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George R.R. Martin's epic fantasy masterwork A Song of Ice and Fire
is brought to life in the pages of this full-colour graphic novel.
This is the second part of a four-volume adaptation of the second
book in the series, A Clash of Kings. As chaos grips Westeros, a
flaming red comet continues to burn a crimson path across the sky.
Some see this fiery herald as a sign of their impending victory.
Others see it as a mark of the blood and terror that will soon
engulf this divided kingdom. But one thing is certain: None of the
six contenders who seek either the Iron Throne, or the lands their
ancestors once held as kings, are willing to back down. And as
factions scatter or come together, there are many witnesses to the
unrest that is to come. Arya Stark finds herself in the heart of
enemy territory at Harrenhal, while her mother is trapped between
two brothers battling each other for their dead brother's throne.
In the heart of King's Landing, Tyrion is busy ferreting out
traitors as the Hand of the King, while Jon is beginning to
comprehend the lawlessness of life beyond the Wall. New friends
arrive in Winterfell for Bran, a forgotten son finds life in the
Iron Islands quite different than he remembered, and the Mother of
Dragons at last arrives in the fabled city of Qarth. But even as
these would-be kings draw their lines of battle, it is the people
of Westeros who will most suffer for their ambitions. For when
kings clash, it is the commoners who bear the greatest cost.
All 12 volumes of Death Note in one monstrously large edition!
This hefty omnibus combines all 2,400 pages of the megahit thriller into a single massive tome, presented in a beautiful silver slipcase. A perfect collectible conversation piece and a must-have for Death Note fans. Also contains the epilogue Death Note 13: How to Read, never before seen in English!
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot on his heels, will Light lose sight of his noble goal…or his life?
Kafka wants to clean up kaiju, but not literally! Will a sudden
metamorphosis stand in the way of his dream? With the highest
kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack
by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military
organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino,
a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the
force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood
dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation. How can he fight
kaiju now that he's become one himself?! Kaiju No. 9 shows up to
steal the power of Kaiju No. 2, wielded by Defense Force Director
General Isao Shinomiya. At the end of the deadly battle, Isao
manages to get No. 9 on the ropes, but he ends up exhausting all of
his strength, allowing the kaiju to steal No. 2's power. With Isao
defeated, No. 9 fuses with the director general and takes on Kafka,
Kikoru, and Narumi! Will they be able to defeat No. 9 and save
their fearless leader?!
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The King in Yellow
(Paperback)
Robert W Chambers; Introduction by David Stuart Davies; Series edited by David Stuart Davies
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R116
Discovery Miles 1 160
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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'I read it and reread
it, and wept and laughed and trembled with horror which at all
times assails me yet'. With its strange, imaginative blend of
horror, science fiction, romance and lyrical prose, Robert W.
Chambers' The King in Yellow is a classic masterpiece of weird
fiction. This series of vaguely connected stories is linked by the
presence of a monstrous and suppressed book which brings fright,
madness and spectral tragedy to all those who read it. An air of
futility and doom pervade these pages like a sweet insidious
poison. Dare you read it? This collection has been called the most
important book in American supernatural fiction between Poe and the
moderns. H. P. Lovecraft, creator of the famed Cthulu mythos, whose
own fiction was greatly influenced by this book stated that The
King in Yellow 'achieves notable heights of cosmic fear'.
Robert Crumb (b. 1943) read widely and deeply a long roster of
authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, J. D.
Salinger, Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg,
as well as religious classics including biblical, Buddhist, Hindu,
and Gnostic texts. Crumb's genius, according to author David
Stephen Calonne, lies in his ability to absorb a variety of
literary, artistic, and spiritual traditions and incorporate them
within an original, American mode of discourse that seeks to reveal
his personal search for the meaning of life. R. Crumb: Literature,
Autobiography, and the Quest for Self contains six chapters that
chart Crumb's intellectual trajectory and explore the recurring
philosophical themes that permeate his depictions of literary and
biographical works and the ways he responds to them through
innovative, dazzling compositional techniques. Calonne explores the
ways Crumb develops concepts of solitude, despair, desire, and
conflict as aspects of the quest for self in his engagement with
the book of Genesis and works by Franz Kafka, Jean-Paul Sartre, the
Beats, Charles Bukowski, and Philip K. Dick, as well as Crumb's
illustrations of biographies of musicians Jelly Roll Morton and
Charley Patton. Calonne demonstrates how Crumb's love for
literature led him to attempt an extremely faithful rendering of
the texts he admired while at the same time highlighting for his
readers the particular hidden philosophical meanings he found most
significant in his own autobiographical quest for identity and his
authentic self.
The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation.
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is
to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling
social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid
wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to
help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. It's the day of
the sports festival at Itan High and the students are brimming with
competitive spirit! But when Tadano forgets his lunch, his
classmates put aside their rivalries and team up to make sure he
gets full. Can Komi and Manbagi work up the courage to hand-feed
their crush, or will they be the only lunchtime losers?
The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation.
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is
to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling
social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid
wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to
help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. Najimi takes the
role of Komi's friendship mentor very seriously (sometimes), so
when it comes to light that Komi has only made eight new friends
this school year, Najimi steps in to remedy the situation. But can
the friendly blind date Najimi sets up lead to anything but
awkwardness when everyone there has a communication disorder?!
When a feisty college girl falls for a yakuza boss, she gets swept
into a steamy and dangerous love affair. When feisty college
student Yuri is attacked at a party, she's saved by Toshiomi Oya,
the underboss of a yakuza syndicate. Despite her obvious attraction
to him, she convinces herself that she's not in the market for a
bad boy type. But when they meet again, she finds herself
irresistibly drawn to him-kicking off a steamy and dangerous love
affair that threatens to consume her, body and soul. After Oya
rescues Yuri from Jin, a detective who was Yuri's childhood friend,
he's enraged and consumed by the desire to claim her body once
more, but his injuries get in the way. Jin refuses to give up on
Yuri, forcing Oya to take drastic measures to put an end to this
love triangle once and for all! Later, with Oya still unable to
have sex, Yuri feels compelled to do "something" for him for the
very first time!
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