Wednesday, October 5, 2011

New Books

Graphic Novels:
Avengers vol. 1 Next Avengers -- After hearing a warning about the children of the Avengers from Kang, who has returned from the future, Captain Steve Rogers assembles a team of the Avengers to deal with the threat, including Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man, Thor, and Spider-Woman.
Chaos War -- Hercules, thought dead by his friends and collegues, has returned from exile with more power and a warning: The Chaos King is coming! The Choas King has amassed his army of alien slave gods -- and the time to strike Earth is now! Only the greatest Marvel heroes can oppose him , led by the god of heroes Hercules!
Chaos War. Avengers -- The Vision, Captain Mar-Vell, Yellowjacket, Deathcry, Swordsman, and Dr. Druid all lost their lives in the line of duty -- or in disgrace. When Earth's Mightiest Heroes are themselves laid low in the carnage of the Chaos War and the graves give up their dead, these six find themselves mysteriously returned, to re-assemble against the Chaos King's most fearsome ally -- one of the Avengers' greatest foes!
Spider-Man. Origin of the Species -- Doctor Octopus gathers Spider-Man's deadliest foes as he plots to obtain the newborn child of the Green Goblin and Menace.
Essential. The Amazing Spider-Man. vol. 10 --  The adventures of Spider-Man continue as Peter Parker tries balancing his work problems and his love life with Deb Whitman, while Spider-Man faces enemies right and left! Guest-starring the Fantastic Four, Moon Knight, Black Cat, and the Punisher.
Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four -- Spider-Man teams up with the Fantastic Four to battle a variety of threats and foes.
Amazing Spider-Man. Big Time -- Just as Peter Parker appears to get his life in order, with a new job and a new girlfriend, he and his friends, the Avengers, must reunite to defeat the Hobgoblin who has been hired by the Kingpin of Crime to spread crime and destruction throughout the city.
Spider-Man. Am I an Avenger -- After years of fighting crime on his own, the web-spinner has become one of Earth's Mightiest Heroes! But, this isn't the first time he's joined the team! Collected here is Spider-Man's tenuous history with the Avengers as they face the end of the universe, prison breakouts, and a massive battle with the Hulk!
Amazing Spider-Man. The Complete Ben Reilly Epic -- Meet Ben Reilly, clone of Spider-Man! When Peter Parker decides to retire, Ben takes up the job as the new web-slinger in town, the Scarlet Spider!
Amazing Spider-Man. The Original Clone Saga -- Remember the good old days when Spidey's life wasn't very complicated? When evil scientists like the Jackal sought to destroy him? When Gwen Stacy showed up on his doorstep, suddenly alive? See the original clone saga unravel as Spider-Man tries to keep up!
Essential. Peter Parker the Senstional Spider-Man. vol. 5 -- Spidey's got friends: Black Cat, Wasp, Paladin, Starfox, and Daredevil. Spidey's go enemies: Spot, Blacklash, Kingpin, Killer Shrike, Blaze, Rocket Racer, Sin-Eater
Hulk Visionaries. Peter David. vol. 8 -- The situation in Trans-Sabal may lead to nuclear disaster, and the Hulk, the Pantheon, and X-Factor are at war among themselves to stop it!
Marvel Masterworks. X-Men vol. 3 -- See the X-Men confronted by a host of villains weird and varied, from Count Nefaria and his horde of henchmen to the Locust and the Aztec-inspired Kukulcán. Witness the first appearance of X-Men mainstay Banshee and read the rare stories when a sixth mutant member, the Mimic, joined Professor X's squad.
X-Men. Second Coming Revelations -- As the mutant population dwindles to a mere 181, the messianic girl named Hope returns from the future, carrying with her the hope of repopulating the mutant race. But, Bastion, a highly evolved mutant-hunting Sentinel robot, lies in wait. He's acquired an alien virus that allows him to reanimate and control some of the X-Men's deadliest enemies, including Bolivar Trask, the creator of the Sentinels himself!
Uncanny X-Men. Quarantine --  Is there anything worse than that slow, sinking feeling like you're getting sick? So what if it happened to all the X-Men, all at once? The Sublime are back, and they've unleashed a contagion on Utopia. To what end? Why now? And what's next?
X-Men. Curse of the Mutants -- When a suicide bomber strikes in downtown San Francisco, it gets the X-Men's immediate attention. But, this is not your garden variety terrorist, and he's not acting alone. Vampires from around the globe are descending en masse on the City by the Bay, staking a brutal claim for the patch of land the X-Men call their home.
Brightest Day vol. 3 -- Hawkman and Hawkgirl pay a visit to the Star Sapphires, but with the Hawks' connection to the cosmic corps, it looks like this meeting may end in bloodshed. And more even more blood may be drawn as Captain Boomerang hunts down Deadman and Dove!
Blackest Night. Tales of the Corps. -- Witness Saint Walker's pilgrimage of hope, Carol Ferris' sacrifice for love, the first appearance of the Indigo Tribe, and much more!
Green Lantern Corps. Vol. 6, Blackest Night -- As the Green Lantern Corps and their uneasy allies battle the Black Lanterns, Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, and John Stewart struggle to save the power source on the planet Oa from the Black Lanterns, a fight which threatens the entire universe.
Green Lantern. Vol. 7, Blackest Night -- Expands on the War of the Light as the evil Black Lanterns descend on all of the Corps throughout the universe, and explains villain Black Hand's connection to death and the Black Lantern corps.
Blackest Night -- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps must join forces with their rivals of the other colors to battle the Black Lanterns, an army of undead superheroes and villains--all their deceased friends and foes--who are out to destroy all life.
Batman. Imposters
-- when Gotham goes insane and a false Batman goes up against a faux Joker, what can the real Dark Knight do?
Superman Chronicles vol. 9 -- The ninth collection of early Superman adventures in which Superman defends Metropolis from the Merchant of Murder, the Human Bomb, and the World's Meanest Man.
Justice Leage. Cry for Justice -- When Batman and Martian Manhunter are slaughtered by Prometheus, their allies Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Shazam, Supergirl, and Starman team together to defeat him before he can attack again.
DC Universe Legacies --  Meet Paul Lincoln: dedicated Metropolis police officer, loving husband and father, and witness to the major events of DC Universe history, from the rise of the Justice Society of America to the fall of Batman and Superman. Even as the world seems to turn darker, Paul never stops believing in the superheroes.
Do Anodroids Dream of Electric Sheep vol. 5 -- the 5th of six volumes narrates the original novel version of the movie Bladerunner.
Gotham City Sirens. vol. 3, Strange Fruit -- Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn are tired of playing by other people's rules. As Catwoman deals with the aftermath of battling her sister, Poison Ivy's career at Gotham City's S.T.A.R. Labs takes an unexpected turn. Secrets involving the "Return of Bruce Wayne" storyline affect all three Sirens, setting them against each other in a brutal display of their villainous roots.

Fiction:
Glow by Amy Ryan -- Part of the first generation to be conceived in deep space, fifteen-year-old Waverly is expected to marry young and have children to populate a new planet, but a violent betrayal by the dogmatic leader of their sister ship could have devastating consequences.
Damned by Nancy Holder -- As the newly appointed Hunter, teenager Jenn leads the fighting teams who defend against the Cursed Ones -- the vampires who are taking over Earth -- but an even more sinister force now threatens the teams of hunters, with the fate of humanity at stake.
Hades by Alexandra Adornetto -- Even the love of her boyfriend, Xavier Woods, and her archangel siblings, Gabriel and Ivy, can't keep the angel Bethany Church from being tricked into a motorcycle ride that ends up in Hell. There, Jake Thorn bargains for Beth's release back to Earth. But what he asks of her will destroy her, and quite possibly her loved ones as well.
Fox Inheritance by Mary Pearson -- Two-hundred-sixty years after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, sixteen-year-old Locke and seventeen-year-old Kara have been brought back to life in newly bioengineered bodies, with many questions about the world they find themselves in and more than two centuries of horrible memories of being trapped in a digital netherworld wondering what would become of them.
Twisted by Gena Showalter -- After being saved from death by his vampire girlfriend Victoria, Aden finds himself becoming more like a vampire as his girlfriend becomes more human.
Wizard of Mars by Diane Duane -- Young wizards Kit Rodriguez and Nita Callahan manage to wangle their way onto an elite team sent to investigate the mysterious, long-sought "message in a bottle" that holds the first clues to the secrets of the ancient Martian race.
This Dark Endeavor by Kenneth Oppel -- When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.

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