Washoe County Library System

In 1960, Gordie LaChance and three of his rambunctious friends venture into the Maine woods and find out about life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. The Body is the basis of the classic film Stand By Me, and one of four novellas in the bestselling book Different Seasons.

In The Shawshank Redemption, a man convicted of a bloody murder lives in a prison brutally ruled by a sadistic warden and secretly run by a con who knows all the ropes and pulls all the strings. He has more brains than anyone else in the sinister slammer, and has a diabolically cunning plan of revenge that no one can guess until it's far too late.

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...

Beware, The Wheel of Fortune...

Johnny, the small boy who skated at breakneck speed into an accident that for one horrifying moment plunged him into...the dead zone.

Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into...the dead zone.

John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible

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"Cujo used to be a big friendly dog, lovable and loyal to his trinity (The Man, The Woman, and The Boy) and everyone around him, and always did his best to not be a BAD DOG. But that all ends on the day this nearly two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard makes the mistake of chasing a rabbit into a hidden underground cave, setting off a tragic chain of events. Now Cujo is no longer himself as he is slowly overcome by a growing sickness, one that consumes...

Stephen King's ultimate evil vehicle of terror, Christine: the frightening story of a nerdy teenager who falls in love with his vintage Plymouth Fury. It's love at first sight, but this car is no lady.
Evil is alive in Libertyville. It inhabits a custom-painted red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury named Christine and young Arnold Cunningham, who buys it.

Along with Arnold's girlfriend, Leigh Cabot, Dennis Guilder...

After an almost fatal car crash, novelist Paul Sheldon finds himself being nursed by a deranged fan who holds him captive. Paul Sheldon, author of a series of historical romances, wakes up in a secluded farmhouse in Colorado with broken legs and Annie Wilkes, a disappointed fan, hovering over him with drugs, ax, and blowtorch and demanding he bring his heroine back to life

A chilling tale of Roland--the world's last living gunslinger--follows the renegade gunman as he is thrust into the drug-and-crime-ridden world of the twentieth century and a dark uncertainty. Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. The second volume in Stephen Kings #1 bestselling Dark Tower Series, The Drawing of the Three is an “epic in the making” (Kirkus Reviews) about a savage struggle against underworld...

In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing. The #1 New York Times bestselling dramatic serial novel and inspiration for the Oscar-nominated film of the same name starring Tom Hanks, the "literary event" (Entertainment...

Nine year old Trisha McFarland, lost in the woods after she wanders off to escape the bickering between her mother and brother, boosts her courage by imagining that her hero, Boston Red Sox relief pitcher Tom Gordon, is with her, helping her survive an unknown enemy.