Stephen King
1) The talisman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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Soon to be a Netflix series! The iconic, “extraordinary” (The Washington Post) collaboration between bestselling authors Stephen King and Peter Straub—an epic #1 New York Times bestselling fantasy thriller about a young boy’s quest to save his mother’s life.
Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the...
Jack Sawyer, twelve years old, is about to begin a most fantastic journey, an exalting, terrifying quest for the mystical Talisman—the...
2) The outsider
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens: Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson orders a quick and very public arrest. The case seems ironclad, especially when Anderson and the district attorney are able to add DNA evidence to go with the fingerprints and witnesses....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
4) Elevation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 37
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English
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In this spectacular father-son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men? In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep; they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent; and while...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Contains four short stories by Stephen King, including "1922," in which James' wife's suggestion that they sell the family homestead and move to Omaha leads to a murderous chain of events, along with "Big Diver" and "Fair Extension."
7) 'Salem's lot
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English
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Ben Mears has returned to Jerusalem's Lot in the hopes that living in an old mansion, long the subject of town lore, will help him cast out his own devils and provide inspiration for his new book. But when two young boys venture into the woods and only one comes out alive, Mears begins to realize that there may be something sinister at work and that his hometown is under siege by forces of darkness far beyond his control.
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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"Wake up, genius." So begins the story of a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who 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...
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Penguin Random House Grupo Ed
Language
Español
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Salem's Lot es un pueblo tranquilo donde nunca pasa nada. O quizás esto son solo apariencias, pues lo cierto es que sí se están sucediendo diversos hechos misteriosos, incluso escalofriantes...Veinte años atrás, por una apuesta infantil, Ben Mears entró en la casa de los Marsten. Y lo que vio entonces aún recorre sus pesadillas. Ahora, como escritor consagrado, vuelve a Salem's Lot para exorcizar sus fantasmas.Salem's Lot es un pueblo tranquilo...
10) Misery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A bestselling author is held captive in a wheelchair, made drug-dependent, and locked in his room by an angry nurse who demands he bring her favorite character back to life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 41
Language
English
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Talisman, “an intelligent…suspenseful page-turner” (The Wall Street Journal) from “two master craftsmen, each at the top of his game” (The Washington Post).
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing...
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his mother and her Territories “Twinner” from an agonizing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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In 1979, an odd man drives what at first glance looks like a 1954 mint-quality Buick Roadmaster up to a service station in rural Pennsylvania, then vanishes, leaving behind the car. The state police of Troop D deposit the vehicle in a shed near their barracks, where, up to the present, it remains a secret from all but cop colleagues, for the car isn't exactly a car; it may well be alive, and it certainly serves as a doorway between our world and ......
13) Joyland
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Series
Hard case crime book volume HCC-112
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In the summer of 1973 at an amusement park in a small North Carolina town college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
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English
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A Rare Live Stephen King Recording! Stephen King delivers a haunting, heartfelt performance as he shares a story about the bonds between husbands, wives and pets. LT has a theory about pets, particularly his Siamese cat. It had been their cat not just his cat, but that was until he came home one day to a note on the fridge. His wife had left him. The cat stayed behind... Recorded live at London's Royal Festival Hall, LT's Theory of Pets demonstrates...
16) It: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 70
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English
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They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.
17) Later
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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“Part detective tale, part thriller…touching and genuine.” —The New York Times #1 bestselling author Stephen King returns with a brand-new novel about the secrets we keep buried and the cost of unearthing them. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER SOMETIMES GROWING UP MEANS FACING YOUR DEMONS The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child....
18) Insomnia
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English
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Ralph Roberts has trouble sleeping, but so does everyone else in the small town of Derry, Maine, where terrifying forces are at work.
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English
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Includes the story “The Sun Dog”—set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine
The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection—four chilling novellas from Stephen King that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post).
With the success of the Hulu series 11/22/63 starring James Franco and the highly anticipated The Dark Tower movie release, Stephen King's...
The Bram Stoker Prize-winner for Best Fiction Collection—four chilling novellas from Stephen King that will “grab you and not let go” (The Washington Post).
With the success of the Hulu series 11/22/63 starring James Franco and the highly anticipated The Dark Tower movie release, Stephen King's...
20) Después
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Ed
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
En ocasiones, para crecer debes vencer a tus demonios.EL REY DEL TERROR REGRESA CON UNA NUEVA E INOLVIDABLE NOVELA.NÚMERO 1 EN LA LISTA DE MÁS VENDIDOS DEL NEW YORK TIMESJamie Conklin, el único hijo de una madre soltera, solo quiere tener una infancia normal. Sin embargo, nació con una habilidad sobrenatural que su madre le insta a mantener en secreto y que le permite ver aquello que nadie puede y enterarse de lo que el resto del mundo ignora....