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1) Dracula
Author
Language
English
Description
"Since its original publication in 1897, Dracula has spoken aloud some of our deepest cultural anxieties: fear of sexuality, xenophobia, homophobia, and distrust of The Other. One of the most recognizable and pervasive characters ever written, Stoker's Count Dracula is much more terrifying than the caped and fanged representation that has grown so familiar. The Count's menace lies not solely in his deadly bloodlust, but also in his harrowing ability...
Author
Language
English
Description
With her hateful brother, Binky, in town, Lady Georgiana Rannoch is desperately seeking an escape, which comes in the form of an invitation from the queen to represent the royals at a wedding in Transylvania. The bride happens to be her old school chum, Marty. But staying in her macabre-looking castle proves to be unnerving - especially when she finds dear Marty with blood running down her chin, and a prominent wedding guest is poisoned.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When an isolated Jewish village in Romania is threatened by war in 1939, the suggestions of a young child and a mysterious stranger who has washed up on the riverbank compel the community to reinvent itself while completely detaching from the known world.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Mihail Sebastian's 1934 masterpiece, now available in English for the first time, was written as the rise of fascism forced him out of his literary career and turned his friends and colleagues against him. Confronted with the violence of a recurrent anti-Semitism, Sebastian questions its causes in this perceptive testimony, illuminating the ideological debates of the interwar period with wit, simplicity and vivacity"--
Author
Language
English
Description
A family is torn apart by fierce belief and private longing in this unprecedented journey deep inside the most insular Hasidic sect, the Satmar. Over the course of four decades, from pre-World War II Transylvania to contemporary New York, two girls raised as sisters make different choices which force them apart, until a dangerous secret threatens to banish them from the only community they've ever known.
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Albert Corde, newspaperman turned academic, accompanies his wife to visit her dying mother in Bucharest. At home in Chicago, his magazine articles and involvement in a student murder scandal place him in the middle of a raging controversy.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
A fresh take on Bram Stoker's "Dracula" focuses on the obsessive devotion of Renfield to his vampire master, embarking on a personal mission to hunt down Van Helsing that sets the stage for the ultimate confrontation between the living and the undead.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"While at home in 2020 reading Bram Stoker's DRACULA with his family, Matt Kirkland realized that every part of the classic novel included a date. Why not put them in order and send them out by email on the corresponding day? The resulting DRACULA DAILY newsletter has since grown to 250,000 subscribers, with Dracula memes and commentary trending on social media and leading to what many sites called "the coolest book club on the Internet." This deluxe...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"Since its publication in 1897, Drc̀ula has enthralled generation after generation of readers with the same spellbinding power with which the Count enthralls his victims. Though Bram Stoker did not invent vampires, and in fact based his Count on extensive research in European folklore, his novel elevated the nocturnal creature to iconic stature, spawning a genre of stories and movies that flourishes to this day. But a century of imitations has done...
Author
Series
Scream Street volume 8
Publisher
Candlewick Pres
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Luke, Resus, and Cleo are eager to begin their new quest. First stop, Count Negatov's castle! As the three make their way through the bleak, murky wilds of Transylvania, it looks like this adventure will be dull, but easy. Until, that is, they are kidnapped by trolls"--
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. Thankfully, her new hip hasn't changed her killer tennis game one bit. One night Mrs. Plansky is startled awake by a phone call from a voice claiming to be her grandson Will, who desperately needs ten thousand dollars to get out of a jam....
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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