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The trials: seventeen ways to die unless the luck of the vampire is with you.

In 1940 a Jewish boy in Poland escapes the Nazi soldiers who killed his family and is rescued by a Greek geologist.

In a Lao village, a woman is killed and her body burned. Three days later she is back home as if nothing happened--and she can speak to the dead.

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has unwillingly been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean has been found dead in his camper.

All Sergeant Hamish Macbeth wants to do is fish and drink coffee with his fiancée.

Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan--Darren Shan faces certain death. Can he reverse the odds and outwit a vampire prince?

Darren Shan, the Vampire Prince, leaves Vampire Mountain on a life or death mission. As part of an elite force, he searches the world for the Vampaneze Lord.

Joel McAllister, a former lieutenant in the Confederate Army, takes his steadfast sergeant, Riley, and heads west for Idaho Territory, seeking peace and gold.

In 1925, Elijah Winters brings his daughter to a remote trading post in Arizona, but ranch life bores her.

Twins Coke and Pepsi resume their trip across America and land in Texas.

Darren Shan, Vampire Prince and "vampaneze" killer, faces his worst nightmare yet--school. But homework is the least of Darren's problems.

Outnumbered, outsmarted, and desperate, the hunters are on the run, pursued by the vampaneze, the police, and an angry mob.

Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750 and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas.

Ellery Queen is persuaded to accompany an old friend and sculptor to his ancestral home when the latter arrives at Ellery's house covered in blood and unable to remember anything from the past few

Cold Storage, Alaska, is a remote fishing outpost whose population is shrinking every day.