Dean R Koontz
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Ryan Perry is a successful entrepreneur, who at the young age of 34 finds himself in need of a heart transplant. After a successful operation, he starts to receive heart trinkets in the mail along with strange messages. When a young woman tells him she wants her 'heart back,' brief doubts about the supernatural pass, and Perry realizes he has a very real situation on his hands.
42) Hideaway
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After Hatch Harrison is brought back to life in an ambulance, his second chance turns into a nightmarish quest to squelch the evil he brought back from the afterlife.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
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A thriller on afterlife, featuring a Los Angeles crime reporter. Visiting the graves of his family, killed in a plane crash, Joe Carpenter sees men attack a woman taking pictures. It turns out the camera captures images of afterlife from the graves, a hush-hush scientific breakthrough over which people are fighting.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
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"Dylan O'Conner is a gifted young artist just trying to do the right thing in life. He's on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe when he stops to get a room for himself and his twenty-year-old autistic brother, Shep. But in a nightmarish instant, Dylan is attacked by a mysterious "doctor," injected with a strange substance, and told that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him...or transform his life in the most remarkable way....
45) Intensity
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Pub. Date
1996.
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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
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Chyna Shepherd's deeply troubled childhood taught her the hard rules of survival; her adult life has been an unrelenting struggle for self-respect and safety. Edgler Vess, a self-proclaimed homicidal adventurer, becomes Chyna's long nightmare, as she is driven by a purpose and meaning beyond mere self-preservation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
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In the late summer of a long-ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino...
48) Midnight
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IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 29
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Some strange deaths draw Tessa Lockland and Sam Booker to Moonlight Cove, where they team up with natives Chrissie Foster and Harry Talbot to combat the evil that threatens the community.
50) Relentless
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Bestselling novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich is a lucky man and he knows it. So Cubby knows he shouldn't let one bad review of his otherwise triumphant book get to him even if it does appear in the nation's premier newspaper and is penned by the much-feared, seldom-seen critic Shearman Waxx. Ignore Shearman Waxx and his poison pen is just what Cubby intends to do. Until he happens to learn where the great man is taking lunch.
51) The taking
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Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling. In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as do all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the world...
52) Phantoms
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IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
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"They found the town silent, apparently abandoned. Then they found the first body strangely swollen and still warm. One hundred and fifty were dead, 350 missing. But the terror had only begun in the tiny mountain town of Snowfield, California. At first they thought it was the work of a maniac. Or terrorists. Or toxic contamination. Or a bizarre new disease. But then they found the truth. And they saw it in the flesh. It is worse than anything they...
53) Strange highways
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A collection of two novels and twelve short stories and novelettes by horror fiction writer Dean Koontz.
54) Brother Odd
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Odd Thomas novels volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
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St. Bartholomew's Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California's high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again. But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path.
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A year had passed since little Danny's death-a year since his mother began the painful process of acceptance. But Tina Evans swears that she sees Danny in a stranger's car and then dreams that he is still alive. When she awakes she finds a message in his bedroom--"not dead" and the mystery begins.
56) The funhouse
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Once there was a girl who ran away and joined a traveling carnival. She married a man she hated and begat a child she could never love. Now Ellen has a new life, a new husband and two normal children. Memory is drowned in alcohol and prayers-neither of which will save her kids when the carnival comes back to town.
57) The Face
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IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 30
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Ten-year-old Aelfric Manheim is home alone when he receives a call from a stranger with a simple and terrifying message, "There is trouble coming, young Fric...You're going to need a place to hide." Meanwhile, security chief for the Manheim estate, former detective Ethan Truman, is tailing a "deader than dead" body that got up and left the morgue when he vividly experiences his own death--twice. In The Face, Dean Koontz delivers yet another spellbinding...
59) Mr. Murder
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Pub. Date
[1993]
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Mystery writer Marty Stillwater's idyllic Southern California lifestyle is shattered when a stranger breaks into his house claiming to be the real Martin Stillwater--and waging a terrifying campaign to eliminate Marty. Unable to trust the police, the Stillwater family goes on the run, but there is no safe haven.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 12
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She arrived with her name, Trixie. I joked sometimes that it sounded more like a stripper than a dog. But if it sounded more like a stripper than a dog, it sounded more like an elf or a fairy than a stripper. Elves and fairies are magical beings , and so was she. A heartwarming memoir of a very special dog.