Category: Books and Reading
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Club Dead
By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 2003 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, romance, paranormal romance, vampire Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 3 ISBN: 9780441010516 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 292 Setting: Bon Temps, Louisiana and Jackson, Mississippi Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When Bill tells…
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Living Dead in Dallas
By Charlaine Harris, narrated by Johanna Parker Place: Publisher & Year: Prince Frederick, MD: Recorded Books ; [Boulder, Colo. : Made available electronically by] NetLibrary, 2008 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, paranormal, romance, paranormal romance, vampire, thriller Format: Audiobook Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 2 ISBN: 9781435643444 (electronic audio book)…
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Dead Until Dark
By Charlaine Harris Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Ace Books, 2008, 2001 Genres: Mystery, fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, paranormal, romance, paranormal romance, horror, vampire Series: Southern Vampire Mysteries (Sookie Stackhouse); 1 ISBN: 9780441015979 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 312 Setting: Bon Temps, Louisiana Time period: Contemporary Plot summary: When the vampire Bill…
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Fox Bunny Funny
By Andy Hartzell (author and illustrator) Place: Publisher & Year: Marietta, GA: Top Shelf Productions, 2007 Genre: Fantasy, animal story Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 9781891830976 Intended audience: Adults (but would be fine for young adults) Number of pages: 104 Settings: Foxville, Bunnyburg, and Funniopolis Time period: contemporary Plot summary: In a world populated by foxes…
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Sastun: My Apprenticeship with a Maya Healer
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By Rosita Arvigo with Nadine Epstein and Marilyn Yaquinto Place: Publisher & Year: San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994 Genres: Non-fiction, ethnobotany, anthropology, autobiography, biography, traditional medicine ISBN: 9780062502551 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 190 Setting: San Ignacio, Belize Time period: 1980’s (1981- 1993, most of the book’s story is 1981-1987) Plot summary: When Rosita moves…
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Cancer Vixen: A True Story
By Marisa Acocella Marchetto Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006 Genres: Non-fiction, autobiography Format: Graphic novel ISBN: 9780676978247 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 212 Setting: NYC- lower Manhattan Time period: 2001- 2005 Plot summary: “What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get married big-city girl cartoonist with…
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Blood Work
By Michael Connelly Place: Publisher & Year: New York: Warner Books, 1998 Genre: Mystery, suspense Series: Terry McCaleb mysteries; 1 ISBN: 9780446690447 Intended audience: Adult Number of pages: 469 Setting: Los Angeles, CA Time period: contemporary (late nineties) Plot summary: Former FBI agent Terry McCaleb has a new lease on life, which comes from his…
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The Sandman: Season of Mists
By Neil Gaiman Illustrators: Kelley Jones, Mike Dringenberg, Malcolm Jones III, Matt Wagner, Dick Giordano, George Pratt, P. Craig Russell, illustrators; Todd Klein, letterer; Steve Oliff, Daniel Vozzo, colorists; Dave McKean, covers Place: Publisher & Year: New York: DC Comics, 1992, 1994 Genres: Fantasy, dark fantasy, contemporary fantasy, urban fantasy, mythic fiction, adventure, horror Format:…
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