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1) The outsider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"An unspeakable crime. A confounding investigation. At a time when the King brand has never been stronger, he has delivered one of his most unsettling and compulsively readable stories. An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same...
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"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Series
Solomon Creed novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A plane crashes outside of Redemption, Arizona. As the sheriff speeds toward the accident, he nearly hits a man running down the road, a man with no shoes and no memory. The only clue to his identity is his name: Solomon Creed. Solomon knows only that he's here to save someone - a man who was buried that very morning." -- Publisher.
8) Holly
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
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"La nueva novela del Rey del Terror recuerda a joyas como Misery y cuenta con un personaje muy querido por sus fans: Holly Gibney, la detective privada que, por primera vez, protagoniza una novela en solitario. Cuando Penny Dahl contacta con Finders Keepers para que la ayuden a encontrar a su hija, algo en la voz desesperada de la mujer hace que Holly Gibney se vea obligada a aceptar el trabajo. A poca distancia del lugar en el que Bonnie Dahl desapareció,...
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English
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"Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immersive read perfect for fans of Gone Girl and The Haunting of Hill House. "The new face of literary dark fiction." -Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Behind Her Eyes "The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." -Stephen King In a boarded-up house on a dead-end street...
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Series
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English
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"In The Passage and The Twelve, Justin Cronin brilliantly imagined the fall of civilization and humanity's desperate fight to survive. Now all is quiet on the horizon--but does silence promise the nightmare's end or the second coming of unspeakable darkness? At last, this bestselling epic races to its breathtaking finale. The world we knew is gone. What world will rise in its place? The Twelve have been destroyed and the hundred-year reign of...
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Series
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English
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When a troubled novice is blamed for the disappearance of a priest, Brother Cadfael seeks to save his soul-and his life Outside the pale of the Abbey of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, in September of 1140, a priestly emissary for King Stephen has been reported missing. But inside the pale, what troubles Brother Cadfael is a proud, secretive nineteen-year-old novice. Brother Cadfael has never seen two men more estranged than the Lord of Aspley and...
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
An all-ages dose of superpowered school spirit!
All schools have their secrets...but at Valiant High, the truth is ETERNAL! Enigmatic foreign exchange student Colin ""Ninjak"" King and his new bestie, wallflower Peter Stanchek, have made it their mission to find out what's really going on behind the scenes at their superpowered prep school...and the fallout is going to take EVERYONE from Coach Bloodshot to Principal Harada by surprise! Red-hot...
14) The Woods #1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
WHY WE LOVE IT: As fans of James Tynion IV's work in the Batman universe
(BATMAN ETERNAL, RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS), we were eager to publish his
first original comic series. Plus, THE WOODS gives us that same eerie, small-town horror feel we get whenever we read a Stephen King novel.
WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT: If you're fan of teen conspiracy comics like MORNING GLORIES, SHELTERED, and REVIVAL, you'll immediately be sucked into THE WOODS.
WHAT IT'S ABOUT:...
15) The Woods Vol 1
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"WHY WE LOVE IT: As fans of James Tynion IVs work in the Batman universe (BATMAN ETERNAL, RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS), we were eager to publish his first original comic series. THE WOODS gives us that same eerie, small-town horror feel we get whenever we read a Stephen King novel.
WHY YOULL LOVE IT: James Tynion IV is a former protege of BATMAN writer Scott Snyder, so you know hes learned a lot about how to craft a compelling tale. If youre fan of...
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Class is in session as Valiant's all-ages escapade escalates!
As Valiant Universes best and brightest young minds know all too well, Valiant High isnt your average everyday high school... Its the kind of place where dodgeball is a literal blood sport and trying to find a date to homecoming can be just as stressful as saving the world! But deep within the hero-filled halls of this otherwise prestigious institute, Principal Harada is hiding a mysterious...
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Valiant proudly presents its first ALL-AGES escapade with a pitch-perfect entry point for new fans and longtime readers alike!
Before they became legends, the world's most formidable heroes were roaming the halls at Valiant High a super-powered preparatory academy where Aric ""X-O Manowar"" Dacia is a record-setting running back, Colin ""Ninjak"" King is a debonair foreign exchange student, and Coach Bloodshot is way, way too into dodgeball. Now,...
19) Valiant High
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Valiant proudly presents its first ALL-AGES escapade with a pitch-perfect entry point for new fans and longtime readers alike!
Before they became legends, the worlds most formidable heroes were roaming the halls at Valiant High a super-powered preparatory academy where Aric X-O Manowar Dacia is a record-setting running back, Colin Ninjak King is a debonair foreign exchange student, and Coach Bloodshot is way, way too into dodgeball. Now, Amanda...