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The Institute

A Novel

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An edition of The Institute (2019)

The Institute

A Novel

Hodder paperback (3)
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Luke Ellis, a super-smart twelve-year-old with an exceptional gift, is the latest in a long line of kids abducted and taken to a secret government facility, hidden deep in the forest in Maine.

Here, kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - like Luke's new friends Kalisha, Nick and Iris, are subjected to a series of experiments.

There seems to be no hope of escape. Until Luke teams up with an even younger boy whose powers of telepathy are off the scale.

Meanwhile, far away in a small town in South Carolina, former cop Tim Jamieson, looking for the quiet life, has taken a job working for the local sheriff. He doesn't know he's about to take on the biggest case of his career...
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Hodder
Language
English
Pages
485

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Cover of: The Institute
The Institute: A Novel
2021, Pocket Books
mass market paperback in English
Cover of: El instituto
El instituto
2020, Vintage Espanol
paperback in Spanish
Cover of: The Institute
The Institute: A Novel
2020, Hodder
B format paperback in English - Hodder paperback (3)
Cover of: The Institute
The Institute
2019, Thordike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage company
in English
Cover of: The Institute
The Institute
2019-09, Scribner
Hardcover in English - 1st Scribner hardcover edition (8)
Cover of: Institute
Institute: A Novel
2019, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
Cover of: Institute
Institute: A Novel
2019, Hodder & Stoughton
Hardcover in English - printing (1)
Cover of: Het Instituut
Het Instituut
2019, Boekerij
in Dutch

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UK

Published in
London
Copyright Date
2019

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS3561.I483

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Format
B format paperback
Pagination
485p.
Number of pages
485

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL29500024M
ISBN 10
1529355419
ISBN 13
9781529355413
OCLC/WorldCat
1236451814
Goodreads
58531956

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Work Description

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 Stephen King’s gut-wrenchingly dramatic story of good vs. evil in a world where the good guys don’t always win.

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Half an hour after Tim Jamieson's Delta flight was scheduled to leave Tampa for the bright lights and tall buildings of New York, it was still parked at the gate.
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