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"Ramsay can feel his brain changing--and his body, too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything: his family, his job, even his freedom. Because the truth of what's happened to him is more disturbing than he could possibly imagine. His DNA has been rewritten with a genetic-engineering breakthrough beyond anything...
Author
Series
Sookie Stackhouse novels volume 5
Language
English
Description
Because her mind-reading ability tends to spook people, most of Sookie's friends are of the not-exactly-human variety. And now that her brother is about to transform into a were-panther for the first time, the supernatural world is suddenly a family affair. When Sookie realizes a deadly sniper is gunning down the local changelings, her feelings turn to full-blown terror. She needs to stop the assassin before the next full moon--if he doesn't get to...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist's heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Anthony Doerr takes readers from the African coast to the suburbs of Ohio, from sideshow pageantry to harsh wilderness survival, charting a vast and varied emotional landscape. Doerr explores the human condition in all its manifestations: metamorphosis, grief, fractured relationships, and slowly mending hearts.
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Series
Mercy Thompson volume 2
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
A demon-riding vampire has gone on a killing spree unlike any the Tri- Cities has ever seen-and the undead and werewolves sent to stop him haven't returned. A coyote is no match for a demon, but shapeshifting mechanic Mercy Thompson is immune to many vampiric powers-and those are her friends who are missing, including the two werewolves circling around her heart. Game on...
Author
Series
Mercy Thompson volume 3
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
287 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shapeshifting mechanic Mercy Thompson finds her loyalty sorely tested when her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, while she is trying to choose between Sam and Adam, the two werewolves she loves.
Author
Series
Mercy Thompson volume 5
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
342 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Being a mechanic is hard work. Mercy Thompson, for instance, just spent the last couple of months trying to evade the murderous queen of the local vampire seethe, and now the leader of the werewolf pack -- who's maybe-more-than-just-a -friend -- has asked for her help. A book of fae secrets has come to light and they're all about to find out how implacable -- and dangerous -- the fae can be. OK, so maybe her troubles have nothing to do with the job....
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Series
Mercy Thompson volume 6
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
290 pages : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Car mechanic Mercy Thompson has always known there was something different about her, and not just the way she can make a VW engine sit up and beg. Mercy is a shapeshifter, a talent she inherited from her long-gone father. She's never known any others of her kind. Until now. An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River -- one that her father's people may know something about. And to have any hope of surviving, Mercy and her mate, the Alpha...
Author
Series
Mercy Thompson volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
288 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mercy Thompson inhabits two worlds without truly belonging to either. To the human inhabitants of the Tri-Cities she's an oddity, a female mechanic operating her own garage. To the town's darker residents, werewolves, vampires, and fae, she's a walker, a last-of-her-kind magical being with the power to become a coyote. Mercy warily straddles the fine line dividing our everyday world from that darker dimension... 'till a boy, mauled by vicious werewolves...
Author
Series
Mercy Thompson volume 4
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Physical Desc
287 p. : map ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Car mechanic and sometime shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has learned, the hard way, why her race was almost exterminated. When European vampires immigrated to North America, they found Mercy's people had a hidden talent -- for vampire slaying. Unfortunately for Mercy, the queen of the local vampire seethe has discovered her true identity. She's also furious when she learns Mercy has crossed her and killed one of her vampires. Mercy may be protected from...
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Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. The Metamorphosis is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. In her new translation of Kafka's masterpiece, Susan Bernofsky strives to capture both the humor and the humanity in...
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