title: Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side
author:  Margot Adler 
description: "Insightful and compellingas a tool for understanding the drift of human culture over the last two centuries. The ever-morphing vampire, powerful and at the same time significantly flawed, invites us to reflect on our own life as we seek control, community, and some sense of self-worth." -<b>J. Gordon Melton</b>, Distinguished Professor of American Religious History, Baylor University<br /><br />"Margot Adler's new book does what I most appreciate in a piece of writing: it makes me look at the world differently. Vampires became a lens to help us examine our attitudes toward sex, death, and how we are sucking the life-blood out of the earth. She explores her personal fascination and our cultural obsession with vampires with humor, insight, and great emotional honesty. An illuminating and fascinating work!" -<b>Starhawk</b>, author of <i>The Spiral Dance</i> and <i>The Fifth Sacred Thing</i><br /><br />"Reading this was pure pleasure. First rate!" -<b>Whitley Strieber</b>
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  ## Black City
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Black Wings - 5 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Christina Henry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Former Agent of death Madeline Black may have been stripped of her wings—but
  she hasn’t lost her purpose…**
  
  
  
  
  
  When Maddy finally killed her father, Azazel, she thought his depraved
  experiment died with him. But now Chicago has been infested with vampires
  immune to the effects of the sun, and the bloodbath is worse than she could
  have ever imagined. While the Agency refuses to interfere with other
  supernatural courts, Maddy is determined to do everything within her power to
  save her city—wings or no wings.
  
  
  But when the leader of the vampires requests that she turn herself in or risk
  more deaths, Maddy becomes a target for the very people she’s trying to save.
  Left with no other choice, she turns to Lucifer, the one creature who has the
  power to help her. But her grandfather’s aid has always come at a price…
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Black 