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Sam Holloway is a survivor, but he's not really into living. His meticulous routines and quiet lifestyle keep everything nice and safe--with just one exception... Three nights a week, Sam dons his superhero costume and patrols the streets. It makes him feel invincible--but his unlikely heroics are getting him into some sticky situations. Then a girl comes along and starts to shatter the walls Sam has built around himself. Now he needs to decide if...
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In a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or perhaps future universe, a team of superheroes ponder modern society during their time off. Between black-ops missions and rescuing hostages, they swap stories of artistic malaise and muse on the seemingly inescapable grip of market economics.
Gleefully toying with the conventions of the novel, Dear...
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"Welcome to The Egg, an off-campus geodesic dome where David Fuffman and his crew of alienated Princeton students train for what might be the end of days: America is in a perpetual state of war, climate disasters create a global state of emergency, and scientists believe time itself may be collapsing. Funded by the charismatic Mathias Blue and fueled by performance enhancers and psychedelic drugs, a student revolution incubates at The Egg, inspired...
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Cary Beacon is a super-hero in his own mind. His mission to rescue two endangered children leads him to Mexico, where he teams up with a masked wrestler who is crazier than he is. As Cary and the wrestler fight the battle of their lives to save the kids, Cary?s disappearance forces together his fractured family back home, torn apart by a fiery tragedy decades ago. In their quest to find Cary, his sisters and brother must break down walls, root out...
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Quand une prophétie dicte le monde...
Cédiria est une cité entourée par un désert et un océan qui bascule dans le vide au bout du monde. Sur cette cité isolée règne un empereur despotique du nom de Cléon. Un jour, une météorite traverse le ciel et s'écrase devant la cité, au centre du cratère se trouve un homme, sans nom ni mémoire, portant une marque étrange: YAMUNI
Un roman fantastique dans la grande tradition du genre
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Zoe has new job. Managing a superhero with random powers is hard enough. Decoding the secret structure of existence is going to be a real challenge.
Zoe Alexakis is starting a new job. Working in the movie business has always been a dream. She should feel lucky. She does feel lucky. She does. Really.
Working as an assistant to the script coordinator for a Hollywood production company may not be what she imagined (it is, in fact, a long way...
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Extrait : "Par une belle soirée d'automne de l'année 1718, une lourde berline de voyage, qui venait d'entrer dans la petite ville d'Annecy-le-Vieux, en Savoie, s'arrêta à la porte d'une auberge qui portait pour enseigne : Au Chasseur de chamois. Trois voyageurs en descendirent. C'étaient un homme d'un âge mur et deux enfants."
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Thirty-year-old Bronwyn Artair feels out of place in her doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT. So she drops out and takes a job as a TV meteorologist, much to the dismay of her mentor. After a year of living alone in New Hampshire, enduring the indignities of her job, dumped by her boyfriend, she discovers that her deep connection to the natural world has given her an ability to affect natural forces.
When she finally accepts she really...
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