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1) La cúpula
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Español
Description
De la nada ha caído sobre la ciudad una barrera invisible como una burbuja cristalina inquebrantable. Al descender, ha cortado por la mitad a una marmota y ha amputado la mano a un jardinero. El avión que pilotaba Claudette ha chocado contra la cúpula y se ha precipitado al suelo envuelto en llamas. Dale Barbara, veterano de la guerra de Irak, debe regresar ahora a Chester's Mill, el lugar que tanto deseaba abandonar. El ejercito pone a Dale al...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Korean
Description
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling...
Author
Publisher
Hwanggum Kaji
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Korean
Description
In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime....
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Taking place mere hours following the events seen in The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three continues with Roland of Gilead on his solitary quest for the Dark Tower, leading him to a seemingly endless stretch of beach along the Western Sea -- a terrain filled with unearthly monstrosities that mean certain death if he lets his guard down. But there are other mysteries along this desolate shoreline as well: three arcane doorways standing freely in...
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before...
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
There are three ways up to Castle View from the town of Castle Rock: Route 117, Pleasant Road, and the Suicide Stairs. Every day in the summer of 1974, twelve-year-old Gwendy Peterson has taken the stairs, which are held by strong, if time-rusted, iron bolts and zig-zag up the cliffside. Then one day when Gwendy gets to the top of Castle View, after catching her breath and hearing the shouts of kids on the playground below, a stranger calls to her....
10) Wizard and glass
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Formats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole."
14) 'Salem's lot
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1999, c1975
Language
English
Description
Stephen King's second novel, Salem's Lot, is the story of a mundane town under siege from the forces of darkness. Considered one of the most terrifying vampire novels ever written, it cunningly probes the shadows of the human heart, and the insular evils of small-town America.
15) Carrie
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Random House, Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
16) The talisman
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
17) Firestarter
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Language
English
Description
During their college years, Andrew and Vicky McGee participated in a series of experiments. As a result, they developed telepathic powers, allowing them to influence those around him. But when their daughter Charlie started to display terrible pyrokinetic abilities, a ruthless government agency attempted to kidnap her, resulting in Vicky's death. Now on the run, Andrew must shield his daughter from John Rainbird, a Cherokee assassin hired to capture...
19) Blockade Billy
Author
Publisher
Cemetery Dance Publications
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
20) Holly
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"La nueva novela del Rey del Terror recuerda a joyas como Misery y cuenta con un personaje muy querido por sus fans: Holly Gibney, la detective privada que, por primera vez, protagoniza una novela en solitario. Cuando Penny Dahl contacta con Finders Keepers para que la ayuden a encontrar a su hija, algo en la voz desesperada de la mujer hace que Holly Gibney se vea obligada a aceptar el trabajo. A poca distancia del lugar en el que Bonnie Dahl desapareció,...
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