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1) Snow White
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220L
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English
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The scene: New York City. The dazzling lights cast shadows that grow ever darker as the glitzy prosperity of the Roaring Twenties screeches to a halt. Enter a cast of familiar characters: a young girl, Samantha White, returning after being sent away by her cruel stepmother, the Queen of the Follies, years earlier; her father, the King of Wall Street, who survives the stock market crash only to suffer a strange and sudden death; seven street urchins,...
2) Lady Killer
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English
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Josie Schuller is a picture-perfect homemaker, wife, and mother—but she’s also a ruthless, efficient killer! She’s balanced cheerful domestic bliss with coldly performed assassinations, but when Josie finds herself in the crosshairs, her American Dream life is in danger! Collects issues #1–#5.
“A level of violence that can only be described as Mad Men’s Betty Draper meets Dexter.”—Comic...
“A level of violence that can only be described as Mad Men’s Betty Draper meets Dexter.”—Comic...
3) Cruel summer
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English
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"In the summer of '88, Teeg Lawless comes home to plan the biggest heist of his career. But Teeg's son Ricky and his friends are starting down the same dark path their fathers are on, and this is about to become the worst summer of their lives" --Amazon.
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November volume 1
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English
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The lives of three women intersect in a dark criminal underground. As fire and violence tears through their city over the course of a single day and night, they find that their lives are bound together by one man-who seems to be the cause of it all.
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A unique and thrilling blend of Arthurian romance and detective noir, a unique fantasy in the vein of Game of Thrones meets Chinatown. For fans of epic fantasy, queer romance, and hardboiled detective noir!
She lost everything when she fell in love with her Queen. Now she has a week to find a missing princess, or she'll lose it all again... along with her head.
Ten years after her disgrace and exile, Sir Noelani Mahi'ai - former Royal Champion...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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For years, Margo Lane has served as The Shadow's faithful friend and companion, the closest and most intimate of all his many agents. But when will that proximity to The Shadow's dark and violent world take its ultimate toll on her? And what effect will his lover's loss have on the driven and brooding Master of Darkness?
7) Reckless
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Series
Reckless (Ed Brubaker) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Sex, drugs, and murder in 1980s Los Angeles ... And the best new twist on paperback pulp heroes since The Punisher or Jack Reacher. Meet Ethan Reckless: Your trouble is his business, for the right price. But when a fugitive from his student radical days reaches out for help, Ethan must face the only thing he fears ... his own past."--
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Teenage Ellie has always had romantic ideas about drug addicts. The tragic, artistic souls drawn to needles and pills have been an obsession since the death of her junkie mother ten years ago. But when Ellie lands in an upscale rehab clinic where nothing is what it appears to be, she'll find another, more dangerous romance… and find out how easily drugs and murder go hand-in-hand. MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN JUNKIES is a seductive coming-of-age story,...
9) Night Fever
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English
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A gripping new original graphic novel from Ed Brubraker & Sean Phillips, the bestselling creators of Pulp, Reckless, Criminal, and Kill or be Killed.
Who are you, really? Are you the things you do, or are you the person inside your mind?
In Europe on a business trip, Jonathan Webb can't sleep. Instead, he finds himself wandering the night in a strange foreign city with his new friend, the mysterious and violent Rainer, as his guide. Rainer shows...
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John Wick comics volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"When a young John Wick emerges from prison and embarks upon his first epic vendetta, he comes up against a strange, powerful community of assassins and must learn how to master the Book of Rules that guides their lethal business. What are the Three Bills? Who is Calamity? And who was John Wick before he became the Baba Yaga?"--
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"In London, John Constantine is up to his usual antics. The adventures continue, quite dark and still twisted. Will he protect a group of British fishermen from an ancient merwoman? Or stop a disgraced royal from unleashing a bloodthirsty horror? There's really only one way to find out"--
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Fatale volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"The dark days of the Great Depression, ancient secrets of the Middle Ages, haunted plains of the old West, and bombed out ruins of World War Two ... The third book of the hit series Fatale features four interlinked stories of horror and noir, each one a puzzle piece in the mystery of the Femme Fatale."--
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Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Modern day reporter Nicolas Lash learns of a secret involving an ageless woman who has been on the run since the 1930s, while reporter Hank Raines meets the same woman in 1950s San Francisco and gets caught in a vicious triangle between a crooked cop and a man who is more monster than man.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"The Penguin's criminal enterprise and the Iceberg Lounge have been stolen from underneath him by his former associate, the Umbrella Man. The Umbrella Man has removed all of the rules for crime in Gotham City that the Penguin put in place, and the city is in chaos. The Penguin is a broken man, and he'll have to travel through the burning streets of Gotham with a gun and a single bullet putting together a new crew to take back what he's built. Will...
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Gotham City volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"There once was a shining city on the water, a home for families, hope, and prosperity. It was Gotham and it was glorious. The story of its fall from grace, the legend that would birth the Bat, has remained untold for 80 years. That's about to change. Superstar creators Tom King and Phil Hester team up for the first time to tell the definitive origin of Gotham City: how it became the cesspool of violence and corruption it is today, and how it harbored...
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Minor threats volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The psychotic Stickman has done the unthinkable and murdered Kid Dusk, sidekick to Twilight City's premier crime-fighter, the Insomniac. C-List villains decide to take down the Stickman and kill him themselves."--
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
Description
"The sequel to the Eisner-nominated Who is Jake Ellis? finds the American spy Jon Moore on the run again from enemies more cunning and powerful than he faced before. To survive them, the prey must become the hunter--but Jon can't do anything until he finds Jake Ellis."--
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Kill My Mother volume 02
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Our story opens in Bay City in 1931 in the midst of the Great Depression. Big Sam sees himself as a righteous, truth-seeking patriot, defending the American way, as his Irish immigrant father would have wanted, against a rising tide of left-wing unionism, strikes, and disruption that plague his home town. At the same time he makes monthly, secret overnight trips on behalf of Cousin Joseph, a mysterious man on the phone he has never laid eyes on, to...
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For the kid I saw in my dreams volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Senri used to go on adventures with his brother, but Kazuto is long gone...After suffering a blow to the head, Senri passes out. When he comes to, he's surrounded by professional gangsters and his classmate, Itakura. Senri thought Itakura was the victim of his scam, but in reality it was a set-up that puts Senri in grave danger. Itakura offers a deal: freedom for Senri and his abducted friend in exchange for all of the money that Senri's been saving...
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