Mike Carey
Author
Series
Felix Castor series volume 1
Pub. Date
2007, 2006.
Language
English
Description
His long-unused services as a freelance exorcist brought back into demand by a sudden increase in supernatural activity, Felix Castor reluctantly accepts a final job, but finds the ghost in question linked to dangerous and unexpected consequences.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Not every gift is a blessing. Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant Parks keeps his gun pointing at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite. But they don't laugh. Melanie is a very special girl. Emotionally charged and gripping from beginning to end, The girl with all the gifts is the most powerful and affecting...
Author
Series
Ultimate Fantastic Four volume 4
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
A classic Fantastic Four villain makes her first appearance when she turns the Baxter building into a trap designed to trap and eliminate the superhero team. Then, the Four meet the Inhumans for the first time, one of whom will steal Johnny's heart.
Author
Series
The Unwritten volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"Tom Taylor's life was screwed from the word go. His father created the mega-popular Tommy Taylor boy-wizard fantasy novels. But dad modeled the fictional epic so closely to Tom that fans constantly compare him to his counterpart, turning him into a lame, Z-level celebrity. When a scandal hints that Tom might really be the boy-wizard made flesh, Tom comes into contact with a mysterious, deadly group that's secretly kept tabs on him all his life. Now,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Responding to a telepathic distress call from a former teammate, Rogue, Magneto, Gambit and Frenzy teleport thousands of light years across the galaxy-only to find themselves caught in the crossfire of an inter-species conflict aboard a massive space station."--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Heroes are dying, and cops are dying twofold. Humanity is underpowered in the face of their onslaught, and people are suffering untold casualties trying to stem the flow. After barely surviving a super-powered bank heist gone horribly wrong, beat cop Leo Winters vowed to try and find a way to stop them. Following a lead, he discovered two lowlifes who seemed to be able to grant a person powers--for the right price. Thing is: you don't get to choose...
9) Re-gifters
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meet Jen Dik Seong-- or "Dixie" as she's known to her friends. She's living on the ragged edge of LA's Koreatown, and her only outlet is the ancient martial art of hapkido. In fact, she's on the verge of winning a championship until she falls for fellow hapkido fan/California surfer boy Adam and gets thrown spectacularly off her game. As she struggles to win the tournament -- not to mention Adam's affections -- Dixie learns that in love and in gift-giving,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With an entire country in their grasp, the super-villain team NIGHTMARE SCENARIO has forced the world's leaders to come to the table for negotiations. But Just-A-Feeling's namesake warns of an even greater, bloodier calamity, and every life Leo has managed to save helping Nightmare Scenario against his will, is suddenly at risk...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
In the country of Ossaniul, there is a fortress that is as disproportionate as it is inaccessible: the Highest House. Its masters, the noble family of Aldercrest, reign over a veritable army of slaves. At the bottom of the ladder, young Moth performs the most thankless tasks and has little hope of living past childhood. Until the day he meets Obsidian, a mysterious prisoner of the House who whispers to him in his sleep. If Moth does what he asks,...