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Alison Armstrong
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English
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Visited by otherworldly beings from childhood on, Alley, a young punk musician, has experienced a life-altering transformation granting her immortality while forcing her to prey on humans. In this prequel to Revenance and Toxicosis, Alley relives the terrifying encounters and dark, brooding obsessions that led to her Awakening as a vampire.On the eve of a successful performance, Alley is hit by a car and lapses into a coma. After she is resurrected...
3) Toxicosis
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Language
English
Description
"My fingers quiver, jerking in electrified spasms as pulsations, craving, hungry, insatiable, surge from the tiny, cold, motionless tabby. Defying gravity, the pulsations shoot upwards from my fingers to my hand, my arm, shoulder, and neck, throbbing at my jaw like raggedy velvet hammers on the strings inside a piano…summoning my fangs from their swollen sheaths. . . . I force the bitter, fishy droplets down my throat, then tear into the vein on...
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English
Description
An unforgettable story of outrunning poverty through the power of stories and imagination.
In a neglected part of town beset with social problems, from unemployment and crime to inequalities of health and education, a twelve-year-old girl sees an opportunity to claim a new identity for herself.
Escaping her chaotic home life, Sherrie-Lee witnesses a bungled bank robbery and manipulates one of the failed robbers into taking her in. Alone and away...
5) Revenance
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Language
English
Description
Blending aspects of vampire myths with other supernatural and psychological archetypes, Revenance depicts a young female punk musician's awakening from death into a surreal, supernatural realm of horror and passion. Revived from a deadly accident by an alluring vampire, she learns from her Awakener how to survive by feasting upon the ill and hopeless. As she quenches her insatiable thirst for blood, she vicariously experiences the hopes and fears...
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Series
Publisher
ALA Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"This concise, field-tested training manual will put your liaison on solid footing"--
Armstrong and Dinkle describe the responsibilities and expectations of being a library liaison-- with focus on collection development-- in terms broad enough to be applied in many libraries. Emphasis is on academic libraries, though the policies, plans and goals presented can be applied to many types of libraries. -- adapted from pages ix and [2].
