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Pub. Date
2007
Description
Having flamed out in her job in the executive offices of Nurses in Neighborhoods NY (NINNY), the fictional Frances is keeping a low and lonely profile while considering how best to rise from her metaphorical ashes. Her hiatus abruptly ends, however, when she discovers Lana Plotsky, her elderly neighbor and fellow Cooperator, dead on the laundry room floor. As Frances can't just leave Mrs. Plotsky there, she improvises a solution, which in short (and...
26) El Monje
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Series
Pub. Date
20210901
Description
Se trata de una de las piedras angulares del terror moderno que ilustra a la perfección el estilo de las novelas góticas. La historia gira en torno al abad Ambrosio, un hombre pretendidamente virtuoso que en realidad está entregado a la lujuria. Mordaz y terrible al mismo tiempo, El monje no ha perdido un ápice de esa fuerza que fascinó al público ya desde su primera publicación. This novel is one of the cornerstones of modern horror that...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
On a dark night in Calcutta in the 1930's, a young English lieutenant fights to save the lives of two children from an unthinkable threat. In spite of the unbearable rain of the monsoon, the British youth manages to save them, but not without losing his own life. Years later, when the two children, Ben and Sheere, are about to celebrate their sixteenth birthday, the threat reappears in their lives and this time they will not escape so easily.
Author
Series
Goosebumps volume 4
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Cosas raras pasan cuando Greg usa la cámara que él y sus amigos encontraron en una casa abandonada.
Strange things happen when Greg starts using the camera he and his friends found.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Cuando el Dr. Louis Creed deja Chicago y se traslada con su familia a la idílica ciudad de Ludlow, en Maine, todo en la vida parece sonreírles. Pero en ese paisaje idílico un peligro oculto acecha a la comunidad. Louis estaba seguro: el gato había muerto atropellado, y por eso lo había enterrado. Aun así, incomprensiblemente, el gato había vuelto a casa. Church estaba allí otra vez, como él temía y al mismo tiempo deseaba, porque su hijita...
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
The inspiration of the blockbuster film, starring Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan, is available in this Spanish language edition. Set in the 1930s at the Cold Mountain Penitentiary's death-row facility, ward superintendent Paul Edgecomb is compelled to help every prisoner walk "the green mile" to execution with his humanity in tact. As narrator, Edgecomb tells the tragic tale of John Coffey, a gentle giant with preternatural ways.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Nobby, a sweet but dimwitted English football hooligan reunites with his long-lost brother Sebastian, a deadly MI6 agent, to prevent a massive global terror attack and prove that behind every great spy is an embarrassing sibling. Nobby has everything a man from Grimsby could want, including nine children and the most gorgeous girlfriend in the northeast of England. There's only one thing missing: his little brother, Sebastian, who Nobby has spent...
33) The strangers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
A couple staying at an isolated vacation home, returns from a wedding reception. They receive a knock on the door in the middle of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. As the night goes on, the reality of their psychological terror becomes more terrifying than anything both could have imagined. Now, they must go beyond what either of them thought they were capable of in order to survive....
36) Carrie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
El escalofriante caso de una joven de apariencia insignificante que se tranformó en un ser de poderes anormales, sembrando el terror en la ciudad. Con pulso mágico para mantener la tensión a lo largo de todo el libro, Stephen King narra la atormentada adolescencia de Carrie, y nos envuelve en una atmósfera sobrecogedora cuando la muchacha realiza una serie de descubrimientos hast llegar al terrible momento de la venganza. Esta novela fue llevada...