Dean Koontz
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
From Publishers Weekly A mad doctor invades a motel in Arizona, injects both itinerant artist Dylan O'Connor and struggling comic Jillian Jackson (strangers to one another) with an unknown substance that, he says, is his life's work and will have some unknown effect, then warns them to flee before his enemies kill them; soon after, the doctor is slain by heavily armed assailants. The rest of the story is an extended chase, as Dylan and Jillian, along...
2) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
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.
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Jane Hawk novel volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Groundbreaking, wholly involving, eerily prescient and terrifyingly topical, Dean Koontz's Jane Hawk series sets a new standard for contemporary thrillers. Since her sensational debut in The Silent Corner, readers have been riveted by Jane Hawk's resolute quest to take down the influential architects of an accelerating operation to control every level of society via an army of mind-altered citizens. At first, only Jane stood against the "Arcadian"...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Jane Hawk novel volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jane Hawk--who dazzled readers in The Silent Corner and The Whispering Room--faces the fight of her life, against the threat of a lifetime in this electrifying new thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz. "I could be dead tomorrow. Or something worse than dead." Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. But as long as she's breathing, she'll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that...
5) Devoted
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Woody Bookman hasn't spoken a word in his eleven years of life. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father's death and now threatens him and his mother. And he's not alone in his thoughts. An ally unknown to him is listening. A uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas volume no. 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Two years after the cataclysmic events that sent him journeying into mystery, Odd Thomas, the intrepid fry cook who sees the dead and tries to help them, has traveled full circle, back to his beloved home town of Pico Mundo and the people he loves. He has come to save them--and perhaps humanity--from the full flowering of evil it is his destiny to confront, as he draws ever closer to the truth of the world and his place in it. Stronger, wiser than...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Jane Hawk novel volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Jane Hawk--rogue FBI agent and the country's #1 fugitive--confronts her worst nightmare when her enemies strike shockingly close to home...Jane Hawk thinks her precious five-year-old son is hidden safely away, with vigilant, indomitable friends. But the malice and resources of her powerful adversaries are boundless and their hunters are circling ever closer to the boy, hoping to draw his mother into their trap. Jane's courage, wits, discipline, and...
8) Brother Odd
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
St. Bartholomew's Abbey sits in majestic solitude amid the wild peaks of California's high Sierra, a haven for children otherwise abandoned, and a sanctuary for those seeking insight. Odd Thomas has come here to learn to live fully again. But trouble has a way of finding Odd Thomas, and it slinks back onto his path.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The woman astride the ghostly mount reaches out desperately, the latest spirit to enlist the aid of Odd Thomas, the unassuming young fry cook whose gift-or curse-it is to see the shades of the restless dead, and to help them when he can. This mission of mercy will lead Odd through realms of darkness he has never before encountered, as he probes the long-held secrets of a sinister estate and those who inhabit it. ODD APOCALYPSE Once presided over by...
10) Forever odd
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared andt he worst is feared. But as Odd applies his unique talents, to communicate with the dead, to the task of finding the missing person, he discovers something worse than a dead body: he encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning and spirals into a vortex of terror.
11) The husband
Author
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
One morning, Southern California gardener Mitchell Rafferty gets a call on his cellphone from a stranger saying that Mitch's beloved wife, Holly, has been kidnapped and that he has less than three days to come up with $2 million in cash. Of course, he's warned not to involve the police. While Mitch is still on the phone, the kidnapper proves his seriousness by directing Mitch's attention to a man walking a dog across the street. A moment later the...
12) Relentless
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Facing an inexorable assault on far more than his life, successful family man and bestselling novelist Cullen "Cubby" Greenwich finds himself in a desperate struggle with relentless sociopath and reclusive critic Shearman Waxx.
13) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Colorado carpenter Gary Adams spots two mysterious creatures in the woods near his house, he calls on his friend, veterinarian Cammy Rivers for advice. But like Gary, Cammy has never seen an animal resembling this beautiful species. But when the Department of Homeland Security puts a call out for Gary and Cammy because of these animals, the two risk everything to protect the innocent creatures.
14) Velocity
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2005
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...
15) Odd interlude
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nestled on a lonely stretch along the Pacific coast, quaint roadside outpost Harmony Corner offers everything a weary traveler needs-a cozy diner, a handy service station, a cluster of cottages . . . and the Harmony family homestead presiding over it all. But when Odd Thomas and company stop to spend the night, they discover that theres more to this secluded haven than meets the eye-and that between life and death, there is something more frightening...
16) Odd hours
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Haunted by dreams of a powerful red tide, Odd Thomas, accompanied by two otherworldly sidekicks--his dog Boo and the Chairman of the Board--is drawn to a small California coastal town, where nothing is at it appears and where he confronts overwhelming and sinister forces out to stop his quest.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas journeys through California and Nevada after a vision about the murders of three children, an effort throughout which he befriends a series of eccentric helpers who become allies in a battle against a sociopath and a network of killers.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie, ominous, and invasive incidents.
Author
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
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.