"Duma Key Duma Key is a novel by American writer Stephen King published on January 22, 2008 by Scribner. The book reached #1 on the New York Times Best Seller List. It is King's first novel to be set in Florida and/or Minnesota. The dust jacket features holographic lettering. Edgar Freemantle, a contractor in St. Paul, Minnesota, barely survives a horrific on-site accident where his truck is crushed by a crane. Freemantle's right arm is amputated, and severe injuries to his head cause Edgar to have problems with speech, vision, and memory. As a result, Edgar also has violent mood"
"Lock and Key (novel) Lock and Key is a novel written by author Sarah Dessen. It is her eighth published novel. It was published by Viking's Children's Books in 2008. Lock and Key Author Sarah Dessen Country United States Language English Genre Young adult Publisher Viking Publication date Media type Print (hardback and paperback) Pages 422pp OCLC 159919383 LC Class PZ7.D455 Lo 2008 After her drug and alcohol addicted mother abandons her, child services forces 17-year-old Ruby Cooper to move in with her sister, Cora, who had left for college when Ruby was young. Ruby is upset about this arrangement"
"book for publication in 2007. The book also contains ""Memory"", a short story that was first published in 2006 and which King has since worked into ""Duma Key"". The story concerns Clayton Blaisdell, Jr. (known as ""Blaze"" for short, thus the title), a mentally handicapped small-time con artist who kidnaps a wealthy gentleman's baby son, in the hopes of fulfilling the dreams of George Thomas Rackley, Blaze's deceased best friend and partner in crime. The chapters alternate between Blaze's past — which covers his childhood (including how he came to be brain damaged) and his entry into a life of"
"that may or may not have been empty. The mothballed building's offices were still furnished and the filing cabinets were still full of files. The notion of a building so full of potential secrets left an impression on her for several years hence. In 2010, Pulley began formulating a novel based on that experience, and finally submitted it to the contest in early 2014. D.M. Pulley D.M. Pulley is an American writer and the author of the mystery/thriller novel ""The Dead Key"". After winning the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in July 2014, Pulley received a publishing contract with Amazon Publishing"
"D.M. Pulley D.M. Pulley is an American writer and the author of the mystery/thriller novel ""The Dead Key"". After winning the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award in July 2014, Pulley received a publishing contract with Amazon Publishing (under the Thomas & Mercer imprint). Pulley's second book, a novel entitled ""The Buried Book"", was published on August 23, 2016 by Lake Union Publishing, an imprint of Amazon Publishing. Working as a structural engineer in Cleveland, Ohio, Pulley was performing a survey of the vacant Swetland Building. During that survey, she encountered an abandoned vault, complete with hundreds of locked safe deposit boxes"
"apocalyptic novel, ""Cell"". The book features a sudden force in which every cell phone user turns into a mindless killer. King noted in the book's introduction that he does not use cell phones. In 2008, King published both a novel, ""Duma Key"", and a collection, ""Just After Sunset"". The latter featured 13 short stories, including a novella, ""N."", which was later released as a serialized animated series that could be seen for free, or, for a small fee, could be downloaded in a higher quality; it then was adopted into a limited comic book series. In 2009, King published ""Ur"","
"Danger Key Danger Key is the sixteenth novel in the long-running Nick Carter-Killmaster series of spy novels. Carter is a US secret agent, code-named N-3, with the rank of Killmaster. He works for AXE – a secret arm of the US intelligence services. The book was first published in 1966 (Number A183F) by Award Books part of the Beacon-Signal division of Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation (New York, USA), part of the Conde Nast Publications Inc. The novel was written by Lew Louderback., Copyright was registered on 1 February 1966. The novel is set in March 1966. A CIA agent"
"that brings to mind a character, or helps fill them out a bit""."" The interview went into further detail with questions regarding character choices and inspirations for themes. Lock and Key (novel) Lock and Key is a novel written by author Sarah Dessen. It is her eighth published novel. It was published by Viking's Children's Books in 2008. Lock and Key Author Sarah Dessen Country United States Language English Genre Young adult Publisher Viking Publication date Media type Print (hardback and paperback) Pages 422pp OCLC 159919383 LC Class PZ7.D455 Lo 2008 After her drug and alcohol addicted mother abandons her,"
"Watt Key Albert Watkins Key, Jr., publishing under the name Watt Key, is an American fiction author. A resident of Alabama, his debut novel ""Alabama Moon"" was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2006 and was the 2007 winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award for older readers. It received a 2006 Parents' Choice Award. ""Alabama Moon"" has been translated and published in eight languages as of 2012. In 2015 ""Alabama Moon"" was listed by TIME Magazine as one of the top 100 young-adult books of all time. Alabama Moon was made into a 2009 feature film starring John"
"Other human survivors are Dougie Twitchell, Ginny Tomlinson, Gina Buffalino, Harriet Bigelow, Janelle Everett, Judy Everett, Pete Freeman, Tony Guay, Claire McClatchey, Joanie Calvert, Alva Drake, Little Walter Bushey and Lissa Jamieson. Julia Shumway's dog 'Horace' also survives. In January 2008, ""Time"" magazine quoted King as saying he would ""be killing a lot of trees"" with his next novel. The first draft was completed in late August 2008, with the manuscript weighing . King has stated the novel is twice as long as his most recent, ""Duma Key"", at ""over 1,500 pages in manuscript"", and ""deals with some of the"
"characters uncomplicated. Nuance-seekers look elsewhere."" Devil's Gate (novel) Devil's Gate is an adventure novel in author Clive Cussler's The NUMA Files. Co-written with Graham Brown, this installment is the ninth of that series which features the main character Kurt Austin. The story follows employees of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) who discover someone is developing a directed-energy weapon and thwart the dictator of Sierre Leone, Djemma Garand, and the mercenary group led by Andras the Knife before they are able to use the weapon. The hardcover edition was released November 14, 2011, it was subsequently released as a paperback,"
"Lee Bacon Lee Bacon (born September 5, 1979) is an American author of the children's books series ""Joshua Dread"" (2012), ""Joshua Dread: The Nameless Hero"" (2013), and ""Joshua Dread: The Dominion Key"" (2014), all published by Random House. Lee Bacon grew up in Texas. He attended the master’s program in book publishing at Pace University. He then spent two years living in Munich, Germany, where he started writing children's books. He lived in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to New Jersey in 2016. Lee Bacon Bacon's ""Joshua Dread"" series was nominated for a 2015 Nutmeg Award and selected for the"
"Devil's Gate (novel) Devil's Gate is an adventure novel in author Clive Cussler's The NUMA Files. Co-written with Graham Brown, this installment is the ninth of that series which features the main character Kurt Austin. The story follows employees of NUMA (National Underwater and Marine Agency) who discover someone is developing a directed-energy weapon and thwart the dictator of Sierre Leone, Djemma Garand, and the mercenary group led by Andras the Knife before they are able to use the weapon. The hardcover edition was released November 14, 2011, it was subsequently released as a paperback, audiobook and ebook. It appeared"
"The Stone Key The Stone Key is a 2008 science fiction novel by Isobelle Carmody, set in a post apocalyptic world. It is the fifth book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles. ""The Stone Key"" was first published in Australia on 4 February 2008 by Viking Children's Books in trade paperback format. In the United States it has been separated into two books, entitled ""Wavesong"" and ""The Stone Key"" respectively. ""The Stone Key"" was a short-list nominee for the 2008 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel but lost to ""Finnikin of the Rock"" by Melina Marchetta. When Elspeth sets out from Obernewtyn"
"for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel ""Room"" was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel ""Hood"" won the Stonewall Book Award. and ""Slammerkin"" (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. ""Room"" was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The youngest of eight children, she is"
"Emma Donoghue Emma Donoghue (born 24 October 1969) is an Irish-Canadian playwright, literary historian, novelist, and screenwriter. Her 2010 novel ""Room"" was a finalist for the Man Booker Prize and an international best-seller. Donoghue's 1995 novel ""Hood"" won the Stonewall Book Award. and ""Slammerkin"" (2000) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction. ""Room"" was adapted into a film of the same name, for which Donoghue wrote the screenplay which was subsequently nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Donoghue was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1969. The youngest of eight children, she is the daughter of Frances (née"
"The Glass Key The Glass Key is a novel by American writer Dashiell Hammett. It was first published as a serial in ""Black Mask"" magazine in 1930, then was collected in 1931 (in London; the American edition followed 3 months later) It tells the story of a gambler and racketeer, Ned Beaumont, whose devotion to Paul Madvig, a crooked political boss, leads him to investigate the murder of a local senator's son as a potential gang war brews. Hammett dedicated the novel to his onetime lover Nell Martin. There have been two US film adaptations (1935 and 1942) of the"
"Los Alamos, New Mexico. James Doss James D. Doss (1939 – 17 May 2012) was a noted American mystery novel author. He was the creator of the popular fictional Ute detective/rancher Charlie Moon, of whom he wrote 17 mystery novels. James ""Danny"" Doss was born and raised in Kentucky and died in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He was also an electrical engineer who worked on particle accelerators and biomedical technology for the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory, while writing his novels. After retirement from Los Alamos National Laboratory, he continued to write his popular novels while living in"
"Joe Hill (writer) Joseph Hillstrom King (born June 4, 1972), better known by the pen name Joe Hill, is an American author and comic book writer. His work includes the novels ""Heart-Shaped Box"" (2007), ""Horns"" (2010), ""NOS4A2"" (2013), and ""The Fireman"" (2016); the short story collections ""20th Century Ghosts"" (2005) and ""Strange Weather"" (2017); and the comic book series ""Locke & Key"" (2008–2013). ""Locke & Key"" won British Fantasy Awards in 2009 and 2012, and an Eisner Award in 2012. King is the son of authors Stephen and Tabitha King. Hill was born in 1972 to authors Tabitha (née Spruce)"
"Daniel Suarez (author) Daniel Suarez (born December 21, 1964) is an American information technology consultant turned author. He initially published under the pseudonym Leinad Zeraus (his name spelled backwards). His career as an author began with a pair of techno-thriller novels. The first novel, ""Daemon"", was self-published under his own company, Verdugo Press, in late 2006. It was later picked up by the major publishing house Dutton and re-released on January 8, 2009. His follow-up book ""Freedom"" was released on January 7, 2010. ""The Wall Street Journal"" has reported that Walter F. Parkes, who produced the 1983 film ""WarGames"", has"
"to find them... A reviewer for the ""Canberra Times"" feels that the message of ""The Stone Key"" is that ""freedom... is messy"". In 2008, ""The Stone Key"" was shortlisted for ""Young Adult Novel"" in the Aurealis Awards. Single Book Publications: Split Books: The Stone Key The Stone Key is a 2008 science fiction novel by Isobelle Carmody, set in a post apocalyptic world. It is the fifth book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles. ""The Stone Key"" was first published in Australia on 4 February 2008 by Viking Children's Books in trade paperback format. In the United States it has been separated"
"James Doss James D. Doss (1939 – 17 May 2012) was a noted American mystery novel author. He was the creator of the popular fictional Ute detective/rancher Charlie Moon, of whom he wrote 17 mystery novels. James ""Danny"" Doss was born and raised in Kentucky and died in Los Alamos, New Mexico. He was also an electrical engineer who worked on particle accelerators and biomedical technology for the University of California's Los Alamos National Laboratory, while writing his novels. After retirement from Los Alamos National Laboratory, he continued to write his popular novels while living in Taos, New Mexico and"
"Daedalus Howell Daedalus Howell (born July 19, 1972 in Sonoma County, California), is an American writer, journalist, filmmaker, actor and conceptual artist who lives and works in Petaluma, California. He wrote the novel ""Quantum Deadline"" and the essay collection ""I Heart Sonoma: How to Live and Drink in Wine Country"". He hosts the podcast ""Daedalus Howell: Night School of the Mind"" and The Morning Show on KSVY 91.3 FM, Sonoma. He is writer-director of the feature film ""Pill Head."" Howell is author of the novel ""Quantum Deadline,"" part one of the ""Lumaville Labyrinth"" series. He also wrote the novel ""The"
"brings the Herculine Trilogy to a close. HarperCollins released Reese's ""The Dracula Dossier"" in October, 2008. Modeled on Bram Stoker’s ""Dracula"", the novel imagines an encounter between Stoker himself and Francis J. Tumblety, a real-life suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders. Reese’s books have been published in Russian, Romanian, Turkish, Dutch, Polish, and Spanish. James Reese (author) James Reese is American author born on November 21, 1964 in Patchogue, New York. He attended the University of Notre Dame, and has an MA in Theatre from SUNY Stony Brook. Having lived in New Orleans and Key West, Florida, Reese now"
"to track down the killer. Mindy Laube in the ""Sydney Morning Herald"" noted that the novel is ""popular literature of the stylish and substantial variety"". Diamond Dove (novel) Diamond Dove (2006) is a crime novel by Australian author Adrian Hyland. It is the first in the author's series of novels featuring the recurring character Emily Tempest. It won the Best First Novel category of the 2007 Ned Kelly Awards. Emily Tempest, the daughter of a white miner and his black wife, returns to her childhood home, Moonlight Downs in the Northern Territory, after completing her schooling at an Adelaide boarding"
"make up this fantasy history. The original plan for ""The Golden Key"" was that it would lead to three more novels, one by each of the authors. Melanie Rawn would write ""The Diviner"" (or ""The Diviner's Key""), Kate Elliott would write ""The Warrior"", and Jennifer Roberson would write ""The Seeker"". ""The Diviner"" has been published in August 2011, but plans for the other two books are respectively described as ""cancelled"" and ""on indefinite hold."" The Golden Key (novel) The Golden Key is a 1996 fantasy novel co-written by authors Jennifer Roberson (who penned the story's first act), Melanie Rawn (author"
"The Labyrinth Key The Labyrinth Key is a science fiction novel by American writer Howard V. Hendrix, first published in 2004. The backdrop for this story is an informational arms races between a future United States of America and China. Both countries are attempting to build a quantum computer, which they believe will be the ultimate information weapon, creating and breaking encryption schemes. One of the American investigators, Dr. Jaron L. Kwok, is mysteriously killed while in Hong Kong, and his mathematical understudy Ben Cho is ordered to pick up Kwok's investigation in an attempt to find out why and"
"The Key (short story) The Key is a science fiction mystery novelette by Isaac Asimov. It is one of the stories featuring the reclusive scientist Wendell Urth. It first appeared in ""The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction"" in October 1966, and was reprinted in the anthologies ""Asimov's Mysteries"" (1968) and ""The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov"" (1986). In this short story, somewhere on the Moon is hidden an extraterrestrial artifact. Two explorers, Jennings and Strauss, discovered it, but Jennings is dead and Strauss is insane. The artifact seems to be able to amplify and transmit thoughts, even to the"
"Under the Dome (novel) Under the Dome is a science fiction novel by American writer Stephen King, published in November 2009. It is the 58th book published by Stephen King and it was his 48th novel. Set in and around a small Maine town, it tells an intricate, multi-character and point-of-view story of how the town's inhabitants contend with the calamity of being suddenly cut off from the outside world by an impassable, invisible barrier that drops out of the sky, transforming the community into a domed city. At 11:44 a.m. on Saturday, October 21, of an unspecified year (but"
"Quantum Deadline Quantum Deadline is a novel by American writer and filmmaker Daedalus Howell. Published in paperback in 2015 by FMRL, the novel is a seriocomic pastiche of paranormal, sci-fi and neo-noir detective genres. It is the first book of Howell's ""Lumaville Labyrinth"" series and part of his ""Lumaverse"" story world, which includes the feature film ""Pill Head"", written and directed by Howell. ""Quantum Deadline"" shares the same narrator as the author's first novel, ""The Late Projectionist"", though, in ""Quantum Deadline"", the protagonist's name is the same as the author's, i.e., ""Daedalus Howell."" Prior to the events of the contemporary-set"
"The Clue of the Black Keys The Clue of the Black Keys is the twenty-eighth volume in the Nancy Drew mystery series. It was first published in 1951 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. The actual authors were ghostwriters Wilhelmina Rankin and Harriet Stratemeyer Adams. Prof. Terry Scott went to River Heights to ask the help of Carson Drew to help him to find Dr. Joshua Pitt. Mr. Drew thought that the case was more of a mystery, so he referred him to Nancy Drew, his daughter who loves detective work. Terry Scott and Dr. Joshua Pitt, together with their teammates,"
"released, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia and Mélusine Mayance as Sarah. It received generally positive reviews, holding a 73% ranking on Rotten Tomatoes. Sarah's Key (novel) Sarah's Key is a novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, first published in its French translation as """" in September 2006. Two main parallel plots are followed through the book. The first is that of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski, a Jewish girl born in Paris, who is arrested with her parents during the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup. Before they go, she locks her four-year-old brother in a cupboard, thinking the family should be back in a"
"and the rights to the sequel ""Freedom™"" from Verdugo Press. Dutton has since achieved foreign rights sales worth over $1 million. Walter F. Parkes, who produced the 1983 film ""WarGames"", had optioned the film rights to ""Daemon"" with Paramount Pictures, but they likely reverted to Suarez on 8 December 2012. Daemon (novel series) Daemon and Freedom comprise a two-part novel by the author Daniel Suarez about a distributed, persistent computer application, The Daemon, that begins to change the real world after the original programmer's death. Upon publication of the obituary for Matthew A. Sobol, a brilliant computer programmer and CTO"