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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The year is 2015, and twenty-one-year-olds Yoav and Uri, veterans of the last Gaza War, have just completed their compulsory military service in the Israel Defense Forces. In keeping with national tradition, they take a year off for rest, recovery, and travel. They come to New York City and begin working for Yoav's distant cousin David King--a proud American patriot, Republican, and Jew, and the recently divorced proprietor of King's Moving Inc.,...
2) The stand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
Description
"When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's childhood and his uncannily early focus on writing to tell a story. A series of vivid memories from adolescence, college, and the struggling years that led up to his first novel, Carrie, will afford readers a fresh and often very funny perspective on the formation of a writer. King next turns to the basic tools of his trade - how to sharpen and multiply them through use, and how the writer must...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 43
Language
English
Description
Collection of 23 short stories--from classic horror to vampire thrillers, imitations of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Raymond Chandler, a teleplay, and a non-fiction bonus, a heartfelt little piece on Little League baseball.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Description
When Dr. Louis Creed takes a new job and moves his family to the idyllic rural town of Ludlow, Maine, this new beginning seems too good to be true. Despite Ludlow's tranquility, an undercurrent of danger exists here. Those trucks on the road outside the Creed's beautiful old home travel by just a little too quickly, for one thing...as is evidenced by the makeshift graveyard in the nearby woods where generations of children have buried their beloved...
6) Carrie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
7) Elevation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
8) It: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
Language
English
Description
"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....
9) Duma Key
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
A terrible construction site accident takes Edgar Freemantle's right arm and scrambles his memory and his mind, leaving him with little but rage as he begins the ordeal of rehabilitation. A marriage that produced two lovely daughters suddenly ends, so he leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key on Florida coast. There he meets kindred spirits in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before...
11) It
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Childhood friends must reunite to fight an evil demon posing as a clown after having successfully defeated him as children.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The four never-before-published novellas in this collection represent horror master King at his finest, using the weird and uncanny to riff on mortality, the price of creativity, and the unpredictable consequences of material attachments. A teenager discovers that a dead friend's cell phone, which was buried with the body, still communicates from beyond the grave in 'Mr. Harrigan's Phone,' which reads like a Twilight Zone episode infused with an...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Since moving to Cedar Cove, Jo Marie Rose has truly started to feel at home, and her neighbors have become her closest friends. Now it's springtime, and Jo Marie is eager to finish the most recent addition to her inn. In memory of her late husband, Paul, she has designed a beautiful rose garden for the property and enlisted handyman Mark Taylor to help realize it. She and Mark don't always see eye-to-eye-- and at times he seems far removed-- yet...
15) The dark tower
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
With the fate of the worlds at stake, Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, defends the Dark Tower from the Man in Black with the help of a young boy from New York City.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From James McBride, author of the National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird, comes a wise and witty novel about what happens to the witnesses of a shooting. In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .45 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this...
17) Avalon High
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
18) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded duology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When one of Serilda's outlandish tales draws the attention of the sinister Erlking and his undead hunters, she finds herself swept away into a grim world where ghouls and phantoms prowl the earth and hollow-eyed ravens track her every move. The king orders Serilda to complete the impossible task of spinning straw into gold, or be killed for telling falsehoods. In her desperation, Serilda unwittingly summons a mysterious boy to her aid. He agrees to...
19) Pet sematary
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
The Creeds move next door to a pet cemetery, which is built over old Native American burial grounds with the power of resurrection.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ice on land is melting, and sea level is rising, both at astonishing rates never seen in recorded history. Are you, your property, investments, and family ready for these unprecedented changes? Read Moving to Higher Ground and...
Learn how Sea Level Rise (SLR) is unstoppable for many centuries due to excess heat already stored in our oceans, and how soon our shorelines will go underwater...
Understand how disastrous SLR will profoundly affect more...