Anne Rice
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Vampire chronicles volume 13
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In this spellbinding novel, Lestat, rebel outlaw, addresses the tribe of vampires, directly, intimately, passionately, and tells the mesmerizing story of the formation of the Blood Communion and how he became Prince of the vampire world, the true ruler of this vast realm, and how his vision for all the Children of the Universe to thrive as one, came to be. The tale spills from Lestat's heart, as he speaks first of his new existence as reigning monarch--and...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 12
Pub. Date
2016.
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" At the novel's center: the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, hero, leader, inspirer, irresistible force, irrepressible spirit, battling (and ultimately reconciling with) a strange otherworldly form that has somehow taken possession of Lestat's undead body and soul. This ancient and mysterious power and unearthly spirit of vampire lore has all the force, history, and insidious reach of the unknowable Universe. It is through this spirit, previously considered...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 28
Description
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. In his overwhelming need to destroy his doubts and loneliness, Lestat embarks on the most dangerous enterprise he has undertaken in all the danger-haunted years of his long existence.
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Vampire chronicles volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 30
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After a long, deep sleep, the vampire Thorne looks to centuries-old Marius for guidance as he comes back into the world. Thorne is curious about Marius's life and his relationship to others in the community of Blood Drinkers, and Marius consents to tell all.
25) Violin
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Anne Rice's Violin tells the story of two charismatic figures bound to each other by a passionate commitment to music as a means of rapture, seduction, and liberation. At the novel's center: a uniquely fascinating woman, Triana, and the demonic fiddler Stefan, a tormented ghost who begins to prey upon her, using his magic violin to draw her into a state of madness. But Triana sets out to resist Stefan, and the struggle thrusts them both into a terrifying...
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Series
Christ the Lord volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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"Anne Rice's second book in her ambitious life of Christ begins during his last winter before his baptism in the Jordan and concludes with the miracle at Cana." "It is a novel in which we see Jesus - he is called Yeshua bar Joseph - during a winter of no rain, endless dust, and talk of trouble in Judea. Legends of a Virgin birth have long surrounded Yeshua, yet for decades he has lived as one among many who come to the synagogue on the Sabbath. All...
28) Blackwood Farm
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Series
Vampire chronicles volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 35
Description
Haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgänger known as Goblin, Quinn Blackwood seeks out the legendary vampire Lestat to free him from the horrifying specter that draws him back to Sugar Devil Swamp and its dark secrets.
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Ramses the damned volume 1
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But having drunk the elixir of life he 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. Ramses, the expert in Egyptology. He also becomes the close companion of voluptous, adventerous Julie Stratford, heiress to a vast shipping fortune and the center of a group of jaded aristocrats with appetites...
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Series
Vampire chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
1986.
Description
After over a half century underground, the vampire Lestat awakens in the 1980s; becomes the leader of a rock band named Satan's Night Out; and searches for his own roots and the meaning of his immortality.
Author
Series
Christ the Lord volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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A novel about the childhood of Christ the Lord based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.
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Series
Vampire chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 23
Description
In the 5th book of the series, Lestat is in New York looking for his beloved Dora. During his search, he is snatched from this world by Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. Lestat finds himself torn between God and the Devil, as each seeks to recruit the vampire to his cause. In the process, Lestat is taken on a tour of heaven, hell, creation, and the crucifixion.
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
In Anne Rice's extraordinary fifth novel of "The Vampire Chronicles", irresistible antihero Lestat encounters his most dangerous adversary--the mysterious being Memnoch, who claims to be the Devil. Ushered through the realms of Heaven, Purgatory, and Hell, Lestat must finally decide if he can believe in the Devil or God--and which, if either, he will serve.
34) Cry to heaven
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They were the castrati--male sopranos whose glorious voices brought them adulation throughout Europe even as they were despised as "monsters". For Tonio Treschi, the child of Venetian nobility, kidnapped and castrated in a murderous family conspiracy, only one thing would soothe his soul--revenge!
35) Pandora
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Series
New Tales of the Vampires volume 1
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Series
Description
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. . .
He speaks quietly, plainly, even gently . . . carrying us back to the night when he departed human existence as heir--young, romantic, cultivated--to a great Louisiana plantation, and was inducted by the radiant and sinister Lestat into...
Author
Series
Vampire chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[1985]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 34
Description
Once an aristocrat in the heady days of pre-revolutionary France, now Lestat is a rockstar in the demonic, shimmering 1980s. He rushes through the centuries in search of others like him, seeking answers to the mystery of his terrifying exsitence. His story, the second volume in Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles.
38) Beauty's kingdom
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Series
Erotic adventures of Sleeping Beauty volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
When the great queen is reported dead, Beauty and Laurent return to the kingdom they left twenty years before. Beauty agrees to take the throne, but she insists that all erotic servitude be voluntary. Countless eager princes, princesses, lords, ladies, and commoners journey to Beauty's realm, where she and her husband usher in a new era of desire, longing, and ecstasy.
Author
Series
New tales of the vampires volume 2
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
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...
Author
Series
Christ the Lord volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A novel about the childhood of Christ the Lord based on the Gospels and on the most respected New Testament scholarship.