From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes the final blockbuster chapter of Blood Blockade Battlefront, a titanic typhoon of science-fantasy madness! In Hellsalem's Lot--the former New York City--the agents of Libra fight to preserve balance in the mystical collision of two worlds. Libra agent Leo has the all-seeing "eyes of the gods," and a mysterious scientist who wants to make him a research lab rat threatens Libra and Leo's blind sister to get compliance. But you don't bully a Libra without expecting his comrades to deal out some heavy-duty damage!
From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes Blood Blockade Battlefront, a megaton manga blast of science-fiction insanity! An escaped Blood Breed brings Libra operative Zap Renfro's former master to New Jerusalem, and Zap must prove his skills to avoid being dragged back to the harsh training grounds of his school. And can Zap find a way to imprison the Blood Breed before it wreaks untold havoc?
"The agents of Libra need funding for their fight to preserve order in Hellsalem's Lot. A wealthy sheik invites Libra to dine on the exotic fusion cuisine of Earth and the Beyond, but impending danger could spell Libras doom--if the food doesn't kill them first!"--
In a world haunted by dangerous supernatural forces, there are still some problems you can't solve no matter how much spiritual power you have. And a good thing too—because phony exorcist Reigen Arataka doesn't have any! But that's never stopped Reigen from running a ghostbusting business...and his new part-time office assistant is none other than Tome Kurata, a girl obsessed with the strange and unexplained—and the schoolmate of Reigen's protégé, Shigeo "Mob" Kageyama. Yet whereas Mob's incredible psychic strength resolved many a case for Reigen, Tome is as powerless as her boss! Or so she may think at first...but if there's one thing a master scam artist knows how to teach, it's the power of confidence and belief!
From Yasuhiro Nightow, creator of the international sensation Trigun, comes the final blockbuster chapter of Blood Blockade Battlefront, a titanic typhoon of science-fantasy madness! In Hellsalem's Lot--the former New York City--the agents of Libra fight to preserve balance in the mystical collision of two worlds. Libra agent Leo has the all-seeing "eyes of the gods," and a mysterious scientist who wants to make him a research lab rat threatens Libra and Leo's blind sister to get compliance. But you don't bully a Libra without expecting his comrades to deal out some heavy-duty damage!
Trigun is back with a heavily armed posse of talented gunslingers! An anthology of Trigun tales, Multiple Bullets features the hard-to-find story Badlands Rumble' by Trigun creator Yasuhiro Nightow (available previously only with the limited-edition Trigun: Badlands Rumble DVD) plus original Trigun stories from top creators Boichi Yusuke Takeyama, Satoshi Mizukami (, Kenji Mitsuyoshi and Koichi Ishikawa's studio Ark Performance ,Akira Sagami, humor cartoonist Yuga Takauchi, and Masakazu Ishiguro.'
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker must stem the tide of the raging Clone Wars and forge a new bond as Jedi Knights in a high-stakes adventure set just after the events of Star Wars: Attack of the Clones. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: USA Today The Clone Wars have begun. Battle lines are being drawn throughout the galaxy. With every world that joins the Separatists, the peace guarded by the Jedi Order is slipping through their fingers. After an explosion devastates Cato Neimoidia, the jewel of the Trade Federation, the Republic is blamed and the fragile neutrality of the planet is threatened. The Jedi dispatch Obi-Wan Kenobi, one of the Order’s most gifted diplomatic minds, to investigate the crime and maintain the balance that has begun to dangerously shift. As Obi-Wan investigates with the help of a heroic Neimoidian guard, he finds himself working against the Separatists who hope to draw the planet into their conspiracy—and senses the sinister hand of Asajj Ventress in the mists that cloak the planet. Amid the brewing chaos, Anakin Skywalker rises to the rank of Jedi Knight. Despite the mandate that Obi-Wan travel alone—and his former master’s insistence that he listen this time—Anakin’s headstrong determination means nothing can stop him from crashing the party, and bringing along a promising but conflicted youngling. Once a Padawan to Obi-Wan, Anakin now finds himself on equal—but uncertain—footing with the man who raised him. The lingering friction between them increases the danger for everyone around them. The two knights must learn a new way to work together—and they must learn quickly, to save Cato Neimoidia and its people from the fires of war. To overcome the threat they face they must grow beyond master and apprentice. They must stand together as brothers.
American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
In the interdimensional maelstrom of New Jerusalem — what New York used to be before it went to hell, literally! — the agents of Libra quietly keep the lid on the paranormal pressure cooker. When agent Klaus Reinhertz tracks the source of the super-drug Angel Scale, he is drawn into a deadly game with a mob boss from Beyond: win, and have your dreams come true; lose and have your mind absorbed by the alien godfather!
