โ Scribed by Dan Simmons
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"Simmons writes like a hot-rodding angel." -Stephen King
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An evil legacy comes to life in this classic and ultimately human novel about believable vampires, featuring a brand-new introduction by Dan Simmons.Children of the Night will take you to a place that no one knows--yet all of us fear.
In a desolate orphanage in post-Communist Romania, a desperately ill infant is given the wrong blood transfusion--and flourishes rather than dies. For immunologist Kate Neuman, the infant's immune system may hold the key to cure cancer and AIDS. Kate adopts the baby and takes him home to the States. But baby Joshua holds a link to an ancient clan and their legendary leader--Vlad Tsepes, the original Dracula - whose agents kidnap the child. Against impossible odds and vicious enemies- both human and vampire - Kate and...
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Inside the Castertown MegaMall, the biggest mall in the world, live the night children--runaways, abandoned kids, kids who got lost and were never found. They only come out at night, after all the shoppers are gone. When thirteen-year-old Jule Devereaux visits the mall after the mysterious disappea
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Thirty years. A time of quiet celebration for Sarah and Abraham. Thirty years since their arrival, penniless, in Manchester. So much behind them. The years of struggle, sustained by the closeness of family, faith and inheritance, shot through by the joys of love, of children and grandchildren. It