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Office at Night
by Kate Bernheimer Laird HuntEdward Hopper's painting "Office at Night" is open to endless interpretation. In this collaborative novella, Kate Bernheimer and Laird Hunt borrow from his practice of improvising on "the facts" of observation to create a work of art, imagining the lives of its characters: stenographer Marge Quinn and her boss, the sometimes painter Abraham Chelikowsky.
Office of Shadow (Midwinter)
by Matthew SturgesMidwinter has been replaced by a Cold War in the world of Faerie, and this new kind of war requires a new kind of warrior. Queen Titania reconstitutes a secret division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, dubbed the "Office of Shadow," imbuing it with powers and discretion once considered unthinkable.
Officer-Cadet (Dirigent Mercenary Corps #1)
by Rick ShelleyA military academy reject seeks to prove himself among the ranks of mercenaries in this classic military science fiction action series opener.The year is 2804 AD. Humanity has colonized the universe. But the authority of the Confederation of Human Worlds is spread thin. Where the Army of planet Earth cannot reach, mercenaries must keep the peace—and the Dirigent Mercenary Corps are the best of the best.Lon Nolan wasn’t supposed to be serving with the DMC. He’d earned his place at the elite North American Military Academy, and he’d excelled there. But when he’s kicked out of the Academy on trumped-up charges, he’s left with no choice: join the DMC or go home.So join he does, going from top of his class to bottom rung in the DMC. To become an officer, he’ll have to survive his first taste of combat with his new army, and if he fails, he won’t lose just his honor, but his life . . . The Dirigent Mercenary Corps books are classics of military science fiction. Rick Shelley was himself a veteran of the U.S. Army, and his experience and knowledge shine through on every page.
Offspring: A Thriller
by Liam JacksonSam Connor has always had a unique relationship with his guardian angel. But his uncanny sense of perception has been in overdrive as of late, and for good reason---he's being followed by a man he knows is trying to kill him. And that's not all Sam senses. Abductions and grisly attacks are blanketing America in what seems to be a calculated and epic crime wave. And while Sam can't explain it, he knows that somehow he's supposed to do something about it. Deeply rooted in both contemporary and nonconventional religious history and doctrine, Offspring's world is one like ours---but it's populated by guardian and fallen angels, malevolent demonic entities, and vile human thralls. Only high school aged--Sam and the other Offspring of angels and men have the ability and power to close the veil through which mankind's vicious enemies are coming. But will they understand their inheritance in time? Sam's fate and the world's---and the gathering traction of the Fallen Angels---is in his hands. And to make matters worse for Sam and his growing band of brothers, a pact now exists between the Fallen and their allies: Destroy the Offspring. As Sam and three other Offspring are inexplicably drawn to a small Tennessee town, they find themselves hunted by these ancient, near-omnipotent, and lethal enemies. Jackson's heart-pounding debut supernatural thriller blows to its climactic conclusion when the Offspring must understand their unique inheritance and control their surprising strengths before it's too late.
Ogopogo Odyssey
by Maggie Parr D. A HawesThis enchanting story will delight any child who loves to believe. While visiting his grandparents’ vineyard in the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada, Colin has a chance meeting with the famous lake creature known as the Ogopogo. This is a summer adventure he will never forget!
Ogre Enchanted
by Gail Carson LevineSet in the world of the Newbery Honor-winning Ella Enchanted, this tale by beloved author Gail Carson Levine stars a clever heroine who is determined to defy expectations—and outwit a fairy’s curse.Evie is happiest when she is healing people, diagnosing symptoms and prescribing medications, with the help of her devoted friend (and test subject) Wormy. So when Wormy unexpectedly proposes to her, she kindly turns him down; she has far too much to do to be marrying anyone. And besides, she simply isn’t in love with him. But a certain meddling fairy named Lucinda has been listening in, and she doesn’t approve of Evie’s rejection. Suddenly, Evie finds herself transformed from a girl into a hideous, hungry ogre! Stuck in this new and confusing form, Evie now has only sixty-two days to accept another proposal—or else be stuck as an ogre forever.
Ogre, Ogre: The Autobiography Of Piers Anthony To Age 50 (Xanth #5)
by Piers AnthonySmash, himself, was part ogre. Although ogres were considered so stupid they coud hardly speak, and spent their time eating young girls, seven assorted females had suddenly turned to him for guidance and saftety? In Xanth, one visit to the Good Magician Humfrey worked wonders....From the Paperback edition.
Ogres of Ohio (American Chillers #2)
by Jonathan RandI almost didn't hear my dad ask the question. I was looking out the rain-streaked car window, staring up at the big, two-story house that was now our home. "It's ...it's huge," I replied, trying not to sound nervous. But I was. I was really nervous. There was something about the house that was just... Creepy.
Ogú y Mampato en la ciudad azteca
by Themo Lobos¡Hola, soy Mampato! Un niño con una suerte tremenda: puedo viajar al pasado o al futuro cuando yo lo desee. Y Ogú, mi gran amigo cavernícola, siempre me acompaña en mis aventuras. Esta vez los invitó al siglo XVI, al antiguo México, para encontrarnos con sus originales habitantes: los aztecas. Allí conoceremos su gran ciudad flotante ?Tenochtitlán? y nos enteraremos del verdadero misterio de su calendario: ¿realmente se avecina el fin del mundo? ¡Los espero!
Oh God, The Sun Goes
by David Connor"A highly original and engagingly odd book." - Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World"...wondrous...mysterious...Connor lands plenty of stimulating riffs on themes of memory, love, and loss, all in lyrical prose and suffused with surreal imagery." - Publishers WeeklyAn "indescribable marvel" (Jonathan Lethem) of a debut novel from a brilliant new voiceThe sun has disappeared from the sky. No one can explain where it has gone, but one wayward traveler is determined to try. As our unnamed narrator begins his odyssey across the parched landscapes of the American Southwest, he is drawn into a web of illusion and mystery, a shifting astral mindscape that shimmers with the aftermath of loss—and the promise of redemption.Oh God, the Sun Goes is a hallucinatory and deadpan picaresque that suddenly swerves into a love story of soaring poignance. Truly &“the stuff that dreams are made of&” – or maybe nightmares?Apocalyptic, mesmerizing, and utterly unique, Oh God, the Sun Goes introduces readers to a young and keenly inventive mind.4 one of a kind illustrations within and on the outside a cool holographic foil stamp cover.
Oh My Goddess! Volume 1 (Oh My Goddess!)
by Kosuke FujishimaAlone in his dorm on a Saturday night, Nekomi Tech's Keiichi Morisato dials a wrong number that will change his life forever — reaching the Goddess Technical Help Line. Granted one wish by the charming young goddess Belldandy — a wish for anything in the world — Keiichi wishes she would stay with him always! Complications are bound to ensue from this; the immediate first being the new couple getting tossed out of the dorm — it's males only!As the hapless student and his mysterious "foreign beauty" ride around looking for a new place to stay — risking the different dangers of seeking shelter with an otaku convinced Belldandy is an imaginary woman, and a Zen priest convinced she's a sinister witch — Keiichi's still got his classes on Monday morning! How is his new "exchange student" companion going to be received on the N.I.T. campus? A little too well for normal life to ever return…
Oh My Goddess! Volume 10
by Kosuke FujishimaIt'll be one, two, three strikes you're out for the N.I.T. Softball Club if Keiichi can't help his sister win against their campus rivals-but with the Goddesses stepping up to bat, it's not going to be the old ball game! Then, it's an unrelaxing hot springs vacation when Mara returns to challenge Urd to the most feared battle imaginable-karaoke! Plus four pages of color, ten Mini-Goddess strips, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your fan art and letters!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 11
by Kosuke FujishimaIf three goddesses are good, surely four must be better? Not for Keiichi, whose strange power to attract divine trouble has just dialed "P" for Peorth — Belldandy's rival in the helping-humans-out-by-phone biz. But Peorth wonders why Belldandy's still hanging around Keiichi if she's really fulfilled his wishes, and is determined to provide him better "service" — no matter how fast he tries to run! Plus six pages of twelve, color Mini-Goddess strips, a message from creator Kosuke Fujishima, and your fan art and letters!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 12
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions! Maybe you think Peorth couldn't cause any more trouble — well, think again! Determined to provide Keiichi "better service" than Belldandy, she's dragging him out on a date . . . having studied human mating customs through shojo manga! But what is the secret slight from long ago that truly drives Peorth's efforts against her rival?
Oh My Goddess! Volume 13
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Learning to ride a bicycle is a little like encountering first love — a lot of panicked flailing and falling down! Skuld, who's suddenly doing both of those things at once, can't understand why her dear sister Belldandy, who's always there to help, wants her to work this out on her own. But of course, Belldandy knows a wisdom Skuld needs to learn...
Oh My Goddess! Volume 14
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Get a job! That's what you hope a college education can do for you — but when Keiichi applies to put his knowledge to work in a custom-bike shop, he finds it's not going to be as easy to graduate college as he thought! And it could be that no one's leaving Nekomi Tech ever again, when it falls under the mind-bending influence of two of the most sinister forces known to man — Mara's magic and Sayoko's ego!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 15
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!The battle to control the minds of every student at Nekomi Tech comes to its showdown, as the power behind Queen Sayoko's throne is revealed at last! Then it's back to good old-fashioned campus rivalries, as Megumi squares off against a different kind of royalty... the one who rules the road on the Inokuradai Pass!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 16
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!After epic mishaps such as Belldandy and Keiichi's hands becoming unable to part, or Skuld's robot Banpei falling in love, what harm could the arrival of a cute young boy at the temple do to its residents? They say when disaster strikes, time seems to slow down... the problem is, it's slowing down for everybody — for real!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 17
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandyinto college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turnedupside down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Peorthreturns to Earth to try to reverse the slowdown of universal time at its source the demon boy whose mysterious obsession with a goddess is literallybringing the world to a halt! What is the secret of his link with Belldandy a link Belldandy is not allowed to remember?
Oh My Goddess! Volume 18
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought the literal young goddess Belldandy into college student Keiichi’s residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!Who would have ever thought one of Skuld's inventions could go wrong? Er...don't answer that, but her tinkering with the time-space continuum has left Belldandy and Keiichi trapped inside their own living room — because it's now infinitely big! And, uncanny events await them outside as well, as a ghost haunts the mountain pass between the two campuses of N.I.T., causing Bell and K1 to do a night ride in tandem to solve the mystery!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 19
by Kosuke FujishimaCollege life is never easy . . . all right, sometimes it is, but never at Nekomi Tech! No sooner do Keiichi and Belldandy solve the mystery of the Phantom Racer, then they get entangled in the schemes of Professor Morozumi. Better known on campus as "Dr. Moreau" for his obsession with making machines walk on two legs, this mad scientist will stop at nothing to pursue his dream . . . including kidnapping Banpei''s "girlfriend," the Welcome Robot!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 2 (Oh My Goddess!)
by Kosuke FujishimaNow that Keiichi and the goddess in his life are the hot item on campus, they find themselves constantly putting out fires! First, to raise money for the N.I.T. Motor Club, they get roped into posing nude together for a life drawing class — even though, as Keiichi's sister correctly guesses, they haven't even kissed yet! Then his "buddies" in the club stake Bell-chan as the wager in a funnybike race — but Keiichi has trouble seeing the humor when it starts coming apart at high speed! After all this, Keiichi just wants to relax and watch some home videos… except this video introduces (literally) a second goddess into his life — Belldandy's "sophisticated" older sister, Urd!
Oh My Goddess! Volume 20
by Kosuke FujishimaSora Hasegawa faces off against Keiichi in a crazy go-kart race through campus to settle who will lead the Motor Club. Keiichi has the experience... but Hasegawa is being trained by Belldandy! No more gap on your bookshelf, Oh My Goddess! fans — Volume 20 completes the run of "classic" OMG! series, previously released flopped, now all reissued in Japanese reading order.
Oh My Goddess! Volume 21
by Kosuke FujishimaPeorth is back! But not back to normal. The appearance of her adorable child form receiving sensitive guffaws and considerate mocking from certain of the less mature goddesses in the household has returned, but having a new little kid around for Belldandy to try and dress is certainly cute, the sawn-off Fourth Goddess is not amused — especially when she realizes Velsper, the demon who put her into this short situation, is now himself a tiny black kitten who can't change Peorth back — no matter how much she shakes and throttles him! But Velsper does know someone who could…whispering to her the dread name of…Hild! Yes, Hild! Chief of the demon realm! Big shot of the regions below! Why is it no surprise Urd's known her since she was a little girl? In fa-a-a-ct…
Oh My Goddess! Volume 22
by Kosuke FujishimaEver since a cosmic phone call brought Belldandy, Urd, and Skuld-a trio of literal young goddesses-to live in college student Keiichi's residence, his personal life has been turned upside-down, sideways, and sometimes even into strange dimensions!After her demonic mother Hild lays down the condition for changing Peorth back to normal, Urd tells Mom that she can go back to Hell, but Urd sure isn't coming along. Hild's counter-offer promises to combine the magic-circle powers of herself, Belldandy, Skuld, and Urd to restore Peorth, in exchange for a promise from Urd to ...well, she'll tell Urd after the ritual!