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Berserk vol 1 manga5/30/2023 Updated on April 7th, 2023 by Kennedy King: The manga medium appeals to readers of all ages, and as a result, there is a constant stream of adult-oriented series for fans to dig their teeth into. In order to capitalize on this demand, plenty of series go above and beyond in their depictions of violence and savagery, resulting in some of the darkest manga series ever released. RELATED: 15 Dark Anime That Only Get DarkerĪlthough this type of manga may alienate some readers, there are plenty of others who enjoy the brutal nature of its presentation. However, while family-friendly series geared toward younger audiences often receive plenty of fanfare, their more mature counterparts frequently go unappreciated thanks to their dark subject matter and graphic violence. Given the plethora of manga available to readers, there is no shortage of high-quality titles in virtually every genre.
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Wonder valley a novel5/30/2023 Their lives will all intertwine and come crashing together in a shocking way, one that could only happen in this enchanting, dangerous city. And there's Blake, a drifter hiding in the desert, doing his best to fight off his most violent instincts. There's Tony, a bored and unhappy lawyer who is inspired by the runner. There's Britt, who shows up at the commune harboring a dark secret. There's Owen and James, teenage twins who live in a desert commune, where their father, a self-proclaimed healer, holds a powerful sway over his disciples. There's Ren, just out of juvie, who travels to LA in search of his mother. The strange sight makes the local news and captures the imaginations of a stunning cast of misfits and lost souls. When a teen runs away from his father’s mysterious commune, he sets in motion a domino effect that will connect six characters desperate for hope and love, set across the sun-bleached canvas of Los Angeles.įrom the acclaimed author of Visitation Street, a visionary portrait of contemporary Los Angeles in all its facets, from the Mojave Desert to the Pacific, from the 110 to Skid Row.ĭuring a typically crowded morning commute, a naked runner is dodging between the stalled cars.
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Spring garden tomoka shibasaki5/30/2023 Please note that E-Mails before registration started will be disregarded!īy participating in the event you consent to the publication of any images in which you are seen. Spring Garden (2014): Tomoka Shibasaki Ap You may remember that I have a vaguely vexed relationship with Japanese literature. Spring Garden (Japanese Novellas) - 9781782272700 - Contemporan - Winner of the Akutagawa Prize, a sharp, photo-realistic. Registration starts on Wednesday, 16 January 2019, 9 am Registration by E-Mail valid only after our confirmation. The discussion with the author will be consecutively interpreted from Japanese into German for the German audience. Spring Garden is a novel full of voids and departures. Irmela HIJIYA-KIRSCHNEREIT (Japanologist, FU Berlin) A modern fairy tale about people and houses, about wounds of the past and the fragility of happiness. What's wrong with the house behind the wall? What secrets does the history of its inhabitant hide? Taro slowly learns more about his neighbor and soon becomes obsessed with the idea of seeing the house from the inside. When Tarō, the inconspicuous employee of a public relations agency, observes how his neighbor tries to climb over a wall to a neighboring property, his life turns upside down.
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The Detective's Wife by Joanne Clancy5/30/2023 Joanne’s latest release is TEAR DROP (Detective Elizabeth Ireland Crime Thriller Series, Book 1). Her crime books have consistently hit the Amazon paid bestseller lists in Crime, Thrillers & Mystery. Her books combine murder, mystery, and suspense with a twist of psychological drama. She is an avid reader, a self-confessed Kindle addict, and a tea fiend! Joanne is an Irish mystery writer, from Cork, Ireland. Joanne Clancy is a Kindle All-Star and an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award quarter-finalist. (Did I tell you I love your name because I do. Without further delay, I present to you guys, *drumrolls please*, JOANNE CLANCY. I contacted the person who created this impressive piece and she turned out to be so sweet that I couldn’t help ask her for an interview. I was so impressed by this book that I decided to let my feelings known. Do you guys remember the time I kind of fangirled about a book named “Tear Drop”? Wasn’t long ago, right? □ If you don’t then check it out here.
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Her Cherry by Penelope Bloom5/30/2023 I knew I was in trouble when he chuckled in that deep, sexy voice of his over the phone and said, "I'm still craving your cherry. Maybe I was stepping into a disaster waiting to happen. Like thinking the fly wouldn't even mind getting hammered by William and his washboard abs. The kind of hot that made me think crazy things. Objects of Attraction Books In Publication Order His Banana (2018) Her Cherry (2018) His Treat (2018) His Package (2018) Her Secret (2019) Her Bush (2020). William was stupid hot, the kind of hot that makes women do stupid things. Fixing my little virginity problem with William would be like swatting a fly with a hammer. Oh, and I was a twenty-five-year-old virgin, a fact my friends refused to stop hassling me about. Before I say what I did with the business card, I should clarify something: William couldn't have walked into my life at a worse time. Hailey How did I meet William? He walked into my bakery, bought a cherry pie, stole a vase of flowers-I still have no idea what he wanted with them-and left his business card. After that? I left my business card and walked out like I owned the place. First, I paid for her cherry (pie, but that's not the point), Next, I deflowered her. How'd I meet her? Well, a gentleman never brags, Thankfully, I'm no gentleman.
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Not to be trifled with, Raina enters a dangerous match of wits with Mikhael to achieve their mutual goals-only to discover that the reluctant attraction between them is the most hazardous game of all. The incubus has stolen an object of great power from Lucifer, and Underworld Dark Guardian Mikhael will do anything to get it back-even if it means incinerating the incubus on Raina’s porch to get the answers he seeks. But when a rogue incubus shows up on Raina’s doorstep begging for asylum, the witch’s well-run business is put in jeopardy. Because of her abilities as a witch, the demons under Raina’s protection can feed off the sexual energy of their clients without killing them-definitely a good thing for repeat business. (This title was previously published by Berkley Heat and is being re-released by Story Witch Press with new cover art and some minor typographical edits.) All witch and part succubus, savvy businesswoman Raina has converted a Southern plantation house into an extremely profitable old-fashioned bordello.
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Evil spirits dostoevsky5/30/2023 Despite their ugly pranks, scandalous libertinism, and incendiary radicalism, they are until the apocalyptic denouement indulged and flattered by their elders: liberal elites who suppose that proximity to the “new ideas” will get them noticed in the highest social circles of progressivist Petersburg. That’s just how it is in Dostoevsky’s Demons, in which a band of young nihilists and socialists unleashes murder, riot, and arson in a provincial Russian town. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. They thought it was a joke and applauded. In a theater, it happened that a fire started offstage. A disillusioned romantic in Kierkegaard’s Either/Or offers this parable:
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For Atancia by Wren Figueiro5/30/2023 I can only compare Laura Barnard's stories to Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series. The Debt and the Doormat is a decently large book, almost five hundred pages, but it was so entertaining and Poppy's misadventures were such an enjoyable train-wreck, I enjoyed every minute- AND I wanted more as soon as it was over. Poppy is such a mess, I was shaking and slapping my head when I wasn't crying from laughing hysterically. This book had me laughing so hard at times, I cried! Now Poppy decides what Jazz does with her life, and Jazz gets to pick and choose what Poppy does as well. They have to trade lives, apartments, and guidelines with each other. Things are completely falling apart for our dynamic duo, and there is really only one obvious solution. Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce our Debt and Doormat. Jazz spends money without thinking about it, and she is in a bit of debt. Poppy was recently dumped by her long-time boyfriend, and she's kind of a doormat.
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The little white horse goudge5/30/2023 Determined to restore peace and happiness to the whole of Moonacre Valley, Maria finds herself involved with an ancient feud, and she discovers it is her destiny to end it and right the wrongs of her ancestors. The enchanted valley of Moonacre is shadowed by a tragedy that happened years ago, and the memory of the Moon Princess and the mysterious little white horse. Maria is determined to learn about it, change it, and give her own life story a happy ending. But there is something incredibly sad beneath all of this beauty and comfort, that shadowing Moonacre Manor and the town around it. Her new guardian, her uncle Sir Benjamin, is kind and funny the Manor itself feels like home right away and every person and animal she meets is like an old friend. In 1842, thirteen-year-old orphan Maria Merryweather arrives at Moonacre Manor, her family's ancestral home in an charmed village in England's West Country, and she feels as if she’s entered Paradise.
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It seems to me that this is a model of how the brain formulates thoughts and remembers. Or, more accurately, it emanates from something intrinsic to the comics medium itself and from the events Nakazawa lived through and depicted.Ĭomics are a highly charged medium, delivering densely concentrated information in relatively few words and simplified code-images. I’ve just reread the books recently and I’m glad to discover that the vividness of Barefoot Gen emanates from the work itself and not simply from my fever. There are no irradiated Godzillas or super-mutants, only tragic realities. Gen deals with the trauma of the atom bomb without flinching. I will never forget the people dragging their own melted skin as they walk through the ruins of Hiroshima, the panic-stricken horse on fire galloping through the city, the maggots crawling out of the sores of a young girl’s ruined face. I’ve found myself remembering images and events from the Gen books with a clarity that made them seem like memories from my own life, rather than Nakazawa’s. Gen burned its way into my heated brain with all the intensity of a fever-dream. I had the flu at the time and read it while high on fever. The first time I read it was in the late 1970s, shortly after I’d begun working on Maus, my own extended comic-book chronicle of the twentieth century’s other central cataclysm. Barefoot Gen: Comics After the Bomb An Introduction by Art Spiegelman |