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Town marshal Elias Faust thinks that he can make any problem go away if he throws enough lead at it. The living’s easy for a lawman. Bloody, but easy - that is, until Magnate Gregdon arrives with his undead syndicate to tear the town of Blackpeak, Texas apart. When a shootout with a pair of outlaws goes sideways, Elias Faust accidentally draws the Magnate’s attention. As if dealing with arcane sorcery, reanimated corpses, and the Magnate’s personal vendetta aren’t enough, Faust finds himself at the center of a power-struggle for Blackpeak’s eldritch secrets.

Svantje ist elf Jahre alt und mit ihrer allein erziehenden Mutter neu in die Wohnsiedlung Brookstraße in Frechen eingezogen. Das Mädchen ist sehr still, zurückhaltend und spricht mit niemandem. Eines Tages, während Svantje allein auf einer Bank am Spielplatz sitzt, nähert sich ihr ein zwölfjähriger Junge, der sich ihr als Daryl vorstellt.

Before the foundation of the Now (the realm of existence for us biological life) Gaia formed titans to assist in the creation of the physical world. is the story of the titans before the human race based on Hesiod and other early Greek myths. How did Cronus take power from his father and lose it to his son? How did Zeus become the supreme Olympian? Why so many wives? What role does Eros play? The lusty experimental animated musical comedy drama will be captured in albums, videos, graphic novels, and audiobooks.

Three years after the Revolution, Tehran looks like a boneyard. Shahed has returned from California to his homeland to face the ghost of his father, to find out who betrayed him as a child, to recover something that might make him feel alive. Witnessing the brutalities of militant fundamentalists, he wishes his exuberant hustler of a father were alive again to kick the mullahs and their vicious crusade out of Iran. Shahed conjures up his life as a twelve-year-old, superimposing on the grim streets the bizarre exploits of his lusty father and his crazy cohorts in the days of the Shah.