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The Unnamed Way by Ian W. Sainsbury
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe fourth book in the best-selling The World Walker series. Does absolute power corrupt absolutely? Maybe. Seb Varden is in a good position to find out. Depending on your point of view, he has either spent a few days, six months, or seventeen years playing a potentially deadly game... -
![Before and After by Andrew Shanahan]()
Before and After by Andrew Shanahan
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsTHE BEST-SELLING SCI-FI THRILLER THAT BLENDS HEALTHY LIVING AND LOTS OF DYINGBen Stone is terrified. He's terrified because he weighs 601 pounds and needs his right leg amputating. He's terrified because a crane will shortly lift him from his fourth-floor flat and lower him 44 feet to an ambulance waiting below... -
![Twisted Love by Wally Runnels]()
Twisted Love by Wally Runnels
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoiling in political corruption and the raging violence of drug cartels in the California/Mexico borderlands, Twisted Love explores the redemptive power of love even amidst the most brutal and privileged echelons of contemporary society... -
![Benjamin's Parasite by Jeff Strand]()
Benjamin's Parasite by Jeff Strand
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsStrand, author of The Sinister Mr. Corpse, Gleefully Macabre Tales, and Pressure, delivers his most outrageous adventure yet--an over-the-top mix of gruesome body horror and a wacky road-trip comedy... -
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![Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (Light Novel) Vol. 12 by Ao Jyumonji]()
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash (Light Novel) Vol. 12 by Ao Jyumonji
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHERE THERE BE DRAGONS—LITERALLY!Still trying to find a way to return to Alterna, Haruhiro and his party fetch up on the shores of the sea. Falling in with a mysterious pirate girl named Momohina, the group ventures forth to the Emerald Archipelago, rumored abode of dragons from ages past... -
![Hyenas by Joe R. Lansdale]()
Hyenas by Joe R. Lansdale
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHyenas marks the always-welcome return of Joe R. Lansdale’s most indelible fictional creations: Hap Collins and Leonard Pine. Once again, the embattled but resilient duo find themselves enmeshed in a web of danger, duplicity, and escalating mayhem. The result is a tightly compressed novella that is at once harrowing, hilarious, and utterly impossible to put down... -
![Consultation With a Vampire by Patrick E. McLean]()
Consultation With a Vampire by Patrick E. McLean
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEdwin Windsor, Evil Efficiency Consultant, returns with his manic lawyer Topper and his faithful secretary in this prequel to How to Succeed in Evil. Edwin is approached by a vampire, who offers him the prospect of eternal life if Edwin will help him with the troubles the modern world has presented his kind... -
![The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams]()
The Rain-Soaked Bride by Guy Adams
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA number of influential South Korean nationals are committing suicide on UK soil. In all cases they seem to simply drop whatever they're doing and swiftly -- almost vacantly -- end their own lives... -
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Ash by Jason Brant
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAlternative cover for ISBN10: 1494830205 / ISBN13: 9781494830205Some things should remain a secret. My name is Asher Benson, and I can read your mind. Sounds great, right? It's a nightmare. Every skeleton in your closet, every condescending thought flitting through your head, blares in my mind like a foghorn when you get close to me... -
![Strange Highways by Dean Koontz]()
Strange Highways by Dean Koontz
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBack by popular demand is the hardcover edition of this classic collection of novels, novellas, and short stories, now specially priced. This is Koontz's spellbinding collection of takes interconnected by the strange highways of human experience: adventures, terrors, failures and triumphs... -
![The Morbidly Obese Ninja by Carlton Mellick III]()
The Morbidly Obese Ninja by Carlton Mellick III
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThese days, if you want to run a successful company . . . you're going to need a lot of ninjas. Neo Tokyo, California is a city built so high that none of its residents have ever seen the ground. It is a place where citizens cosmetically alter their bodies to look like Japanese anime characters. It is a place where ninja battles determine the fate of corporate business ventures... -
![Promise You Won't Tell? by John Locke]()
Promise You Won't Tell? by John Locke
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 18 ratings“I think something might have happened to me Saturday night. Something bad.” Private Investigator Dani Ripper’s client list is nuttier than the Looney Tunes conga line, but she diligently solves one crazy case after another, waiting for a game-changer. Enter Riley Freeman, 17-year-old honor student... -
![Deadfolk by Charlie Williams]()
Deadfolk by Charlie Williams
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRoyston Blake is head doorman at Hoppers Wine Bar & Bistro in the backwater English town of Mangel. He drives a Ford Capri 2.8i and can walk the streets of his town knowing he's respected by one and all—until a rumor begins to circulate that Blake's “lost his bottle... -
![Scavenger by David Morrell]()
Scavenger by David Morrell
Rated: 3.62 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsDavid Morrell’s Creepers was a publishing event in 2005, a powerful, edgy, dark thriller by a master of the genre. A New York Times best-seller, it won the prestigious Bram Stoker Award and earned numerous critical raves. Scavenger, Morrell’s latest novel, takes us in a harrowing new direction: a desperate high-tech scavenger hunt for a 100-year-old time capsule... -
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![Harleen by Stjepan Šejić]()
Harleen by Stjepan Šejić
Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsDr. Harleen Quinzel has a theory: mental illness is a survival mechanism. As she seeks to help the broken souls of Gotham City piece together their sanity she will become the one thing she fears the most: one of them. A bold new retelling of the tragic origin of Harley Quinn told through the eyes of the only person who knows her better than anyone: Harleen... -
![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 .. -
![Watchmen #1 by Alan Moore]()
Watchmen #1 by Alan Moore
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 66 ratingsFeaturing the first appearance of Rorschach, Ozymandias, Dr. Manhattan, Silk Spectre, Nite Owl, and the Comedian! When the Comedian dies, a series of events are set into motion that bring the world ever closer to a deadly threat no one saw coming... -
![Batman, Volume 3: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder]()
Batman, Volume 3: Death of the Family by Scott Snyder
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 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... -
![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... -
![Case Closed, Vol. 3 by Gosho Aoyama]()
Case Closed, Vol. 3 by Gosho Aoyama
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWhen ace high school detective Jimmy Kudo is fed a mysterious substance by a pair of nefarious men in black—poof! He is physically transformed into a first grader. Until Jimmy can find a cure for his miniature malady, he takes on the pseudonym Conan Edogawa and continues to solve all the cases that come his way... -
![Batman (2011-2016) #14 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV]()
Batman (2011-2016) #14 by Scott Snyder, James Tynion IV
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 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... -
![Saga #5 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fonographiks]()
Saga #5 by Brian K. Vaughan, Fonographiks
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe smash hit ongoing series from Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples continues, as Prince Robot IV's hunt for Hazel and her parents takes a deadly turn... -
![The Punisher MAX, Vol. 5: The Slavers by Garth Ennis]()
The Punisher MAX, Vol. 5: The Slavers by Garth Ennis
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOn a pitch-black Brooklyn night, in a dead-end alley, Frank Castle brutally dispatches a crew of Albanian thugs menacing a young woman. Her name is Viorica, she's from Moldavia, and when she tells Frank her story, that's when the real killing starts!Collects Punisher #25-30... -
![Kaiju No. 8, Vol. 8 by Naoya Matsumoto, 松本直也]()
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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![Preacher - Book Five by Garth Ennis]()
Preacher - Book Five by Garth Ennis
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWriter Garth Ennis's violent, scabrous journey across America's religious landscape continues in this fifth volume.Preacher Jesse Custer's dark journey to find God, accompanied by his gun-toting girlfriend and Irish vampire buddy, continues as Jesse becomes the sheriff of a troubled Texas town... -
![Parasyte, Volume 2 by Hitoshi Iwaaki]()
Parasyte, Volume 2 by Hitoshi Iwaaki
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsPERSONAL DEMONShin looks like an ordinary high school boy, but he has a terrible secret: an alien parasite has infected his body. This mysterious creature is ruthless, deadly, and utterly indifferent to human suffering...and it is beginning to assert itself over Shin... -
![JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Vol. 9 by Hirohiko Araki]()
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Vol. 9 by Hirohiko Araki
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsA long journey down the Nile separates the heroes from their destination...and danger awaits every step of the way. In Kom Ombo, Polnareff fights a mighty swordsman imbued with the power of Anubis, the Egyptian God of the Dead! Then, in the Valley of the Kings, Joseph Joestar meets a mysterious woman...and finds his powers of attraction increased to the point of mortal danger.. -
![Batman: The Black Mirror by Scott Snyder, Jock]()
Batman: The Black Mirror by Scott Snyder, Jock
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 39 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... -
![Absolute Batman: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder]()
Absolute Batman: The Court of Owls by Scott Snyder
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBatman had heard the tales of Gotham City's Court of Owls. Meeting in the shadows and using the nocturnal bird of prey as their calling card, the members of this powerful cabal are the true rulers of Gotham.But the Dark Knight dismissed the stories as rumors and old wives' tales. Gotham was his city... -
![Doom Patrol, Vol. 2: The Painting That Ate Paris by Grant Morrison]()
Doom Patrol, Vol. 2: The Painting That Ate Paris by Grant Morrison
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe long-awaited second collection of superstar writer Grant Morrison's groundbreaking run on DOOM PATROL, this volume reprints issues #26-34...
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