The Veldt
Title | The Veldt PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Tale Blazers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780895989666 |
Ray Bradbury [RL 6 IL 7-12] The nursery of the Hadleys ultra- modern Happylife Home transforms itself into a sinister African veldt. Theme: technology out of control. 42 pages. Tale Blazers.
Zero Hour
Title | Zero Hour PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Andrews UK Limited |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 2021-08-05 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1789826381 |
In this short story first published by Ray Bradbury in the 1951 "Illustrated Man" collection, the game of "Invasion" has been sweeping the country. Children all across the nation pretend to have been enlisted by alien invaders, their job to overthrow their parents, and help their newfound friends take over the Earth. To Mrs. Morris, it's harmless fun - but to her daughter Mink, it's far from just a game.
Black Box
Title | Black Box PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer Egan |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Pages | 44 |
Release | 2012-09-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1472102819 |
'Close your eyes and slowly count backward from ten.' America, the near future. A young spy on a mission logs her observations. The result is an intense thriller, and a minute dissection of the experience of a woman whose beauty is also her camouflage, for whom control relies on submission: a woman whose success - whose life - depends on being seen and not seen. Originally published online via Twitter by @NYerFiction, Jennifer Egan's first new fiction since the phenomenal success of A Visit From the Goon Squad is a taut, compulsive work of unrelenting genius.
The Illustrated Man
Title | The Illustrated Man PDF eBook |
Author | Ray Bradbury |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2012-04-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1451678185 |
Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.
A Monk Swimming
Title | A Monk Swimming PDF eBook |
Author | Malachy McCourt |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 2024-03-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1504093445 |
In this darkly humorous New York Times–bestselling memoir, the Irish American writer and actor shares charming stories from his first decade in the US. Malachy McCourt left behind a childhood of poverty and painful memories of his father and mother in Limerick, Ireland, when he followed his brother, Frank, to America in 1952. In A Monk Swimming, McCourt recounts the decade that followed. With not much else to his name other than his sharp wit and knack for storytelling, McCourt was unsure what he would do after arriving in New York City. He worked as a longshoreman on the Brooklyn docks, became the first celebrity bartender in a Manhattan saloon, performed on stage with the Irish Players, and told tales to Jack Paar on The Tonight Show. Although McCourt gained success, money, women, and, eventually, children of his own, he still carried memories of the past with him. So, he fled again. He found himself in the Manhattan Detention Complex, otherwise known as the Tombs. He was arrested several times: poolside in Beverly Hills, in Zurich with gold-smugglers, and again in Calcutta with sex workers. McCourt’s journey also took him to Paris, Rome, and even Limerick again, until finally he was forced to grapple with his past. Praise for A Monk Swimming “[A] funny, oddly winning book.” —The New York Times “A rollicking good read that, as the Irish say, would make a dead man laugh.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer “Malachy McCourt, who has habitually regurgitated English in glorious colors to his fellow Irishmen and New Yorkers, here makes his vivid, whimsical, raucous, murderous joy and voice available to the rest of us in tales of riot and glory which build on the story of the McCourts’ early life so dazzlingly told in Angela’s Ashes by his brother Frank.” —Thomas Keneally, author of the international bestseller Schindler’s List
Treks Across the Veldt
Title | Treks Across the Veldt PDF eBook |
Author | Theodore J. Waldeck |
Publisher | New York : Viking Press |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1944 |
Genre | Africa, Southern |
ISBN |
A Friend of the Earth
Title | A Friend of the Earth PDF eBook |
Author | T. C. Boyle |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 379 |
Release | 2011-08-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408826836 |
_______________________ 'A comedy with teeth ... razor sharp and darkly funny' (TIMES) 'Boyle's prose is so good and his imagination so fertile that after a while you just sit back and are swept along' (TELEGRAPH) 'Surreal, daring and compassionate. Easily one of the best books of the year' (MAIL) 'Superb ... if Boyle was from this side of the pond, this is the book they'd all have to beat for the Booker Prize' (SUNDAY TIMES) It's 2025, and 75-year-old environmentalist and retired eco-terrorist Ty Tierwater is eking out a bleak living managing a pop star's private zoo. It is the last one in southern California, and vital for the cloning of its captive species. Once, Ty was so serious about environmental causes that as a radical activist committed to Earth Forever! he endangered the lives of both his daughter, Sierra, and his wife, Andrea. Now, when he's just trying to survive in a world cursed by storm and drought, Andrea re-enters his life. Frightening, funny, surreal and gripping, T.C. Boyle's story is both a modern morality tale, and a provocative vision of the future.