Rete Bibliotecaria della Provincia di Como

Abstract: Deep in the woods of Maine, there is a dark state facility where kids, abducted from across the United States, are incarcerated. In the Institute they are subjected to a series of tests and procedures meant to combine their exceptional gifts - telepathy, telekinesis - for concentrated effect. Luke Ellis is the latest recruit. He's just a regular 12-year-old, except he's not just smart, he's super-smart. And he has another gift which the Institute wants to use... Far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson has taken a job working for the local sheriff. He's basically just walking the beat. But he's about to take on the biggest case of his career. Back in the Institute's downtrodden playground and corridors where posters advertise 'just another day in paradise', Luke, his friend Kalisha and the other kids are in no doubt that they are prisoners, not guests. And there is no hope of escape. But great events can turn on small hinges and Luke is about to team up with a new, even younger recruit, Avery Dixon, whose ability to read minds is off the scale. While the Institute may want to harness their powers for covert ends, the combined intelligence of Luke and Avery is beyond anything that even those who run the experiments - even the infamous Mrs Sigsby - suspect.

Abstract: Stephen King's international bestselling and highly acclaimed novel, also a hugely successful film starring Tom Hanks The Green Mile: those who walk it do not return, because at the end of that walk is the room in which sits Cold Mountain penitentiary's electric chair. In 1932 the newest resident on death row is John Coffey, a giant black man convicted of the brutal murder of two little girls. But nothing is as it seems with John Coffey, and around him unfolds a bizarre and horrifying story. Evil murderer or holy innocent - whichever he is - Coffey has strange powers which may yet offer salvation to others, even if they can do nothing to save him.

Abstract: At midnight comes the point of balance. Of danger. The instant of utter stillness when between two beats of the heart, an alternative reality can slip through, like a blade between the ribs, and switch you into a new and terrifying world. FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT: four heart-stopping accounts of that moment when the familiar world fractures beyond sense, the fragments spinning away from the desperate, clutching reach of sanity . . .

Abstract: A wrong turn on a lonely road lands a wayward couple in Rock and Roll Heaven, Oregon, where there’s no escaping the free nightly concert….A novelty toy becomes an unexpected and terrifying instrument of self-defense….An ex-con pieces together a map to unearth a stolen million dollars—but at what price?...A private investigator in Depression-era Los Angeles is finding his life unraveling as he discovers the shocking truth of who he really is….A third-grade teacher is willing to dig deep in order to exact revenge for his murdered wife.... These are just some of the haunting scenarios to be found in this classic collection—spellbinding tales from the darkest places and the unparalleled imagination of fiction’s master storyteller.

Abstract: welve-year-old Jack spends his days alone in a deserted coastal town, his father gone, his mother dying. Then he meets a stranger - and embarks on a terrifying journey. For Jack must find the Talisman, the only thing that can save his mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories, a parallel world where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.

Abstract: Halloween 2019: King returns with retro-classic editions of four powerful novels, featuring strong female characters. The nostalgia-inducing covers are perfect for the collector and eye-catching to readers new to his work.

Abstract: When Mike Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from writer's block. Until he is drawn to his summer home, the beautiful lakeside retreat called Sara Laughs. Here Mike finds the once familiar town in the tyrannical grip of millionaire Max Devore. Devore is hell-bent on getting custody of his deceased son's daughter and is twisting the fabric of the community to this purpose. Three year old Kyra and her young mother turn to Mike for help. And Mike finds them increasingly irresistible. But there are other more sinister forces at Sara Laughs - and Kyra can feel them too...

Abstract: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE - Stephen King's terrifying classic.'They float...and when you're down here with me, you'll float, too.'To the children, the town was their whole world. To the adults, knowing better, Derry Maine was just their home town: familiar, well-ordered for the most part. A good place to live.It is the children who see - and feel - what makes the small town of Derry so horribly different. In the storm drains, in the sewers, IT lurks, taking on the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. Sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget. Until they are called back, once more to confront IT as IT stirs and coils in the sullen depths of their memories, reaching up again to make their past nightmares a terrible present reality.

Abstract: È notte fonda a Minneapolis, quando un misterioso gruppo di persone si introduce in casa di Luke Ellis, uccide i suoi genitori e lo porta via in un SUV nero. Bastano due minuti, sprofondati nel silenzio irreale di una tranquilla strada di periferia, per sconvolgere la vita di Luke, per sempre. Quando si sveglia, il ragazzo si trova in una camera del tutto simile alla sua, ma senza finestre, nel famigerato Istituto dove sono rinchiusi altri bambini come lui. Dietro porte tutte uguali, lungo corridoi illuminati da luci spettrali, si trovano piccoli geni con poteri speciali - telepatia, telecinesi. Appena arrivati, sono destinati alla Prima Casa, dove Luke trova infatti i compagni Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris e Avery Dixon, che ha solo dieci anni. Poi, qualcuno finisce nella Seconda Casa. «È come il motel di un film dell'orrore», dice Kalisha. «Chi prende una stanza non ne esce più.» Sono le regole della feroce signora Sigsby, direttrice dell'Istituto, convinta di poter estrarre i loro doni: con qualunque mezzo, a qualunque costo. Chi non si adegua subisce punizioni implacabili. E così, uno alla volta, i compagni di Luke spariscono, mentre lui cerca disperatamente una via d'uscita. Solo che nessuno, finora, è mai riuscito a evadere dall'Istituto. Dopo classici come L'incendiaria e It, King si mette di nuovo alla prova con una storia di ragazzini travolti dalle forze del male, in un romanzo come sempre trascinante, che ha anche molto a che fare con i nostri tempi.