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The Bachman Books
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451147367 (0-451-14736-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library

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The name on the covers was Bachman. But the imagination could only belong to one man. This is a compelling collection of three spellbinding stories of future shock and suspense. It includes: "The Long Walk", "Roadwork", and "The Running Man" - in which Stephen King also explains 'Why I was Richard Bachman'. [via]
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The Bachman Books : Four Early Novels
by Richard Bachman, Stephen King

ISBN 0452277752 (0-452-27775-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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Four of Richard Bachman's eerie works are gathered here in a posthumous edition. They are Rage, a story of stunning psychological horror about an "estra" ordinary high school student; "The Long Walk," a contest with death; "Roadwork, a strange variation on the theme of "Home Sweet Home"; and "The Running Man," where you bet your life--literally. [via]
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Bag of Bones
by Stephen King

ISBN 067102423X (0-671-02423-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Bag of Bones is partly inspired by Daphne du Maurier's classic Rebecca, but there's more than homage in this novel of horror and romance. Like du Maurier's Manderley, King's scary old place (on the shore of Maine's remote Dark Score Lake) is haunted by the late lady of the manor. There are many gory ghosts afoot, though: men, women, and wailing kids. The hero, a thriller novelist, stirs up hell's plenty of angry shades while investigating his wife's death. It turns out she either had a dark secret herself or was onto some dread scandal lurking in Dark Score Lake. As in King's previous book, Wizard and Glass, the fabric of reality is thin, and nosy narrators are in peril of plunging right out of this world and into a rather hostile otherworld.
Bag of Bones is a writer-haunted book, too. The spirits of Herman Melville and Ray Bradbury are deeply felt, and so are the tale's two romances (the hero muses on his marriage and falls for a young single mom with a marvelous, psychic daughter). There is also good-humored satire of the real bestseller book world--the hero complains that "the publicity process is like going to a sushi bar where you're the sushi." In its deep concerns with love, sprawling families, the writer's life, endangered children, and good old-fashioned storytelling, the book resembles a John Irving novel. It is also absolutely classic Stephen King, packed with nifty turns of phrase, irreverent wit, and lurid ghouls who grab you from beneath the bed while you cower under the covers. --Tim Appelo [via]
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Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King

ISBN 074343627X (0-7434-3627-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books

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Stephen King fans, rejoice! The bodysnatching-aliens tale Dreamcatcher is his first book in years that slakes our hunger for horror the way he used to. A throwback to It, The Stand, and The Tommyknockers, Dreamcatcher is also an interesting new wrinkle in his fiction.
Four boyhood pals in Derry, Maine, get together for a pilgrimage to their favorite deep-woods cabin, Hole in the Wall. The four have been telepathically linked since childhood, thanks to a searing experience involving a Down syndrome neighbor--a human dreamcatcher. They've all got midlife crises: clownish Beav has love problems; the intellectual shrink, Henry, is slowly succumbing to the siren song of suicide; Pete is losing a war with beer; Jonesy has had weird premonitions ever since he got hit by a car.
Then comes worse trouble: an old man named McCarthy (a nod to the star of the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers) turns up at Hole in the Wall. His body is erupting with space aliens resembling furry moray eels: their mouths open to reveal nests of hatpin-like teeth. Poor Pete tries to remove one that just bit his ankle: "Blood flew in splattery fans as Pete tried to shake it off, stippling the snow and the sawdusty tarp and the dead woman's parka. Droplets flew into the fire and hissed like fat in a hot skillet."
For all its nicely described mayhem, Dreamcatcher is mostly a psychological drama. Typically, body snatchers turn humans into zombies, but these aliens must share their host's mind, fighting for control. Jonesy is especially vulnerable to invasion, thanks to his hospital bed near-death transformation, but he's also great at messing with the alien's head. While his invading alien, Mr. Gray, is distracted by puppeteering Jonesy's body as he's driving an Arctic Cat through a Maine snowstorm, Jonesy constructs a mental warehouse along the lines of The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci. Jonesy physically feels as if he's inside a warehouse, locked behind a door with the alien rattling the doorknob and trying to trick him into letting him in. It's creepy from the alien's view, too. As he infiltrates Jonesy, experiencing sugar buzz, endorphins, and emotions for the first time, Jonesy's influence is seeping into the alien: "A terrible thought occurred to Mr. Gray: what if it was his concepts that had no meaning?"
King renders the mental fight marvelously, and telepathy is a handy way to make cutting back and forth between the campers' various alien battlefronts crisp and cinematic. The physical naturalism of the Maine setting is matched by the psychological realism of the interior struggle. Deftly, King incorporates the real-life mental horrors of his own near-fatal accident and dramatizes the way drugs tug at your consciousness. Like the Tommyknockers, the aliens are partly symbols of King's (vanquished) cocaine and alcohol addiction. Mainly, though, they're just plain scary. Dreamcatcher is a comeback and an infusion of rich new blood into King's body of work. --Tim Appelo [via]
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El Cazador De Suenos / Dreamcatcher
by Stephen King

ISBN 8401328985 (84-01-32898-5)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Four Past Midnight
by Stephen King

ISBN 1417714476 (1-4177-1447-6)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT. STEPHEN KING #1 BESTSELLER! [via]
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Insomnia
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451184963 (0-451-18496-3)
Softcover, Signet

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Ralph Roberts, a widower suffering from insomnia, begins to experience strange visual phenomena and is unable to believe that they are merely hallucinations. [via]
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It
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451169514 (0-451-16951-4)
Softcover, Signet

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They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they were grown-up men and women who had gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But none of them could withstand the force that drew them back to Derry, Maine to face the nightmare without an end, and the evil without a name. What was it? Read It and find out...if you dare! [via]
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Needful Things
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451172817 (0-451-17281-7)
Softcover, Signet

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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Leland Gaunt probes the limits of people's desires when he moves to Castle Rock, Maine; opens his shop, Needful Things; and sets a high price on love, hope, and the human soul. [via]
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Op Tommyknockers
by Stephen King

ISBN 0399136991 (0-399-13699-1)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group

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  Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
Paddy Bogside
by Peter Hegarty, Paddy Doherty

ISBN 1856353354 (1-85635-335-4)
Hardcover, Mercier

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Peggy Deery: An Irish Family at War
by Nell McCafferty

ISBN 093941628X (0-939416-28-X)
Softcover, Cleis Pr

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Reading in the Dark
by Seamus Deane

ISBN 0375700234 (0-375-70023-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The Derry of poet Seamus Deane's first novel, Reading in the Dark is a perilous place. Ghosts haunt the stairwells of apartment buildings, a curse follows two families down through the generations, close friends turn out to be police informers, and the police are as likely to persecute an innocent man as protect him. And hovering over all the violence, poverty, and despair of 1940s Northern Ireland is the specter of the "Troubles." The hero of the novel is an unnamed young man whose life turns upside down when a policeman frames him. Deception becomes his only means of self-defense. But the initial lie on the part of the policeman and the narrator's corresponding trickery are only part of the tangled web Deane weaves here. Early in the novel we learn that Uncle Eddie, an Irish Republican Army gunman, was blown up in the town distillery in 1922. In addition to sorting out his own problems, the narrator seeks the truth about his uncle's death.
Reading in the Dark sounds grim, and in some respects it is, yet leavening is provided by infusions of the Irish folktales and legends that inform the characters' daily life. And then there is the language. Deane is a poet, and his prose shows it: sex is like fire, "glinting with greed and danger"; ice snores and candles are swathed in a "thick drapery of wax." Readers looking for a thoughtful, serious, and beautifully written novel will find one in Reading in the Dark. [via]
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- Reading in the Dark: ISBN 0394574400 (0-394-57440-0)
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- Reading in the Dark: ISBN 0375700234 (0-375-70023-4)
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The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology
by Ian McBride

ISBN 1851822992 (1-85182-299-2)
Hardcover, Four Courts Pr Ltd

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Those Are Real Bullets: Bloody Sunday, Derry, 1972
by Peter Pringle, Philip Jacobson

ISBN 0802138799 (0-8021-3879-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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On January 30, 1972, British paratroopers opened fire on unarmed Irish Catholic demonstrators in Derry, killing thirteen and wounding another fourteen. Five were shot in the back. A major turning point in the recent history of Northern Ireland, the massacre galvanized Catholics in their struggle against the British presence in Ulster. In Those Are Real Bullets, Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson provide the definitive full-length narrative account of Bloody Sunday. Using extensive interviews and recently declassified documents unavailable for previous books about the shootings, they vividly re-create the chaos and terror of the day. Although a formal inquiry directly after Bloody Sunday exonerated the British soldiers and their commanders, Pringle and Jacobson show how the army's steady escalation of brutality in Northern Ireland led inevitably to the excesses in Derry, and they offer a compelling indictment of the army and its policies. Beyond assessing responsibility for the killings, the authors capture the full human impact of the tragedy and place the day within the historical context of the Troubles. Those Are Real Bullets provides an intimate portrait of a city in revolt and the climax of a failed military response that plunged Northern Ireland into three decades of armed conflict. [via]
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Tommyknockers
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451156609 (0-451-15660-9)
Softcover, Signet

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[This is Part 2 of a 2 part cassette audiobook edition.]
Something was happening in Bobbi Anderson's idyllic small town of Haven, Maine. Something that gave every man, woman, and child in town powers far beyond ordinary mortals. Something that turned the town into a death trap for all outsiders. Something that came from a metal object, buried for millennia, that Bobbi stumbled across. It wasn't that Bobbi and the other good folks of Haven had sold 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 and soul--and mind. [via]
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UN Saco De Huesos
by Stephen King

ISBN 8497595963 (84-9759-596-3)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Eso / It
by Stephen King, Edith Zilli

ISBN 8401474639 (84-01-47463-9)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori

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Insomnia/ Insomnia
by Stephen King

ISBN 8497597729 (84-9759-772-9)
Softcover, Debolsillo

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Ventana Secreta, Jardin Secreto: Dos Despues de la Medianoche
by Stephen King

ISBN 0451186575 (0-451-18657-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)

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  Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada)