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Inception: The Shooting Script by Christopher J. Nolan
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsInception, writer-director Christopher Nolan’s seventh feature film, joins the epic scope of The Dark Knight with the narrative sophistication of Memento... -
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Mission: Subhero by Linda Armstrong
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWith just a few lines of code, one average man will change the world--and set in motion the adventure of a lifetime! When 20-year-old Nelson stumbles upon a secret and complex trick to coding, he finds himself anonymously helping people with the aid of his new app. The worldwide attention pushes him to launch a bold plan allowing free access of this life-changing app to anyone for a limited time... -
![Challenges of the Deeps by Ryk E. Spoor]()
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... -
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Prepare by Geoffrey Germann
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"... cutting-edge......skillful......high-octane....." Kirkus ReviewsAs a small boy, Darren Kiel was witness to his father's corruption and contemptible misconduct. As he grew, that experience gave rise to a seething need to atone for his father's crimes, to set the world aright, to enforce order... -
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Impulse by Steven Gould
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCent is the teenaged daughter of two very special people, Davy and Millie, the world's only teleports, but her life is far from ideal. Kept in isolation to protect her from her parents' enemies, she wants a normal life, a life with friends and, perhaps, romance. She wants to go to school like any other normal child.If only she were normal.. -
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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... -
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Reflex by Steven Gould
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsDavy has always been alone. He believes that he's the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isn't?A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to him to help them. What they want is to own him. They want to use his abilities for their own purposes, whether Davy agrees to it or not... -
![The Beginning by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate]()
The Beginning by K.A. Applegate, Katherine Applegate
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is it! Yeerk ships are pouring in from all ends of the galaxy. An all-out war for the planet has finally begun. The winner will control Earth. The loser will perish. The President of the United States is a Controller, and the Animorphs have been forced to rally their own military force of 5,000... -
![Doctor Who: The Shadow of the Scourge by Paul Cornell, Sophie Aldred]()
Doctor Who: The Shadow of the Scourge by Paul Cornell, Sophie Aldred
Rated: 3.78 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Pinehill Crest Hotel in Kent is host to three very different events: a cross-stich convention, an experiment in time travel and... the summoning of the scourge.The Doctor, Bernice and Ace find themselves dealing with a dead body that's come back to life, a mystical symbol that possesses its host, and a threat from another universe that's ready for every trick the Doctor's got up his sleeve... -
![Quest of Qui by Kenneth Robeson, Lester Dent]()
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... -
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Alien Nation by Alan Dean Foster
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovelization of the movie starring Mandy Patinkin and James Caan.Los Angeles is trying to absorb a new kind of immigrant -- aliens. The Newcomers were slaves on a ship that crashed in the California desert and as they are released from quarantine and assimilated into society there are expected and unexpected difficulties... -
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The Vision by Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWritten by best-selling Author Tom King!One of the most celebrated comic books of the century, collected in full alongside an expansive array of special features! Vision wants to be human, and what's more human than family? So he heads back to the beginning - to the laboratory where Ultron created him as a weapon... -
![Absolute Planetary Book Two by Warren Ellis]()
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 .. -
![20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 2 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki]()
20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 2 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction!Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol... -
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![The Vision, Volume 2: Little Better than a Beast by Tom King, Michael Walsh]()
The Vision, Volume 2: Little Better than a Beast by Tom King, Michael Walsh
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 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... -
![Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
Planetary, Volume 4: Spacetime Archaeology by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThis is it - the long-awaited fourth and final graphic novel collecting the adventures of Elijah Snow, a powerful, hundred year old man, Jakita Wagner, an extremely powerful but bored woman, and The Drummer, a man with the ability to communicate with machines... -
![Absolute Planetary Book One by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday]()
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... -
![Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 11 by Naoki Urasawa]()
Naoki Urasawa's 20th Century Boys, Volume 11 by Naoki Urasawa
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIs the Friend really Kanna's father?! Will she still be able to stand up and fight, despite this anguishing news? Meanwhile, Koizumi Kyoko and Sadakiyo have gotten away from the Dream Navigators by the skin of their teeth, but as Yoshitsune once warned, these people will chase you to the ends of the earth… With Kanna in shock over the truth of her paternity, will she have the strength to go and... -
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Planetary, Volume 2: The Fourth Man by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsWarren Ellis improves on his already outstanding stories and characters in the second collection of Planetary: The Fourth Man. While scraping their way through their investigations, the three archaeologists of mystery, enigmatic themselves, deal with their own past and learn more about the creepy metahumans lurking behind practically every oddity on the planet... -
![Y - The Last Man - Book Four by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra]()
Y - The Last Man - Book Four by Brian K. Vaughan, Pia Guerra
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsThe continuation of Brian K. Vaughan and artist Pia Guerra's acclaimed VERTIGO series Y: THE LAST MAN brings to vivid life the age-old speculation: What would really happen to the last man on Earth? In 2002, the world changes forever. Every man, every boy, every mammal with a Y chromosome everywhere on Earth suddenly collapses and dies...Categorized as:
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![The Starman Omnibus, Vol. 2 by James Robinson, Wade Von Grawbadger]()
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... -
![20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki]()
20th Century Boys: The Perfect Edition, Vol. 4 by Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa’s award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction!Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren’t for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol... -
![Harley Quinn: Ravenous by Rachael Allen]()
Harley Quinn: Ravenous by Rachael Allen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHarley Quinn's journey gets even more chaotic as she falls in love and embraces her inner Super-Villain in the thrilling second book of the Harley Quinn origin trilogy.When Harleen Quinzel wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of the past few months, she scrambles to pick up the pieces of her life... -
![Neon Genesis Evangelion: 3-in-1 Edition, Vol. 3 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto]()
Neon Genesis Evangelion: 3-in-1 Edition, Vol. 3 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsThe manga adaptation of the landmark animated series that changed the mecha genre. Each volume contains three of the original graphic novels and includes pages of stunning, full-color art. Once Shinji didn’t care about anything; then he found people to fight for—only to learn that he couldn’t protect them or keep those he let into his heart from going away... -
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![Red Hood and the Outlaws, Vol. 1: Dark Trinity by Scott Lobdell, Dexter Soy]()
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... -
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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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![Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 12 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Gainax]()
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Vol. 12 by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, Gainax
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsReads R to L (Japanese Style) T+ audience. Japan's most controversial anime series is over...but not the manga version of Neon Genesis Evangelion! Series co-creator Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's personal interpretation of the Evangelion characters and story is sure to intrigue new and old fans alike... -
![Daredevil: Marvel Knights, Vol. 3 by Brian Michael Bendis]()
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]()
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]()
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...
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