Bücher von Henry Harvey

At the funeral, Mrs. Davis's casket gets stuck just as they are lowering it. She's still fighting the good fight, just as she'd struggled at Carver's Mill Elementary, trying to corral each student toward an exciting and productive life. Only at her funeral, does the town learn that Mrs. Davis had been writing a novel about the lives of three of her students...from first grade to adulthood, and how one accident on the school bus changed their lives. Dismissed early due to a blizzard, Mr. Nichols, their bus driver, crashes into the river. Although Susan, the brainy one, Charlie, the serious one, and Becky, the arty one have nothing in common their unsuccessful attempt to save Mr. Nichols changes their lives. Susan becomes the town's success story as a best-selling author. Becky, the wild one, opens a dance studio. Charley only repairs lawnmowers though he is the town's reluctant hero, who saves lives as a volunteer fireman.

It was just a matter of time before Tom Bacon's father gave him the boot. After graduating from F&M, Tom is sent off to live with his Uncle Jerry, a door-to-door vacuum-cleaner salesman. Tom is a Green Room boy while his uncle is blue collar. Tom learns that selling is a LOT more P.T. Barnum than Shakespeare. Tom's secret passion is drawing cartoons, teenie-weenie ones in the corners of books, which furthers his selling career a lot less than his youth and peculiar sense of humor. Turns out there's a lot to learn about selling...well...anything. Tom fights off bored housewives and trashy blind dates, while trying to woo Jean, a tomboy BMW mechanic who may be a lesbian. Jean hates men in general and Tom in particular, though she loves his cartoons. There is also the distinct possibility that Jean is his half-sister.

Your mate might recommend this book to you, saying it's a terrific escape to Jamaica, almost as good as a mini-vacation. Your friend from college might suggest it to you as a new kind of philosophy book, a bit like Siddhartha, only in Jamaica. And a physicist might scratch his head, wondering if this book should spawn some serious research. It's a fast read if you choose, though it asks questions you may never have pondered. Harvey's books are ones you can savor, read and re-read, and then smile about. Rarely is learning about life this much fun... Joe Whitley wakes up in Ocho Rios, with a case of deja vu for the entire town, meeting good friends in a place he's never been before. We've all taken vacations and wished we could just stay there forever. Joe realizes that this decision is the biggest of his life. And then there's Gwen...

47 years ago, the planet, Altair IV was vaporized by a thermo-nuclear reaction...and a dead zone of 671 million miles was permanently declared. Yet, as of May 4, 2343, radio telescopes at Maui sent a planet-wide message: ALTAIR IV JUST REAPPEARED. An unprecedented three Olympus-class battle cruisers were dispatched for the 16.7 light year trip, in stealth-mode for the entire voyage. The three battle cruisers have the combined capacity of destroying an entire solar system in a day, and yet, were grossly under-gunned for the mission. Two races have coexisted on Altair IV for over a million years, both originating beneath Altair's oceans. The Krell, crablike creatures evolved to highest levels of technology. The Obons, remained in the oceans, perfecting their minds. Neither race has any interest in humanity, though all three races share a common but unknown enemy, the monsters of the Id. Humans, robos, synthetics and androids work together, but..............

Genius comes in many forms. At a Space-Time seminar, Parker finds himself doodling. It's a theoretical SAT question: Soap is to Soap Bubbles as Time is to: _____. His only intellectual competition in the class is a droll and petite girl named Tina. She notices his doodling, reaches over and scribbles TIME BUBBLES! They laugh at first, though they've inadvertently discovered a basic truth of Time Travel. With no financial backing, there's lots of scrounging. Their first time trip is accidental and lasts just 11 seconds. Tina yells, "What the hell was that?" Their Odyssey begins when Tina finds an item in a newspaper about Time Machines. They travel to check-out the competition, but their experiments have not gone unnoticed. Both the CIA and FBI are tracking them now. An unlikely Southern artist becomes the third leg on their milk stool and their stupid mistakes and bizarre trips are challenging to even the brightest temporal geniuses. Is there life after death? Sometimes...