Stephen King
1) End of watch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
A former Iraq war vet working as an assassin-for-hire who only accepts jobs when the target is truly a bad guy seeks retirement.
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
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A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.
"This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death. And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped...
4) The shining
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Series
Language
English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • Before Doctor Sleep, there was The Shining, a classic of modern American horror. Jack Torrance takes a job as the caretaker of the remote Overlook Hotel. As the brutal winter sets in, the hotel's dark secrets begin to unravel.
“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.”...
“An undisputed master of suspense and terror.”...
5) 'Salem's Lot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
When a writer returns to his Maine home town, he discovers that the peaceful hamlet is being overrun by vampires and sets out to curb this ancient evil before it can spread.
"Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem’s Lot in hopes that exploring the history of the Marsten House, an old mansion long the subject of rumor and speculation, will help him cast out his personal devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture...
6) The shining
Series
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.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
When a wealthy employer is killed, all fingers point to Dolores, who many believe killed her husband fifteen years prior.
Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away...
8) The shining
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his parents spend the winter in a resort hotel which is possessed by ghosts.
9) The shining
Pub. Date
©1980
Language
English
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Description
A writer and his family are snowbound in a hotel and are haunted by either the hotel itself or the writer's dementia.
10) It
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children.
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
2001: a space odyssey: A science fiction film which moves from the pre-historic birth of intelligence toward the emergence of man as pure thought somewhere in the future.
Barry Lyndon: The rise and fall of a young 18th century Irishman bent on achieving fame and fortune, mainly by marriage.
Eyes wide shut: A wife's admission of unfulfilled sexual longings plunges Dr. William Harford, a New Yorker, into an erotic odyssey that could destroy his marriage...