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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 living dead ...A provoking book, which starts a rich series...
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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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  Charlie Parker: Book 7

  The Reapers

  by John Connolly

  A brilliantly chilling novel by New York Times bestselling author John Connolly about a chain of killings, linked obscurely by great distances and the passage of years, and the settling of their blood-debts -- past, present, and future. As a small boy, Louis witnesses an unspeakable crime that takes the life of a member of his small, southern community. He grows up and moves on, but he is forever changed by the... (more)
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  Wayside School: Book 3

  Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger

  by Louis Sachar

  Hooray! Wayside School is Open Again! All the kids from Wayside School had to spend 243 days in horrible schools while Wayside closed to get rid of the cows (Don't ask!). Now the kids are back and the fun begins again on every floor. Miss Much has prepared a Day on the 30th floor--with dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and pigs, and an orange named Fido causing a terrible commotion. In Mrs. Drazil's class,... (more)
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  The Queen's Necklace

  by Alexandre Dumas, père

  1849. A sequel to Memoirs of a Physician. Dumas, French novelist and playwright, is now primarily recognized for his historical novels, which include the ever popular Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo. The novel begins: It was the beginning of April, 1784, between twelve and one o'clock. Our old acquaintance, the Marshal de Richelieu, having with his own hands colored his eyebrows with a perfumed dye,... (more)
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  The Trumpet of the Swan

  by E. B. White

  Louis the swan can not speak, so his father gets him a real brass trumpet. He falls in love with someone who doesn't love him back. Will the trumpet help to fix his love situation by allowing him to communicate and show his true love to her?
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  Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought

  by Louis Arnorsson Sass

  In this brilliant work, a clinical psychologist offers a startling new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of modern writers such as Kafka and philosophers such as Nietzsche. "Refreshingly different from customary writings on mental illness . . . highly original and profoundly disquieting insights."--New York Times Book Review.
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  Eleanor of Aquitaine

  Medieval Queen

  by Kerrily Sapet

  Grade 7 Up–This biography begins promisingly with a delineation of Eleanor's character and a clear setting of the scene (both in time and place). However, by the midway point, the text turns into a sometimes confusing recitation of events. There are numerous errors, misspellings, and omissions; the maps are woefully inadequate (two antique reproductions are impossible to decipher, while the one modern map is... (more)
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  Old Man's War: Book 3

  The Last Colony

  by John Scalzi

  Retired from his fighting days, John Perry is now village ombudsman for a human colony on distant Huckleberry. With his wife, former Special Forces warrior Jane Sagan, he farms several acres, adjudicates local disputes, and enjoys watching his adopted daughter grow up. That is, until his and Jane's past reaches out to bring them back into the game--as leaders of a new human colony, to be peopled by settlers from... (more)
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  My Friend the Monster

  by Eleanor Taylor

  Louis and his family have just moved into their new house, full of big empty rooms and dusty corners to play in.  But on Louis’ first night, he hears a strange noise coming from under his bed, and is shocked to find a monster!  Fortunately, this monster isn’t scary, and when Louis takes him to the park the next day, he helps Louis make friends with the other kids in his new neighborhood.  Featuring an adorable... (more)
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  Lit a Shuck for Texas

  by Louis L'Amour

  Johnny Buck is a young Texas cowboy of nineteen summers, working for the Bar W. In the process of roping an old stob-horned steer, Buck is thrown from his horse--and into a hidden cleft where he encounters the mystery of a murdered man and a bag of ore that just might be gold. The taciturn owner of the Bar W discounts Buck's story of the "gold," but Buck soon finds that some of the shadier ranch hands are gunning... (more)
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  Charlie Parker: Book 9

  The Whisperers

  by John Connolly

  John Connolly is the author of Every Dead Thing, Dark Hollow, The Killing Kind, The White Road, Bad Men, Nocturnes, and The Black Angel. He is a regular contributor to The Irish Times and lives in Dublin, Ireland. For more information, see his website at www.johnconnolly.co.uk.
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  Short Stories

  by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Bret Harte

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  Night salad

  by Metaphrog

  Grade 5 Up— Night Salad continues the story of lovable Louis and his mechanical bird, FC. While working outside, the child trips and falls, upending FC's cage and spilling a bottle of chemicals. FC is seriously injured,and the youngster becomes distressed, eventually feeling ill himself. Weeping, he hovers over his friend, wondering what to do. He writes to his aunt for advice, reads a story to FC, and consults... (more)
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  The Vampire Chronicles: Book 3

  The Queen of the Damned

  by Anne Rice

  In 1976, a uniquely seductive world of vampires was unveiled in the now-classic Interview with the Vampire . . . in 1985, a wild and voluptous voice spoke to us, telling the story of The Vampire Lestat .  In The Queen of the Damned , Anne Rice continues her extraordinary "Vampire Chronicles" in a feat of mesmeric storytelling, a chillingly hypnotic entertainment in which the oldest and most powerful forces of... (more)
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  The Vampire Chronicles: Book 4

  The Tale of the Body Thief

  by Anne Rice

  In a new feat of hypnotic storytelling, Anne Rice continues the extraordinary Vampire Chronicles that began with the now classic "Interview with the Vampire" and continued with "The Vampire Lestat" and "The Queen of the Damned." Lestat speaks. Vampire-hero, enchanter, seducer of mortals. For centuries he has been a courted prince in the dark and flourishing universe of the living dead. Lestat is alone. And... (more)
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  The Vampire Chronicles: Book 7

  Merrick

  by Anne Rice

  At the center is the beautiful, unconquerable witch, Merrick. She is a descendant of the gens de colors libres, a cast derived from the black mistresses of white men, a society of New Orleans octaroons and quadroons, steeped in the lore and ceremony of voodoo, who reign in the shadowy world where the African and the French--the white and the dark--intermingle. Her ancestors are the Great Mayfair Witches, of whom... (more)
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  Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Book 6

  The Killing Dance

  by Laurell K. Hamilton

  The dead obey her. The undead fear her. Anita Blake, animator and vampire hunter, lives a dual life - and a dual love life. Dating both a vampire and a werewolf isn't easy. But just to complicate Anita's already messy life, someone has put a price on her head. Love cannot save her this time, so she turns to Edward, hitman extraordinaire, for help. But finding the person behind the threat won't be easy,... (more)
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  Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter: Book 7

  Burnt Offerings

  by Laurell K. Hamilton

  In Laurell K. Hamilton's New York Times bestselling novels, it's often hard to tell the good from the evil. Just ask Anita Blake. She seems to be developing a soft spot in her heart for vampires-one in particular. So, when an arsonist's fires begin licking at St. Louis's undead, it's up to Anita to save the very monsters she's sworn to destroy.
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  Sideways Stories From Wayside School: Book 2

  Wayside School is Falling Down

  by Louis Sachar

  The extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever. The extraordinary thirty-story school and its zany inhabitants are back in the long-awaited sequel to the classic SIDEWAYS STORIES FROM WAYSIDE SCHOOL, one of the most popular Camelot books ever.... (more)