In 1868, George Hull heard a sermon proclaiming America to be the land of Genesis, home to the "Giants in the earth." Scion of a wealthy New York family of cigar makers, Hull set out to prove that sermon right. And thus was born the Cardiff Giant. "Found" on Stubby Newell's farm in Cardiff, New York, in 1869, Goliath soon created more of a stir than any of P. T. Barnum's great exhibits - which, of course, piqued the interest of the Great Showman himself, who was never to be outdone when it came to separating suckers from their riches ... The tale of Goliath and his creator is a witty, raucous, and bawdy tale of American life at its finest.

American Goliath: Inspired by the True, Incredible Events

Jacobs, Harvey

Biographies & Memoirs

St Martins Pr

In a society where people are barcoded to define their social status, James Wander, an A+, has his life turned upside down when a freak accident in a grocery store changes his barcode to that of salt-free pea soup

Beautiful Soup: A Novel for the 21st Century

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Celadon Pr

Side Effects, a novel by Harvey Jacobs, the award-winning author of “American Goliath,” recounts the medical misadventures of Simon Apple, whose life has been one long battle with Miracle Cures, each of which requires yet another Miracle Cure to curb an increasingly bizarre series of unintended consequences. Now, Simon awaits the lethal stroke of midnight on Death Row when he will make the supreme sacrifice―giving his life for the sake of the pharmaceutical industry. A steady parade of visitors―family, friends, enemies and lovers come to wish him bon voyage on the day of his final exit―while Simon’s nemesis, Regis Van Clay, celebrates. Side Effects is a rollicking ride through a life that ranges from horrendous to hilarious, a resonant contemporary reading adventure where RX marks the spot.

Side Effects

Literature & Fiction

Humor & Satire

My Rose & My Glove

Darkside

When a space rock the size of Texas heads on a collision course with Earth, scientists bring Moses back from the past so he can part it just as he did the Red Sea. But a Fundamentalist preacher has other ideas. He sees the rock as the herald of The Rapture and will everything in his power to bring it on.

AsterMeteorCometoid!: A Tale of Biblical, Evangelical and Rock-Crushing Proportions

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

The cult hit novel set in the not-too-distant future about a reluctant rebel's defiance of his role in a bar coded society. "Bells clanging, lights aflash, the plot's ball bangs and rebounds.... A wonderful and wonderfully funny book." —James Sallis LA Times "Writing with exceptional wit and wry insight... a skewed hybrid of Huxley and Vonnegut that... surpasses both in amusement value. Beautiful Soup is Brave New World sent through an irreverent spin cycle and populated by a cast of lovably eccentric rebels whose caustic commentary exposes the hypocritical values not just of supposedly problem-free twenty-first century society but of our own society." —Carl Hays Booklist (American Library Association) "Soup's an incisive, wry social satire that so perfectly snares its targets... all the biggies... with such depth of emotion and pure lucidity it's only after one's awe has slightly diminished that one feels the idiot grin spread across his or her face. So don't dawdle!" —Robert Morales Reflex Praise for Harvey Jacobs's Work "Hypnotized, the reader is compelled to listen." —Time Magazine "Every page—every half page—yields some sudden jolt of comic or lyric observation... He likewise manages to satirize our all-too human foibles and failures without becoming too blackly unforgiving." —Thomas M. Disch Washington Post "His characters are haunting... I have rarely enjoyed finding a writer as much as I have enjoyed my own discovery of Jacobs." —Robert Cromie Chicago Tribune "Quietly amused, wry approach that gives distinction to Mr. Jacobs' work... his dry humor would be hard to improve on." —Elizabeth Easton The Saturday Review "The characters who climb Jacobs' ladder are in search of a friend or a lover, but the ladder is shaped like a corkscrew, most of the rungs are missing, and there's no room at the top... Give us more Jacobs." —Playboy "Here is an author who sees life clearly and with humor everything there is to know." —Publishers Weekly "Move over Philip Roth, Mel Brooks, Heironymus Bosch. At last we've got another original... an already master." —Ann Rosenberg Philadelphia Inquirer

Beautiful Soup

Summer on a Mountain of Spices

World Literature

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