Anne Rice
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Lestat. The vampire hero of Anne Rice’s enthralling novel is a creature of the darkest and richest imagination. Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now a rock star in the demonic, shimmering 1980s, he rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his eternal, terrifying exsitence. His is a mesmerizing story—passionate, complex, and thrilling.
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Vampire chronicles volume 1
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English
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Recounting his first two hundred years of life, a vampire tells of his erotic alliance with Claudia, whose passions are forever locked up in the body of a child.
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Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
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English
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A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.
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Ramses the Damned volume 1
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English
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Ramses the Great lives!
But having drunk the elixer of live, he is now Ramses the Damned, doomed forever to wander the earth, desperate to quell hungers that can never be satisfied—for food, for wine, for women.
Reawakened in opulent Edwardian London, he becomes Dr. Ramsey, expert in Egyptology. He also becomes the close companion of voluptuous, adventurous Julie Stratford, heiress to a vast shipping fortune and the center of a group of jaded...
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Vampire chronicles volume 12
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2016.
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English
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"From Anne Rice, conjurer of the beloved best sellers Interview with the Vampire and Prince Lestat, an ambitious and exhilarating new novel of utopian vision and power "In my dreams, I saw a city fall into the sea. I heard the cries of thousands. I saw flames that outshone the lamps of heaven. And all the world was shaken."--Anne Rice, Prince Lestat and the Realms of Atlantis At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader,...
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Vampire chronicles volume 3
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English
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Intertwines the stories of rock star and vampire Lestat, beautiful twins haunted by a gruesome tragedy, and Akasha, mother of all vampires, who dreams of godhood.
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Mayfair witches volume 3
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English
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The adventures of the Taltos, superhuman beings born of witches and known for being violent and oversexed. The story centers on arranging a union between two of them, one a wealthy doll manufacturer in New York, the other a dwarf in Scotland. The union would end the New Yorker's loveless existence, the result of a curse imposed on him for trying to convert his clan to Christianity. By the author of Lasher.
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Christ the Lord volume 2
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©2008
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English
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Anne Rice's second book in her hugely ambitious and courageous life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana--From publisher description.
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Vampire chronicles volume 7
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2000
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English
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Combining the worlds of her Vampire Chronicles and the Mayfair Witches, Rice spotlights the beautiful, unconquerable witch, Merrick, descended from the Mayfairs. David Talbot, an almost-normal vampire, recounts Merrick's haunting tale, from the New Orleans of the past and present to the jungles of Guatemala, ancient Mayan ruins, and beyond. Available with two different covers. Knopf.
10) Lasher: a novel
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Mayfair witches volume 2
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[1993]
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The Talamasca, documenters of paranormal activity, is on the hunt for the newly born Lasher. Mayfair women are dying from hemorrhages and a strange genetic anomaly has been found in Rowan and Michael. Lasher, born from Rowan, is another species altogether and now in the corporeal body, represents an incalcuable threat to the Mayfairs. Rowan and Lasher travel together to Houston and she becomes pregnant with another creature like him, a Taltos. Lasher...
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1996
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English
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The story of a genie from his origins in ancient Babylon to his appearance in modern-day New York. He recounts his service to masters who owned the gold-plated bones which call him up, and gives his observations of humanity over the ages. By the author of Memnoch the Devil.
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Vampire chronicles volume 4
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English
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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 suddenly all his vampire rationale--everything he has come to believe and feel safe with--is called into question. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and his loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted...
14) Blackwood Farm
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Vampire chronicles volume 9
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English
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Haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgSnger known as Goblin, Quinn Blackwood cannot escape the torment, even after becoming a vampire, and seeks out the legendary Vampire Lestat, whom Quinn hopes can free him from the horrifying specter that draws him back to Sugar Devil Swamp and its dark secrets. 500,000 first printing.
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New tales of the vampires volume 1
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2004
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English
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(1st work) The memoir of a 2,000-year-old vampire now living in Paris, recounting her early years. She is Pandora, daughter of a Roman senator in 1st century BC. After two unsuccessful marriages, she accompanies her exiled father to Antioch where she has a love affair with a vampire and becomes one herself. (2nd work) A 15th century Florentine knight sets out to avenge the massacre of his family by vampires. Vittorio di Riniari owes his life to Ursula,...
16) Violin
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1997
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English
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A woman from New Orleans steals a violin from a ghost and becomes the musician she always wanted, finding herself acclaimed on two continents. Part fantasy, part reality.
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Pub. Date
1999
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English
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With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of Vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of a Vampire in the Italian Age of Gold. Vittorio, educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, inhabits a world of courtly splendor & country splendor & country pleasures-a world suddenly shattered when his entire family is destroyed...
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Vampire chronicles volume 10
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2004, c2003
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English
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In the "New York Times" bestselling tenth novel of her hauntingly seductive Vampire Chronicles, Rice picks up where "Blackwood Farm" left off, with the story of Lestat's quest for redemption, goodness, and the love of Rowan Mayfair.