Books like 'Batman – Detective Comics, Volume 5: Gothtopia'
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Time by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSienna Nealon has spent the last two months cooling her heels on the cloudy shores of Oregon, waiting for something to happen. Then one day, when she's waiting in a diner, it does - or doesn't, rather. Because time freezes, everyone around her stuck and unmoving, not conscious of anything happening. When it springs to motion again, Sienna knows that a day she's long awaited has arrived... -
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Remember by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsSienna Nealon has hit a dead end. After years of fighting the good fight against countless villains, she finds herself in a situation with no way out. Facing the consequences of her past, Sienna will be boxed in and trapped with people who want nothing more than to kill her...and for reasons she can't even remember... -
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Driven by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratings“Hey, could you have your sister...call me?” Sienna Nealon has been on the run for almost two years, a fugitive for crimes she didn't commit. When her brother tells her that Angel Gutierrez, an employee of his agency, wants to talk to her, that should be the first tipoff that something is really wrong... Soon Sienna finds herself paired up with Angel and deep in a mystery... -
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Toxicity by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsRomeo and Juliet, meet Bonnie and Clyde. June Randall and Elliot “Ell” Lefavre are young bandits on the run, using their powers to commit a string of robberies along the Florida coast when they run up against the long arm of the law in the form of FBI Special Agent Scott Byerly...Categorized as:
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Masks by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsWhat makes a hero?For years, Sienna Nealon has worked with the U.S. government to protect the world against other people with powers beyond those of a normal human. But after several clashes with the current administration, she finds herself with a new employer, an independent agency dedicated to helping stop threats to humanity... -
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Unyielding by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsIn a world of people with powers, Sienna Nealon has long been the one who maintained the order. But now she finds herself on the other end of the law, cast out and abandoned by her friends. On the run, hunted by relentless and implacable foes, she will face her greatest challenge – an enemy who holds a seat of power so great that even Sienna may not be able to stand up to him... -
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Hero by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsRevelen – A mysterious Eastern European country, shrouded in mountain peaks and ruled by a tyrant so forbidding that his legend formed the basis for Dracula. For years, Revelen has interfered in the outside world, causing chaos and sending all manner of trouble Sienna Nealon's direction. Now, at last...she finds herself in the heart of Revelen, and face to face with this greatest of threats... -
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Hollow by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSienna Nealon is the most powerful person in the world. She's beaten every enemy that has ever come at her, faced threats of every conceivable kind and bested all of them... -
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Small Things by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars · 21 ratings“Guy Friday is a hemorrhoidal pain in my a-” Sienna Nealon doesn't need any complications. On the run from the law, trying to carve out as much of a life for herself as she can, the last thing she needs is the idiotic Guy Friday pounding on her door one night, wounded and begging for help... -
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Prisoners by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsSienna Nealon has dedicated her life to keeping those with powers from breaking the law at will. After years of filling a prison for the powered called the Cube, a Supreme Court decision opens the floodgates and lets all of them out again. Now Sienna finds herself going from hunter to hunted as the US government turns a blind eye while the former inmates target her and her friends for death... -
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Dragon by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAfter a forced job transfer, a kidnapping incident in Northern Virginia sends FBI Agent Sienna Nealon along a dark path, trying to unravel the mystery. But kidnapping gives way to murder, and soon Sienna is racing against time, fighting against diplomats and Washington DC bureaucrats, trying to stop a power that may finally outmatch her own... -
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Apex by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsShe was going to be called “Big E” like her predecessors, though Eric Simmons didn’t know that. All he knew was what he could see, what he could hear, and what he could taste … and that was mostly fear.He could almost feel it oozing out of every pore, hard-spiked adrenaline on his tongue as he walked toward the big graving dock where they were building the ship... -
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Second Guess by Robert J. Crane
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFinally free of the Network's control, Sienna Nealon returns to her hometown of Minneapolis. But a long-awaited reunion with her friends doesn't last long, because a new threat is rising, one that may conclude with the world itself coming to an end... -
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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... -
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Getting Home by Ryan Westfield
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat would you do to get back home?Max and Mandy are stranded miles from camp. Their vehicle has been burned, along with most of their gear. The road ahead means danger and the unknown.Dan and Olivia are holed up in a suburban home. She's gravely injured, and Dan waits anxiously for the soldiers to return... -
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সায়েন্স ফিকশান সমগ্র ২ by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsবাংলাদেশ ও বাংলা ভাষার কিংবদন্তী বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী লেখক মুহম্মদ জাফর ইকবাল- এর পরবর্তী ৮ টি বৈজ্ঞানিক কল্পকাহিনী গ্রন্থের সমগ্র।*নিঃসঙ্গ গ্রহচারী*ক্রোমিয়াম অরণ্য*ত্রিনিত্রি রাশিমালা*অনুরন গোলক*নয় নয় শূন্য তিন*পৃ*রবোনগরী*টুকি এবং ঝায়ের (প্রায়) দুঃসাহসিক... -
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The Song of the Orphans by Daniel Price
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsAfter their world collapsed in a sheet of white light, everything and everyone were gone—except for Hannah and Amanda Given. Saved from destruction by three fearsome and powerful beings, the Given sisters found themselves on a strange new Earth where restaurants move through the air like flying saucers and the fabric of time is manipulated by common household appliances...Categorized as:
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![Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou]()
Commune: Book One by Joshua Gayou
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFor dinosaurs, it was a big rock. For humans: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME). When the Earth is hit by the greatest CME in recorded history (several times larger than the Carrington Event of 1859), the combined societies of the planet’s most developed nations struggle to adapt to a life thrust back into the Dark Ages... -
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Nightfall by Daniel Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"Tomorrow died on the last morning of May. There were those who saw it happen, who watched the shadow fall, who felt the chop of the guillotine as the world lost its head. Everyone else witnessed only the aftermath, for the event itself lasted no longer than a moment... -
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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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Vacation by Jeremy C. Shipp
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt's time for blueblood Bernard Johnson to leave his boring life behind and go on The Vacation, a yearlong corporate-sponsored odyssey. But instead of seeing the world, Bernard is captured by terrorists, becomes a key figure in secret drug wars, and, worse, doesn't once miss his secure American Dream... -
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Truth by Robin Wasserman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsSome things are too painful to remember--and too deadly to forget.Found: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified.Lost: Everything.J.D. can't run from her past any longer. She knows the truth now: that she's dangerous, a weapon. If she can't learn to control her powers, there's no telling what...or who...she'll destroy next...Categorized as:
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Tunnels #6: Terminal by Roderick Gordon, Brian Williams
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe end to end all ends: The epic finale to the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling TUNNELS series!Total Termination of the English: The Styx and their lethal cohorts of Armagi will settle for nothing less. Not even the mighty US military is strong enough to stop the assault!Will and Elliott flee back underground, down to the innards of the Earth first mapped in DEEPER and FREEFALL...Categorized as:
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![Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans]()
Beauty Sleep by Kathryn Evans
Rated: 3.92 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWho am I? What am I? When am I?Laura can't remember who she is. But the rest of the world knows. Because Laura is famous - a dying girl who was frozen until she could be cured. A real-life Sleeping Beauty... -
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Eden's Ore: Secrets by B.V. Bayly
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis is a fast-paced science fiction thriller in which a near-future Earth has solved its energy crisis with... the Ore...Categorized as:
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Betrayal by Robin Wasserman
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsSome things are too painful to remember--and too deadly to forget.Found: One girl, age 13. Unconscious. Unharmed. Unclaimed. Unidentified.Lost: Everything.J.D. and Daniel are on the run, searching for answers about her past...and about the dangerous powers she can't seem to control. She knows she can't trust the memories implanted in her mind by the mysterious Dr...Categorized as:
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Ghost Rider by Greg Cox
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 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... -
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ফিনিক্স by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal, Muhammed Zafar Iqbal
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsScience... -
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Daughter of Nothing by Eric Kent Edstrom
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTHE SCION CHRONICLESA refreshing new series for fans of YA science fiction by the author of The Undermountain Saga. Edstrom is back again with more lovable characters, thrilling adventures, and shocking twists.DAUGHTER OF NOTHING (Book 1)Few people even know that the Scion School exists... -
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Collide by Shelly Crane
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSherry has always known there was something out there. She's eighteen, works for a tabloid newspaper in Chicago and has a brother, Danny who is a lazy mooch. They live a pretty normal dull life with hippie parents and a normal existence. Then the moon dissapears and people start to go missing only to reappear later, but different... -
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Shadow of a Dead Star by Michael Shean
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeattle, 2078. The future hasn't been kind to the spirit of humanity; commercial obsession and technological fetishism rules the day, religion and belief has died screaming in the fires of war, and what remains is moral decrepitude. Life in the future is hard on the soul.As an agent of the Industrial Security Bureau, Thomas Walken knows that better than anyone... -
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Stones: Data by Jacob Whaler
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAlexander the Great. Genghis Kahn. Julius Caesar. Attila the Hun. Mao. Stalin. For thousands of years, the Stones have been hidden among us, giving a privileged few power to rule over masses, destroy empires and create new ones. It's near the end of the 21st century. When Matt Newmark was ten years old, his mother was killed in a vicious corporate assassination...Categorized as:
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Crossfire by Matthew Farrer
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe busting dockyards in the Hydraphur system are home to the mighty Imperial warfleets. They dock, repair, rearm and depart in an endless cycle of war. But even in this heart of imperial space, conflict exists. A great religious festival provides the perfect catalyst for civil unrest, political intrigue and murder in the vast Hive cities... -
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![The Narrowing Path by David J. Normoyle]()
The Narrowing Path by David J. Normoyle
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOut of over a hundred teenage boys, only six will be found worthy by the leaders of the great families; the rest will perish, one way or another.Not only is thirteen-year-old Bowe Bellanger younger and weaker than the rest, he has no family to support him. He is expected to die on the very first day of the Narrowing Path... -
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The Terminals by Royce Buckingham
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe riveting story of a covert team of young, terminally ill teens who spend their last year alive running dangerous missions as super-spies for an organization that may not be all it seems.When 19 year-old Cam Cody is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he expects to spend the rest of his shortened life in an adjustable bed... -
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Marcher by Chris Beckett
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCharles is an immigration officer with a difference: the migrants he deals with don’t come from other countries but from other universes...Categorized as:
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Masters of Time by A.E. van Vogt
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsOriginal title, in magazine serial, was "Recruiting Station." Also published by Ace Books as "Earth's Last Fortress." ~ ~~ ~ A recruiting station; a storefront in the heart of a big-city downtown. Young men can volunteer to join the armies of a beleaguered new democracy overseas. ~ ~~ ~ But the recruitment is a scam... -
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The Dark Ground by Gillian Cross
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsRobert wakes up naked and alone in a thick jungle. The last thing he remembers is being in a plane with his family, but there is no sign of a crash or survivors. Then he discovers the shocking truth--he is in the park near his house, but his familiar world has been transformed into an alien landscape. When he finds others in the same position, he enlists their help in getting back home... -
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After the Dark by Max Allan Collins
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSecrets and betrayals, as the saga of Dark Angel continues! In a chaotic world where the lines between good and evil often blur, and violent anarchy and brutal repression become commonplace, secrets can be deadly. So when Max discovers a shattering truth that Logan has kept concealed from her for years, the betrayal threatens the very essence of their trust...Categorized as:
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Brain Thief by Alexander Jablokov
Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBernal Haydon-Rumi, executive assistant to a funder of eccentric projects, drops by his boss’s house on the way home from a business trip. By the next morning, he’s been knocked out, his wealthy socialite boss Muriel has stolen a car and vanished, and the AI designed for planetary exploration that she’s been funding turns out to be odder than it should be... -
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Nowhere by Jon Robinson
Rated: 3.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings'No one's coming for us.Not our families, not the police.No one.'Alyn, Jes, Ryan and Elsa are Nowhere. A concrete cube in the middle of a dense forest. Imprisoned inside are one hundred teenagers from all over the country. They're all criminals. But none of them remember committing any crimes. Who has put them there. What do their captors want? And how will they ever break free . .
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