Dean R Koontz
1) Forever odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
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I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He’s just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when...
I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He’s just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
733 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prodigal son - Tough New Orleans detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, investigate a string of murders, unaware that the culprit they seek was created by Victor Frankenstein, who has survived two hundred years and is populating the city with a new race of "perfect" beings, and that his original creation, Deucalion, is hunting his maker.
City of night - Not even Victor Helios -- once Frankenstein -- can stop the engineered killers...
Author
Language
English
Description
Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves--and humanity.
4) The vision
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mary Bergen, a gifted clairvoyant, uses her psychic ability and haunting visions to help the police solve crimes both past and present while feeling powerless to stop the murders, until she envisions her own death"--Container.
Author
Series
Frankenstein series volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
455 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Victor's latest creations, an army of engineered killers set loose in modern-day New Orleans, begin to exceed his expectations and exhibit logistical and analytical skills, he plans to eliminate the entire race, a plan that backfires into humankind's ultimate nightmare.
6) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since his wife, Michelle, left seven years ago, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, in Suavidad Beach. It's a quiet life, until a local eccentric known as Spooky Ed shows up on their doorstep. Ed entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange and dangerous object--something he calls "the key to everything"--and tells Jeffy that he must never use the device. But after a visit from a group...
7) After death
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Mace, head of security at a top-secret research facility, opens his eyes in a makeshift morgue twenty-four hours following an event in which everyone perished--including him and his best friend, Shelby Shrewsberry. Having awakened with an extraordinary ability unlike anything he--or anyone else--has ever imagined, Michael is capable of being as elusive as a ghost. He sets out to honor his late friend by helping Nina Dozier and her son, John,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Bantam mass market ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future--and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters. Now the good will make their last, best stand....
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Edition
Bantam Books mass market ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
401 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Victor Leben--formerly Victor "Helios" Frankenstein--plans to repopulate the planet with a new race of humanoids that he will create using stem cells, "organic" silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, but a group of five--including detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison and Victor's original monster, Deucalion--team up to stop him.
11) The other Emily
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
400 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A decade ago, Emily Carlino vanished after her car broke down on a California highway. She was presumed to be one of serial killer Ronny Lee Jessup's victims whose remains were never found. Writer David Thorne still hasn't recovered from losing the love of his life or from the guilt of not being there to save her. Since then, he's sought closure any way he can. He even visits regularly with Jessup in prison, desperate for answers about Emily's final...
12) Night chills
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
x, 369 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Bantam Books mass market ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
279 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Odd Thomas and his traveling companions stop for the night at Harmony Corner they discover that there is a deadly secret hiding at the quaint homestead.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
His name is Deucalion, a tattooed man of mysterious origin, a sleight-of-reality artist who's traveled the centuries with a secret worse than death. He arrives as a serial killer stalks the streets, a killer who carefully selects his victims for the humanity that is missing in himself. Detective Carson O'Connor is cool, cynical, and every bit as tough as she looks. Her partner Michael Maddison would back her up all the way to Hell itself, and that...
19) Shadowfires
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
Berkley ed.
Physical Desc
509 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Frankenstein series volume 4
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010], p2010
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 9 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Two years after they saw him die, the man they knew as Victor Helios lives on. Detectives Carson O'Connor and Michael Maddison; Victor's engineered wife, Erika 5, and her companion Jocko; and the original Victor's first creation, the tormented Deucalion, have all arrived at a small Montana town where their old alliance will be renewed--and tested--by forces from within and without, and where the dangers they face will eclipse any they have yet encountered....