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3) Fade
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Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Silver Honor Award from IBPA from the author of the ALA YALSA Reader's Choice Winner in Science Fiction and Fantasy and award-winning filmmaker Kailin Gow comes an Dystopian Thriller called FADE...What if you found out you never existed? "My name is Celestra Caine. I am seventeen years old, which makes me a senior at Richmond High. I never thought this would happen to me, but it has... I'm one of those people you see...
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New York City is eternally evolving. From its iconic skyline to its side alleys, the new is perpetually being built on the debris of the past. But a movement to preserve the city's vanishing landscapes has emerged. For nearly twenty years, Frank Jump has been documenting the fading ads that are visible, but less often seen, all over New York. Disappearing from the sides of buildings or hidden by new construction, these signs are remnants of lost eras...
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The fading advertisements on the walls of Birmingham's buildings paint an illuminating picture of the men and women who built an industrial boomtown in the first half of the twentieth century. Advertising expert, artist and writer Charles Buchanan unravels the mysteries behind Birmingham's ghost signs to reveal glimpses of the past now hidden in plain sight. Featuring stunning color photography by Birmingham native Jonathan Purvis.
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Philadelphia's faded ads are history in plain sight. They are tangible remnants of changing neighborhoods and industries, and Fading Ads of Philadelphia presents a new way to view these forgotten urban stories. Join author and photographer Lawrence O'Toole as he explores these physical touchstones of the city's history--a sign for a bygone family business seen only from the elevated train tracks, the Gretz smokestack advertising the now defunct Kensington...
7) Fever
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Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award!
YA (Young Adult) - appropriate for age 16 and up. Contains non-stop action, kissing, and twists that will keep you guessing to the very end.
PRAISE FOR THE FADE SERIES
5 out of 5 Stars - Kailin Gow has this talent to make the readers finish the book in a day, without a break.- Kitame
5 out of 5 Star - Lots of fresh original ideas in this book that kept me guessing. If you're looking for something...
8) Forgotten
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Winner of the IBPA Benjamin Franklin Silver Award!
PRAISE FOR FADE:
"Kailin Gow does her readers justice with this thrilling and mind boggling series. Fade introduces readers to a concept that is out of this world." - Woven Myst Young Adult Magazine
DESCRIPTION for FORGOTTEN (FADE BOOK 3):
A love that can never be forgotten...
The truth about Celestra Caine comes back in the most shocking way. Everyone knew Celestra Caine was dangerous, but they...
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Before the billboard, radio or television commercial, there was the painted ad. Today, these aging ads capture the imagination, harkening back to a bygone era. Vanishing paint on brick walls speaks to a time when commerce was much simpler and much more direct. Few cities in America have produced as many intriguing fading ads as St. Louis. Fewer still are home to such an expert on the subject as author Wm. Stage. For decades, Stage has studied and...
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Fade Out volume 1
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Brubaker & Phillips' newest hit series, The Fade Out is an epic noir set in the world of noir itself, the backlots and bars of Hollywood at the end of its Golden Era. A movie stuck in endless reshoots, a writer damaged from the war and lost in the bottle, a dead movie star and the lookalike hired to replace her. Nothing is what it seems in the place where only lies are true.
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Fade Out volume 5
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Act Two of the acclaimed Hollywood Noir from the best-selling team of Brubaker and Phillips.
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Fade Out volume 9
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The final act of the bestselling Hollywood noir comic from the award-winning team of Brubaker and Phillips!
13) Deathwatch
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Humanity was on the cusp of greatness when the Fade began to spread. Cities fell during the decades known as the Collapse. The spread of the disease turning human beings into bloodthirsty monsters could not be stopped. It could not even be slowed. Weapons of mass destruction burned half the world down to the bedrock.
Yet some survived.
Using technology meant to take men to the stars and find a new home there, the immune took refuge. They were the...
14) Falling
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Winner of the Benjamin Franklin Silver Honor Award from IBPA from the author of the ALA YALSA Reader's Choice Winner in Science Fiction and Fantasy and award-winning filmmaker Kailin Gow comes an Dystopian Thriller called FADE...What is Celestra Caine? Who is she and did she ever existed? The Faders and the Others clash at the Underground, sending everything into a tailspin. Celestra is pulled into more intrigue, more danger, and more romance, as...
15) Anna Undreaming
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Anna is a student surviving the city, and she lives by a simple credo, "Never play their game, their game is always rigged." For every man she has ever known, it's a saying that has served her well.
Especially when Anna becomes lost to the dark heart of the city. She finds herself hunted by Dreamers-artists, both good and evil, who construct new worlds-within a complex community that threatens to undermine reality itself. When Anna learns that she's...
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Fade Out volume 1
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THE FADE OUT tracks the murder of an up-and-coming starlet from studio backlots to the gutters of downtown Los Angeles, as shell-shocked front man Charlie Parish is caught between his own dying sense of morality and his best friend's righteous sense of justice. A picture-perfect recreation of a lost era, THE FADE OUT is an instant classic from the bestselling team of ED BRUBAKER and SEAN PHILLIPS, with acclaimed color artist ELIZABETH BREITWEISER....
17) Men of Stone
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The fight is never over, and the board is always changing.
In the isolated prison colony known as the Block, the exiled leader of the Protectorate enacts plans a decade in the making. Across the Protectorate itself, revelations about social engineering and the mass murder of citizens disguised as disease outbreaks have given rise to new political factions. Unrest is building toward a breaking point across their previously uniform and complacent...
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In the world after the Collapse, there is no lasting victory. Only the struggle. Beck Park, Deathwatch agent, has uncovered proof of a conspiracy within the oppressive Protectorate government. The goal of this cabal is stagnation through fear--controlling society into following to their decades-long plan. Though Beck and the other members of the rebellious Movement have won a skirmish against these hidden enemies, the war is far from over. Consequences...
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Broken, beaten, and exiled to the Sump, Anna has battled her way back to reality, but she returns to find her friends scattered and her enemies have grown in strength and number. And, just like in nightmares, every time she runs away, the monsters lie in wait ahead.
Anna's only hope for survival lies with new friends and a desperate plan to walk the Moonlight Road, a ghostly passage of frozen moonlight through worlds she can never touch, straight...
20) Untouched
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He was a gorgeous troublemaker with a cocky attitude.
She was the girl he shouldn't want.
They only had one summer-and a promise to have no regrets.
I wasn't prepared to meet a girl like Cadence.
She was shy and innocent, and nothing like the girls who usually flocked to my doorstep.
But how could I resist her mile-long blond hair and emerald eyes?
I knew I shouldn't want her.
The rest of my life had already been decided for me.
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