Stephen King
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of four novella-length tales, complementing the title piece with the stories, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, and Rat.
2) End of watch
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The spectacular finale to the New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with Mr. Mercedes (winner of the Edgar Award) and Finders Keepers--In End of Watch, the diabolical "Mercedes Killer" drives his enemies to suicide, and if Bill Hodges and Holly Gibney don't figure out a way to stop him, they'll be victims themselves. In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator...
Author
Series
Bill Hodges trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Description
Receiving a horrific essay from a GED student with a traumatic past, high-school English teacher Jake Epping is enlisted by a friend to travel back in time to prevent the assassination of John F. Kennedy, a mission for which he must befriend troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Prolific author Stephen King presents a collection of four new novellas. In the story 1922, a man plunges into the depths of madness when his wife attempts to sell off the family home. A mystery writer, who was beaten and raped while driving home from her book club, plots her revenge in Big Driver. Diagnosed with a deadly cancer, a man makes a deal with the devil in Fair Extension. And in A Good Marriage, a woman discovers her husband's darker side...
Author
Series
Gwendy's button box trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson takes the stairs up the cliffside to Castle Rock, Maine, she encounters a mysterious stranger, who calls out to her wanting to talk.
8) The sun dog
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kevin Delevan is ecstatic when he receives a camera, called a Sun, for his fifteenth birthday. Unfortunately, however, the camera only seems to take pictures of a growling, menacing dog. And, oddly, the dog is not in the frame when the shutter is snapped. As the mongrel seems to be getting closer and closer, tension mounts in this engaging thriller.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mayhem and violence are unleashed around the world when a pulse from a mysterious source transforms all cell phone users into homicidal maniacs, and only a small band of "normies" who avoided the technological attack can stop the rampage.
Author
Series
The dark tower volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
A collection of short fiction features "L.T.'s Theory of Pets," "Lunch at the Gotham Cafe," and "In the Deathroom," as well as "1408," about a writer whose stay in Room 1408 at the Dolphin Hotel turns his life upside down.
12) Joyland
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime volume HCC-112
Publisher
Hard Case Crime/Titan Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
13) Misery
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
132 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In "Blockade Billy," a retired coach recounts the story of "Blockade Billy" Blakely, the only player to have his record erased from baseball history, and in "Morality," an elderly minister recovering from a stroke offers to pay his home care nurse a large sum of money if she will commit a criminal act.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 50
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an invisible force field seals off Chester's Mill, Maine, from the rest of the world, it is up to Dale Barbara, an Iraq veteran, and a select group of citizens to save the town, if they can get past Big Jim Rennie, a murderous politician, and his son, who hides a horrible secret in his dark pantry.
16) The dark tower
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
The final installment in the epic series completes the quest of Roland Deschain, who works to outmaneuver the increasingly desperate acts of his adversaries and confronts losses within his circle of companions.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after losing her husband of twenty-five years, Lisey looks back at the sometimes frightening intimacy that marked their marriage, her husband's successes as a novelist, and his secretive nature that established Lisey's supernatural belief systems.
18) Rose Madder
Author
Language
English
Description
"After surviving fourteen years of hell in a violently abusive marriage, Rosie Daniels has finally summoned the courage to flee for her life. But leaving her husband Norman for a new city and a new start is a very daunting prospect. It's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason--Norman's a police officer with the instincts of a predator, a force of relentless terror and savagery...a man almost mythic in his monstrosity....
19) Duma Key
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Physical Desc
611 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Renting a house on the Florida coast after suffering a crippling accident and ending his marriage, construction millionaire Edgar Freemantle creates works of art that lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady's enigmatic family history.
20) The waste lands
Author
Series
The Dark tower volume 3
Publisher
Plume
Language
English
Description
Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.