Dead until dark 

 - New York   Ace Books,  2001 
 - 292 pages ; 18 cm 
<br/><br/> Sookie Stackhouse is just a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Bon Temps, Louisiana. She's quiet, doesn't get out much, and tends to mind her own business-except when it comes to her "disability." Sookie can read minds. And that doesn't make her too dateable. Then along comes Bill Compton. He's tall, dark, handsome-and Sookie can't hear a word he's thinking. He's exactly the type of guy she's been waiting for all her life... But Bill has a disability of his own: he's a vampire with a bad reputation. And when a string of murders hits Bon Temps-along with a gang of truly nasty bloodsuckers looking for Bill-Sookie starts to wonder if having a vampire for a boyfriend is such a bright idea. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780441008537 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>P-EN
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Waitresses<br/>Telepathy<br/>Vampires<br/>Louisiana<br/>Mystery <br/>Fantasy
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>READING IN ENGLISH 
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