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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...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Season 1. The Boys is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes--as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians, and as revered as gods--abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. It's the powerless against the superpowerful as The Boys embark on a heroic quest to expose the truth about "The Seven" and their formidable Vought backing.
Season 2. In a more intense Season Two Butcher, Hughie and the team reel from their...
Publisher
Sony Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In a world where superheroes are largely the property of the military-industrial complex - and answerable to no one - the job of keeping them in line by any means necessary is gleefully accepted by black-ops contracter Billy Butcher and his cadre of operatives known as " The Boys."
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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.
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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...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark2s surprising decision to support...
10) Deadpool 2
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Searching to regain his spice for life, as well as a flux capacitor, Wade Wilson must battle ninjas, the Yakuza, and a pack of sexually aggressive canines, as he journeys around the world to discover the importance of family, friendship, and flavor.
11) Deadpool
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
Publisher
Marvel Studios
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
After another incident involving the Avengers results in collateral damage, political pressure mounts to install a system of accountability, headed by a governing body to oversee and direct the team. The new status quo fractures the Avengers, resulting in two camps, one led by Steve Rogers and his desire for the Avengers to remain free to defend humanity without government interference, and the other following Tony Stark's surprising decision to support...
13) Black Adam
Publisher
Warner Brothers Entertainment Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods-and imprisoned just as quickly-Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world.
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods - and imprisoned just as quickly - Black Adam is freed from his earthly tomb, ready to unleash his unique form of justice on the modern world....
15) Logan
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
In the near future, a weary Logan cares for an ailing Professor X in a hide out on the Mexican border. But Logan's attempts to hide from the world and his legacy are up-ended when a young mutant arrives, being pursued by dark forces.
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!
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.
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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....
Author
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...
20) Deadpool
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Based upon Marvel Comics' most unconventional anti-hero, the film tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who, after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life
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