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Author
Publisher
BOOM! Studios
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
In her continuing macabre journey as a grim reaper, Jessica Harrow is still trapped in Las Vegas with fellow reapers Eddie and Marcel, where they encounter a fabulous twist on mythical Greek figures, as well as someone with the authority to get them out of their phantasmal dilemma. Jess' means of moving between the world of the living and the realm of the dead has also gone amok. When everyone becomes marked for death but no one is dying, the consequences...
Author
Publisher
Visible Ink
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Once upon a time, science fiction was only in the future. It was the stuff of drive-ins and cheap double-bills. Then, with the ever-increasing rush of new, society-altering technologies, science fiction pushed its way to the present, and it busted out of the genre ghetto of science fiction and barged its way into the mainstream. What used to be mere fantasy (Trips to the moon? Wristwatch radios? Supercomputers capable of learning?) are now everyday...
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Ireland, A.D. 671. An Anglo-Saxon delegation arrives in Cashel to debate the new religious rules that have been handed down from Rome. The Abbot of Imleach leads the Irish delegation, which is hostile to the new rules from outsiders. Among the Anglo-Saxon group is Brother Eadulf's own younger brother Egric, whom Eadulf hasn't seen for many years. When the debate quickly becomes acrimonious, a local abbess has to step in as a mediator between the...
Author
Series
Washington Square Press book volume W650
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
c1961
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Diagnosed with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) in his teenage years, Harry Thompson looks back with wit and humour at the ups and downs of family and romantic relationships, school, work and mental health, as well as his teenage struggle with drugs and alcohol. By embracing neurodiversity and emphasising that autistic people are not flawed human beings, Thompson demonstrates that some merely need to take the "scenic route" in order to flourish...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Sabretooth has seized control of the ancient ninja army, the Hand, and is determined to reshape it in his own monstrous image. But the old order is resistant. To tighten his grip, the traditional ways of the Hand must be banished forever. Luring Wolverine to Japan, Sabretooth plots to destroy both his hated enemy and the Hand's past. As Logan becomes Public Enemy No. 1 in the Land of the Rising Sun, his capture is tasked to the new Silver Samurai...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Each episode contains two shorts, starring Bugs Bunny from the Looney Tunes as the main character. Other characters, such as Wile E. Coyote and Yosemite Sam, show up to annoy him. Some characters are given new traits. Wile E. is Bugs' smart-aleck neighbor, while the Tasmanian Devil (renamed 'Theodore Tasmanian') is employed as an accountant, though he represses his true self.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When a man says he's going to kill you, believe him. The stench of death hangs over Happyville. When Flintlock rides into town, he sees windows caked in dust, food rotting on tables, and a forgotten corpse hanging at the gallows. The citizens of Happyville are dead in their beds, taken down by a deadly scourge, and Flintlock must stay put, or risk spreading the killer disease. His quarantine is broken by Cage Kingfisher, a mad clergyman who preaches...
92) Bacchanal
Author
Publisher
47North
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival's newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come.
Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It's a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she's a magical tender. To others, a she-devil....
93) The civil wars
Author
Publisher
Sensibility Recordings/Columbia Records
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Three time Grammy-award winning duo the Civil Wars return with the highly anticipated follow up to their acclaimed debut, Barton Hollow. Included on the album is the track I Had Me a Girl, which sees the duo working with legendary producer Rick Rubin.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The stunning story of a young woman, an international crisis, and the triumph of the human spirit. Adrift in a frigid sea, no land in sight--just debris from the ship's wreckage and floating corpses all around--nineteen-year-old Doaa Al Zamel floats with a small inflatable water ring around her waist and clutches two children, barely toddlers, to her body. The children had been thrust into Doaa's arms by their drowning relatives, all refugees who...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The legend of Bruce Springsteen may well outlast rock 'n' roll itself. And for all the muscle and magic of his life-shaking concerts with the E Street Band, his legendary status comes down to the songs. He is an acknowledged master of music and lyrics, with decades of hits. [This book] digs into the writing and recording of [all the songs] on Springsteens's studio albums, from 1973 to 2014 (plus all the released outtakes), and offers a unique look...
98) Grave importance
Author
Series
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead, who must solve a dangerous medical mystery at a secret French spa for mummies. Oasis Natrun: a private, exclusive, highly secret luxury health spa for mummies, high in the hills above Marseille, equipped with the very latest in therapeutic innovations both magical and medical. To Dr. Greta Helsing, London's de facto mummy specialist, it sounds like paradise. But when Greta is invited to spend four months there...