Ray Bradbury
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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"In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear ... This sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman ; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author; a wealth of critical...
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
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Classic Bradbury, this collection of tales offers images that are as keen as a tattooist's needle and as colorful as the inks that stain the body. Featuring a new Introduction, "The Illustrated Man" presents 18 startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin.
44) Moby Dick
Series
Pub. Date
1956.
Description
Consumed by an insane thirst for revenge, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life--vengeance on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Pub. Date
[2012], c.2010
Description
A cell lives an average of 5 minutes. A hummingbird for 5 years. Right now, humans live for about 75 years. What might it mean to live forever? Director Mark Wexler embarks on a worldwide trek to investigate just what it means to grow old and what it could mean to really live forever. Documents his journey as he seeks to learn if eternal life is possible or even desirable. Exploring these issues with a fascinating array of people.
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
In the year 2055, a team of time travelers accidentally changes the course of evolution and must race against time to repair the damage to the timeline that may erase the human race from ever existing.
"An imaginative science-fiction thrill ride."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"Fascinating. Entertaining."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
54) The sci-fi boys
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Legendary sci-fi directors Jackson, Lucas, Spielberg, etc, started out as kids making amateur movies inspired by Famous Monsters magazine. They grew up to take Hollywood by storm, inventing the art and technology for filming anything the mind can dream.
Pub. Date
[1998]
Description
An anthology of alternate-history and time-travel stories from the mid-19th century to the present. They range from Edgar Allen Poe's Three Sundays in a Week to Harry Turtledove's The Last Article, in which the Indian independence leader, Gandhi, battles not the British, but the Germans.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, a novel about a poor family of sharecroppers who are driven from their home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in the agriculture industry during the Great Depression.
Includes interviews, commentaries and excerpts from the novel, providing first-hand accounts of why The Grapes of Wrath remains so compelling seven decades after its initial publication....
58) Fahrenheit 451
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
In a not too distant future, humans live a seemingly care-free existence where they're happy and productive. There is a "price" though for this life: They must place special drops in their eyes daily and follow the rules perfectly, including the rule that they never own or read books. Guy Montag is a firefighter. He doesn't fight fires though, but instead hunts down those people who refuse to follow the law and burns their books. Like everyone else,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
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This collection of thirty-eight terrifying tales of serial killers at large, written by the great masters of the genre, plumbs the horrifying depths of a deranged mind and the forces of evil that compel a human being to murder, gruesomely and methodically, over and over again.
From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing...
From Hannibal Lecter (The Silence of the Lambs) to Patrick Bateman (American Psycho), stories of serial killers and psychos loom large and menacing...