Stephen King
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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A troubled teenager befriends an elderly recluse, who dies and leaves him a taped message explaining that his shed is the portal to another world.
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher-for that world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular...
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English
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"Innocence, experience, truth, deceit, loss, and recovery are at the core of these five interconnected, sequential tales—each deeply rooted in the 1960s, and each scarred by the Vietnam War, which continues to cast its shadow over American lives, politics and culture. In Part One, “Low Men in Yellow Coats,” eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes...
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Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
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"On a cross-country, redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bangor, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. The airport shows no signs of life. Yet they hear "radio static" in the distance. Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown, believes it is "The Langoliers," monsters he was afraid of as a child who attack those who waste time. It's mystery...
4) Rose Madder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
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"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....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Immensely helpful and illuminating to any aspiring writer, this special edition of Stephen Kings critically lauded, million-copy bestseller shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped him and his work. “Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon publication of Stephen Kings On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view...
6) It (Eso)
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Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
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Ahora en español, nos llega esta escalofriante historia de Stephen King, clásico bestseller #1 del New York Times, "un punto de referencia en la literatura estadounidense" según el Chicago Sun-Timessobre siete adultos que vuelven a su ciudad natal para hacerle frente a una pesadilla que vivieron cuando eran adolescentes...un mal sin nombre: Eso. Bienvenido a Derry, Maine. Es una ciudad pequeña, un lugar tan conmovedoramente familiar como tu propia...
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Stephen King hates to fly. Now he and co-editor Bev Vincent would like to share this fear of flying with you. Welcome to Flight or Fright, an anthology about all the things that can go horribly wrong when you're suspended six miles in the air, hurtling through space at more than 500 mph and sealed up in a metal tube (like gulp! a coffin) with hundreds of strangers. All the ways your trip into the friendly skies can turn into a nightmare, including...
9) Stand by me
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Explores friendship and the indelible experiences of growing up as four twelve-year-old boys set out on a two-day search for a missing teenager's body, a search that turns into an odyssey of self-discovery. Set in the small Oregon town of Castle Rock in the summer of 1959.
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Series
Dark Tower (graphic novels) volume 6
Publisher
Turnaround [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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When the Gunslingers are slaughtered by "Good Man" John Farson, only Deschain survives and must embark on a quest to find the Dark Tower to undo the actions of the Good Man and set Mid-World right.
11) The shining
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Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When a couple takes a job as hotel caretakers for the winter, their young son's psychic powers bring out the evil in the old hotel.
12) Pet sematary
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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The Creeds move next door to a pet cemetery, which is built over old Native American burial grounds with the power of resurrection.
13) Doctor Sleep
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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After decades as an itinerant alcoholic, middle-aged Dan Torrance uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a twelve-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals.
14) Misery
Publisher
Nelson Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1994-]
Language
English
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After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive.
15) Doctor Sleep
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
After decades as an itinerant alcoholic, middle-aged Dan Torrance uses his remnant powers to assist the dying before coming to the aid of a twelve-year-old girl being tortured by a tribe of murderous paranormals.
16) The stand
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English
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When a killer plague wipes out 99% of the world's population, the embattled survivors struggle to make their way in a post-apocalyptic reality. This 2020 adaptation of Stephen King's The Stand frames the eternal battle between good and evil, as embodied by the peaceful prophet Mother Abagail and the menacing presence Randall Flagg, and closes with a new coda written by Stephen King himself.
17) Graveyard shift
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When an abandoned textile mill is reopened, several employees meet mysterious deaths. The link between the killings: all occurred between the hours of eleven p.m. and seven a.m. The sadistic mill foreman has chosen a group to clean up the mill's ratinfested basement, but what the workers find is a subterranean maze of tunnels leading to the cemetery, and an unimaginable horror that comes alive in the dead of night.
When an abandoned textile mill...
19) It. Chapter two
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twenty-seven years after they defeated Pennywise, he has returned to terrorize the town of Derry once more. When kids start disappearing again, Mike, the only one who stayed in Derry, calls the others to come home. Each damaged by the experiences of the past, they must conquer their fears to destroy Pennywise once and for all.