Harry: 2719 books

As an Irish immigrant family settles into a working class neighborhood, the father takes on a job requiring heavy physical work. While the mother adjusts to life in her new country, she is left to raise her son and help care for his disabled cousin. Her energetic son, Tommy, on the brink of puberty,...

This is a classic science fiction short story by Harry Harrison. The K-Factor is an equation used to asses the probability of war. A young man is charged with using the K-Factor and the field of Sociatics to avert war on another planet. However, there is a traitor in his midst who has the power to...

I have been observing the environment of downtown Hattiesburg through my camera for decades on my walks. I have selected 18 of these images seen in different lights for this e-book.

The Apocalypse is Coming. Can Jack Shannon stop it?Awkward Manhattan bookseller Jack Shannon suddenly has his world turned upside down, when an inter-dimensional Scotsman appears from nowhere, blowing his bookstore sky-high. Kidnapped by the seemingly insane Scot-but-not, Jack is hurled into...

‘Guns, and violence, and dead sisters that talk, Every Fox is a Rabid Fox is a harrowing and brutal read, but I fell for its incredibly tender heart. Gallon’s writing is lucid and mordantly funny. I loved this book.’ Claire Fuller, Author of Our Endless Numbered Days Robert didn’t mean to...

Prolific science fiction dynamo Harry Harrison is perhaps best remembered as the creator of the story upon which the cult classic Soylent Green was based. His popular Deathworld series is also regarded as a masterwork of golden-era science fiction. In the volume The Ethical Engineer, which was also published...

Thrilling account of a runaway, written for young men, by Harry Castlemon.

With characteristic wit, Harry Berger, Jr., brings his flair for close reading to texts and images across two millennia that illustrate what he calls “structural misanthropology.” Beginning with a novel reading of Plato, Berger emphasizes Socrates’s self-acknowledged failures. The dialogues,...

When God makes an uncharacteristic typographical error and accidentally has breakfast with Cormack McFadden, their unexpected meeting attracts the attention of an alien Emperor.Cormack is kidnapped but escapes to Foul Ball, the most disgusting planet in the Universe.There, he will undergo...

An Army counterintelligence agent, Kevin Keefer, receives a mysterious letter alleging espionage in the Pentagon. He and his superiors believe the organization involved is the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). There is speculation that the letters writer is somehow connected with his fathers military service...

Ten millennia from now, Earth is ravaged by an alien species called the “scourge”. Meolchwik, a sixteen-year-old girl, lives hidden with her community in future Europe deep in mountain caves, longing to see the world outside even if it is overrun with deadly invaders. Soon she has to confront...

**From Harry Turtledove, bestselling author and critically acclaimed master of the short story, comes a classic collection of science fiction tales and what-if scenarios. In narratives ranging from fantastic to oddly familiar to eerily prescient, this compelling volume illustrates Turtledove’s literary...

The Staten Island Ferry Building is almost empty. The Midnight Ferry arrives, the only thing that is different are the people who get on and where they are going. John Dee is looking over the side, drinking a can of beer and smoking a cigar. He sees a very beautiful Chinese girl Suzi Chang,...

The adventure opens on a stretch of the highway that links the eastern states to the west coast in the era following the end of World War II. A fellow operates a soda pop stand for the highway travelers. Nearby, along this roadway are several neighbors who long for relief from their difficult lives....