Connor Risa & Lev are running for their lives Unwinding the process by which a child is both terminated & yet kept alive Unwinding is now a common & accepted practice in society Connor's parents want to be rid of him because he's a troublemaker Risa has no parents & is being unwound to cut orphanage costs Lev's unwinding has been planned since his birth as part of his family's strict religion Brought together by chance & kept together by desperation these unlikely companions make a harrowing cross-country journey knowing their lives hang in the balance If they can survive until their 18th birthday they can't be harmed
- but when every piece of them from their hands to their hearts is wanted by a world gone mad eighteen seems far far away Gripping brilliantly imagined futuristic thriller The issues raised could not be more provocative
- the sanctity of life the meaning of being human
- while the delivery could hardly be more engrossing or better aimed to teens Publishers Weekly starred review A thought-provoking well-paced read that will appeal widely School Library Journal starred review A breathless tale turning pages for teenage boys as it challenges not just where life begins & ends but what it means to be alive Educ 8 magazine a powerful shocking & intelligent novel It's wonderful wonderful stuff The Bookbag This is the kind of rare book that makes the hairs on your neck rise up It is written with a sense of drama that should get it instantly snapped up for film The Times Before there was The Hunger Games there was Unwind


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Tracklist A1 New Energy 157 A2 Demolished 249 A3 Natural Disasters 315 A4 Re-Enact The Crime 242 A5 Equally Stupid 306 A6 Pardon My French 130 A7 Descension 421 B1 Accidents On Purpose 155 B2 Petals Like Bricks 222 B3 Vern's Answer To The Masses 039 B4 Here Come The Dogs 206 B5 Disappoint 518 B6 Swan 809 ...

One of Publishers Weekly&s Hot Fall Books of 2013! Tom Taylor has lived his life being mistaken for Tommy Taylor the boy wizard from the world-famous series of novels penned by Tom&s long-lost father Wilson However after a series of strange events start to parallel the lives of both Taylors
- fictional & real
- Tom realizes that he might be the character on page made flesh In this first-ever original graphic novel spinning off from the pages of the critically acclaimed The Unwritten series writer Mike Carey explores the origins behind Tom&s mysterious powers & the odyssey his father has sent him on

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A wish-I'd-thought-of-it premise beautifully executed Highly recommended for anyone who thinks that fantasy can do more than just help you escape the real world
- Brian K Vaughan Y THE LAST MAN " Fascinatingone of the brainiest & most interesting comics of the year"
- Wired Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart turning him into a lame Z-level celebrity When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh Tom comes into contact with a mysterious deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life Now to protect his life & discover the truth behind his origins Tom will travel the world to all the places in world history where fictions have shaped reality From Bill Willingham to Ed Brubaker from the LA Times to Ain't It Cool News THE UNWRITTEN has won over fans critics & pros Now don't miss the first collected edition featuring the first five issues of the overwhelmingly acclaimed Vertigo series

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Written by MIKE CAREY Art by PETER GROSS & others Cover by YUKO SHIMIZU Incredibly fun & ridiculously addictive
- USA TODAY
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Written by MIKE CAREY Art by PETER GROSS Cover by YUKO SHIMIZU This fourth volume in the acclaimed series sends Tommy Taylor into the world of Moby-Dick in a tale from issues 19-24! After the shocking return of Tommy father bestselling fantasy author Wilson Taylor the mysterious Cabal audition a new assassin & Tom seeks out source The source of what? He not really sure but it looks like a whale & apparently it can be found in the Nantucket farmhouse where Moby-Dick was written What he finds is a path into a whole different ocean with more trouble (and more whales) than he could possibly imagine ...

In this new title collecting issues 24-30 Tom heads to New York where the worldly goods of Wilson Taylor are being auctioned off
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Tom Taylor's life was screwed from day one His father created the Tommy Taylor fantasy series boy-wizard novels with popularity on par with Harry Potter The problem is Dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom's real life that fans are constantl ...

The worlds of FABLES & THE UNWRITTEN collide in the epic comic event by Mike Carey & Bill Willingham! Tommy Taylor is thrust into the world of Vertigo's hit series Fables! But a dark & terrible foe has seized the fairy-tale homelands & our world In desperation the witches of Fabletown gather to summon the greatest mage the worlds have ever seen But they are in for an unpleasant surprise ...

The tenth volume of the critically-acclaimed new series from the Eisner-nominated creative team Mike Carey & Peter Gross is the perfect jumping on point as Tom Taylor is stranded at the beginning of all creation! Lost in the unwritten scenes of all the world&s stories Tom Taylor is headed back to reality
- & all the gods & beasts & monsters ever imagined can&t stop him! But there&s a toll on the road that may be too high for him or anyone to pay Collects The Unwritten Apocalypse 1-6
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