Dean R Koontz
41) The face
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
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.
43) Intensity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
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...
44) False memory
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"While struggling to help an agoraphobic friend cope, Martie Rhodes, a young video game designer, suddenly falls prey to her own traumatic autophobia, a fear of herself, and when her husband tries to uncover the roots of her problem, he comes face to face with an enigmatic therapist and his own bizarre nightmare." (Baker & Taylor)
45) Cold fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
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...
46) 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...
47) Seize the night
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Moonlight Bay volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Moonlight Bay, California is a peaceful, picturesque small town until children begin disappearing. The police aren't much help since they've been corrupted behind the shuttered walls of adjacent military base, Fort Wyvern. Christopher Snow is convinced that the children are alive and that their disappearances have to do with secret research conducted deep within Fort Wyvern. But there are extremely violent and powerful forces protecting Fort Wyvern,...
48) Lightning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"A storm struck on the night Laura Shane was born, and there was a strangeness about the weather that people would remember for years. But even more mysterious was the blond-haired stranger who appeared out of nowhere - the man who saved Laura from a fatal delivery. Years later - another bolt of lightning - and the stranger returned, again to save Laura from tragedy. Was he the guardian angel he seemed to be? The devil in disguise? Or the master of...
49) Ticktock
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tommy Phan is a successful detective novelist living the American Dream in southern California. One evening he comes home to find a small rag doll on his doorstep. It's a simple doll, covered entirely in white cloth, with crossed black stitches for the eyes and mouth, and another pair forming an X over the heart. Curious, he brings it inside. That night Tommy hears an odd popping sound and looks up to see the stitches breaking over the doll's heart....
50) Hideaway
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Language
English
Description
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)
51) Strangers
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Language
English
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Description
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...
53) Mr. Murder
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English
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Description
A stranger breaks into Martin's House and claims to be the real Martin Stillwater saying, "You stole my wife, my life, and my children. I want them back." The madman wages a relentless and terrifying campaign to eliminate Marty and recapture the family.
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Language
English
Description
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.
55) Icebound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
The arctic night is endless. The fear is numbing. Screams freeze in the throat. Death arrives in shades of white. Cold-blooded murder seems right at home....the chill of the grave. A tidal wave breaks loose the ice under which a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight, and one of the team is "an assassin with a mission of his own.
57) Midnight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
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.
59) Darkfall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Penny cannot tell her father about the horrible things under her bed. One night she poked under her bed with a baseball bat and it was yanked out of her hand.Her father doesn't notice because he is embroiled in a series of mystifying murder cases. the corpses punctured with dozens of tiny wounds, the bodies found in locked rooms with no way in or out.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana comes under siege, scattered survivors band together to weather the onslaught of creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future.