The Sookie Stackhouse Companion

by CHARLAINE HARRIS

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New hardcover book, published 2011, 466 pages.

Charlaine Harris has topped the bestseller charts and become a nationwide phenomenon, thanks to the unconventional and otherworldly, thanks to the unconventional and otherworldly life of Sookie Stackhouse. Now take a closer look at Sookie and her family, friends, enemies, adventures, and - of course - the lovers who set her world on fire.

Visit Bon Temps, the small Louisiana town that Sookie calls home, with a detailed map created by Charlaine herself, and learn the characteristics of the supernaturals who live there: vampires, two-natured, and fae. Prowl around the werewolf and were-panther communities, browse through her best friend Tara's dress shop and belly up to the bar in Merlotte's, where Sookie works. Examine all the branches of Sookie's family tree. And eavesdrop on the private conversations between rival vampires Eric and Bill.

Also, enjoy the compelling, never-beforepublished novella Small-Town Wedding, in which Sookie accompanies her shapeshifting boss, Sam, to his brother's wedding in Texas, where happily-ever-after seems very far away....

Exclusive interviews with True Blood creator Alan Ball and author Charlaine Harris - compiled from fan questions - will satisfy your craving for all things Sookie, as will trivia questions, recipes (including Caroline Bellefleur's famous chocolate cake!), and a concordance to the Sookie Stackhouse novels.

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About the author

Charlaine Harris has been a published novelist for over twenty-five years. A native of the Mississippi Delta, she grew up in the middle of a cotton field. Now she lives in southern Arkansas with her husband, her three children, three dogs, and a duck. The duck stays outside. Charlaine is the author of the Aurora Teagarden series about a Georgia librarian; the Lily Bard series, set in Shakespeare, Arkansas, featuring a heroine who has survived a terrible attack and is learning to live with its consequences; the Sookie Stackhouse novels (aka the Southern Vampire Mysteries) , about a telepathic cocktail waitress and her adventures with her paranormal friends, acquaintances and enemies; and the Harper Connolly series, about a woman who is struck by lightning and is able to find corpses and determine how they died. In addition to juggling characters and plots for her popular series, Harris has also contributed short stories and novellas to several anthologies of paranormal fantasy fiction.

In addition to her work as a writer, Charlaine is the past senior warden of St. James Episcopal Church, a board member of Mystery Writers of America, a past board member of Sisters in Crime, a member of the American Crime Writers League, and past president of the Arkansas Mystery Writers Alliance. She spends her “spare” time reading, watching her daughter play sports, traveling, and going to the movies.

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The Sookie Stackhouse Companion - Charlaine Harris