Harry
81) 50 in 50
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Fifty stories for fifty years!
A collection-and celebration-of the work of Harry Harrison
From his first sale in 1950 on, Harry Harrison has been one of the science fiction world's creative dynamos, working in every subgenre of the field, always bursting with provocative ideas. Parodic one moment, serious the next, Harrison has been called by Brian Aldiss "one of the few authors capable of carrying the old vigor of earlier days forward into a new...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"In Black Elk, Lakota Visionary, Harry Oldmeadow draws on recently discovered sources and in-depth research to provide a major re-assessment of Black Elk's life and work. The author explores Black Elk's mystical visions, his controversial engagement with Catholicism, and his previously unrecognized attempts to preserve and revive ancestral Sioux beliefs and practices. Oldmeadow's lively and highly readable account also examines the controversies that...
Author
Series
Hammer and the cross volume 1
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
Powerful bishops and corrupt black-robed priests rule over the warring kings of British Isles. The Vikings of Scandinavia carrying the Hammer of Thor as their emblem collide with the Church launching an all-out war between the Hammer and the Cross.
84) Return to Eden
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1988]
Description
"Harrison's conclusion to his alternate prehistory of Earth excels in its detailed depiction of an alien civilization that might have been." -Library Journal
Harry Harrison's Return to Eden, the third book in the West of Eden trilogy, is an adventerous sci-fi tale set in an alternative prehistoric universe, from the bestselling and award-winning author of innumerable novels and stories.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without...
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Series
Hammer and the cross volume 2
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
A craftsman, visionary, and warrior, Shef has risen from slavery to become king of a mighty Viking nation. But his growing kingdom menaces all of Europe, and he has made many powerful enemies.
Chief among his enemies are the Knights of the Lance, a fanatical order of soldiers sworn to bring Shef down, no matter what the cost. To defeat Shef, they will go to extraordinary lengths to find the sacred spear of Christ--and resurrect the Holy Roman Empire.
Driven...
87) Diary of a Worm
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A young worm discovers, day by day, that there are some very good and some not so good things about being a worm in this great big world.
88) A Boy No More
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
90) The truck book
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and illustrations describe a variety of trucks and their functions.
91) Hitler's war
Author
Series
The war that came early volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
After Konrad Henlein is assassinated in Czechoslovakia in 1938, France and England refuse to condone Hitler's plans for annexation, so he invades instead. American Peggy Druce, caught behind the lines, gets a firsthand look at the period military hardware and nationalistic mindsets.
92) For all mankind
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Description
Between December 1968 and December 1972, twenty-four men captured the imagination of the world as they voyaged to the moon. In For All Mankind, Harry Hurt III presents a dramatic, engrossing, and expansive account of those journeys. Based on extensive research and exclusive interviews with the Apollo astronauts, For All Mankind remains one of the most comprehensive and revealing firsthand accounts of space travel ever assembled. In their own words,...
Author
Series
David Loogan mysteries volume 1
Formats
Description
David Loogan, who's recently moved to Ann Arbor, Mich., has stumbled into an editing job for Gray Streets, a mystery magazine, after anonymously submitting a short story. One night, Loogan's boss, Tom Kristoll, asks him for help in disposing of a corpse. Loogan goes to Kristoll's house and does so, despite his suspicions that Kristoll's account of how the man ended up dead is incomplete at best. When Kristoll later dies in a fall from his office window,...
95) Last orders
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Series
The war that came early volume 6
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
This conclusion to the World War II series explores the lives of everyday soldiers and civilians, as well as historic leaders, to consider the fallout of Chamberlain's alternate-world decision not to appease Hitler.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The police call him Merkury. He's a killer who chooses his victims seemingly at random. He leaves no evidence behind, and no witnesses. Except for one. When Kate Summerlin was eleven years old, she climbed out her bedroom window on a spring night, looking for a taste of freedom in the small college town where she was living with her parents. But what she found as she wandered in the woods near her house was something else: the body of a beautiful...
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
What if V-E Day didn't end World War II in Europe? What if, instead, the Allies had to face a potent, even fanatical, postwar Nazi resistance led by SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Man with the Iron Heart? How might today's clash of troops versus terrorists have played out in 1945?
98) Joe Steele
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
In this alternative history, Joe Steele takes the place of Franklin D. Roosevelt to become the U.S. President leading the country out of the Great Depression. The reforms he puts in place get citizens back to work, but Steele's critics end up in work camps if they complain too much about the policies.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
In 1914 Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian Tsar rules Alaska, and Winston Churchill aims to return England to its former glory. In the U.S.A., Socialist president Al Smith contends with an attack from the Confederate States of America. And across the globe, a new ear of war has just begun.
100) Halloween
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An illustrated poem that describes some of the spooky events that occur on Halloween night.