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2020 THRILLER/SUSPENSE AUDIE AWARD WINNER! WINNER OF THE 2020 AUDIO PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose "storytelling transcends genre" ( Newsday ) comes "another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable" ( The Boston Globe ) about a group of kids confronting evil. In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis's parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents--telekinesis and telepathy--who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, "like the roach motel," Kalisha says. "You check in, but you don't check out." In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don't, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute. As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It , The Institute is "first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen" ( The Washington Post ).

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PublisherSimon & Schuster

ISBN-101508279063

ISBN-139781508279068

eBay Product ID (ePID)8038410392

Product Key Features

Book TitleInstitute : a Novel

TopicHorror, Thrillers / Suspense, Thrillers / Supernatural, Science Fiction / Genetic Engineering, Science Fiction / General

Publication Year2019

LanguageEnglish

GenreFiction

AuthorStephen King

FormatCompact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height1.5in

Item Length5.8in

Item Width5.1in

Item Weight14.4 Oz

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ReviewsStephen King's newest audiobook is compulsively entertaining and features a dazzling performance by narrator Santino Fontana. After a seemingly unconnected prelude that is revisited much later, listeners meet 12-year-old telekinetic genius Luke Ellis. One night, Luke's parents are brutally murdered, and he's drugged, kidnapped, and brought to The Institute. There, he meets other supernaturally gifted children who have been taken. Fontana does wonders with this diverse lineup of young characters who band together to fight their captors. Each of them sounds authentic and unique. Meanwhile, the adult characters, with a few exceptions, are a nightmarish bunch. Through them, Fontana shows that evil can have many different voices. While this isn't King at his most original, his and Fontana's talents are a winning combination.

Dewey Edition23

Number of Volumes16 Vols.

Dewey Decimal813/.54

Edition DescriptionUnabridged Edition

Number of Pages576 Pages

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von 123mojojojo
26. Nov. 2020
STEPEN KING ENOUGH SAID,YEAH,!
Good story, anything by Stephen King is worth a good read.
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