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Each autumn, in conjunction with the conferring of The National Book Awards in Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young People's Literature, the Board of Directors of the Foundation presents a Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The recipient is a person who has enriched our literary heritage over a life of service, or a corpus of work. The 2003 recipient of this distinguished award was presented to one of the great voices of American literature, Stephen King.

Can dreams foretell the future? Every night, Jonathon returns to the same nightmare…where a cat that seems spawned from hell is always waiting for him. The dreams began at the stroke of midnight, but the following dreams happen one minute later than the night before. A sense of dread looms over him as the clock ticks ever closer to 13 past midnight. Will he realize they’re nothing more than frightening dreams…or will he die in his sleep?

Manchmal ist der Tod besser... Hinter dem kleinen Tierfriedhof liegt eine verwünschte indianische Grabstätte. Ob Katze oder Mensch: Wer hier beerdigt wird, wird zum Albtraum für die Hinterbliebenen.

Wentworth, Ohio: a small, friendly town where the Carver children bicker over sweets in the E-Z shop and writer Johnny Marinville is the only resident who minds his own business. On Poplar Street, apart from the impending storm, it's just a normal summer's day - with Frisbees flying, lawn mowers humming and barbeques grilling. As the paperboy makes his round, he is unaware of the chrome-red van idling up the hill....

Globalization, long considered the best route to economic prosperity, is not inevitable. An approach built on the principles of free trade and, since the 1980s, open capital markets is beginning to fracture. With disappointing growth rates across the Western world, nations are no longer willing to sacrifice national interests for global growth, nor are their leaders able - or willing - to sell the idea of pursuing a global agenda of prosperity to their citizens.

Duma Key, une île de Floride à la troublante beauté, hantée par des forces mystérieuses. Elles ont pu faire d'Edgar Freemantle un artiste célèbre, mais s'il ne les anéantit pas très vite, ce sont elles qui auront sa peau !

Paul Edgecombe, ancien gardien-chef d'un pénitencier dans les années 1930, entreprend d'écrire ses mémoires. Il revient sur l'affaire John Caffey - ce grand Noir au regard absent, condamné à mort pour le viol et le meurtre de deux fillettes - qui défraya la chronique en 1932. "La Ligne verte" décrit un univers étouffant et brutal, où la défiance est la règle. Personne ne sort indemne de ce bâtiment coupé du monde, où cohabitent une étrange souris apprivoisée par un Cajun pyromane, le sadique Percy Wetmore, et Caffey, prisonnier sans problème.

Le roman Billy Summers de Stephen King sortira en français, le 21 septembre 2022... le jour de l'anniversaire de Stephen King !

Everyone in the kingdom talked about the King-in-waiting, Roland's elder son, Peter. And one man thought and planned and brooded on something else: how to make sure that Roland's younger son, Thomas, should be crowned King instead. The King is dead, murdered by an unusual poison. While evidence is gathered, and the land of Delain mourns, Flagg the King's magician, unscrupulous, greedy and powerful, plots.

It was not long after Halloween when Stephen King received a telephone call from his editor. 'Why don't you do a book about the entire horror phenomenon as you see it? Books, movies, radio, TV, the whole thing.' The result is this unique combination of fantasy and autobiography, of classic horror writing honed to an unforgettable edge by the best-selling master of the genre.

"You're a firestarter honey.... just one big zippo lighter." A year ago, he was an upstanding instructor of English at Harrison State College. Now Andy is on the run with his daughter, a pigtailed girl named Charlie. A girl with an unimaginably terrifying gift. A gift which could be useful to corrupt authorities. Soon Charlie will be caught up in the menace of a fateful drug experiment and a sinister government ploy….

Jamie Conklin wirkt wie ein normaler neunjähriger Junge. Seinen Vater kennt er nicht, seiner Mutter Tia, einer Literaturagentin, steht er sehr nahe. Die beiden haben ein Geheimnis: Jamie kann mit den Geistern kürzlich Verstorbener reden. Und sie müssen all seine Fragen wahrheitsgemäß beantworten. Tia hat sich gerade aus großer finanzieller Not gekämpft, da stirbt ihr lukrativster Autor. Der langersehnte Abschlussband seiner Bestsellersaga bleibt unvollendet - wäre da nicht Jamies Gabe.

Paul Sheldon ist Schriftsteller. Seine beliebtesten Bücher handeln von der Serienheldin Misery Chastain. Paul selbst jedoch hasst diese Buchreihe...

"The Green Mile" - so nennt sich der Todestrakt des Staatsgefängnisses Cold Mountain. John Coffey wurde zum Tode verurteilt, weil er zwei Mädchen missbraucht und ermordet haben soll. Dem Hünen wohnt aber auch eine übernatürliche Kraft inne... Kann ein Mörder zugleich ein begnadeter Heiler sein? Und wenn ja, darf oder sollte man ihn dann töten?

Foncer sur une foule dans sa SL500 douze cylindres : le moment le plus grisant de la vie de Mr Mercedes. Et le carnage lui a tellement plu qu’il n’a qu’une envie : recommencer. Au plus vite... Délaissant le fantastique, Stephen King se glisse avec une jubilation contagieuse dans le moule du polar. Revenu de tout mais toujours tenace, son inspecteur Bill Hodges rejoint les figures emblématiques du roman noir américain.

Verdrängte Erinnerungen, blutige Liebesbeweise, mörderische Wahrheiten. Wie weit darf Liebe gehen? Als Liseys berühmter Mann stirbt, weckt sein Nachlass in ihr albtraumhafte Erinnerungen und Ahnungen, die bald grausame Gewissheit werden...

James Conklin não é uma criança comum: ele vê gente morta. Com que frequência? Jamie não sabe bem; afinal, os mortos em geral se parecem muito com os vivos. Exceto pelo fato de que eles ficam para sempre nas roupas em que morreram, e são incapazes de mentir. Sua mãe implora para que ele mantenha essa habilidade em segredo, o que não é problema na maior parte do tempo. Pelo menos até Liz Dutton, a companheira de sua mãe e detetive do Departamento de Polícia de Nova York, aparecer na saída da escola e anunciar que precisa de ajuda.

Michael Chabon, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, has joined forces with the editors of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern to create a collection of action-packed short stories by some of today's most talented names in literature.

El cuerpo de Scott Carey sufre un extraño fenómeno: pierde peso sin parar pero no se vuelve más delgado, su báscula le dice que cada día es un poco más ligero, sin importar si lleva o no ropa o cómo de pesada sea esta.

Most kids write stories. Only a few of them grow up to be successful authors. But before there was Carrie, there was Jhonathan and the Witchs. And before there was Rabbit Angstrom, Toyota Dealer, there was Manuel Cirarro, famous detective. Could we have seen the seeds of success in Stephen King's and John Updike's juvenilia? A funny and surprisingly informative gathering of childhood creations by today's most celebrated writers.