Dean R Koontz
1) Odd hours
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Thomas Odd is a fry cook rumored to have the ability to talk to the dead. Odd is pulled inexorably to the sea, to a small California coastal town where nothing is as it seems. Now the forces arrayed against him have both official sanction and an infinitely more sinister authority ... and in this dark night of the soul dawn will come only after the most shattering revelations of all.
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas novel volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas confronts deadly adversaries in a decaying Hollywood estate.
3) Innocence
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Language
English
Description
He lives in solitude beneath the city, an exile from society, which will destroy him if he is ever seen. She dwells in seclusion, a fugitive from enemies who will do her harm if she is ever found. But the bond between them runs deeper than the tragedies that have scarred their lives. Something more than chance -- and nothing less than destiny -- has brought them together in a world whose hour of reckoning is fast approaching.
4) Watchers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Out of a government laboratory so sinsister and secret that its very name cannot be whispered and into the life of certain good and evil people come two escaped creatures, one murderous and one benign and both "changed, changed utterly" from the ordinary animals they once were. To the scientists who fashioned them they are the end products of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence and they want them back. To the people who encounter...
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Jane Hawk novel volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Jane Hawk--fiction's most relentless, resourceful, stunning new heroine--continues her battle against a murderous conspiracy in the riveting sequel to The Silent Corner. "No time to delay. Do what you were born to do. Fame will be yours when you do this." These are the words that ring in the mind of mild-mannered, beloved schoolteacher Cora Gundersun--just before she takes her own life, and many others', in a shocking act of carnage. When the disturbing...
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Language
English
Description
"Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fianče, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange - though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall...
7) The good guy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Timothy Carrier is sitting in a bar when the man next to him mistakes him for someone else and hands him an envelope with $10,000. The man leaves after handing Tim a photo of a woman marked for death and her address. Soon the killer arrives believing Tim is the one who wants to hire him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Once the center of madness, suicide, mass murder, and whispers of things far worse, the 1800s Gilded Age palace known as the Pendleton, has been re-christened in the 1970s as a luxury apartment building. But now inexplicable shadows caper across walls, security cameras relay impossible images, phantom voices mutter in strange tongues, not-quite-human figures lurk in the basement, and elevators plunge into unknown depths.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In the late summer of a long-ago year, a killer arrived in a small city. His name was Alton Turner Blackwood, and in the space of a few months he brutally murdered four families. His savage spree ended only when he himself was killed by the last survivor of the last family, a fourteen-year-old boy. Half a continent away and two decades later, someone is murdering families again, re-creating in detail Blackwood's crimes. Homicide detective John Calvino...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
One year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, Ryan Perry receives strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me, " and discovers that he is being stalked by a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.
For one man, they are the five most terrifying words of all. . . . One year after the heart transplant that saved his life, thirty-five-year-old Ryan Perry has never felt better....
11) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas novel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.
12) Lightning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Aided through crises by the almost miraculous intervention of a stranger, Laura Shane learns the nature of her awesome destiny when, on her thirtieth birthday, the stranger finally requests her help.
13) Brother Odd
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas novel volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Loop me in, odd one. The words, spoken in the deep of night by a sleeping child, chill the young man watching over her. For this was a favorite phrase of Stormy Llewellyn, his lost love, and Stormy is dead, gone forever from this world. In the haunted halls of the isolated monastery where he had sought peace, Odd Thomas is stalking spirits of an infinitely darker nature...Brother Odd."--Dust jacket flap.
16) The husband
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must be some kind of joke. He was in the middle of planting impatiens in the yard of one of his clients when his cell phone rang. Now he's standing in a normal suburban neighborhood on a bright summer day, having a phone conversation out of his darkest nightmare.
17) Velocity
Author
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...
19) Forever odd
Author
Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas novel volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
He unique world of Pico, Odd ? a hero who lives between the living and the dead--takes a stand against evil in a battle where there are no innocent bystanders.
A childhood friend of Odd Thomas has disappeared. The 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, encounters an enemy of exceptional cunning, and spirals into a...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
Dean Koontz has surpassed his longtime reputation as "America's most popular suspense novelist"(Rolling Stone) to become one of the most celebrated and successful writers of our time. Reviewers hail his boundless originality, his art, his unparalleled ability to create highly textured, riveting drama, at once viscerally familiar and utterly unique. Author of one #1 New York Times bestseller after another, Koontz is at the pinnacle of his powers, spinning...