The Girl on the Glider

The Girl on the Glider

Brian Keene

Horror / Comics & Graphic Novels / Mystery & Thrillers

    Considered by many critics to be one of Brian Keene’s best works, The Girl on the Glider has been long out of print-until now!     The year is 2009, and the world’s financial and publishing sectors are in chaos. In the midst of this disarray, a burned-out horror writer finds himself haunted by a variety of ghosts, both real and metaphorical. And as the ghosts increase their attacks, his struggle to make a living quickly becomes a fight to hold on to his family-and his very sanity.     This meta-fictional take on the traditional, old-fashioned ghost story is a deft mix of M. R. James and Hunter S. Thompson, and makes for one of Keene’s most personal and powerful novellas.     Cemetery Dance, 2008. Hardcover (limited to 537+52 copies), 102 pp.
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Ghostwalkers

Ghostwalkers

Jonathan Maberry

Mystery & Thrillers / Horror / Comics & Graphic Novels

From New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Maberry, the first in a thrilling series of novels based on Deadlands, a hugely successful role-playing game (RPG) set in the Weird, Weird West.Welcome to the Deadlands, where steely-eyed gunfighters rub shoulders with mad scientists and dark, unnatural forces. Where the Great Quake of 1868 has shattered California into a labyrinth of sea-flooded caverns . . . and a mysterious substance called "ghost rock" fuels exotic steampunk inventions as well as plenty of bloodshed and flying bullets.In Ghostwalkers, a gun-for-hire, literally haunted by his bloody past, comes to the struggling town of Paradise Falls, where he becomes embroiled in a deadly conflict between the besieged community and a diabolically brilliant alchemist who is building terrible new weapons of mass destruction . . . and an army of the living dead!Deadlands is one of the most popular RPGs in history, with over a...
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A Small Death in the Great Glen

A Small Death in the Great Glen

A. D. Scott

Comics & Graphic Novels / Self Help / Business

Both probing character study and a driving novel of suspense, here is a novel that will linger in your mind like mist over the Scottish glens . . . In the Highlands of 1950s Scotland, a boy is found dead in a canal lock. Two young girls tell such a fanciful story of his disappearance that no one believes them. The local newspaper staff—including Joanne Ross, the part-time typist embroiled in an abusive marriage, and her boss, a seasoned journalist determined to revamp the paper—set out to uncover and investigate the crime. Suspicion falls on several townspeople, all of whom profess their innocence. Alongside these characters are the people of the town and neighboring glens; a refugee Polish sailor; an Italian family whose café boasts the first known cappuccino machine in the north of Scotland; and a corrupt town clerk subverting the planning laws to line his own pocket. Together, these very different Scots harbor deep and troubling secrets underneath their polished and respectable veneers—revelations that may prevent the crime from being solved and may keep the town firmly in the clutches of its shadowy past. **
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Batman 5 - Batman Begins

Batman 5 - Batman Begins

Dennis O'Neil

Comics & Graphic Novels / Science Fiction & Fantasy

Batman Begins Bruce Wayne is dead. The young heir to the Wayne empire disappeared seven years ago. His vast fortune has been given away, and the crime wave that began with the brutal murder of his parents has turned Gotham City into a living hell. The last holdouts against corruption—the cops who can't be bought, the D.A.'s who can't be intimidated—are outnumbered and outgunned. They need help . . . fast. A world away, in a dank Himalayan prison, a nameless, hardened man fights every day to survive. He has spent seven years scouring the globe, studying the criminal mind, looking for an answer to the ugly riddle of his childhood. but something has been looking for him, too. Here, in the darkest places of his own anger, Bruce Wayne will discover his destiny—and an ordinary man will become a legend.
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Know no fear. The Battle of Calth hh-19

Know no fear. The Battle of Calth hh-19

Dan Abnett

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Comics & Graphic Novels / Short Stories

Mustering for war against the orks, the Ultramarines Legion is attacked by the Word Bearers on the planet of Calth, and the forces of Chaos openly reveal their part in the Heresy. Unaware of the wider Heresy and following the Warmaster’s increasingly cryptic orders, Roboute Guilliman returns to Ultramar to muster his Legion for war against the orks massing in the Veridian system. Without warning, their supposed allies in the Word Bearers Legion launch a devastating invasion of Calth, scattering the Ultramarines’ fleet and slaughtering all who stand in their way. This confirms the worst scenario Guilliman can imagine – Lorgar means to settle their bitter rivalry once and for all. As the traitors summon foul daemonic hosts and all the forces of Chaos, the Ultramarines are drawn into a grim and deadly struggle in which neither side can prevail.
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Moonshine: A Novel

Moonshine: A Novel

Alaya Johnson

Science Fiction & Fantasy / Romance / Comics & Graphic Novels

SUMMARY: Imagining vampires at the heart of the social struggles of 1920s, Moonshine blends a tempestuous romance with dramatic historical fiction, populated by a lively mythology inhabiting the gritty New York City streets Zephyr Hollis is an underfed, overzealous social activist who teaches night school to the underprivileged of the Lower East Side. Strapped for cash, Zephyr agrees to help a student, the mysterious Amir, who proposes she use her charity worker cover to bring down a notorious vampire mob boss. What he doesn't tell her is why. Soon enough she's tutoring a child criminal with an angelic voice, dodging vampires high on a new blood-based street drug, and trying to determine the real reason behind Amir's request'not to mention attempting to resist his dark, inhuman charm.
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Protect All Monsters

Protect All Monsters

Alan Spencer

Comics & Graphic Novels

The monsters are escaping!For fifty years a secret island has existed, a cross between a prison and a preserve, created by the government to end the threat of monster attacks in the general population. Here, in relative ease, vampires, werewolves and zombies co-exist peacefully, given all the blood and meat they want by human caretakers. In exchange, the monsters do not kill.Addey is a new worker on the island, shoveling human entrails into the zombie pit. But she has uncovered something truly horrifying—an escape plan decades in the making. Now, with time running out, it's up to her to prevent the monsters from breaking free and launching an unprecedented reign of terror on mankind.
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