Stephen King
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 309 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The eight book in The Dark Tower series.
"The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be placed between Dark Tower IV and Dark Tower V. This Russian doll of a novel, a story within a story within a story, visits Roland and his ka-tet as a ferocious, frigid storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s...
62) Dreamcatcher
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four men who reunite every year during hunting season in the woods of Maine, encounter a disoriented, incoherent stranger who drags the men into a terrifying struggle with a creature from another world, and their only chance for survival lies in their shared past.
"Twenty-five years ago, in their haunted hometown of Derry, Maine, four boys bravely stood together and saved a mentally challenged child from vicious local bullies. It was something that...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
399 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beginning just less than seven hours after The Gunslinger ends, in the second installment to the thrilling Dark Tower Series, Roland encounters three mysterious doorways on a deserted beach along the Western Sea. Each one enters into a different person’s life in New York—here, he joins forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean, and with the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, to save the Dark Tower."--
64) Insomnia
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1994
Physical Desc
787 p. ill. 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Since his wife died, Ralph Roberts has been having trouble sleeping. Each night he wakes up a bit earlier, until he’s barely sleeping at all. During his late night walks, he observes some strange things going on in Derry, Maine. He sees colored ribbons streaming from people’s heads, two strange little men wandering around town after dark, and more. He begins to suspect that these visions are something more than hallucinations brought on by lack...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
558 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
While looking for firewood in the forest that stretches behind her backyard, Bobbi finds part of an ancient spaceship still humming with some sort of life.
“Late last night and the night before, Tommyknockers, Tommyknockers, knocking at the door…”
"On a beautiful June day, while walking deep in the woods on her property in Haven, Maine, Bobbi Anderson quite literally stumbles over her own destiny and that of the entire town. For the dull gray...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 6
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
413 pages ; ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The sixth volume of The Dark Tower series.
"Susannah Dean is possessed, her body a living vessel for the demon-mother Mia. Something is growing inside Susannah's belly, something terrible, and soon she will give birth to Mia's "chap." But three unlikely allies are following them from New York City to the border of End World, hoping to prevent the unthinkable. Meanwhile, Eddie and Roland have tumbled into the state of Maine -- where the author of...
Author
Publisher
Book-of-the-Month Club
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"They’re calling it the Storm of the Century, and it’s coming hard. The residents of Little Tall Island have seen their share of nasty Maine Nor’easters, but this one is different. Not only is it packing hurricane-force winds and up to five feet of snow, it’s bringing something worse. Something even the islanders have never seen before. Something no one wants to see.
Just as the first flakes begin to fall, Martha Clarendon, one of Little...
68) Desperation
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
690 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mary and Peter Jackson, the Carver family, and aging novelist John Marinville are on their way to different destinations, but first they must pass through the town of Desperation, Nevada and for some of them it will be the end of the road.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
305 p. map 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Everything I did, I did for love..."
"When Vera Donovan, one of the wealthiest and most ill-natured residents of Maine's Little Tall Island, dies suddenly in her home, suspicion is immediately cast on her housekeeper and caretaker, Dolores Claiborne. Dolores herself is no stranger to such mistrust, thanks to the local chatter and mysterious circumstances surrounding her abusive husband's death twenty-nine years earlier. But if this is truly to be...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 7
Publisher
Donald M. Grant Publisher
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
845 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The seventh volume in The Dark Tower series.
"Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings...and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery."--
71) The dark half
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
431 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
With a bit of guilt, Thad retires George Stark, his pseudonym, only to have him appear as a killing machine that destroys everyone on the path that leads to the man who created him.
"After thirteen years of international bestseller stardom with his works of violent crime fiction, author George Stark is officially declared dead—revealed by a national magazine to have been killed at the hands of the man who created him: the once well-regarded but...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
816 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of short stories including classic tales of the macabre and the monstrous, cutting-edge explorations of the borderlands between good and evil, brilliant pastiches of Chandler and Conan Doyle and much more.
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1997
Physical Desc
xiv, 536 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Contains all six installments of the serialized horror novel about death row prisoner John Coffey and his fellow inmates and guards in the Green Mile wing of Cold Mountain Penitentiary.
74) Gerald's game
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
332 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
“And now the voice which spoke belonged to no one but herself. Oh my God, it said. Oh my God, I am all alone out here. I am all alone.”
"Once again, Jessie Burlingame has been talked into submitting to her husband Gerald’s kinky sex games—something that she’s frankly had enough of, and they never held much charm for her to begin with. So much for a “romantic getaway” at their secluded summer home. After Jessie is handcuffed to the bedposts—and...
Author
Publisher
Book-of-the Month Club
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
433 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is an exclusive Book-of-the-Month Club anthology of hard-to-find non-fiction pieces, little-known interviews, short stories, and articles about writing for those looking for direction on how to find their own "windows"-or for anyone wishing to be touched by Stephen King's humor and wisdom.
76) Sac d'os: roman
Author
Publisher
Editions France Loisirs
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Physical Desc
600 p. 25 cm.
Language
English
77) Skeleton crew
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
512 p. : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A supermarket becomes the place where humanity makes its last stand against destruction. A trip to the attic becomes a journey to hell. A woman driving a Jaguar finds a scary shortcut to paradise. An idyllic lake harbors a bottomless evil. And a desert island is the scene of the most terrifying struggle for survival ever waged. This “wonderfully gruesome” collection (The New York Times Book Review) includes: “The Mist”; “Here There Be Tygers”;...
78) Three
Author
Publisher
Holiday House / Neal Porter Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Three, a homeless three-legged dog, skips and hops about the city until he befriends a little girl who accepts him as he is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Gallery Books trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 212 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Something evil has swept into the small Maine town of Castle Rock on the heels of the latest winter storm. Sheriff Norris Ridgewick and his team are desperately searching for two missing girls, but time is running out to bring them home alive. In Washington D.C., thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock's Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she...
80) 101 Seconds
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (82 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This timely documentary follows individuals across a wide spectrum of political and philosophical beliefs as they engage in a debate concerning gun legislation in Oregon in the aftermath of a shooting at the Clackamas Town Center Mall in Oregon in 2012. Official Selection at the **Portland International Film Festival**.