A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories

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

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.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Puffin Modern Classics)

Author: Mildred D. Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101657944
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
Winner of the Newbery Medal, this remarkably moving novel has impressed the hearts and minds of millions of readers. Set in Mississippi at the height of the Depression, this is the story of one family's struggle to maintain their integrity, pride, and independence in the face of racism and social injustice. And it is also Cassie's story—Cassie Logan, an independent girl who discovers over the course of an important year why having land of their own is so crucial to the Logan family, even as she learns to draw strength from her own sense of dignity and self-respect. * "[A] vivid story.... Entirely through its own internal development, the novel shows the rich inner rewards of black pride, love, and independence."—Booklist, starred review

The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories

Author:
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192781673
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
A collection of stories about time, exploring all the different ways that we can twist and play with time. The stories take in trips to the future, package holidays to the past, visitors from other times with unwelcome messages, a thief with the power to stop time altogether, a man in lovewith someone who died years before he was born, a star fleet that paradoxically caused its own destruction, and many more. With a sure appeal for everyone who likes an exciting, thought-provoking story, as well as fans of science fiction and ghost stories, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of stories to amuse, amaze, and enthral.

50 Girls 50

Author: Al Williamson
Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
ISBN: 1606995774
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Barely old enough to drink when he joined the EC Comics stable, Al Williamson may have been the new kid on the block, but a lifetime of studying such classic adventure cartoonists as Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon) and Hal Foster (Prince Valiant) had made him a kid to reckon with ― as he proved again and again in the stories he created for EC’s legendary “New Trend” comics, in particular Weird Science and Weird Fantasy.

Thunder of Time

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.

Thunder Rolling in the Mountains

Author: Scott O'Dell
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547349742
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147

Book Description
Through the eyes of a brave and independent young woman, Scott O'Dell tells of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce, a classic tale of cruelty, betrayal, and heroism. This powerful account of the tragic defeat of the Nez Perce Indians in 1877 by the United States Army is narrated by Chief Joseph's strong and brave daughter. When Sound of Running Feet first sees white settlers on Nez Perce land, she vows to fight them. She'll fight all the people trying to steal her people's land and to force them onto a reservation, including the soldiers with their guns. But if to fight means only to die, never win, is the fight worth it? When will the killing stop? Like the author's Newbery Medal-winning classic Island of the Blue Dolphins, Scott O'Dell's Thunder Rolling in the Mountains is a gripping tale of survival, strength, and courage.

Dinosaur Tales

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 Stories of Ray Bradbury

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.

Golden Apples of the Sun

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.