In this subtly haunting novel, a married woman confesses her encounter with a mysterious man, which threatens the stilted calm of life in a Paris suburb.Echoing the acclaimed and unsettling film Sundays and Cybèle from 1962, A Sunday in Ville-d’Avray is suffused with the same feeling of disquiet: Two sisters meet as the light is fading in a detached house in Ville-d’Avray, each filled with the memory of their childhood hopes and fears, their insat...

After a near death encounter, a young deserter named Ciran is left with a choice to once again redirect the events of his life. Haunted by the choices of his past he makes the decision to try and run from them, in hopes to find true freedom and liberation on the other side of a mountain.He never believed the stories of dragons he was told as a child, that was until he found himself standing face to face with one. This chance encounter once again changes the course of his journey, a...

Part one of BATTLE FOR THE THRONE! Jim Downing and Nyx's attack on Spawn had mixed results, with Nyx controlling half the Dead Zones while Spawn holds the other half. Meanwhile, Spawn and Haunt infiltrate Heaven to find a cure for Haunt's poison, leading them to Heaven's science labs, only to discover Heaven's dubious plans to take the war to Hell. Collects SPAWN #338-343

Alan Thurston was an immunologist at Midwestern University Medical School. Like most men in the teaching trade, he also had a research project. If it worked out, he'd be one of the great names in medicine; like Jenner, Pasteur, and Salk. But it didn't work. Quite the opposite . . . he created a disease the ravaged the human race. This special illustrated edition now includes original drawings from Barberis. "We call it Thurston's Disease for two perfectly good reasons," Dr. Walter Kramer s...

A front-line industry insider's look at the financial technology explosionThe FINTECH Book is your primary guide to the financial technology revolution, and the disruption, innovation and opportunity therein. Written by prominent thought leaders in the global fintech investment space, this book aggregates diverse industry expertise into a single informative volume to provide entrepreneurs, bankers and investors with the answers they need to capitalize on t...

Collects Deadpool (2008) #19-22 & Hit-Monkey. Not many people - hero, villain, mercenary or otherwise - are going to upstage the Amazing Spider-Man in a team-up. But Deadpool will have to if he'll survive the most dangerous threat he's ever faced - Hit-Monkey! Plus: The origin of Hit-Monkey revealed!

Collects Deadpool #23-26. It's a Vegas vacation done Deadpool-style - full of explosions, D-list super villains and a casino caper that would make George Clooney proud! When he puts the squeeze on a mouthy club owner, Deadpool draws the ire of Las Vegas' biggest casino bosses and their newest protector-for-hire, The House.

Collects Deadpool #27-31. When Dr. Bong clones Steve Rogers' clandestine team of heroes to steal weapons of mass destruction, Wade must fight alongside the real Secret Avengers against the fake Secret Avengers and try to not to shoot the wrong guy! Plus: Deadpool gets hired by a bunch of good Draculas to fight some bad Draculas and no, they don't sparkle!

Ciran has emerged as the prophesied leader who will challenge the Empire's iron grip on Perinthia. With the aid of his growing army of deserters and a partnership with a fierce turquoise dragon, he's quickly spreading hope, and cutting Empire supply lines.The Empire however is not ready to fall. Responding to a growing discontent amongst the soldiers as the food supply shrinks, the officers have turned their arrows directly at the dragon rider's chest, for they understand him to be...

Ciran did it. He survived his torture, and stood up against the empire's cruelty. He is now again free to resume the search for his family. He has returned to his old stomping ground, the walled stone city of Dunmaer.The city looks to hold the key he has been searching for as to where they might have gone, but the effects of his ordeal linger and his survival is far from certain. His path is now set to cross with a healer named Roshin, who found herself in the city as part of a mis...

The Emperor of Perinthia rules with an iron fist. Young boys are torn from their families at just ten years old, forced into military conscription. Soldiers are forbidden from marrying, while only the Emperor's loyal officers and nobility are permitted wives. Beliefs outside the greatness of the throne have been brutally crushed - temples burned, devotees killed or enslaved. Yet a glimmer of hope persists in secret.Roshin grew up an orphan on the docks of the southern port city of ...

This is a collation of the first two books in the Fires of an Empire Saga. It tells the chronological story of "Fire from Ashes," and "Waves of a Tempest" as the events of the parallel tales unfold.In an empire where dissent means death, ancient faiths are crushed and young boys are torn from their families to feed a hungry military, two paths, forged in desperation, are about to collide.Ciran bears the scars of a soldier's life, but his greatest wounds are the ones that dr...