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Series
Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2005
Language
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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English
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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...
3) Bone crossed
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Series
Language
English
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Car mechanic/shapeshifter Mercy Thompson must protect her friends from vampire queen Marsilia's revenge.
4) Sorrowland
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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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...
5) Blood bound
Author
Series
Mercy Thompson series volume 2
Language
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.
9) Forever
Author
Series
Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A human girl and her werewolf boyfriend must fight for their love as death comes closing in.
10) Linger
Author
Series
Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
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.
11) Shiver
Author
Series
Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In all the years she has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house, Grace has been particularly drawn to an unusual yellow-eyed wolf who, in his turn, has been watching her with increasing intensity.
12) Hunted
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
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.
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English
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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,...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Gretchen Yee, a student at the Manhattan School for Art and Music, wishes she were a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room, she never expects her wish to come true in such a dramatic way.
Author
Series
Nightmare Club (Annie Graves) volume 1
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Glen never has anything nice to say to anyone, so when he gets lost in the woods during a school field trip and encounters a strange creature, there is bound to be trouble.
16) Beastkeeper
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Deep in the forest, in a crumbling ruin of a castle, Sarah begins to untangle the layers of curses affecting her family, until she discovers that the curse has carried over to her, too. The day she falls in love for the first time, Sarah will transform into a beast . . . unless she can figure out a way to break the curse forever.
17) Sinner
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get back Isabel Culpeper. She fled from his damaged, drained life, and damaged and drained it even more. He doesn't just want her. He needs her. Isabel is trying to build herself a life in Los Angeles. It's not really working. She can play the game as well as all the other fakes. But what's the point? What is there to win? Cole and Isabel share a past that never seemed to have a future. They...
19) Kaiju no. 8: 6
Series
Kaiju no. 8 volume 6
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
20) Cat flap
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When she awoke as a cat, Dolores Tremayne saw no immediate advantage in having four paws instead of two arms and two legs..." A brilliant, funny novel of love, marriage and modern life. When the cat's away, the mice will play - but who will oversee the cat? Reminiscent of Nine Lives, the recent Kevin Spacey film in which a boorish business man is turned into a feline, Cat Flap is by turn poignant and hilarious. When Dolores Tremayne, a successful...
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