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The groundbreaking masterwork of award-winning creator Billy Tucci that literally changed the face of comics and launched the "Bad Girl" revolution returns in this premier formatted, 488-page Hard Cover edition!

…for who would love Death? Azrael Thanatos wants nothing more than to follow in the footsteps of his scientist mother. Sent to study humans on a wager between the Eternal Emperor and Shay'tan, he has no idea that Earth is gateway to a fiery prison. Far from home, he is befriended by Elissar, a precocious child with silver eyes. When Moloch instigates the invasion of Carthage to escape, Azrael sacrifices his life to snatch his friend from the Devourer of Children's maw. Saved by a mysterious goddess, Azrael is given a new mission. Watchman. Roaming the Earth without shape or form, he reaps those who would help Moloch escape and drags them to Gehenna, a prison to which only Lucifer holds the key. It's a hellish immortality, for who wants to serve alongside the Fallen or exist when no living creature can survive your touch. Haunted by Elissar's death, he despairs of never finding love or friendship as time grinds civilizations into dust. For who would love Death? Then one day a child takes his hand and lives… Life for Elisabeth is not easy. The Angel of Death took her entire family the night a drunk driver plowed through a stop sign and left her in a wheel chair. Azrael is forbidden to interfere as she bounces through foster homes, hardship and grueling rehabilitation. Then one day he is forced to reveal he is not a figment of her imagination. Oh, how she hates this angel who has taken everyone she has ever loved! The invasion of Iraq inspires her to join the Army as a trauma nurse, unaware that Death has fallen in love with the woman who can defeat him. Will she take his hand a second time? * Omnibus Edition contains: —Angel of Death —Angel of Death: A Love Story * Children of the Fallen is a new paranormal fantasy series set in the 'Sword of the Gods' universe, taking place in the modern day. * Keywords: Azrael, Archangel Azrael, Thanatos, Angel of Death, angel, angels, fallen angels, fallen angel books, fallen angel series, fallen series, fallen, Lucifer, Luciferi, Lucifer Morningstar, morningstar, guardian angel, guardian angels, angel fantasy, angels and demons, angels & demons, angel romance, angel romance books, books about angels, demon, demons, books about demons, archangels, Carthage, Moloch, devil, nature of evil, romance, what to read after the sandman, nurse, nurse romance, military nurse, trauma nurse, military trauma nurse, Iraq war, Afghanistan, what to read after memnoch the devil, military science fiction, military romance, soldier romance, Malat al-Maut, valley of Jehoshaphat, Gehenna, hell, hellmouth, forgiveness, orphan, orphaned children, orphaned child, what to read after immortal rider, foster child, foster care, foster care abuse, abuse in foster care, paralysis, wheelchair, rehabilitation, set in Chicago, discrimination, disabled child, disabled soldier, disabled nurse, defeat death, second chance, second chances, reincarnation,

Think NASA's last shuttle flight was the end of American technological space dominance?July 21, 2011 might have been the final date of the Atlantis shuttle flight, but it sure wasn't the end of amazing discoveries. In PART 1 of this fictionalized series of that flight, the crew comes into first contact with alien extraterrestrials who discover the Atlantis space shuttle as they are finishing their last few orbits around Earth. If earthlings are stunned at this UFO sighting, the aliens are even more stunned. . . Part 2. Expectations go beyond anyone's dreams as the reality of faster than light travel is introduced to humans. However, the reality of extraterrestrial contact it not what they expected. Part 3 of 'Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact' demonstrates the different mindsets of both humans and aliens in this space exploration adventure of a first contact UFO sighting. Being aware of each other has altered the thinking of both. This sequel of a extraterrestrial contact series demonstrates how these two species begin to deal with each other and what their expectations for the future hold. The big question is, will the Earth survive a second alien expedition. . . To solve these mysteries, order a copy of Last Shuttle Flight, First Alien Contact today. This Omnibus Edition collects the three parts of this story into a single book. (note: all people in this novel are fictionalized characters who have no relationship or bearing with anyone in the space program past or present.).

The first THREE books of the Experimental Heart series in one collection. Includes Destiny, Pieces, and Secrets. For a relic of war, death is my inevitable release. Most people can’t kill without regret, but I don’t have that luxury. I am a tank-created nu-human, and my sole purpose hinges on the whims of my tyrannical maniac creator. Town annihilations to political assassinations—I never disobey. Until I want more. When I escape beyond the realm of my former master, my only goal is safety—freedom—a life I always wanted. I should have known my creator would send deadly pursuers. He wants to remind me of what I’m never fated to have. Then destiny tempts me with the unexpected. When a dragon—a creature said to be long extinct—offers me a chance at true freedom from my former master’s control, I don't know what to believe. In my line of work, trust kills. But something is different about this creature.... With nothing to lose, I agree to his terms. Now, I wait. Will he give me the freedom I crave, or did I seal my fate? EXPERIMENTAL HEART OMNIBUS 1 is the first three books in the Experimental Heart epic romantic urban-science fantasy series. If you love fantasy mixed with science fiction, strong willed heroines overcoming the torment of their past, fate vs choice, and a dash of slow burn romance, dive into the world of Lumaraeon today! --- EXPERIMENTAL HEART (Complete Series) Destiny (#1) Pieces (#2) Secrets (#3) Exposed (#4) Surrendered (#5) Reborn (#6) --- Note: Like all of Shannon Pemrick's work, the Experimental Heart series contains strong language, violence, substance use, love scenes, and difficult situations.

Five students at a Buddhist college in Japan find there's little call for their job skills...among the living, that is! But their unique talents allow them to work with the dead...carrying out the last wishes of those whose spirits are still trapped in their corpses, and can't move on to the next life! Book Five has the Kurosagi gang running into ever more bizarre incidents of modern horror, from mind-control mouse hats, to taxpayer-supported torture museums, to the most feared calamity of all...jury duty! Meanwhile, it seems a gang of corpse-clearing impostors is out to take away their meager business--and in America, someone's made a cartoon series based off them...?! Plus, three previously unpublished stories: a client whose psychological syndrome makes her believe she's dead; the mad robot scientist trio invents a zombie biker gang, and fugitives from a deadly cult hide out in the radioactive ruins of Fukushima! Collects The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service volumes 13 and 14, plus the previously unpublished volume 15.

DOUBLE BLIND Keitaro made a promise to a girl when he was a child - that they would grow up and attend Todai University together. It looks a lot like Naru is that girl - doesn't it? All of a sudden, it looks like it might be Mutsumi, not Naru, that Keitaro made his promise to. What's a poor boy to do? Set up two dates at the same time! Then, just when Keitaro thinks he's in the clear, he decides to take the entrace exams for the third time. Only this time, Mutsumi joins him along with Naru! Can they get in? Find out in this hilarious third collection of Love Hina! This omnibus edition contains volumes 7, 8, and 9 of Love Hina! Includes special extras after the story!

"Ask audience to cut the part of the image on the screen that they don't like. Supply scissors."—Yoko Ono, Tokyo, June 1964 A dazzling range of unconventional film scripts and texts, many published for the first time, make up Scott MacDonald's newest collection. Illustrated with nearly 100 film stills, this fascinating book is at once a reference work of film history and an unparalleled sampling of experimental "language art." It contributes to the very dissipation of boundaries between cinematic, literary, and artistic expression thematized in the films themselves. Each text and script is introduced and contextualized by MacDonald; a filmography and a bibliography round out the volume. This is a readable—often quite funny—literature that investigates differences between seeing and reading. Represented are avant-garde classics such as Hollis Frampton's Poetic Justice and Zorns Lemma and Morgan Fisher's Standard Gauge, and William Greaves's recently rediscovered Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One. Michael Snow turns film loose on language in So Is This; Peter Rose turns language loose on theory in Pressures of the Text. Some of the most influential feminist filmscripts of recent decades—Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen's Riddles of the Sphinx, Su Friedrich's Gently Down the Stream, Trinh T. Minh-ha's Reassemblage, Yvonne Rainer's Privilege—confirm this book's importance for readers in gender and cultural studies as well as for filmmakers and admirers of experimental writing, independent cinema, and the visual arts in general.