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"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...
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Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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Small-town cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse has had more than her share of experience with the supernatural-but now it's really hitting close to home. When Sookie sees her brother Jason's eyes start to change, she knows he's about to turn into a were-panther for the first time-a transformation he embraces more readily than most shapeshifters she knows. But her concern becomes cold fear when a sniper sets his deadly sights on the local changeling...
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CLASSIC FICTION (PRE C 1945). Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury,...
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Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 6
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English
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As heir to the estate of her newly dead Cousin Hadley, cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse takes an opportunity to travel to New Orleans on family business. Sookie unearths a big secret, and it becomes clear that more than a few people will do anything to stop her from looking into Hadley's past.
6) Sorrowland
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2021.
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Vern, a hunted woman alone in the woods, gives birth to twins and raises them away from the influence of the outside world. But something is wrong, not with them, but with her own body. It's itching, it's stronger, it's not normal. To understand her body's metamorphosis, Vern must investigate the secluded religious compound from which she fled and the violent history of dehumanization, medical experimentation, and genocide that produced it. In the...
7) Blood bound
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Mercy Thompson series volume 2
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English
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Jalopy mechanic and were-creature Mercedes Thompson can change into a coyote whenever she wants to. As a favor, she agrees to back up vampire friend Stefan when he confronts another of his kind. But, being demon-possessed, that vampire proves deadlier than most and before she can do anything to help, Mercedes is in the middle of a war with vampires and werewolves.
8) Bone crossed
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Car mechanic/shapeshifter Mercy Thompson must protect her friends from vampire queen Marsilia's revenge.
9) Magic burns
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When mercenary Kate Daniels is hired to retrieve a set of stolen maps for the Pack, Atlanta's paramilitary clan of shapeshifters, she is plunged into the middle of an epic battle between two gods hoping for rebirth.
11) Butterfly garden
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2012
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IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Mrs. Connor's first-graders watch as caterpillars slowly turn into butterflies in the butterfly garden at Robin Hill School.
13) Hunted
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Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Four children have discovered that they have spirit animals, a rare bond between human and animal that has launched them on a quest to save their world. The team heads to the forests of Eura, where another Great Beast is hidden.
15) Queen of dragons
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Drakon saga volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2008
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English
16) Linger
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Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.
17) Forever
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Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 3
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A human girl and her werewolf boyfriend must fight for their love as death comes closing in.
18) Mate bond
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Shifters unbound volume 7
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Agreeing to a "mating of convenience" to keep the peace in his North Carolina Shiftertown, Bowman O'Donnell and Kenzie must rely on their instinctive trust in one another to save their community from a monster.
19) Need
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Need series volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
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IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Depressed after the death of her stepfather, high school junior Zara goes to live with her grandmother in a small Maine town, where new friends tell Zara the strange man she keeps seeing may be a pixie king, and that only "were" creatures can stop him from taking souls.
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