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FROM: Robin Deffendall <[removed]@clsn1269.cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 3/21/03, 4:53 PM

One of our customers is looking for a book she believes may be called
Abbadon or Abaddon. She is not sure of the spelling, and I have found
references on the Internet that indicates that those are at least "real"
words.

The plot of this fabulous work involves vampires who kidnap a girl.
Someone, I'm not entirely sure who, is in a coma. Not sure how that fits
in the plot either.

I've put Abaddon and Abbadon into Amazon, Novelist, What Do I Read Next?
and OCLC WorldCat. None of the titles seem to match the plot points. I've
also tried Google searching for those keywords.

I suspect this (if it exists in hardcopy and not just floating out in
cyberspace) could be a teen novel or, since it is being recommended among
15 year old girls.

Any help is appreciated.

Robin Deffendall
Branch Manager
Bordeaux Branch Library

FROM: Lesa Holstine <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/23/03, 6:45 AM

Robin -

Could your patron be looking for Abhorsen by Garth
Nix? An Abhorsen maintains the borders of Death and
Life. This is the third book in a series, following
Sabriel and Lirael.

Lesa Holstine
[removed]@yahoo.com
Ft. Myers, FL

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FROM: BookBitch <[removed]@yahoo.com>
REC'D: 3/23/03, 8:18 AM

I hate to do this because I haven't read it, andt
what I've read of it the plot doesn't fit - but
the name is so similar I'm going to throw it out
there anyway, especially because it's hardcover -
Abarat by Clive Barker.

Stacy Alesi
Southwest County Regional Library
Boca Raton, Florida
www.pbclibrary.org

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FROM: Kathy Mitchum <[removed]@ckls.org>
REC'D: 3/24/03, 1:59 PM

Using google, I tried vampires kidnap abbadon and got several hits. It seems
there is a story line that contains these elements in the Buffy, the vampire
slayer line. It at least seems to fit the information that teens are reading
it.

Hope this aims you the write direction; I don't work much with YA.

At 05:46 PM 3/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>One of our customers is looking for a book she believes may be called
>Abbadon or Abaddon. She is not sure of the spelling, and I have found
>references on the Internet that indicates that those are at least "real"
>words.
>
>The plot of this fabulous work involves vampires who kidnap a girl.
>Someone, I'm not entirely sure who, is in a coma. Not sure how that fits
>in the plot either.
>
>I've put Abaddon and Abbadon into Amazon, Novelist, What Do I Read Next?
>and OCLC WorldCat. None of the titles seem to match the plot points. I've
>also tried Google searching for those keywords.
>
>I suspect this (if it exists in hardcopy and not just floating out in
>cyberspace) could be a teen novel or, since it is being recommended among
>15 year old girls.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Robin Deffendall
>Branch Manager
>Bordeaux Branch Library
>
>
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Kathy Mitchum
ILL/Ref/Rural Serv/Tech Serv, Dept. Head
Central Kansas Library System
1409 Williams
Great Bend, KS 67530

(620-792-4865) phone
(620-792-5495) fax

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FROM: Spencer Ms Martha <[removed]@usmc-mccs.org>
REC'D: 3/25/03, 7:55 AM

Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow 1996, Harcourt Brace.

Martha

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Mitchum [[removed]@ckls.org]
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 2:55 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: abbadon or abaddon or...?

Using google, I tried vampires kidnap abbadon and got several hits. It
seems
there is a story line that contains these elements in the Buffy, the vampire
slayer line. It at least seems to fit the information that teens are
reading
it.

Hope this aims you the write direction; I don't work much with YA.

At 05:46 PM 3/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>One of our customers is looking for a book she believes may be called
>Abbadon or Abaddon. She is not sure of the spelling, and I have found
>references on the Internet that indicates that those are at least "real"
>words.
>
>The plot of this fabulous work involves vampires who kidnap a girl.
>Someone, I'm not entirely sure who, is in a coma. Not sure how that fits
>in the plot either.
>
>I've put Abaddon and Abbadon into Amazon, Novelist, What Do I Read Next?
>and OCLC WorldCat. None of the titles seem to match the plot points. I've
>also tried Google searching for those keywords.
>
>I suspect this (if it exists in hardcopy and not just floating out in
>cyberspace) could be a teen novel or, since it is being recommended among
>15 year old girls.
>
>Any help is appreciated.
>
>Robin Deffendall
>Branch Manager
>Bordeaux Branch Library
>
>
>......................................................................
>Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
>Everything Fiction_L: 
<http://fictionl.webrary.org/>http://fictionl.webrary.org
>
Kathy Mitchum
ILL/Ref/Rural Serv/Tech Serv, Dept. Head
Central Kansas Library System
1409 Williams
Great Bend, KS 67530

(620-792-4865) phone
(620-792-5495) fax

[removed]@ckls.org

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FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/25/03, 12:07 PM

Er, I don't think so.... I haven't read this one, but I read TOWING
JEHOVAH (to which it is a sequel) and have read several reviews of it,
and nobody mentioned vampires (and the plot doesn't really seem to
have room for vampires in it). The book involves the corpse of God
(it's a literal God Is Dead book) being used as the centerpiece of an
amusement park of sorts.

As Robin notes, "abbadon" or spelling variations thereof seems to
show in vampire lore (including the VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE game
and associated books, which would be my first guess of a place to
look) with some frequency. The name comes from the Bible:

Revelation 9, verse 11
11: And they had a king over them, which is
the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in
the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the
Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon.

For what it's worth..

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

At 08:40 AM 3/25/03 -0500, you wrote:
>Blameless in Abaddon by James Morrow 1996, Harcourt Brace.
>
>Martha
>
>-----Original Message-----
>
>At 05:46 PM 3/21/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>One of our customers is looking for a book she believes may be called
>>Abbadon or Abaddon. She is not sure of the spelling, and I have found
>>references on the Internet that indicates that those are at least "real"
>>words.
>>
>>The plot of this fabulous work involves vampires who kidnap a girl.
>>Someone, I'm not entirely sure who, is in a coma. Not sure how that fits
>>in the plot either.
>>
>>I've put Abaddon and Abbadon into Amazon, Novelist, What Do I Read Next?
>>and OCLC WorldCat. None of the titles seem to match the plot points. I've
>>also tried Google searching for those keywords.
>>
>>I suspect this (if it exists in hardcopy and not just floating out in
>>cyberspace) could be a teen novel or, since it is being recommended among
>>15 year old girls.
>>
>>Any help is appreciated.
>>
>>Robin Deffendall
>>Branch Manager
>>Bordeaux Branch Library

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