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Ahmed and the Oblivion Machines: A Fable
Ray Bradbury
An enchanting fable about a lost boy who makes the acquaintance of a long-forgotten, though very powerful, ancient god.When Ahmed, the twelve-year-old son of a caravan leader, falls from his camel, he is lost in a vast desert, and his situation looks...
Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury
Green Town [1]: The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows...
Death is a Lonely Business
Ray Bradbury
Crumley Mysteries [1]: 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...
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Ray Bradbury’s internationally acclaimed novel Fahrenheit 451 is a masterwork of twentieth-century literature set in a bleak, dystopian future. Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction...
Farewell Summer
Ray Bradbury
Green Town [2]: In a summer that refuses to end, in the deceiving warmth of earliest October, civil war has come to Green Town, Illinois.It is the age-old conflict: the young against the elderly, for control of the clock that ticks their lives ever f...
From the Dust Returned
Ray Bradbury
Enter the strange world of the Elliott family... it will change you forever.In the attic where the rain touched the roof softly on spring days and where you could feel the mantle of snow outside, a few inches away, on December nights, a thoudand-time...
A Graveyard for Lunatics: Another Tale of Two Cities
Ray Bradbury
Crumley Mysteries [2]: Halloween Night, 1954.  A young, film-obsessed scriptwriter has just been hired at one of the great studios.  An anonymous investigation leads from the giant Maximus Films backlot to an eerie graveyard separated from the studio...
Green Shadows, White Whale
Ray Bradbury
In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable s...
The Halloween Tree
Ray Bradbury
Eight costumed boys running to meet their friend Pipkin at the haunted house outside town encounter instead the huge and cadaverous Mr. Moundshroud. As Pipkin scrambles to join them, he is swept away by a dark Something, and Moundshroud leads the boy...
The Illustrated Man
Ray Bradbury
A classic collection of stories – all told on the skin of a man – from the author of Fahrenheit 451.If El Greco had painted miniatures in his prime, no bigger than your hand, infinitely detailed, with his sulphurous colour and exquisite human anatomy...
Let's All Kill Constance
Ray Bradbury
Crumley Mysteries [3]: On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door - and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Holly...
The Martian Chronicles
Ray Bradbury
Of all the dazzling stars in the vast Bradbury universe, none shines more luminous than these masterful chronicles of Earth's settlement of the fourth world from the sun.Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor-of crystal pillars and f...
Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ray Bradbury
Green Town [3]: The carnival rolls in sometime after midnight, ushering in Halloween a week early. The shrill siren song of a calliope beckons to all with a seductive promise of dreams and youth regained.In this season of dying, Cooger & Dark's P...