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Cynthia Holloway
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Although seventeen-year-old Amber Appleton is homeless, living in a school bus with her unfit mother, she is a relentless optimist who visits the elderly at a nursing home, teaches English to Korean Catholic women with the use of rhythm and blues music, and befriends a solitary Vietnam veteran and his dog, but eventually she experiences one burden more than she can bear and slips into a deep depression.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
No one is as good at stripping bare the dark desires of the inhuman soul as Laurell K. Hamilton, something she has proven time after time in her New York Times bestselling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter novels. Now, in Incubus Dreams, Anita's life is more complicated than ever, as she is caught between her obligations to the living and the undead.
Author
Series
Chicagoland vampires volume 2
Formats
Description
New vampire Merit acts as a liaison between humans and bloodsuckers in an effort to keep the more unsavory aspects of the vampire lifestyle out of the media, but finds that not everyone wants peace between the two races.
24) Edges
Author
Pub. Date
p2011
Description
New Yorkers Luke, sixteen, and Ava, nineteen, both wind up in Moab, Utah, trying to put their lives back together after suffering from the death of loved ones, alcoholism, and other traumas.
25) Green-eyed demon
Author
Series
Sabina Kane novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Description
"The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. Her sister has been kidnapped by her grandmother, the Dark Races are on the brink of war, and a mysterious order is manipulating everyone behind the scene. Working on information provided by an unlikely ally, Sabina heads to New Orleans to begin the hunt for her sister. Once there, she must contend with belligerent werewolves, magic-wielding vampires, and--perhaps most frightening of all--humans. But as much...
26) Feast of fools
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 4
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans live in relative peace. Student Claire Danvers has never been convinced, especially with the arrival of Mr. Bishop, an ancient, old-school vampire who cares nothing about harmony. What he wants from the town living and its dead is unthinkably sinister. It is only at a formal ball, attended by vampires and their human dates, that Claire realizes the evil trap Mr. Bishop has set for Morganville....
27) Touch the dark
Author
Series
Cassandra Palmer novels volume 1
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits-talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead alike. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous; they just like to talk...a lot.The undead are another matter.Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she's forced to turn to the vampire Senate for...
28) Lord of misrule
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans have coexisted in (relatively) bloodless harmony...until the arrival of Bishop, a master vampire who threatens to put the evil back in evil undead and smash the fragile peace. But Bishop isn't the only threat.... Violent black clouds promise a storm of devastating proportions. As student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against the elements--both natural and unnatural--the...
Author
Series
Cassandra Palmer novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Every vamp, Fey and mage in town wants to monopolize or eradicate Cassandra Palmer's clairvoyant gifts. When she discovers that a certain vampire master has placed a charm on her, he's soon finds out that Casandra makes a very bad enemy.
Author
Series
Sabina Kane novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Sabina Kane doesn't have the best track record when it comes to family. After all, her own grandmother, leader of the vampire race, wants her dead. So when she arrives in New York to meet her mage relatives, the reunion puts the fun in dysfunctional. Not only is mage culture completely bizarre, but everyone seems to think she's some kind of 'Chosen' who'll unite the dark races. Sabina doesn't care who chose her, she's not into destiny.But the mages...
31) Kiss of death
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 8
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big-time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some dates. Which means that Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends. And with that mix of personalities, this is going to be a road trip from hell.
32) Fade out
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 7
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Life has changed dramatically in Morganville. The resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population and with their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are starting to feel comfortable again - almost.
33) City of dragons
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
Set in San Francisco in 1940, Stanley's stunning first in a new series introduces a gutsy, independent heroine who isn't always likable. As the city celebrates the Chinese New Year with the Rice Bowl Party, a three-day carnival to raise money for China's war relief, PI Miranda Corbie sees Eddie Takahashi, a young Japanese numbers runner, shot dead in front of her on a crowded, fireworks-filled Chinatown street. When the police tell her to forget about...
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