When Gwendy Peterson was twelve, a stranger named Richard Farris gave her a mysterious box for safekeeping. It offered treats and vintage coins, but it was dangerous. Pushing any of its seven coloured buttons promised death and destruction.
Years later, the button box re-entered Gwendy’s life.
[lire la quatrième du livre Gwendy's Final Task]
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In Washington D.C., thirty-seven-year-old Gwendy Peterson couldn't be more different from the self-conscious teenaged girl who once spent a summer running up Castle Rock's Suicide Stairs. That same summer, she was entrusted - or some might say cursed - with the extraordinary button box by Richard Farris, the mysterious stranger in the black suit.
[lire la quatrième du livre Gwendy's Magic Feather]
'A resonant novella set in one of King's signature locales: the small town of Castle Rock, Maine' Washington PostThe small town of Castle Rock, Maine, has witnessed some strange events and unusual visitors over the years, but there is one story that has never been told...until now.
[lire la quatrième du livre Gwendy's Button Box]
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student.
[lire la quatrième du livre Fairy Tale]
Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours.
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student.
[lire la quatrième du livre Fairy Tale]
Le génie narratif de Stephen King atteint de nouveaux sommets et bouscule les frontières de l'imaginaire. Conte de fées, c'est l'histoire magnifique et terrifiante d'un garçon de dix-sept qui hérite de clés ouvrant sur un univers parallèle où le Bien affronte le pouvoir écrasant du Mal. Une bataille dont l'enjeu est capital... pour notre monde.
[lire la quatrième du livre Conte de fées]
The perfect crime doesn't exist. The perfect getaway . .
. that's another story. Billy Summers is a killer for hire.
He's among the best snipers in the world, a decorated Iraq war vet who can blend into any neighbourhood and disappear after the shot is taken. But he'll only agree to a contract if the target is a truly bad guy. Now Billy wants out.
[lire la quatrième du livre Billy Summers]
While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the King's elder son, Peter, is imprisoned in the needle, the top of a high tower, for his father's murder. And Thomas inherits the throne.Only Peter knows the truth of his innocence, and the true evil that is Flagg.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Eyes of the Dragon]
Later is Stephen King at his finest, a terrifying and touching story of innocence lost and the trials that test our sense of right and wrong. With echoes of King's classic novel IT, Later is a powerful, haunting, unforgettable exploration of what it takes to stand up to evil in all the faces it wears.
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In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Institute]
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In the small town of Castle Rock word gets around quickly. That's why Scott Carey only confides in his friend Doctor Bob Ellis about his strange condition. Every day he's losing weight - but without looking any different. Meanwhile a new couple, Deirdre and Missy, owners of a 'fine dining experience' in town, have moved in next door. Scott is not happy that their dogs keep fouling on his lawn. [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Elevation]
A horrifying crime.
Water-tight evidence points to a single suspect.
Expect he was seventy miles away, with an iron-clad alibi.
Detective Anderson sets out to investigate the impossible: how can the suspect have been both at the scene of the crime and in another town?
[lire la quatrième du livre The Outsider]
Rambling, old, unsmart and comfortable. A place where the family could settle; the children grow and play and explore. The rolling hills and meadows of Maine seemed a world away from the fume-choked dangers of Chicago.
Only the occasional big truck out on the two-lane highway, grinding up through the gears, hammering down the long gradients, growled out an intrusive note of [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Pet semetary]
Dolores Claiborne is her name and she lives in Little Tall Island, Maine, USA, where everyone believes she killed her husband and then her wealthy employer, old Vera Donovan. She's come down to the police station to give her side of the story.
So hush now, Andy, and let her talk, if you want to know what really happened.
[lire la quatrième du livre Dolores Claiborne]
It is a group of children who see - and feel - what makes 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 appears as an evil clown named Pennywise and sometimes IT reaches up, seizing, tearing, killing . . .
Time passes and the children grow up, move away and forget.
[lire la quatrième du livre It]
Morris Bellamy, a big fan of the novelist John Rothstein, is so disappointed by the fate of his favourite hero that he kills the old author and buries his unpublished material. Young Peter Saubers discovers it years later in an old trunk buried under a tree.
Of course Morris feels it belongs to him…
Envie de lire en anglais ?
Dorénavant, c’est possible grâce à Harrap’s.
[lire la quatrième du livre Finders Keepers]
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The short story OBITS won the 2016 Edgar for best short story.The No.1 bestselling author delivers an 'outstanding' (USA Today) collection of thrilling stories, introducing each one with a fascinating piece on when, where or how he came to write it.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Bazaar of Bad Dreams]
Prison guard Paul Edgecombe has been overseeing exécutions at Cold Mountain Penitentiary for years. He has seen many prisoners walk the Green Mile to their deaths in the electric chair.
But what is it that makes John Coffey so different from the other inmates ?
Paul is determined to find out the tragic truth behind this convicted killer's story.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Green Mile]
Misery fait partie de la nouvelle collection d’ouvrages Harrap’s écrits par des auteurs à succès pour donner envie de lire en VO et ainsi d’entretenir son anglais, à l’aide de notes de bas de page traduisant les mots et expressions que le lecteur est susceptible de ne pas connaître.
[lire la quatrième du livre Misery]
As winter closes in and blizzards cut them off, the hotel seems to develop a life of its own. It is meant to be empty. So who is the lady in Room 217 and who are the masked guests going up and down the elevator? And why do the hedges shaped like animals seem so alive?
Somewhere, somehow, there is an evil force in the hotel – and that too is beginning to shine.
[lire la quatrième du livre The Shining]
An exciting reissue of Stephen King's debut novel about an outcast teenager with a frightening power which put him on the map and set him on his journey as a household name.Carrie White is no ordinary girl.Carrie White has the gift of telekinesis.To be invited to Prom Night by Tommy Ross is a dream come true for Carrie - the first step towards social acceptance by her high school colleagues.
[lire la quatrième du livre Carrie]
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That's when the car accident happened, and he woke up in pain in a strange bed. But it wasn't the hospital. Annie Wilkes had pulled him from the wreck, brought him to her remote mountain home, splinted and set his mangled legs.
The good news was that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news was that she was Paul's Number One Fan.
[lire la quatrième du livre Misery]
Needful Things, the sign said. The oddest name. A name that caused some gossip and speculation among the good folks of Castle Rock, Maine, while they waited for opening day.
Eleven-year-old Brian Rusk was the first customer and he got just what he wanted, a very rare 1956 Sandy Koufax baseball card. Signed. Cyndi Rose Martin was next. A Lalique vase.
[lire la quatrième du livre Needful Things]
This is the story of a lover's triangle... It was bad from the start. And it got worse in a hurry.
Christine is eating into his mind, burrowing into his unconscious.
Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, is twenty. Her promise lies all in her past. Greedy and big, she is Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished.
There is still power in her - a [...]
[lire la quatrième du livre Christine]