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William Olivier Desmond

    Rose Madder
    The Langoliers
    Wilful Behaviour
    Just After Sunset
    Needful Things
    It
    • It

      • 1392 pages
      • 49 hours of reading
      4.3(785251)Add rating

      It is the children who see - and feel - what makes the town so horribly different. In the storm drains and sewers It lurks, taking the shape of every nightmare, each one's deepest dread. As the children grow up and move away, the horror of It is buried deep - until they are called back.

      It
    • With a demonic blend of malice and affection, Stephen King says farewell to Castle Rock, Maine, the town he put on the map. By the author of CARRIE, THE SHINING, NIGHT SHIFT, THE STAND, PET SEMATARY, MISERY, IT, THE DARK HALF and FOUR PAST MIDNIGHT.

      Needful Things
    • Just After Sunset

      • 353 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.9(48479)Add rating

      This collection of short works is comprised of pieces that previously appeared in such publications as The New Yorker, Playboy, and McSweeney's, in a volume that includes such tales as ""The Gingerbread Girl"" and "N

      Just After Sunset
    • Wilful Behaviour

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
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      From the acclaimed author of The Waters of Eternal Youth, Commissario Guido Brunetti dredges up dark secrets from Italy's anti-Semitic past in his captivating eleventh case. Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon's ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice's beautiful but sinister byways and canals. In Willful Behavior, Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife's students. Intelligent and serious , Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it-until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to long-buried secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews-secrets few in Italy want revealed.

      Wilful Behaviour
    • The Langoliers

      • 320 pages
      • 12 hours of reading
      3.8(1678)Add rating

      No. 1 bestselling author Stephen King's unforgettable novella - first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries - about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky is now available as a stand-alone publication. The flight attendants were gone; almost all the passengers were gone; Brian Engle was willing to bet the 767's two-man cockpit crew was also gone. He believed Flight 29 was heading east on automatic pilot. On a red-eye flight from L. A. to Boston, ten passengers wake up to discover everyone else has disappeared. Brian Engle, a trained pilot, remembers something about a strange aurora borealis and turbulence reports over the desert. Now he has to try to land the plane. But the safe haven of Bangor airport is not what it seems. It's eerily empty. The clocks have stopped. The food and drink is tasteless. The fuel doesn't burn. And the sound, like 'radio static', is getting closer. Craig Toomy, an investment banker, believes he knows what's coming. The Langoliers. Which means time is, quite literally, running out . . . A spine-tingling, propulsive novella, The Langoliers is a brilliant read from the masterful Stephen King.

      The Langoliers
    • Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here Roused by a single drop of blood, Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. And she takes flight - with his credit card. Alone in a strange city, Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner and she finds an odd junk shop painting, 'Rose Madder', which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But it's hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened and on the rampage, Norman is a corrupt cop with a dog's instinct for tracking people. And he's getting close. Rosie can feel just how close he's getting...

      Rose Madder
    • My Legendary Girlfriend

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      3.1(28)Add rating

      Bridget Jones meets High Fidelity in this hilarious story for anyone who has ever been dumped, had to dump, lived in dodgy rented accommodation, or search for love in the 90s.

      My Legendary Girlfriend
    • Dreamcatcher

      • 694 pages
      • 25 hours of reading
      3.4(1532)Add rating

      Suspenseful, frightening, and sometimes howlingly funny, Stephen King's first full-length novel in three years is a story of invasion and battle, survival and heroism. It is a story of how men remember ... and how they love.

      Dreamcatcher
    • Collections Litterature: La Rose Noire

      Roman

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Darkness has fallen on the city of Portland, Oregon. One by one, the wives of affluent and respected men are vanishing from their homes. The only clues to their disappearance are a single black rose and a note that reads, "Gone, But Not Forgotten." It is the rebirth of a horror that has already devastated a community at the opposite end of the country—and, as it did then, terror and death will follow. Defense attorney Betsy Tannenbaum is trapped in a nightmare as the shadows of a killer darken her world. And she will soon be risking everything she has and everyone she loves to defend a cold, powerful, and manipulating client who may be a victim . . . or a monster.

      Collections Litterature: La Rose Noire