After the traumatic events of the War for Phang, Hazel, her parents, and their surviving companions embark on a life-changing adventure at the westernmost edge of the universe. Collects: Saga #43-48.
Plus, two standalone tales reveal the fates of fan-favorite characters The Will and GhĂŒs.
Despite just finishing a martial arts tournament and immediately dealing with the Monster Association invasion, Saitama still proves to be so incredibly strong that he feels empty inside. King lectures him on how to live like a hero, but it doesn't help. Meanwhile, servants of the Monster Association close in on Speed-o'-Sound Sonic!
Comics for a Strange World takes readers on a journey through time, space, and alternate realities, offering a collection of comics that hilariously skewers our modern age. This book reunites fans with favorite characters and presents even more bizarre scenarios.
Imagine a child arrested for plagiarism, a squirrel adapting to human society with a cell phoneâand a gun, and an old man reminiscing about the Internet as a network of millions of idiots creating endless terrible ideas.
In Poorly Drawn Lines, nothing is too bizarre or outlandish to be parodied, making this book a perfect gift for fans of comic books who appreciate a good laugh at the absurdities of our world.
What do you do, when you find the perfect family, and it's not yours? You Be Mother is a charming, funny and irresistible novel about families, friendship and tiny little white lies.
The only thing Abi ever wanted was a proper family. So when she falls pregnant by an Australian exchange student in London, she cannot pack up her old life in Croydon fast enough, to start all over in Sydney and make her own family. It is not until she arrives, with three-week-old Jude in tow, that Abi realises Stu is not quite ready to be a father after all. And he is the only person she knows in this hot, dazzling, confusing city, where the job of making friends is turning out to be harder than she thought.
That is, until she meets Phyllida, her wealthy, charming, imperious older neighbour, and they become almost like mother and daughter. If only Abi had not told Phil that teeny tiny small lie, the very first day they met...
Imagine the warmth of Monica McInerney, the excruciating awkwardness of Offspring and the wit of Liane Moriarty, all rolled into one delightful, warm, funny and totally endearing novel about families â the ones we have, and the ones we want â and the stories we tell ourselves about them.
In One-Punch Man, Vol. 14: The Depths of Despair, the martial arts tournament takes a dark turn when the monster Goketsu arrives with a sinister plan. Goketsu's intent is to transform the participants into monsters using monster cells, and the tournament champ Suiryu soon finds himself battling against these newly monsterized fighters.
As Suiryu confronts one monstrous opponent after another, the situation looks increasingly dire, until an unexpected hero arrives to lend assistance. This volume continues to blend intense action with comedic moments, characteristic of the One-Punch Man series.
In this humorous coming-of-age story, Bridget Flagherty, a student at St. Michaelâs Catholic school outside Boston in the 60s and 70s, takes refuge in her wacky misunderstandings of Bible Stories and Catholic beliefs to avoid the problems of her Irish/Italian family life. Her musings on sadistic nuns, domestic violence, emerging sexuality, and God the Fatherâs romantic life will delight readers.
Bridget creates glorious supernatural worldsâwith exorcisms, bird relics, Virgin Martyrs, time travel, Biblical plagues, even the âholyâ in holy waterâto cope with a family where leather handbags and even garlic can cause explosions. An avid Bible reader who innocently believes everything the nuns tell her, Bridgetâs saints, martyrs, and boney Christs become alive and audible within her. While the nuns chide her sinful âmathematical prideâ and slow eating habits, God answers her prayers instantly by day, but the devil visits nightly in the dark.
Scenes run the gamut from laugh-out-loud Catholic brainwashing of children, to heart-wrenching abuse, to riveting teenage excursions toward sex. Young Bridget tries to make sense of a world of raging men and domestically subjugated women and carve a future for herself, wrestling with how God and men treat women. Her Italian female relativesâglamorous Santa Anna, black-and-blue Aunt Maria, sophisticated Eleanor with a New York âFellini pageboyââoffer sensual alternatives to the repression of her immediate family.
She prays fervently that âdespite Godâs bizarre treatment of married women... some [girls] might still discover ways to have a great time without being a nun.â Dodging Satan is the flip-side of l'Histoire d'une Ăme by Saint ThĂ©rĂšse of Lisieux authored by a twentieth century American girl chomping on a blue-gum cigar while she talks to a confidant about God and sex.
Eleanor Oliphant estĂĄ perfectamente es una novela cĂĄlida y divertida que despierta el intelecto y nos hace reĂr. Eleanor Oliphant siempre dice lo que piensa y lucha por dejar de ser alguien con pocas habilidades sociales. Se ha preparado un calendario vital cuidadoso y estricto para evitar interacciones sociales: los fines de semana los pasa sola comiendo pizza congelada y bebiendo vodka, y todos los miĂ©rcoles habla con su madre.
Pero todo cambia cuando Eleanor conoce a Raymond, el informĂĄtico de la oficina. Juntos abandonarĂĄn la soledad en la que han estado viviendo. Esta es la historia de una heroĂna fuera de lo comĂșn, cuya inexplicable rareza e ingenio descarado la llevarĂĄ a darse cuenta de que la Ășnica manera de sobrevivir en el mundo real es abriendo su corazĂłn a la amistad.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. Exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids, for their own safety. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isnât a primary concern.
On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied âdroidâa self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module, and refers to itself (though never out loud) as âMurderbot.â Scornful of humans, all it really wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is. But when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and their Murderbot to get to the truth.
In One-Punch Man, Vol. 13: Monster Cells, the Class-A heroes are in a fierce battle against the giant monster Multieyed Octopus. As the situation intensifies, Class-S hero Flashy Flash enters the fray, adding his strength to the chaotic confrontation. Meanwhile, the Monster Association escalates its onslaught, but their ultimate objective remains shrouded in secrecy.
Amidst the action, the martial arts tournament advances to the semifinals, promising to showcase the prowess and skills of the remaining fighters.
The Idiot, a novel by Elif Batuman, is a portrait of the artist as a young woman, exploring the themes of self-discovery and inventing oneself. Set in the year 1995, when email was a new phenomenon, we follow Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, as she begins her freshman year at Harvard. Without any preconceived plans, she enrolls in classes on unfamiliar subjects, forges a friendship with the charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate Svetlana, and, almost by chance, starts corresponding with Ivan, a Hungarian mathematics student.
Despite their limited face-to-face interactions, Selin and Ivan develop a complex relationship through their email exchanges, with each message adding new and mysterious layers to the act of writing. As the school year concludes, Ivan departs for Budapest, and Selin embarks on a teaching assignment in the Hungarian countryside, a position arranged by one of Ivan's friends. Her journey also includes a two-week sojourn in Paris with Svetlana.
Unlike the typical narratives of American college students abroad, Selin's experiences in Europe lead her on an introspective journey. She confronts the bewildering and exhilarating turmoil of first love and comes to an important realization: she is destined to become a writer. The Idiot is a candid reflection on the complexities of becoming an adult, filled with exquisite emotional and intellectual sensitivity, mordant wit, and a writing style that captures the unpredictable nature of memory itself.
Marten Reed is your typical downtrodden twenty-something, facing the grim prospect of a dreary, unfulfilling life his college education left him ill-prepared to handle. But with the help of his little robot friend Pintsize and a mysterious girl named Faye, his life is about to get a lot more interesting ... sort of.