Nick's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:34:59 -0700 60 Nick's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat]]> 8137407 To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboatcombined for the first time in one volume!
Imagine that every human who ever lived, from the earliest Neanderthals to the present, is resurrected after death on the banks of an astonishing and seemingly endless river on an unknown world. They are miraculously provided with food, but with not a clue to the possible meaning of this strange afterlife. And so billions of people from history, and before, must start living again. Some set sail on the great riverĚýquesting for the meaning of their resurrection, and to find and confront their mysterious benefactors. On this long journey, we meet Sir Richard Francis Burton, Mark Twain,ĚýOdysseus, Cyrano de Bergerac, and many others, most of whom embark upon searches of their own in this huge afterlife]]> 446 Philip JosĂ© Farmer 1429952873 Nick 0 3.83 2008 Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat
author: Philip José Farmer
name: Nick
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> The Library at Mount Char 26892110
After all, she was a normal American herself, once.

That was a long time ago, of course—before the time she calls “adoption day,� when she and a dozen other children found themselves being raised by a man they learned to call Father.

Father could do strange things. He could call light from darkness. Sometimes he raised the dead. And when he was disobeyed, the consequences were terrible.

In the years since Father took her in, Carolyn hasn't gotten out much. Instead, she and her adopted siblings have been raised according to Father's ancient Pelapi customs. They've studied the books in his library and learned some of the secrets behind his equally ancient power.

Sometimes, they've wondered if their cruel tutor might secretly be God.

Now, Father is missing. And if God truly is dead, the only thing that matters is who will inherit his library—and with it, power over all of creation.

As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come, fierce competitors for this prize align against her.

But Carolyn can win. She's sure of it. What she doesn't realize is that her victory may come at an unacceptable price—because in becoming a God, she's forgotten a great deal about being human.]]> 390 Scott Hawkins 0553418629 Nick 0 4.06 2015 The Library at Mount Char
author: Scott Hawkins
name: Nick
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> Revival 20926278
In a small New England town, over half a century ago, a shadow falls over a small boy playing with his toy soldiers. Jamie Morton looks up to see a striking man, the new minister. Charles Jacobs, along with his beautiful wife, will transform the local church. The men and boys are all a bit in love with Mrs. Jacobs; the women and girls feel the same about Reverend Jacobs—including Jamie's mother and beloved sister, Claire. With Jamie, the Reverend shares a deeper bond based on a secret obsession. When tragedy strikes the Jacobs family, this charismatic preacher curses God, mocks all religious belief, and is banished from the shocked town.

Jamie has demons of his own. Wed to his guitar from the age of thirteen, he plays in bands across the country, living the nomadic lifestyle of bar-band rock and roll while fleeing from his family's horrific loss. In his mid-thirties—addicted to heroin, stranded, desperate—Jamie meets Charles Jacobs again, with profound consequences for both men. Their bond becomes a pact beyond even the Devil's devising, and Jamie discovers that revival has many meanings.

This rich and disturbing novel spans five decades on its way to the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written. It's a masterpiece from King, in the great American tradition of Frank Norris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe.]]> 405 Stephen King 1476770387 Nick 0 3.78 2014 Revival
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> I'm Thinking of Ending Things 40605223 Now a Netflix original movie, this deeply scary and intensely unnerving novel follows a couple in the midst of a twisted unraveling of the darkest unease. You will be scared. But you won’t know why�

I’m thinking of ending things. Once this thought arrives, it stays. It sticks. It lingers. It’s always there. Always.

Jake once said, “Sometimes a thought is closer to truth, to reality, than an action. You can say anything, you can do anything, but you can’t fake a thought.�

And here’s what I’m thinking: I don’t want to be here.

In this smart and intense literary suspense novel, Iain Reid explores the depths of the human psyche, questioning consciousness, free will, the value of relationships, fear, and the limitations of solitude. Tense, gripping, and atmospheric, I’m Thinking of Ending Things pulls you in from the very first page…and never lets you go.]]> 241 Iain Reid Nick 0 to-read 3.53 2016 I'm Thinking of Ending Things
author: Iain Reid
name: Nick
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> The Last Days of Jack Sparks 28765598
It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he'd already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed.

Then there was that video: forty seconds of chilling footage that Jack repeatedly claimed was not of his making, yet was posted from his own YouTube account.

Nobody knew what happened to Jack in the days that followed - until now.]]> 336 Jason Arnopp 0356507181 Nick 0 3.83 2016 The Last Days of Jack Sparks
author: Jason Arnopp
name: Nick
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> Night Film 18770398
For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova's dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.

Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova's eerie, hypnotic world. The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.]]> 640 Marisha Pessl 0812979788 Nick 0 3.78 2013 Night Film
author: Marisha Pessl
name: Nick
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> The Hollow Places 50892288 A young woman discovers a strange portal in her uncle’s house, leading to madness and terror in this gripping new novel.

Pray they are hungry.

Kara finds these words in the mysterious bunker that she’s discovered behind a hole in the wall of her uncle’s house. Freshly divorced and living back at home, Kara now becomes obsessed with these cryptic words and starts exploring the peculiar bunker—only to discover that it holds portals to countless alternate realities. But these places are haunted by creatures that seem to hear thoughts…and the more you fear them, the stronger they become.]]> 341 T. Kingfisher 1534451129 Nick 0 3.76 2020 The Hollow Places
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Nick
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> The Devil in Silver 13030260
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and, suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He’s not mentally ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In the darkness of his room on his first night, he’s visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down.

Pepper rallies three other inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic who’s been on the ward for decades and knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the group’s enforcer. Battling the pill-pushing staff, one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?

The Devil in Silver brilliantly brings together the compelling themes that spark all of Victor LaValle’s radiant fiction: faith, race, class, madness, and our relationship with the unseen and the uncanny. More than that, it’s a thrillingly suspenseful work of literary horror about friendship, love, and the courage to slay our own demons.]]> 412 Victor LaValle 1400069866 Nick 0 3.51 2012 The Devil in Silver
author: Victor LaValle
name: Nick
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> Kill Creek 34065268
When best-selling horror author Sam McGarver is invited to spend Halloween night in one of the country’s most infamous haunted houses, he reluctantly agrees. At least he won’t be alone; joining him are three other masters of the macabre, writers who have helped shape modern horror. But what begins as a simple publicity stunt will become a fight for survival. The entity they have awakened will follow them, torment them, threatening to make them a part of the bloody legacy of Kill Creek.]]> 416 Scott Thomas Nick 0 3.73 2017 Kill Creek
author: Scott Thomas
name: Nick
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> Last Days 15793201 531 Adam L.G. Nevill 1250018188 Nick 0 horror, backburner 3.70 2012 Last Days
author: Adam L.G. Nevill
name: Nick
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents: How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency]]> 42646660 Tens of thousands of clinicians have used this book--now revised and expanded with 50% new material--to plan and organize effective interventions for children and adolescents who have experienced complex trauma, as well as their parents and other caregivers. The Attachment, Regulation, and Competency (ARC) framework can be used in a wide range of settings to strengthen child–caregiver relationships and support healthy development and positive functioning. Packed with case vignettes and user-friendly clinical tools, the volume identifies key treatment goals and provides flexible intervention strategies and skills. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes 79 reproducible handouts and forms. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.
Ěý
New to This Edition
*Reflects the ongoing development of ARC, including important refinements to foundational strategies and treatment targets.
*More than 30 additional handouts and worksheets; all reproducible tools are now downloadable.Ěý
*Greater attention to caregiver skill development throughout.
*Addresses ways ARC is being used in nontraditional settings (schools, day care, primary care practices) as well as diverse clinical contexts.

See also Treating Adult Survivors of Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect, by Elizabeth K. Hopper, Frances K. Grossman, Joseph Spinazzola, and Marla Zucker, which presents a complementary approach also developed at The Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute.]]> 528 Margaret E. Blaustein 1462537073 Nick 0 4.31 2010 Treating Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents: How to Foster Resilience through Attachment, Self-Regulation, and Competency
author: Margaret E. Blaustein
name: Nick
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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shelves: ebook-library, to-read, therapy, social-work
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]]> <![CDATA[How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius]]> 40126247 "This book is a wonderful introduction to one of history's greatest Marcus Aurelius. His life and this book are a clear guide for those facing adversity, seeking tranquility and pursuing excellence." —Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle is the Way and The Daily Stoic

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent.

Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world. The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. In How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, cognitive psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius together seamlessly to provide a compelling modern-day guide to the Stoic wisdom followed by countless individuals throughout the centuries as a path to achieving greater fulfillment and emotional resilience.

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes readers on a transformative journey along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of Hadrian—taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day—through to his reign as emperor of Rome at the height of its power. Robertson shows how Marcus used philosophical doctrines and therapeutic practices to build emotional resilience and endure tremendous adversity, and guides readers through applying the same methods to their own lives.

Combining remarkable stories from Marcus’s life with insights from modern psychology and the enduring wisdom of his philosophy, How to Think Like a Roman Emperor puts a human face on Stoicism and offers a timeless and essential guide to handling the ethical and psychological challenges we face today.]]> 293 Donald J. Robertson 1250196639 Nick 0 to-read 4.43 2019 How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
author: Donald J. Robertson
name: Nick
average rating: 4.43
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[The Cabin at the End of the World]]> 36381091
One afternoon, as Wen catches grasshoppers in the front yard, a stranger unexpectedly appears in the driveway. Leonard is the largest man Wen has ever seen but he is young, friendly, and he wins her over almost instantly. Leonard and Wen talk and play until Leonard abruptly apologizes and tells Wen, "None of what’s going to happen is your fault". Three more strangers then arrive at the cabin carrying unidentifiable, menacing objects. As Wen sprints inside to warn her parents, Leonard calls out: "Your dads won’t want to let us in, Wen. But they have to. We need your help to save the world."]]> 272 Paul Tremblay 0062679104 Nick 4 horror 3.31 2018 The Cabin at the End of the World
author: Paul Tremblay
name: Nick
average rating: 3.31
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2020/09/13
date added: 2020/09/13
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]]> Fahrenheit 451 51006096 Porque leer obliga a pensar, y en el país de Montag está prohibido pensar. Porque leer impide ser ingenuamente feliz, y en el país de Montag hay que ser feliz a la fuerza ....

Tim Hamilton convierte en imagen la visionaria distopía ideada por Ray Bradbury a mediados del siglo pasado, sin saberlo mas quizá intuyendo la vigencia de una advertencia imperecedera.]]> 150 Tim Hamilton Nick 0 3.87 2009 Fahrenheit 451
author: Tim Hamilton
name: Nick
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2009
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]]> Embassytown 9265453
Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist, has returned to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure. She cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech, a living simile in their language.

When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador to Arieka, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties—to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak yet speaks through her.]]> 345 China Miéville 0345524497 Nick 0 to-read 3.89 2011 Embassytown
author: China Miéville
name: Nick
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> The Elementals 301053
The McCrays and Savages, two fine Mobile families allied by marriage, have been coming to Beldame for years. This summer, with a terrible funeral behind them and a messy divorce coming up, even Luker McCray and little India down from New York are looking forward to being alone at Beldame.

But they won't be alone. For something there, something they don't like to think about, is thinking about them...and about all the ways to make them die.]]> 292 Michael McDowell 0380783606 Nick 0 3.98 1981 The Elementals
author: Michael McDowell
name: Nick
average rating: 3.98
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> Swan Song 11557
He is the Man with the Scarlet Eye, a malevolent force that feeds on the dark desires of the countless followers he has gathered into his service. His only desire is to find a special child named Swan—and destroy her. But those who would protect the girl are determined to fight for what is left of the world, and their souls.

In a wasteland born of rage, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, the last survivors on earth have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil that will decide the fate of humanity....]]> 956 Robert McCammon 0671741039 Nick 0 4.29 1987 Swan Song
author: Robert McCammon
name: Nick
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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]]> Fairyland 654617 420 Paul J. McAuley 0380794292 Nick 0 to-read, ebook-library 3.57 1995 Fairyland
author: Paul J. McAuley
name: Nick
average rating: 3.57
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> I Am Legend 40940649
By day he is the hunter, stalking the undead through the ruins of civilisation. By night, he barricades himself in his home and prays for the dawn.

How long can one man survive like this?

]]> 162 Richard Matheson 0795315635 Nick 4 horror, post-apocalyptic 4.04 1954 I Am Legend
author: Richard Matheson
name: Nick
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1954
rating: 4
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]]> Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) 18498558 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780062259653

Something is out there, something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse of it, and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from.

Five years after it began, a handful of scattered survivors remains, including Malorie and her two young children. Living in an abandoned house near the river, she has dreamed of fleeing to a place where they might be safe. Now that the boy and girl are four, it's time to go, but the journey ahead will be terrifying: twenty miles downriver in a rowboat—blindfolded—with nothing to rely on but her wits and the children's trained ears. One wrong choice and they will die. Something is following them all the while, but is it man, animal, or monster?

Interweaving past and present, Bird Box is a snapshot of a world unraveled that will have you racing to the final page.]]> 262 Josh Malerman Nick 0 4.02 2014 Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
author: Josh Malerman
name: Nick
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> Necroscope (Necroscope, #1) 66655
Except to Harry Keogh, Necroscope. And what they tell him is horrifying.

In the Balkan mountains of Rumania, a terrible evil is growing. Long buried in hallowed ground, bound by earth and silver, the master vampire schemes and plots. Trapped in unlife, neither dead nor living, Thibor Ferenczy hungers for freedom and revenge.

The vampire's human tool is Boris Dragosani, part of a super-secret Soviet spy agency. Dragosani is an avid pupil, eager to plumb the depthless evil of the vampire's mind. Ferenczy teaches Dragosani the awful skills of the necromancer, gives him the ability to rip secrets from the mind and bodies of the dead.

Dragosani works not for Ferenczy's freedom but world domination. He will rule the world with knowledge raped from the dead.

His only opponent: Harry Keogh, champion of the dead and the living.

To protect Harry, the dead will do anything--even rise from their graves!
]]> 383 Brian Lumley 031285787X Nick 0 4.01 1986 Necroscope (Necroscope, #1)
author: Brian Lumley
name: Nick
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1986
rating: 0
read at: 2007/12/01
date added: 2020/05/26
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]]> <![CDATA[The Fiction and Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft]]> 43173961
In this ebook we collect the fiction and poetry of H.P. Lovecraft in one place for fans and interested readers. With dozens of stories and poems each dated, The Fiction and Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft is the best ebook available to read all of H.P. Lovecraft's works in fiction and most of his works in poetry. This DRM-free ebook is available for instant download after purchase.]]> H.P. Lovecraft 1626411476 Nick 0 4.00 The Fiction and Poetry of H.P. Lovecraft
author: H.P. Lovecraft
name: Nick
average rating: 4.00
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]]> <![CDATA[Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)]]> 136081 here

He's a charming monster... A macabre hero... A serial killler who only kills bad people.

Dexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. It's just not easy being an ethical serial killer - especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac...which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise. While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita, and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the world's first serial couch potato. But how long can Dexter play Kick the Can instead of Slice the Slasher? How long before his Dark Passenger forces him to drop the charade and let his inner monster run free?

In trying times, opportunity knocks. A particularly nasty psychopath is cutting a trail through Miami - a man whose twisted technique leaves even Dexter speechless. As Dexter's dark appetite is revived, his sister, Deborah (a newly minted, tough-as-nails Miami detective), is drawn headlong into the case. It quickly becomes clear that it will take a monster to catch a monster - but it isn't until his archnemesis is abducted that Dex can finally throw himself into the search for a new plaything. Unless, of course, his plaything finds him first...

With the incredible wit and freshness that drew widespread acclaim to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay now takes Dexter Morgan to a new level of macabre appeal and gives us one of the most original, colorful narrators in years.]]> 292 Jeff Lindsay 1400095921 Nick 0 to-read 3.87 2005 Dearly Devoted Dexter (Dexter, #2)
author: Jeff Lindsay
name: Nick
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)]]> 17231 288 Jeff Lindsay Nick 0 3.91 2004 Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dexter, #1)
author: Jeff Lindsay
name: Nick
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)]]> 206682
Dexter slides through life undetected, working as a blood splatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, helping his fiancee raise her two adorable (if somewhat...unique) children, and always planning his next jaunt as Dexter the Dark Avenger under the light of the full moon.

But everthing changes when Dexter is called to a gruesome double homicide. Dex realizes he's dealing with someone a whole lot more sinister than he is and it sends the Dark Passenger into hiding. And when something scares your friendly neighborhood serial killer, you know it's serious...

More used to inspiring fear then experiencing it, Dex must investigate, while simultaneously coping with his demanding family. If he's to save himself, and those around him, Dexter must pose questions he's never dared ask - where does evil come from, and does it hide inside everyone...?]]> 307 Jeff Lindsay 0385518331 Nick 0 3.56 2006 Dexter in the Dark (Dexter, #3)
author: Jeff Lindsay
name: Nick
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4) 2999282 304 Jeff Lindsay 0752885170 Nick 0 3.77 2008 Dexter by Design (Dexter, #4)
author: Jeff Lindsay
name: Nick
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> Let the Right One In 943402
But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night....]]> 513 John Ajvide Lindqvist 1847241697 Nick 0 4.08 2004 Let the Right One In
author: John Ajvide Lindqvist
name: Nick
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2004
rating: 0
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]]> Shutter Island 21686 369 Dennis Lehane 038073186X Nick 0 4.12 2003 Shutter Island
author: Dennis Lehane
name: Nick
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2003
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night]]> 16430 455 Dean Koontz 0553587897 Nick 0 3.82 2005 Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Book Two: City of Night
author: Dean Koontz
name: Nick
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #1)]]> 21337 498 Dean Koontz 141591561X Nick 0 4.04 2005 Prodigal Son (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #1)
author: Dean Koontz
name: Nick
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #3)]]> 605015 352 Dean Koontz 000720311X Nick 0 4.04 2009 Dead and Alive (Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, #3)
author: Dean Koontz
name: Nick
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2009
rating: 0
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]]> Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1) 14995
Something evil has come to the desert town that Odd and Stormy call home. It comes in the form of a mysterious man with a macabre appetite, a filing cabinet full of information on the world's worst killers, and strange, hyena-like shadows following him wherever he goes. Odd is worried. He knows things, sees things - about the living, the dead, and the soon-to-be dead. Things that he has to act on. Now he's terrified for Stormy, himself and Pico Mundo. Because he knows that on Wednesday August 15, a savage, blood-soaked whirlwind of violence and murder will devastate the town...

Today is August 14.
And Odd is far from sure he can stop the coming storm...]]> 446 Dean Koontz 0553384287 Nick 4 horror, mystery 3.98 2003 Odd Thomas (Odd Thomas, #1)
author: Dean Koontz
name: Nick
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2003
rating: 4
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]]> Dragon Tears 32429
Harry Lyon is a rational man, a cop who refuses to let his job harden his soul. His partner urges him to surrender to the chaos of life. But Harry believes in order and reason. Then one fateful day, he's forced to shoot a man—and a homeless stranger with bloodshot eyes utteres the haunting words that challenge Harry Lyon’s sanity...

“Ticktock, ticktock. You'll be dead in sixteen hours...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...Dead by dawn...”]]> 432 Dean Koontz 0425208435 Nick 0 3.77 1993 Dragon Tears
author: Dean Koontz
name: Nick
average rating: 3.77
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> Strangers 15676
A handful of people. From different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, they had nothing in common - except fear.

They were victims.

Cold and stark, an unknown terror gripped their dreams and turned their days into living nightmares.

They were chosen.

And they could not escape. Deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, a dark memory called out to them, drawing them to the Tranquility Motel - where the terrifying truth was waiting...]]> 704 Dean Koontz 0425181111 Nick 0 4.01 1986 Strangers
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name: Nick
average rating: 4.01
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]]> Odd Hours (Odd Thomas, #4) 2029927
He can see the lingering dead and knows that even in the chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites our understanding - but often thwarts it.

Intuition has brought Odd Thomas to the quaint town of Magic Beach on the California coast. As he waits to learn why he has been drawn here, he finds work as cook and assistant to a once-famous film actor who, at eighty, has become an eccentric with as long a list of fears as he has stories about Hollywood's golden days.

Odd is having dreams of a red tide, vague but worrisome. By day he senses a free-floating fear in the air of the town, as if unleashed by the crashing waves. But nothing prepares him for the hard truth of what he will discover as he comes face to face with a form of evil that will test him as never before...]]> 352 Dean Koontz 0553807056 Nick 0 3.95 2008 Odd Hours (Odd Thomas, #4)
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> One Door Away from Heaven 15746
According to Leilani, her older brother, also disabled, has already "gone to the stars." Now, with Leilani's tenth birthday approaching, Micky is convinced the girl will soon be dead if she doesn't find her. Alone and afraid, for the first time living for something bigger than herself, she is pitted against an adversary, Preston Maddoc, as fearsome as he is cunning. Her passion, her courage, draw a burned-out detective to her side. Hundreds of miles away, a motherless boy and a homeless dog begin an even more astonishing journey. Ahead for them all lie incredible peril, startling discoveries, and paths that lead through terrible darkness to unexpected light.]]> 699 Dean Koontz 0553582755 Nick 0 3.97 2001 One Door Away from Heaven
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.97
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]]> Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2) 16433 I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it.

Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He's just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that's why he's won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when a childhood friend disappears, Odd discovers something worse than a dead body and embarks on a heart-stopping battle of will and wits with an enemy of exceptional cunning. In the hours to come there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope.

You're invited on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror and transcendence to wonders beyond imagining. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.]]> 364 Dean Koontz 0553588265 Nick 0 to-read, horror, mystery 3.99 2005 Forever Odd (Odd Thomas, #2)
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]]> Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3) 14996
The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...]]> 364 Dean Koontz 0553804804 Nick 0 4.00 2006 Brother Odd (Odd Thomas, #3)
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Watchers 32423
A lonely widower; a ruthless assassin; a beautiful woman; a government agent.

Drawn together in a deadly hunt, all four are inexorably propelled towards a confrontation with an evil beyond human imagining.]]> 624 Dean Koontz Nick 0 4.17 1987 Watchers
author: Dean Koontz
name: Nick
average rating: 4.17
book published: 1987
rating: 0
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]]> The Cipher 341930
It began with Nakota and her crooked grin. She had to see the dark hole in the storage room down the hall. She had to make love to Nicholas beside it, and stare into its secretive, promising depths. Then Nakota began her experiments: First, she put an insect into the hole. Then a mouse...

Now from down the hall, the black hole calls out to Nicholas every day and every night. And he will go to it. Because it has already seared his flesh, infected his soul, and started him on a journey of obsession - through its soothing, blank darkness into the blinding core of terror...]]> 356 Kathe Koja 0440207827 Nick 0 3.54 1991 The Cipher
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1991
rating: 0
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]]> We Are Monsters 25327397
He’s the hospital’s newest, and most notorious, patient—a paranoid schizophrenic who sees humanity’s dark side.

Luckily he’s in good hands. Dr. Eli Alpert has a talent for healing tortured souls. And his protégé is working on a cure for schizophrenia, a drug that returns patients to their former selves. But unforeseen side effects are starting to emerge. Forcing prior traumas to the surface. Setting inner demons free.

Monsters have been unleashed inside the Sugar Hill mental asylum. They don’t have fangs or claws. They look just like you or me.]]> 372 Brian Kirk 1619225913 Nick 0 3.38 2015 We Are Monsters
author: Brian Kirk
name: Nick
average rating: 3.38
book published: 2015
rating: 0
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]]> In the Tall Grass 15825932 Mile 81 meets N. in this e-book collaboration between Stephen King and Joe Hill.

In the Tall Grass begins with a sister and brother who pull off to the side of the road after hearing a young boy crying for help from beyond the tall grass. Within minutes they are disoriented, in deeper than seems possible, and they’ve lost one another. The boy’s cries are more and more desperate. What follows is a terrifying, entertaining, and masterfully told tale, as only Stephen King and Joe Hill can deliver.

In the Tall Grass was originally published in two parts in the June/July and August 2012 issues of Esquire magazine. This is their second collaboration since the novella Throttle, published in 2009.]]> 2 Stephen King 1442359889 Nick 4 3.64 2012 In the Tall Grass
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average rating: 3.64
book published: 2012
rating: 4
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]]> The Long Walk 9014 370 Richard Bachman 0451196716 Nick 0 4.11 1978 The Long Walk
author: Richard Bachman
name: Nick
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1978
rating: 0
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]]> Skeleton Crew 13440 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0751504386

In a bumper collection of truly chilling tales, we meet Gramma - who only wanted to hug little George, even after she was dead; The Raft - a primeval sea creature with an insatiable appetite; The Monkey - an innocent-looking toy with sinister powers; the unspeakable horror of The Mist. And there is a gruesome host of other stories, each with the distinctive blend of unimaginable terror and realism that typifies King's writing.]]> 612 Stephen King 0751504386 Nick 0 3.98 1985 Skeleton Crew
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.98
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]]> UR 6251012 61 Stephen King Nick 0 3.76 2009 UR
author: Stephen King
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> Danse Macabre 11563
Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes in his ideas how horror works on many levels, and how he brings it to bear in his own inimitable novels.]]> 400 Stephen King 042518160X Nick 0 to-read 3.67 1981 Danse Macabre
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.67
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]]> The Colorado Kid 10574 But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...?

No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...

]]> 178 Stephen King 0843955848 Nick 0 3.35 2005 The Colorado Kid
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average rating: 3.35
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]]> Bag of Bones 10589 736 Stephen King 067102423X Nick 0 3.92 1998 Bag of Bones
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1998
rating: 0
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]]> Carrie 10592
Make a date with terror and live the nightmare that is...Carrie
--back cover]]> 272 Stephen King 1416524304 Nick 0 4.00 1974 Carrie
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average rating: 4.00
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]]> Insomnia 231603 For other cover edition see here

RALPH ROBERTS CAN'T FALL ASLEEP - BUT HE'S STILL HAVING NIGHTMARES

Ralph Roberts used to be an ordinary guy--until insomnia robbed him of sleep. Now he's no longer ordinary--he can see horrible things happening to the people of Derry, Maine. He can see how, one by one, they are turning into monsters straight from hell.

He'd like to call them nightmares, but he's wide awake. He can't call himself crazy, because there is another person who sees these happenings, too. But even if seeing is believing, it still doesn't give him a clue of how to stop these deadly, demonic visions from coming true....
(back cover)]]> 663 Stephen King 0451184963 Nick 0 3.62 1994 Insomnia
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average rating: 3.62
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]]> <![CDATA[The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)]]> 34084 422 Stephen King 0670032565 Nick 5 4.25 1991 The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3)
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 4.25
book published: 1991
rating: 5
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]]> Firestarter 233667 This a previously-published edition of ISBN 0451167805.

The Department of Scientific Intelligence (aka "The Shop") never anticipated that two participants in their research program would marry and have a child. Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents, who had been given a low-grade hallucinogen called "Lot Six" while at college. Now the government is trying to capture young Charlie and harness her powerful firestarting skills as a weapon.
--stephenking.com]]> 564 Stephen King Nick 0 3.92 1980 Firestarter
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> Rose Madder 10619
Rosie Daniels leaves her husband, Norman, after fourteen years in an abusive marriage. She is determined to lose herself in a place where he won’t find her. She’ll worry about all the rest later.

Alone in a strange city, she begins to make a new life, and good things finally start to happen. Meeting Bill is one; and getting an apartment is another. Still, it’s hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder, and with good reason. Norman is a cop, with the instincts of a predator. He’s very good at finding people, even if he is losing his mind.

Fixed on revenge, Norman Daniels becomes a force of relentless terror and savageness, a man almost mythic in his monstrosity. For Rosie to survive, she must enter her own myth and become a woman she never knew she could be: Rose Madder.

“Riveting, engrossing...packed with suspense� (People), Stephen King infuses this novel with an edge-of-your-seat, chilling atmosphere. Rose Madder is “an eerie, remarkably mature and moving novel� (The Washington Post).]]> 595 Stephen King Nick 0 3.75 1995 Rose Madder
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> Cell 10567 Where were you on October 1st at 3:03 pm?

Graphic artist Clay Riddell was in the heart of Boston on that brilliant autumn afternoon when hell was unleashed before his eyes. Without warning, carnage and chaos reigned. Ordinary people fell victim to the basest, most animalistic destruction.

And the apocalypse began with the ring of a cell phone...]]> 449 Stephen King 1416524517 Nick 0 3.67 2006 Cell
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> Full Dark, No Stars 7912007
In “Big Driver,� a cozy-mystery writer named Tess encounters the stranger along a back road in Massachusetts when she takes a shortcut home after a book-club engagement. Violated and left for dead, Tess plots a revenge that will bring her face-to-face with another stranger: the one inside herself.

“Fair Extension,� the shortest of these tales, is perhaps the nastiest and certainly the funniest. Making a deal with the devil not only saves Dave Streeter from a fatal cancer but provides rich recompense for a lifetime of resentment.

When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It's a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitely ends a good marriage.

Like Different Seasons and Four Past Midnight, which generated such enduring films as The Shawshank Redemption and Stand By Me, Full Dark, No Stars proves Stephen King a master of the long story form.]]> 368 Stephen King 1439192561 Nick 0 4.07 2011 Full Dark, No Stars
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]]> <![CDATA[The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)]]> 5094
Here he links forces with the defiant young Eddie Dean and the beautiful, brilliant, and brave Odetta Holmes, in a savage struggle against underworld evil and otherworldly enemies.

Once again, Stephen King has masterfully interwoven dark, evocative fantasy and icy realism.]]> 463 Stephen King 0451210859 Nick 4 4.23 1987 The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2)
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name: Nick
average rating: 4.23
book published: 1987
rating: 4
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]]> Just After Sunset 2906039
A blind intruder visits a dying man - and saves his life, with a kiss.

A woman receives a phone call from her husband. Her LATE husband.

In the emotional aftermath of her baby's sudden death, Emily starts running. And running. Her curiosity leads her right into the hands of a murderer... and soon her legs are her only hope for survival.

Enter a world of masterful suspense, dark comedy and thrilling twists which will keep you riveted from the fist page.]]> 367 Stephen King 1416584080 Nick 0 3.89 2008 Just After Sunset
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> The Little Sisters of Eluria 6356190
"The Man in Black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed." This is our introduction to Roland Deschain, the last Gunslinger, published by Donald M. Grant in THE DARK TOWER: THE GUNSLINGER in 1982. Twenty years later Stephen King revised and expanded this volume. In his own words: "What I did want to do was to give newcomers to the tale of the Tower (and old readers who want to refresh their memories) a clearer start and a slightly easier entry into Roland's world. I also wanted them to have a volume that more effectively foreshadowed coming events.

This volume contains that expanded version as well as the novella THE LITTLE SISTERS OF ELURIA which chronicles an earlier adventure of Roland's as he pursued the Man in Black.]]> 312 Stephen King 1880418738 Nick 0 4.19 1998 The Little Sisters of Eluria
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name: Nick
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1998
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]]> <![CDATA[The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)]]> 5091 The Dark Tower saga is perhaps the most anticipated book in the author's long career. King began this epic tale about the last gunslinger in the world more than 20 years ago; now he draws its suspenseful story to a close, snapping together the last pieces of his action puzzle and drawing Roland Deschain ever closer to his ultimate goal.

Alternate cover edition for ISBN-10: 1416524525; ISBN-13: 9781416524526]]> 1050 Stephen King Nick 5 4.27 2004 The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, #7)
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name: Nick
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2004
rating: 5
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]]> Duma Key 472343
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, and Edgar begins to wish he hadn't survived the injuries that could have killed him. He wants out. His psychologist, Dr. Kamen, suggests a "geographic cure," a new life distant from the Twin Cities and the building business Edgar grew from scratch. And Kamen suggests something else.

"Edgar does anything make you happy?"

"I used to sketch."

"Take it up again. You need hedges . . .

hedges against the night."

Edgar leaves Minnesota for a rented house on Duma Key, a stunningly beautiful, eerily undeveloped splinter of the Florida coast. The sun setting into the Gulf of Mexico and the tidal rattling of shells on the beach call out to him, and Edgar draws. A visit from Ilse, the daughter he dotes on, starts his movement out of solitude. He meets a kindred spirit in Wireman, a man reluctant to reveal his own wounds, and then Elizabeth Eastlake, a sick old woman whose roots are tangled deep in Duma Key. Now Edgar paints, sometimes feverishly, his exploding talent both a wonder and a weapon. Many of his paintings have a power that cannot be controlled. When Elizabeth's past unfolds and the ghosts of her childhood begin to appear, the damage of which they are capable is truly devastating.

The tenacity of love, the perils of creativity, the mysteries of memory and the nature of the supernatural--Stephen King gives us a novel as fascinating as it is gripping and terrifying.]]> 611 Stephen King 1416552510 Nick 0 3.97 2008 Duma Key
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]]> Mile 81 12070846
Not much later, a mud-covered station wagon (which is strange because there hadn't been any rain in New England for over a week) veers into the Mile 81 rest area, ignoring the sign that says "closed, no services." The driver's door opens but nobody gets out.

Doug Clayton, an insurance man from Bangor, is driving his Prius to a conference in Portland. On the backseat are his briefcase and suitcase and in the passenger bucket is a King James Bible, what Doug calls "the ultimate insurance manual," but it isn't going to save Doug when he decides to be the Good Samaritan and help the guy in the broken down wagon. He pulls up behind it, puts on his four-ways, and then notices that the wagon has no plates.

Ten minutes later, Julianne Vernon, pulling a horse trailer, spots the Prius and the wagon, and pulls over. Julianne finds Doug Clayton's cracked cell phone near the wagon door—and gets too close herself. By the time Pete Simmons wakes up from his vodka nap, there are a half a dozen cars at the Mile 81 rest stop. Two kids—Rachel and Blake Lussier—and one horse named Deedee are the only living left. Unless you maybe count the wagon...]]> 80 Stephen King 1451665601 Nick 0 to-read, horror 3.59 2011 Mile 81
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]]> Hearts in Atlantis 11602
Stephen King, whose first novel, Carrie, was published in 1974, the year before the last U.S. troops withdrew from Vietnam, is the first hugely popular writer of the TV generation. Images from that war -- and the protests against it -- had flooded America's living rooms for a decade. Hearts in Atlantis, King's newest fiction, is composed of five interconnected, sequential narratives, set in the years from 1960 to 1999. Each story is deeply rooted in the sixties, and each is haunted by the Vietnam War.

In Part One, "Low Men in Yellow Coats," eleven-year-old Bobby Garfield discovers a world of predatory malice in his own neighborhood. He also discovers that adults are sometimes not rescuers but at the heart of the terror.

In the title story, a bunch of college kids get hooked on a card game, discover the possibility of protest...and confront their own collective heart of darkness, where laughter may be no more than the thinly disguised cry of the beast.

In "Blind Willie" and "Why We're in Vietnam," two men who grew up with Bobby in suburban Connecticut try to fill the emptiness of the post-Vietnam era in an America which sometimes seems as hollow -- and as haunted -- as their own lives.

And in "Heavenly Shades of Night Are Falling," this remarkable book's denouement, Bobby returns to his hometown where one final secret, the hope of redemption, and his heart's desire may await him.

Full of danger, full of suspense, most of all full of heart, Stephen King's new book will take some readers to a place they have never been...and others to a place they have never been able to completely leave.]]> 640 Stephen King 0340818670 Nick 0 3.86 1999 Hearts in Atlantis
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average rating: 3.86
book published: 1999
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]]> Misery 10614 #1, #2, #3, #4

Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.]]> 370 Stephen King 0450417395 Nick 0 4.22 1987 Misery
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average rating: 4.22
book published: 1987
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]]> Cycle of the Werewolf 550844
Now scenes of unbelieving horror come each time the full moon shines on the isolated Maine town of Tarker Mills. No one knows who will be attacked next. But one thing is sure.

When the moon grows fat, a paralyzing fear sweeps through Tarker Mills. For snarls that sound like human words can be heard whining through the wind. And all around are the footprints of a monster whose hunger cannot be sated... Cycle of the Werewolf.]]> 128 Stephen King 0451822196 Nick 0 3.69 1983 Cycle of the Werewolf
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1983
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]]> Dolores Claiborne 28286938 San Francisco Chronicle)—the #1 national bestseller from Stephen King about a housekeeper with a long-hidden secret from her past…one that tests her own will to survive.

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.

Given a voice as compelling as any in contemporary fiction, the strange intimacy between Dolores and Vera—and the link that binds them—unfolds in Dolores’s account. It shows, finally, how fierce love can be, and how dreadful its consequences. And how the soul, harrowed by the hardest life, can achieve a kind of grace.

Hailed by Entertainment Weekly as a “tour de force, Dolores Claiborne is “a literary triumph. The finest of King novels…a plot of enormous energy…Read this book� (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel).]]> 388 Stephen King Nick 0 4.26 1992 Dolores Claiborne
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average rating: 4.26
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]]> <![CDATA[The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)]]> 43615
He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which frighteningly mirrors our own, Roland pursues The Man in Black, encounters an alluring woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the Kid from Earth called Jake. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, The Gunslinger leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter.]]> 231 Stephen King 1501143514 Nick 5 3.95 1982 The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1982
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6)]]> 5093 544 Stephen King 1416521496 Nick 3 3.98 2004 Song of Susannah (The Dark Tower, #6)
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2004
rating: 3
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]]> From a Buick 8 22076
Curt’s avid curiosity took the lead, and they investigated as best they could, as much as they dared. Over the years, the troop absorbed the mystery as part of the background to their work, the Buick 8 sitting out there like a still-life painting that breathes � inhaling a little bit of this world, exhaling a little bit of whatever world it came from.

In the fall of 2001, a few months after Curt Wilcox is killed in a gruesome auto accident, his eighteen-year-old boy, Ned, starts coming by the barracks, mowing the lawn, washing windows, shoveling snow. Sandy Dearborn, Sergeant Commanding, knows it’s the boy’s way of holding onto his father, and Ned is allowed to become part of the Troop D family. One day he looks in the window of Shed B and discovers the family secret. Like his father, Ned wants answers, and the secret begins to stir, not only in the minds and hearts of the veteran troopers who surround him, but in Shed B as well. . . .

From a Buick 8 is a novel about our fascination with deadly things, about our insistence on answers when there are none, about terror and courage in the face of the unknowable.]]> 356 Stephen King 0743211375 Nick 0 3.49 2002 From a Buick 8
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]]> Four Past Midnight 133266
At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world.

"Four Past Midnight": four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity...]]> 930 Stephen King Nick 0 3.97 1990 Four Past Midnight
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average rating: 3.97
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> Cujo 10603
Uno de los grandes clásicos de Stephen King, el gran maestro actual de la literatura de terror.]]> 432 Stephen King 0307348245 Nick 0 3.79 1981 Cujo
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1981
rating: 0
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]]> The Mist 813214
The mist is alive, seething with unearthly sounds and movements. What unleashed this terror? Was it the Arrowhead Project—the top secret government operation that everyone has noticed but no one quite understands?

And what happens when the provisions have run out and you're forced to make your escape, edging blindly through the dim light?]]> 176 Stephen King Nick 4 horror, ebook-library 3.95 1980 The Mist
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.95
book published: 1980
rating: 4
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]]> Night Shift 10628
This is the horror of ordinary people and everyday objects that become strangely altered; a world where nothing is ever quite what it seems, where the familiar and the friendly lure and deceive. A world where madness and blind panic become the only reality.

Listening Length: 10 hours and 33 minutes]]> 409 Stephen King Nick 0 4.04 1978 Night Shift
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1978
rating: 0
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]]> ’Salem’s Lot 11590 Librarian's Note: Alternate-cover edition for ISBN 0450031063

Thousands of miles away from the small township of 'Salem's Lot, two terrified people, a man and a boy, still share the secrets of those clapboard houses and tree-lined streets. They must return to 'Salem's Lot for a final confrontation with the unspeakable evil that lives on in the town.]]> 483 Stephen King 0450031063 Nick 4 4.06 1975 ’Salem’s Lot
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1975
rating: 4
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]]> Lost Signals 28591784
The signals are already inside you. You never even had a chance.

Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing brings you Lost Signals, a tome of horror fiction featuring radio waves, numbers stations, rogue transmissions, and other unimaginable sounds you only wish were fiction. Forget about what’s hiding in the shadows, and start worrying about what’s hiding in the dead air.

Edited by Max Booth III and Lori Michelle, featuring a front cover design by Matthew Revert and 25 interior illustrations by Luke Spooner, this 130,000 word collection is a must-have for any serious fan of horror.]]> 378 Max Booth III 1943720088 Nick 0 3.57 2016 Lost Signals
author: Max Booth III
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average rating: 3.57
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> The Dead Zone 11573 The Dead Zone.

Johnny Smith, the small-town schoolteacher who spun the wheel of fortune and won a four-and-a-half-year trip into The Dead Zone.

John Smith, who awakened from an interminable coma with an accursed power—the power to see the future and the terrible fate awaiting mankind in The Dead Zone.

~]]> 402 Stephen King 0451155750 Nick 0 3.96 1979 The Dead Zone
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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]]> Nightmares and Dreamscapes 10588
In story after story, the long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling will take you to places you've never been before. On a roller-coaster through the macabre and the monstrous, via cutting-edge explorations of good and evil - and onto a heartfelt piece on Little League baseball.

You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you...]]> 836 Stephen King 0450610098 Nick 0 3.97 1993 Nightmares and Dreamscapes
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1993
rating: 0
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]]> Lisey's Story 10566 (front flap)]]> 513 Stephen King 0743289412 Nick 0 3.70 2006 Lisey's Story
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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]]> Everything's Eventual 10579
Nothing is quite as it seems. Expect the unexpected in this veritable treasure trove of enthralling, witty, dark tales that could only come from the imagination of the greatest storyteller of our time.]]> 605 Stephen King 1416524355 Nick 0 3.99 2002 Everything's Eventual
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2002
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]]> The Tommyknockers 17660 Librarian's Note: This is alternate cover edition #2
ISBN 10: 0451156609
ISBN13: 9780451156600
See: Original Record Here

Late Last Night and the Night Before ...
... Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door.

Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi accidentally stumbled across.

It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold their souls to reap the rewards of the most deadly evil this side of hell. It was more like a diabolical takeover...an invasion of body and soul--and mind....

Note: All information herein, such as number of pages, publisher, etc., refer to this alternate cover edition and may or may not coincide with the main entry for this ISBN or any other alternate covers.

~]]> 747 Stephen King Nick 0 3.61 1987 The Tommyknockers
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name: Nick
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1987
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]]> Gerald's Game 32692
But this time Jessie didn't want to play. Lying there, spreadeagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he'd loomed and drooled over her, she'd felt angry and humiliated.

So she'd kicked out hard. Aimed to hit him where it hurt.

And now he was dead - a coronary - on the floor.

Leaving Jessie alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from nowhere. No-one to hear her screams.

Alone. Except for the voices in her head that begun to chatter and argue and sneer...]]> 332 Stephen King 0831727527 Nick 0 3.58 1992 Gerald's Game
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.58
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)]]> 12341557
Roland Deschain and his ka-tet�Jake, Susannah, Eddie, and Oy, the billy-bumbler—encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his friends not just one strange story but two . . . and in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.

In his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt-ridden year following his mother’s death, Roland is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-shifter, a “skin-man� preying upon the population around Debaria. Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast’s most recent slaughter. Only a teenager himself, Roland calms the boy and prepares him for the following day’s trials by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother often read to him at bedtime. “A person’s never too old for stories,� Roland says to Bill. “Man and boy, girl and woman, never too old. We live for them.� And indeed, the tale that Roland unfolds, the legend of Tim Stoutheart, is a timeless treasure for all ages, a story that lives for us.

King began the Dark Tower series in 1974; it gained momentum in the 1980s; and he brought it to a thrilling conclusion when the last three novels were published in 2003 and 2004. The Wind Through the Keyhole is sure to fascinate avid fans of the Dark Tower epic. But this novel also stands on its own for all readers, an enchanting and haunting journey to Roland’s world and testimony to the power of Stephen King’s storytelling magic.

~from first edition jacket]]> 322 Stephen King Nick 0 4.12 2012 The Wind Through the Keyhole (The Dark Tower, #4.5)
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]]> 11/22/63 10644930
In 2011, Jake Epping, an English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, sets out on an insane � and insanely possible � mission to prevent the Kennedy assassination.

Leaving behind a world of computers and mobile phones, he goes back to a time of big American cars and diners, of Lindy Hopping, the sound of Elvis, and the taste of root beer.

In this haunting world, Jake falls in love with Sadie, a beautiful high school librarian. And, as the ominous date of 11/22/63 approaches, he encounters a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald...]]> 849 Stephen King 1451627289 Nick 0 4.33 2011 11/22/63
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Black House (The Talisman, #2)]]> 10607
Is Ty destined to become the fourth victim of the Fisherman, the serial killer who's stalking this sleepy town? If so, only ex-detective Jack Sawyer may be able to save him. Jack left his old life behind precisely to avoid such madness, but lately he's been visited by strange nightmares and visions. Could the doomed past he thought he'd escaped forever be reaching out for him... from the Black House?]]> 659 Stephen King 034547063X Nick 0 4.03 2001 Black House (The Talisman, #2)
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average rating: 4.03
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rating: 0
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]]> Needful Things 107291 790 Stephen King Nick 0 3.98 1991 Needful Things
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average rating: 3.98
book published: 1991
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]]> It 830502
It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real ...

They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them can withstand the force that has drawn them back to Derry to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name.]]> 1184 Stephen King 0450411435 Nick 0 ebook-library 4.28 1986 It
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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]]> Pet Sematary 10583
Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.

Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive note of threat.

But behind the house and away from the road: that was safe. Just a carefully clear path up into the woods where generations of local children have processed with the solemn innocence of the young, taking with them their dear departed pets for burial.

A sad place maybe, but safe. Surely a safe place. Not a place to seep into your dreams, to wake you, sweating with fear and foreboding...]]> 576 Stephen King 1416524347 Nick 0 3.90 1983 Pet Sematary
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> The Dark Half 11597 #1, #2, #3

Thad Beaumont would like to say he is innocent. He'd like to say he has nothing to do with the series of monstrous murders that keep coming closer to his home. But how can Thad disown the ultimate embodiment of evil that goes by the name he gave it-and signs its crimes with Thad's bloody fingerprints?]]> 460 Stephen King 045052468X Nick 0 3.81 1989 The Dark Half
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1989
rating: 0
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]]> Different Seasons 39662
A “hypnotic� (The New York Times Book Review) collection of four novellas—including the inspirations behind the films Stand By Me and The Shawshank Redemption—from Stephen King, bound together by the changing of seasons, each taking on the theme of a journey with strikingly different tones and characters.

This gripping collection begins with “Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption,� in which an unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge—the basis for the Best Picture Academy Award-nominee The Shawshank Redemption.

Next is “Apt Pupil,� the inspiration for the film of the same name about top high school student Todd Bowden and his obsession with the dark and deadly past of an older man in town.

In “The Body,� four rambunctious young boys plunge through the façade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, and intimations of their own mortality. This novella became the movie Stand By Me.

Finally, a disgraced woman is determined to triumph over death in “The Breathing Method.�

“The wondrous readability of his work, as well as the instant sense of communication with his characters, are what make Stephen King the consummate storyteller that he is,� hailed the Houston Chronicle about Different Seasons.]]> 560 Stephen King 0751514624 Nick 0 4.42 1982 Different Seasons
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name: Nick
average rating: 4.42
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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]]> Christine 10629
Elle aime les sensations fortes, les virées nocturnes et le rock n'roll des années héroïques. Depuis qu'elle connaît Arnie, elle est amoureuse. Signe particulier : Christine est une Plymouth « Fury », sortie en 1958 des ateliers automobiles de Detroit.

Une seule rivale en travers de sa route : Leigh, la petite amie d'Arnie�
Ce roman légendaire de Stephen King, rythmé par la musique de Chuck Berry et de Janis Joplin, a déjà pris place parmi les classiques de l'épouvante.]]> 411 Stephen King 2253147699 Nick 0 3.85 1983 Christine
author: Stephen King
name: Nick
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1983
rating: 0
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]]> The Shining (The Shining, #1) 11588 497 Stephen King 0450040186 Nick 0 4.28 1977 The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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average rating: 4.28
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> The Running Man 11607
Ben Richards is out of work and out of luck. His eighteen-month-old daughter is sick, and neither Ben nor his wife can afford to take her to a doctor. For a man from the poor side of town with no cash and no hope, there's only one thing to do: become a contestant on one of the Network's Games, shows where you can win more money than you've ever dreamed of—or die trying. Now Ben's going prime-time on the Network's highest-rated viewer participation show. And he's about to become a prey for the masses...]]> 317 Richard Bachman 0451197968 Nick 0 3.90 1982 The Running Man
author: Richard Bachman
name: Nick
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1982
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)]]> 47989
Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future.

A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen, and other children of the revolution.

Truth! Justice! Freedom!
And a Hard-boiled Egg!]]> 480 Terry Pratchett 055215430X Nick 0 to-read, fantasy, humor 4.49 2002 Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Nick
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> The Hunger 30285766
Tamsen Donner must be a witch. That is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the wagon train known as the Donner Party. Depleted rations, bitter quarrels, and the mysterious death of a little boy have driven the pioneers to the brink of madness. They cannot escape the feeling that someone--or something--is stalking them. Whether it was a curse from the beautiful Tamsen, the choice to follow a disastrous experimental route West, or just plain bad luck--the 90 men, women, and children of the Donner Party are at the brink of one of the deadliest and most disastrous western adventures in American history.

While the ill-fated group struggles to survive in the treacherous mountain conditions--searing heat that turns the sand into bubbling stew; snows that freeze the oxen where they stand--evil begins to grow around them, and within them. As members of the party begin to disappear, they must ask themselves "What if there is something waiting in the mountains? Something disturbing and diseased...and very hungry?"]]> 376 Alma Katsu 0735212511 Nick 0 3.57 2018 The Hunger
author: Alma Katsu
name: Nick
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)]]> 228665
Moiraine Damodred arrives in Emond’s Field on a quest to find the one prophesized to stand against The Dark One, a malicious entity sowing the seeds of chaos and destruction. When a vicious band of half-men, half beasts invade the village seeking their master’s enemy, Moiraine persuades Rand al’Thor and his friends to leave their home and enter a larger unimaginable world filled with dangers waiting in the shadows and in the light.]]> 800 Robert Jordan 0812511816 Nick 0 4.19 1990 The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time, #1)
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name: Nick
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> The Children of Men 41913 The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future. The human race has become infertile, and the last generation to be born is now adult. Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.]]> 241 P.D. James 0307279901 Nick 0 3.69 1992 The Children of Men
author: P.D. James
name: Nick
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1992
rating: 0
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]]> Fated (Alex Verus, #1) 11737387
Alex is part of a world hidden in plain sight, running a magic shop in London that caters to clientele who can do much more than pull rabbits out of hats. And while Alex’s own powers aren’t as showy as some mages, he does have the advantage of foreseeing the possible future—allowing him to pull off operations that have a million to one chance of success.
Ěý
But when Alex is approached by multiple factions seeking his skills to crack open a relic from a long-ago mage war, he knows that whatever’s inside must be beyond powerful. And thanks to his abilities, Alex can predict that by taking the job, his odds of survival are about to go from slim to none....]]> 295 Benedict Jacka 1937007294 Nick 0 3.90 2012 Fated (Alex Verus, #1)
author: Benedict Jacka
name: Nick
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> The Wool Trilogy (Silo, #1-3) 20745447 The bestselling Wool trilogy now available in one download. Includes Wool, Shift and Dust.

Wool

In a ruined and hostile landscape, in a future few have been unlucky enough to survive, a community exists in a giant underground silo. Jules is part of this community, but she is different. She dares to hope. And as her walls start closing in, she must decide whether to fight, or to die.

Shift

Donald Keene was recruited by the government to design an underground shelter. Over fifty years later Donald's design has been realised and the last remnants of mankind live in his silo. But no one can remember what life was like before. In fact, they're forced to forget. One simple pill erases a memory. And with it, any chance of hope.

Dust

In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a dangerous new order. And some want it destroyed. The battle has been won. The war is just beginning.]]> 1576 Hugh Howey 1473506212 Nick 0 4.38 2014 The Wool Trilogy (Silo, #1-3)
author: Hugh Howey
name: Nick
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2014
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]]> The Fireman 25816688 New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman.

The fireman is coming. Stay cool.

No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.

Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: they would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live—at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital, she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too. . . if she can live long enough to deliver the child.

Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged, and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads—armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she fears: a mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter’s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted . . . and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.

In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman’s secrets before her life—and that of her unborn child—goes up in smoke.]]> 752 Joe Hill 0062200631 Nick 0 3.88 2016 The Fireman
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average rating: 3.88
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]]> NOS4A2 15729539 NOS4A2 is a spine-tingling novel of supernatural suspense from master of horror Joe Hill, the New York Times bestselling author of Heart-Shaped Box and Horns.

Victoria McQueen has a secret gift for finding things: a misplaced bracelet, a missing photograph, answers to unanswerable questions. On her Raleigh Tuff Burner bike, she makes her way to a rickety covered bridge that, within moments, takes her wherever she needs to go, whether it’s across Massachusetts or across the country.

Charles Talent Manx has a way with children. He likes to take them for rides in his 1938 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the NOS4A2 vanity plate. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing � and terrifying � playground of amusements he calls “Christmasland.�

Then, one day, Vic goes looking for trouble—and finds Manx. That was a lifetime ago. Now Vic, the only kid to ever escape Manx’s unmitigated evil, is all grown up and desperate to forget. But Charlie Manx never stopped thinking about Victoria McQueen. He’s on the road again and he’s picked up a new passenger: Vic’s own son.]]> 692 Joe Hill 0062200577 Nick 0 4.06 2013 NOS4A2
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average rating: 4.06
book published: 2013
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]]> Heart-Shaped Box 153025
But what UPS delivers to his door in a black heart-shaped box is no imaginary or metaphorical ghost, it's the real thing. And suddenly the suit's previous owner is everywhere - behind the bedroom door... seated in Jude's restored vintage Mustang... staring out from his widescreen TV - dangling a gleaming razor blade on a chain from one hand...]]> 376 Joe Hill 0061147931 Nick 0 3.85 2007 Heart-Shaped Box
author: Joe Hill
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average rating: 3.85
book published: 2007
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