Lu, Marie
Summary: "There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen. Adelina Amouteru is done suffering. She's turned her back on those who have betrayed her and achieved the ultimate revenge: victory. Her reign as the White Wolf has been a triumphant one, but with each conquest her cruelty only grows. The darkness within her has begun to spiral out of control, threatening to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LUGrumley, Michael C.
Summary: The world is losing hope. Political and social infighting threaten to destroy the world. Rancor and hatred only grow stronger, engulfing entire nations. And each day moral and economic strife brings embroiled countries ever closer to war. But hope is not dead. Everywhere, pockets of human kindness and compassion continue to persevere. Where lives are cherished and virtue endures. And one small,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GRUHine, David.
Summary: As the civil war rips apart the Marvel universe, the X-Men find themselves crumbling from the inside out and must admit defeat or finally start to fight back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CIVLu, Marie
Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LULai, Larissa
Summary: "In this visionary novel by Larissa Lai--her first in sixteen years--a community of parthenogenic women, sent into exile by the male-dominated Salt Water City, goes to war against disease, technology, and powerful men that threaten them with extinction. Kirilow is a doctor apprentice whose lover Peristrophe is a "starfish," a woman who can regenerate her own limbs and organs, which she uses to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAILu, Marie
Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult World, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH FIC LUSummary: "An alien virus ravages the world, its results as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw and ace and receive superpowers, or draw the joker and are bizarrely mutated. Nevertheless, human nature reigns supreme. And one fo the most enduring human drives is the search for love. Aces and jokers alike both want to find it, or have lost it...or perhaps...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILO'Donnell, Tom
Summary: Mysterious happenings are causing major trouble at Horace Hotwater Middle School! Sam Gibbs and his super-strong tiny buddy, Hammie Rex, keep encountering creepy abnormal objects, including a floating sports jersey and a runaway go-kart. Sam doesn't believe in ghosts, but he has to admit the hauntings are getting weirder-- and more dangerous. Could bizarre mutant animals be the cause?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC O'DOWhedon, Joss
Summary: A death at Xavier Institute reveals an enemy within the Institute and the X-Men must depend on each other more than ever as their world goes crazy around them. Meanwhile, an alien race watches and waits to see if they will have to move in and finish annihilating the X-Men themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WHERowell, Rainbow
Summary: "After recent events, the Runaways are in a dark and scary place. There are so many pieces to pick up and choices to be made--and if the Runaways are good at anything it's making bad choices. Which leads them to descend into one of the most terrifying Marvel Universe locations ever: High School! It goes better for some than others. But when Wolverine and Pixie of the X-Men arrive with an offer...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 RUNSummary: "The next anthology in George R. R. Martin's ongoing Wild Cards alternate-history series, Three Kings. In the aftermath of World War II, the Earth's population was devastated by an alien virus. Those who survived were changed forever. Some, known as jokers, were cursed with bizarre mental and physical mutations; others, granted superhuman abilities, became the lucky few known as aces. Queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THRCrichton, Michael
Summary: "We live in a time of momentous scientific leaps; a time when it's possible to sell our eggs and sperm online for thousands of dollars or test our spouses for genetic maladies. We live in a time when one fifth of all our genes are owned by someone else, and an unsuspecting person and his family can be pursued cross-country because they happen to have certain valuable genes within their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CRIManning, Matthew K.
Summary: Proud members of the Bug Society of Littleton, sixth-graders Doug, Josie, Kira, and Reginald, are transformed into part-insect superheroes when they get mixed up with a mad scientist's experiment involving radioactive bugs--and they have to use their insect superpowers to defeat the evil insect villain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MANLu, Marie
Summary: "The Karensa Federation has conquered a dozen countries, leaving Mara as one of the last free nations in the world. Refugees flee to its borders to escape a fate worse than death -- transformation into mutant war beasts known as Ghosts, creatures the Federation then sends to attack Mara. The legendary Strikers, Maras elite fighting force, are trained to stop these monsters. But as the number of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC LUAusten, Chuck
Summary: "The unstoppable Juggernaut has joined the X-Men! When Cain Marko summons the X-Men to help his criminal partner Black Tom Cassidy, he surprises everyone - including himself - by accepting his hated stepbrother Professor X's off er of friendship! And he's not the only new face at the Xavier Institute, as Northstar and Husk join the teaching staff, troubled young Sammy Paré enrolls at the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 X-MEJenkins, Paul
Summary: The Superhero Registration Act is passed, the one remaining member of the superhero team involved in the Stamford Tragedy, Speedball, is captured and sent to prison, and civil war begins in the Marvel Universe as reporters Sally Floyd and Ben Urich try to cover the story in an impartial manner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Comics 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 CIVWilliams, Leah
Summary: "Mutants have conquered death! By the grace of the Five, the resurrection protocols of the island nation of Krakoa can bring any of the X-Men's fallen comrades back to life. But such a huge enterprise comes with even huger problems and complications! And when a mutant dies, X-Factor is there to investigate how and why - in order to uphold the rules of reincarnation! Writer Leah Williams...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC X-FAPak, Greg
Summary: "After a mysterious attack devastates a great swath of 19th century Japan, Korea, and China, survivors from all three lands find refuge on a hidden island and build a new society. Hana, the orphaned daughter of Korean farmers, and Kenichi, son of a great samurai leader, have little in common except for a mutual disdain for the other. But these young warriors will have to work together when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BOOM! Studios 2019
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RONWilliams, Leah
Summary: "Collects X-Factor (2020) #6-10. The fallout from X OF SWORDS continues! A dark force is manipulating the lives of X-Factor, and now Siryn is dead! Again. And again. And again - What's going on? X-Factor must follow the screams to unravel a mystery and find out the truth! Plus: A dark force is manipulating the team just as a striking revelation comes to light. Who's that knocking? Could the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marvel Worldwide, Inc. 2021