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Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
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2022
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What's to Love: Part social commentary, part family drama, Americatown asks: What if the American Dream gave way to the American Nightmare? In their inaugural comic series, screenwriters Bradford Winters (Oz, Boss, The Americans) and Larry Cohen (Netflix's Borgia), give us a story great for fans of Transmetropolitan, Children of Men, and the TV show Black Mirror.What It Is: After an economic collapse and other disasters in the near future, Americans...
10) Touched: a novel
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"Martin Just wakes up one morning after what feels like, and might actually be, a centuries-long sleep with two new innate pieces of knowledge: Humanity is a virus destined to destroy all existence. And he is the Cure. Martin begins slipping into an alternate consciousness, with new physical strengths, to violently defend his family--the only Black family in their neighborhood in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles--against pure evil."-- Provided by...
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2023
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Julian Lethercore can read minds. Well, actually, what he reads are molecules, borne on saliva and other bodily fluids, with which he can access a persons memories, the secrets of their very lives and identities. Hes also the result of a top secret military experiment gone wrong. He and the four other bloodcogs serve their master, Senator Pershing, a former warhawk now disgraced under a new administration headed by President Harmond. But Harmond may...
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2024
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From New York Times-bestselling writer Tony Lee and illustrator Yishan Li (Batwoman Annual #2, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D, 1956) comes the first volume in a stunning fantasy trilogy. A thousand years ago, a mighty battle raged between two of the greatest sorcerers: Brother Havoc and Sister Fortune. In the end Brother Havoc won, shattering his rival into a thousand shards.Now, a millennia later, teenager Carrie Taylor not only learns that she is one of...
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2016
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In a lonely compound surrounded by the zombie apocalypse, one girl remains unchanged. A slight garden mishap means a supply run to the outside where she makes a life-changing discovery--they only eat the males. Now Mara Mitchell is on a mission; make friends with the undead, or kill them all.
15) One 3 Fractions
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2023
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Dick Greenwood is a one-man force for world peace, and his plans are nearing fruitionbecause hes single-handedly assimilated scores of world leaders through blood transfusion, making them puppets of his powerful, domineering personality. Now, with bloodcog Julian Lethercore in his clutches at a secret Colorado base, hes about to fit in the final piece of his puzzle, finding out all about the late Senator Pershings secret experiments. Can Kate Cliffbridge...
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2023
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Ever since the Great Crash in 1929, the world has been grappling with an altered reality, as a new order of gods has joined humans on Earth. Fast forward to several decades later, in 1970, when it is rumored that a certain goddess can help humans to become gods. We follow one man, who epitomizes the American Dream, as he gives up everything to find Lilith, the "Mother of Evolution." But another goddess, The Queen of the Night, intercedes. Why? Just...
17) Bagdad Inc
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2023
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It's Bagdad 2004. There are almost as many fighters in the private armies as there are official soldiers. When one of these mercenaries falls into homicidal madness and starts killing Iraqi civilians, the American government fear an international scandal. A young military legal advisor and a laconic ex-mercenary are sent on the trail of the killer.
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2016
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Every year, publishers and movie studios churn out piles of new zombie yarns, but none have rivaled the originality of this tale about a reanimated priest from an ancient cult and the zombie outbreak he creates in order to sacrifice mankind to his dark gods. Dark horror and high adventure mingle as a team of heroes race against an unstoppable evil bent on the end of mankind.
* Written by Hellboy and B.P.R.D. creator Mike Mignola!
* Collecting...
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2016
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Dynamite Entertainment's wildly successful entry into the zombie horror genre is finally collected in its entirety! The zombie infestation rages unchecked. Only a handful of survivors remain, fighting for their lives against the rising tide of undead mayhem! Will these poor souls survive the perils of an overrun city and find safe haven Alfredo Bay's small coastal town... or has that world died along with most everything else in this post-apocalyptic...
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