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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...
3) Bounty
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Jill Andersen is one of Baltimore's best and brightest detectives, but she harbors a dark secret - a secret that threatens to come out when the body of Dr. Trent Roberts is pulled out of the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Roberts' connection to Jill reveals a past that involves a tour in Iraq, a secretive cybernetic experiment, and a conspiracy that involves a native son.
Can Jill solve the case while still keeping her secret? Will her partners at the Seventh...
4) Blood Ties
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For as long as Jill Andersen could remember, her father was a hero.
But heroes don't commit murder, do they? The state of Maryland said Paul Andersen did just that, three times over, and was set to execute him for it. But Jill and the rest of her colleagues at the Baltimore Police Department come across the murder of a law student that leaves her hopeful that she can clear her father's name.
While Jill and her colleagues work against the clock to...
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It's hard to be a hero when everyone's out to get you.
Once upon a time, Jill Andersen considered herself a hero. Not just because of the badge handed to her by the city of Baltimore and the pledge she once made to protect and serve. Her secret life, as the vigilante Bounty, had allowed Jill to protect her native Baltimore in ways her day job never could.
But all that has gone to hell now. One case pushed Jill past her limits, to the point where...
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For Jill Andersen, being part of the Baltimore Police Department has always been both a tremendous honor and a serious responsibility. Her father, before his fall from grace, had instilled in her a great respect for police and the work they do day-to-day. But when a teenage boy winds up dead on the outskirts of downtown Baltimore, Jill finds herself once again faced with those who would abuse their badges to fulfill personal agendas and uphold biases.
Jill...
7) Hero Zero
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Not everyone is the hero of their own story . . .
Bottom-rung office worker Sevin Naughtiér probably shouldn't be alive.
His nose spontaneously leaks a weird tarlike substance. He possesses the inexplicable ability to run faster than any other creature on Earth. And a new coworker vividly remembers him committing suicide back when they were both in middle school.
It's an odd existence-but so long as the local bars serve all his favorite whiskies,...
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Dive into a realm where superpowers reign supreme but come at a dire cost in S.B. Fates' enthralling anthology, "Eclipsed Virtues: Tales of the Damned Superhuman." This collection of dark fantasy stories explores the blurred lines between heroism and villainy, unearthing the chilling consequences of superhuman capabilities. "Shadowed Justice" reveals the Night Whisperer, a vigilante with a haunting ability to trap souls in an eternal torment, finding...
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"Show me a hero; and I'll write you a tragedy." -F. Scott FitzgeraldHero and Villain.Good and Evil.Love and Hate.Would that the world were that simple. Nothing is ever simple in a world filled with superheroes and villains. She may not wear a cape or have superpowers, but no one would say Joanna Fallon isn't a hero. At great personal cost she's saved the city of Galilee Falls from two supervillains, but has finally found a measure of peace. But whatever...
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A stressed out, super-powered private investigator puts herself in harm's way in pursuit of justice in this original Marvel story.
As a private eye in New York City, it's Jessica Jones's job to investigate humanity's worst, unleashed impulses. Possessing superhuman strength and endurance does nothing to help her process other people's tragedies, much less her own slate of unresolved traumatic issues. Realizing drinking and hitting things is...
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L'histoire se déroule sur une année complète au cours de laquelle les jeunes héros vont devoir faire face à l'inconnu et au merveilleux.
A peine arrivé dans son nouveau pays, des événements étranges vont se produire autour du héros et de sa famille. Dans cette région du Languedoc, aux paysages beaux et sauvages, il va découvrir des personnes aux pouvoirs exceptionnels, héritiers de traditions très anciennes qui lui révèleront sa...
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Heropa: A vast, homogenized city patrolled by heroes and populated by adoring masses. A pulp fiction fortress of solitude for crime-fighting team the Equalizers, led by new recruit Southern Cross, a lifetime away from the rain-drenched, dystopic metropolis of Melbourne. Who, then, is killing the great Capes of Heropa? In this paired homage to detective noir from the 1940s and the '60s Marvel age of trail-blazing comic books, Andrez Bergen gloriously...
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Une étrange étoile illumine soudain le ciel et s'écrase sur Bordeaux, plongeant Jules, encore marqué par sa récente rupture, dans une expérience de mort imminente. Ce choc le transforme profondément. Les radiations de l'étoile confèrent d'étranges pouvoirs à certains humains à travers le monde : on les appelle les héristars. Trois ans plus tard, Jules est contraint de retourner à Bordeaux, sa ville natale maudite, à la recherche de...
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN ATLANTA ... After losing his dad, a teenager gains the ability to hear the music inside each human soul, allowing him to sense their emotions, see their past memories, and even manipulate their moods. Using his new gift, he vows to carry on his father's legacy and bring his killer to justice.Stephen Kibwaa had a good life and good parents, even if they pushed him hard to do his best. As a gifted pianist, Stephen was sixteen when...
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