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An action-packed thriller and source of the hit Netflix drama where
the only way to survive is to play the game! Eighteen-year-old
Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a
joke, and his future feels like impending doom. As he struggles to
exist in a world that can't be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like
everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange
fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world,
Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world
isn't an empty paradise, it's a vicious game. And the only way to
survive is to play. The first game starts with a bang, but Ryohei
manages to beat the clock and save his friends. It's a short-lived
victory, however, as they discover that winning only earns them a
few days' grace period. If they want to get home, they're going to
have to start playing a lot harder.
Yuji Itadori is resolved to save the world from cursed demons, but
he soon learns that the best way to do it is to slowly lose his
humanity and become one himself! In a world where cursed spirits
feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared
demon Ryomen Sukuna were lost and scattered about. Should any demon
consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the
world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school
of Jujutsu Sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence
of the living from the supernatural! A cursed womb mysteriously
appears at a detention facility. Itadori and his classmates are
dispatched to the scene, but they're in for quite the surprise when
they're attacked by a special-grade curse! Itadori allows Sukuna to
take over his body in order to survive, but the consequences are
more drastic than anyone expected!
One of the first dystopian novels ever written, The Last Man
traces the impact of an unstoppable pandemic as it slowly overtakes the
world. Beginning in the year 2073, the story follows Lionel Vesey—the
titular last man—and his circle of friends as the disease creeps from
continent to continent and erodes the foundations of civilization.
Published in 1826, after the death of Shelley’s husband, her
stepsister, and her two children, The Last Man is both an eerily
accurate story about humanity wrestling with disaster and a moving
fable about surviving personal grief.
In the latest of our celebrated series, you find yourself
surfacing, dazed in the waiting room. You read snatches of lines
over the shoulders of raincoats. In the carriage you have glimpses
and visions. At your destination you can hear space, see thunder,
taste realization. You are running towards something, someone in
the trees who holds out to you an understanding hand. Welcome to
the wonderful and sometimes frightening world of Unthology 5.
To gain the power he needs to save his friend from a cursed spirit,
Yuji Itadori swallows a piece of a demon, only to find himself
caught in the midst of a horrific war of the supernatural! In a
world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments
of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and
scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the
power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately,
there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to
protect the precarious existence of the living from the
supernatural! Despite the crowd of civilians and transfigured
humans, Satoru Gojo is able to defeat the cursed spirits at Shibuya
Station. But it's a trap! The cursed spirits possess a special item
that can even seal the all-powerful Gojo! Meanwhile, an unlikely
ally suddenly contacts Yuji Itadori, who is on his way to the
station!
East Berlin 1968: a city recovering from the horrors of WWII and where
the state police, the Stasi, cultivate a climate of paranoia and fear.
In a place where your closest friend or family member could be a state
informer, the threat of violence is ever present and no one knows this
more than damaged school teacher Sebastian Metzger. But something evil
and ancient is stalking Metzger from the shadows of war–torn
buildings–something which threatens the city and perhaps even the
future of humanity itself. Tiny Acts of Violence is a stunning horror
graphic novel from Martin Stiff, writer and illustrator of the
critically acclaimed and award-nominated The Absence. “It’s an erudite
indictment of social conditioning - - it goes beyond The Lives of
Others in its critique of the Stasi.” Pat Mills (Charley’s War,
Spacewarp) “Has the feel of a long-unearthed Hitchcock… A highly
effective thriller” Rob Williams (Old Haunts, Judge Dredd) “The
atmosphere of menace and state control-induced paranoia drops from it’s
pages.” Simon Furman (Transformers, To The Death) “Gorgeously moody,
graphically striking and brilliantly cinematic” Andrew Cartmel (The
Vinyl Detective, Doctor Who)
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