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"Welcome to Cold Mountain Penitentiary, home to the Depression-worn men of E Block. Convicted killers all, each awaits his turn to walk the Green Mile, keeping a date with "Old Sparky," Cold Mountain's electric chair. Prison Guard Paul Edgecombe has seen his share of oddities in his years working the Mile, but he's never seen anything like John Coffey--a man with the body of a giant and the mind of a child, condemned for a crime terrifying in its...
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The Blackstone chronicles volume 6
Pub. Date
1997
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Oliver Metcalf, plagued by painful headaches, finally comes to the realization that the evil sweeping through the small New England town of Blackstone originates with him and his ties to the old Blackstone Asylum.
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Blackstone chronicles volume pt. 4
Pub. Date
1997
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The evil unleashed with the wrecking of the old Blackstone Asylum extends into the life of newspaper editor Oliver Metcalf who, while researching a story on the facility, finds a beautifully embroidered linen handkerchief which he presents to Rebecca Morrison.
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The Blackstone chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
1997
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When Ed Becker decides to salvage an antique desk he found in his attic, he discovers some old photographs and a stereoscope that allows him to see the photos in three dimensions, but when he begins to study the pictures, he discovers a horrifying secret that his family has been hiding for years.
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[1999]
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In the Old South of the 1930s, when a gentle giant of a man is sentenced to death for the murder and rape of two little girls, the fact that he is Black and the girls are white is inflammatory enough, but the situation is further complicated by his near muteness and gift for healing.
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