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02569aam a2200469 i 4500 001 04A15BAE84BF11ECA1DCE93A4FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220203010027 008 210630t20212019||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 1982110570 020 $a 9781982110574 035 $a (OCoLC)1258124573 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a King, Stephen, $d 1947- 245 14 $a The institute : $b a novel / $c Stephen King. 250 $a Pocket Books paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Pocket Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 655 pages ; $c 19 cm. 500 $a Includes excerpt from Billy Summers. 520 $a In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' 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 10-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. 541 $d 20220119. 650 $a Kidnapping victims $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Suspense fiction. 650 $a Psychic ability $v Fiction. 650 $a Kidnapping $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Kidnapping victims. 650 7 $a Psychic ability. 650 7 $a Missing children. 650 7 $a Kidnapping. 650 7 $a Child abuse. 650 7 $a Child abuse $v Fiction. 650 $a Missing children $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction.) 655 7 $a Fiction. 655 7 $a Thrillers (Fiction.) 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. 655 7 $a Horror fiction. 941 $a 2 952 $l WFPC115 $d 20230217124751.0 952 $l EWPB745 $d 20220203010923.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=04A15BAE84BF11ECA1DCE93A4FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search