A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories PDF Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062242075
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
With his disarmingly simple style and complex imagination, Ray Bradbury has seized the minds of American readers for decades.This collection showcases thirty-two of Bradbury's most famous tales in which he lays bare the depths of the human soul. The thrilling title story, A Sound of Thunder, tells of a hunter sent on safari -- sixty million years in the past. But all it takes is one wrong step in the prehistoric jungle to stamp out the life of a delicate and harmless butterfly -- and possibly something else much closer to home ...

A Sound Like Thunder

A Sound Like Thunder PDF Author: Sonny Brewer
Publisher: Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781597223270
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 324

Book Description
When 80-year-old Rove MacNee sets about to tell his life's story, he begins a coming-of-age narrative taking place in the small gulf coast town of Fairhope, Alabama. The son of an alcoholic captain, Rove finds peace casting his fishing net into the sea--but soon he will face the crossroads of his life.

The Sound of Distant Thunder (The Amish of Weaver's Creek Book #1)

The Sound of Distant Thunder (The Amish of Weaver's Creek Book #1) PDF Author: Jan Drexler
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 1493415085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
Katie Stuckey and Jonas Weaver are both romantics. Seventeen-year-old Katie is starry-eyed, in love with the idea of being in love, and does not want to wait to marry Jonas until she is eighteen, despite her parents' insistence. So much can happen in a year. Twenty-year-old Jonas is taken in by the romance of soldiering, especially in defense of anti-slavery, even though he knows war is at odds with the teachings of the church. When his married brother's name comes up in the draft list, he volunteers to take his brother's place. But can the commitment Katie and Jonas have made to each other survive the separation? From the talented pen of Jan Drexler comes this brand new Amish series set against the backdrop of the Civil War. She puts her characters to the test as they struggle to reconcile their convictions and desires while the national conflict threatens to undermine and engulf their community.

The Stories of Ray Bradbury

The Stories of Ray Bradbury PDF Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0307269051
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
One hundred of Ray Bradbury’s remarkable stories which have, together with his classic novels, earned him an immense international audience and his place among the most imaginative and enduring writers of our time. Here are the Martian stories, tales that vividly animate the red planet, with its brittle cities and double-mooned sky. Here are the stories that speak of a special nostalgia for Green Town, Illinois, the perfect setting for a seemingly cloudless childhood—except for the unknown terror lurking in the ravine. Here are the Irish stories and the Mexican stories, linked across their separate geographies by Bradbury’s astonishing inventiveness. Here, too, are thrilling, terrifying stories—including “The Veldt” and “The Fog Horn”—perfect for reading under the covers. Read for the first time, these stories become as unshakable as one’s own fantasies. Read again—and again—they reveal new, dazzling facets of the extraordinary art of Ray Bradbury.

Thunder Boy Jr.

Thunder Boy Jr. PDF Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0316271063
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41

Book Description
From New York Times bestselling author Sherman Alexie and Caldecott Honor winning Yuyi Morales comes a striking and beautifully illustrated picture book celebrating the special relationship between father and son. Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name...one that's all his own. Dad is known as big Thunder, but little thunder doesn't want to share a name. He wants a name that celebrates something cool he's done like Touch the Clouds, Not Afraid of Ten Thousand Teeth, or Full of Wonder. But just when Little Thunder thinks all hope is lost, dad picks the best name...Lightning! Their love will be loud and bright, and together they will light up the sky.

Thunder of Time

Thunder of Time PDF Author: James F. David
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780765346841
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
A decade after a cataclysmic time disruption brings elements from the Cretaceous period into the twentieth century, Nick Paulson discovers that the cause is an unknown force in the center of a dinosaur-infested jungle.

God of Thunder

God of Thunder PDF Author: Alex Archer
Publisher: Gold Eagle
ISBN: 1426803532
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
Archaeologist Annja Creed narrowly escapes an attack by unknown fi gures when she tries to collect a package near her loft. She later learns that the sender—an old colleague named Fellini—has been brutally murdered. Fellini had been researching the Hammer of Thor, the Norse god of thunder, and had linked it to a Viking warrior and a twelfth-century Latvian village. A coded message in Fellini's package leads Annja on a wild chase along the canals of Venice to Latvia for more clues to an ancient treasure. Rumored to be hidden deep in the forests of Latvia for nine hundred years, this fabled prize is also sought by a ruthless corps of mercenaries. And they will do anything to fi nd it. Including killing Annja Creed.

Golden Apples of the Sun

Golden Apples of the Sun PDF Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007541716
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available for the first time in ebook.

Dinosaur Tales

Dinosaur Tales PDF Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: iBooks
ISBN: 9780743458979
Category : Dinosaurs
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Four short stories and two poems featuring one of the author's great loves: dinosaurs.

The Machineries of Joy

The Machineries of Joy PDF Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780671037710
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
From fantastical tales of Ireland to film studios, from monsters to the American countryside, THE MACHINERIES OF JOY explores Ray Bradbury's secret countries. Sometimes tender, sometimes harder than diamonds, his writing covers all seasons and emotions, and shows time after time why Harper's called him: 'America's finest living fantasist'.
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