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I Love My Fangs! by Kelly Leigh Miller Age 4 - 8 years Is a vampire still a vampire if his fang is all wobbly? Find out in this funny and endearing spin on the classic first lost tooth story. Young Dracula loves his fangs. They are pointy. They are sharp! They are a cherished family trait. So one day, when a fang wiggles…and jiggles…and falls loose, Dracula doesn’t know what to do. He tries pushing it back in. Then taping it. Then sticking it. Because a vampire can’t have only one fang!…Right? Check it out:

• Hard copy from RPL

This Totally Bites! (Poison Apple #2) by Ruth Ames Middle Grades (4-8) Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents. Unlike them, Emma-Rose has pale skin and jet-black hair, she prefers gray weather to sunshine, and she hates the taste of garlic. When Emma-Rose's great-aunt Margo comes to visit from Romania, Emma-rose uncovers a dark family secret and has a sudden revelation. Could Emma-Rose be a real, live vampire? Check it out:

• Hard copy from RPL

Other books in the series.

• #1. The Dead End by Mimi McCoy
• #3. Miss Fortune by Brandi Dougherty
• #4. Now You See Me... by Jane B. Mason and Sara Hines Stephens
• #5. Midnight Howl by Clare Hutton
• #6. Her Evil Twin by Mimi McCoy
• #7. Curiosity Killed the Cat by Sierra Harimann
• #8. At First Bite by Ruth Ames
• #9. The Ghoul Next Door

Amelia Fang and the Barbaric Ball (Amelia Fang #2) by Laura Ellen Anderson Grade Level: 2 - 3 Amelia Fang would much rather hang out with her pet pumpkin Squashy and her friends Florence the yeti (DON’T CALL HER BEAST!) and Grimaldi the reaper than dance at her parents’ annual Barbaric Ball. Then the King’s spoiled son Tangine captures Squashy, Amelia and her friends must escape the party to plan a daring rescue! In their race against time, they begin to realize things in Nocturnia may not be quite what they seem… Check it out:

• Hard copy from RPL
• CD audiobook from RPL

Other books in this series:

• #2. Amelia Fang and the Unicorns of Glitteropolis
• #3. Amelia Fang and the Memory Thief
• #4. Amelia Fang and the Rainbow Rangers

Bloodsucking Fiends (Love Story #1) Christopher Moore Jody never asked to become a vampire. But when she wakes up under an alley Dumpster with a badly burned arm, an aching back, superhuman strength, and a distinctly Nosferatuan thirst, she realizes the decision has been made for her. Making the transition from the nine-to-five grind to an eternity of nocturnal prowlings is going to take some doing, however, and that's where C. Thomas Flood fits in. A would-be Kerouac from Incontinence, Indiana, Tommy (to his friends) is biding his time night-clerking and frozen-turkey bowling in a San Francisco Safeway. But all that changes when a beautiful undead redhead walks through the door...and proceeds to rock Tommy's life—and afterlife—in ways he never thought possible. Check it out:

• Hard copy from RPL
• Audiobook from Hoopla

Other books in this series:

• #2: You Suck
  • Hard copy or CD audiobook at RPL
  • Digital ebook or audiobook on Hoopla
  • Digital ebook on Libby/Overdrive
• #3: Bite Me
  • Hard copy or CD audiobook at RPL
  • Digital ebook or audiobook on Hoopla
  • Digital ebook on Libby/Overdrive

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her ambitious husband is too busy to give her a goodbye kiss in the morning, her kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on thank-you notes and her endless list of chores. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime and paperback fiction. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are marriage, motherhood, and neighborhood gossip. This predictable pattern is upended when Patricia meets James Harris, a handsome stranger who moves into the neighborhood to take care of his elderly aunt and ends up joining the book club. James is sensitive and well-read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in twenty years. But there's something off about him. He doesn't have a bank account, he doesn't like going out during the day, and Patricia's mother-in-law insists that she knew him when she was a girl-an impossibility. When local children go missing, Patricia and the book club members start to suspect James is more of a Bundy than a Beatnik-but no one outside of the book club believes them. Have they read too many true crime books, or have they invited a real monster into their homes? Check it out:

• Hard copy from RPL
• Digital audiobook from Hoopla
• Digital ebook or audiobook from Libby/Overdrive

Guilty Pleasures (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #1) by Laurell K. Hamilton Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city's most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... Check it out:

• Hard copy, CD audiobook, or graphic novel (vol 1 here or vol 2 here) from RPL
• Digital ebook or audiobook from Libby/Overdrive

Other books in the series:

• #2. The Laughing Corpse (1994)
• #3. Circus of the Damned (1995)
• #4. The Lunatic Cafe (1996)
• #5. Bloody Bones (1996)
• #6. The Killing Dance (1997)
• #7. Burnt Offerings (1998)
• #8. Blue Moon (1998)
• #9. Obsidian Butterfly (2000)
• #10. Narcissus in Chains (2001)
• #11. Cerulean Sins (2001)
• #12. Incubus Dreams (2004)
• #13. Micah (2006)
• #14. Danse Macabre (2006)
• #15. The Harlequin (2007)
• #16. Blood Noir (2008)
• #17. Skin Trade (2009)
• #18. Flirt (2009)
• #19. Bullet (2010)
• #20. Hit List (2011)
• #21. Kiss the Dead (2012)
• #22. Affliction (2013)
• #23. Jason (2014)
• #24. Dead Ice (2015)
• #25. Crimson Death (2016)
• #26. Serpentine (2018)
• #27. Sucker Punch (2020)
• #28. Rafael (2021)

A Discovery of Witches (All Souls Trilogy #1) by Deborah Harkness Deep in the stacks of Oxford's Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery sets a fantastical underworld stirring, and a horde of daemons, witches, and vampires soon descends upon the library. Diana has stumbled upon a coveted treasure lost for centuries-and she is the only creature who can break its spell. Check it out:

• Hard copy, large print, CD audiobook from RPL
• TV Series Season 1 on DVD from RPL
• Digital ebook and audiobook from Libby/Overdrive

Other books in this series:

• #2. Shadow of Night (2012)
• #3. The Book of Life (2014)
• The All Souls Real-time Reading Companion (2015)
• The World of All Souls (2018)

All Souls Universe Series:

• #1. Time's Convert (2018)

Undead and Unwed (Undead/Queen Betsy #1) by MaryJanice Davidson First Betsy Taylor loses her job, then she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites is that she can't seem to stay dead. And now her new friends have the ridiculous idea that Betsy is the prophesied vampire queen, and they want her help in overthrowing the most obnoxious power-hungry vampire in five centuries. Check it out:

• Hard copy from RPL
• Digital audiobook from Hoopla
• Digital ebook from Libby/Overdrive

Other books in this series:

• #2. Undead and Unemployed (2004)
• #3. Undead and Unappreciated (2005)
• #4. Undead and Unreturnable (2005)
• #5. Undead and Unpopular (2006)
• #6. Undead and Uneasy (2007)
• #7. Undead and Unworthy (2008)
• #8. Undead and Unwelcome (2009)
• #9. Undead and Unfinished (2010)
• #10. Undead and Undermined (2011)
• #11. Undead and Unstable (2012)
• #12. Undead and Unsure (2013)
• #13. Undead and Unwary (2014)
• #14. Undead and Unforgiven (2015)
• #15. Undead and Done (2016)

Crave (Crave #1) by Tracy Wolff My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods . . . or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. Then there's Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. But there's something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what's broken in me. Which could spell death for us all. Because Jaxon walled himself off for a reason. And now someone wants to wake a sleeping monster, and I'm wondering if I was brought here intentionally-as the bait. Check it out:

• Hard copy from RPL
• Digital audiobook from Hoopla
• Digital ebook or audiobook from Libby/Overdrive