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The Institute
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King whose “storytelling transcends genre” (Newsday) comes “another winner: creepy and touching and horrifyingly believable” (The Boston Globe) about a group of kids confronting evil.
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
As psychically terrifying as Firestarter, and with the spectacular kid power of It, The Institute is “first-rate entertainment that has something important to say. We all need to listen” (The Washington Post).
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I really enjoyed this story, I’m a long time fan of Stephen King’s work, and I found this story to be interesting and hard to put down.
By AnnieMalomorse
Love love loved it. I couldn’t put the book down.
By Do do dunder head
I just couldn’t put this book down. Some Kings best work!
By Noproblem989
I enjoyed this book so very much! I am a constant reader but had stopped reading for a while as for some reason there is always an animal dog or cat being tortured and killed which I find very upsetting and not necessary! This book had none of that for which I was grateful for! I put it up there with a lot of his old books. Truly a page turner and was not able to put it down. I highly recommend this book, I truly loved it! Thank you S.K.!
By KAIALJK
I loved this book so much.
By katecorrine