I Love Galesburg in the Springtime
Title | I Love Galesburg in the Springtime PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Finney |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Short stories |
ISBN |
About Time
Title | About Time PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Finney |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439144486 |
About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time classic Time and Again. The protagonists of these twelve stories are well-meaning but at odds with their surroundings and their lives. The time to which they escape—through time travel—doesn't always fulfill their expectations in the way they had hoped, but sometimes, they can still find their dreams.
The Time Traveler's Almanac
Title | The Time Traveler's Almanac PDF eBook |
Author | Ann VanderMeer |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 961 |
Release | 2014-03-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0765374218 |
The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations. This marvelous volume includes nearly seventy journeys through time from authors such as Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, William Gibson, Ursula K. Le Guin, George R. R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, H. G. Wells, and Connie Willis, as well as helpful non-fiction articles original to this volume (such as Charles Yu's "Top Ten Tips For Time Travelers"). In fact, this book is like a time machine of its very own, covering millions of years of Earth's history from the age of the dinosaurs through to strange and fascinating futures, spanning the ages from the beginning of time to its very end. The Time Traveler's Almanac is the ultimate anthology for the time traveler in your life.
The Night People
Title | The Night People PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Finney |
Publisher | Doubleday Books |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1977 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Two San Francisco couples begin playing innocent pranks that soon get out of hand.
Rootabaga Stories
Title | Rootabaga Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Sandburg |
Publisher | Applewood Books |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 155709490X |
A selection of tales from Rootabaga Country peopled with such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.
From Time to Time
Title | From Time to Time PDF eBook |
Author | Jack Finney |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 310 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439144427 |
Jack Finney's beloved sequel to his classic, New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Time and Again. Simon Morley, whose logic-defying trip to the New York City of the 1880s in Time and Again has enchanted readers for twenty-five years, embarks on another trip across the borders of time. This time Reuben Prien at the secret, government-sponsored Project wants Si to leave his home in the 1880s and visit New York in 1912. Si's mission: to protect a man who is traveling across the Atlantic with vital documents that could avert World War I. So one fateful day in 1912, Si finds himself aboard the world's most famous ship...the Titanic.
Blues Lessons
Title | Blues Lessons PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hellenga |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2002-02-08 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0743236319 |
Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself -- in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Although his mother wants him to get out of Appleton, which she finds impossibly provincial, and attend a great university -- the University of Chicago, her alma mater -- he has no desire to leave. In the autumn of his junior year of high school, however, in the camp of the migrant workers who come north every year to pick the Dijksterhuis peaches and apples, Martin discovers his vocation, the country blues -- unsettling melodies that cry out from a place in the soul he never knew existed. He also falls in love with Corinna Williams, the strong-willed daughter of the black foreman who runs the Dijksterhuis orchards. His blues vocation and his love for Corinna are the two stories of his life. His struggle to combine them into a single story takes him a long way from home and from the life he had always envisioned for himself, and then it brings him back again in a way he could never have imagined. In this beautifully rendered novel, Robert Hellenga, author of The Sixteen Pleasures and The Fall of a Sparrow, explores the fragility of happiness, the difficulties of following one's calling in life, and the sorrows and satisfactions of being a parent.