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Secret histories volume 2
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Eddie Drood's clan has been watching mankind's back for ages. And now he's in charge of the whole kit and caboodle. But it's not going to be an easy gig... During World War II, the Droods made a pact with some nasty buggers from another dimension known as the Loathly Ones, which they needed to fight the Nazis. But once the war was over, the Loathly Ones decided that they liked this world too much to leave. Now it's up to Eddie to make things very...
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Award-winning author James Alan Gardner returns to the superheroic fantasy world of All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault with They Promised Me The Gun Wasn't Loaded.
Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college students superhuman powers. Now Jools and her friends (who haven't even picked out a name for their superhero team yet) get caught up in the hunt for a Mad Genius's misplaced super-weapon.
But when Jools falls...
5) Irregulars
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Three lost isles to protect Atlantis ...
James Chase needs magic from seven elements in order to deploy the Lighthouse island from the pocket dimension where it was built. However, the element of Air is missing, its elemental long dead.
Chase turns to healer Jayesh Khatri, who used to work with magic smugglers to illegally track shard carriers. Jayesh joins forces with Nell and Max, a couple of streetwise teenagers struggling to straighten out their...
6) Tyrona
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The Emperor of Atlantis has begun his invasion of Earth. When the erstwhile supervillain Dr. Regulus loses his entire robot assembly factory to a sudden attack of Atlantean Exiles, the Atlantean Isles prepare for war. The leaders of the Lost Isles, James Chase, Tane Casak, and Jayesh Khatri prepare their islands for the battle they've known was coming for so long. As the Exiles emerge from portals and swarm the islands with a fearsome mechanized army,...
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Bonnie’s mom was a supervillain. Bonnie’s dad is a mad scientist. She’s always despised her own powers, but when she’s kidnapped by a pair of vigilantes, she has to decide to use them or to live in denial forever.
This is a short novel from the City of Masks universe.
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Three years after the showdown with Finch razed their hometown of Freepoint and changed their lives forever, Phillip & the rest of The Ables gang find another school year interrupted by a growing threat. Relations with the government have never been more strained and the political rhetoric has shifted to a more hostile tone when discussing those with special abilities. A new branch of Homeland Security has been empowered to investigate custodial acts...
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Mercedes is just trying to make her way through life: taking classes, working her shift as a barista, and, when she can squeeze it in, writing short stories. Inoculated with a pencil favored by her literary heroes, she finds herself imbued with startling abilities. She can write the imagined future into existence and rewrite the past but with disastrous consequences. When a hate crime erupts in her neighborhood, Mercedes is certain that it's her fault....
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Barely a month as a superhero and Dice Ford struggles with the attention-and lack of it.Metro City lavishes fannish praise on their hero. But Dice's mother?She sees her daughter as a failure in life.Then the arrival of a second female superhero throws her family life into chaos. Dice must make a stand for herself. Can her family survive?A page-turning superhero novella.
11) Hero Revealed
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Sure, he was sexy, but she'll never trade her badge for his bed.Earth was to have been my prison, but for some reason I have developed extraordinary powers and found a woman with whom I see a future filled with happiness. I know how much she values her job, but the lovely Brett Briggs has no idea what I lost when I was banished to this planet. I cannot allow her to place herself in danger, and I will use any means to protect her.Who does Kristos Kilsgaard...
12) Empowered: Rebel
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What do you do when a conspiracy suppresses super powers?
Mathilda Brandt fights to keep her fellow Empowered friends and the Imbued refugees from Sanctuary alive and safe. Environmental disasters are ravaging the world. Her former master, the secretive government agency known as Support, hunts her and the other rogue Empowered and Imbued across the world, seeking to capture or kill them. Only the strange Dark-Net, an extra-dimensional road, keeps...
13) Adam's Kiss
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A face she'd never seen...
Since her beloved fiancé's death, Molly Kincade has dedicated her life to teaching underprivileged kids in Los Angeles. She has no time for anything or anyone else--until Adam Walsh rescues her in a dark alley. The swift, melting attraction she feels for the stranger stuns Molly and ignites a passion and hope she'd thought was long dead.
Adam Walsh is an ex-government agent with a new identity and an extraordinary secret--and...
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In a world under siege from serpent vampires and monstrous demons and their mutant minions, only Exorcist Templars can save Earth from certain doom.
And when a hospice visit turns deadly, only one slayer can save the day: Captain Staker.
But staking succubus serpents and their mutant minions may prove trickier than he ever imagined.
Grab Suicide by Succubus and you'll never see vampires the same again!
15) The Crashers
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At 9:17 AM, a subway train crashed in East Brighton City. That was when everything changed. Five survivors emerge from the accident: former detective Kyle Jeong; single mother Norah Aroyan; Afghanistan veteran Adam Harlow; the genius Clara Reyes; and the dying Bridger Levi. These five strangers walk away from the crash unscathed, only to realize the event has left each of them with strange new powers. As their city falls into chaos around them, they...
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Secret histories volume 8
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2014.
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"The Secret Histories novels deliver "a terrific, adventurous blend of genres...[and] high-octane heroism," (SFRevu) wrapped up in a thrilling and dangerous supernatural world that only New York Times bestselling author Simon R. Green could dream up.... Call me Drood, Eddie Drood. Some know me as Shaman Bond and most simply don't want to know me at all. For centuries, my family has been keeping the things that lurk on the darker side of existence...
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Secret histories volume 3
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Eddie Drood's evil-stomping skills have come to the attention of the legendary Alexander King, Independent Agent extraordinaire. The best of the best, King spent a lifetime working for anyone and everyone, doing anything and everything, for the right price. Now, he's on his deathbed and looking to bestow all of his priceless secrets to a successor, provided he or she wins a contest to solve the world's greatest mysteries. Eddie has to win, because...
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The Gods of Olympus were real. In fact, the great Olympian Forefather Zeus was the forefather for such historical giants as Thor and George Washington. But that was long ago, now the descendants of the Gods have new jobs: Superheroes. In a world where power and myth have walked hand in hand, professional heroes serve alongside humanity to combat those who would use their Gifts for evil.
After gravity-manipulating teen, Jordan Harris is arrested for...
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Sixteen years ago, Alex Nova defied the impossible and shook the world to its core. He made children into superhumans and, in doing so, made a villain out of himself. At age twenty, Rex Nova took the consequences of his father's actions and used them to make himself into a superhero, so he could protect the world his father almost broke. Unknown to him, however, are the secrets buried in his genetics. Hidden truths soaked in tainted blood. Like his...
20) Unemployed Brice
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Duster plunged forward and grabbed Brice before she could move, then slammed her head against the metal railing, rendering Brice unconscious. With ease, Duster tossed Brice over the railing and into the vat of toxic waste.Greer screamed as Brice landed with a sickening splash. The green fluid was thick and viscous. Brice slowly sank, face-first into the glowing sludge. "Brice! Brice!" Greer screamed.But Brice Johnson was gone. In the continuing Extraordinary...
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