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"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...
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"Seventeen-year-old RJ always gets what she wants. So when her soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the afterlife better figure out a way to send her back from the dead or heads will roll"--
When RJ's soul is accidentally collected by a distracted Grim Reaper, somebody in the afterlife better figure out a way to send her back from the dead or heads will roll! When she becomes a pawn in a power struggle between an...
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In her fourth book, Lillian Moats constructs an astonishing appraisal of humanity through the eyes of Death itself. As an insightful, philosophical and witty narrator, Death takes a tour through the follies of human past, present and future to approach seemingly complex matters with startling directness. Full of intelligent humour and deep insights, this book will engage and enlighten as it offers new perspectives on religion, militarism and the contradictions...
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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...
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"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...
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"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...
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Incarnations of immortality volume 1
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Zane belongs to a world in which the scientific revolution has been followed by the revolution of magic, and he is thrust into the role of Death.
10) Dead reign
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Marla Mason books volume 3
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"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...
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"Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn't met Death in person - a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death's scribe, and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and...
12) Rozterki śmierci
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"Znienawidzona przez ludzkość, sfrustrowana śmierć postanawia porzucić swoje zajęcie. To zaskakujące wydarzenie początkowo wydaje się błogosławieństwem, by później odsłonić skomplikowane zależności pomiędzy Kościołem, Państwem i zwykłym codziennym życiem. Wychodząc od nieprawdopodobnego zdarzenia, autor podąża naprzód, prowadząc czytelnika za rękę w rozważaniach o życiu, śmierci, miłości, sensie - lub jego braku...
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On the first day of the new year, no one dies -- causing celebration among the general public and consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians and doctors. Then reality hits home as families are left to care for the permanently dying. Death sits in her chilly apartment and contemplates her experiment: What if no one ever died again? What if she, death with a small d, were to become human and fall in love?
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"Forced to witness his family's brutal murder, a man is left with an obsession to walk as the sole means to suppress recurring visions that will consume his sanity. On a two-lane Pennsylvania highway, Miller puts one foot in front of the other until his clothes go ragged and his shoes fall away. He is joined by a peculiar drifter whose mission becomes apparent in passing miles. Everything and everyone the man touches dies, making him either executioner...
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"On her twentieth birthday, Lynnie Russell--just a little ol' thing from down in Havana, Arkansas--falls in love under a full silver moon. Waking up the next morning naked and caked in blood, Lynnie is faced with a horrifying truth. She's death incarnate. In a race to unearth what she's become, Lynnie must hide her beastly thing from those she loves most. If only to keep them alive. When an unexpected ally offers help, how can she refuse?"--Back cover....
16) Unclay
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"First published in 1931, the spellbinding novel Unclay glows with an unworldly light. Death has come to the small village of Dodder to deliver a parchment with the names of two local mortals and the fatal word unclay upon it. When he loses the precious sheet, he is at a loss, and also free of his errand. Hungry to taste the sweet fruits of human life, Mr. John Death, as he is now known, takes a holiday in Dorsetshire and rests from his reaping. The...
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An omnibus of Kouhei Kadono's first three novels that started the hit franchise-a modern classic that sparked the light novel craze in Japan! There is an urban legend about an Angel of Death that puts those in pain out of their misery. This "shinigami" has a name--Boogiepop. When female students start disappearing from Shinyo Academy, everyone assumes the girls have run away, but Kirima Nagi knows something sinister is afoot. Something that might...
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