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Title:The Harvest
Author:Richie Tankersley Cusick
Summary: In this generation, she is Buffy Summers, 16 years old and a new student at Sunnydale High. Her experiences at her last school persuaded Buffy to try to resume the life of a normal teenager. But it is no coincidence that Buffy has come to this town at this time. The area is a center of mystical energy, and all the signs point to an imminent, crucial upheaval. Once in a centuey comes The Harvest : a night when the Master Vampire can draw enough power to break free and open the portal between his world and ours... unleashing havoc. With the help of new friends and a new Watcher, Buffy's back in business...

Title:Halloween Rain
Author:Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
Summary:Around Sunnydale, they say a scarecrow saturated with Halloween rain will come alive and slaughter anyone in sight.(Lovely place, Sunnydale.) Buffy's best friends, Xander and Willow, used to think the tale was nonsense-but after a few adventures with Buffy, they're not so sure. Even without a maniacal scarecrow, a Sunnydale Halloween is a truly horrific happening. There are enough zombies and vampires about, ready to party hearty and eat some brains, to keep the Slayer and her friends up all night. And then the rain starts to fall...

Title:Coyote Moon
Author:John Vornholt
Summary:The seedy carnival looks like just the thing to give Buffy and her best buds, Xander and Willow, a break from staking bloodsuckers. Some greasy food, a few cheap thrills-what more could a slayer ask for? But then Buffy senses something evil behind this carnival. Xander and Willow aren't so sure. They don't buy Buffy's notion that the carney's are somehow connected to the corpses turning up around Sunnydale. It doesn't help that her two best friends are each interested in someone at the carnival. Which puts the burden of proff on Buffy. Can she find out what's going on in time to save her friends? Or has the Slayer become the Prey?

Title:Night of the Living Rerun
Author:Arthur Byron Cover
Sumary:As if real life wasn't already overflowing with vampire-staking, now Buffy has begun to dream about Slaying! Night after night, it's the same thing. She's back with the Puritans, a Slayer on the trail of a witch. What can it mean? Buffy gets a clue when Xander and Giles start acting like they have ancient alter egos. Now the stage
is set for a symbolic replay of the night the Master was accidentally trapped in the other dimension. Only this time, the Master wants a happy ending-for himself. Buffy and her friends must prevent the Master from rewriting the script and escaping his supernatural prison before Sunnydale becomes history!

Title:Blooded
Author:Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
Summary:Chirayoju, a vampire of Chinese lore, and Sanno, the legendary Japanese Mountain King, have been locked in a deadly battle for centuries. Literally. An ancient curse imprisoned the spirits of these two warriors in an antique sword. Until the sword arrives in Sunnydale. Freed by accident, Chirayoju searches for a host body that will allow him to continue wreaking havoc among the living and the dead. Now Buffy's on the trail of this legendary vampire... a bloody trail that leads straight through the heart of the Buffy-Xander-Willow triangle.

Title:Child of the Hunt
Author:Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
Summary:Jousting contests, human chess matches, lords and ladies and beggars... a traveling Renaissance fair has come to Sunnydale. The fair may seem terminally uncool, but buffy and her friends are charmed anyway. Especially by a sad-eyed boy named Roland, who serves as the court jester. Unfortunately, the people from the fair are not only visitors in Sunnydale. Roaming the countryside are nasty little creatures with a taste for flesh : the dark faerie. They are mimions of the Wild hunt, servants of the evil Erl King. Buffy's challenge is to annihilate the king and his murderous horde. But the path to his destruction leads straight to Roland, who is not quite human... and destined to become the Slayer's mortal adversary.

Title:Return to Chaos
Author:Craig Shaw Gardner
Summary:The Hellmouth(a.k.a. Sunnydale, CA)has drwan vampires, witches, and other demons to its powerful vortex. Now it has also drwan the attention of an ancient sect of Druids-allies in Buffy Summers' battle against the undead. Cloaked in Darknes, wrapped in mystery, the Druids descend on Sunnydale ready to perform new rituals to summon forth a new world order, free from the evil that shapes Buffy's nights. But the Slayer's concerns are more immediate-someone is stalking her friends. Cordelia, Xander, and oz-all are falling victims to this new spell. And now it's up to Willow and Giles to find the cause, while Buffy stands between the Mouth of Hell and the New Dawn.

Title:The Gatekeeper Trilogy 1-Out of the Madhouse
Author:Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
Summary:Werewolves. Trolls. Sea Monsters. Rain of Toads. Skyquakes. Sunnydale is being besieged by dark forces. But even with Buffy providing her unique style of damage control while Giles is hospitalized out of town, it's more than one Slayer can handle-especially since the abominations are coming from a centuries-old portal through time and space. Somehow, the hell-hole must be found and corked at its source. For Buffy, Angel, and the rest of her gang, that means a road trip to Boston where an ailing Gatekeeper resides over a supernatural mansion that has been, until recently, hlding the world's worst monsters at bay. Once there, Buffy discovers the catastrophic truth : the magical structure houses thousands of rooms, all of which may bring her-to-face with the most nefarious forces in hell and on earth-forces bent on horrific plans far worse than the Slayer ever imagined.

Title:The Gatekeeper Trilogy 2-Ghost Roads
Author:Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
Summary:Buffy, Oz, and Angel are Europe-bound, only they're not flying any airlines. They're traveling limbo's "ghost roads" in search of Jacques Regnier. Jacques is the sole heir of the dying Gatekeeper whose Boston mansion is the supernatural barrier restraining thousands of thw world's monsters. The evil Sons of Entropy will do anything to destroy the gate-even if it means trading the power-laden spear of Longinus to the wicked vampires holding Jacques. back home, the ghost ship Flying Dutchman has set sail for Sunnydale, determined to shanghai new crewman-dead or alive. For Willow, Xander, Cordelia, and Giles, it's an ocean of trouble, especially when the monstrous kraken reemerges with a vengeance. But everyone's assistance will be needed once Buffy locates Jacques, and uncovers the shocking plans the Sons of Entropy have already placed in motion-a plan that, if successful, will destroy the world and create a horrible new realm ruled by monsters.

Title:The Gatekeeper Trilogy 3-Sons of Entropy
Author:Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
Summary:Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged Gatekeeper. In limbo, the Ghost Roads are crumbling, becoming weak and unstable where Hell and the Otherworld have begun seeping in, blurring the passages that lead to the human world. And Xander lies mortally wounded from a failed attempt to free Joyce Summers from the clutches of the zealots who hold her hostage. With the Gatekeeper rapidly weakening, Buffy sends Willow and Cordelia to escort Xander along the Ghost Roads to the Gatehouse, which may hold his only hope of survival. Meanwhile, she, Giles, and an unlikely band of allies take their fight to the very mouth of Hell itself, desperately hoping to save Joyce and repel the evil spawn before Sunnydale becomes a demonic ground zero. Only then can Buffy safeguard the Gatekeeper's eleven-year-oldheir, the only one able to prevent the ultimate destruction of humanity.

Title:the Angel Chronicles Vol.1
Author:Nancy Holder
Summary:After a century of killing without care, the vampire Angelus was cursed with a conscience and eventually fled to Sunnydale, where he restricted his feeding to blood banks. Until 16-year-old Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer, arrived in town to battle vampires, demons and the Forces of Darkness. First, he has to convince her not to kill him. Then, he has to convince himself not to fall in love with her. Now, collected for the first time, are three stories from the cult-hit TV series chronicling the beginning of this star-crossed love story. Can Buffy and Angel survive life, death... and beyond?
-the episodes are: "Angel", "Reptile Boy", and "Lie to Me"

Title:the Angel Chronicles Vol.2
Author:Richie Tankersley
Summary:The course of love in Sunnydale never runs smoothly, especially for Buffy Summers the Vampire Slayer and her boyfriend, Angel the vampire. They're going through the usual early stages of a romantic relationship-dressing to impress, going on coffee dates, and saving the world. When Buffy tries to be more like the girls from Angel's distant past, she succeeds a little too well-becoming helpless in the face of real evil. Career week at school finds Buffy questioning her future as the Slayer-and all the relationship baggage that title comes with-until an unexpected ally gives new insight into her calling. And when Angel is taken hostage by an old aquaintance with sinister plans, Buffy realizes she must draw on all her passion to save the one she loves. Now, collected for the first time, are three stories from the hit-TV series chronicling Buffy and Angel's growing romantic relationship.
-the episodes are: "Halloween" and "What's My Line? Parts 1 and 2"

Title:the Angel Chronicles Vol.3
Author:Nancy Holder
Summary:For Buffy the Vampire Slayer, birthdays aren't all parties and cake-hers tend to involve a life-or-death battle with a big evil. Her seventeenth celebration isn't an exception. While Buffy's friends organize a festive gathering in honor of the special day, Spike and Drusilla are planning their own surprise party for the Slayer-with a devastating demon as the grand finale. But a passionate night with Angel changes everything. Suddenly, buffy must deal with two forms of ultimate evil: the almost-indestructible Judge-and the legendary vampire Angelus, who is determined to exact his special brand of revenge on the young woman who showed him true love.
-the episodes are: "Surprise", "Innocence", and "Passion"

Title:the Xander Years Vol.1
Author:Keith R.A. DeCandido
Summary:Unfulfilled crushes. Awkward first conversations. A date who wants you... dead. Having a Y-chromosome in Sunnydale is never easy. But Buffy the Vampire Slayer's friend Xander Harris seems to find more than his share of trouble with the opposite sex. At first Xander is happy being the teacher's pet-until his schoolboy crush brings out her true animal instincts. Then his whirlwind romance with the exotic foreign exchange student falters when she demands the Ultimate sacrifice. Some members of the Slaying squad might say that dating Cordelia Chase could kill a guy. But Xander's relationship with the high-maintenance Cordy actually seems to be working out-until she decides he's seriously harming her social standing. His crafty plan to win her back may earn him more love than one guy can handle. Now, collected for the first time, are three stories from the hit TV series chronicling Xanders search for love on the Hellmouth.
-the episodes are: "Teacher's Pet", "Inca Mummy Girl" and, "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered"

Title:the Xander Years Vol.2
Author:Jeff Mariotte
Summary:Most teens have trouble finding themselves now and then, but when you're living on a Hellmouth, "trouble" is an understatement-especially if you're Xander Harris. He has never been very popular, and has never had much luck with women, but he is uniquely Xander. After a Sunnydale High field trip to the zoo, Xander becomes obnoxious and aggressive. Giles thinks it's typical adolescent male behavior, but Buffy knows better. And when he finally scores "cool"points by making the Sunnydale High swim team, he's thrown into the middle of something, well...fishy. Still, once Xander is excluded from the Slayer's most recent anti-apocalyptic campaign, he finds himself battling hos own private evil-and saving Sunnydale High from a fate it never imagined.
-the episodes are: "The Pack", "Go Fish", and "The Zeppo"

Title:the Willow Files Vol.2
Author:Yvonne Navarro
Summary:When Buffy the Vampire Slayer arrived in Sunnydale, she befriended a bookish, insecure girl named Willow. As a Slayerette, Will uses her computer prowess for good, hacking into electronic government files and researching obscure rituals on the Web. But Willow's love life is severely lacking, consisting of an unfulfilled crush on her friend Xander and a short-lived fling with a deadly demon she met over the Internet. Through her often life threatening experiences with the Slayer, Willow gains the confidence to just be herself in the peer pressure-filled world of high school. And when her first real boyfriend, Oz, turns out to be a bit... unusual... in his own right, Willow is just the girl to prove that love really is blind... and a little scary.
-the episodes are: "I, Robot... You Jane", "Phases" and "Dead Man's Party"

Title:Deep Water
Author:Laura Anne Gilman and Josepha Sherman
Summary:Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat. While climbing over some rocks, she discovers another unexpected victim of the spillage-a selkie, a shape-shifting sea girl who won't be able to return to the sea until the oil is removed from her coat. Willow takes the creature back to the library so that Giles and the Slayerettes can help her to restore her magickal coat. However, though "Ariel", as the posse dubs her, is endearing in her innocence, Buffy can't quite shake her innate suspicions of the creature whose nature, like the ocean, is ever changing. Unfortunately, the spill has forced more than a selkie from the cold water. Merrows look very much like traditional mermaids-with one important and fatal difference. As if things weren't complicated enough...

Title:Here Be Monsters
Author:Cameron Dokey
Summary:Something icky is brewing, as usual, in Sunnydale. This time it's in the form of two clean-cut, prep school-type boys. Buffy's suspicious from the start-their fashion statement is so old it's dead, and it seems they have a slightly unnatural attachment to their mother. But then, almost everything about these boys is unnatural-they're vampires. Not ordinary vampires, either-they are descendants of a clan known for it's ability to summon powerfuloccult forces. And when the Slayer dusts this dynamic duo, she learns what you get when you mess with a vamp family tree. Now it's up to Buffy to battle her personal demons-or risk endangering her own most cherished relation. Because mama vamp has something in mind for Joyce...

Title:Visitors
Author:Laura Gilman and Josepha Sherman
Summary:The Paranormal forces centered in Sunnydale attract the vilest kinds of evil:vamps, demons... and student teachers? An invasion of collegians testing their teaching prowess on Buffy and her peers coincides with the arrival of a supernatural stalker. The Slayer feels the evil entity watching her every move, and she's not the only one. But researching the beast is going to be problematic with the student teachers setting up shop in Giles's home turf-the school library. When the stalker starts to take his malicious game to the next level, Buffy finds herself face to face with a being unlike any she's ever encountered. But can she figure out it's weakness before she is forced to participate in its dance of death?

Title:Unnatural Selection
Author:Mel Odom
Summary:Willow's trying to earn a little pocket change by taking the usual teenage part-time job-baby-sitting the neighbor's kid. But her child-care chores turn into a scene from a horror movie when the baby gives her the evil eye and attacks. Barely escaping the tiny terror, Willow can't forget the missing human child-or the monstrous thing left in its place. The childish changeling keeps coming back to haunt and taunt her. Buffy and her posse soon discover a possible connection between Willow's infant interloper and some strange artifacts Giles found at a local archaeological dig. The evil plaguing Willow was once trapped underground. Now that it has been unearthed by new construction on the property, it's ready to cause some major mischief... and worse.

Title:Power of Persuasion
Author:Elizabeth Massie
Summary:When the female population of Sunnydale starts strutting its girl power, the push for gender equality seems like a normal expression of '90s feminism. After all, a girl trying out for the football team isn't usually a sign of imminent danger. But when the guys start acting like powerless pawns and a few even turn up dead, Buffy Summers notices that the local womyn's movement has reached a feverish-and probably unnatural-pitch. The Slayer is the only one who can see straight during the ultimate battle of the sexes. Her friends-including Giles-are spellbound by the malignant permeating the school. Even the local vampires are acting strange. Alone in her search for answers, Buffy must figure out who's behind the sinister sisterhood... and close the gender gap before the feminist revolution goes too far.

Title:Obsidian Fate
Author:Diana G. Galbgher
Summary:On the outskirts of Sunnydale, recent rains have uncovered the remains of a five hundred-year-old Spanish expedition. But one of the artifacts, a smoky mirror with an ornately carved obsidian frame, goes missing, along with the history teacher who found it. And when Buffy narrowly escapes the attack of a black jaguar while on patrol, Giles puts the gang into research mode. An ancient volume identifies the missing mirror as a magical object formed by the Aztec god of darkness. A mortal who looks into the mirror will see his or her fate-and can be manipulated by the evil god, who is scheming to regain his power. Taking their destinies into their own hands, the Slayer and her friends rush into a ferocious battle between light and darkness in the shadows of a massive Aztec temple, a battle against perpetual night-and the evil that thrives in te dark hours.

Title:Sins of the Father
Author:Christopher Golden
Summary:One night while on patrol, the Slayer and her friends are outnumbered and receive aid from a totally unexpected source: Buffy's old flame, Pike. He and Buffy had a complex relationship back in Los Angeles, when the Chosen One was first called. Now, Pike has arrived in Sunnydale, on the run from a stone demon with a grudge. Faced with this blast from the past, Buffy finds herself caught between her history with Pike... and her future with Angel. But there's little to contemplate this situation a vamp activity rises and Giles, in particular, becomes the target of mysterious, brutal attacks. Buffy suspects a deeper connection between old friends and new enemies. With the help of her friends, Buffy unmasks the evil entities-and discovers that even a Watcher can be watched...

Title:Resurrecting Ravana
Author:Ray Garton
Summary:With midterms looming, the students at Sunnydale High are predictably stressed-out. Even super-student Willow is feeling the pressure to succeed. And when her usual study buddies-Buffy, Xander, and Oz-decide they don't need her tutorial sessions, Willow wonders if she's really what they don't need. But her hurt feelings don't explain her sudden antagonism toward Buffy-or the strange dreams they've both been having. As tensions in the school escalate into brutal acts of violence-and the perpetrators turn up horribly mutilated-Buffy and the gang search for supernatural source. The evidence indicates that someone is attempting to resurrect a powerful Hindu demon. Willow's new confidante, guidance counselor Promila Daruwalla, becomes the prime suspect... until Giles runs into an old "friend" whi is always causing trouble. It will take all of the Slayer's resources... and the help of all her friends... to find the culprit and destroy the key to the demon's resurrection.

Title:Prime Evil
Author:Diana G. Gallagher
Summary:When attractive, youthful Crystal Gregory takes a teaching position at Sunnydale High, she also takes what seems to be an instant dislike to Buffy Summers. Buffy's Slayer sense doesn't detect anything unusual about the teacher. But when you're living on a Hellmouth, nothing is what it seems. Crystal isn't above playing favorites, and her pets-including Willow, Michael, and Anya-are loyal to her in the extreme. This wouldn't bother Buffy... but for the fact that she has found a fresh burn mark on two of the students' necks. Giles immediately recognizes the symbol at the mark of a powerful witch whose existence predates the Salem Witch Trials. tne primal witch will continue to wreak havoc until she successfully gathers a coven of thirteen people who have magickal ability. Once the group is created, she will perform a moonlit ritual to endow herself with infinite power, at which point all members of her clan-indeed human beings-will be subject to her will. Buffy's going to need her Wicca girl, Willow, to save the world this time-but can Willow be persuaded by reason before it's too late?

Title:The Evil That Men Do
Author:Nancy Holder
Summary:After a vicious shooting spree, the town of Sunnydale is shell-shocked. What could have sparked the random rampage? buffy Summers can guess. Considering the prophetic dreams she's been having, the Slayer suspects possession by an especially malevolent force. As the police follow their typical false leads, the Slayerettes start up their own research into possible paranormal causes. But when Oz's van is discovered on the side of the road, minus one teen wolf, a distraught Willow turns on Buffy, disrupting the investigation. With the pressure in Sunnydale mounting, the residents' reactions to stress grow increasingly unpredictable. The Slayer continues her search for answers, narrowly surviving an attack by a well-trained and powerful vampire who brought a gruesome death to every Slayer who crossed her path. Is this the ancient creature behind the recent influx of evil? Or is there another influence... close to home?

Title:Immortal
Author:Christopher Golden and Nancy Holder
Summary:During a routine slaying, Buffy encounters a vampire named Veronique who knows the Slayer's name and can anticipate her attack. One who doesn't have the proper respect for Mr. Pointy. One who cannot die. If slain, she will reincarnate in a new body. An invincible demon is the last thing Buffy needs right now. Joyce Summers is about to undergo a serious operation, calling up all of her daughter's fears about her own mortality. Angel wants to comfort Buffy, but her mother's crisis underscores the difference between them: he will live forever, while she will grow old... or die young. Torn between her duties as a daughter and as the Chosen One, Buffy needs the support of her friends to help her solve a rash of grave robberies, head off an influx of new vampires, and take Veronique down once and for all. For Veronique is on a mission-to bring about the unification of her masters, the Triumvirate, into one all-powerful demon that will drink the blood of the last man on earth..

Angel Books

Title:City Of
Author:Nancy Holder
Summary:For Angel, life as a vampire was a constant thrill. Power, danger, cool clothes(never getting old, also a plus). But in the end, it was all about the kill-until he killed the wrong girl. Buffy the Vampire Slayer was Angel's first true love, but the relationship was doomed from the start-a moment of true happiness would cause Angel to lose his soul forever. So he left-Sunnydale, Buffy, and everything else meaningful to him. City of Angels. Run by powerful forces, agants of pure evil. It's a city hard on its human population. If Angel wants to save himself, he's going to have to save them... somehow. With the help of wo unlikely alies-a half-demon and an ex-May Queen-he's going to set up shop... And keep watch over his city.

Title:Not Forgetten
Author:Nancy Holder
Summary:A crime wave has swept Los Angeles area, which under normal circumstances would be par for the course. But nothing links these particular victims except the cause of death-their bodies were burned from the inside out. Obviously supernatural forces are at work. While Angel investigates the murders, Cordelia tracks down a band of child pickpockets. Surprisingly, both searches lead to the same place: a wealthy slumlord who has all but imprisoned the children's immigrant parents. And conducts elaborate rituals to Latura, the Indonesian God of the Dead. Angel, Doyle, and Cordelia may have had a rocky start in L.A., but they realize they've got it much easier than the immigrants. Characteristically, Angel wants to help. But can he free them before the Feast of Latura? And if not, will they become the next sacrifices of someone's quest for immortality?

Title:Redemption
Author:Mel Odom
Summary:When their investigation agency books a walk-in client, Angel, Cordelia, and Doyle couldn't be happier. Whitney Tyler is a beautiful, widely adored actress who plays a vampire on a popular television series. Trouble is, a cult of viewers seems to think she's a real vampire, and has made attempts on her life. Cordelia has got stars in her eyes now that she's rubbing elbows with Hollywood's elite, and Doyle's just relieved to have signed on a case that didn't start with a vision-and a blinding migraine. But when Angel lays eyes on Whitney, he's astounded-she's the spitting image of a young woman warrior whom he encountered during his early days as the scourge of Europe. As the attempts on whitney's life continue, the trio uncovers a symbol that links the perpetrators to an ancient cadre sworn to battle creatures of the night. But what could connect Whitney to someone that Angel once knew-almost two centuries ago?