Staff Picks
Run away Van Helsing or Dracula
- Helene F.
- Wednesday, May 01, 2019
Collection
Women with their own style!
Want characters that don't fit any mold? These women are not reflective of anyone else! Soar to your local library to check them out. Ask your local librarian for even more suggestions.
Glass Houses
Published in 2009
"Morganville, Texas, is a small college town filled with quirky characters. But when the sun goes down, the bad come out. Because in Morganville, there is an evil that lurks in the darkest shadows---one that will spill out into the bright light of day. Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. The popular girls never let her forget just where she ranks on the school's social scene: somewhere less than zero"--Publisher's description.
Undead and Unwed
Published in 2006
MaryJanice Davidson's cult hit Undead and Unwed is a delightful mixture of Sex and the City and Buffy the Vampire Slayer . Waking up in a tacky coffin, and wearing off-brand shoes, Betsy Taylor can't believe the horrible turn her life has taken—then she discovers she's a vampire. Soon, Betsy becomes a participant in a power struggle between the forces of darkness. With only her friend Jessica and the hunky vampire Sinclair to help her, this new "Queen of Vampires" will have a tough time getting her afterlife straight.
Blue Bloods
Published in 2006
Select teenagers from some of New York City's wealthiest and most socially prominent families learn a startling secret about their bloodlines.
Vampire Academy
Published in 2007
Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy, where one focuses on mastering magic, the other on physical training, while both try to avoid the perils of gossip, cliques, gruesome pranks, and sinister plots.
Twilight
Published in 2005
When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human.
Some Girls Bite
Published in 2009
When Merit, a twenty-seven-year-old grad student, accidentally becomes a vampire, she finds herself sucked into a whole new world as she is initiated into Cadogan House, one of the oldest vampire houses in the United States. Unfortunately, Cadogan House is being blamed for some bad behavior with humans and it looks like a war might be on the way.
The Vampire Diaries
The Awakening & the Struggle
Published in 2007
Collects two novels in which two vampire brothers fight for the love of Elena, a high school senior.