Books with author John J. Harley

"This is an engrossing novel by one of the genre's most accomplished storytellers." --Publishers WeeklyAll the universe is a stage...and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian. He brings Shakespeare--a version of it anyway--to the outer reaches of Earth's solar system. Sparky can transform himself from young to old, fat to thin, even male to female, by altering magnetic implants beneath his skin. Indispensible hardware for a career actor--and an interstellar con man wanted for murder...

Not content with investing his fortune and watching it grow, multibillionaire Howard Christian buys rare cars that he actually drives, acquires collectible toys that he actually plays with, and builds buildings that defy the imagination. But now his restless mind has turned to a new obsession: cloning a mammoth…In a barren province of Canada, a mammoth hunter financed by Christian has made the discovery of a lifetime: an intact frozen woolly mammoth. But what he finds during the painstaking process of excavating the huge creature baffles the mind. Huddled next to the mammoth is the mummified body of a Stone Age man around 12,000 years old. And he is wearing a wristwatch.It looks like Howard Christian is going to get his wish—and more…

"This is an engrossing novel by one of the genre's most accomplished storytellers." --Publishers WeeklyAll the universe is a stage...and Sparky Valentine is its itinerant thespian. He brings Shakespeare--a version of it anyway--to the outer reaches of Earth's solar system. Sparky can transform himself from young to old, fat to thin, even male to female, by altering magnetic implants beneath his skin. Indispensible hardware for a career actor--and an interstellar con man wanted for murder...

Four days after Nick Harman was seven, his father climbed onto a bridge high above four lanes of traffic, paused, then threw himself on the road below. That was over nine years ago. Today Nick was sixteen. The clock alongside his bed read 7:59.Nick lives on a tough estate in north London. On his sixteenth birthday, his mother gives him a box left to him all those years ago. The contents lead Nick to discover what took his father from being a successful blues singer to taking his own life.Against a background of shifting allegiances, involving the violent gangs on the estate and his first serious involvement with a girl, Nick is forced to come to terms, not only with whom his father was but who he is himself.‘A fine novel about growing up by one of the masters of British crime fiction’ — Le MondeJohn Harvey is the winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing. His latest adult novel is Cold in Hand, the latest in his long series of Resnick novels. Nick’s Blues is John Harvey’s first young adult book for twenty years – the opening title of Francois Guerif’s young adult crime fiction programme.

Sadness for some can become a safe place where numbness and limited expectations offer some protection from hurt and disappointment. If through familiarity, it becomes a comfort zone, the prospects of returning to a more positive, less risk averse perspective may fade, and the mild depression of sadness becomes the norm.This short book has two aims. Firstly to encourage the recognition that how we feel is not who we are. Secondly, to briefly summarise some practical theories that can help to free us from some learned beliefs that sometimes hold us back.In the book we meet Joe, a teenager for whom sadness has come to provide some comfort in a life that he views through the opposite of rose tinted spectacles. The author worked for decades as a probation officer in the community and prison, and more recently as a mentor for Kids Company and several secondary schools.

Excerpt from Yorkshire Ditties: To Which Is Added the Cream of Wit and Humour, From His Popular WritingsBut they niver leeav us, niver Storrns may come, but still they stay; But th' first wind 'at ma's thee shiver, Up tha mounts an' flies away.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Oscar and Zoey are sibling Brussels Griffons whose Mommadog has taught them how to own and care for humans. They live next door to a Chihuahua, Pepe, who speaks in the thoughttalk of dogs about being owned by his humans. Zoey and Oscar come to enlightment about owning and being owned and the interdependency of all beings in the One through the Knowledge of the Elders from Momma who crosses over to become an Elder herself. The life lessons are taught with humor and drama through the perspective and voice of Oscar.

Four days after Nick Harman's seventh birthday, his father climbed onto a bridge high above four lanes of traffic, paused, then threw himself to his death on the road below. Nine years later, Nick lives with his mother on a tough housing estate in North London. On his sixteenth birthday, his mother gives him a box of things left by his father all those years ago. The contents lead Nick to try and discover what led his father from being a successful blues singer to the point where he took his own life. Against a background of shifting allegiances involving the violent gangs on the estate and Nick's first serious involvement with a girl, he is forced to come to terms not only with who his father was, but who he is himself.