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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Dead Travel Fast	Deanna Raybourn	A husband, a family, a comfortable life: Theodora Lestrange lives in terror of it all.With a modest inheritance and the three gowns that comprise her entire wardrobe, Theodora leaves Edinburgh bound …	OL15186916W
Lidyah, malkat Erets Yiśraʾel	Uri Orlev	Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. B…	OL1580103W
Blood of victory	Alan Furst	In 1940, Russian émigré journalist I.A. Serebin is recruited by the British secret service to take part in a desperate operation to prevent Hitler's conquest of Europe by stopping the export of Roman…	OL15841800W
Jessica rules the dark side	Beth Fantaskey	Eighteen-year-old vampire princess Jessica Packwood is in for the fight of her life--and her husband's--when Lucius is accused of a horrible crime and Jessica, trying to prove herself worthy of the t…	OL15941399W
The days of the king	Filip Florian	Dentist Joseph Strauss leaves Prussia in the spring of 1866 and follows Captain of Dragoons Karl Eitel Friedrich Zephyrinus Ludwig von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen to Bucharest, where the officer is to a…	OL16121329W
Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet	Herta Müller	""I've been summoned. Thursday, ten sharp." Thus begins one day in the life of a young clothing-factory worker during Ceausescu's totalitarian regime. She is riding a tram on her way to answer a summ…	OL1732441W
The Black Envelope	Norman Manea	321 pages ; 20 cm	OL17475213W
Stoker's manuscript	Royce Prouty	"Joseph Barkely gets more than he bargains for when he agrees to authrenticate the original manuscript of Bram Stoker's DRACULA, and personally transport it to Romania"--	OL17826107W
And I Darken	Kiersten White	NO ONE EXPECTS A PRINCESS TO BE BRUTAL. And Lada Dragwlya likes it that way. Ever since she and her gentle younger brother, Radu, were wrenched from their homeland of Wallachia and abandoned by their…	OL19346631W
The Transylvanian trilogy	Miklós Bánffy	"The celebrated Transylvanian Trilogy by Count Miklós Bánffy is a stunning historical epic set in the lost world of the Hungarian aristocracy just before World War I. Written in the 1930s and first d…	OL19985162W
King of the gypsies	Lenore Myka	"These stories explore post-communist Romanian identity and its emotional, social, and economic challenges, as well as relationships between Romanian and American characters"--	OL20011635W
Knight Avenged	Coreene Callahan	Drawn by a destiny he won't accept, elite assassin Henrik Lazar detests the mystical curse handed down by his mother. But when the sorcery in his blood is activated and past pain comes back to haunt …	OL20331287W
Victory Square	Olen Steinhauer	'Victory Square' is the finale of Olen Steinhauer's fascinating, award-winning cycle of Cold War novels.	OL20769616W
Henry Hunter and the beast of Snagov	Matthews, John	When Dolf befriends the charismatic super-sleuth, Henry Hunter, he knows it's the start of an extraordinary adventure. Henry has unearthed a clue to the origin of all vampires, and is determined to t…	OL24269219W
Dracula	Bram Stoker	This Norton Critical Edition of Dracula is based on Bram Stoker's original British edition, published in 1897. It also includes literary criticism and many types of contextualization.	OL26060744W
The Essential Dracula	Bram Stoker,Leonard Wolf	Contains the complete original text of Stoker’s classic Dracula, including the original first, “Dracula’s Guest”, The Essential Dracula enhances your reading pleasure with a wealth of fascinating…	OL26432721W
Train to Trieste	Domnica Radulescu	An emotional zeitgeisty novel about escape and exile from an opressive regime.In the summer of 1977, seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu falls in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romant…	OL3705606W
The long search	Christine Pullein-Thompson,Christine Pullein-Thompson	At the request of his gravely ill grandmother, twelve-year-old Ion Radu sets out to find his parents who had been taken as political prisoners years before, and he is caught up in the 1989 revolution…	OL3938547W
Dracula	Bram Stoker	Sink your teeth into the ageless tale of the famous vampire Count Dracula. Dracula first horrified readers over 125 years ago. Today, this original gothic masterpiece includes a detailed explorati…	OL85892W
Dracula	F. Abraham	Bram Stoker's classic novel of suspense and horror was a bestseller in Britain when it was published in 1897. A late 20th-century biographer of Stoker has suggested that famed Victorian actor Henry I…	OL9858593W