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If a machine could predict how you would die, would you want to
know? This is the tantalizing premise of This Is How You Die, the
brilliant follow-up anthology to the self-published bestseller,
Machine of Death.
THIS IS HOW YOU DIE
Stories of the Inscrutable, Infallible, Inescapable Machine of
Death
The machines started popping up around the world. The offer was
tempting: with a simple blood test, anyone could know how they
would die. But the machines didn't give dates or specific
circumstances-just a single word or phrase. DROWNED, CANCER, OLD
AGE, CHOKED ON A HANDFUL OF POPCORN. And though the predictions
were always accurate, they were also often frustratingly vague. OLD
AGE, it turned out, could mean either dying of natural causes, or
being shot by an elderly, bedridden man in a botched home invasion.
The machines held onto that old-world sense of irony in death: you
can know how it's going to happen, but you'll still be surprised
when it does.
This addictive anthology--sinister, witty, existential, and
fascinating--collects the best of the thousands of story
submissions the editors received in the wake of the success of the
first volume, and exceeds the first in every way.
I'm gonna tell you a story, and I'm gonna ask that you let me
finish before you say anything. Here’s the deal—on midnight of
January 1st, 2000, the world ended. But it wasn’t technology that
killed it: It was magic. Now, years later, the Earth has
transformed. Magic works (sort of). People are happy (sort of). But
this new world isn’t stable, and unless Marguerite de Pruitt and
her canine pal, Daisy, do something about it, it’ll tilt into
deadly chaos. Good thing they’ve been training their whole lives
for this and are destined to succeed. Or so they think.
After angering a number of hostile spirits in England, 13-year-old
magician Johnny Constantine has to find a way out of the country.
Persuading his parents to send him to America, John arrives at the
Junior Success Boarding School in Salem, Massachusetts. But once
there, he finds himself to be something of an outcast. And he is
also convinced that his homeroom teacher really has it in for him.
Worse, he s convinced that s she s really a witch. Fortunately,
John is able to find one kindred spirit at school with whom he s
able to form an alliance another misfit named Anna, who also
happens to have her own developing magical powers. John recruits
Anna in his efforts to uncover the truth about Ms. Kayla and expose
the Meanest Teacher s real identity to the world. Joined by a
friendly demon named Etrigan, these two amateur sleuths will
uncover clues and stumble upon forces beyond their control in a
humorous series of misadventures.
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Ryan North, Mirka Andolfo; Illustrated by Paulo Siqueira
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Darkhold (Paperback)
Steve Orlando, Daniel Kibblesmith, Ryan North
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Marvel Rising (Paperback)
Devin Grayson, Ryan North, G. Willow Wilson
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“Easily my favorite book of the year.” —Tillie Walden, Eisner
Award–winning creator of Spinning A twisty, spellbinding
adventure about a girl and her dog who want to save the world,
Danger and Other Unknown Risks is the highly anticipated YA graphic
novel debut from Eisner Award-winning and New York Times
bestselling creators Ryan North and Erica Henderson. I'm gonna tell
you a story, and I'm gonna ask that you let me finish before you
say anything. Here’s the deal—on midnight of January 1st, 2000,
the world ended. But it wasn’t technology that killed it: It was
magic. Now, years later, the Earth has transformed. Magic works
(sort of). People are happy (sort of). But this new world isn’t
stable, and unless Marguerite de Pruitt and her canine pal, Daisy,
do something about it, it’ll tilt into deadly chaos. Good thing
they’ve been training their whole lives for this and are destined
to succeed. Or so they think. Ryan North and Erica Henderson, the
bestselling masterminds behind Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, serve up a
graphic novel that is equally laugh-out-loud adventure and
emotional gut punch. A story about the search for truth, chosen
family, and rebirth, the journey of Marguerite and Daisy seeks to
ask one vital question: How far are you willing to go to save the
world?
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Midas (Paperback)
Ryan North; Illustrated by Shelli Paroline, Braden Lamb
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It's a space race against time to reach the most powerful weapon in
the universe...the dead King Midas' body?! The acclaimed team
behind the Eisner Award-winning Adventure Time comic books, New
York Times best-selling author Ryan North (Squirrel Girl) and
beloved illustrators Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb (One Day a
Dot: The Story of You, The Universe, and Everything), combine
forces once again for an original sci-fi space comedy unlike the
universe has ever seen! Space captain Joey, navigator Fatima, and
scientist (and dinosaur) Cooper are headed to Earth-a planet
completely sectioned off, abandoned, and covered in gold-and are
confronted by the most powerful weapon in the universe: some
ancient dead guy's body?! Now they gotta keep King Midas' body from
being dropped on planets across the universe, and figure out
exactly what to do with a gross dead dude with one truly ridiculous
superpower.
***One of BBC Focus magazine's top books of 2018*** Get ready to
make history better... on the second try. Imagine you are stranded
in the past (your time machine has broken) and the only way home is
to rebuild civilization yourself. But you need to do it better and
faster this time round. In this one amazing book, you will learn
How to Invent Everything. Ryan North -- bestselling author,
programmer and comic book legend -- provides all the science,
engineering, mathematics, art, music, philosophy, facts and figures
required for this challenge. Thanks to his detailed blueprint,
humanity will mature quickly and efficiently - instead of spending
200,000 years stumbling around in the dark without language, not
realising that tying a rock to a string would mean we could
navigate the entire world. Or thinking disease was caused by weird
smells. Fascinating and hilarious, How To Invent Everything is an
epic, deeply researched history of the key technologies that made
each stage of human history possible (from writing and farming to
buttons and birth control) - and it's as entertaining as a great
time-travel novel. So if you've ever secretly wondered if you could
do history better yourself, now is your chance to find out how.
'Ridiculously fun . . . It is as hilarious and funny and strange as
you would imagine . . . fantastic' BookRiot 'Witty, relevant and
endlessly entertaining' Culturefly What if Romeo never met Juliet?
What if Juliet got really buff instead of moping around the castle
all day? What if they teamed up to take over Verona with robot
suits? In this New York Times bestselling version of Romeo and
Juliet, you get to choose where the story goes. Packed with
exciting choices, fun puzzles, secret surprises, terrible puns and
more than a billion possible storylines, Romeo and/or Juliet offers
a new experience every time you read it. And, as an added bonus,
all the different endings feature beautiful and quirky
illustrations by some of the best artists working today, including
New York Times bestsellers Kate Beaton, Noelle Stevenson, Randall
Munroe, and Jon Klassen. Whatever your adventure, you're guaranteed
to find lots of romance, epic fight scenes and plenty of
questionable decision-making by highly emotional teens.
'Shakespeare with even more sex, cryptography, time travel and
alternate endings than the original! Ryan North is the only writer
I know who's smart enough and funny enough to pull this off' Lev
Grossman, New York Times bestselling author of the Magicians
trilogy
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