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1) Hideaway
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English
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He was clinically dead after the accident--but was miraculously revived. Now Hatch Harrison and his wife approach each day with a new appreciation for life. But something has come back with Hatch from the other side. A terrible presence that links his mind to a psychotic's, so that a force of murderous rage courses through him. (Penguin Putnam)
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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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.
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A haunting nightmare is the key to one woman's mysterious past in the spine-tingling novel from #1 New York Times.
aMillionaire investigator Alex Hunter meets exciting, desirable Joanna Rand while on a mission in Japan but finds that she is a Senator's daughter who disappeared ten years ago and now has a new identity.
4) The husband
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
910L
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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.
5) 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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1120L
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English
Description
An unexplainable plane crash kills the family of a crime reporter. A year later he meets a woman who claims to have survived the crash and holds the possibility of a secret, but she disappears. He searches for answers and runs into a powerful and shadowy organization.
7) Chase
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Ben Chase is a war hero with bitter memories. Vietnam left him with a hard drinking habit, a mental breakdown and massive guilt. So who will believe him when he swears a psychopath is out to get him? When society is sick, the mad are sane and persecution is a killer's game.
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Frank Pollard is afraid to fall asleep. Every morning when he awakes, he discovers something strange--like blood on his hands--a bizarre mystery that tortures his soul. Two investigators have been hired to follow the haunted man. But only one person--a young man with Down's Syndrome--can imagine where their journeys might end. That terrible place from which no one ever returns. Now repackaged with a new Afterword by the author, this classic Koontz...
10) The neighbor
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"The year is 1967. Malcolm Pomerantz is twelve, geeky and socially awkward, while his seriously bright sister, Amalia, is spirited and beautiful. Each is the other's best friend, united by a boundless interest in the world beyond their dysfunctional parents' unhappy home. But even the troubled Pomerantz household will seem to be a haven compared to the house next door, after an enigmatic and very secretive new neighbor takes up residence in the darkest...
11) Intensity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
Description
"Past midnight, Chyna Shepherd, twenty-six, gazed out a moonlit window, unable to sleep on her first night in the Napa Valley home of her best friend's family. Instinct proves reliable. A murderous sociopath, Edgler Forman Vess, has entered the house, intent on killing everyone inside. Chyna is a survivor, toughened by a lifelong struggle for safety and self-respect. Now she will be tested as never before. At first her sole aim is to get out alive...
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Bestselling author Cullen Cubby Greenwich is mortified when Shearman Waxx, the nation's premier literary critic, savages his work. Cubby manages to find the man at Roxie's Bistro in Newport Beach, Calif., where Waxx vows vengence after an accident involving the author's six-year-old prodigy son: Waxx threatens Cubby with doom and gets things started nicely by blowing up his house. With almost superhuman ease, the book critic keeps track of Cubby and...
13) Cold fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 23
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English
Description
In Portland, he saved a young boy from a drunk driver. In Boston, he rescued a child from an underground explosion. In Houston, he disarmed a man who was trying to shoot his own wife. Reporter Holly Thorne was intrigued by this strange quiet savior named Jim Ironheart. She was even falling in love with him. But what power compelled an ordinary man to save twelve lives in three months? What visions haunted his dreams? And why did he whisper in his...
14) Strangers
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They were strangers. A handful of people from different backgrounds, living in different towns and cities across America, that had nothing in common--except fear. They were victims. Cold and stark, an unknown terror gripped their dreams and turned their days into living nightmares. They were chosen and they could not escape. Deep in the heart of a sprawling desert, a dark memory called out to them drawing them to the Tranquility Motel--where the terrifying...
15) Odd Thomas
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1040L
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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.
16) The taking
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 15
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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,...
17) 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...
18) Lost souls
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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
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English
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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....
19) 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...
20) Watchers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter.
Out of a government laboratory so sinister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the life of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both "changed, changed utterly" from...
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