The October Country

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062242253
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Book Synopsis The October Country by : Ray Bradbury

Download or read book The October Country written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to a land Ray Bradbury calls "the Undiscovered Country" of his imagination--that vast territory of ideas, concepts, notions and conceits where the stories you now hold were born. America's premier living author of short fiction, Bradbury has spent many lifetimes in this remarkable place--strolling through empty, shadow-washed fields at midnight; exploring long-forgotten rooms gathering dust behind doors bolted years ago to keep strangers locked out.. and secrets locked in. The nights are longer in this country. The cold hours of darkness move like autumn mists deeper and deeper toward winter. But the moonlight reveals great magic here--and a breathtaking vista. The October Country is many places: a picturesque Mexican village where death is a tourist attraction; a city beneath the city where drowned lovers are silently reunited; a carnival midway where a tiny man's most cherished fantasy can be fulfilled night after night. The October Country's inhabitants live, dream, work, die--and sometimes live again--discovering, often too late, the high price of citizenship. Here a glass jar can hold memories and nightmares; a woman's newborn child can plot murder; and a man's skeleton can war against him. Here there is no escaping the dark stranger who lives upstairs...or the reaper who wields the world. Each of these stories is a wonder, imagined by an acclaimed tale-teller writing from a place shadows. But there is astonishing beauty in these shadows, born from a prose that enchants and enthralls. Ray Bradbury's The October Country is a land of metaphors that can chill like a long-after-midnight wind...as they lift the reader high above a sleeping Earth on the strange wings of Uncle Einar.

Boy's Life

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453231560
Total Pages : 723 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis Boy's Life by : Robert McCammon

Download or read book Boy's Life written by Robert McCammon and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 723 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Alabama boy’s innocence is shaken by murder and madness in the 1960s South in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Swan Song. It’s 1964 in idyllic Zephyr, Alabama. People either work for the paper mill up the Tecumseh River, or for the local dairy. It’s a simple life, but it stirs the impressionable imagination of twelve-year-old aspiring writer Cory Mackenson. He’s certain he’s sensed spirits whispering in the churchyard. He’s heard of the weird bootleggers who lurk in the dark outside of town. He’s seen a flood leave Main Street crawling with snakes. Cory thrills to all of it as only a young boy can. Then one morning, while accompanying his father on his milk route, he sees a car careen off the road and slowly sink into fathomless Saxon’s Lake. His father dives into the icy water to rescue the driver, and finds a beaten corpse, naked and handcuffed to the steering wheel—a copper wire tightened around the stranger’s neck. In time, the townsfolk seem to forget all about the unsolved murder. But Cory and his father can’t. Their search for the truth is a journey into a world where innocence and evil collide. What lies before them is the stuff of fear and awe, magic and madness, fantasy and reality. As Cory wades into the deep end of Zephyr and all its mysteries, he’ll discover that while the pleasures of childish things fade away, growing up can be a strange and beautiful ride. “Strongly echoing the childhood-elegies of King and Bradbury, and every bit their equal,” Boy’s Life, a winner of both the Bram Stoker and World Fantasy Awards, represents a brilliant blend of mystery and rich atmosphere, the finest work of one of today’s most accomplished writers (Kirkus Reviews).

Dragonflight

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Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 0345453956
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (454 download)

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Book Synopsis Dragonflight by : Anne McCaffrey

Download or read book Dragonflight written by Anne McCaffrey and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 2002-02-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I of The Dragonriders of Pern®, the groundbreaking series by master storyteller Anne McCaffrey On a beautiful world called Pern, an ancient way of life is about to come under attack from a myth that is all too real. Lessa is an outcast survivor—her parents murdered, her birthright stolen—a strong young woman who has never stopped dreaming of revenge. But when an ancient threat to Pern reemerges, Lessa will rise—upon the back of a great dragon with whom she shares a telepathic bond more intimate than any human connection. Together, dragon and rider will fly . . . and Pern will be changed forever.

Farewell Summer

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061830011
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book Farewell Summer written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The master of American fiction returns to the territory of his beloved classic, Dandelion Wine—a sequel 50 years in the making Some summers refuse to end . . . October 1st, the end of summer. The air is still warm, but fall is in the air. Thirteen-year-old Douglas Spaulding, his younger brother Tom, and their friends do their best to take advantage of these last warm days, rampaging through the ravine, tormenting the girls . . . and declaring war on the old men who run Green Town, IL. For the boys know that Colonel Quartermain and his cohorts want nothing more than to force them to put away their wild ways, to settle down, to grow up. If only, the boys believe, they could stop the clock atop the courthouse building. Then, surely, they could hold onto the last days of summer . . . and their youth. But the old men were young once, too. And Quartermain, crusty old guardian of the school board and town curfew, is bent on teaching the boys a lesson. What he doesn’t know is that before the last leaf turns, the boys will give him a gift: they will teach him the importance of not being afraid of letting go.

Let's All Kill Constance

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062242342
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Let's All Kill Constance written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a dismal evening in the previous century, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door and again admits Constance Rattigan into his life. An aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, Constance is running in fear from something she dares not acknowledge -- and vanishes as suddenly as she appeared, leaving the narrator two macabre books: twin listings of the Tinseltown dead and soon to be dead, with Constance's name included among them. And so begins an odyssey as dark as it is wondrous, as the writer sets off in a broken-down jalopy with his irascible sidekick Crumley to sift through the ashes of a bygone Hollywood -- a graveyard of ghosts and secrets where each twisted road leads to grim shrines and shattered dreams ... and, all too often, to death.

Death Is a Lonely Business

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062242121
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Death Is a Lonely Business written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Bradbury, the undisputed Dean of American storytelling, dips his accomplished pen into the cryptic inkwell of noir and creates a stylish and slightly fantastical tale of mayhem and murder set among the shadows and the murky canals of Venice, California, in the early 1950s. Toiling away amid the looming palm trees and decaying bungalows, a struggling young writer (who bears a resemblance to the author) spins fantastic stories from his fertile imagination upon his clacking typewriter. Trying not to miss his girlfriend (away studying in Mexico), the nameless writer steadily crafts his literary effort--until strange things begin happening around him. Starting with a series of peculiar phone calls, the writer then finds clumps of seaweed on his doorstep. But as the incidents escalate, his friends fall victim to a series of mysterious "accidents"--some of them fatal. Aided by Elmo Crumley, a savvy, street-smart detective, and a reclusive actress of yesteryear with an intense hunger for life, the wordsmith sets out to find the connection between the bizarre events, and in doing so, uncovers the truth about his own creative abilities.

Now and Forever

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061131563
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Now and Forever written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-09-04 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first story, a journalist is drawn to a mysterious town and in the second story, a space crew pursues a comet in a remake of Herman Melville's classic, Moby Dick.

Golden Apples of the Sun

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007541716
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Golden Apples of the Sun written by Ray Bradbury and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Ray Bradbury’s classic short story collections, available for the first time in ebook.

Dinosaur Tales

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Publisher : iBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780743458979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book Dinosaur Tales written by Ray Bradbury and published by iBooks. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four short stories and two poems featuring one of the author's great loves: dinosaurs.

Quicker Than the Eye

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062242237
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book Quicker Than the Eye written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut from total reality to light fantastic, from high noon to long after midnight. A true master tells all, revealing the strange secret of growing young and mad; opening a Witch Door that links two intolerant centuries; joining an ancient couple in their wild assassination games; celebrating life and dreams in the unique voice that has favored him across six decades and has enchanted millions of readers the world over.

The Vintage Bradbury

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Bradbury written by Ray Bradbury and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1990-07-14 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bradbury presests his best short stories.

A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062242105
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book A Medicine for Melancholy and Other Stories written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes--for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A family's first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. A great artist drawing in the sand on the beach. A clunky contraption made out of household implements to help some kids play a game called Invasion. The most marvelous Christmas display a little boy ever saw. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of thirty-one of Bradbury's most arresting tales--timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart. Ray Bradbury is known worldwide as one of the century's great men of imagination. Here are thirty-one reasons why.Ray Bradbury is a painter who uses words rather than brushes--for he created lasting visual images that, once observed, are impossible to forget. Sinister mushrooms growing in a dank cellar. A familys first glimpse at Martians. A wonderful white vanilla ice-cream summer suit that changes everyone who wears it. A great artist drawing in the sand on the beach. A clunky contraption made out of household implements to help some kids play a game called Invasion. The most marvelous Christmas display a little boy ever saw. All those images and many more are inside this book, a new trade edition of thirty-one of Bradburys most arresting tales--timeless short fiction that ranges from the farthest reaches of space to the innermost stirrings of the heart. Ray Bradbury is known worldwide as one of the centurys great men of imagination. Here are thirty-one reasons why.

Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man

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Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008118361
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Ray Bradbury 3-Book Collection: Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man written by Ray Bradbury and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of three of Ray Bradbury’s finest science fiction novels: FAHRENHEIT 451, THE MARTIAN CHRONICLES and THE ILLUSTRATED MAN.

Switch on the Night

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Publisher : Dragonfly Books
ISBN 13 : 0553112449
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book Switch on the Night written by Ray Bradbury and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2004-09-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling writer Ray Bradbury and beloved author-illustrator duo Leo and Diane Dillon comes a unique, dreamy perspective on overcoming a fear of the dark. A lonely little boy who is scared of the dark sits in his room alone, with only light for company, until a little girl named Dark appears and shows him that light switches don’t just switch off the light—they switch on the night. And to switch on the night is to switch on the stars, the moon, the crickets, and the frogs. With the Dillons’ dreamlike illustrations, Switch on the Night is sure to reassure any child who has felt afraid of the unkown; the story will also impress adult readers with its imaginative approach to understanding that which is different. “Bradbury’s story of a boy who conquers his fear of the night with the help of a child named Dark has been newly illustrated with appropriately mysterious, dramatic artwork, clearly influenced by M. C. Escher’s work.”—The Horn Book “The Dillons’ interpretation works well intellectually and aesthetically.”—Booklist

I Sing the Body Electric!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book I Sing the Body Electric! written by Ray Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen stories with bizarre and whimsical themes which transcend time and space.