"The only thing standing between humans and complete slavery to vampires is their tenacity and Cursed Gear. Yuichiro has the first in droves, but to increase the amount of power he can draw from the demon inside his cursed sword, he enters a coma-like state to thin the barrier between human and demon. His power boost can come none too soon as the vampire queen reveals her plans to annihilate the human resistance"--Back cover.
While Yuichiro doesn't remember his transformation into a one-winged creature during the last battle, the leaders of the Japanese Imperial Demon Army took note. Yuichiro continues with his plan to save Mika from the vampires.
Learn about the beliefs and folklore of death, the apocalypse, and the afterlife of societies around the globe, including articles on heaven and hell, our fascination with the dead, the quest for immortality, and so much more.
The members of the eccentric Halloran family, having gathered at a gothic mansion for a funeral, are faced with the prospect of spending eternity with people they dislike when they are informed that the world is going to end and they alone will be spared.
The extraordinary success of the Left Behind series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins shows that their action/adventure novels have tapped into the American psyche. It has revived our fascination with vivid images of the book of Revelation and other biblical texts: the Antichrist, the mysterious number 666, and people suddenly "raptured" into the sky by God. But is there something dangerous behind the thinking in these books and how they play out in our world today? In Left Behind or Left Befuddled, Gordon Isaac takes the reader inside the theology behind the series. In clear and accessible prose, Isaac answers many important questions that Christians have about the phenomenon that is Left Behind.
A man-made apocalypse threatens mankind. Three strangers navigate the chaos: an expectant mother, a teenage girl, and an armed loner. One hundred years later, their survival leads to a battle to vanquish the Twelve, a dozen humans transformed by an ancient virus into a terrifying threat that will bring what is left of the human race to what survivors think will be the brink of annihilation. But the enemy has evolved with a new plan more horrifying than man's extinction. To bring the Twelve down, one of humanity's heroes will have to pay the ultimate price.
Fourteen-year-old Jess' beliefs falter when her evangelical father packs up the family, including her secretly pregnant older sister and her long-suffering mother, to travel across the country and save souls ahead of the anticipated end of the world.
Seventeen-year-old Eva, chosen to be part of the POD system and live underground to survive the lethal virus that is killing off most of the population, meets and falls in love with David, but when the PODs are opened up a year later, the survivors find that the virus has mutated and created monsters, and Eva and David must hide and try to build a new life.
