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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as ""The Gingerbread Girl"" and "N."
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, harkening back to her violent husband, disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of Joe Claiborne thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and of her loyalty to an employer who has become emotionally demanding in recent years.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
Formats
Description
A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers; " a writer confronts the reality of his success in "Secret Window, Secret Garden; " after being scolded by "The Library Policeman, " you'll never return a book late again; and once again the community of Castle Rock finds itself besieged by a nasty pooch in "The Sun Dog." A domestic flight makes an unusual stopover in the land of "The Langoliers; " a writer confronts the reality...
6) Christine
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
She was born in Detroit on an automobile assembly line. But she is no ordinary automobile. Deep within her chassis lives an unholy presence. She is Christine, a red and white 1958 Plymouth Fury whose unique standard equipment includes an evil, indestructible vengeance that will destroy anyone in her way.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
Haunted by the results of his physical, commercial artist Richard Sifkitz purchases a stationary bike that he plans to use to get back into shape, but when he paints a picturesque mural on the wall opposite his bike, he discovers that the mural is no ordinary picture and that his stationary bike is taking him on rides to places he really does not want to go.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
It may seem odd, but it's true--something as simple as one phone call can change the world forever. And that's exactly what happenes on October 1, when a single pulse is simultaneously transmitted through every cell phone on the planet. After the Pulse, an unspeakable transformation occurs. People everywhere begin devolving into inhuman killing machines--and civilization as we know it grinds to a halt in a terrifying riot of violence.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Emily escapes to the secluded Vermillion Key off of Florida's coast after the death of her infant child. Her new neighbor also enjoys the privacy of the key, but the women he brings with him never return home. Emily's curiosity leads her right into the hands of the madman, but it's her legs that are her only hope for survival.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The man in the black suit" is a haunting recollection of a mysterious boyhood event; "All that you love will be carried away" concerns a man who checks into a Lincoln, Nebraska Motel 6 in order to find the meaning in his life; "The death of Jack Hamilton" is a blistering tale of Depression-era outlaws on the run; and, "That feeling, you can only say what it is in French" presents the ultimate case of deþja` vu.
13) The body
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
As a group of boys set out to find the body of Ray Brower, a kid who disappeared, they have no idea what lies ahead for them.
14) Song of Susannah
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 6
Publisher
Donald M. Grant, Publisher
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While Jake, Father Callahan, and Oy struggle to free Susannah Dean, whose body is possessed by a demon-mother named Mia, Roland and Eddie find themselves swept by magic to East Stoneham, Maine, in the summer of 1977.
Author
Series
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: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In four previously unpublished short works, a man explores his dark nature, a writer confronts a stranger, a cancer patient makes a deal with the devil, and a woman makes a horrifying discovery about her husband.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
In 1947, Andy Dufresne, an established banker, is wrongly imprisoned at Shawshank prison in Maine, for the murder of his wife and her secret lover. Andy faces many struggles that happen within the prison walls, but manages to have a great friendship with a man named, Red.
18) Desperation
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
An evil force invades a mining town in Nevada. It takes control of the body of a highway patrolman and proceeds to kill people. The evil force meets its match in the person of David Carver, 11, who is guided by God himself.
19) Duma Key
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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