04535cam a2200361 4500 599252406 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307877253 0307877256 57f7cb57-ed65-4b66-99a0-b5eef4cefd69 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 657570 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Rice, Anne, 1941- The Wolf Gift [Libby] : The Wolf Gift Chronicles, Book 1. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 476MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 476MB. Thriller. HTML:NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Vintage Anne Rice—a lushly written, gothic … metaphysical tale. This time, with werewolves.” —The Wall Street Journal A daring new departure from the inspired creator of The Vampire Chronicles (“unrelentingly erotic . . . unforgettable”—The Washington Post), Lives of the Mayfair Witches (“Anne Rice will live on through the ages of literature”—San Francisco Chronicle), and the angels of The Songs of the Seraphim (“remarkable”—Associated Press). A whole new world—modern, sleek, high-tech—and at its center, a story as old and compelling as history: the making of a werewolf, reimagined and reinvented as only Anne Rice, teller of mesmerizing tales, conjurer extraordinaire of other realms, could create.   The time is the present.   The place, the rugged coast of Northern California. A bluff high above the Pacific. A grand mansion full of beauty and tantalizing history set against a towering redwood forest.   A young reporter on assignment from the San Francisco Observer . . . An older woman welcoming him into her magnificent family home that he has been sent to write about and that she must sell with some urgency . . . A chance encounter between two unlikely people . . . An idyllic night—shattered by horrific unimaginable violence, the young man inexplicably attacked—bitten—by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness . . . A violent episode that sets in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation, as the young man, caught between ecstasy and horror, between embracing who he is evolving into and fearing what he will become, soon experiences the thrill of the wolf gift.   As he resists the paradoxical pleasure and enthrallment of his wolfen savagery and delights in the power and (surprising) capacity for good, he is caught up in a strange and dangerous rescue and is desperately hunted as “the Man Wolf” by authorities, the media, and scientists (evidence of DNA threatens to reveal his dual existence) . . . As a new and profound love enfolds him, questions emerge that propel him deeper into his mysterious new world: questions of why and how he has been given this gift; of its true nature and the curious but satisfying pull towards goodness; of the profound realization that there may be others like him who are watching—guardian creatures who have existed throughout time who possess ancient secrets and alchemical knowledge. And throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey, still to come, of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man. Fiction. Suspense. Fantasy. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. McLarty, Ron. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/657570-TheWolfGift.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/657570-TheWolfGift.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57F7CB57-ED65-4B66-99A0-B5EEF4CEFD69&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/657570-TheWolfGift.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/657570-TheWolfGift.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=57F7CB57-ED65-4B66-99A0-B5EEF4CEFD69&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)