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  The Vampire Chronicles: Book 1

  Interview With the Vampire

  by Anne Rice

  The time is now.We are in a small room with the vampire, face to face, as he speaks - as he pours out the hypnotic, shocking, moving, and erotically charged confessions of his first two hundred years as one of the leaving dead ...
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  The Vampire Chronicles: Book 2

  The Vampire Lestat

  by Anne Rice

  After the spectacular debut of Interview with the Vampire in 1976, Anne Rice put aside her vampires to explore other literary interests--Italian castrati in Cry to Heaven and the Free People of Color in The Feast of All Saints . But Lestat, the mischievous creator of Louis in Interview , finally emerged to tell his own story in the 1985 sequel, The Vampire Lestat . As with the first book in the... (more)
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  Educating Waverley

  by Laura Kalpakian

  In 1939 young Waverley Scott arrives on remote Isadora Island in the Puget Sound. She is to be a student at Temple School -- banished because her features too closely resemble those of her mother's married employer. The headmistress of this all-girl school, Sophia Westervelt, has a mysterious past and a passion for education. She instills achievement into her students, confident that one day they will have... (more)
• Divine Sarah, The: A Life of Sarah BernhardtArthur Gold

  

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  Divine Sarah, The: A Life of Sarah Bernhardt

  by Arthur Gold

  At last, here is a definitive biography that does justice to the excess that was Sarah Bernhardt, the grand theatrical diva of all time. Lively and gossipy even as it draws on a mass of rare archival materials, The Divine Sarah gives us a charismatic superstar, the avid self-promoter, and the indefatig able femme fatale. 48 pages of photos.