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Dark Tower volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 28
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Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.
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Dark Tower volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
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Stephen King The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah with 10 full-color illustrations by Darrel Anderson The next-to-last novel in Stephen King's seven-volume magnum opus, Song of Susannah is at once a book of revelation, a fascinating key to the unfolding mystery of the Dark Tower, and a fast-paced story of double-barreled suspense. To give birth to her "chap," demon-mother Mia has usurped the body of Susannah Dean and used the power of Black Thirteen...
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Dark Tower volume 4
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A 700-page fantasy featuring Roland-the-Gunslinger, an adventurer who is seeking the source of life. Fourth in the Dark Tower series, the novel flashes back to the heroic deeds of his youth and his romance with Susan, his great love.
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Dark Tower volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
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Wolves of the Calla continues the adventures of Roland, the Last Gunslinger and survivor of a civilized world that has "moved on." Roland's quest is ka, an inevitable destiny -- to reach and perhaps save the Dark Tower, which stands at the center of everywhere and everywhen. This pursuit brings Roland, with the three others who've joined his quest to Calla Bryn Sturgis, a town in the shadow of Thunderclap, beyond which lies the Dark Tower. Before...
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Dark Tower volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fantasy-what he considers to be a single long novel and his magnum opus-has spanned a quarter of a century.Set in a world of extraordinary circumstances, filled with stunning visual imagery and unforgettable characters, The Dark Tower series is King's most visionary feat of storytelling, a magical mix of science...
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Dark Tower volume 7
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 44
Description
The tale of Roland Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room...
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Series
Dark Tower volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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In The Gunslinger, King introduces Roland Deschain of Gilead, the Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting, solitary figure at first, on a mysterious quest through a desolate world that eerily mirrors our own. Pursuing the man in black, an evil being who can bring the dead back to life, Roland is a good man who seems to leave nothing but death in his wake.
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Dark Tower volume 2
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
With the man in black dead, the Gunslinger continues his quest for the Dark Tower. This time, he is transported to 20th century America, where he occupies the mind of a drug runner.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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Sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape shifter, a "skin man," Roland Deschain takes charge of Bill Streeter, a brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness to the beast's most recent slaughter. Roland, himself only a teenager, calms the boy by reciting a story from the Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, "The Wind through the Keyhole." (The novel can be placed between Dark Tower...
10) The dark tower
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Dark Tower volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 44
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The final book in the Dark Tower cycle. Thus continues Roland the Gunslinger and his relentless quest to reach The Tower in a last ditch effort to save all that is. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens. Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999) to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap's Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the...
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Dark Tower volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
Description
Along with his companions, gunslinger Roland endeavors to reach and save the Dark Tower, a quest that is challenged by the evil wolves of Thunderclap, who are abducting the children of the residents of a town in the tower's shadow
12) The Dark Tower
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The last Gunslinger, Roland Deschain, has been locked in an eternal battle with Walter O'Dim, also known as the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the ultimate battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.
13) The wastelands
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Dark Tower volume 3
Description
The third installment in the offbeat fantasy saga involving the enigmatic Roland and his quest for the Dark Tower. While the story is entertaining, what really makes it outstanding are King's unique, multifaceted characters. Roland finally gathers his ka-tet (group bound to him by destiny) as he draws young Jake into his world amid a demonic rainstorm.
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Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
Description
Roland of Gilead and his fellow pilgrims determine to reach the Dark Tower, but their quest is rife with confrontation, conflict and sacrifice - from a vast computer system which bargains in riddles to Roland's old enemy Walter and the wizard's glass.
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Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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When Roland Deschain and his ka-tet encounter a ferocious storm while crossing the River Whye on their way to the Outer Baronies, Roland and his friends find shelter from the howling gale. Roland tells his friends two stories about his own troubled past.
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Dark Tower volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In a desolate reality, one that mirrors our own in frightening ways, a lone and haunting figure known only as Roland makes his way across the endless sands in pursuit of a sinister, dark-robed mystery of a man. Roland is the last of his kind, a 'gunslinger' charged with protecting whatever goodness and light remains in his world -- a world that 'moved on' as they say...and the only way he can possibly hope to save everything is to first outwit and...
18) Nothing to hide
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Ordered by federal investigators to maintain a cover story about a murder with ties to illegal arms trafficking, Detective Roland March performs an independent investigation that reveals a dangerous conspiracy and cover-up that threatens his own life.
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Roland March mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"It's Christmas in Houston, and homicide detective Roland March is on the hunt for a killer. A young woman's brutal stabbing in an affluent neighborhood bears all the hallmarks of a serial murder. The only problem is that March sent the murderer to prison ten years ago. Is it a copycat -- or did March convict the wrong man? Alienated from his colleagues, and with a growing rift in his marriage, March receives messages from the killer. The bodies pile...
20) The dark tower
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Based on the best-selling book series by highly-acclaimed author Stephen King. The last Gunslinger, Roland has been locked in an eternal battle with the Man in Black, determined to prevent him from toppling the Dark Tower, which holds the universe together. With the fate of the worlds at stake, good and evil will collide in the epic battle as only Roland can defend the Tower from the Man in Black.--From container.