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• Sookie Stackhouse: {If I Had a Hammer} - "Sook" - Barmaid at Merlotte's Bar and Grill; Eric Northman's wife (according to vampire law); Is telepathic & 1/8 Fae; A busty, blonde with blue eyes; In her late 20's
• Tara Thornton: {If I Had a Hammer} - "Tara du Rone" - Sookie's best friend; JB du Rone's wife; Robbie & Sara's mother; Owner of Tara's Togs; In her late 20's
• JB du Rone: {If I Had a Hammer} - Sookie's very good friend from high school; Tara's husband; Robbie & Sara's father; A personal trainer; Has long hair and is movie star gorgeous but is not very smart; In his late 20's
• Robert du Rone: {If I Had a Hammer} - "Robbie" - "Robert Thornton du Rone" - Sara's twin; Tara & JB's infant son
• Sara du Rone: {If I Had a Hammer} - "Sara" - "Sara Sookie du Rone" - Robbie's twin; Tara & JB's infant daughter
• Sam Merlotte: {If I Had a Hammer} - Shapeshifter; Owner of Merlotte's Bar and Grill; Sookie's boss and best friend; A compact man who is immensely strong; Has messy strawberry blond hair and blue eyes
• Quiana Wong: {If I Had a Hammer} - Robbie & Sara's babysitter; Has golden skin, black hair and slanting dark eyes; Her mother was half Chinese and half African American; Her father was a redneck; 18 years old; Has a bony little figure
• Terry Bellefleur: {If I Had a Hammer} - All-Purpose handyman; Occasionally works at Merlotte's; Andy Bellefleur's cousin; Vietnam veteran that suffers from PTSD
• Isaiah Wechsler: {If I Had a Hammer} - Jacob & Sarah Jane's son; 15 years old; A big bull of a boy
• Jacob Wechsler: {If I Had a Hammer} - Sarah Jane's husband; Isaiah's father
• Sarah Jane Wechsler: {If I Had a Hammer} - Jacob's wife; Isaiah's mother
• Andy Bellefleur: {If I Had a Hammer} - Halleigh's husband; Police detective in Bon Temps; Bill's great great grandson; Portia's brother
• Halleigh Robinson: {If I Had a Hammer} - "Halleigh Bellefleur" - Andy's pregnant wife; School teacher at the elementary school
• Daisy Summerlin: {If I Had a Hammer} - Hiram's wife; Albert & Carter's mother
• Hiram Summerlin: {If I Had a Hammer} - Daisy's husband; Albert & Carter's father
• Albert Summerlin: {If I Had a Hammer} - Daisy & Hiram's son; Carter's older brother; 16 years old; A husky kid with red hair and freckles
• Carter Summerlin: {If I Had a Hammer} - Daisy & Hiram's son; Albert's younger brother; 13 years old; A quiet kid with lots of curly red hair
• Adele Stackhouse: {If I Had a Hammer} - "Gran" - "Adele Hale Stackhouse" - Sookie's grandmother; Raised both Sookie and Jason after their parents died
• Fuller Compton: {If I Had a Hammer} - Policeman in Bon Temp in the 1930's; Bill's descendant
• Bill Compton: {If I Had a Hammer} - Vampire; Sookie's neighbor and ex-boyfriend; Sells a computerized compilation of all known vampires; Has dark hair and dark eyes
• Cathy Wechsler: {If I Had a Hammer} - Widow of the last Wechsler; Is aboy 70 years old; Lives close to Clarice
• Bucky Summerlin: {If I Had a Hammer} - Albert's descendant
• Coop Woods: {If I Had a Hammer} - Quiana Wong's father; A redneck
• McKenna: {If I Had a Hammer} - Tara's assistant
• Amelia Broadway: {If I Had a Hammer} - Sookie's friend; A witch from New Orleans; Has short brown hair
• Kennedy Keyes: {If I Had a Hammer} - Part-time substitute bartender at Merlotte's Bar; Was first runner-up to Miss Louisiana; Has thick and glossy chestnut hair; Served time for manslaughter
• Broahm: {Wizard Home Security} - Mage; Has a beard that is just starting to show gray streaks
• Sulton: {Wizard Home Security} - Mage; Is handsome and trendy with a clean shaven face, a fancy gold earring in one ear and hair cut short and spiky; Works for Wizard Home Security
• Hemley: {Wizard Home Security} - Broahm's old master
• Bortz: {Wizard Home Security} - Broahm's neighbor and a fellow wizard; Is short and plump
• Lorran: {Wizard Home Security}

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• Bon Temps, Louisiana: {If I Had a Hammer} - Small town where Sookie lives and works
• Tara's Togs: {If I Had a Hammer} - Clothing store in Bon Temps; Owned by Tara
• Merlotte's Bar and Grill: {If I Had a Hammer} - in Bon Temps; Owned by Sam Merlotte
• Sew Right: {If I Had a Hammer} - in Shreveport
• Shreveport, Louisiana: {If I Had a Hammer}
• Clarice, Louisiana: {If I Had a Hammer}
• Europe: {If I Had a Hammer}
• Wizard's Quarter: {Wizard Home Security}
• The Northern Waste: {Wizard Home Security}
• Ice City: {Wizard Home Security}
• Great Frozen Sea: {Wizard Home Security}

Organizations edit see section history

• Wizard Home Security: {Wizard Home Security}

First Sentence edit see section history

Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Deadlocked, and followed by An Apple for the Creature.

Followed by The Sweet Scent of Blood.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Toni L. P. Kelner (Editor)
2. Charlaine Harris (Editor)

Other Contributors:

1. Heather Graham (Contributor)
2. Seanan McGuire (Contributor) - Through This House (October Daye story; The opening of Goldengreen)
3. Charlaine Harris (Contributor) - If I Had a Hammer
4. Victor Gischler (Contributor) - Wizard Home Security
5. Patricia Briggs (Contributor) - Gray
6. James Grady (Contributor) - The Mansion of Imperatives
7. Rochelle Krich (Contributor) - Squatters' Rights
8. Melissa Marr (Contributor) - The Strength Inside
9. E. E. Knight (Contributor) - Woolsley's Kitchen Nightmare
10. Stacia Kane (Contributor) - Rick the Brave (Chess and Terrible story from the chess Putnam series)
11. Suzanne McLeod (Contributor) - Full-Scale Demolition
12. S. J. Rozan (Contributor) - The Path

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS648.H6 H63 2011
• Dewey: 813.087308

Notes for Parents edit see section history

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Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Literature & Fiction

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