Normal

Normal

Warren Ellis

Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction & Fantasy / Mystery & Thrillers

A smart, tight, provocative techno-thriller straight out of the very near future—by an iconic visionary writer Some people call it "abyss gaze." Gaze into the abyss all day and the abyss will gaze into you. There are two types of people who think professionally about the future: foresight strategists are civil futurists who think about geo-engineering and smart cities and ways to evade Our Coming Doom; strategic forecasters are spook futurists, who think about geopolitical upheaval and drone warfare and ways to prepare clients for Our Coming Doom. The former are paid by nonprofits and charities, the latter by global security groups and corporate think tanks. For both types, if you're good at it, and you spend your days and nights doing it, then it's something you can't do for long. Depression sets in. Mental illness festers. And if the "abyss gaze" takes hold there's only one place to recover: Normal Head, in the wilds of Oregon, within the secure perimeter of an experimental forest. When Adam Dearden, a foresight strategist, arrives at Normal Head, he is desperate to unplug and be immersed in sylvan silence. But then a patient goes missing from his locked bedroom, leaving nothing but a pile of insects in his wake. A staff investigation ensues; surveillance becomes total. As the mystery of the disappeared man unravels in Warren Ellis's Normal, Dearden uncovers a conspiracy that calls into question the core principles of how and why we think about the future—and the past, and the now.
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The Kid Who Saved Superman

The Kid Who Saved Superman

Paul Kupperberg

Comics & Graphic Novels

When a series of earthquakes ripple across the planet, a school field trip turns deadly. Students are trapped on a crumbling mountain, and only one man can rescue them...SUPERMAN! But the tremors have exposed a large chunk of KRYPTONITE. With the MAN OF STEEL weakened by the radioactive rock, a student must save the day. Who will become the Kid Who Saved SUPERMAN?
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Yesterday Again

Yesterday Again

Barry Lyga

Literature & Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / Young Adult

YESTERDAY AGAIN is the third book in critically acclaimed author Barry Lyga's Archvillain series! Kyle Camden, a.k.a. the Azure Avenger, unintentional Bouring archvillain, has a foolproof plan to finally prove that Mighty Mike, unintentional town superhero, is an alien. Kyle's going back in time to the night Mike Mighty showed up on Earth and video tape his arrival. Yet he decides to use the time machine just as something evil has been unleashed on Bouring during the Annual Time Capsule Burial. But Kyle can fix it when he's back, right? Kyle accidentally overshoots his intended destination, landing in 1987, and burns out his time machine. Things get even stranger when he accidentally befriends his dad at age twelve, meets Sheriff Monroe (his archnemesis in present time) as a teenager, and discovers William Lundergaard lurking around. But Lundergaard isn't any younger. How did he end up in 1987 and why? Kyle better figure it out fast. Because if he doesn't get back to the present immediately, well, there might not be a present anymore!
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Blood Pact

Blood Pact

Dan Abnett

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Comics & Graphic Novels / Short Stories

The Tanith First have been pulled back from the front line and are enjoying some well-deserved rest. But that is about to end. An enemy prisoner - one of the deadly Blood Pact - wants to betray his masters, but he will only talk to Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt. Can he be trusted, and what exactly does he know? Gaunt must discover the truth and avert a deadly threat to both his own life and to the Sabbat Worlds Crusade itself.
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Anne of Greenville

Anne of Greenville

Mariko Tamaki

Comics & Graphic Novels / Humor

This is the story of how I became Anne of Greenville. It's also the story of how I found my true true, and how I needed to maybe come to Greenville, of all places, to make that happen. In this modern reimagining of Anne of Green Gables, Anne is an ABBA-loving singer/actor/writer of disco-operas, queer, Japanese-American who longs to be understood for her artistic genius. Recently relocated to middle-of-nowhere Greenville and starting at a new school, Anne has a tendency to A) fall in love quickly, deeply, and effervescently and B) fly off the handle in the face of jerks. Both personality quirks quickly come into play when the soccer team boos the premiere of her disco performance, which—in a roundabout way—introduces her to her new BFF, Berry, and she soon after meets the girl of her dreams, Gilly. Falling quickly into that age-old trap of ignoring the best friend for the new crush, Anne soon becomes embroiled in a series of dramatic and unfortunate events, and quickly finds...
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River Secrets

River Secrets

Shannon Hale

Young Adult / Literature & Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels

Razo has no idea why he was chosen to be a soldier. He can barely swing a sword, and his brothers are forever wrestling him to the ground. Razo is sure it's out of pity that his captain asks him to join an elite mission--escorting the ambassador into Tira, Bayern's great enemy. But when the Bayern arrive in the strange southern country, Razo discovers the first dead body. He befriends both the high and low born, people who can perhaps provide them with vital information. And Razo is the one who must embrace his own talents in order to get the Bayern soldiers home again, alive. Newbery-Honor winner Shannon Hale returns the reader to the intrigue and magic of Bayern, first introduced in her critically acclaimed novel, The Goose Girl. Enter a world where even those with no special magical skills find in themselves something they never imagined.
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Broken Lands

Broken Lands

Jonathan Maberry

Mystery & Thrillers / Horror / Comics & Graphic Novels

New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry returns to the world of Rot & Ruin with this first novel in a brand-new series that's more thrilling and filled with exceptionally terrifying adventures.Ever since her mother's death, Gabriella "Gutsy" Gomez has spent her days flying under the radar. But when her mother's undead body is returned to her doorstep from the grave and Gutsy witnesses a pack of ravagers digging up Los Muertos—her mother's name for the undead—she realizes that life finds you no matter how hard you try to hide from it. Meanwhile, Benny Imura and his gang set out on a journey to finish what Captain Joe Ledger started: they're going to find a cure. After what they went through in the Rot and Ruin, they think they've seen it all, but as they venture into new and unexplored territory, they soon learn that the zombies they fought before were nothing compared to what they'll face in the wild beyond the peace...
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Rambo III

Rambo III

David Morrell

Literature & Fiction / Mystery & Thrillers / Comics & Graphic Novels

The most dangerous man in the world is back! Rambo is in exile far from home in Thailand, vowing to renounce violence and war. When his country calls him once again, he refuses to accept. But then he learns that Colonel Trautman, the only man he trusts, has been kidnapped by Soviets on a mission that Rambo rejected. For Rambo, it’s a call to arms—and a mission back into hell.
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Fear The Alien

Fear The Alien

Dan Abnett

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Comics & Graphic Novels / Short Stories

The Imperium of Man has many enemies among the stars, but none are reviled so much as the alien. Dangerous races seek to destroy humanity wherever they turn –the brutish orks, the ravening hordes of the tyranid, the unrelenting necrons and the mysterious forces of the tau and the eldar. Across the universe, humanity and their defenders, the Space Marines, seek to eradicate these xenos threats. Yet all they can hope for is another day of survival – for to stand against the alien is to enter an unending war...
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Edited

Edited

Barry Lyga

Literature & Fiction / Comics & Graphic Novels / Young Adult

In the spirit of Stranger Than Fiction, New York Times bestselling author Barry Lyga takes the reader on a wild and surreal ride through the heart of his own creation—perfect for fans of A. S. King, Andrew Smith, and Jeff Zentner.What starts as a love story between two teens—whose crumbling relationship coincides with a crumbling reality—ends up as a journey toward their creator, Barry Lyga, in a love story about creation itself.This is a love story.Mike loves Philomel. Always.Philomel loves Mike. Sometimes.After doing something stupid that drives away the love of his life, Mike begins to notice that the world itself seems to be suffering the aftereffects of his bad decision. Reality as he knows it has... changed. And before he can fully understand the ramifications, he's on an odyssey unlike any other, trying to figure out how to repair the universe and return his lost Philomel to his side. It's not time travel. It's not...
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Circles Of Fear

Circles Of Fear

Brian Cain

Horror / Comics & Graphic Novels / Mystery & Thrillers

CIRCLES OF FEAR is about family feuds, music, romance, love, sex, crime, corruption, murder, politics, wealth, power and the battle of Armageddon.CIRCLES OF FEAR is about family feuds, music, love, sex, crime, corruption, murder, politics, wealth, power and the battle of Armageddon. Author Brian Cain has played blues harmonica for fifty years, sung and fronted boogied blues bands for thirty five years. During this time he witnessed blues guitar players being exploited, shafted, robbed and usually thrown on the scrap heap. Sometimes he watched as they argued with venue managers of over a few lousy bucks.Author Brian Cain has made a blues guitar player the most powerful person in the universe in a tale of the battle of Armageddon at the turn of the second millennium. The extreme character of Jason Brinkly is one blues guitar player who has a win.A feel good story as he battles the normal boredom, come fun life in a band, and is thrown to the lions of darkness in the conflict of Armageddon. Carrying the sword of the cross from a most unlikely source he must rise from boredom, fight through disaster, wrangle with stardom, and confront power, kicking arse all the way. Where will this lead and can a humble blues guitarist overcome such odds?
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Rose and Deshica

Rose and Deshica

Michael Ewing

Comics & Graphic Novels

A short story I wrote set in the Guardians Universe that seems especially fitting now after losing an uncle to cancer.This story takes place after the second Guardians novel "Blood in the Water" and is about the Water Guardian's mother and her unexpected journey into Faerie.
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