain or to give examples, it just ruins it. We all know ..."
The Weekend Woodworker by PhillipGardner Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1999 by Popular Woodworking Books ISBN-13: 978-1-55870-533-3, ISBN: 1-55870-533-3
"Finding straightforward, step-by-step and attractive projects is a constant challenge for the "weekend woodworker." Now, Phillip Gardner has designed a range of fun, original and contemporary projects sure to keep home-based carpenters busy for months. Projects range from smaller items--such as a stylish CD rack, mailbox, picture rail shelf and birdhouse--then progress to larger, easy-to-assemble projects such as a wall cupboard, child' ..."
Storyline A Short Story Anthology by PhillipGardner, Neil Fuller Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 1998 by Nelson Thornes Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-7329-4156-7, ISBN: 0-7329-4156-3
"Mr Grumpy saw it coming and was frightened. He thought the Martians had
landed. But what would a Martian be doing with a big basket on the front of it? He
stared with wide eyes as the strange machine came into his shop. 'Wh. . wh. .
what do you want?' he asked nervously. 'One loaf of bread, please,' the machine
boomed out. Mr Grumpy quickly got the loaf of bread and put it in the basket on
the front of the strange machine. The mach ..."
Necessary Evils by PhillipGardner Hardcover, 125 Pages, Published 1997 by C & M Online Media, Inc. ISBN-13: 978-1-886420-01-4, ISBN: 1-886420-01-7
"In "Necessary Evils," Hal, an L. A. cop driven to avenge the murder of his three partners, finds himself blindfolded and stripped to the waist, on his knees, his hands bound behind him, surrounded by a chorus of vigilantes-parents from all ..."
"A collection of short stories that are finger on the pulse of our individual and collective secrets, exploring the cost of hiding them or trying to share them. Some, like the protagonists in "It's Usually This Dark By Now" and "A Crime of Opportunity," can't afford the price tag on those secrets. Others, like the history-haunted veteran in "This Time Comes From That Time" or the teenage narrator in "Mountain," swallow them whole. A few, ..."