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Critical study of King's novels and nonfiction in the second decade of writing including those written under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

Text and a few black and white photographs discuss the ideas and arguments behind the landmark abortion case of Roe v. Wade.

Roland Deschain and his ka-tet encounter a ferocious storm just after crossing the River Whye. As they shelter from the howling gale, Roland tells his Ka-tet friends two strange stories, and, in so doing, casts new light on his own troubled past.

Discusses the Roe v. Wade ruling which many feel is one of the most controversial decisions the Supreme Court has ever rendered.

Presents a brief biography of novelist Tom Clancy, twelve essays analyzing his works and discussing their appeal, and three articles by Clancy himself on space exploration and the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Photographs and text present a biography of the National Basketball Association's all-time leading defensive rebounder and scorer, who was born Lew Alcindor.

Examines all of the works of fiction by Stephen King and the ways in which his plots, characters, conflicts, and themes are intertwined.

A patient identified as "N." tells psychiatrist John Bonsaint of his compulsive attraction to a ring of stones in Ackerman's Field near the town of Motton, Maine, and his conviction that it imprisons something evil. "N." feels it is his responsibility to strengthen the hold the ring has over the terrifying beast "N." has only glimpsed, or it will get free.

As Mother Abigail foretold, Stu, Ralph, Larry, and Glen leave Boulder to follow Harold and Nadine west into the Dark Man's territory, but one of them will fall along the way. In the West, Randall Flagg unmasks and kills two of the spies from Boulder, but Tom Cullen leaves town before Flagg knows who he is. And, although Nadine makes it to Las Vegas and is impregnated according to plan, Flagg's world begins to fall apart.

Three groups of super-flu survivors, including Nick Andros and Tom Cullen, Stu Redman and his group, and Larry Underwood, Nadine Cross, and the feral boy Joe--find themselves drawn to the cornfields of Nebraska by dreams of an old black woman who competes with the Dark Man in their dreams.