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...

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...

After four years of survival in a remote and hostile land, exiled prince Ronan has been hardened by loss and struggle. Now he wages a secret war against those who would kill for scales and glory. Caught between two worlds and with a target on his back, Ronan must discover what it truly takes to end the bloodshed and become a true prophet of the faith. Will this be his chance to finally become the hero he has always dreamed of? Or just another costly failure to haunt his dreams?

Every prophet must choose what they are willing to burn to light the way.Ronan's journey from prince to fallen prophet has led him to the edge of the impossible. To end the ancient bloodshed between dragons and the Starka, he must stand before those whose blood stains his fingers and offer them the power to destroy him. Transformation demands more than faith, and sometimes more than self. When the choices we make cannot be undone, what is left but to accept the weight, and shoulder ...

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.

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

Groups from all sides of the battlefield are starting to converge on the empty Throne of Hell. Meanwhile, Al makes a decision that could affect the course of humanity.

The race for the Throne of Hell has begun. Forces and factions from all sides are starting to close in, and Spawn is starting to doubt who he can trust. But without his allies, there is no way he will survive!

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!

The Barbarians from a Far Planet: Tom Godwin Boxed Set (Illustrated Edition) gathers vigorous mid-century science fiction in which hostile worlds, moral extremity, and human endurance become engines of narrative inquiry. Godwin's prose is direct, tensile, and unsentimental, shaped by the pulp magazine tradition yet often darker than its adventurous surfaces suggest. His imagined planets and frontier societies dramatize a classic Golden Age concern: whether civilization is a fragile habit o...