<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray),]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Koontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray),]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/skokielibrary/rss/search?query=Koontz%2C%20Dean%20R.%20%28Dean%20Ray%29%2C&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:38:04 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Stalkers]]></title><description><![CDATA[There are two types of entities: the Hunter and the Hunted-       and revenge, guilt, lust, and desperation drive all of them. Darkness falls quickly when you're being stalked-       but it is always dark when you'       re the stalker. From shadowy city streets and Amazon jungles to deep-South swamps, this collection of eight stories involving elements of mystery, science fiction, and horror is sure to entertain. Unabridged selections include:  -       "       The Stalker of Souls"       by Edward D. Hoch, read by Joseph Campanella -       "       Pilots"       by Joe R. Lansdale and Dan Lowry, read by Joseph Campanella -       "       Lizardman"       by Charles de Lint, read by David Dukes -       "       The Sacred Fire"       by Robert R. McCammon, read by Arte Johnson -       "       The Hunt"       by Richard Laymon, read by Arte Johnson -       "       Trapped"       by Dean Koontz, read by Bess Armstrong -       "       Rivereñ       os"       by Trish Janeshutz, read by Bess Armstrong -       "       Stalker"       by Ed Gorman, read by Arte Johnson]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3209242</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3209242</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 1989 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3209242133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781614674689/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dean Koontz's Frankenstein]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the celebrated imagination of Dean Koontz comes a powerful reworking of one of the classic stories of all time! Dynamite Entertainment proudly presents an all-new, in-continuity story set within the universe of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein novel series. While healing from a beating she suffered at the hands of Victor Helios (the madman once known as Dr. Frankenstein and her own maker), Erika Five decides to leave the comfort of her glassed-in porch and bottle of cognac to explore Victor's secret home lab, which she believes is an antechamber to something more sinister. With the help of a decapitated head named Karloff, Erika finds a secret lab and within discovers that Victor's experiments are not limited to his attempts at creating a race of super-immortals. No, he has constructed a mirror-like portal to another universe... one of infinite realities that Victor is trying to bridge for his own horrible reasons!]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2840268</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2840268</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dixon, Chuck]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2840268133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Issue 1-6, Storm Surge</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781524100933/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd Thomas]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2857154</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2857154</guid><category><![CDATA[VIDEO_DOWNLOAD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2857154133</comments><format>VIDEO_DOWNLOAD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Demon Seed]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a scientist and his wife separate so he can work on a biological supercomputer, the computer takes over his house and his wife. Follow Susan's desperate attempts to outmaneuver and outthink her captor.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1799010</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1799010</guid><category><![CDATA[DVD]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1799010133</comments><format>DVD</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781419814341/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=&amp;upc=012569675957</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Friend of the Family]]></title><description><![CDATA["The human 'oddities' in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum's golden ticket--until she's rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it. Yet despite everyone's overwhelming generosity and acceptance, Alida knows she is still a very different kind of girl. Her dreams bear that out. They're vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears that they're also warnings--and that it's the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad world."-- Front jacket flap.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3470359</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3470359</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3470359133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781662533297/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Friend of the Family]]></title><description><![CDATA["The human 'oddities' in the Museum of the Strange are less wondrous than the gawking rubes had been promised. But Alida is something else. The real thing. Traveling Depression-era America from carnival midways to speakeasies, Alida is resigned to an exploited and lonely life on the road as the museum's golden ticket--until she's rescued by two compassionate strangers. Franklin and Loretta Fairchild see in Alida a gifted and uncannily well-read girl in need of a loving touch and a family. With the openhearted couple and their three precociously imaginative children, Alida finds it. Yet despite everyone's overwhelming generosity and acceptance, Alida knows she is still a very different kind of girl. Her dreams bear that out. They're vivid, unsettling, and threatening. Alida fears that they're also warnings--and that it's the Fairchilds who may need rescue from a bad, bad world."-- Publisher's description.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3483422</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3483422</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3483422133</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420532654/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going Home in the Dark]]></title><description><![CDATA[As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable friends in the idyllic town of Maple Grove. Three left to pursue lofty dreams--and achieved them. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. Don't they remember people lapsing into comas back then? And those people always awoke ... didn't they? After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove, especially Ernie's obnoxious, scary mother. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure and weirdness piled on mystery that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him. For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems. For Maple Grove, it's a chance to have the "four amigos," as they once called themselves, back in its grasp.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3438665</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3438665</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3438665133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781662500534/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Going Home in the Dark]]></title><description><![CDATA["As kids, outcasts Rebecca, Bobby, Spencer, and Ernie were inseparable. Three left to pursue lofty dreams. Only Ernie never left. When he falls into a coma, his three amigos feel an urgent need to return home. After two decades, not a lot has changed in Maple Grove. But Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer begin to remember a hulking, murderous figure that they were made to forget. As Ernie sinks deeper into darkness, something strange awaits any friend who tries to save him. For Rebecca, Bobby, and Spencer, time is running out to remember the terrors of the past in a perfect town where nothing is what it seems. For Maple Grove, it's a chance to have the 'four amigos' back in its grasp."-- Back cover.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3455282</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3455282</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3455282133</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420526189/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Forest of Lost Souls]]></title><description><![CDATA[Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortune teller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn't cast such a dark shadow. It's where Jose Nochelobo, the love of Vida's life and a cherished local hero, died in a tragic accident. That's the official story, but Vida has reasons to doubt it. The truth can't be contained for long. Nor can the hungry men of power in Kettleton who want something too - that Vida, like Jose, should disappear forever. One by one they come for her, prepared to do anything to see their plans through to their evil end. Vida is no less prepared for them. Vida, the forest, and its formidable wonders are waiting. She will not rest until goodness and order have been restored.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3421392</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3421392</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3421392133</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781420517972/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Big Dark Sky]]></title><description><![CDATA[As a girl, Joanna Chase thrived on Rustling Willows Ranch in Montana until tragedy upended her life. Now thirty-four and living in Santa Fe with only misty memories of the past, she begins to receive pleas--by phone, through her TV, in her dreams: I am in a dark place, Jojo. Please come and help me. Heeding the disturbing appeals, Joanna is compelled to return to Montana, and to a strange childhood companion she had long forgotten. She isn't the only one drawn to the Montana farmstead. People from all walks of life have converged at the remote ranch. They are haunted, on the run, obsessed, and seeking answers to the same omniscient danger Joanna came to confront. All the while, on the outskirts of Rustling Willows, a madman lurks with a vision to save the future. Mass murder is the only way to see his frightening manifesto come to pass. Through a bizarre twist of seemingly coincidental circumstances, a band of strangers now find themselves under Montana's big dark sky. Their lives entwined, they face an encroaching horror. Unless they can defeat this threat, it will spell the end for humanity.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3173343</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3173343</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3173343133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781542019927/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Quicksilver]]></title><description><![CDATA["Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery--abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents and who knows what else, fleeing for his life" -- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3094961</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3094961</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3094961133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781542019880/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Forbidden Door]]></title><description><![CDATA["Jane Hawk--rogue FBI agent and the country's #1 fugitive--confronts her worst nightmare when her enemies strike shockingly close to home in the explosive new thriller from Dean Koontz, bestselling author of The Silent Corner. Jane Hawk thinks her precious five-year-old son is hidden safely away, with vigilant, indomitable friends. But the malice and resources of her powerful adversaries are boundless and their hunters are circling ever closer to the boy, hoping to draw his mother into their trap. Jane's courage, wits, discipline, and skill will be tested as never before, as she searches for a way through an ever-contracting labyrinth of terror"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2873393</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2873393</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2873393133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525483700/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crooked Staircase]]></title><description><![CDATA["In this riveting high-stakes novel, Jane Hawk tracks the powerful DOJ operative at the center of the murderous conspiracy that killed her husband, a decorated Marine, and now threatens others closest to her"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2824426</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2824426</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2824426133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Jane Hawk Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525483427/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Heart Belongs to Me]]></title><description><![CDATA[One year after Ryan Perry receives a heart transplant he starts receiving unmarked gifts in the mail, a heart pendant, a box of Valentine candy, a heart surgery video and a chilling message "Your heart belongs to me".]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1570297</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1570297</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1570297133</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780739328095/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd Thomas]]></title><description><![CDATA[“The dead don't talk. I don't know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. He tries to do his best by the silent souls who seek him out. Sometimes they want justice, and Odd’s otherworldly tips to Pico Mundo's police chief, Wyatt Porter, can solve a crime. Occasionally they can prevent one. But this time it's different. A mysterious man comes to town with a voracious appetite, a filing cabinet stuffed with information on the world's worst killers, and a pack of hyena-like shades following him wherever he goes. Who the man is and what he wants, not even Odd’s deceased informants can tell him. His most ominous clue is a page ripped from a day-by-day calendar for August 15. Today is August 14….]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1893659</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1893659</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1893659133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Odd Thomas Series, Book 1</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780739345894/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Forever Odd]]></title><description><![CDATA[Every so often a character so captures the hearts and imaginations of listeners that he seems to take on a life of his own long after the chapter ends. For such a character, one book is not enough—listeners must know what happens next. With the emotional power and sheer storytelling artistry that are his trademarks, Koontz takes up once more the story of a unique young hero and an eccentric little town in a tale that is equal parts suspense and terror, adventure and mystery—and altogether irresistibly odd.We’re all a little odd beneath the surface. He’s the most unlikely hero you’ll ever meet—an ordinary guy with a modest job you might never look at twice. But there’s so much more to any of us than meets the eye—and that goes triple for Odd Thomas. For Odd lives always between two worlds in the small desert town of Pico Mundo, where the heroic and the harrowing are everyday events. Odd never asked to communicate with the dead—it’s something that just happened....]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1893645</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1893645</guid><category><![CDATA[AB]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1893645133</comments><format>AB</format><subtitle>Odd Thomas Series, Book 2</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780739330104/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Taking]]></title><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1430595</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1430595</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1430595133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780553802504/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd Thomas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dead people try to communicate with a short-order cook, who serves as a small desert town's reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy with a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill, and he is rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1412614</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1412614</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2003 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1412614133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780553802498/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Forest of Lost Souls]]></title><description><![CDATA["Raised in the wilderness by her late great-uncle, Vida is a young woman with an almost preternatural affinity for nature, especially for the wolves that also call the forested mountains home. Formed by hard experience, by love and loss, and by the prophecies of a fortune teller, Vida just wants peace. If only nearby Kettleton County didn't cast such a dark shadow. It's where Jose Nochelobo, the love of Vida's life and a cherished local hero, died in a tragic accident. That's the official story, but Vida has reasons to doubt it. The truth can't be contained for long. Nor can the hungry men of power in Kettleton who want something too: that Vida, like Jose, disappear forever. One by one they come for her, prepared to do anything to see their plans through to their evil end. Vida is no less prepared for them. Vida, the forest, and its formidable wonders are waiting. She will not rest until goodness and order have been restored."-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3405861</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C3405861</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/3405861133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781662500510/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Crooked Staircase]]></title><description><![CDATA[NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERJane Hawk—who dazzled readers in The Silent Corner and The Whispering Room—faces the fight of her life, against the threat of a lifetime, in this electrifying new thriller by #1 New York Times bestselling suspense master Dean Koontz.  "I could be dead tomorrow. Or something worse than dead."  Jane Hawk knows she may be living on borrowed time. But as long as she's breathing, she'll never cease her one-woman war against the terrifying conspiracy that threatens the freedom—and free will—of millions. Battling the strange epidemic of murder-suicides that claimed Jane's husband, and is escalating across the country, has made the rogue FBI agent a wanted fugitive, relentlessly hunted not only by the government but by the secret cabal behind the plot. Deploying every resource their malign nexus of power and technology commands, Jane's enemies are determined to see her dead . . . or make her wish she was. Jane's ruthless pursuers can't stop her from drawing a bead on her prey: a cunning man with connections in high places, a twisted soul of unspeakable depths with an army of professional killers on call. Propelled by her righteous fury and implacable insistence on justice, Jane will make her way from southern Southern California to the snow-swept slopes of Lake Tahoe to confront head-on the lethal forces arrayed against her. But nothing can prepare her for the chilling truth that awaits when she descends the crooked staircase to the dark and dreadful place where her long nightmare was born.Praise for The Crooked Staircase"An absorbing thriller full of fresh touches . . . Writing his unusual heroine, Koontz keeps the pages alive with attitude as well as action. . . . For Hawk, who is as fearless as she is beautiful, no obstacle is too great, especially with the well-being of her hidden-away five-year-old son on her mind."—Kirkus Reviews"Spellbinding . . . Beautifully plotted and written with notable care and flare . . . The Hawk series . . . is among [Koontz's] best work."—Booklist (starred review)"Unrelenting . . . [Jane] rivets readers' attention. . . . Michael Crichton fans and thriller aficionados who appreciate a fierce female protagonist . . . should be urged to meet Jane Hawk."—Library Journal]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2838671</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2838671</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2838671133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Jane Hawk Series, Book 3</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780525483441/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Silent Corner]]></title><description><![CDATA["I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so importantso terrifyingthat they will exterminate anyone in their way.But all their power and viciousness may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthlessand who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2704317</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2704317</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2704317133</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle>A Novel of Suspense</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781432839512/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Silent Corner]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING JANE HAWK SERIES  Meet Jane Hawk—a remarkable new heroine certain to become an icon of suspense. "This gripping thriller grabs readers from the first few pages and sweeps them along to the rousing finale."—Booklist "I very much need to be dead."These are the chilling words left behind by a man who had everything to live for—but took his own life. In the aftermath, his widow, Jane Hawk, does what all her grief, fear, and fury demand: find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people admired and happy and sound of mind, have been committing suicide in surprising numbers. When Jane seeks to learn why, she becomes the most-wanted fugitive in America. Her powerful enemies are protecting a secret so important—so terrifying—that they will exterminate anyone in their way. But all their power and viciousness may not be enough to stop a woman as clever as they are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless—and who is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.Jane Hawk's story continues in The Whispering Room.Praise for The Silent Corner"Gripping . . . The paranoia and mystery increase as the story unfolds. . . . Koontz has created [a] wonderful character in Jane Hawk. . . . Koontz rocks it again."—Associated Press  "In this era of stingy text-message prose, Mr. Koontz is practically Shakespeare. . . . The Silent Corner brims with both action and emotion."—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  "The Silent Corner is vintage Dean Koontz: paranoia-fueled suspense . . . sleek and highly realized action, developed characters, and more twists and turns than any two ordinary novels combined. . . . As relevant to current events as it is audacious . . . amongst Dean Koontz's finest contemporary work."—Mystery Scene  "A proven specialist in action scenes, Koontz pulls off some doozies here. . . . The book is full of neat touches. . . . And the prose, as always in a Koontz novel, is first-rate. Perhaps Koontz's leanest, meanest thriller, this initial entry in a new series introduces a smart, appealing heroine who can outthink as well as outshoot the baddest of bad dudes."—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2704561</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C2704561</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2704561133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Jane Hawk Series, Book 1</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780345546784/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odd Thomas]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dead people try to communicate with a short-order cook, who serves as a small desert town's reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy with a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill, and he is rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1706353</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1706353</guid><category><![CDATA[LPRINT]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1706353133</comments><format>LPRINT</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780739378502/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your Heart Belongs to Me]]></title><description><![CDATA[For thirty-four-year-old Ryan Perry, life is good a year after the heart transplant that had saved him from certain death, until he begins to receive strange messages united by the theme, "Your heart belongs to me," and discovers that he is being stalked by a mysterious woman who bears a striking resemblance to the donor of his heart.]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1560721</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1560721</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1560721133</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780553807134/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Taking]]></title><description><![CDATA[BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's What the Night Knows. In one of the most dazzling books of his celebrated career, Dean Koontz delivers  a masterwork of page-turning suspense that surpasses even his own inimitable reputation  as a chronicler of our worst fears--and best dreams. In The Taking he tells the story  of a community cut off from a world under siege, and the terrifying battle for survival  waged by a young couple and their neighbors as familiar streets become fog-shrouded  death traps. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant in the face of mankind's darkest  hour, here is a small-town slice-of-doomsday thriller that strikes to the core of  each of us to ask: What would you do in the midst of The Taking. On the morning  that will mark the end of the world they have known, Molly and Niel Sloan awaken  to the drumbeat of rain on their roof. It has haunted their sleep, invaded their  dreams, and now they rise to find...]]></description><link>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1895478</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S133C1895478</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Koontz, Dean R.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://skokielibrary.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1895478133</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780307414281/MC.GIF&amp;client=skopl&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>