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Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"On the first day of the new year, no one dies. This, understandably, causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, funeral directors, and doctors. Among the general public, on the other hand, there is initially celebration - flags are hung out on balconies, people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humanity: eternal life. Then reality hits home - families are left to care for the permanently dying, life-insurance...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus...
3) Dead reign
Author
Series
Marla Mason books volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Spectra
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"As chief sorcerer of Felport, Marla Mason thought she's faced every kind of evil the magical world had to offer. But she'd never faced a killer like this. He's dark, glib, handsome as the devil--and exactly who he says he is. Death--in the flesh. He's arrived in Felport with a posse composed of a half-insane necromancer and the reanimated corpse of John Wilkes Booth, and he isn't leaving until he gets what he came for. Only Marla is crazy enough...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Angel of History follows Yemeni-born poet Jacob as he revisits the events of his life, from his maternal upbringing in an Egyptian whorehouse to his adolescence under the aegis of his wealthy father and his life as a gay Arab man in San Francisco at the height of AIDS. Hovered over by the presence of alluring, sassy Satan who taunts Jacob to remember his painful past and dour, frigid Death who urges him to forget and give up on life, Jacob is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Mayan God of Death sends a young woman on a harrowing, life-changing journey in this dark fairy tale inspired by Mexican folklore. The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too busy cleaning the floors of her wealthy grandfather's house to listen to any fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty small town in southern Mexico. A life she can call her own. Yet this new life seems as distant as the stars, until the...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Viola Marek is a struggling real estate agent, and a vampire. But her biggest problem currently is that the house she needs to sell is haunted. The ghost haunting the mansion has been murdered, and until he can solve the mystery of how he died, he refuses to move on. Fox D'Mora is a medium, and though he is also most-definitely a shameless fraud, he isn't entirely without his uses--seeing as he's actually the godson of Death. When Viola seeks out...
7) Hogfather
Publisher
Genius Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
It's the holiday of Hogswatch in the parallel universe of Discworld, the night when kids anticipate presents from the beloved Hogfather. But someone--or something-- wants the Hogfather out of the way. Now it's up to the most unlikely of heroes to get the holiday back on track before humanity loses all hope
8) Death note
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2007-]
Language
日本語
Description
Light Yagami is an ace high school student with great prospects, and he's bored out of his mind. He stumbles upon a supernatural notebook dropped on Earth by the shinigami (death god) Ryuk, a notebook with mysterious power: the Death Note grants its user the ability to kill anyone whose face they have seen, by writing the victim's name in the notebook. The story follows Light's attempt to create and rule a world cleansed of evil using the notebook,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When high school student Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god, he discovers that any person whose name is written in it dies, so Light decides to use the notebook to rid the world of evil.
10) Death note
Publisher
Viz Pictures
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
日本語
Description
Light Yagami is an ace student who finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil.
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
日本語
Description
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects - and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. But when criminals begin dropping dead, the authorities send the legendary detective L to track down the killer. With L hot...
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2009?]
Language
English
Description
"Through the power of the death note, Light Yagami is close to creating a world in which he holds ultimate authority over right and wrong. But many obstacles remain, including a second death note user who has his own nefarious goals and the two brilliant protégés of L, the genius detective who once vowed to expose the identity of the death note's owner. Light is confident that he can prevail, but as the surviving players in the game converge for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Being Death is a lonely job, especially when everything you touch instantly dies (not to mention the paperwork); but being Sparkles the Last Unicorn is not much fun either, since everyone just wants to take selfies with you or use you to sell stuff--but when Death and Sparkles meet between life and, well, death, it is the beginning of a friendship that just might change the world.
14) Pretty deadly
Author
Series
Pretty deadly volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]-
Language
English
Description
Presents the collecting opening arc of author's series that marries the magical realism of Sandman with the western brutality of Preacher. This book tells a tale of retribution as beautifully lush as it is unflinchingly savage.
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