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Extinct by R.R. Haywood
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe end of the world has been avoided—for now. With Miri and her team of extracted heroes still on the run, Mother, the disgraced former head of the British Secret Service, has other ideas…While Mother retreats to her bunker to plot her next move, Miri, Ben, Safa and Harry travel far into the future to ensure that they have prevented the apocalypse. But what they find just doesn’t make sense... -
The Wraith: Welcome Home by Jeffery H. Haskell
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsKilling is her art, and she's about to paint her masterpiece! Madisun has returned home to New Orleans, almost a year to the day her family was murdered. The people who did it are still free. The man who betrayed her is still alive. Justice is coming to the criminals of the city, justice without mercy. Welcome home, Madi. Try not to burn the whole city down...Categorized as:
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Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSEQUEL TO GRAND CENTRAL ARENA AND SPHERES OF INFLUENCE. The climax of the Arenaverse adventure SF series!The Arena: a vast alien otherspace that all species were forced to enter when they discovered faster-than-light travel. The Arena: where the lives of entire species might hang in the balance in a single Challenge... -
Defender by Janet Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBecoming a telepath was hard. Being a telepath is harder. Eighteen-year-old Amber is the youngest of the five telepaths who protect the hundred million citizens of one of the great hive cities of twenty-sixth century Earth. Her job is hunting down criminals before they commit their crimes, but this time her team arrive too late. Someone is already dead. Someone that Amber knows... -
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Shattered Truth by Michael Anderle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe cover-up that could bring down the Federation. On the fringes of human space, a murder will light a fuse and send two different people colliding together. He’s a thirty-year veteran of military operations, she’s the youngest daughter of a wealthy business family. Both used roundabout means to become detectives. She’s smart, he’s tactical. Now they need to learn from each other... -
Call of the Hero by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe city of Reikonos is prisoner to a tyrant. After a thousand years, Cyrus Davidon and the guild of Sanctuary have returned to find the human capital in a terrible state: food is in short supply, the skies are choked with the smoke of industry, and a criminal gang known as the Machine prey on all who dare raise their hand in opposition to the Lord Protector... -
Sketches by Teyla Branton
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone will do anything to stop them from learning the truth.Eighty years after Breakdown, Detective Reese Parker has pulled herself up from the dregs of society in Welfare Colony 6 to become a sketch artist and enforcer for the CORE (Commonwealth Objective for Reform and Efficiency)...Categorized as:
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Doctor Who: Wild Blue Yonder by Mark Morris
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBased on a script by Russell T Davies, the spectacular second adventure for Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary features David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and Catherine Tate as Donna Noble... -
The Ninth Circle by R.M. Meluch
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFifth in the hard-hitting military science-fiction series. On the distant world of Zoe, an expedition finds DNA-based life. When alien invaders are also discovered, Glenn Hamilton calls on the U.S.S. Merrimack for help. But the Ninth Circle and the Palatine Empire have also found Zoe. Soon everyone will be on a collision course to determine the fate of this planet... -
Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWHO IS DOC SAVAGE?To the world at large, Doc Savage is a strange, mysterious figure of glistening bronze skin and golden eyes. To his amazing co-adventurers - the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group - he is a man of superhuman strength and protean genius, whose life is dedicated to the destruction of evil-doers... -
The Synthesis by Jason Letts
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsMira Ipswich couldn't have ever known the startling difference that separates her from the rest of humanity. But when she discovers a strange anomaly in the midst of her seclusion, her parents are forced to reveal she exists in a world where everyone is imbued with a wondrous natural gift. Everyone except herself that is... -
Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCollects issues 13-27 of the original series as well as 14 pages of additional content.As the series hurtles towards its conclusion, Snow initiates the second part of his comeback plan to stop The Four, makes a startling revelation about his past, and uncovers information on the world's first moon shot .. -
Absolute Planetary Book One by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsCollecting the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful, hundred year old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely strong but bored woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines... -
Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto, 松本直也
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith the highest kaiju-emergence rates in the world, Japan is no stranger to attack by deadly monsters. Enter the Japan Defense Force, a military organization tasked with the neutralization of kaiju. Kafka Hibino, a kaiju-corpse cleanup man, has always dreamed of joining the force. But when he gets another shot at achieving his childhood dream, he undergoes an unexpected transformation... -
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The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by James Robinson, Wade Von Grawbadger
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 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... -
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 05 by John Wagner, Alan Grant
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe law at war! Judge Dredd rides into action in this fifth volume collecting together some of his most exciting cases. Arch-nemesis Judge Death rises from the grave once again in 'Judge Death Lives', citizen is pitted against citizen in 'Block Mania' and the apocalypse comes to Mega-City One in the all-time classic Dredd epic, 'The Apocalypse War'... -
Red Hood and the Outlaws, Vol. 1: Dark Trinity by Scott Lobdell, Dexter Soy
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA part of DC Universe: Rebirth!Jason Todd, a.k.a. Red Hood has been many things--a Robin, dead, the Red Hood--now he's back and he's embracing his bad side!With his new status as a villain, Red Hood plans to take down Gotham's underworld from the inside... -
Batman, Vol. 5: Zero Year: Dark City by Scott Snyder
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsBefore the Batcave and Robin, The Joker and the Batmobile, there was ZERO YEAR. The Riddler has plunged Gotham City into darkness. How will a young Dark Knight bring his beloved hometown from the brink of chaos and madness and back into the light? This final ZERO YEAR volume collects BATMAN #25-27 and 29-33...Categorized as:
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Darth Vader #9 by Charles Soule
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs the threat of the Jedi continues to menace the fledgling Empire, Vader finds himself on the trail of Jedi his master has commanded him…to keep... -
Judge Dredd: The Complete Case Files 14 by John Wagner
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMega-City One: the future metropolis bustling with life and every crime imaginable. Keeping order are the Judges, a stern police force acting as judge, jury and executioner. Toughest of all is Judge Dredd - he is the law and these are his stories. Volume 14 in this exciting, bestselling series collects together more classic Dredd from the pages of 2000 AD, including the mega-epic Necropolis... -
Daredevil: Marvel Knights, Vol. 3 by Brian Michael Bendis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter his secret identity as Daredevil is publicly exposed, Matt Murdock is forced to reckon with the problems and legal ramifications that emerged as a result of his public outing. But there isn?t much time for Matt to dwell on his problems, as a new love appears on the horizon and one of Daredevil?s most dangerous foes returns to take over the NYC underworld... -
Absolute Y: The Last Man Vol. 1 by Brian K. Vaughan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsY: THE LAST MAN, winner of three Eisner Awards and one of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling comic books series of the last decade, is that rare example of a page-turner that is at once humorous, socially relevant and endlessly surprising.Written by Brian K...Categorized as:
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The Flash, Vol. 3 by Geoff Johns
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn this third volume of his best-selling take on THE FLASH, critically acclaimed writer and Chief Creative Officer of DC Entertainment, Geoff Johns takes the Fastest Man Alive on the most thrilling run of his life! Try to keep up with the Flash as he races through Iron Heights Prison as he tries to take down a rampaging Gorilla Grodd... -
The Batman Adventures by Kelley Puckett, Martin Pasko
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBased on the critically acclaimed BATMAN animated series, this book is Illustrated in an animated style that reflects the design and mood of the TV series. The Joker enlists the help of the Penguin and Catwoman to bring his dastardly plot to air a televised unmasking of the Batman about... -
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Batman Begins by Dennis O'Neil, David S. Goyer
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBruce Wayne is dead. The young heir to the Wayne empire disappeared seven years ago. His vast fortune has been given away, and the crime wave that began with the brutal murder of his parents has turned Gotham City into a living hell. The last holdouts against corruption–the cops who can’t be bought, the D.A.s who can’t be intimidated–are outnumbered and outgunned. They need help... fast... -
Green Arrow (2016-) #1 by Benjamin Percy
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“THE DEATH AND LIFE OF OLIVER QUEEN” Chapter OneAs Oliver struggles with how he can fight “the man” when his huge fortune makes him the man, he and Black Canary uncover a deadly new threat to Seattle that cuts the Archer to the bone.THEY SAID IT: “My touchstones are [former GA writers] Dennis O’Neil and Mike Grell, while trying to make the series my own,” says writer Benjamin Percy... -
Batman Begins: The Screenplay by Christopher J. Nolan, David S. Goyer
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBatman Begins, directed by the award-winning Christopher Nolan (Memento, Insomnia), unveils the untold origins of the Dark Knight's emergence as a force for good in Gotham City. In the wake of his parents' murder, disillusioned industrial heir Bruce Wayne travels the world seeking the means to fight injustice and turn fear against those who prey on the fearful... -
Madman Volume 1 by Mike Allred
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMike Allred holds rank in the pantheon of great American cartoonists, and Image Comics is proud to bring the first volume of his seminal work, Madman, back into print. This volume introduces Madman and the rest of eccentric citizens of Snap City: mad genius Dr. Flem, the evil Mr. Mondstadt and Joe, the love of Frank Einstein's life... -
Absolute Green Arrow by Kevin Smith by Kevin Smith, Brad Meltzer
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe original Green Arrow, Oliver Queen, reemerges after years of being assumed dead. But many people, including Black Canary, his ex-lover, Arsenal, his ex-partner, Connor Hawke, his son and temporary successor and Batman, the Dark Knight Detective, want to know how Green Arrow survived the airplane explosion and where he has been...Categorized as:
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Doomsday Clock (2017-) #6 by Geoff Johns
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe critically acclaimed super star team of writer Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank continue this groundbreaking event as the Mime and the Marionette take center stage in DOOMSDAY CLOCK #6...Categorized as:
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