Greg Rucka
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English
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Jad Bell and his team have a new mission to protect a dignitary on a transatlantic flight. 38,000 feet up they do just that, bringing the plane safely to ground after defending against an attack. But they've been duped. The attempt on the plane was a decoy, and the real target has already been hit, leaving Jad and his crew and scrambling on a search-and-rescue mission that sends them sprinting around the world. Greg Rucka's new novel is a propulsive,...
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Pub. Date
2015
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English
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Han Solo and Chewbacca the Wookiee team-up for an all-new adventure in this thrilling upper middle grade novel. Set between Star Wars: A New Hope and Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, the story follows everyone's favorite pair of smugglers as they fly the Millennium Falcon on a top-secret mission for the Rebellion. Hidden in the story are also hints and clues about the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, making this...
3) Patriot acts
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Atticus Kodiak novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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For the first time in his life, professional bodyguard Atticus Kodiak is laying low—with Alena Cizkova, aka Drama, once the world's premier assassin and now the target of assassination herself. Atticus and Alena are wounded, alone, and on the run from what they've done, what they haven't done and what they'll need to do to survive. From Eastern Europe to Geneva to the Montana wilderness, they're being hunted across the world by someone more powerful
...Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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An edge-of-the-knife story of crimes of the flesh--and of the heart--from the"refreshingly bold talent" who creates a new kind of hero: a young woman in free fall who's not only in danger ... but dangerous. Mim Bracca is riding the fast lane straight off the end of the world. Now she's coming home without a future and without a prayer--and only one last chance to get her feet under her, or go down forever. But home has its own terrors, including a...
6) Alpha
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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For the visitors to Wilsonville, the largest theme park in the world, the day began with a smile. By the end, they wonder-will they be able to escape with their lives? Retired Delta Force operator, Master Sergeant Jonathan "Jad" Bell, is Wilsonville's lead undercover security officer. The threat begins with the announcement of a hidden dirty bomb, but quickly becomes something far, far worse.
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"Journey with us into the time after the end of Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka (Punisher, Wolverine, Gotham Central) and artist Marco Checchetto (Avengers World, Punisher) take us past the destruction of the second Death Star -- and into the chaos of a shattered Empire. Everything you need to know is right here!" -- back cover.
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Pub. Date
2015.
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216 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Reveals the origins of a doubtful stormtrooper for the First Order called FN-2187, a young scavenger on the desert planet of Jakku who calls herself Rey, and a hotshot Republic pilot named Poe Dameron, before they become involved in the major conflicts disrupting the galaxy.
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Wolverine volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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Pub. Date
2015.
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183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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"In this story, set between Star Wars: a New Hope and Star Wars: the Empire Strikes Back, Han and Chewie must fly the Millennium Falcon on a top-secret mission for the Rebellion, while evading ruthless bounty hunters and a relentless imperial agent."--Page 4 of cover.
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[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Heroic. Iconic. Unstoppable. Armed with her Lasso of Truth and imbued with the power of the gods themselves, Princess Diana of Themyscira--known to the world as Wonder Woman--is one of the greatest superheroes in history. But who is she...really? Not even Wonder Woman herself knows for sure. Diana's links to both the Amazons and the Gods of Olympus have been severed. Her memories are a tangle of contradictions that even her lie-detecting lasso cannot...
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Pub. Date
[2004]
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214 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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This intense new standalone Batman graphic novel stars one of the Dark Knight's most enigmatic adversaries: Ra's Al Ghul - the featured villain in the forthcoming movie Batman Begins! 600 years old, Ra's Al Ghul has spent his existence trying to wipe out humanity. But now, with his life draining away, Ra's turns to Batman, to help save him, whether to aid his ancient namesis, Batman's decision may be wrested from him when another party enters the...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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234 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
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English
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When the Kyber Temple on Jedha is assumed control by the Empire, Baze and Chirrut do what they can to secure the population of the Holy City with help of Saw Gerrera, who has a plan to bring down the Empire.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Princess Diana--Wonder Woman--is a hero to the world. But there are those who see her very differently. And one of those, Veronica Cale, the leader of the all-powerful Godwatch, will stop at nothing to use Diana to get what she wants: revenge on the gods themselves! As the story unfolds from year to year, bridging the gap between the YEAR ONE story to present day, Wonder Woman faces off against not just scheming Cale, but also the powerful witch...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"The team of Rucka and artist Nicola Scott weave the definitive and shocking tale of Diana's first year as Earth's protector. Paradise has been breached, Ares stirs, and the Amazons must answer with a champion of their own...one who is willing to sacrifice her home amongst her sisters to save a world she has never seen. Wonder Woman's journey begins in this epic origin story!"--
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Pub. Date
2017.
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1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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English
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"Diana's search for the truth about herself, her history, and her home Themyscira, takes her on a journey into darkness. But the price of understanding may be one sacrifice too many for Wonder Woman"--
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
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English
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In these stories, the Amazing Amazon must use every ounce of her strength and steel to bring down gods, monsters and, when mind-controlling villains take control, even her friends.
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Pub. Date
2011.
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338 pages ; 18 cm
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English
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Burned out from a decade in Special Section clandestine ops, Tara Chance applies for a desk job so that she can spend more time with her daughter only to be drawn into a mission involving the Ayatollah's son's request to defect.