book recommendations

Night World series by L.J. Smith

(taken from the books) The Night World isn't a place. It's all aorund us. It's a secret society of vampires, werewolves, witches, and other creatures of darkness that live among us. They're beautiful and deadly and irresistible to humans. Your high school teacher could be one, and so could your boyfriend.
The Night World laws say it's okay to hunt humans. It's okay to toy with their hearts, it's even okay to kill them. There are only two things you can't do with them.

1. Never let them find out that the Night World exists.
2. Never fall in love with one of them.

These are the stories about what happens when the rules get broken.
Links : LJ-Smith.com; Night World: Circle Daybreak

The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith

The Vampire Diaries Trilogy was written by Lisa Jane Smith in the early 1990s. The main focus of the series is on the relationship between the heroine, Elena Gilbert and the two vampire brothers, Stefan and Damon Salvatore. Elena returns from summer vacation in Europe in The Awakening, just in time for the beginning of her senior year of high school. She arrives at school to see the new guy pull into the parking lot in his Porsche, he is dark, handsome and mysterious. This is the younger brother, Stefan Salvatore. Damon appears later in the most obscure places to tempt Elena away from Stefan and into his arms, but Elena doesn't realize that she is falling for both of them even though she knows that she love Stefan.
Links : Vampire-Diaries.net; LJ-Smith.com; Night World: Circle Daybreak

Dark Visions by L.J. Smith

ESP, Telekinesis, energy channelling, and psychic vampirism are just a few abilities of the kids from the Institute. Throw in a deranged old man bent on world domination and mix in some good and honest psychics trying to prevent it, and you have the Dark Visions trilogy.
Links : LJ-Smith.com; Night World: Circle Daybreak

The Forbidden Game by L.J. Smith

Take a dangerously beautiful and exotic genie, a girl, her boyfriend, and their friends and place them all in a paper house in another world, the Shadow World to be specific and you must be reading The Forbidden Game trilogy.
Links : At Nine - TFG shrine/fanlisting; LJ-Smith.com; Night World: Circle Daybreak

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis

The series is the first series I ever read as a child. I recommend it to any parent who is wanting to encourage their children to read and use their imagination's to go tot Narnia and back.
Links : Official C.S. Lewis Site; Narnia.com

Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling

Known around the world, no need to tell you how well written and fun these books are.
Links : Official Harry Potter Site; Official J.K. Rowling Site; MuggleNet; The Leaky-Cauldron.org

Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton

Vampires, guns, blood, gore and some sexual tension make up the better half of the Anita Blake series. I personally recommend the books up until Obsidian Butterfly, a book centered on my favourite character Edward (aka "Death") the cold assassin.
Links : Official Laurell K. Hamilton Site;

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown

I read this book during the time of the late Pope John Paul's death, so learning about the process of selecting a new pontiff was very interesting, but freaky since it was actually happening for real. The book has many twists and turns as it's two main characters, Robert Langdon and Vitorria Vetra try to discover the secret Illuminati and prove that the organization is still around and has taken to murder to keep active recently.
Links : Official Dan Brown Site

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

NSA stands for two things, National Securtiy Agency and "No Such Agency". They are the ones who intercept and decipher information and codes that hold the secrets of bomb threats, terrorist attacks and other seddy and criminal activities. Some of the world's brightest cryptographers partnered with the super computer TRANSLTR, constantly monitor emails, phone coversations, etc for any signs of a threat to the country. But now a brilliant rogue former NSA cryptographer, Ensei Tankado has written the ultimate unbreakable code, Digital Fortress, and is going to sell it to the highest bidder. It is up to David Becker, a foreign language specialist and professor at Georgetown University, to locate the pass key code to stop Digital Fortress before it is too late. All the while his fiancee, Susan Fletcher (head cryptographer at the NSA) and her boss, Commander Trevor Strathmore must work to repair the damage done by Digital Fortress on the all powerfull TRANSLTR. The run monitor for TRANSLTR has been running for over 12 hours, something completely unheard of, until now.
Links : Official Dan Brown Site

Deception Point by Dan Brown

Add one press secretary, her senator father, a huge iceberg in the Antarctic which is going to save NASA, one president who wants to stay in office, a nature videographer, and a team of scientists. You get the story that is Deception Point.
Links : Official Dan Brown Site

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