Annie Di Donna

Alecos Papadatos

Abraham Kawa

From a team including the artists of the New York Times bestseller Logicomix, another entertaining and educational graphic delight focusing on the origins and rise of democracy.

Democracy

From a team including the artists of the New York Times bestseller Logicomix, another entertaining and educational graphic delight focusing on the origins and rise of democracy. Democracy opens in 490 B.C., with Athens at war. The hero of the story, Leander, is trying to rouse his comrades for the morrow's battle against a far mightier enemy, and begins to recount his own life, having borne direct witness to the evils of the old tyrannical regimes and to the emergence of a new political system. The tale that emerges is one of daring, danger, and big ideas, of the death of the gods and the tortuous birth of democracy. We see that democracy originated through a combination of chance and historical contingency--but also through the cunning, courage, and willful action of a group of remarkably talented and driven individuals. Alecos Papadatos and Annie DiDonna, artists behind the international phenomenon Logicomix, together with writer Abraham Kawa, deliver a graphic novel bursting with extraordinary characters and vibrant color, one that also offers fresh insight into how this greatest of civic inventions came to be.

Arahom Radjah

Arkhalla There cannot be a world without a Queen. The Undying may be no more – the few of them left hunted and with a price on their heads – but the darkness of their legacy still lives on. Shamath, the hero who saved humanity, roams the earth a man lost, his life turned into a hunt with little purpose. Far across the sea, in the deserts of Egypt, Bel and Narama, both shades of their former selves, struggle to build a new life, yet even the bond between them seems broken. But out of nowhere comes a new chance at life for hero and foe alike. A call from the beyond sends Shamath on a desperate quest, his routing out the Undying now infused with dread urgency. Meanwhile, a miracle brings Narama and Bel promise of peace. Yet the same hopes that revive the three of them threaten to tangle them once more into a fight to the death. The secret Shamath seeks that will lead to the domain of the dread demon Asag lies with his enemies, and he will spare no effort to find it. But if Shamath succeeds in his quest, the world may end in blood and fire, fulfilling, at last, the Dark God’s plan. To bring back to life the Undying Queen herself.

UNDYING QUEEN - BOOK THREE - "Quest for the Undying Queen"

Arkhalla. She was the most powerful woman on earth. A cruel, undying queen feasting on blood, she ruled a nation feared across the ancient lands of Sumer, her only weakness a still all-too human heart. And now she is dead. In the wake of the almighty queen’s death, the Sumerian kingdoms are rocked by chaos as Bel, Arkhalla’s lover-turned-betrayer, goes to war against the ambitious councilor Lord Sin, who is allied with Nimrod, the vengeance-seeking human king of Akkad. Around them revolve characters both familiar and new, from Narama, the Undying huntress of men, to Nimrod’s daughter Aisyah, reared to be the scourge of the Undying, while Shamath, the young slave who both loved the dead queen and caused her doom, now finds his destiny as the humans of Sumer rise at last against the Undying. The second chapter of the trilogy begun in The Undying Queen of Ur crafts an epic tale of war, intrigue and a tangled skein of characters in a world forever haunted by the one who gave meaning to all their lives. A World Without Arkhalla.

BOOK TWO - The World Without Arkhalla

UNDYING QUEEN

The Undying Queen of Ur tells the story of Arkhalla, an immortal queen that ruled over the lands of Sumer from her mighty ziggurat in the City of Ur for over two centuries at the beginning of the Bronze Age, more than 5,000 years ago. It is the early days of the Sumerian Kingdoms, an era consumed by the flames of countless wars. The ruthless nation of the Undying, the blood feeding masters of Sumer, rule unchallenged over mankind until the day, Shamath, a young human boy is captured in the Queen’s latest war. Shamath is taken captive to the City of Ur and finds himself in the midst of untold horrors committed by the Undying. But it is when the beautiful Queen Arkhalla—intrigued by the youth’s courage and defiance in the face of death—decides to take him as her body slave, that the whole world changes. Little by little, Shamath and Arkhalla’s liaison grows from an abusive master/slave relationship into an unforgettable and dramatic tale of love and redemption. This remarkable tale of a kingdom torn by intrigue and a fascinating cast of characters struggling for dominance is above all a story about love. The love between an immortal queen and a young human slave who overcame impossible odds and the darkness within their own hearts and discovered each other.

Abraham Kawa

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