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Control by Robert J. Crane
10 ratingsFollowing the deadly conclusion of Dragon: The Girl in the Box 37, Sienna Nealon is left with a murder mystery to solve, one that could have dire consequences for the entire world...Categorized as:
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Spirits of the Bayou by Morgan Hannah MacDonald
6 ratingsEVIL HAS A FACESomeone is taking the children of New Orleans. No bodies have been found. No ransom demands made. Poor or Rich. Black or White. Boy or Girl. The kidnapper does not play favorites. PRAYIn this prequel to Spirits Among Us, nineteen year-old Jon-Luc Boudreaux is trying to manage his gift. He’s a psychic medium. In other words, he sees the dead... -
Cold Fire by John Passarella
8 ratingsA brand-new Supernatural novel that reveals a previously unseen adventure for the Winchester brothers, from the hit CW series! While replacing sections of his rotten wooden fence, Dave Holcomb, a new homeowner in Braden Heights, Indiana hears a baby’s cry from behind his utility shed, and investigates. Hours later, his wife returns home to find his eyeless corpse... -
The Revenger by Debra Anastasia
8 ratingsLibrarian's Note: An alternate cover for this ASIN can be found here.The real hero of this story is dead. You should have met him. He was a beautiful man. The love of my life. I didn’t deserve him.Now what’s left are the jagged edges of the person I am without him, and what I have to do to get by. This isn’t even a story about love. Not really... -
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Ghost Rider by Greg Cox
6 ratingsWhen he was seventeen, motorcycle stunt rider Johnny Blaze proved he would do anything to save his terminally ill father -- even make a deal with the sinister Mephistopheles that would cost him everything, from the woman he loved, the beautiful Roxanne Simpson, to Johnny's own immortal soul.Years later, as Roxanne reenters Johnny's life, Mephistopheles returns to collect on his part of the deal... -
Conjugal Rites by Paul Magrs
6 ratingsThe gripping new instalment of the adventures of Brenda and Effie.No matter what she tries to do, trouble has a way of finding Brenda. It's hardly surprising with secrets like hers. When her old adversary Mr Danby starts filling the airwaves with his late night phone in show it can only mean one thing - and sure enough best friend Effie soon finds herself up to her neck in it... -
Mind of the Phoenix by Jamie McLachlan
6 ratingsMoira is a powerful empath, a psychic graced with the ability to read emotions and memories. Her skill is as much a curse as a gift, for in the harshly stratified city of Braxton empaths are slaves. Clever and beautiful, Moira has learned to rely on no one but herself. Determined to escape life as a concubine, she kills her master, and is imprisoned for the crime... -
Tunnel Vision by Susan Adrian
10 ratingsRomance and action come crashing together when a teenage boy with incredible powers is brought to the attention of the government.Jake Lukin just turned 18. He's decent at tennis and Halo, and waiting to hear on his app to Stanford. But he's also being followed by a creep with a gun, and there's a DARPA agent waiting in his bedroom. His secret is blown... -
Love on the Run by Katharine Kerr
6 ratingsNola O’Grady is sick and tired of psychic squid-images following her everywhere, waving their tentacles and generally making nuisances of themselves. She and her partner, Ari Nathan, have a dangerous job on their hands, hunting down two criminals who have escaped into another level of the multiverse, the San Francisco of Terra Six... -
What She Doesn't Know by Lina Gardiner
6 ratingsRaven Gale can’t put the past behind her. A year ago, her husband tried to kill her in a car accident and killed himself instead. And, as if that wasn’t bad enough; she finds out someone is pretending to be him on an isolated island in the Bay of Fundy. What if it’s really her husband? What if he’s still alive? She’d been in hospital when the funeral was held... -
Batman, Volume 1: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder
31 ratingsAfter a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he’s sworn to protect... -
The Complete Frank Miller Batman by Frank Miller, Dennis O'Neil
12 ratingsThe Complete Frank Miller Batman contains: Batman Year One, Wanted: Santa Claus Dead Or Alive and The Dark Knight Returns. With a new introduction by Richard Bruning, then DC design director. Batman Year One and The Dark Knight Returns are reprints of their trade paperbacks and not individual issues so they include the introductions to those volumes by Frank Miller and Alan Moore... -
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David Mazzucchelli's Daredevil Born Again Artisan Edition by David Mazzucchelli
24 ratingsEnjoy the acclaimed graphic novel as an ART BOOK! Each page of this classic story is reproduced from the original art--while appearing to be in black and white, the art is scanned IN COLOR, capturing all the nuances (blue pencil, white out, etc) and quirks that make original art unique!DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI'S DAREDEVIL BORN AGAIN was released in the much lauded Artist's Edition format in 2012... -
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The Vision, Volume 2: Little Better than a Beast by Tom King, Michael Walsh
18 ratingsOnce upon a time a robot and a witch fell in love. What followed was a tale of the dead and the dying, of the hopeful and the lost, of the wronged and the avenged. And in the end, after both had fallen, the witch and the robot rose from their dirt and eyed each other across a field of blood and bone. Forty-five years in the making, this is the story of Scarlet Witch and the Vision... -
Batman, Volume 3: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder
25 ratingsAfter having his face sliced off, The Joker makes his horrifying return to Gotham City; shaking Batman to his core! But even for a man who’s committed a lifetime of murder, he’s more dangerous than ever before... -
Batman: Under the Hood by Judd Winick
19 ratingsBatman is confronted with a hidden face from the past -- it's the return of the vigilante Red Hood who appears to be Batman's one-time partner Jason Todd, the same Jason Todd that died many years ago. But the Red Hood's violent ways pit him against the Dark Knight in his hunt for the very person responsible for his death: The Joker... -
Hush. Jeph Loeb, Writer by Jeph Loeb
31 ratingsGotham City's infected by a crime epidemic, and all of Batman's enemies have emerged to throw his life into utter chaos. But little do they know that they're all pawns of the villainous Hush in his elaborate game of revenge against Bruce Wayne... -
Batman (2011-2016) #14 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV
9 ratingsThe Joker is back and somehow more sinister than ever! What caused this change? And can even Batman stop a Joker so driven and dangerous? “Death of the Family” part 2... -
Batman, Volume 2: The City of Owls by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV
27 ratingsFor over a century, the Court of Owls has ruled Gotham City in secret—their reach inescapable, their power unstoppable.Until they battled the Batman.Gotham's vigilante protector managed to escape the talons of the Court with his mind and body barely intact. The Dark Knight managed to win the battle with his deadly new aggressors, but certainly not the war... -
The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by James Robinson, Wade Von Grawbadger
14 ratingsThe classic super-hero series STARMAN, starring a Gen-X super-hero, is re-presented in high quality format.The super-heroic legacy of Starman is renewed in these stories, in which Jack Knight - antiques collector and dealer - inherits the name and powers of his father's old Starman identity from his older brother, who has been assassinated... -
Batman: Hush, Vol. 2 by Jeph Loeb
24 ratingsBATMAN: HUSH is a thrilling mystery of action, intrigue, and deception penned by Jeph Loeb (BATMAN: THE LONG HALLOWEEN) and illustrated by comics superstar Jim Lee (ALL STAR BATMAN & ROBIN, THE BOY WONDER) in which Batman sets out to discover the identity of a mysterious mastermind using the Joker, Riddler, Ra's al Ghul and the Dark Knight's other enemies - and allies - as pawns in a plan to... -
Batman: The Black Mirror by Scott Snyder, Jock
26 ratingsA NEW YORK TIMES #1 Bestseller.In "The Black Mirror," a series of brutal murders pushes Batman's detective skills to the limit and forces him to confront one of Gotham City's oldest evils... -
The Amazing Spider-Man, Vol. 1: Coming Home by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita Jr.
26 ratingsJ. Michael Straczynski is a man who has made his mark in many ways whether in the world of science fiction and television with the hit Babylon 5 or in the comic book industry with such books as Rising Stars and Midnight Nation. Now his unique vision comes to the world of Marvel and the friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! Joining Straczynski is a man of equal legend -- John Romita Jr... -
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Batman: Earth One, Volume 2 by Geoff Johns, Gary Frank
18 ratingsThe Riddler has arrived in Gotham and he’s terrorizing the city with his own twisted brand of anarchy. But why is he attacking now, and what is his endgame? The Riddler isn’t Batman’s only problem, as Killer Croc is on the streets and his violent crimes can’t be ignored...Categorized as:
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Justice, Volume 2 by Jim Krueger, Alex Ross
18 ratingsLet Justice Be Done......though the heroes fall. The members of the mighty Justice League of America have become victims of the deadliest criminal masterminds of our time. The villains have gained the trust of the general populace, while continuing their true plans for world domination... -
Daredevil: The Man Without Fear by Frank Miller, John Romita Jr.
20 ratingsA fire burns deep within Matt Murdock. He was raised by a single father, an over-the-hill prizefighter with one last chance to make it good - a chance that cost him his life! Taunted and tormented by children while growing up, Matt's life was irrevocably altered after he was blinded by radioactive materials while saving the life of an old man... -
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Part 5--Golden Wind, Vol. 1 by Hirohiko Araki, Pablo Tschopp
6 ratingsGolden Wind is here! The highly-acclaimed fifth arc of Hirohiko Araki’s JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure shifts the action from Japan to Italy, as Koichi Hirose heads to Europe to find an aspiring gangster named Giorno Giovanna, the secret son of Dio Brando, scourge of the Joestar family... -
Punisher Max: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1 by Garth Ennis, Darick Robertson
12 ratingsExperience the gritty and uncompromising Punisher MAX from the very beginning! When a mob hit killed his beloved wife and children, Frank Castle became the Punisher - an unstoppable one-man army waging war on every piece of criminal scum plaguing New York's streets. But do the Punisher's origins trace back even further? In 1971 Vietnam, Captain Castle's platoon faces a Viet Cong attack.. -
Batman: Curse of the White Knight by Sean Murphy
14 ratingsAncient curses are awoken and timeless secrets are revealed in this explosive sequel to the critically acclaimed blockbuster Batman: White Knight from writer/artist Sean Murphy!The Joker recruits Azrael to help him expose a shocking secret about the Wayne family's legacy--and run Gotham City into the ground! As Batman rushes to protect the city and his loved ones from danger, the mystery of his...
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