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The Lost One

A Life of Peter Lorre

By: Stephen Youngkin

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The Lost One

A Life of Peter Lorre

By: Stephen Youngkin

Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung balance between good and evil. His portrayal of the child murderer in Fritz Lang’s masterpiece M (1931) catapulted him to international fame. Lang said of Lorre: “He gave one of the best performances in film history and certainly the best in his life.” Today, the Hungarian-born actor is also recognized for his riveting performances in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Casablanca (1942). Lorre arrived in America in 1934 expecting to shed his screen image as a villain. He even tried to lose his signature accent, but Hollywood repeatedly cast him as an outsider who hinted at things better left unknown. Seeking greater control over his career, Lorre established his own production company. His unofficial “graylisting” by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, however, left him with little work. He returned to Germany, where he co-authored, directed, and starred in the film Der Verlorene (The Lost One) in 1951. German audiences rejected Lorre’s dark vision of their recent past, and the actor returned to America, wearily accepting roles that parodied his sinister movie personality.The first biography of this major actor, The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre draws upon more than three hundred interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor. Author Stephen D. Youngkin examines for the first time Lorre’s pivotal relationship with German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, his experience as an émigré from Hitler’s Germany, his battle with drug addiction, and his struggle with the choice between celebrity and intellectual respectability.Separating the enigmatic person from the persona long associated with one of classic Hollywood’s most recognizable faces, The Lost One is the definitive account of a life triumphant and yet tragically riddled with many failed possibilities.

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0813171857

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Selling Science

Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin

By: Stephen E. Mawdsley

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Selling Science

Polio and the Promise of Gamma Globulin

By: Stephen E. Mawdsley

Today, when many parents seem reluctant to have their children vaccinated, even with long proven medications, the Salk vaccine trial, which enrolled millions of healthy children to test an unproven medical intervention, seems nothing short of astonishing. In Selling Science, medical historian Stephen E. Mawdsley recounts the untold story of the first large clinical trial to control polio using healthy children—55,000 healthy children—revealing how this long-forgotten incident cleared the path for Salk’s later trial. Mawdsley describes how, in the early 1950s, Dr. William Hammon and the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis launched a pioneering medical experiment on a previously untried scale. Conducted on over 55,000 healthy children in Texas, Utah, Iowa, and Nebraska, this landmark study assessed the safety and effectiveness of a blood component, gamma globulin, to prevent paralytic polio. The value of the proposed experiment was questioned by many prominent health professionals as it harbored potential health risks, but as Mawdsley points out, compromise and coercion moved it forward. And though the trial returned dubious results, it was presented to the public as a triumph and used to justify a federally sanctioned mass immunization study on thousands of families between 1953 and 1954. Indeed, the concept, conduct, and outcome of the GG study were sold to health professionals, medical researchers, and the public at each stage. At a time when most Americans trusted scientists, their mutual encounter under the auspices of conquering disease was shaped by politics, marketing, and at times, deception. Drawing on oral history interviews, medical journals, newspapers, meeting minutes, and private institutional records, Selling Science sheds light on the ethics of scientific conduct, and on the power of marketing to shape public opinion about medical experimentation.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813574404

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Late-Night in Washington

Political Humor and the American Presidency

By: Stephen J. Farnsworth,S. Robert Lichter,Farah Latif

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Late-Night in Washington

Political Humor and the American Presidency

By: Stephen J. Farnsworth,S. Robert Lichter,Farah Latif

This book traces the trajectory of late-night political humor, which has long been a staple of entertainment television and is now a prominent part of social media political discourse, especially when it comes to the presidency. From Richard Nixon on Laugh-In to Donald Trump’s avatar on Saturday Night Live, this book takes the next step and considers how late-night comedy treats Joe Biden, the new American president who strives to restore a civil public tone but offers far less comedy fodder than his predecessor. Employing content analysis, public opinion surveys, and a variety of other quantitative and qualitative research, the authors look beyond the day-to-day memes and mimes of late-night comics and show how political humor may evolve. For students and scholars of politics and the media, this book will appeal to the general public and political pundits as well.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000935000

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From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism

Ireland and America, 1960–2023

By: Stephen Watt

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From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism

Ireland and America, 1960–2023

By: Stephen Watt

In Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964), Polish critic Jan Kott defines one purpose of scholarship in the humanities that summarises the chief aim of this project: ‘The writing of history and, above all, literary criticism can, and must, always be understood as an attempt to find in the past aspects of human experience that can shed light on the meaning of our own times’. That is precisely what From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism: Ireland and America, 1960–2023 attempts to do. Aided by the insights of Irish and Northern Irish playwrights, poets and novelists, this book uses America’s historical relationship with Ireland and Northern Ireland as a means of understanding the rise of Trumpism and assessing its potential to incite a new American ‘Troubles’. Three related aims are to demonstrate the interdependence of Ireland and the United States since the Famine in Ireland and the American Civil War in the nineteenth century; to delineate the political and economic obstacles in the latter decades of the last century that prevented this relationship from evolving into a more consequential partnership; and to identify the underappreciated leaders who played crucial roles in both the brokering of the Good Friday Agreement and the inception of a revised foreign policy.

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Anthem Press

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1839992654

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Regulation of Lawyers

Problems of Law and Ethics

By: Stephen Gillers

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Regulation of Lawyers

Problems of Law and Ethics

By: Stephen Gillers

In this, the Thirteenth edition of Stephen Gillers’ book, Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics, the author’s goal, as always, is to teach the law and rules governing lawyers and judges with engaging writing and a conversational voice. To that end, he sprinkles the text with literary and historical references, references to current events, amplifying asides (“by the way” stories), and humor. There are new cases, and some repeat cases have been further edited. New problems have been added, and some former problems have been revised to better crystalize their issues. As always, the problems aim for credibility through detail. In addition to the self-study questions and answers, most chapters now contain one or two short “Pop-up Questions” with answers a few pages later. The clarity of notes on secondary issues makes it possible to assign these with little need for class discussion, freeing time for the principal lessons. New to the Thirteenth Edition: New cases and materials on: The formation of the attorney-client relationship The elements of competency, including cultural competency Privilege and confidentiality and their exceptions Allocation of authority between lawyer and client Discipline for inflating bills Screening to prevent imputation of lateral lawyer conflicts The interplay between Rules 1.7(a)(2) and 1.8(a) Prosecutorial misconduct A lawyer’s responsibility for real evidence, such as weapons Rule 8.4(g) The Supreme Court’s decision in 303 Creative Client identity in the corporate context (U.S. v. Elizabeth Holmes) Discipline for lying to the public (Rudolph Giuliani and Jenna Ellis) Litigation funding. “Pop-up Questions” (and answers) in most chapters Benefits for instructors and students: High-profile author—Professor Gillers is a highly visible and recognized national authority on professional responsibility Comprehensive coverage—includes the full range of professional responsibility issues Excellent case selection Manageable length Well-balanced mix of cases, secondary sources, and timely materials—often drawn from recent headlines, and which supports its comprehensive coverage of professional responsibility issues Realistic, helpful, and abundant problems—many based on actual events, and which facilitate class discussion and enable students to understand the rules and regulations that will govern their professional behavior Detailed and challenging notes—providing in-depth treatment of the issues Accessible and engaging style—characterized by variety, clarity, and humor Discussion beyond the rules and from different perspectives—to recognize that the law is not necessarily self-evident and covers many subtleties

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Beautiful

The Life of Hedy Lamarr

By: Stephen Michael Shearer

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Beautiful

The Life of Hedy Lamarr

By: Stephen Michael Shearer

“A fascinating biography that re-creates Hollywood’s Golden Age of Glamour” as it recounts the life of the star and inventor (Publishers Weekly). Hedy Lamarr’s exotic beauty was heralded across Europe in the early 1930s. Yet she became infamous for her nude scenes in the scandalous movie Ecstasy. Trapped in a marriage to one of Austria’s munitions barons, a friend of Mussolini’s who hid his Jewish heritage to become an “honorary Aryan” at the onset of World War II, Lamarr fled Europe for Hollywood, where she was transformed into one of cinema’s most glamorous stars, appearing opposite such actors as Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, and James Stewart. As her career faded, she went from one husband to the next, her personal troubles and legal woes casting a shadow over her phenomenal intelligence and former image. Stephen Michael Shearer separates the truth from the rumors regarding the life of Hedy Lamarr, and highlights her astonishing role as inventor of a technology that has become an essential part of everything from military weaponry to today’s cell phones. Praise for Beautiful “In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr’s movies.” —Jeanine Basinger, The Wall Street Journal “Much more than a standard Hollywood biography.” —Edge Magazine

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1429908203

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The Road to the White House 2024

The Politics of Presidential Elections

By: Stephen J. Wayne

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The Road to the White House 2024

The Politics of Presidential Elections

By: Stephen J. Wayne

This book equips students with a background on presidential elections and a guide to the 2024 election. It illustrates the strengths and weaknesses of our electoral democracy and offers insights on changes that have revolutionized contemporary electoral politics.

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153818205X

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Desegregating the Altar

The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871–1960

By: Stephen J. Ochs

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Desegregating the Altar

The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871–1960

By: Stephen J. Ochs

Historically, black Americans have affiliated in far greater numbers with certain protestant denominations than with the Roman Catholic church. In analyzing this phenomenon scholars have sometimes alluded to the dearth of black Catholic priest, but non one has adequately explained why the church failed to ordain significant numbers of black clergy until the 1930s. Desegregating the Altar, a broadly based study encompassing Afro-American, Roman catholic, southern, and institutional history, fills that gap by examining the issue through the experience of St. Joseph’s Society of the Sacred Heart, or the Josephites, the only American community of Catholic priests devoted exclusively to evangelization of blacks. Drawing on extensive research in the previously closed or unavailable archives of numerous archdioceses, diocese, and religious communities, Stephen J. Ochs shows that, in many cases, Roman catholic authorities purposely excluded Afro-Americans from their seminaries. The conscious pattern of discrimination on the part of numerous bishops and heads of religious institutes stemmed from a number of factors, including the church’s weak and vulnerable position in the South and the consequent reluctance of its leaders to challenge local racial norms; the tendency of Roman Catholics to accommodate to the regional and national cultures in which they lived; deep-seated psychosexual fears that black men would be unable to maintain celibacy as priests; and a “missionary approach” to blacks that regarded them as passive children rather than as potential partners and leaders. The Josephites, under the leadership of John R. Slattery, their first superior general (1893–1903), defied prevailing racist sentiment by admitting blacks into their college and seminary and raising three of them to the priesthood between 1891 and 1907. This action proved so explosive, however, that it helped drive Slattery out of the church and nearly destroyed the Josephite community. In the face of such opposition, Josephite authorities closed their college and seminary to black candidates except for an occasional mulatto. Leadership in the development of a black clergy thereupon passed to missionaries of the Society of the Diving Word. Meanwhile, Afro-American Catholics, led by Professor Thomas Wyatt, refused to allow the Josephites to abandon the filed quietly. They formed the Federated Colored Catholics of America and pressed the Josephites to return to their earlier policies; they also communicated their grievances to the Holy See, which, in turn, quietly pressured the American church to open its seminaries to black candidates. As a result, by 1960, the number of black priests and seminarians in the Josephites and throughout the Catholic church in the United States had increased significantly. Stephen Ochs’s study of the Josephites illustrates the tenacity and insidiousness of institutional racism and the tendency of churches to opt for institutional security rather than a prophetic stance in the face of controversial social issues. His book ably demonstrates that the struggle of black Catholics for priests of their own race mirrored the efforts of Afro-Americans throughout American society to achieve racial equality and justice.

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LSU Press

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0807118591

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The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia

By: Stephen Whitty

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The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia

By: Stephen Whitty

Several decades after his last motion picture was produced, Alfred Hitchcock is still regarded by critics and fans alike as one of the masters of cinema. From silents of the 1920s to his final feature in 1976, the director’s many films continue to entertain audiences and inspire filmmakers. In The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia, film critic Stephen Whitty provides a detailed overview of the director's work. This reference volume features in-depth critical entries on each of his major films as well as biographical essays on his most frequent collaborators and discussions of significant themes in his work. For this book, Whitty draws on primary-source materials such as interviews he conducted with associates of the director—including screenwriter Jay Presson Allen (Marnie), actresses Eva Marie Saint (North by Northwest) and Kim Novak (Vertigo), actor Farley Granger (Strangers on a Train), actor and producer Norman Lloyd (Saboteur), and Hitchcock’s daughter Patricia (Stage Fright; Psycho)—among others. Encompassing the entire range of the director’s career—from early influences and silent films to his decade-long television show and cameos in nearly every feature—this is a comprehensive overview of cinema’s ultimate showman. A detailed and lively look at the master of suspense, The Alfred Hitchcock Encyclopedia will be of interest to professors, students, and the many fans of the director’s work.

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1442251603

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The Lost One

A Life of Peter Lorre

By: Stephen D. Youngkin

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The Lost One

A Life of Peter Lorre

By: Stephen D. Youngkin

The first full biography of this major actor draws upon more than 300 interviews, including conversations with directors Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, John Huston, Frank Capra, and Rouben Mamoulian, who speak candidly about Lorre, both the man and the actor.

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0813123607

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Different Seasons

Four Novellas

By: Stephen King

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Different Seasons

Four Novellas

By: Stephen King

Contents: Hope springs eternal : Rita Hayworth and Shawshank redemption -- Summer of corruption : Apt pupil -- Fall from innocence : The body -- A winter's tale : The breathing method.

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1501143484

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Cell

A Novel

By: Stephen King

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Cell

A Novel

By: Stephen King

The latest, terrifying, #1 "New York Times" bestseller by Stephen King, about the mayhem unleashed when a mysterious force transforms cell phone users into homicidal maniacs, is available in a Premium Edition paperback.

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1416524517

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Thinner

By: Stephen King

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Thinner

By: Stephen King

A fatal accident leads to a gypsy curse. When the scales told Billy Halleck he was losing weight, it was what the doctor ordered. His wife was pleased - as she should have been. But... 'Thinner' - an old man's curse, had lodged in his mind like a fattening worm, eating at his flesh, at his reason. And with his despair, came violence.

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150114376X

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Stories

By: Stephen King

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The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

Stories

By: Stephen King

From a master of the short story, a collection that includes stories never before in print, never published in America, never collected and brand new- with the magnificent bones of interstitial autobiographical comments on when, why and how Stephen King came to write each story"--

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150112787X

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The Colorado Kid

By: Stephen King

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The Colorado Kid

By: Stephen King

On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling circumstances of his death, the less they understand. Was it an impossible crime? Or something stranger still...? No one but Stephen King could tell this story about the darkness at the heart of the unknown and our compulsion to investigate the unexplained. With echoes of Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon and the work of Graham Greene, one of the world's great storytellers presents a surprising tale that explores the nature of mystery itself...

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0743292766

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9780743292764

The Random Book Of-- Stephen

By: Stephen Grant

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The Random Book Of-- Stephen

By: Stephen Grant

This title features facts, figures, stats and trivia on legions of record-breakers, record losers, actors, singers, sportsmen, historical figures, the famous and infamous, felons, inventors, rulers, heartthrobs, politicians and scientists called Stephen.

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Stripe

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1907158138

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Holly

By: Stephen King

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Holly

By: Stephen King

Kun ikä ei tuo viisautta vaan murhanhimoa Vetävän murhaviihteen epätodennäköisin sankari Holly saa vastaansa eläkeläispariskunnan, jonka kellariin kätketty salaisuus ei voisi olla lähtöisin kenenkään muun kuin Stephen Kingin kynästä. Yksityisetsivä Holly Gibney ei haluaisi ryhtyä etsimään kadonnutta Bonnie Dahlia. Elämässä ei ole siihen nyt hyvä hetki. Mutta jokin saa hänet muuttamaan mielensä. Eikä aikaakaan, kun tähtäimessä on epäilty, joka on vähintään yhtä omalaatuinen kuin Mersumiehessä ja Ulkopuolisessa lukijat hurmannut Holly itse. Kahdeksankymppinen professoripariskunta, hellästi toisiaan rakastavat Rodney ja Emily Harris, saattavat olla hirveintä, mitä kauhun kuningas on koskaan onnistunut kuvittelemaan. ”Hollyn piti olla sivuhenkilö, mutta hän varastikin koko show’n – ja sydämeni.” Stephen King Yhdysvaltalainen Stephen King (s. 1947), kauhun kuningas, on yksi maailman tunnetuimmista kirjailijoista ja amerikkalaisen nykykirjallisuuden suurimpia tarinankertojia. Hänen ensimmäinen romaaninsa Carrie ilmestyi 1974, minkä jälkeen hän on kirjoittanut 65 romaania, 20 pienoisromaania ja yli 200 novellia. Useita merkittäviä kirjallisuuspalkintoja voittaneelle Stephen Kingille on myönnetty myös American PENin sananvapauspalkinto. Hän asuu Mainessa vaimonsa, kirjailija Tabitha Kingin kanssa. Heidän poikansa Joe Hill ja Owen King ovat myös kirjailijoita.

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Tammi

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9520455035

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11/22/63

A Novel

By: Stephen King

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11/22/63

A Novel

By: Stephen King

Includes book club kit with discussion questions and author interview.

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Simon and Schuster

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1501120603

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Just After Sunset

Stories

By: Stephen King

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Just After Sunset

Stories

By: Stephen King

Thirteen “dazzling” (Associated Press) and “wonderfully wicked” (USA TODAY) stories from #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King. A book salesman with a grievance picks up a mute hitchhiker, not knowing the silent man in the passenger seat listens altogether too well. An exercise routine on a stationary bicycle takes its rider on a captivating—and then terrifying—journey. A blind girl works a miracle with a kiss and the touch of her hand. A psychiatric patient’s irrational thinking might create an apocalyptic threat in the Maine countryside…or keep the world from falling victim to it. These are just some of the tales to be found in the #1 bestselling collection Just After Sunset. Call it dusk or call it twilight, it’s a time when human intercourse takes on an unnatural cast, when the imagination begins to reach for shadows as they dissipate to darkness and living daylight can be scared right out of you. It’s the perfect time for master storyteller Stephen King.

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1668018101

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Laurie

By: Stephen King

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Laurie

By: Stephen King

Une nouvelle inédite et gratuite de Stephen King pour replonger dans l'univers de L'Outsider ! Lloyd vient de perdre sa femme. Pour l'aider à surmonter son deuil, sa soeur Beth lui rend visite et lui offre un adorable chiot baptisé Laurie dont il ne veut pas. Mais avec le temps, un lien se crée entre l'homme et l'animal...

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Albin Michel

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2226434100

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Transgressions Vol. 2

The Ransome Women/The Things They Left Behind

By: John Farris,Stephen King

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Transgressions Vol. 2

The Ransome Women/The Things They Left Behind

By: John Farris,Stephen King

Elizabeth has just come out of a long-term relationship with her boyfriend. Alone in her Victorian house, she begins to think she is going mad. Then she discovers she is being stalked, and that the means of surviving can be as shocking as surrender. Originally published: London: Virago, 1997.

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0765347512

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Stephen King goes to the movies

By: Stephen King

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Stephen King goes to the movies

By: Stephen King

I racconti di Stephen King prendono vita sul grande schermo! Una vera chicca per gli appassionati del Re del brivido.

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SPERLING & KUPFER

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8820090120

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Bag of Bones

By: Stephen King

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Bag of Bones

By: Stephen King

A haunted love story.

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067102423X

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If It Bleeds

Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, Rat

By: Stephen King

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If It Bleeds

Mr. Harrigan's Phone, The Life of Chuck, If It Bleeds, Rat

By: Stephen King

*#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* Featuring the novella “The Life of Chuck,” now a feature film adapted for the screen and directed by Mike Flanagan (The Fall of the House of Usher, Doctor Sleep) and starring Tom Hiddleston, Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Karen Gillan—a Toronto International Film Festival People’s Choice Award winner! From the legendary storyteller and master of short fiction Stephen King comes an extraordinary collection of four new “exceptionally compelling novellas that reaffirm [King’s] mastery of the form” (The Washington Post). Readers adore Stephen King’s novels, and his novellas are their own dark treat, briefer but just as impactful and enduring as his longer fiction. Many of his novellas have been made into iconic films, including “The Body” (Stand by Me) and “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption” (Shawshank Redemption). The four brilliant tales in If It Bleeds prove as iconic as their predecessors. In the title story, reader favorite Holly Gibney (from the Mr. Mercedes trilogy and The Outsider) must face her fears, and possibly another outsider—this time on her own. In “Mr. Harrigan’s Phone” an intergenerational friendship has a disturbing afterlife. “The Life of Chuck” explores, beautifully, how each of us contains multitudes. And in “Rat,” a struggling writer must contend with the darker side of ambition. If these novellas show King’s range, they also prove that certain themes endure. One of King’s great concerns is evil, and in If It Bleeds, there’s plenty of it. There is also evil’s opposite, which in King’s fiction often manifests as friendship. Holly is reminded that friendship is not only life-affirming but can be life-saving. Young Craig befriends Mr. Harrigan, and the sweetness of this late-in-life connection is its own reward. “An adroit vehicle to showcase the…nature of evil” (The Boston Globe), If It Bleeds is “exactly what I wanted to read right now,” says Ruth Franklin in The New York Times Book Review.

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1982137991

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The Shawshank Redemption

By: Stephen King

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The Shawshank Redemption

By: Stephen King

Originally published in 1982 in Different Seasons by Viking.

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1668084988

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The Sun Dog

By: Stephen King

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The Sun Dog

By: Stephen King

#1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King’s novella The Sun Dog, published in his award-winning 1990 story collection Four Past Midnight, now available for the first time as a standalone publication. The dog is loose again. It is not sleeping. It is not lazy. It’s coming for you. Kevin Delavan wants only one thing for his fifteenth birthday: a Polaroid Sun 660. There’s something wrong with his gift, though. No matter where Kevin Delevan aims the camera, it produces a photograph of an enormous, vicious dog. In each successive picture, the menacing creature draws nearer to the flat surface of the Polaroid film as if it intends to break through. When old Pop Merrill, the town’s sharpest trader, gets wind of this phenomenon, he envisions a way to profit from it. But the Sun Dog, a beast that shouldn’t exist at all, turns out to be a very dangerous investment.

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