2012: #31 – 11/22/63 (Stephen King)

Title: 11/22/63 Author: Stephen King Format: Kindle Pages:  849 Release Date: November 8, 2011 Publisher: Scribner Source: personal copy Read the back of the book Dallas, 11/22/63: Three shots ring out. President John F. Kennedy is dead. Life can turn on a dime—or stumble into the extraordinary, as it does for Jake Epping, a high school English teacher in a Maine town. While grading essays

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2009: #76 – On Writing (Stephen King)

“Long live the King” hailed Entertainment Weekly upon the publication of Stephen King’s On Writing. Part memoir, part master class by one of the bestselling authors of all time, this superb volume is a revealing and practical view of the writer’s craft, comprising the basic tools of the trade every writer must have. King’s advice is grounded in his vivid memories from childhood through his emergence as a writer, from his struggling early career to his widely reported near-fatal accident in 1999 — and how the inextricable link between writing and living spurred his recovery. Brilliantly structured, friendly and inspiring, On Writing will empower and entertain everyone who reads it — fans, writers, and anyone who loves a great story well told.

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2007: #7 – The Dark Tower (Stephen King)

Book #7 was The Dark Tower, the 7th book in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series. The back of the book reads: This volume completes the quest of Roland Deschain, the last gunslinger in a world which has “moved on.” Like the first book in the series, the last is beautifully illustrated by famed fantasy artist Michael Whelan. And with the same mix of triumph and

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