It is a story within a story, which features both the younger and older gunslinger Roland on his quest to find the Dark Tower. Fans of the existing seven books in the series will also delight in discovering what happened to Roland and his ka-tet between the time they leave the Emerald City and arrive at the outskirts of Calla Bryn Sturgis.This Russian Doll of a novel, visits Mid-World's last gunslinger, Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet as a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. Roland tells a tale from his early days as a gunslinger, in the guilt ridden year following his mother's death. Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a 'skin man,' Roland takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole.' 'A person's never too old for stories,' he says to Bill. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.' And stories like these, they live for us.
Tullio Dobner Book order (chronological)






With a stunning new cover look, King's bestselling supernatural tale about a boy, his girlfriend and a possessed '58 Plymouth Fury called Christine. 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 frightening power that leaks like sump oil, staining and corrupting. A malign power that corrodes the mind and turns ownership into Possession.
The Martian
- 369 pages
- 13 hours of reading
Stranded on Mars by a duststorm that compromised his space suit and forced his crew to leave him behind, astronaut Mark Watney struggles to survive in spite of minimal supplies and environmental challenges that test his ingenuity
The Green Mile
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
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.
Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade
- 455 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade is the thrilling novelisation by Oliver Bowden based on the game series. Niccolò Polo, father of Marco, will finally reveal the story he has kept secret all his life - the story of Altaïr, one of the brotherhood's most extraordinary Assassins. Altaïr embarks on a formidable mission - one that takes him throughout the Holy Land and shows him the true meaning of the Assassin's Creed. To demonstrate his commitment, Altaïr must defeat nine deadly enemies, including Templar leader, Robert de Sable. Altaïr's life story is told here for the first time: a journey that will change the course of history; his ongoing battle with the Templar conspiracy; a family life that is as tragic as it is shocking; and the ultimate betrayal of an old friend. Assassin's Creed: The Secret Crusade is based on the phenomenally successful gaming series. Oliver Bowden is the pen-name of an acclaimed novelist.
The Dark Tower - 3: The Waste Lands
- 624 pages
- 22 hours of reading
Several months have passed, and Roland’s two new tet-mates have become proficient gunslingers. Eddie Dean has given up heroin, and Odetta’s two selves have joined, becoming the stronger and more balanced personality of Susannah Dean. But while battling The Pusher in 1977 New York, Roland altered ka by saving the life of Jake Chambers, a boy who—in Roland’s where and when—has already died. Now Roland and Jake exist in different worlds, but they are joined by the same madness: the paradox of double memories. Roland, Susannah, and Eddie must draw Jake into Mid-World then follow the Path of the Beam all the way to the Dark Tower. But nothing is easy in Mid-World. Along the way our tet stumbles into the ruined city of Lud, and are caught between the warring gangs of the Pubes and the Grays. The only way out of Lud is to wake Blaine the Mono, an insane train that has a passion for riddling, and for suicidal journeys.
The Books of Blood
- 462 pages
- 17 hours of reading
Clive Barker tells three stories of terror and blood involving a butcher, a surgeon, and a mortician.
From the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling master of suspense comes a riveting thriller that probes the deepest terrors of the human psyche--and the ineffable mystery of what truly makes us who we are. Now available in a tall Premium Edition.
The small town of Chester's Mill, Maine, is faced with a big dilemma when it is mysteriously sealed off by an invisible and completely impenetrable force field. With cars and airplanes exploding on contact, the force field has completely isolated the townspeople from the outside world. Now, Iraq war vet Dale Barbara and a group of the town's more sensible citizens must overcome the tyrannical rule of Big Jim Rennie, a politician bent on controlling everything within the Dome.
Romanzi: It
- 1264 pages
- 45 hours of reading
In una ridente e sonnolenta cittadina americana, un gruppo di ragazzini, esplorando per gioco le fogne, risveglia da un sonno primordiale una creatura informe e mostruosa: It. E quando, molti anni dopo, It ricomincia a chiedere il suo tributo di sangue, gli stessi ragazzini, ormai adulti, abbandonano famiglia e lavoro per tornare a combatterla. E l'incubo ricomincia...
The Hustler
- 192 pages
- 7 hours of reading
When it was published in 1959, The Hustler was hailed as the first (and the best)novel written about pool/billiards in the long history of the game. The novel was soon turned into a film that starred Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason. The Hustler is the story of Fast Eddie Felson, a poolroom hustler who travels from town to town conning strangers into thinking they could beat him at the game when in fact, he is a highly-skilled player who has never lost a game. But then he goes off to Chicago and comes face to face with Minnesota Fats, a king of the poolroom, and defeat and the quest to get even presents a gripping read. Tevis was based in Ohio.
Duma Key
- 689 pages
- 25 hours of reading
When Edgar Freemantle moves to Duma Key to escape his past, he doesn't expect to find much there. But Duma Key and its mysteries have been waiting for him. The shells beneath his house are whispering to him, and something in the view from his window urges him to discover a talent he never knew he had. Edgar Freemantle begins to paint. Even though he has lost an arm. And the hand he uses is the one he lost ...
Chosen Prey
- 357 pages
- 13 hours of reading
He desired women. All kinds, all shapes, all sizes. He would fix on a woman and build imaginary stories around her. Some of the women he knew well, others not at all. Most of them faded quickly. Only a few became objects of desire
A departure from the Prey series, The Night Crew boasts a whole new cast of characters and a brand-new level of suspense. Anna Batory runs the night crew. Small, dark-haired, shy but tough, a Wisconsin farm girl on the streets of Los Angeles, she roams the city with her small band of video freelancers in their truck from ten to dawn, looking for news, accidents, robberies, murders, demonstrations; anything they can shoot and sell to the local stations or the networks. It's an exhilarating life...until two deaths hit Anna close to home. One night, when Anna's crew is filming a suicide jumper who falls five stories to his death, Jason, her fill-in cameraman, is strangely affected. The next morning, Jason is found murdered on a beach. At first the police think that the deaths are unrelated, but too many coincidences and clues keep linking the deaths and leading back to Anna, revealing the dark truth of an obsessed madman. Through a series of bizarre and harrowing events, ghostsofAnna's past are stirred up and revealed to be intrinsically linked to the lives of Jason and the suicide jumper. Anna's world becomes as cold and dangerous as the night itself. John Sandford has written thrilling stories before, but nothing to top the extraordinary suspense and tension of The Night Crew.
Cell
- 436 pages
- 16 hours of reading
'Civilization slipped into its second dark age on an unsurprising track of blood but with a speed that could not have been foreseen by even the most pessimistic futurist. By Halloween, every major city from New York to Moscow stank to the empty heavens and the world as it had been was a memory.' The event became known as The Pulse. The virus was carried by every cell phone operating within the entire world. Within ten hours, most people would be dead or insane. A young artist Clayton Riddell realises what is happening. And together with Tom McCourt and a teenage girl called Alice, he flees the devastation of explosive, burning Boston, desperate to reach his son before his son switches on his little red mobile phone...
Alex Delaware investigates the murder of a young couple, killed in their car on a lonely lover's lane.
Convicted of the murder of a young mother in a 1970 trial that ended with his threat to seek revenge against the jurors, Danny Padgitt is paroled after nine years in prison and returns to the scene of the trial in Ford County, Mississippi.
Skipping Christmas
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
Imagine a year without Christmas. That's just what Luther and Nora Krank have in mind when they decide that, just this once, they'll skip the holiday altogether. But, as this weary couple is about to discover, skipping Christmas brings enormous consequences - and isn't half as easy as they'd imagined.
The Other Side of Me
- 369 pages
- 13 hours of reading
A high spirited memoir of Sidney Sheldon's early life that provides as compulsively readable and racy narrative as any of his bestselling novels.
L'uomo in nero fuggì nel deserto e il pistolero lo seguì. Così esordiva la storia, sette libri fa. Ora la caccia è finita: Roland di Gilead, con i compagni che ha raccolto attorno a sé nel viaggio, è di fronte al suo destino. Nelle prime pagine di questo volume ritroviamo il gruppetto sano e salvo, sebbene sparso per ogni dove e ogni quando. Susannah-Mia è stata trasportata dal Dixie Pig di New York in una stanza degli orrori di Fedic, dove vedrà la luce suo "figlio". Jake e il Père Callahan, con Oy sono entrati nel locale ad armi spianate per salvare la ragazza, ignorando il pericolo in agguato. Roland e Eddie, con John Cullum, sono nel Maine del 1977, e incominciano a capire che il mondo da cui stanno cercando di fuggire è l'unico reale.
The dark tower. Song of Susannah
- 480 pages
- 17 hours of reading
This a pivotal instalment in the epic saga provides the key to the quest that defines Roland's life. In the next part of their journey to the tower, Roland and his band of followers face adversity from every side: Susannah Dean has been taken over by a demon-mother and uses the power of Black Thirteen to get from the Mid-World New York City. But who is the father of her child? And what role will the Crimson King play? Roland sends Jake to break Susannah's date with destiny, while he himself uses 'the persistence of magic' to get to Maine in the Summer of 1977. It is a terrible world: for one thing it is real and bullets are flying. For another, it is inhabited by the author of a novel called 'SALEM'S LOT. SONG OF SUSANNAH is driven by revelation and by suspense. It continues THE DARK TOWER series seamlessly from WOLVES OF THE CALLA and the dramatic climax will leave readers desperate to read the quest's conclusion.
A public defender takes an unwanted murder case and stumbles across a horrible pharmaceutical conspiracy.
In THE GUNSLINGER, Stephen King introduces readers to one of his most enigmatic heroes, Roland of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner, on a spellbinding journey into good and evil, in a desolate world which frighteningly echoes our own. In his first step towards the powerful and mysterious Dark Tower, Roland encounters an alluring woman named Alice, begins a friendship with Jake, a kid from New York, and faces an agonising choice between damnation and salvation as he pursues the Man in Black. Both grippingly realistic and eerily dreamlike, THE GUNSLINGER leaves readers eagerly awaiting the next chapter. And the Tower is closer...
It is the 1950s in Arkansas, the cotton season and to the Chandler family it means hard work, temporary workers and a host of complications. A story inspired by Grisham's own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a seven year old farm boy, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted.
With a stunning new cover look, King's classic tale of survival sees a young mother and her son trapped in a car by a horrifyingly familiar monster. Once upon a time, not so long ago, a monster came to the small town of Castle Rock, Maine . . . Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a bolt-hole. Except it isn't a rabbit warren any more. It is a cave inhabited by rabid bats. And Cujo falls sick. Very sick. And the gentle giant who once protected the family becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him . . .
Creating George Stark was easy. Getting rid of him won't be . . .The sparrows are flying again. The idea - unbidden, inexplicable - haunts the edge of Thad Beaumont's mind. Thad should be happy. For years now it is his secret persona 'George Stark', author of super-violent pulp thrillers, who has paid the family bills.
Stephen King returns to the Dark Tower with the fourth volume in his series. Roland, The Last Gunslinger, and his band of followers have narrowly escaped one world, and slipped into the next. It is here that Roland tells them a long-ago tale of love and adventure involving a beautiful and quixotic woman named Susan Delgado.
To Robbie Feaver the law is all about making a play-to a client, a jury, or a judge. But when the flashy, womanizing, multimillion-dollar personal injury lawyer is caught offering bribes, he's forced to wear a wire. Even as the besieged attorney looks after his ailing wife, Feaver must also make tapes that will hurl his friends, his enemies, his city, and a particular FBI undercover agent into a crisis of conscience and law. Now Robbie Feaver is making the play of his life.
A brutal policeman goes on a rampage in search of the wife who fled from him.
On falling in love with a woman half his age, novelist Michael Noonan of Maine is drawn into a custody battle for the woman's daughter. The father-in-law, a nasty millionaire, is trying to take the girl away and to complicate matters malevolent spirits are at work. Part love, part ghost story
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
“Help me, I’m lost! Please help me. I’m lost...” Nine year old Trisha McFarland becomes lost in the forest while hiking with her mother and brother along the Appalachian Trail in Maine. As Trisha starts to cry, she remembers Tom Gordon. Tom Gordon is a professional baseball player. He has never met Trisha McFarland. This is the story of Trisha McFarland and Tom Gordon, and how a man she never met, saved her life.
Billy Straight
- 585 pages
- 21 hours of reading
Lisa, the estranged wife of TV superstar cop Cart Ramsey, is found murdered in a Los Angeles park. She'd divorced him for cruelty and the detectives on the case, Petra Connor and Stu Bishop, immediately elevate him to No 1 suspect. But a thorough investigation of the scene reveals that there was probably a witness to the killing. Reading the evidence on the ground Petra and Stu believe it is a homeless man, but in fact it is a homeless boy - Billy Straight. He knows he has vital evidence, but he is too scared of being returned to his former existence to come forward. As Billy battles with his conscience, Petra and Stu have plenty of other leads to follow and a dual narrative of stunning complexity and suspense develops until they eventually combine into a single crescendo of tension. Jonathan Kellerman has produced a thriller which is genuinely unputdownable.
A corporate lawyer in Washington goes to war against his own company to defend the homeless. It happens after Michael Brock is abducted by a homeless man and held hostage. The homeless man is killed by a police sharpshooter and the lawyer is rescued, but the experience changes his life.
Der Partner
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
A thriller on the international movement of dirty money. Its protagonist is an American lawyer who skips the country with $90 million belonging to crooks. They catch up with him in Brazil, torture him, but he does not know where the money is, his lawyer girlfriend is circulating it around the globe. Extradited to the U.S. to face various charges he is going to use the money to get off.
Desperation
- 720 pages
- 26 hours of reading
Desperation is a deserted mining town in the Nevada desert. It's not a place to visit by choice, and the few unhappy travellers who are forced to stop there witness the familiar-looking town undergo a terrible transformation. In the struggle between good and evil, sacrifice may be the only answer.
The Regulators
- 489 pages
- 18 hours of reading
Everything is normal on a summer day in Wentworth, Ohio -- the paperboy is making his rounds, frisbees are flying, barbecues are being contemplated. The only thing that doesn't quite fit is the red van idling up the hill on Poplar Street. Soon it will roll and the killing will begin. And by the time night falls, the survivors of Poplar Street will find themselves in another world... This is an alternate cover/release for ISBN 0-451-191013.
Quattro dopo mezzanotte - 2: Quattro dopo mezzanotte
- 448 pages
- 16 hours of reading
Passata la mezzanotte, il tempo e le cose subiscono strane, inquietanti trasformazioni... Che cosa mai accade all'osservatore sbigottito quando s'infrange la finestra che separa la realtà dall'irrealtà e le schegge volano impazzite dappertutto? Seguendo il ritmico, inesorabile ticchettio dell'orologio, Stephen King avanza terrificanti risposte al singolare interrogativo in quattro racconti dal suggestivo potere ipnotico. Volume II: Il Poliziotto - Il Fotocane
This is the fifth volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a southern American prison
The Bad Death of Eduard Delacroix
- 90 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Det er blevet tid for den sidste tur, ad Den grønne mil for Eduard Delacroix, men først skal der tages afsked, og han er helt uvidende om den skæbne, der venter ham
The Mouse on the Mile
- 96 pages
- 4 hours of reading
This is the second volume of a serial novel by Stephen King, set on Death Row of a southern American prison.
Absolute power
- 505 pages
- 18 hours of reading
A cat burglar has evidence that links the President to the murder of the wife of a wealthy contributor.
The Runaway Jury
- 550 pages
- 20 hours of reading
The jury in a Mississippi tobacco trial appears to be manipulated and controlled.
Betsy Tannenbaum, feminist defense attorney, is involved in the series of disappearances which are similar to those of 10 years ago, when the killer was caught-- or was he?
Nightmares and dreamscapes
- 864 pages
- 31 hours of reading
A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. The Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile, the legend of Castle Rock returns... and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean? Stephen King is back with a powerful new collection of stories - a vast, many-chambered cave of a volume.In story after story, the long reach of Stephen King's imagination and the no-holds-barred force of his storytelling will take you to places you've never been before. On a roller-coaster through the macabre and the monstrous, via cutting-edge explorations of good and evil - and onto a heartfelt piece on Little League baseball.You will lose a good deal of sleep. But Stephen King, writing to beat the devil, will do your dreaming for you...
The Eyes of the Dragon
- 427 pages
- 15 hours of reading
The king is dead, murdered by a strange and horrible poison. But while the land of Delain mourns, the magician Flagg, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots. Soon the king's oldest son, Peter is imprisoned at the top of a high tower, the Needle, for his father's murder, while his younger brother Thomas inherits the throne. Only Peter knows the truth of his own innocence, and the truth of the evil that is Flagg. And only Peter can save Delain from the horror Flagg has in store. He has a plan, but it is dangerous and desperate and if he fails there will be no second chance. And all the while, Flagg's words echo in his mind: "I'll carry your head on my saddle-horn for a thousand years. Here I come, Peter! Coming for your head!" (back cover)
Gerald's Game
- 432 pages
- 16 hours of reading
A game. A husband and wife game. Gerald's Game. But this time Jesse doesn't want to play. Lying there, spread-eagled and handcuffed to the bedstead while he looms and drools over her, she feels angry and humiliated. So she kicks out hard. Aims to hit him where it hurts. He isn't meant to die, leaving Jesse alone and helpless in a lakeside holiday cabin. Miles from anywhere. No-one to hear her screams. Alone. Except for the stray dog that smells her blood, the voices in her head which begin to chatter, and the board which creaks stealthily at nightfall, signalling that something or someone else is close by.
Come leggere Stephen Hawking. Dal Big Bang ai Buchi Neri
- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Vita, ricerche, idee. Realizzato da Gene Stone. Traduzioni di Tullio Dobner. Numerose illustrazioni in nero e a colori 8vo pp. 230 broch
Needful things
- 944 pages
- 34 hours of reading
A newcomer opens a shop in Castle Rock. Bringing bargains as well as nightmares and disasters to the town.
Coinvolta in un incidente stradale poco dopo la tragica fine della figlioletta, annegata in un lago, Crista viene dichiarata clinicamente morta. Il suo cervello, però, è ancora vivo e per lei ha inizio un incubo spaventoso che, come tutti gli orrori, comincia senza preavviso. Nessun medico accetterebbe quello che le sta accadendo: ogni notte, infatti, lo spirito della bambina la tormenta, cercando di condurla verso il lago. E non si tratta di brutti sogni, ma di un'agghiacciante, seppur inspiegabile, realtà....
Misery
- 369 pages
- 13 hours of reading
One of the true classics of psychological suspense, about a writer and his No. 1 fan, now with a stunning new cover look. Paul Sheldon used to write for a living. Now he's writing to stay alive. Misery Chastain is dead. Paul Sheldon has just killed her - with relief, with joy. Misery made him rich; she was the heroine of a string of bestsellers. And now he wants to get on to some real writing. That's when the car accident happens, and he wakes up splinted and in pain, in the remote mountain home of his rescuer, Annie Wilkes. The good news is that Annie was a nurse and has pain-killing drugs. The bad news is that she has long been Paul's Number One Fan. And when she finds out what Paul has done to Misery, she doesn't like it. She doesn't like it at all . . .
È nata una stella
- 326 pages
- 12 hours of reading
Una rock star in declino si innamora di una giovane cantautrice emergente.
Floating Dragon
- 623 pages
- 22 hours of reading
Let the terror begin again in this "deliciously imaginative" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Peter Straub. The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous unstoppable creation of man’s power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child’s play... “Unspeakable horror…has ‘Bestseller’ written all over it.”—Los Angeles Times “Straub’s effects are quite spectacular…I was fairly awed by some of the more nightmarish scenes in Floating Dragon.”—The New York Times
Solo
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
A psychotic concert pianist who murders for pleasure makes the mistake of accidentally running down the daughter of an SAS soldier who is himself a trained and vicious killer. By the author of "The Eagle Has Landed" and "A Prayer for the Dying."
In the little town of Palomo Grove, two great armies are amassing; forces shaped from the hearts and souls of America.
Touch the Devil
- 239 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Ex-IRA assassin Frank Barry now works for the KGB, and British Intelligence wants him eliminated. They persuade Liam Devlin and Martin Brosnan, ex-IRA colleagues of Barry, to do the job. By the author of The Eagle has Landed, and A Prayer for the Dying.
The Talisman
- 992 pages
- 35 hours of reading
In a terrifying trip across America, young Jack Sawyer is searching for the Talisman, the only thing that can save his dying mother. His quest takes him into the menacing Territories where violence, surprise and the titanic struggle between good and evil reach across a mythic landscape.
Sidney Sheldon's Mistress of the Game
- 528 pages
- 19 hours of reading
The spellbinding sequel to Sidney Sheldon's MASTER OF THE GAME, one of the most glamorous and suspenseful tales ever told...
Roadwork
- 320 pages
- 12 hours of reading
When a highway project leaves him unemployed and threatens to destroy his home, one man takes on the forces of progress as he embarks on a vengeful showdown of epic proportions. Reissue.




















































