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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as ""The Gingerbread Girl"" and "N."
3) 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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
When commercial artist Richard Sifkitz, alarmed by his high cholesterol level, buys a stationary bike and paints a scenic wall mural on the wall opposite it, the bike transports him to places he has no intention of going to.
Author
Series
Dark tower volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Audioworks/Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
"A sister and brother ... 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"--Container.
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."
Author
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
Estoy seguro de que puedo contar esta historia. Tambien estoy seguro de que nadie se la creera. Eso me da igual. Me basta con contarla. Para mi --y esta claro que para muchos escritores, no solo los novatos como yo--, el problema es decidir por donde empezar ... Y ahora, mientras pienso en esas cosas, veo un claro hilo que conduce a lo largo de los anos hasta el senor Bowditch y el cobertizo cerrado con candado detras de su vieja y ruinosa casa victoriana....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a mysterious stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven colored buttons promised death and destruction. Years later, the button box entered Gwendy's life again. A successful novelist and a rising political star, she was once again forced to deal with the temptation that box represented. Now, evil forces...
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