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1) Void moon
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English
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A novel on a casino robbery in Las Vegas carried out by a woman. She is Cassie Black, a professional thief who thought she was stealing a quarter million dollars. Instead, the loot turns out to be two million and the mob sends a killer after her.
FROM THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE HARRY BOSCH AND THE LINCOLN LAWYER SERIES "A RIVETING, BREATHLESS THRILLER."--LOS ANGELES TIMES In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The global icon is an omnipresent but poorly understood element of mass culture. This book asks why audiences around the world have embraced particular iconic figures, how perceptions of these figures have changed, and what this tells us about transnational relations since the Cold War era. Prestholdt addresses these questions by examining one type of icon: the anti-establishment figure. As symbols that represent sentiments, ideals, or something else...
3) Luna funesta
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo USA
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Español
Description
Cassie Black has never looked back. She walked away from her life as a criminal after one disastrous night that left the man closest to her dead and her life in a shambles. Now she's thriving at a job selling Porsches to Hollywood hotshots. Through everything even her darkest moments she has been able to keep going by holding on to one perfect thing, her greatest secret, dearer to her than life itself. When that secret is threatened, Cassie tosses...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Meet Raymond Gunt. He's a B-unit cameraman who enters a downward failure spiral that takes him from London to Los Angeles and then on to an obscure island in the Pacific where a major American TV network is shooting a Survivor-style reality show. Along the way, Gunt suffers multiple comas and unjust imprisonment, is forced to re-enact the Angry Dance from the movie Billy Elliot and finds himself at the centre of a nuclear war.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Dining with the Famous and Infamous is an entertaining journey into the gastronomic peccadilloes of celebrities, stars, and notorious public figures. From outrageous artists to masterpiece authors, from rock stars to actors – everybody eats. Based on the findings of the British gastro-detective Fiona Ross, this volume explores the palates, the plates, and the preferences of the famous and infamous. Including recipes and their stories in the lives...
Author
Series
Saiyuki reload volume 8
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Sanzo has gone one way, and the rest of the party another, until they end up on opposite sides of a small mountain. The tension between the peaceful town of Youkai and the humans guarding the oasis has come to a head, and when things boil over, it's anyone's guess whose side the gang will join!
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Series
Publisher
Dynamite Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In a world where costumed heroes soar through the sky and masked vigilantes prowl the night, someone's got to make sure the 'supes' don't get out of line. And someone will! Billy Butcher, Wee Hughie, Mother's Milk, The Frenchman, and The Female are The Boys: a CIA-backed team of very dangerous people, each one dedicated to the struggle against the most dangerous force on Earth--superpower. Some superheroes have to be watched. Some have to be controlled....
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A rousing, suspenseful debut novel--True Grit meets Catch Me If You Can--based on the forgotten true story of a Robin Hood of the American frontier who pulls off the first successful kidnapping for ransom in U.S. history. Once the most wanted man in America, Pat Crowe is a forgotten folk hero who captivated the nation as an outlaw for economic justice. World, Chase Me Down resurrects him, telling the electrifying story of the first great crime of...
Author
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"It's a marvelous case of mistaken identity when Wade Wilson, the regeneratin' degenerate you know as Deadpool, kills the wrong secret agent -- and has no choice but to take his place and complete his mission! But can Deadpool keep an object of paradoxical power out of the wrong hands? Pitted against the deadly terrorist organization called GORGON, it's up to Wade Wilson to finish what his superspy victim started as only Deadpool can -- with excessive...
Series
Deadpool: world's greatest volume 1
Deadpool World's Greatest volume 7
Deadpool world's greatest volume 1
Deadpool World's Greatest volume 7
Deadpool world's greatest volume 1
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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All the world's a stage, and he's a major player! Forsooth, Deadpool will face a comedy of errors when he gets trapped in the works of William Shakespeare! Whether it turns out to be a midsummer night's dream, or much ado about nothing, it's sure to be Deadpool as you like it! Fingers crossed that all's well that ends well, so Wade can return to the tragedy that is his regular life in the Marvel Universe!
13) Venom
Author
Series
Marvel-verse volume 6
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Venom has been one of the most vicious villains in the Marvel-Verse - and one of its most lethal protectors! Get to know the sinister symbiote with some of his most action-packed adventures! It all begins with Spider-Man's symbiotic black costume - a killer outfit in more ways than one! And Spider-foes, including the Rhino and the Shocker, will find out just how dangerous it is! But after Spidey scorns and abandons the alien suit, the vengeful symbiote...
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