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The Institute: A Novel

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Notes From Your Bookseller
Notes From Your Bookseller

While Stephen King is essentially always at his best, he is here as well. Celebrate the power of kids as they face down the evil of, well, the Institute. There's nothing King's kids can't do.

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. “This is King at his best” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

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, ...

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