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A Practical Guide to Faeries

A lush, nearly decadent book, A Practical Guide to Faeries is exactly what it advertises, a guide to finding, dealing with and surviving faeries. With beautiful art on every page, along with textured spots and even recipes, it teases every sense, pulling children (and adults) into the world of the Feywild. This book is high fantasy, but doesn’t forget the darker side of fae…Full review at Monster Librarian.

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January 19

Sacred Book of the Werewolf

Viking, 2008
ISBN: 078-0-670-01988-5
Available: New and used

A Hu-Li is a two thousand year old Chinese werefox in the body of a fifteen year old girl playing the role of a Russian prostitute. After
falling for an insatiable Russian werewolf she finds herself caught up in the epic quest for the super-werewolf, a fabled creature among were-beasts, who will someday appear and reveal the truth of all things…

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December 22

The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

The Vampire Tapestry is a very different kind of vampire novel. Charnas’ vampire, Edward Weyland, is not at all supernatural. In fact, he isn’t even likable. The first two sections of the book hammer this home. Over and over, readers are told what Edward Weyland is like through the eyes of those who expose him. The fourth and fifth sections finally get inside Weyland’s head, but he certainly doesn’t come across as a sympathetic character. Rather, we see a superior being who holds all of humanity in contempt…

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December 18

Bunnicula by James and Deborah Howe

Bunnicula is a classic scary story for kids. When the Monroe family finds a strange bunny in a theater showing Dracula, their cat, Chester, and dog, Harold, decide to investigate the aptly named Bunnicula. As if the bunny’s strange markings and creepy red eyes weren’t enough, weird things start happening around him, like vegetables appearing completely drained of their juice. The lovably dim Harold and too-smart-for-his-own-good Chester must figure out if Bunnicula really is a bunny-creature of the night… Full Review at MonsterLibrarian.

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November 21

Blood of the Dead by A.P. Fuchs

Readers should be aware that Blood of the Dead is the first book in Fuchs’ Undead World Trilogy and as such it does not offer a resolution in this volume. What it does have is a zombie apocalypse, four humans fighting against hordes of the hungry undead and struggling to survive in a desolate world, and some excellent pacing and tension…

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