New Releases by Owen King

A surreal and colorful world populated with two-faced talk-show hosts, cheerful Finnish mobsters, bloodthirsty white supremacists, snide English butlers, and panther-wielding Euro-trash assassins. Down-on-his-luck rideshare driver Jerry Hauser’s existence is a bleak one…especially because every fare he picks up tells him how much he looks like uber-successful self-help guru Darren Hart. But after a twist of fate, Jerry is given the chance of a lifetime…which, if he’s not careful, may well end his lifetime. So begins this California noir—a rollicking and gleefully lurid pulp crime story for our time.

A surreal and colorful world populated with two-faced talk-show hosts, cheerful Finnish mobsters, bloodthirsty white supremacists, snide English butlers, and panther-wielding Euro-trash assassins. Down-on-his-luck rideshare driver Jerry HauserÕs existence is a bleak oneÉespecially because every fare he picks up tells him how much he looks like uber-successful self-help guru Darren Hart. But after a twist of fate, Jerry is given the chance of a lifetimeÉwhich, if heÕs not careful, may well end his lifetime. So begins this California noirÑa rollicking and gleefully lurid pulp crime story for our time. Collects SELF HELP #1-5

MINISERIES FINALE ÒGive Them What They WantÓ Jerry and Cassandra are having an increasingly hard time convincing the more violent sides of their worlds that Jerry is, in fact, well-heeled self-help guru Darren Hart, a challenge made even more difficult by Jerry-as-DarrenÕs appearance on a very public talk showÉ

ÒWho Shaves the Barber?ÓÊ Jerry Hauser has long been in over his head, which is one reason he assumed the identity of the globally popular but presumed-dead self-help guru. Only, all heÕs accomplished so far is assuming the growing problems of both menÑa situation that spirals even further out of control thanks to his appearance on a daytime talk show, bringing even more unwanted and vicious criminal elements into his life!

"Live, Laugh, Love." Jerry Hauser seeks to reinvent his present with the aid of Darren Hart’s opportunistic assistant Cassandra, but his past refuses to stay where it belongs—as Jerry’s ex-wife and daughter learn when they meet Powder Bob. And nothing good happens to anyone who runs afoul of Power Bob...

De la pluma del autor superventas Owen King llega una novedad de fantasía dickensiana en la que los gatos son considerados dioses, los ladrones son nobles, los académicos son radicales y los conjugadores son los criminales más magníficos que puedas imaginar. Es un libro tan mágico como político, y está escrito con una hermosa destreza. - Neil Gaiman Mitad cuento de hadas y mitad relato de una revolución, El museo de Owen King está lleno de humor astuto, sensualidad y extravagancia. - Holly Black ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From New York Times bestselling author Owen King, who "writes with witty verve" (Entertainment Weekly) comes a "richly imagined" (The New York Times) Dickensian fantasy of illusion and charm where cats are revered as religious figures, thieves are noble, scholars are revolutionaries, and conjurers are the most wonderful criminals you can imagine. It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed "the Fairest", it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so, by its essential unmappability. Dora, a former domestic servant at the university has a secret desire--to understand the mystery of her brother''s death, believing that the answer lies within The Museum of Psykical Research, where he worked when Dora was a child. With the city amidst a revolutionary upheaval, where citizens like Robert Barnes, her lover and a student radical, are now in positions of authority, Dora contrives to gain the curatorship of the half-forgotten museum only to find it all but burnt to the ground, with the neighboring museums oddly untouched. Robert offers her one of these, The National Museum of the Worker. However, neither this museum, nor the street it is hidden away on, nor Dora herself, are what they at first appear to be. Set against the backdrop of an oddly familiar and wondrous city on the verge of collapse, Dora''s search for the truth will unravel a monstrous conspiracy and bring her to the edge of worlds.

UNA CITTÀ SENZA NOME. UN MISTERO DA SVELARE. UN RACCONTO AI CONFINI DELL''IMMAGINAZIONE A prima vista, il mondo non è cambiato affatto: i tram sui viali, i grandi alberghi, i caffè pieni di gente. I ragazzi in strada giocano ancora sui due grandi ponti che dividono la città, e i più snob continuano ad avventurarsi sulla Nave Obitorio in cerca di una serata divertente. Eppure, basta una scintilla per innescare una rivolta. Per la giovane Dora, che lavora all''Università Nazionale, è giunta finalmente l''occasione per fare un passo decisivo. Inizia a uscire con Robert, uno studente dalle idee radicali, ed è finalmente libera di indagare su ciò che suo fratello Ambrose potrebbe aver visto alla Società per la Ricerca Psichica prima di morire. Ma è un altro l''edificio di cui Dora è incaricata di occuparsi: il Museo Nazionale del Lavoratore. Questa strana costruzione dimenticata da tutti, che pullula di inquietanti statue in cera di minatori, infermieri, negozianti e altre figure assolutamente realistiche, nasconde un mistero. Mentre fuori la rivoluzione e la controrivoluzione scatenano forze oscure, inaspettate e terrificanti, Dora si avventura fino ai confini del mondo in cerca di una verità taciuta troppo a lungo.

Searching for the truth behind the secret she''s long concealed, Dora, a former domestic servant, is given curatorship of The National Museum of the Worker by her lover, a place that isn''t at all what it seems as she unravels a monstrous conspiracy that brings her to the edge of worlds.

Un mal inexplicable touche les femmes dans le monde entier. Cette étrange maladie les plonge dans un sommeil qui semble interminable tandis que leur corps s’entoure d’une sorte de cocon inextricable. Si l''on tente de les réveiller, ces femmes se transforment en furies sanguinaires. Bientôt, presque toutes sont touchées par ce phénomène qu’on surnomme « Aurore » et le monde sombre dans le chaos. À Dooling, petite ville des Appalaches, une mystérieuse jeune femme, Evie, semble immunisée contre cette contagion. Remède miracle pour certain, créature démoniaque pour d’autres, échappera-t-elle à la violence des hommes ? Traduit de l’anglais (États-Unis) par Laurent Queyssi.

L''adattamento ufficiale del romanzo bestseller di Stephen King e Owen King regala ai lettori un''esperienza immersiva e coinvolgente. È una notte agitata quando, nel carcere femminile di dooling, una delle detenute Annuncia con urla strazianti l''arrivo della regina nera. Per il dottor norcross, lo Psichiatra della prigione, è routine: un sedativo dovrebbe sistemare tutto. Per sua moglie lila, lo sceriffo della cittadina, è un presagio di morte. Perché, poche ore dopo, una ragazza sconvolta chiama il 911 affermando che una donna con forza sovrumana ha ammazzato a mani nude due balordi. Il suo nome è evie black, intorno a lei svolazzano strane falene marroni e sembra venire da un altro mondo. Lo stesso, forse, dove finiscono a poco a poco le donne, addormentate da un''inquietante malattia del sonno. Un sonno dal quale è meglio non svegliarle.

Un mal inexplicable touche les femmes dans le monde entier. Cette étrange maladie les plonge dans un sommeil qui semble interminable alors que leur corps s’entoure d’une sorte de cocon inextricable. Si l’on tente de les réveiller, ces femmes se transforment en furies sanguinaires. Bientôt, presque toutes sont touchées par cette maladie qu’on surnomme « Aurore » et le monde, privé de femmes, sombre dans le chaos. À Dooling, petite ville des Appalaches, une mystérieuse jeune femme, Evie, semble immunisée contre cette contagion. Remède miracle pour certains, créature démoniaque pour d’autres, échappera-t-elle à la violence des hommes ?

The official graphic novel adaptation of the horror novel by Stephen King and Owen King concludes in this haunting interpretation of the chilling, timely bestseller. The mysterious plague known as Aurora has blanketed the world, and, to the men, all but a handful of sleep-deprived women seem trapped—cocooned—in seemingly endless slumber. In reality, their minds have been transported to a strange, utopic dream world. It''s a world where small-town sheriff Lila Norcross and the other women can build their own society. And from which they might not want to wake. In the real world of Dooling, West Virginia, Lila''s husband, beleaguered prison psychiatrist Clint Norcross, is struggling. He''s trying to protect the woman called Eve Black from the ill-thought-out actions of increasingly desperate men. But Eve, as the only woman capable of waking up, has her own plans: a test with global consequences. A test Clint will have to pass if he ever hopes to see his wife again. Collects Sleeping Beauties issues #6-10, by writer Rio Youers (The Forgotten Girl) and artist Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard), from the novel by Stephen King (The Institute, The Stand) and Owen King (Intro to Alien Invasion).

The official graphic novel adaptation of the horror novel by Stephen King and Owen King concludes in this haunting interpretation of the chilling, timely bestseller. The mysterious plague known as Aurora has blanketed the world, and, to the men, all but a handful of sleep-deprived women seem trapped--cocooned--in seemingly endless slumber. In reality, their minds have been transported to a strange, utopic dream world. It''s a world where small-town sheriff Lila Norcross and the other women can build their own society. And from which they might not want to wake. In the real world of Dooling, West Virginia, Lila''s husband, beleaguered prison psychiatrist Clint Norcross, is struggling. He''s trying to protect the woman called Eve Black from the ill-thought-out actions of increasingly desperate men. But Eve, as the only woman capable of waking up, has her own plans: a test with global consequences. A test Clint will have to pass if he ever hopes to see his wife again. Collects Sleeping Beauties issues #6-10, by writer Rio Youers (The Forgotten Girl) and artist Alison Sampson (Winnebago Graveyard), from the novel by Stephen King (The Institute, The Stand) and Owen King (Intro to Alien Invasion).

A historical recollection and memoir of the King family in the print industry, when Linotype was "King".

In this father-son collaboration, the authors tell the story of what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men. Set in a small Appalachian town whose primary employer is a women''s prison, in a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep. They become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodies is disturbed or violated, the women become feral and spectacularly violent. While they sleep they go to another place. The men of our world are abandoned, left to their increasingly primal devices. One woman, however, the mysterious Evie, is immune to the blessing or curse of the sleeping disease. Is Evie a medical anomaly to be studied, or is she a demon who must be slain?

This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject''s core elements, which can be used as a learning material for students pursuing their studies in undergraduate and graduate levels in universities and colleges and those who want to learn the topic via a short and complete resource. We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career.

In this wildly entertaining collaboration, novelists Owen King and Mark Jude Poirier team up with illustrator Nancy Ahn to present a wickedly funny graphic novel about an alien invasion on a college campus. Stacey, a brilliant, overachieving astrobiology major at Fenton College, had planned on just another lonely Spring Break on campus. But when a hurricane batters the small college town, downing power lines and knocking out cell phone reception, Stacey and her friends are stranded with no way to communicate with the outside world at the worst possible moment: in the midst of an alien invasion. As space insects begin to burrow into students and staff—transforming them into slobbering, babbling monsters—a conglomeration of misfits must band together to prevent the infestation from spreading. Meanwhile, Stacey’s long-stifled romantic feelings for her friend Charlotte begin to surface, while the professor she had admired and respected becomes the students’ worst enemy. Illustrated with enormous wit and dynamism—mixing classic tropes from science fiction, indie comics, B-movies, and campus culture—this graphic novel is something different, a large-scale action/adventure story as seen from the point-of-view of a contemporary, realistic heroine. The result is a funny and singular work unlike anything else you’ve ever read.

SAM DOLAN is a young man coming to terms with his life in the process and aftermath of making his first film. He has a difficult relationship with his father, B-movie actor Booth Dolan—a boisterous, opinionated, lying lothario whose screen legacy falls somewhere between cult hero and pathetic. Allie, Sam’s dearly departed mother, was a woman whose only fault, in Sam’s eyes, was her eternal affection for his father. Also included in the cast of indelible characters: a precocious, frequently violent half-sister; a conspiracy-theorist second wife; an Internet-famous roommate; a contractor who can’t stop expanding his house; a happy-go-lucky college girlfriend and her husband, a retired Yankees catcher; the morose producer of a true-crime show; and a slouching indie-film legend. Not to mention a tragic sex monster. Unraveling the tumultuous, decades-spanning story of the Dolan family’s friends, lovers, and adversaries, Double Feature is about letting go of everything—regret, resentment, dignity, moving pictures, the dead—and taking it again from the top. Against the backdrop of indie filmmaking, college campus life, contemporary Brooklyn, and upstate New York, Owen King’s epic debut novel combines propulsive storytelling with mordant wit and brims with a deep understanding of the trials of ambition and art, of relationships and life, and of our attempts to survive it all.

In the tropical countryside on the small Caribbean island of Albany sits the vast Trinity estate ¿ home of the Johnson family for 200 years. Lionel Johnson and his sister Kate currently manage the estate and their role has been passed down through the family from generation to generation. Each year creates new challenges and over the years Trinity has changed immeasurably from a home into a small village and, after Lionel¿s death, there are plans for a town. The Johnsons pull together, balancing time, trips abroad and other careers and interests to keep Trinity afloat. This is a novel about pride in tradition and the importance of family, as much as it is about the relentless passing of time.

George, the teenage son of a single mother, struggles to cope with the idiosyncratic members of his family, including his about-to-be-married mother and grandfather, an ardent Gore supporter, in the wake of the 2000 presidential election, in a whimsical novella set in Maine and accompanied by a series of stories exploring the issue of conflict and choice. A first collection. Reprint.

ETHS alumnus, class of 1961.

Bestseller New York Times Intr-o colaborare spectaculoasa Stephen King si fiul sau Owen King pornesc de la o premisa originala si incendiara: ce s-ar intampla daca ar disparea femeile? Intr-un viitor deloc indepartat dupa ce adorm femeile sunt acoperite de coconi asemenea fluturilor iar daca cineva indrazneste sa le tulbure somnul le va transforma in creaturi incredibil de agresive. Una singura Evie Black e imuna la blestem. Abandonati si lasati prada instinctelor primare barbatii se impart in factiuni: unii vor s-o salveze pe Evie iar altii nu vor decat sa mentina haosul. Intr-o lume a barbatilor totul se reduce la agresivitate foarte rapid. „Un carusel violent distopic care te va ingrozi si te va prinde de la prima pagina.“ People „Inca un thriller blockbuster in care Mr. Mercedes se intalneste cu Inchisoarea ingerilor: barbati brutali femei care s-au saturat de starea de fapt alcool saracie rurala. O placere vinovata murdara de sange.“ Kirkus Reviews