A Sound Of Thunder And Other Stories

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062242075
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sound of Thunder and Other Stories written by Ray Bradbury and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 ...

Author : Sonny Brewer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sound Like Thunder written by Sonny Brewer and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching eighty, Rove MacNee sets out to write the story of his youth- "I will be forgiven, I'm sure, if I don't remember things with stunning clarity." What memories clearly remain resonate within him like rolling thunder and shower down like rain in Sonny Brewer's superb and richly rewarding new novel of fathers and sons, family and betrayal. Set in the small gulf town of Fairhope, Alabama, this lyrical coming-of-age tale begins in the winter of 1941. Named for his father's drowned Labrador retriever, Rove is a strong-shouldered and self-reliant sixteen-year-old, an uneven match for his volatile father, Captain Dominus MacNee. Though he sometimes wishes the whiskey-soaked man would be lost at sea, Rove himself is in danger of sinking in the troubled waters of his home life. Navigating between memoir and memory, past and present, Rove reflects upon the people and pursuits that have influenced his life: his passion for fishing, where the toss of the net is more thrilling than the catch in the bucket; his much-loved grandmother, who gives him a copy of Huckleberry Finn, saying, "Boys sometimes run away, you know"; and Anna Pearl Anderson, "the prettiest girl on the Eastern shore," who ignites in Rove the first flickers of romance. Yet his greatest treasure, perhaps, is his twenty-five-foot sloop, the Sea Bird. Given to him as a gift, the Sea Bird brings with it both the possibility of salvation and the threat of disaster. As Rove dreams of escaping his tumultuous surroundings, it becomes apparent that he can never truly shake the hold of his seaside home unless he confronts, head on, a startling truth. Returning to the setting of his much-lauded debut novel, The Poet of Tolstoy Park, Sonny Brewer, once again, gives a skillful performance in the Southern storytelling tradition. A Sound Like Thunder is a magnificently crafted tale of a man revisiting the crossroads of his life, connecting the fragmented keepsakes in his heart and mind, and reemerging with a clear understanding of his defining moment.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : iBooks
ISBN 13 : 9780743458979
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( 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.

Author : Taylor Caldwell
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504039041
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Thunder written by Taylor Caldwell and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times–bestselling author of Captains and the Kings: A self-made man sacrifices everything for his family in turn-of-the-century New York. The son of a socialist German shopkeeper, Edward Enger has one dream: to turn his father’s modest delicatessen into an empire. With an astute head for business and talent for making money, he achieves success beyond his wildest imagination. Yet something is keeping him from enjoying his extraordinary good fortune. Fourteen-year-old Edward believed he would love ten-year-old Margaret Proster all the days of his life . . . until she moved away. Now, she has returned and is planning to marry another man, someone very close to Edward. His need to succeed at all costs drives him to take on this latest challenge, along with more mortgages, more debt, and speculative investments on Manhattan’s burgeoning Wall Street. A man does not become powerful without making enemies, and as his family life begins to unravel, a day of reckoning is nearing. Soon Edward will have to confront a painful event from his boyhood—a secret buried deep inside that he has never told another living soul. A man in the right place at the right time, Edward’s meteoric ascent coincides with the rise of America’s middle class as the nation transforms from an agricultural and industrial force to a financial world leader. But his success comes at a great cost in this towering novel of love and sacrifice by one of our most gifted storytellers.

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780192781673
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories written by and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jan Drexler
Publisher : Revell
ISBN 13 : 1493415085
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sound of Distant Thunder (The Amish of Weaver's Creek Book #1) written by Jan Drexler and published by Revell. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : James F. David
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780765346841
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunder of Time written by James F. David and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Patricia Polacco
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698115813
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunder Cake written by Patricia Polacco and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-08-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A loud clap of thunder booms, and rattles the windows of Grandma's old farmhouse. "This is Thunder Cake baking weather," calls Grandma, as she and her granddaughter hurry to gather the ingredients around the farm. A real Thunder Cake must reach the oven before the storm arrives. But the list of ingredients is long and not easy to find . . . and the storm is coming closer all the time! Reaching once again into her rich childhood experience, Patricia Polacco tells the memorable story of how her grandma--her Babushka--helped her overcome her fear of thunder when she was a little girl. Ms. Polacco's vivid memories of her grandmother's endearing answer to a child's fear, accompanied by her bright folk-art illustrations, turn a frightening thunderstorm into an adventure and ultimately . . . a celebration! Whether the first clap of thunder finds you buried under the bedcovers or happily anticipating the coming storm, Thunder Cake is a story that will bring new meaning and possibility to the excitement of a thunderstorm.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007541716
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( 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 250 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.

Author : Ray Bradbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stories of Ray Bradbury written by Ray Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: