Stephen King
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Description
This first collection of short stories by King in nine years includes an O. Henry Prize winner, four stories published by "The New Yorker, " and "Riding the Bullet, " King's original eBook that attracted over half a million online readers.
23) The shining
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This tale of a troubled man hired to care for a remote mountain resort over the winter, his loyal wife, and their uniquely gifted son slowly but steadily unfolds as secrets from the Overlook Hotel's past are revealed, and the hotel itself attempts to claim the very souls of the Torrance family.
24) It: a novel
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"To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry, Maine, was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered, a good place to live. It was the children who saw--and felt--what made Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, It lurked, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each person's deepest dread. Sometimes It reached up, seizing, tearing, killing ... The adults, knowing better, knew nothing....
25) The stand
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Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
p2012
Description
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.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
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Iconic author John Rothstein created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but he hasn't published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the...
27) The dark tower
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 7
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016, c2004
Description
The final installment in the epic series completes the quest of Roland Deschain, who works to outmaneuver the increasingly desperate acts of his adversaries and confronts losses within his circle of companions.
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 5
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016, 2003
Description
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.
29) Song of Susannah
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016, c2004
Description
The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen to transport to New York City in the summer of 1999. The city is strange to Susannah ... and terrifying...
Author
Series
Mr. Mercedes trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
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Description
In a mega-stakes, high-suspense race against time, three of the most unlikely and winning heroes Stephen King has ever created try to stop a lone killer from blowing up thousands. In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging...
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Description
In Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, something has awakened. Something evil. Brady Hartsfield, perpetrator of the Mercedes Massacre, where eight people were killed and many more were badly injured, has been in the clinic for five years, in a vegetative state. According to his doctors, anything approaching a complete recovery is unlikely. But behind the drool and stare, Brady is awake, and in possession of deadly new powers...
33) The Gunslinger
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
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Description
Roland Deschain pursues his enigmatic antagonist to the mountains that separate the desert from the Western Sea. He is a solitary figure, perhaps accursed, who with a strange singlemindedness traverses an exhausted, almost timeless landscape.
34) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Roland the gunslinger and his crew barely escape one world only to slip into another. It is in this other world that Roland relates to his crew a twisted and entertaining tale of his first quest as a gunslinger and the love of his life, Susan Delgado.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
2016
Description
One past midnight: The Langoliers takes a red eye flight from Los Angeles to Boston into a most unfriendly sky. Only eleven passengers survive, but landing in an eerily empty world makes them wish they had not. Two past midnight: Secret Window, Secret Garden enters the suddenly strange life of writer Mort Rainey, recently divorced, depressed and alone on the shore of Tashmore Lake. Alone, that is, until a figure named John Shooter arrives pointing...
36) Needful things
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Seemingly harmless Leland Gaunt has just opened a store in Castle Rock, Maine called Needful Things. Curiously, he doesn't accept cash for purchases, but instead allows his customers to pay by playing small pranks on fellow townspeople. While the pranks start out as innocuous jokes, they soon build into harmful occurrences. Now, Leland's influence has this once peaceful town in the midst of murderous turmoil.
37) The dark half
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Thad Beaumont, a bestselling author with a twisted imagination, would like to say he had nothing to do with the evil that committed a series of monstrous murders. But he can't, because he created it.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Dolores Claiborne is suspected of killing Vera Donovan, her wealthy employer, and when the police question her, she tells the story of her life, harkening back to her disintegrating marriage and the suspicious death of her violent husband thirty years earlier. Dolores also tells of Vera's physical and mental decline and how she became emotionally demanding in recent years.