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Never flinch : a novel
Never flinch : a novel
King, Stephen, 1947-2025
Books, Manuscripts
When the Buckeye City Police Department receives a letter from a person threatening to 'kill 13 innocents and one guilty' in 'an act of atonement for the needless death of an innocent man', Detective Izzy Jaynes has no idea what to think. Are 14 citizens about to be slaughtered in an unhinged act...
Odyssey
Odyssey
Fry, Stephen2025
Books, Manuscripts
Follow Odysseus after he leaves the fallen city of Troy and takes ten long dramatic years - battling monsters, the temptations of goddesses and suffering the curse of Poseidon - to voyage home to his wife Penelope on the island of Ithaca.
Travis McGee, Books 4-6 [electronic resource]
Travis McGee, Books 4-6 [electronic resource]
MacDonald, John D2013
Books, Manuscripts
'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGee' LEE CHILD Travis McGee isn't your typical knight in shining armour. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: He'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he c...
The life of Chuck
The life of Chuck
King, Stephen2025
Books, Manuscripts
In a crumbling world plagued by natural disasters, collapsing infrastructure and mass panic, bizarre billboards and advertisements appear throughout town: 'Charles Krantz. Thirty-nine great years. Thanks, Chuck!' Marty Anderson, a schoolteacher, becomes obsessed with these messages as the world, ...
The Counselor [electronic resource]
The Counselor [electronic resource]
McCarthy, Cormac2013
Books, Manuscripts
Brought to the screen by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner) and starring Michael Fassbender, The Counselor is an original screenplay from the legendary author of No Country for Old Men and The Road, Cormac McCarthy. 'McCarthy has delivered a brutal study in grief' – Empire, on the film A man, un...
The Gardener's Son [electronic resource]
The Gardener's Son [electronic resource]
McCarthy, Cormac2014
Books, Manuscripts
From the legendary Cormac McCarthy, author of Blood Meridian and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Gardener's Son is the tale of two families: one, owners of the local cotton mill, the other a family of mill workers beset by misfortune. '[A] memorable portrait of another place in another time' – ...
Blood Meridian [electronic resource]
Blood Meridian [electronic resource]
McCarthy, Cormac2015
Books, Manuscripts
Brutally violent, Blood Meridian is the story of one teenage runaway in the nineteenth-century American South, as a sadistic gang unleashes its massacre across the desert land. It is the work that sealed Cormac McCarthy's reputation as one of the twentieth century's greatest writers. '[A] brillia...
Whistle [electronic resource]
Whistle [electronic resource]
Barclay, Linwood2025
Books, Manuscripts
'Terrific' STEPHEN KING Evil has a one track mind... Celebrated children's author and illustrator Annie Blunt has had a dreadful year. Her husband was killed in a tragic accident, then one of her children's books ignited a major scandal. Desperate for a fresh start, she moves with her young s...
Crossfire [electronic resource]
Crossfire [electronic resource]
Smith, Wilbur2025
Books, Manuscripts
ONE SHOT AT STOPPING A TRAITOR. ONE CHANCE TO CHANGE HISTORY. Praise for Wilbur Smith 'A master storyteller' Sunday Times 'No one does adventure quite like Smith' Daily Mirror 'Best historical novelist' Stephen King WILBUR SMITH RETURNS WITH A BRAND-NEW SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING WORLD WAR I...
The long walk [DVD]
The long walk [DVD]
2025
Videos and DVDs
Francis Lawrence directs this dystopian horror thriller based on the novel by Stephen King. A group of young men including Raymond Garraty (Cooper Hoffman) and Peter McVries (David Jonsson) enter an annual televised walking contest in the hope of winning the prize money. However, this is no o...
[1 copy, 4 reserves]
Gwendy's button box
Gwendy's button box
King, Stephen, 1947-2017
Books, Manuscripts
A New Castle Rock Novella from Stephen King and Richard Chizmar. '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 the...
In the dark [videorecording]
In the dark [videorecording]
2017
Videos and DVDs
MyAnna Buring stars in this four-part BBC crime drama based on the novels 'In the Dark' and 'Time of Death' by Mark Billingham. The show follows Manchester DI Helen Weeks (Buring) as she leaves the city for her rural hometown of Polesford in Derbyshire after learning that the husband of her child...
Mythos
Mythos
Fry, Stephen2017
Books, Manuscripts
The Greek myths are the greatest stories ever told, passed down through millennia and inspiring writers and artists as varied as Shakespeare, Michelangelo, James Joyce and Walt Disney. They are embedded deeply in the traditions, tales and cultural DNA of the West. In Stephen Fry's hands the sto...
Thinner
Thinner
King, Stephen2012
Books, Manuscripts
Villainy Victorious [electronic resource]
Villainy Victorious [electronic resource]
Hubbard, L. Ron2012
Books, Manuscripts
Earth is rising in the House of Voltar . . . And there'll be hell to pay! That's right. The invasion is on . . . and it's coming soon to a galaxy near you. The action couldn't be hotter, and the plot couldn't be more diabolical. Earth is coming to Voltar—and the Voltarians won't know what hit the...
Cell [videorecording]
Cell [videorecording]
2016
Videos and DVDs
John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson star in this sci-fi horror based on the novel by Stephen King. When a mysterious cell phone signal turns humans into vicious zombie-like creatures New England artist Clay Riddell (Cusack) teams up with some of his fellow survivors to stop the broadcast and fi...
Gone [electronic resource]
Gone [electronic resource]
Grant, Michael2009
Books, Manuscripts
The first in New York Times bestselling author Michael Grant's breathtaking dystopian sci-fi saga, Gone is a page-turning thriller that invokes the classic The Lord of the Flies along with the horror of Stephen King. In the blink of an eye, everyone disappears. Gone. Except for the young. Th...
The gunslinger born
The gunslinger born
David, Peter (Peter Allen)2017
Books, Manuscripts
'The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.' With those words, millions of readers were introduced to Stephen King's Roland - an implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower. Now, in a comic book Roland's past is revealed!
The book of books [10 compact discs] : the radical impact of the King James Bible 1611-2011
The book of books [10 compact discs] : the radical impact of the King James Bible 1611-2011
Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-2011
Audiobooks
The King James Bible is both the standard scriptural text and, for centuries, the bestselling book in the English-speaking world. In this work, Melvyn Bragg reveals the political, linguistic, and religious influences the Bible has had.
The dark tower ; the drawing of the three : the sailor
The dark tower ; the drawing of the three : the sailor
2017
Books, Manuscripts
Haunted by the specter of a boy he let fall to his death, Roland is tortured by despair. But the boy never existed, and Roland's guilt is madness. Or is it? As timelines converge and reality shatters, Jake Chambers becomes the focus of Roland's quest - and maybe the key to the survival of the ka-...
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