Stephen King
Author
Series
Gwendy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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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...
4) Cell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Formats
Description
Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
In "A Face in the Crowd," widower Dean Evers sees faces from his past while watching baseball; and in "The Longest December," the Howard family struggles to see their kind and gentle neighbor James Wilkinson as the violent criminal the police are investigating.
7) Mile 81
Author
Publisher
Audioworks
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
Young Pete Simmons just wanted to have some fun and explore when he stumbled onto the old abandoned rest stop at Mile 81 on the Maine turnpike. Instead, he discovers a scene of bloodshed and carnage. A car has pulled into the boarded-up service station, a run-down, muddy station wagon without any plates, and without a driver. As the car claims the lives of one would-be good Samaritan after another, Pete decides that it's up to him to stop the evil...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993
Description
Suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, Dolores Claiborne tells police the story of her life, Harkeninng 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
Pub. Date
c1999
Formats
Description
A collection of stories, several on group behavior. The story, Low Men in Yellow Coats, deals with the way group behavior can affect people for the worse, the title story is on a college woman who saves a fellow student from such behavior, while in Blind Willie a man atones for group behavior in the Vietnam War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Formats
Description
Once upon a time, in the haunted city of Derry site of the classicsItandInsomnia,four boys stood together and did a brave thing. Certainly a good thing, perhaps even a great thing. Something that changed them in ways they could never begin to understand.Twenty-five years later, the boys are now men with separate lives and separate troubles. But the ties endure. Each hunting season the foursome reunite in the woods of Maine. This year, a stranger stumbles...
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 8
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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."
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2005, 2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 44
Description
The final book in the Dark Tower cycle. Thus continues Roland the Gunslinger and his relentless quest to reach The Tower in a last ditch effort to save all that is. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the...
14) Rose Madder
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1996, c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 28