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Sandman volume 1
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Twenty-five years since THE SANDMAN first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman's legendary series is back in a deluxe edition! THE SANDMAN: OVERTURE heralds NEW YORK TIMES best-selling writer Neil Gaiman's return to the art form that made him famous, ably abetted by artistic luminary JH Williams III (BATWOMAN, PROMETHEA), whose lush, widescreen images provide an epic scope to The Sandman's origin story. From the birth of a galaxy to...
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The Battle of Austerlitz is almost universally regarded as the most impressive of Napoleons many victories. The magnitude of the French achievement against a larger army was unprecedented, the great victory being met by sheer amazement and delirium in Paris, where just days earlier the nation had been teetering on the brink of financial collapse. In this insightful study, the author analyses the planning of the opposing forces and details the course...
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A meditation on in vitro fertilization that expands and complicates the stories we tell about pregnancy.
Medical interventions become an exercise in patience, desire, and delirium in this intimate account of bodily transformation and disruption. In candid, graceful prose, Isabel Zapata gives voice to the strangeness and complexities of conception and motherhood that are rarely discussed publicly. Zapata frankly addresses the misogyny she experienced...
84) Losing Ground
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Cal West's haunted life of wealth and ease is about to end in a ravine above California's Central Coast. After days in the wreck of his vintage Corvette, Cal is discovered by Anna Greene, a headstrong environmentalist. In a delirium of deprivation and gratitude, he sees a singular chance to turn his life around, to find meaning and love with Anna at his side, but she despises that Cal lives off his father's rapacious land developments. She wants nothing...
85) Asmahan
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My dear Syrian friend working at Red Cross , thanks for the story of the unhappy princess. Thanks for the story of the silly wife too. I used both to connect apparently distant countries of the world. Similar in the desire to break down more or less real walls that power builds to divide people , when it's in difficulty. A Syrian history , a Lebanese story , a Russian-Italian story , some wall , some statue , many dreams.
It doesn't matter when the...
86) Brothers
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Brothers is an original, phantasmagoric piece of fiction that is steeped in myth and fable. In a world of "gruesome, gargantuan creatures, two-headed fish, turtles with shells as big as islands, whales with mouths
so large they could consume entire cities," two brothers set out to find their dog of a father. The elder brother is missing an arm, while his younger brother has been fashioned by his mother from that arm. Excess and adventure abound as...
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Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte is on leave, staying with an old friend near Adelaide. Ben Wickham, a meteorologist whose uncannily accurate weather forecasts had helped farmers all over Australia, lived nearby. Ben died after a three-week drinking binge and a doctor certified death as due to delirium tremens -but Bony's host insists that whatever Ben died of it wasn't alcohol. This is an unusual crime story for Upfield, but, revealing the...
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There's No Accounting for the Strangeness of Things is a memoir written in the aftermath of a father's death, exploring how his love, absence, deliriums, and ultimately, his mortality inform the trajectory of his daughter's life. Follow Valley Haggard through her childhood with artists and alcoholics onto a dude ranch in Colorado, a farm in Arkansas, a cruise ship in Alaska, and finally back to her childhood home in Richmond, Virginia. In the course...
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Black Science volume 1
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Scientist Grant McKay has done the impossible: he has punched through the barriers of reality in a desperate bid to unravel the mysteries hidden within the prime universe at the center of the Eververse. But what lies beyond the veil is not epiphany, but chaos. Now Grant and his family are lost, living ghosts shipwrecked on an infinite ocean of alien worlds, barreling through the long-forgotten, ancient, and unimaginable dark realms. The only way is...
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This is a collection of haunting and breathtaking short stories. The characters are beings oppressed by their fears, tyrannized by their weaknesses, confused by their own dreams. An aura of death and delirium hovers over their lives forcing them to reveal the hidden boundaries of human nature. These stories inhabit the limits between reality and madness, between ordinary occurrences and unexpected coincidences. It is at these crossroads where the...
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The Guilty One: Part of the Love...Maybe ebook short story collection. When William Henley accepts Samuel Flynn's proposal of marriage, he's on top of the world. But soon delirium turns to disaster as Will discovers that Sam has been hiding a secret. And it's one that will change their lives forever. ***This is a short story, which you can also buy as part of the Love...Maybe Eshort Collection*** • Cleverly plotted, suspense-filled women's fiction,...
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Eleanor Brice Desmarais, she of the cracked glass slipper and unladylike intellectual propensities, has learned that happily-ever-after is as rare as a frozen dragon, even for a happenstance princess. She survived a plot against her life, but her marriage to the alcoholic, womanizing Prince Gregory of Cartheigh remains at best a sham, and at worse, a potential noose around her neck. Gregory is increasingly suspicious of Eleanor's unusually close relationship...
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Even in death, she wants him…Self-proclaimed player, Fred is after one thing when he sees the beautiful chabin sitting all alone in the club. Dressed in red, the woman is a beautiful sight to behold and he is undeniably mesmerized by her appeal. He approaches her and lays down his best lines to get what he wants – a one-night stand.He wanted one night of passion. She wanted far more...The very next day, Fred is plagued by a string of unnatural...
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Seeking adventure, Argentine dandy Balboa Brontine charms his way onto an expedition to film a remote Canadian island famed for wild horses and shipwrecks. He persuades Paul the filmmaker to let New Orleans femme fatale Geraldine join their yacht. At sea the two men vie for her affections, Balboa bold and brazen, Paul quietly nursing his attraction. She focuses on extracting the truth from Balboa — Why is he involved? He claims he was raised by...
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I don't recall seeing books when I was a little boy. But the old people, they grew up listening to stories. And so, every night, when the old people were done their evening prayers, they would sit and they would tell us stories too.
At the time of the spring thaw, the Rocky Cree fill their canoes with furs, eager to trade with the new visitors in mistiwāsahak (Hudson Bay). But not all of the new visitors are welcome.
When the canoes return home...
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A FALLEN OFFICER
Glenn Turner was a big strong cop, a good friend, a loyal husband, and a loving son. But Glenn died in agony-his body racked with spasms, his mind plunged into delirium. And by the time he was found dead, Glen's wife was more than ready for his funeral.
A SEDUCTIVE WIDOW
Julia "Lynn" Turner, a former sheriff's assistant and 911 operator, had a thing for men in uniform-and for their money. While detectives and forensic examiners...
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That stand-up sure knows how to bomb.
Delirium tremors and haunted houses might be a bad mix.
The high end gets down and dirty (and bloody).
The cat and the tattooist and the old lady and the missing man.
With this issue, Rock and a Hard Place takes lucky number seven and uses it as a knife straight to the ribs. Feel the luck bleed out in these stories of bad decisions and desperate people.
With stories by: Jason Allison, Rusty Barnes, Nils Gilbertson,...
98) Scorpion
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Stricken by amnesia, Ben McQueen must confront his own past to escape a bitter conflict south of the border. Isabella is on her way to bury her husband when the Comanche attack. Already half-mad from grief, she tumbles into delirium after the first wave of the assault, raving as her servant, the freed slave Zion, fights off the Indians with his shotgun. As the ammunition runs low, Zion prays for a miracle. He gets Ben McQueen. His memory gone, his...
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One of the hottest writers in the industry, Grant Morrison, brings this Home Alone meets The Lord of the Rings story to life. Joe is an imaginative eleven year-old boy. He can't fit in at school. He's the victim of bullies. His dad died overseas in the Iraq war. He also suffers from Type 1 diabetes. One fateful day, his condition causes him to believe he has entered a vivid fantasy world in which he is the lost savior - a fantastic land based on the...
100) Unreal City
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A lost manuscript from the pen of obscure Scots-Irish writer Martin Caulder, recently come to light.
A pseudonymous work for the Olympia Press in Paris in the 1960s.
A mysterious packet of papers from the 1920s.
A Strange Case from the 1890s in fin de siècle Paris.
William Crowe and Stephen Devlin, Irish exiles and students of the Occult, have made a dangerous wager: who shall be the first to woo young Thomas MacGilpatrick, a Jesuit novice, away...