Dean R Koontz
1) The city
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"There are millions of stories in the city--some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk's story is all of those things as he draws readers into his life in the city as a young boy, introducing his indomitable grandfather, also a "piano man;" his single mother, a struggling singer; and the heroes, villains, and everyday saints and sinners who make up the fabric of the metropolis in which they live--and who will change...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
3) The taking
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation as a chronicler of our worst fears-and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded death traps. Gripping, heartbreaking,...
4) Brother Odd
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastary where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature. As he steadfastly journeys toward his mysterious destiny, Odd Thomas has established himself as one of the most beloved and unique...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Once presided over by a Roaring '20's Hollywood mogul, the magnificent West Coast estate known as Roseland now harbors a reclusive billionaire financier and his faithful servants-and their guests: Odd Thomas, the young fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, and Annamaria, his inscrutably charming traveling companion. Fresh from a harrowing clash with lethal adversaries, they welcome their host's hospitality. But Odd's extraordianry eye...
6) Forever Odd
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared and 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: he encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning and spirals into a vortex of terror. Around him will gather new allies and old, some living and some not. For in the battle to come, there can be no innocent bystanders, and...
7) Odd hours
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Thomas Odd is a fry cook rumored to have the ability to talk to the dead. Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority ... and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.
8) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas, a short order cook at the Pico Mundo Grill, keeps his ability to speak with ghosts a secret from all but his girlfriend, Stormy, and the local police chief who he occasionally helps solve or prevent crime, but his unusual talent leads him and his fellow citizens into big trouble when a strange man comes to town followed by a horde of borachs--ghostly harbingers of mayhem.
9) Velocity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bill Wile is an easygoing, hardworking guy who leads a quiet, ordinary life. One evening, after his usual eight-hour bartending shift, he finds a typewritten note under the windshield wiper of his car. "If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blond schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Amy Redwing is the founder of a California organization that rescues abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Amy risks her life to save Nickie and takes her into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion.
11) The good guy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
12) Life expectancy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. Jimmy Tock comes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Police officer Kirby Wayland is on his way home late one day when he sees a stray dog along the highway and decides to shelter it. From that moment on, Kirby experiences a continuing strangeness about this canine. Man and dog quickly develop a bond, though there is always something very unsettling about it. Kirby takes a six-month leave from the force and decides to take a road trip. On the road, Kirby and the dog have a series of rapidly escalating...
15) The husband
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For thirty-four-year-old Ryan Perry, life is good a year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, until he begins to receive strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me," and discovers that he is being stalked by a mysterious woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
17) Fear nothing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
While investigating the death of his mother who was a scientist, Chris Snow discovers she was engaged in secret experiments on a nearby military base, experiments which went wrong and which produced monsters. The next he knows, the monsters come visiting and they are not friendly.
18) Lost souls
Author
Series
Frankenstein series volume 4
(Dean Ray),Frankenstein volume 04
(Dean Ray),Frankenstein volume 4
(Dean Ray),Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 04
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(Dean Ray),Frankenstein volume 04
(Dean Ray),Frankenstein volume 4
(Dean Ray),Dean Koontz's Frankenstein volume 04
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Description
When Micky Bellsong encounters disabled Leilani Klonk and her stepfather, Preston Maddoc, she finally finds some purpose in her troubled life, so when the family disappears, Micky embarks on an arduous mission to find them.
Micky Bellsong befriends a disabled girl named Leilani, and becomes concerned when Leilani's stepfather, a UFO cultist, believes aliens will cure her. When the family disappears, Micky sets out after them aided by a detective....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
A scientific thriller finds three traveling companions--itinerant artist Dylan O'Conner, his autistic younger brother Shepherd, and Jillian Jackson, a young stand-up comic--on the run, just one step ahead of deadly pursuers, as they race against time to uncover the meaning of an attack by a mysterious doctor and the injection that now appears to have vicious consequences.