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Sandman volume 38
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Centuries ago, one of the Endless gave up his duties and left his realm, never to be seen again. Now on a mission to find their missing sibling, Delirium and Dream encounter immortal humans and various deities as they try to locate the prodigal Destruction. But as their adventure draws Dream into a final, tragic confrontation with his son Orpheus, the eternal being learns the true meaning of fate and consequences.
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Sandman volume 41
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Centuries ago, one of the Endless gave up his duties and left his realm, never to be seen again. Now on a mission to find their missing sibling, Delirium and Dream encounter immortal humans and various deities as they try to locate the prodigal Destruction. But as their adventure draws Dream into a final, tragic confrontation with his son Orpheus, the eternal being learns the true meaning of fate and consequences.
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Tank Girl volume 1
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Fresh off the back of their latest calamitous chapter comes this shiny new Tank Girl tale from series creator, Alan Martin and artist extraordinaire, Brett Parson! Expect a healthy dose of delirium and plenty of ball-crunching action in this high-octane crosscountry skirmish that asks the question: is this world really big enough for two Tank Girls?! Strap yourself in, folks; It's gonna be one helluva ride!
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The madness, delirium and insanity of two serial killers with the same goal and different methods.
Go inside two disturbed minds and you will understand their motives.
When you feel rejected by others and look for a way out to change everything, you act. Is murder the best way to do it? Ian and Daniel thought so. But when remorse and doubt come, everything changes.
Alberto Aranda goes into the darkest thoughts of a sick mind.
Join to this journey...
65) Readopolis
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From award-winning writer Bertrand Laverdure comes Readopolis, a novel translated by Oana Avasilichioaei.
It's 2006 and down-and-out protagonist Ghislain works as a reader for a publishing house in Montreal. He's bored with all the wannabe writers who are determined to leave a trace of their passage on earth with their feeble attempts at literary arts. Obsessed by literature and its future (or lack thereof), he reads everything he can in order to...
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The 2013 issue of The Martian Wave, now being published by Nomadic Delirium Press, brings you stories and poems that look at the exploration and colonization of the universe, with a special focus on our solar system. In this issue, you'll find colonists being stalked on an alien world, murder, dangerous missions to planetary moons, and aliens, lots of aliens, meddling in human evolution. Every story and poem will make you wonder whether we should...
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There was once a play with the power to drive you mad...or to transport you into the bizarre world of Carcosa, and the King in Yellow. Banned, burned, yet never totally, destroyed, the play lives on, eating away the fabric of society and rotting the veneer of civilization...
Come and enjoy new visions of the King, expanding and deepening the fragments glimpsed in the award-winning True Detective television series, penned for your delight by a host...
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Sandman volume 32
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This volume picks up where the last left off in Morpheus's ongoing saga as he travels through the Dreaming, From the "Game of You" stories where cracks are forming between the world of the waking and the Dreaming, to "Brief Lives," where we follow the youngest of the Endless -Delirium-in her quest to find their long -lost brother, Destruction. Lose yourself in Gaiman's fantastic worlds and continue the fantasy here, with The Sandman: The Deluxe Edition...
69) God is Round
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On a planet where FIFA has more members than the United Nations and the World Cup is watched by more than three billion people, football is more than just a game. As revered author Juan Villoro argues in this passionate and compulsively readable tribute to the world's favorite sport, football may be the most effective catalyst for panglobal unity at the time when we need it most. (Following global consensus, Villoro uses "football" rather than "soccer"...
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A manga digest, printed in black, white, and gray tones, featuring appearances by Sandman and all his siblings. In an original story that parallels the events of SANDMAN: SEASON OF MISTS, the minions of Hell end up in Death's apartment. Sisters Delirium and Despair decide to throw a party for the dead - which quickly gets out of control. It's up to Dream's older sister Death to figure out how to save the day and the afterlife...not to mention the...
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The beloved New York Times bestselling author Making Toast and Kayak Morning returns with a powerful meditation on a universal subject: love. In The Book of Love, Roger Rosenblatt explores love in all its moods and variations-romantic love, courtship, battle, mystery, marriage, heartbreak, fury, confusion, melancholy, delirium, ecstasy; love of family, of friends; love of home, of country, of work, of writing, of solitude, of art; love of nature;...
72) The Fall
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The first book in The God Slayers Quartet, a young adult series set in a dystopian future Earth ruled over by warring gods, cat people and a tyrannical religious cult. Young Ben Casper lives in an old shopping mall with his family. He must contend with growing up, falling in love, and losing friends, as well as becoming embroiled in a plot to kill the gods that could put everyone he cares about in mortal danger... For fans of The Hunger Games and...
73) An Essay on Apparitions in which Their Appearance is Accounted for by Causes Wholly Independent of P
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This essay was originally written for the Literary Society with the intention of proving that ghosts do indeed exist and that they are natural rather than preternatural in origin. The author bases his theory upon cases which he claims were all capable of being authenticated by contemporary members of the Literary Society. Contents include: "Universal Belief in Ghosts-Addison; his Opinions-Luther; his Ideas of Madmen, and of Idiots", "Statement of...
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Excerpt: "For that matter the whole west coast of Africa is called by the natives The White Man's Grave; and everywhere the fever stalks along the beach like a grim sentinel warning the stranger to stay away and ready to beat him into delirium and death if he lands. But the name, The White Man's Grave, is especially attached to several of the oldest of the coast settlements. Notable among these is Gaboon, in the French Congo, almost exactly at the...
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It was cosmic fate that I was a thought-after grandniece, for it meant when Tobias passed away from his delirium that his run-down apartment in Providence, Rhode Island became available to me. Fate, too, that the abhorrent discovery of my girlfriend cheating on me with a nautical blonde drove me back to a city I swore I would never live in again. But the fates had an even more horrific plan in store for me. For in the dusty back room of my granduncle’s...
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There were four individuals with a plan, two men released from a Sanitarium, two others farthest from wealth, all in need of a Christmas miracle. Their plan was to change the future of one man, Ebenezer Scrooge. Some may have had their reasons,but none as good as the brother in law of Ebenezer Scrooge, Charles. After Charles wife dies giving birth to their son, he becomes lost in a world without her. Charles sisters think him insane, release him to...
77) The Secret Crypt
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Originally published in 1968, The Secret Crypt is something of a cult classic in Mexican literature.
Elizondo's impassioned, breathless prose launches the reader into a labyrinth that is also a hall of mirrors. Here, we find a small group of characters who are part of an underground sect called Urkreis, one of whose aims is to discover the identity of the sect's founder, known only as "the Imagined." The identities of narrator, author, and characters...
78) The Jewel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
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In Book 1 (first collected in 1964), Barbarella's spaceship breaks down, she finds herself trapped on the planet Lythion. There, she has a series of adventurous, and bawdy, encounters with a variety of strange beings, from robots to angels.
In Book 2, "Wrath of the Minute-Eater" (first published in 1974), Barbarella's traveling Circus Delirium enters another dimension, led by the mysterious and alluring aquaman, Narval, whose machinations catapult...
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In Book 1 (first collected in 1964), Barbarella's spaceship breaks down, she finds herself trapped on the planet Lythion. There, she has a series of adventurous, and bawdy, encounters with a variety of strange beings, from robots to angels.
In Book 2, "Wrath of the Minute-Eater" (first published in 1974), Barbarella's traveling Circus Delirium enters another dimension, led by the mysterious and alluring aquaman, Narval, whose machinations catapult...