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The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon: Stephen King
$12.00–$20.00Trisha McFarland only veered off the hiking trail to get away from the bickering of her brother and recently divorced mother. She really doesn't think she could possibly lose her way...but by trying a shortcut to catch up with them again, she becomes lost in a wilderness maze. At first it's just the mosquitoes and midges hanging around her ears. Then she feels hungry. For solace, she tunes her Walkman to a broadcast of a Boston Red Sox baseball game and follows the gritty performances of her hero, relief pitcher Tom Gordon. As darkness falls and her panic mounts, she begins to give up hope she'll be found alive. And when her radio's reception begins to fade, Trisha imagines that Tom Gordon is with her - protecting her from an all-too-real enemy who has left a bloody, mangled trail in the dense, dark woods... -
The Green Mile: Stephen King
$10.00At Cold Mountain Penitentiary, along the lonely stretch of cells known as the Green Mile, condemned killers such as 'Billy the Kid' Wharton, Arlen Bitterbuck and the possessed Eduard Delacroix await death strapped in 'Old Sparky'. But good or evil, innocent or guilty, prisoner or guard, none has ever seen the brutal likes of the new prisoner, John Coffey - a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its violence and shocking in its depravity. Is Coffey a devil in human form? Or is he a far, far different kind of being? In this place of ultimate retribution, prison guard Paul Edgecombe is about to discover that there are more wonders in heaven and hell than anyone at Cold Mountain can imagine and one of those wonders might just have stepped in amongst them...Cover shows Tom Hanks in the role of Paul Edgecombe in the film The Green Mile. -
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, a secret Government facility, 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, telepathy - who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha and Nick, George and Iris, ten-year-old Avery Dixon. The director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help...but no one has ever escaped from the Institute... -
Wentworth, Ohio: a small, idyllic friendly little town, where the Carver children bicker over sweets and Johnny Marinville is about the only resident who minds his own business. And on Poplar Street, it's a normal summer's day, with lawnmowers humming, Little League bats tinking, Frisbees flying and barbecues being readied. But young Cary Ripton, on his paper round notices something weird about the way Audrey Wyler is standing inside her glass door - and he's always thought there was something creepy about her nephew, Poplar Street's best kept secret. What Cary doesn't notice is the chrome-red van idling up the hill...soon it will begin to roll, the killing will begin and the Regulators will arrive in force. And by night-fall on the block, the surviving residents will find themselves in a wasteland of devastation and despair...Cover art by Chris Moore. -
Late last night and the night before...Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking at the door...Something's happening in the idylllic little town of Haven, Maine. Something that comes from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi literally accidentally stumbles across. Now there's something strange about Bobbi, too. Jim Gardner, poet, drunk and potential suicide decides to visit Bobbi, his only real friend - and he finds she's lost an alarming amount of weight...and she's dismantling kitchen appliances and making weirdly brilliant inventions out of them...and then there's the thing she's discovered buried in her garden. And as she digs, the metamorphosis of Haven's citizens becomes stranger and more murderous to outsiders. Jim realises he isn't in another drunken nightmare, he's in a waking one of terrifying significance. Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven didn't sell 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, soul - and mind... -
Under The Dome: Stephen King
$12.00–$15.00On an entirely normal, beautiful autumn day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. A planes crashes into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage; a gardener’s hand is severed as The Dome comes down on it; those running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families; cars explode on impact. No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when - or if - it will go away. The Army needs a man on the 'inside' and finds Dale Barbara, former Iraq veteran, now a short-order cook. He finds support with a few intrepid citizens - but against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a local politician who will stop at nothing - even murder - to cling to power and who sees The Dome as the answer to his political prayers. With Big Jim is his son, who is keeping a dreadful secret; and a bunch of Big Jim's renegade bully-boys who designate themselves as the new law and order. They have to find what created The Dome, fast. Because the children begin having dreams of a horrific Hallowe'en...electricity and the internet begin to fail...food and water is running short...air is limited...and time is running out... -
Book IV of The Dark Tower. The dark tower beckons Roland, the gunslinger. Roland is determined to make the journey with the companions he has gathered: Susannah Holmes, wheel-chair bound; Eddie Dean, a narcotic prisoner, a boy named Jake and his pet creature Oy. Through the devastated urban wasteland to the Mid-World where cavernous black holes threaten the structure of the tower, time grows thin and the past becomes a riddle. The malevolent monorail hurtles ever on, threatening destruction as the pilgrims bargain desperately. There is hidden danger on all sides: from the terror of Roland's relentless cunning enemy to the temptation of the wizard's glass. Cover art by Bob Warner. -
Book IV of The Dark Tower. The dark tower beckons Roland, the gunslinger. Roland is determined to make the journey with the companions he has gathered: Susannah Holmes, wheel-chair bound; Eddie Dean, a narcotic prisoner, a boy named Jake and his pet creature Oy. Through the devastated urban wasteland to the Mid-World where cavernous black holes threaten the structure of the tower, time grows thin and the past becomes a riddle. The malevolent monorail hurtles ever on, threatening destruction as the pilgrims bargain desperately. There is hidden danger on all sides: from the terror of Roland's relentless cunning enemy to the temptation of the wizard's glass. Cover art by Bob Warner.