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King’s highly anticipated follow-up to his multimillion copy bestseller On Writing is an indispensable guide for anyone serious about writing.  In this instant classic, he shares the experiences, habits, and convictions that have shaped his work.  A perfect gift for other writers or a treat for those of us who want to become better writers, King’s deeply insightful book will inspire you to do more and be more. 

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On Writing

When English teacher Jake Epping is grading essays by his GED students, he reads a bizarre essay by janitor Harry Dunning: fifty years ago, Harry survived his father’s bloody massacre of his family with only a sledgehammer injury to one arm.  Jake is baffled—but a new mystery arises when Al, the owner of the local diner and Jake's best friend, asks him to take over the mission that has become Al’s obsession—to prevent the Kennedy assassination.  Jake steps through a portal in the diner’s storeroom and finds himself in Jodie, Texas, in 1963.  He begins a new life—but he must constantly deal with troubled loner Lee Harvey Oswald.  And it seems that any turn of events could lead to the death of U. S.  President John F.  Kennedy... 

11/22/63

The Library of America's Stephen King Is the Biggest Little Man in Print, an anthology of turbulent tales curated by Stephen King, takes flight with stories of turbulence and terror perfect for airplane reading.  The collection includes a new introduction and story notes for each work by King himself—along with brand new stories from Stephen King and Joe Hill. 

Flight or Fright

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Carrie

One night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, a group of intruders silently murders Luke Ellis's parents and loads him into a black SUV.  The operation takes less than two minutes.  Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window.  And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon.  They are all in Front Half.  Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half—like the roach motel—“You check-in but you don’t check out. ”

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The Institute

<p>In The Body Keeps the Score, trauma expert Bessel van der Kolk explores the nature of traumatic stress and introduces a ground-breaking approach to healing its emotional wounds.  He shows how an overload of traumatic stress hormones in the brain can lead to “symbiosis disorder” a condition in which a sufferer continually re-experiences in his or her body memories of a terrifying event.  Drawing on recent advances in neuroscience, Dr.  van der Kolk explains how traumatic events get “stuck” in the nervous system and creates new avenues for healing by teaching patients how to rewire their brains to release their emotions and return to healthy functioning. </p>


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The Body

 Stephen King takes readers on a wild ride in this gripping, suspenseful novel about a man whose troubled past comes back to haunt him and the twelve-year-old girl he must save.  As Dan Torrance struggles to overcome the legacy of violence left by his abusive father, all Abra Stone wants is to survive her final year of middle school.  But neither can escape the fate that awaits them--a terrifying darkness that will engulf them both. 

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Doctor Sleep

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The Shining

 Stephen King’s novel Christine is about a nerdy paraplegic teenager named Arnold Cunningham, who falls in love with a vintage red and white Plymouth Fury.  He buys the car and names it Christine, but eventually its true nature reveals itself: the car is a vicious killer.  Dennis Guilder attempts to save Arnold from Christine’s wrath, but is he too late? Stephen King is an author who has been referred to as “vintage. ” He breathes life into his characters, making the story more force-full than other books in the horror genre. 

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In the summer of 1973, Devin Jones, a college student who comes to work as a carny, confronts the legacy of a vicious murder and the fate of a dying child.  The book is part of King's Bachman Books collection and has never previously been published. 

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Joyland

Stephen King’s apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and tangled in an elemental struggle between good and evil remains as riveting and eerily plausible as when it was first published. A patient escapes from a biological testing facility, unknowingly carrying a deadly weapon: a mutated strain of super-flu that will wipe out 99 percent of the world’s population within a few weeks.  Those who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader.  Two emerge—Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a peaceful community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious “Dark Man,” who delights in chaos and violence.  As the dark man and the peaceful woman gather power, the survivors will have to choose between them—and ultimately decide the fate of all humanity. 

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