aNobii: News from [person name]'s shelf

The Right Stuff

Fri, 3 May 2013 4:36:33 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Tom Wolfe began The Right Stuff at a time when it was unfashionable to contemplate American heroism. Nixon had left the White House in disgrace, the nation was reeling from the catastrophe of Vietnam, and in 1979--the year the book appeared--Americans were being held hostage by Iranian militants. Yet it was exactly the anachronistic courage of his subjects that captivated Wolfe. In his foreword ...

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 1:36:18 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Copyright free ebook of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Pride and Prejudice

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 1:36:17 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Copyright free ebook of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 1:36:16 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Copyright free ebook of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Stand on Zanzibar

Fri, 5 Apr 2013 3:16:20 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Thirty-year old predictions have a habit of going stale, but not John Brunner's startling panoramic view of the year 2010. Even where he got the future we almost inhabit wrong, he understood where things were oing--"Conincidence You weren't paying attention to the other half of what was going on"--and his world of Artificial Intelligence, gene-engineering, psychedelics, government-sponsored m ...

The Undercover Economist

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 3:32:52 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Risvegli

Wed, 9 Jan 2013 4:38:34 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

"Risvegli" è il racconto sconvolgente di come alcuni pazienti vennerorisvegliati, mediante un farmaco somministrato da Sacks stesso, dopoquarant'anni di sonno.

Io, Claudio

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 2:01:23 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

La mano sinistra delle tenebre

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 2:00:50 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Cuore di cane

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 2:00:05 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Il geniale scienziato sovietico professor Preobrazenskij ha fatto una scopertameravigliosa: grazie a uno speciale siero di sua invenzione qualsiasi animalepuò essere trasformato in un essere umano. Il suo esperimento apparentementeha un esito positivo, ma l'animale prescelto, un povero cane randagio,conserva, anche sotto la forma umana, tutta la sua natura canina, e questocauserà un ...

Destinazione stelle

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 1:57:09 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Nota: il codice ISBN è stato assegnato a posteriori dalla casa editrice, a partire da giugno 1993, e si riferisce alla prima edizione e a tutte le successive ristampe. Scegli la copertina della ristampa di tuo interesse dal menù “Modifica” * * * Alla base del romanzo di Bester c'è una facoltà segreta della mente umana: la capacità di spostare il proprio corpo istantaneamente da un luogo all'a ...

Breve storia della musica

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 1:56:19 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

L'uomo che ride

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 1:54:51 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Babel 17

Sun, 9 Dec 2012 1:53:40 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Per i lettori che certo ricorderanno la prima opera di Delany presentata da Galassia in Italia, La Ballata di Beta-2, questo romanzo costituirà una gradita sorpresa. Nel caso di Beta-2 si era accennato alle particolari strutture avventurose che costituivano alcune delle caratteristiche più tipiche di questo giovane scrittore americano, fra l'altro il primo scrittore negro di fantascienza. E per B ...

Guns, Germs and Steel

Tue, 4 Dec 2012 7:31:08 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Life isn't fair--here's why: Since 1500, Europeans have, for better and worse, called the tune that the world has danced to. In Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond explains the reasons why things worked out that way. It is an elemental question, and Diamond is certainly not the first to ask it. However, he performs a singular service by relying on scientific fact rather than specious theori ...

Time's Arrow

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 7:36:59 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense. "The narrative moves with irresistible momentum.... [Amis is] a daring, exacting w ...

Roadside Picnic

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:54:10 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those strange misfits who are compelled by some unknown force to venture illegally into the Zone and, in spite of the extreme danger, collect the mysterious artefacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the Zone and the thriving black market in the alien products. Even the nature of his daughter has been determined by the Zone. ...

Italiani, brava gente?

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:49:09 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

"Italiani, brava gente"? Non la pensa così lo storico Angelo Del Boca cheripercorre la storia nazionale dall'unità a oggi e compone una sorta di "libronero" degli italiani, denunciando gli episodi più gravi, in gran parte poconoti o volutamente e testardamente taciuti e rimossi. Si va dalleingiustificate stragi compiute durante la cosiddetta "guerra a ...

Un polpo alla gola

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:46:52 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Tre amici, un comprensorio scolastico, un segreto. E quindici anni dopo, scoprire che ciascuno di loro credeva che il segreto fosse uno solo, ma che ognuno aveva il suo. E che ce n'era uno, più grande, che nessuno di loro sapeva. Il secondo, attesissimo libro di Zerocalcare lo conferma come un narratore intelligente, delicato, spietato nei confronti delle proprie debolezze, che forse sono quelle ...

I quarantanove racconti

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:45:55 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Stories of Your Life

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 23:45:06 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

One of the best short story collections of the last ten years, back in print in a newedition.

Richard Stark's Parker, Vol. 1

Sun, 7 Oct 2012 17:20:35 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The Hunter, the first book in the Parker series, is the story of a man who hits New York head-on like a shotgun blast to the chest. Betrayed by the woman he loved and double-crossed by his partner in crime, Parker makes his way cross-country with only one thought burning in his mind—to coldly exact his revenge and reclaim what was taken from him!

Inside Scientology

Sat, 25 Aug 2012 19:08:43 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

A full-length account based on the author's National Magazine Award finalist article traces the story of the fast-growing religion while addressing such ...

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:21:09 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

BOOK SENSE BOOK OF THE YEAR A "PEOPLE "MAGAZINE "TOP TEN" BOOK WINNER OF THE HUGO AWARD WINNER OF THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD "Ravishing...Combines the dark mythology of fantasy with the delicious social comedy of Jane Austen into a masterpiece of the genre that rivals Tolkien."--"Time" At the dawn of the nineteenth century, two very different magicians emerge to change England's history. In the ...

La saggezza nel sangue

Mon, 2 Jul 2012 16:06:21 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

"La saggezza nel sangue", uscito nel 1952, fu dalla stessa autrice definito "un romanzo comico che tratta di un cristiano suo malgrado". Al centro del primo romanzo di Flannery O'Connor è la figura di Hazel Motes, il giovane reduce che predica la "Chiesa della Verità senza Gesù Cristo Crocefisso". Hazel è assillato dall'incontro con un suo doppio, seguito da un ragazzino petulante, concupito da u ...

Ender's Game

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:01:25 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning classic is now available in an author's definitive edition. The alien Buggers threaten humanity with extinction, and Earth's ultimate savior may be one small boy. Andrew "Ender" Wiggins thinks he is only playing computer games, but he is really commanding Earth's last great fleet. Accelerated Reader: Reading Level 5.5, 16 Points. [예스24 제공]

The Handmaid's Tale

Wed, 9 May 2012 15:51:54 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies? Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age ...

Il giorno della locusta

Fri, 4 May 2012 20:07:52 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

"West, scriveva Vittorini, identifica l'America con Los Angeles e il comportamento quotidiano dell'uomo medio col comportamento frenetico d'una folla di attori mancati o di gente, comunque, che ha voluto assicurarsi la felicità stabilendosi in California. Uno crede che si tratti di lavorar sodo e risparmiare. E per la delusione diventa una locusta tra milioni di locuste che possono, se fanno foll ...

The Information

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:54:53 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It willtransform readers’ view of its subject.

Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me)

Sat, 3 Mar 2012 17:40:51 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Why do people dodge responsibility when things fall apart? Why the parade of public figures unable to own up when they screw up? Why the endless marital quarrels over who is right? Why can we see hypocrisy in others but not in ourselves? Are we all liars? Or do we really believe the stories we tell? Renowned social psychologists Carol Tavris and Elliot Aronson take a compelling look into how t ...

Pnin

Wed, 29 Feb 2012 2:49:19 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

One of the best-loved of Nabokov’s novels, PNIN features his funniest and most heartrending character. Professor Timofey Pnin is a haplessly disoriented Russian émigré precariously employed on an American college campus in the 1950s. Pnin struggles to maintain his dignity through a series of comic and sad misunderstandings, all the while falling victim both to subtle academic conspiracies and to ...

The Cleanest Race

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 0:23:16 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Understanding North Korea through its propaganda: What do the North Koreans really believe? How do they see themselves and the world around them?

Il signore della svastica

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 2:25:57 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Il romanzo è presentato dall'autore come il capolavoro di un famoso scrittoredi fantascienza, Adolf Hitler, esiliato dalla Germania nel 1913 e morto aNew York nel 1954. Nelle settimane precedenti la sua morte, avrebbe scrittola storia di Feric Jaggar, il signore della svastica, una storia folle e surreale di conquista dell'universo da parte di una razza superiore di VeriUomini. Nel 1142 A. ...

Cages

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:44:11 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Dave McKean's Cages returns in a beautiful remastered edition! Best known for his collaborations with Neil Gaiman, McKean defied expectations with his stunning debut as writer and artist in Cages, winner of the Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album. Filled with complex characters, intriguing flights of fancy, and all the beautiful visuals you'd expect from the director of MirrorMask, Cages is McKea ...

Omega

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 20:04:29 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The story of a mute, reluctant super hero from another planet, and the earthly teenager with whom he shares a strange destiny - and the legion of robots and nanoviruses that have been sent from afar to hunt the two of them down! Created in 1975 by Steve Gerber and Mary Skrenes, the original Omega the Unknown lasted only ten issues, but was a legend to those who recall it - an ahead-of-its-time ta ...

Runaways, Vol. 6

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:50:50 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Batman: Ego

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:50:48 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Batman - Bruce Wayne: Fuggitivo TP 2 (di 3)

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:50:46 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Batman: Troika

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:50:41 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

All Star Superman

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:39 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

In this first volume, the World's Greatest Super-Hero rescues a doomed group of astronauts on the surface of the sun when he's exposed to massive amounts of solar radiation.

JLA

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:31 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Starman, Book 5

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:31 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Starman, Book 4

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:30 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Starman, Book 3

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:29 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Starman, Book 2

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:29 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Starman, Book 1

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:28 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

A History of Violence

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:28 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

It was just another quiet day at McKenna's Diner--until a couple of wanted killers walked in looking for trouble. Instead, they got bullets, and Tom McKenna got to be an instant media celebrity. That got him a lot of attention from some people he thought he'd escaped long ago. The kind of people who never forget a face--even after twenty years... Now Tom must confront a group of cold-blooded ...

We3

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:27 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

WE3 tells the unforgettable story of three innocent pets: a dog, a cat and a rabbit, who have been converted into deadly cyborgs by a sinister military weapons program. With nervous systems amplified to match their terrifying mechanical exoskeletons, the members of Animal Weapon 3 have the firepower of a battalion between them. But they are just the programs prototypes and, now that their testing ...

The Unwritten, Vol. 1

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:27 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Transmetropolitan Vol. 1

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:26 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Transmetropolitan Vol. 3

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:26 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Transmetropolitan Vol. 2

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:26 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Preacher, Vol. 7

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:25 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Preacher, Vol. 9

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:25 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Preacher, Vol. 8

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:25 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

This hard-hitting yet darkly humorous new entry in the series finds Jesse Custer on the trail of his gun-toting girlfriend, Tulip, who believes that hes dead. And when Jesse finally catches up with Tulip, she tells him the truth about his supposed friend, Cassidy, leading up to a brutal confrontation between Custer and Cassidy. Suggested for mature readers.

Preacher Vol. 6

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:24 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Preacher, Vol. 5

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:23 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Preacher, Vol. 3

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:22 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The Reverend Jesse Custer is a Texas minister who swears worse than a sailor and is not above killing people who get in his way. One might say he's lost his faith. No, he's just looking for God, and when he finds Him... Proud Americans is another sick and fun addition to the Preacher series. This book contains three story lines: One, a short tale about Custer's father in Vietnam. Two, a recountin ...

Preacher, Vol. 4

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:22 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

While technically the fourth book in the Preacher series, Ancient History isn't part of the main Preacher story line and doesn't even use any of the main characters (Reverend Jesse Custer, his girlfriend, Tulip, and his vampire buddy Cassidy). Instead, this collection of side stories delves into the freakish, perverse, and downright mythic supporting characters. The main feature is the 106-page d ...

Preacher, Vol. 1

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:21 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Here's a book guaranteed to offend a bunch of people, not only because of its profuse profanity and graphic violence, but because it's the epitome of iconoclasm. Like a brutal accident, you can't watch but you can't turn away. The story follows an ex-preacher man, Jesse, who has become disgusted with God's abandoning of His responsibilities. So Jesse starts off into the wilds of Texas with his hi ...

Preacher, Vol. 2

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:21 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

In and of itself, the story of a man with one foot in Heaven and one foot in Hell is hardly original. But in the hands of Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, the story of Jesse Custer becomes a blasphemous masterpiece seething with originality. Custer is a former Texas minister who was joined with a spiritual being called "Genesis." Now Custer is on a journey to find God, but not in the traditional enl ...

Fables Vol. 12

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:21 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Tourists of the world unite! If you've ever craved a guided tour of Fabletown's secret Manhattan location, prepare to be voraciously satiated. Pinnochio has a field day taking a certain VIP around the city. And exactly which Fabletown denizens are no longer active (dead, alive or otherwise) just might shock you into a comic book coma. Also in this volume, you'll find the 4-part story featuring Fr ...

Fables Vol. 10

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:20 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

This 10th volume in the best-selling, award-winning series collects the epochal "Good Prince" storyline. Flycatcher, a background player in the FABLES series, is drawn into the spotlight as he discovers the startling truth about his own past as the Frog Prince. At the same time, he learns that the Adversary -- Gepetto, the manipulative Fable who forced the Fables community into exile -- plans ...

Fables Vol. 11

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:20 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Fables Vol. 9

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:19 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile when a savage creature known as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales. These magical characters now disguise themselves as normal citizens in modern-day New York and around the world. In this volume, Pinocchio suffers seriously divided loyalties between his father, the evil Adversary, and his fellow F ...

Fables Vol. 7

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:18 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

When a savage creature known only as the Adversary conquered the fabled lands of legends and fairy tales, all of the infamous inhabitants of folklore were forced into exile. These magical characters now disguise themselves as normal citizens and have created their own peaceful and secret societies in modern-day New York and around the world. When wayward fables from Arabia arrive in Manhattan ...

Fables Vol. 8

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:18 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Fables Vol. 5

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:17 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Collecting issues 22 and 28-33 of the hit VERTIGO series, this trade paperback features two tales of Bigby's exploits during World War II as well as "The Year After," which follows the aftermath of the Adversary's attempt to conquer Fabletown -- including the birth of Snow White and Bigby's children!

Fables Vol. 6

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:17 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Collecting issues #34-41 of writer Bill Willingham's Eisner Award-winning creation, HOMELANDS follows Boy Blue on a mission of revenge as he uncovers the Adversary's true identity! Plus, the 2-part story of Jack's adventures in Hollywood and the one-shot story of Mowgli's return to Fabletown.

Fables Vol. 4

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:16 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Bill Willingham's runaway hit series FABLES continues its success in this fourth trade paperback, collecting issues #19-21 and #23-27 (issue #22 will appear in a future collection) and featuring the rise of a new threat to Fabletown. Also included is the Prestige Format Special Fables: The Last Castle. When Little Red Riding Hood suddenly walks through the gate between this world and the lost Fab ...

Fables Vol. 2

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:15 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Fables Vol. 3

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:15 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

After being hunted and hounded by a savage being called the Adversary, the legendary characters of fables and fairytales are forced to relocate to a magical high-rise in Manhattan where romance, danger and adventure run rampant. [예스24 제공]

Fables Vol. 1

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:14 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Who killed Rose Red? In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live alongside regular New Yorkers, the question is all anyone can talk about. But only the Big Bad Wolf can actually solve the case - and, along with Rose's sister Snow White, keep the Fabletown community from coming apart at the seams. Fables: Legends in Exile collects the first five issues of writer and creator Bill Willingham's accla ...

Death: The Time of Your Life

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:12 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Death incarnate, as defined by master storyteller Neil Gaiman (THE SANDMAN), is a genuinely likeable young girl with a fondness for ankhs who truly cares about people. It's small wonder then that when a rising star of the music world wrestles with revealing her true sexual orientation just as her lover is lured into the realm of Death that Death herself should make an appearance. A practical, hon ...

The Filth

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:12 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The Filth is a groundbreaking, mind-altering voyage of conspiracies and revelations. Since the early 1950s, a secret police force known only as The Hand has been covertly protecting society and making sure that life continues along its prescribed path. But when a rogue agent of the enigmatic organization introduces numerous threats to the social hygiene of existence, the future of the world teete ...

Death: The High Cost of Living

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:11 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The Kindly Ones

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:11 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Sandman

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:10 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

One might think that the climax of the 10-volume Sandman series would come in the last book, or even the second to last. But indeed the heart and soul of Neil Gaiman's magnum opus lies here in Brief Lives. It could be because one of the most central mysteries--that of the Sandman's missing brother--is revealed here (in fact, the plot of this volume is the search for this member of the Endless). I ...

World's End

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:10 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

When Brant and Charlene wreck their car in a horrible snowstorm in the middle of nowhere, the only place they can find shelter is a mysterious little inn called World's End. Here they wait out the storm and listen to stories from the many travelers also stuck at this tavern. These tales exemplify Neil Gaiman's gift for storytelling--and his love for the very telling of them. This volume has almos ...

The Sandman: Fables and Reflections

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:09 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

A Game of You

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:09 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

You may have heard somewhere that Neil Gaiman's Sandman series consisted of cool, hip, edgy, smart comic books. And you may have thought, "What the hell does that mean?" Enter A Game of You to confound the issue even more, while at the same time standing as a fine example of such a description. This is not an easy book. The characters are dense and unique, while their observations are, as alway ...

Season of Mists

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:08 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

In many ways, Season of Mists is the pinnacle of the Sandman experience. After a brief intermission of four short stories (collected as Dream Country) Gaiman continued the story of the Dream King that he began in the first two volumes. Here in volume 4, we find out about the rest of Dream's Endless family (Desire, Despair, Destiny, Delirium, Death, and a seventh missing sibling). We find out the ...

Dream Country

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:08 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The third book of the Sandman collection is a series of four short comic book stories. What's remarkable here (considering the publisher and the time that this was originally published) is that the main character of the book--the Sandman, King of Dreams--serves only as a minor character in each of these otherwise unrelated stories. (Actually, he's not even in the last story.) This signaled a coup ...

The Doll's House

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:07 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

A being that has existed since the beginning of the universe, Morpheus rules over the realm of dreams. But after a decades-long imprisonment, the Sandman has returned to find that a few dreams and nightmares have escaped to reality. Looking to recapture his lost possessions, Morpheus ventures to the human plane only to learn that a woman named Rose Walker has inadvertently become a dream vortex a ...

The Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:06 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

"Wake up, sir. We're here." It's a simple enough opening line--although not many would have guessed back in 1991 that this would lead to one of the most popular and critically acclaimed comics of the second half of the century. In Preludes and Nocturnes, Neil Gaiman weaves the story of a man interested in capturing the physical manifestation of Death but who instead captures the King of Dreams ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 10

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:06 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 8

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:05 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 9

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:05 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Featured in The New York Times and on National Public Radio, Y: THE LAST MAN is the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker who discovers he is the only male left in the world after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey, Ampersand, and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a trans ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:04 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The saga of Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, continues in PAPER DOLLS, writer Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's award-winning VERTIGO series. In addition to catching up on the adventures of Yorick's monkey Ampersand (whose body holds the key to stopping the male-killing plague) and telling the origin of Agent 355, PAPER DOLLS chronicles Yorick and 355's search for Yorick's fiancee Beth ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 4

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:03 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

WINNER OF THREE EISNER AWARDSAfter a devastating plague, Yorrick Brown is the last man left alive in a world of women. On the run from Amazon extremists who would be happy to see him dead, his friends leave him in the care of Agent 711. But 711 is not the tragic woman she seems to be and Yorrick is propelled into a drug-fuelled nightmare of blood and sadism. Collects issues #18-23 of the runaway ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:03 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, finally makes it to San Francisco where his unbalanced sister, Hero, finds him seemingly succumbing to the male-killing plague after losing his still-unused engagement ring to the burqa-clad agents of the Setauket Ring. But is the ring really the key to his survival? And what does it have to do with the mysterious Amulet of Helene, which the Setauket leader is ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 6

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:03 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

The latest volume in the gripping saga of Yorick Brown, an unemployed and unmotivated slacker that discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women after a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome.Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and d ...

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:02 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Suggested for a mature audience, this perfect blend of humor and drama is a fascinating tale of catastrophe and consequences when a mysterious occurrence instantaneously kills every male human on Earth--except for one. [예스24 제공]

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 2

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:02 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Y: The Last Man, Vol. 1

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:01 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

When a plague of unknown origin instantly kills every mammal with a Y chromosome, unemployed and unmotivated slacker Yorick Brown suddenly discovers that he is the only male left in a world inhabited solely by women. Accompanied by his mischievous monkey and the mysterious Agent 355, Yorick embarks on a transcontinental journey to find his girlfriend and discover why he is the last man on Earth. ...

The Invisible Kingdom

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:01 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Kissing Mister Quimper

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:06:00 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

This fourth volume of The Invisibles series finds the Invisibles traveling through time distortions, breaking into secret government installations, and delving into their own twisted pasts. Only then will they learn the truth about the mind-controlling dwarf called Quimper and come one step closer to the ultimate secrets of the millennium. Suggested for mature readers.

The Invisibles Vol. 4

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:05:59 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

In a world where paranoia is a survival skill, the only hope for humankind is a group of unconventional occultist freedom fighters called the Invisibles. In this collection, the team launches an assault on an underground New Mexico lab to free the cure for the AIDS virus from the alleged inventors of the disease: the U.S. government.

Entropy in the UK

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:05:59 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf

Counting to None

Fri, 17 Feb 2012 0:05:59 PST

[person name] put "[title]" onto shelf