Action and adventure fiction
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Seventeen-year-old Signal Deere has raised eyebrows for years as an unhappy Goth misfit from the trailer park. When she's convicted of her best friend Rose's brutal murder, she's designated a Class A-the most dangerous and manipulative criminal profile. To avoid prison, Signal signs on for a secret program for eighteen-and-under Class As and is whisked off to an abandoned sleep-away camp, where she and seven bunkmates will train as assassins. Yet even in the Teen Killers Club, Signal doesn't fit in. She's squeamish around blood. She's kind and empathetic.
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CIA Agent Daniel Winters has a way with women; they always end up trying to kill him. Juggling his loyalty to his government and chasing the truth no matter where it leads, Daniel puts his trust in just a few D&D friends and fellow agents to watch his back. But the Codex team is overwhelmed and needs more manpower, and in a world with body-hopping necromancers and alien doppelgangers, who can be trusted? That's a problem for another day, though, because Morgana has been spotted in France, and that's one woman who just won't wait.
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Deep beneath the Empire State University library, a frustrated student finds the lost legacy of ESU's most infamous alumnus. Victor Von Doom's lab notebooks-instructions for how to build a machine that can pierce the veil between Earth and the netherworld-have fallen into the wrong hands. A gate is opened where none should exist, and someone-or something-has invaded our world.The Fantastic Four would be the team to face such a threat...if they could reach one another. Force shields erected around Manhattan by the over-anxious agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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A previously unknown translation of an ancient grimoire, the Darkhold, has been unearthed by archaeologists in South America. But this chilling discovery will have far-reaching effects. Halfway across the globe, the Darkhold is relentlessly pursued by the Cabal of Scrier, an organization devoted to achieving ultimate power through whatever means necessary. And it is through their actions that a darkness from beyond the grave will return to haunt the Spectacular Spider-Man in the form of one of the most frightening and dangerous foes he's ever encountered...
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He has a past shrouded in mystery, a skeleton sheathed in indestructible metal, unbreakable claws that can cut through almost anything, and a mutant healing factor that can mend virtually any wound.His friends call him Logan. The X-Men call him Wolverine.While visiting Japan, he is recruited to recover a stolen experimental drug, one that has the potential to be a true miracle cure for all human disease-or a sadistic means of enslaving the world.
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Thanos' pursuit of the Infinity Gems has always defined him. But when the Marvel heroes defeat him once again, Thanos' beloved Mistress Death grants him one final chance. Stripped of his powers and his old skin, Thanos embarks on a cosmic walkabout to reassert his power over himself and the Multiverse. Haunted by family-or the semblances of it-the Mad Titan may become something else entirely. Will he maintain his illusions of grandeur, or is this a new path for a lost god?
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With her mentors gone, Kyoshi--the true Avatar--voyages across the Four Nations, struggling to keep the peace. But while her reputation grows, a mysterious threat emerges from the Spirit World.
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After years of searching for the next Avatar, the four nations have found peace with Avatar Yun, until Kyoshi, Yun's friend and servant, demonstrates remarkable bending abilities herself. With the identity of the true Avatar at stake, Kyoshi and her fiery friend Rangi flee the Avatar mansion and find supporters in the daofei, outlaws living in the shadows of the Earth Kingdom. But while Kyoshi, Rangi, and their daofei friends face off against underworld rivals, those who seek to control the Avatar draw close.
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Drake's friends Mina and Caspar, their dragons, and Worm were trapped in stone by the evil wizard Astrid who has stolen their dragons' powers, but Drake himself was saved from a similar fate by Astrid's sister Hulda; now because of his strong connection with Worm, Drake is able to help his dragon to break free, but to free the others they need the assistance of three other dragons—a lava dragon, a sea dragon, and a wind dragon—and they have to do it before Astrid can steal the powers of even more dragons.
Publisher (Source)
New York : Scholastic, 2021
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The evil wizard Maldred has stolen the gold and silver keys which will allow him to releasethe Naga, the powerful Earthquake Dragon at the center of the earth--so Drake and several of the otherDragon Masters travel to the Naga's Temple in the Dragon Islands, to try and stop Maldred, and preventhim and the Earthquake Dragon from destroying the kingdom .
Publisher (Source)
New York : Scholastic, 2019