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Series
Dark Tower volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
This heroic fantasy is set in a world of ominous landscape and macabre menace that is a dark mirror of our own. A spellbinding tale of good versus evil, it features one of Stephen King's most powerful creations--The Gunslinger, a haunting figure who embodies the qualities of the lone hero through the ages from ancient myth to frontier western legend. His pursuit of The Man in Black, his liaison with the sexually ravenous Alice, his friendship with...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roland and his band have narrowly escaped the city of Lud and boarded Blaine, a train that will take them to, of all places, Kansas, where the ghost city of Topeka has been depopulated by a superflu and where, alongside Interstate 70, an emerald palace rises enchantingly. Before Roland and the companions of his ka-tet continue along the Path of the Bean, Roland must tell his companions the tale that defines him both as a man and hero, a long-ago romance...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Scribner trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 461 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking place mere hours following the events seen in The Gunslinger, The Drawing of the Three continues with Roland of Gilead on his solitary quest for the Dark Tower, leading him to a seemingly endless stretch of beach along the Western Sea -- a terrain filled with unearthly monstrosities that mean certain death if he lets his guard down. But there are other mysteries along this desolate shoreline as well: three arcane doorways standing freely in...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 7
Publisher
Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in association with Scribner
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First trade edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 44
Physical Desc
845 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
All good things must come to an end, Constant Reader, and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. 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...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 5
Publisher
Donald M. Grant, Publisher
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st trade ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 37
Physical Desc
xv, 714 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 6
Publisher
Donald M. Grant, Publisher
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st trade ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
413 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Dark Tower (graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Pub
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Roland Deschain takes the first steps towards his eventual fate as the implacable gunslinger in search of the enigmatic Dark Tower, as he uncovers a plot to destroy the network that maintains the world's uneasy peace.
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