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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 5

  The Stuff of Dreams

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  In a world where even the smallest and most remote village is being terrorized by the monsters that stalk the night, there is a hamlet, prosperous and peaceful, where mortals and vampires have lived in harmony for years. It is there that 17-year-old Sheavil Schmidt has slept, neither waking nor aging, for 30 years since first receiving the vampire's immortal kiss. The mysterious Vampire Hunter D is lured to the... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 4

  Tale of the Dead Town

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi

  When a floating city becomes the target of a rash of vampire attacks, only one man can restore the oasis. "The City," a tiny metropolis of a few hundred sheltered citizens floating serenely on a seemingly random course a few feet above the ground, has long been thought safe from the predation of marauding monsters. It seemed like a paradise. A paradise shattered when an invasion of apparent vampires threatens the... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 6

  Pilgrimage of the Sacred and the Profane

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  Granny Viper is a "people finder," a searcher for lost souls along the roads of a forbidding wasteland. Her latest mission: the safe return of a young woman named Tae, kidnapped eight years ago by vampire Nobility and held in Castle Gradinia on the Frontier's far border. But rescuing Tae is only half the battle - Viper knows she and the girl can't cross the formidable expanse to the town of Barnabas alone. After... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 1

  Vampire Hunter D

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi

  It's the year 12090, a dark time for the world. After being dominated for 300 years by a race of Vampires known as "the Nobility," humanity is beginning to fight back. Yet as the humans struggle against the Vampires, they also struggle against themselves - cities lie in ruin, and nations are fragmented into small villages and fiefdoms. Every village must have a Hunter, a warrior that eradicates the Nobility and... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 3

  Demon Deathchase

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi

  The vampire hunter known only as D has been hired by a wealthy, dying man to find his daughter, who was kidnapped by the powerful vampire Lord Meierlink. Though humans speak well of Meierlink, the price on his head is too high for D to ignore and he sets out to save her before she can be turned into an undead creature of the night. In the nightmare world of 12090 A.D., finding Meierlink before he reaches the... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 2

  Raiser of Gales

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi

  It is the year 12090 A.D. On the frontier, the village of Tepes lies in the shadow of an abandoned vampire castle. A decade ago four children went missing, only for three to return with no memories of what had occurred. Now ten years later, with vampiric attacks in the village and victims that won't stay dead even in daylight, the villagers turn to the vampire hunter known only as D to unravel the mystery and... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 7

  Mysterious Journey to the North Sea

  Part One

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  Even a reluctant hero can't refuse the last request of a beautiful woman. On her deathbed, the mortally wounded woman gives him a strange gem and asks him to deliver the priceless stone to her sister, far off in a North Sea fishing village. D's journey is made ever more perilous by a series of scoundrels and rogues hired by the girl's murderer. They'll stop at nothing to claim the jewel. Will they catch him?... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 9

  The Rose Princess

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  In Sakuri, a young woman is about to be sacrificed to the vampiric Noblewoman who reigns over the village. But before the princess can drain the life from the woman, a young man tries to slay the vampire. He fails and manages to escape, but in doing so incurs the wrath of the entire town. The citizens of Sakuri have entered into a pact with the Undead princess and her monstrous bodyguards. With the ritual offering... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 10

  Dark Nocturne

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  In the title story, "Dark Nocturne," D is hired to unlock the secret of a siren's song that is drawing men in their twenties to their deaths in the hills outside Anise Village. In "Notes on Imagined Autumn" D finds himself caught between two lovers during a ritualistic sacrifice in the village of Shirley's Door, but if D can't stop the sacrifice will all in the village be doomed? And in "Legend of the War Demons"... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 8

  Mysterious Journey to the North Sea

  Part Two

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi

  Vampire lore dictates that the creatures of the night shun the sea... or do they? The picturesque coastal town of Florence was known for millennia as a pleasure resort for the Nobility. As retribution for their decadence, the cruel and beautiful vampire inhabitants were "punished," driven out more than a thousand years ago by a solitary traveler in black. Only one - Baron Meinster - refused to leave, only to be... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 14

  Dark Road

  Parts One and Two

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  D has crossed over the southern border, into the domain of the cruelest and most evil of the royalty, General Gaskell. On the way, he picks up a "victim" - one of the few survivors in the villages - and makes way with her and the Deliverers. Along the way, he is attacked by the Drowned, and fights many more unspeakably horrible enemies. All of this suggests that Gaskell - who was supposed to have been put to death... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 15

  Dark Road

  Part Three

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  Vampire Hunter D takes on his greatest challenge yet! The ruthless vampire Noble General Gaskell commands the loyalty of some of the most infamous and deadly vampires in history, and Gaskell has no patience for D's interference, heroic or not! With the odds stacked against him, D must prevail - or perish!
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 11

  Pale Fallen Angels

  Parts One and Two

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  "Pale Fallen Angels" parts one and two, the first two novels of Hideyuki Kikuchi's groundbreaking, epic four-part Vampire Hunter D tale, are presented here in one affordable omnibus collection! When Lord Vlad's son, Baron Byron Balarge, needs to make a long and treacherous journey to faraway Krauhasen, he commissions the help of the infamous Vampire Hunter D, promising a princely sum and a solemn vow - no... (more)
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  Vampire Hunter D: Book 12

  Vampire Hunter D Volume 12: Pale Fallen Angel Parts Three and Four (v. 12, Pt. 3 & 4)

  by Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

  Baron Byron Balazs nears the end of his arduous journey; his bodyguard - the enigmatic and deadly Vampire Hunter D - has delivered him to his faraway home in Krauhausen. Having survived the near-epic journey, and many attempts on his life - ordered by his father, the dread Vampire Noble Lord Vlad - the baron thinks he is ready for his final battle, whatever the cost. But Lord Vlad is not so easily vanquished, as... (more)
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  The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  by Brian Selznick

  Hugo is an orphan who lives in the walls of a busy Paris train station, where survival depends on secrets and anonoymity. But when his world interlocks with a bookish girl and a bitter old man who runs a toy shop, things start to change. A treasured notebook, a stolen key, a mechanical man which all hints to a hidden message from Hugo's dead father. And while trying to break the Automaton's secret message he has... (more)