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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"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"-- 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...
2) Misery
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Returns to the rich landscape of Mid-World in a story within a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain, who while investigating a murderous shape-shifter interviews a terrified teen who has witnessed the creature's most recent killing.
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English
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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....
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There are thrilling connections between stories: themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the past. Afterlife is about a man who died of colon cancer and keeps reliving the same life, repeating his mistakes over and over again. Several stories feature characters at the end of life, revisiting their crimes and misdemeanors. Other stories address what happens when...
6) Pet sematary
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English
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Louis Creed and his wife Rachel relocate with their two young children from Boston to rural Maine. The couple soon discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his neighbor Jud Crandall, setting off a perilous series of events that unleashes an unspeakable evil with horrific consequences.
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Dark tower volume 3
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English
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Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
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Series
Dark tower) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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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.
9) Mile 81
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (ca. 2 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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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...
10) Wizard and glass
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Series
Dark tower volume 4
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English
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Roland, the last gunslinger, and his band of followers escape one world only to slip into the next where Roland reflects upon past adventures and about his one true love.
11) Cell: a novel
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
384 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
436 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Stephen King delivers an extraordinary collection of four new and compelling novellas, Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, Rat, and the title story If It Bleeds, each pulling listeners into intriguing and frightening places.
13) Duma Key
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Physical Desc
611 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Renting a house on the Florida coast after suffering a crippling accident and ending his marriage, construction millionaire Edgar Freemantle creates works of art that lead him to discover unsettling elements from his landlady's enigmatic family history.
14) The mist
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A group of neighbors trapped in a grocery store by a supernatural mist--which may have been unintentionally unleashed by a nearby military base--must fight the horrific monsters that live within it.
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
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English
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Along with his companions, gunslinger Roland endeavors to reach and save the Dark Tower, a quest that is challenged by the evil wolves of Thunderclap, who are abducting the children of the residents of a town in the tower's shadow.
16) The dark man
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Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 15 x 23 cm
Language
English
18) Creepshow 2
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Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The rotting Creep himself is back with three new gruesome tales of horror that will make your skin crawl: a cigar store wooden Indian comes to life to avenge the store owner's brutal murder at the hands of three punks in Ol' Chief Woodenhead. Then four teenagers become the target of a terrifying, man-eating oil slick in The Raft. The chills continue with The Hitchhiker, the chilling tale of a woman who keeps running into, and over, the same mutilated...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (90 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A salt-of-the-earth Maine native recounts how a friendly annual summer fireworks show rivalry with his neighbor across the lake gradually spirals out of control, with explosive results.
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