Books like 'Fallen Angel Omnibus, Volume 0'
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Saint Peter Takes a Holiday, or It’s About Time by Mark Cain
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when Heaven’s hardest working saint is forced to take a vacation?In SAINT PETER TAKES A HOLIDAY, OR IT’S ABOUT TIME, a reluctant Simon Peter heads for Aruba and a week in the sun. There, he encounters danger, romance, intrigue … and of course comedy. Magic, miracles, sunbathing and golf, they all happen in this tropical adventure... -
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Wordsmith by Nick Spalding
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe fast-paced fantasy sequel to Max Bloom In... The Cornerstone, by the best-selling author of the smash hit romantic comedy Love... From Both Sides and its sequels Love... And Sleepless Nights & Love... Under Different Skies.From the pages of the past, a new threat to Max Bloom rises in The Chapter Lands.. -
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New Teeth by Simon Rich
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLaugh till you cry in this new collection of stories from the award-winning “Serena Williams of humor writing” (New York Times Book Review) about raising babies and trying not to be one. Called a “comedic Godsend” by Conan O’Brien and “the Stephen King of comedy writing” by John Mulaney, Simon Rich is back with New Teeth, his funniest and most personal collection yet... -
![Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett]()
Maskerade: The Play by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsA play based on terry pratchett's novel maskerade.All is not well in Ankh-Morpork Opera House. A ghost stalks the corridors, leaving strange letters for the management and killing people. Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, two Lancre witches, investigate. This is an adaptation of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, "Maskerade"... -
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![Mythfits by Heide Goody, Iain Grant]()
Mythfits by Heide Goody, Iain Grant
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHAT are the dangers of getting directions from a fairy tale frog? WHERE do archangels go to kick back and relax? HOW can a garden gnome mend a broken heart? WHO is the last person you’d expect to visit you at Christmas? WHY shouldn’t you let Satan organise your funeral? Find out the answers to these and other pressing questions in this collection of short stories from the authors of the... -
![Der Hüter der Elixiere by Sam Feuerbach]()
Der Hüter der Elixiere by Sam Feuerbach
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDer Abschluss der Abenteuer des Alchemisten Kronarius Dolasar. So hatte der Bund der Vier sich die Rückkehr vom königlichen Hof nicht vorgestellt. Ein tödlicher Unfall im Hafen bringt Jaldur in arge Bedrängnis und ein Geschenk des Königs verkehrt sich für Mirianne und Brejo zu einer unerwarteten Bedrohung... -
![We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser, Olivier Culmann]()
We Others: New and Selected Stories by Steven Millhauser, Olivier Culmann
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Every reader knows of writers who are like secrets one wants to keep, and whose books one wants to tell the world about. Millhauser is mine.”—David Rollow, Boston Sunday GlobeFrom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author: the essential stories across three decades that showcase his indomitable imagination... -
![The Second Tom Holt Omnibus: My Hero - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt]()
The Second Tom Holt Omnibus: My Hero - Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTwo fantastic comic fantasies - MY HERO and WHO'S AFRAID OF BEOWULF? - reissued with brilliant new cover style.This omnibus brings together two of Tom Holt's best-loved stories. In My Hero, Jane thinks writing novels is a piece of cake. Until hers starts writing back. At which point, she really should stop. The one thing she should not do is go into the book herself... -
![Mr. Good by Adam Hargreaves, Roger Hargreaves]()
Mr. Good by Adam Hargreaves, Roger Hargreaves
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMr. Good is one of 85 much loved Mr. Men and Little Miss characters... -
![The Bizarro Starter Kit (Orange) by Carlton Mellick III, Andre Duza]()
The Bizarro Starter Kit (Orange) by Carlton Mellick III, Andre Duza
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now... -
![Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell]()
Novels, 1930-1942: Dance Night / Come Back to Sorrento / Turn, Magic Wheel / Angels on Toast / A Time to Be Born by Dawn Powell
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor decades after her death, Dawn Powell's work was out of print, cherished by a small band of admirers. Only recently has there been renewed awareness of the novelist who was such a vital presence in literary Greenwich Village from the 1920s to the 1960s. With these two volumes, The Library of America presents the best of Powell's quirky, often hilarious, sometimes deeply moving fiction... -
![The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Evan Weiss]()
The Roaches Have No King by Daniel Evan Weiss
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen Ira Fishblatt's girlfriend, Ruth Grubstein, moves into his appartment, he cleans up his act and his kitchen much to the repulsion of the hoards of cockroaches who also inhabit his flat. This grubby army who, up until now, had happily existed on the food debris littering his flat, now face a harsh future: eviction or death from starvation... -
![Mostly Hero by Anna Burns]()
Mostly Hero by Anna Burns
Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFemme is under a magic spell to kill her lover, Hero. Hero is on a mission to discover if Femme’s Great Aunt - the old lady who lives alone in a skyscraper - is his own disreputable grandmother. Master villain Great Aunt needs to know whether or not her favourite niece, Femme, is in love with her arch-enemy, Hero... -
![Talking Animals by Joni Murphy]()
Talking Animals by Joni Murphy
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA fable for our times, Joni Murphy's Talking Animals takes place in an all-animal world where creatures rather like us are forced to deal with an all-too-familiar landscape of soul-crushing jobs, polluted oceans, and a creeping sense of doom.It's New York City, nowish. Lemurs brew espresso. Birds tend bar. There are bears on Wall Street, and a billionaire racehorse is mayor... -
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![Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies by Craig Shaw Gardner]()
Revenge of the Fluffy Bunnies by Craig Shaw Gardner
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA terrible change has come to the Cineverse. In all its many movie worlds, bad guys win, good guys perish, and boy doesn't even get girl. Only Captain Crusader (until recently plain old Roger Gordon) can put things right-but the Captain has problems of his own... -
![The Woad to Wuin by Peter David]()
The Woad to Wuin by Peter David
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe return of Sir Apropos of Nothing!"This sequel to the wildly successful Sir Apropos of Nothing starts off with a bawdy send-up of Lord of the Rings, but quickly segues into its own territory with the appearance of a mysterious Visionary at Apropos's bar, Bugger Hall... -
![Scharnow by Bela B. Felsenheimer]()
Scharnow by Bela B. Felsenheimer
Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn Scharnow, einem Dorf nördlich von Berlin, ist der Hund begraben. Scheinbar. Tatsächlich wird hier gerade die Welt Schützen liegen auf der Lauer, um die Agenten einer Universalmacht zu vernichten, mordlustige Bücher richten blutige Verheerung an, und mittendrin hat ein Pakt der Glücklichen plötzlich kein Bier mehr... -
![The Warlock Rock by Christopher Stasheff]()
The Warlock Rock by Christopher Stasheff
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsStrange musical crystals are captivating the people of Gramarye, young and old alike. But something doesn't seem quite right. The Warlock must find out what the crystals are and where they come from--before they steal his children's souls... -
![The Quorum by Kim Newman]()
The Quorum by Kim Newman
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvil butts heads with a brick wall when there is the realization that there are fates worse than death. Supernatural horror and social satire mix in this dazzling relocation of the Faust myth to contemporary London, where Derek Leech's diabolical 30-year plan moves towards the ultimate struggle... -
![Game Night by Jonny Nexus]()
Game Night by Jonny Nexus
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe gods don't play dice with the universe... unless it's game night. A twelve-thousand-year quest is about to be completed, prophecies will be fulfilled, ancient riddles answered, legendary evils bested, and the nature of the universe revealed. All that's needed is a band of mighty heroes to do the completing... -
![The Last Bookstore in America by Amy Stewart]()
The Last Bookstore in America by Amy Stewart
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA comic novella about the future of books and bookstores by New York Times bestselling author Amy Stewart.Nothing is what it seems in the offbeat and out-of-the-way town of Eureka, California. Shrouded in fog and hidden behind a curtain of redwoods, this rundown mill town is home to a peculiar cast of characters, a unique homegrown horticultural industry, and one of the last bookstores in America... -
![The Gropes by Tom Sharpe]()
The Gropes by Tom Sharpe
Rated: 3.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt is one of the more surprising facts about Old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. The Gropes of Grope Hall are one such family....A brilliantly funny novel about what happens when the women take charge... -
![These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories by Jim Knipfel]()
These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales: Stories by Jim Knipfel
Rated: 2.97 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the irresistibly droll mind of Jim Knipfel comes These Children Who Come at You with Knives, and Other Fairy Tales, a series of twisted fables that echo with pinpoint acuity... -
![Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse by Michael Gerber]()
Barry Trotter and the Dead Horse by Michael Gerber
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBarry Trotter is pretty disreputable and unpleasant. Imagine what he was like as a teenager. (Their homwork, that is.) How exactly did Lon end up with a hole in his head that whistles when the wind blows? Was Lord Valumart always that crass? And where did that ridiculous German accent come from? is also as affectionate towards JK Rowling's originals... -
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![Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins]()
Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography by Rob Wilkins
Rated: 4.69 of 5 stars · 16 ratings'People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around.'Terry Pratchett, creator of the phenomenally bestselling Discworld series, knight of the realm, and holder of more honorary doctorates than he knew what to do with, was known and loved around the world for his wildly popular books, his brilliant satirical humor, and for the humanity of his campaign work... -
![My Hero Academia, Vol. 27 by Kohei Horikoshi, 堀越耕平]()
My Hero Academia, Vol. 27 by Kohei Horikoshi, 堀越耕平
Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsWhat would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called “Quirks”? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?The confrontation between the heroes and the... -
![One-Punch Man, Vol. 2 by ONE, 村田雄介]()
One-Punch Man, Vol. 2 by ONE, 村田雄介
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA manga series that packs quite the punch!Nothing about Saitama passes the eyeball test when it comes to superheroes, from his lifeless expression to his bald head to his unimpressive physique... -
![Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations by Dav Pilkey]()
Cat Kid Comic Club: Collaborations by Dav Pilkey
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe fourth graphic novel in the worldwide bestselling series by Dav Pilkey, the author and illustrator of Dog Man!Naomi, Melvin, Flippy, Li'l Petey, Molly, and nineteen baby frog siblings return in a new book in the hilarious and heartwarming Cat Kid Comic Club series... -
![My Hero Academia: School Briefs, Vol. 1: Parents' Day by Anri Yoshi]()
My Hero Academia: School Briefs, Vol. 1: Parents' Day by Anri Yoshi
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe U.A. High School Hero Course teaches young hopefuls everything they need to become heroes... -
![The Daily Duties of a Knight by Yu Wo]()
The Daily Duties of a Knight by Yu Wo
Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI am a knight. To be precise, I am the Church of the God of Light’s Sun Knight.The Church of the God of Light worships and serves the God of Light, and theirs is one of the three largest religions on this continent.As the whole continent knows, the Church of the God of Light has the Twelve Holy Knights, and each one has his own unique personality and features...
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