Dean R Koontz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared. The worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents to communicate with the dead to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a vortex of terror. Once again Odd will stand against our worst fears. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come,...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A resident of St. Bartholomew's Abbey, a monastery in the Sierra Nevada mountains, Thomas has the ability to see the spirits of the dead, a gift he has used to resolve mysteries and prevent future tragedies. As the story opens, the seer is unsettled by visions of bodachs, sinister ghostlike entities whose appearance precedes some dire tragedy. Thomas frantically searches for some sign that will help him head off disaster, even as St. Bart's is thrown...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The legend began in the obscure little town of Pico Mundo. A fry cook named Odd was rumored to have the extraordinary ability to communicate with the dead. Through tragedy and triumph, exhilaration and heartbreak, word of Odd Thomasś gifts filtered far beyond Pico Mundo, attracting unforgettable new friends--and enemies of implacable evil. With great gifts comes the responsibility to meet great challenges. But no mere human being was ever meant to...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The dead don't talk. I don't know why." But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Odd Thomas is back where it all started . . . because the time has come to finish it. Since he left his simple life in the small town of Pico Mundo, California, his journey has taken him to places strange and wonderful, mysterious and terrifying. Across the land, in the company of mortals and spirits alike, he has known kindness and cruelty, felt love and loss, saved lives and taken them — as he’s borne witness to humanity’s greatest good and...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas volume 6
Language
English
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Description
The pistol appeared in his hand the way a dove appears in the hand of a good magician, as if it materialized out of thin air. “You think I won’t do it right here in the open. But you’d be surprised. . . . You’ll drop before you get the breath to scream.” The truck driver is decked out like a rhinestone cowboy, only instead of a guitar he’s slinging a gun — and Odd Thomas is on the wrong end of the barrel. Though he narrowly dodges a...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Jane Hawk volume 2
Language
English
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Description
“No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this.” These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun — just before she takes her own life, and many others’, in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing contents of her secret journal are discovered, it seems certain that she must have been insane. But Jane Hawk knows better. In the wake of her husband’s...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stallion reared over me, silently slashing the air with the hooves of its forelegs, a creature of such immense power that I stumbled backward even though I knew that it was as immaterial as a dream.... The woman astride the ghostly mount reaches out desperately, the latest spirit to enlist the aid of Odd Thomas, the unassuming young fry cook whose gift — or curse — it is to see the shades of the restless dead, and to help them when he can....
Author
Publisher
Wings Books
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
vii, 691 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Three novels by Dean R. Koontz: in "Shattered," Alex Doyle and his adolescent brother-in-law are followed cross-country by a violent psychopath in a van; Hilary Thomas kills a stalker but continues to feel followed by an eerie presence in "Whispers"; and two creatures hunt their creators after escaping from a government laboratory in "Watchers."
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Moonlight Bay volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Physical Desc
338 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twenty-eight-year-old Christopher Snow, a man who has a rare skin disorder that makes him unable to tolerate light, teams up with his surfer friends Bobby and Sasha, as well as his unusually intelligent dog Orson, to solve the mystery of what happened to his father's corpse, which for some unknown reason has been stolen from the hospital.
11) Quicksilver
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery--abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of 'strange magnetism.' It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
491 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. But as long as she's breathing, she'll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom -- and free will -- of millions. Battling the strange epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed Jane's husband, and is escalating across the country, has made the rogue FBI agent a wanted fugitive, relentlessly hunted not only by the government but by the secret cabal behind...
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1992, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
360 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
She woke up in a hospital room, barely able to remember her own name. She didn't know what terrible accident brought her there--or the four shadowy strangers who hovered in the darkened corridors. Yet step by step, she unlocked the mysteries of her past--returning to a single night of violence waged by four young men. Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door--men who exactly resemble...
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alone on Jacob's Ladder island until two agents arrive in search of someone--or something--they refuse to identify, artist Katie, along with a brave young girl, finds herself in an epic and terrifying battle with a mysterious enemy that could bring about the end of the world.
15) The other Emily
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup's victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn't recovered from losing the love of his life, or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Since then, he's sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers about Emily's final...
16) Hideaway
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c1992
Physical Desc
400 p. : 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pronounced DOA at the scene of his car accident, Hatch Harrison is nonetheless revived eighty minutes later, only to discover that he has brought something evil with him from the other side.
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Jane Hawk volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
417 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the fifth installment of an ongoing story (The Forbidden Door, 2018, etc.), wrongly dishonored FBI agent Jane Hawk faces her worst fear in her lonely fight against an evil male conspiracy embedded in the halls of power: the abduction of her son, Travis. The ruthless enemy, called the Techno Arcadians, have been scrubbing people of their memories and their identities with nanotech implants and turning many of them into robotic servants and sex...
18) Elsewhere
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Since his wife Michelle left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter Amity in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object--something he calls 'the key to everything'--and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group of ominous...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a profound, funny, and beautifully rendered portrait of a beloved companion, bestselling novelist Dean Koontz remembers the golden retriever who changed his life. A retired service dog, Trixie was three when Dean and his wife, Gerda, welcomed her into their home. She was superbly trained, but her greatest gifts couldn’t be taught: her keen intelligence, her innate joy, and an uncanny knack for living in the moment. Whether chasing a tennis ball...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Moonlight Bay volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
443 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When children begin disappearing in the small town of Moonlight Bay, the police turn a blind eye and refuse to help look for the children, so Christopher Snow sets out to find them, and he discovers a secret that the entire police force will kill to keep quiet.