(Kids' & Young Adults', Fantasty, Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 08/25/08
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What do you get when you cross a chicken with a hare? The funniest, most exciting all-ages graphic novel of all time! Night is falling on the frozen landscape as Chickenhare and his turtle friend Abe find themselves on their way to be sold to Klaus-an insane taxidermist with a penchant for unique animals and enough emotional baggage to go on a very long vacation! With the help of two mysterious new companions (not to mention a very friendly, very dead goat!), Chickenhare and Abe might be able to escape… Right into the lair of the deadly cave-dwelling critters known as the Shromph!…er, Shromps? Shromphses?
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(Science Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 02/22/08
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Niko, the Steampunk Samurai, is in her Majesty’s service. But is he a faithful royal bodyguard, or a for-hire yojimbo? A perfect warrior, or a soulless weapon? Follow Niko on his journey of self-discovery with Uri Bronski and Cherokee Geisha, as the Three Yojimbo discover a world populated by silent samurai, fast talking geisha, deadly mechabetsushikime, digital djihits and morphing butterflies.
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(Science Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 02/13/08
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Deep inside a top-secret U.S. Air Force research facility, a revolution in cybernetics is taking shape. Using ordinary domestic animals for their test subjects, the scientists of Project AWE have created a new class of cyborgs… With their nervous systems enhanced and supplemented by cutting-edge military hardware, WE3 are the ultimate smart weapons… But successful as they are, WE3 are still only prototypes, to be dismantled when their testing is complete. Inside their fearsome mechanical shells, however, are three lost pets whose amplified traits include the will to survive-an instinct which proves to be even stronger than their makers knew. Faced with destruction, WE3 runs-out into a frightening and confusing world, where they are now as much of a threat as those who hunt them. Relentlessly pursued, WE3 fights with the combined firepower of a battalion-and a faint, warm memory of somewhere called “Home.”
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(Superhero, Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 02/11/08
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Roaring out of the pages of Daredevil, the new White Tiger makes a ferocious debut! Angela del Toro knows pain: Her uncle- Hector Ayala, the former White Tiger - Killed. Her FBI partner, murdered. Her career, ruined. Her mentor, Matt Murdock, jailed. The Yakuza’s bloodthirsty Sano Orii returns, a genocidal shadow organization appears, and a new-but-old super-powered madman is looking to put the squeeze on White Tiger. Armed with mystical amulets- and finally in costume - White Tiger demands answers! But will she survive long enough to ask the right questions?
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(Horror, Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 02/08/08
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A quest for the Holy Grail unlike any you’ve ever seen begins here- in a world where the American Civil War ended in a stalemate, the Catholic Church controls Europe, and sorcery determines political power! When a medieval scroll disappears from a Paris church, Doctor Julien Saunière investigates, uncovering a series of horrific ritual murders and an ancient secret society. Julien cannot let these shadowy figures retreat into the darkness, lest they take up their killing once again. His investigation turns into a one-man quest into the bizarre secrets of Catholicism.
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(Adventure, Science Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 02/06/08
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In this first collection of librarian adventures, Rex must confront the powerful Space Warlord Vaglox and retrieve the overdue Principia Mathematica while his fellow librarians attempt to fend of a manifestation of blood-thirsty Vandals set on burning down the Middleton Library to the ground.
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(Fantasty, Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 02/04/08
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Mice struggle to live safely and prosper among all of the world’s harsh conditions and predators. Thus the Mouse Guard was formed. They are not simply soldiers; rather, they are guides for common mice looking to journey without confrontation from on hidden mouse village to another. The Guard patrol borders, find paths through dangerous territories, watch weather patterns, and keep the mouse territories free of predators. Follow the adventures of three of the Guard’s finest-Lieam, Saxon, and Kenzie-as they seek to uncover a traitorous plot against the Guard.
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(Mystery & Crime, Horror, Comics, Graphic Novels & Manga, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 02/01/08
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Sometimes the only person you can trust is a dead man. Prohibition era gangsters grew rich on vice. But unknown to the masses, a more sinister power controlled the crime cartels, using greed, gluttony, lust and other sins to fuel a much more lucrative trade: mortal souls. The long-standing feud between two of the families is about to end thanks to a deal to consolidate power. But before things can be finalized, the bookkeeper tasked to broker the deal is kidnapped. Hoping to find the missing bookkeeper before the deal falls apart, Big Al pulls Eddie’s corpse out of a ditch and puts him on the case.
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(Language & Words, History & Myths, Non-fiction, Book Reviews)
by Chriss Cornish on 01/23/08
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Bryson de-mythologizes his native land-explaining how a dusty desert hamlet with neither woods nor holly became Hollywood, how the Wild West wasn’t won, why Americans say ‘lootenant’ and ‘Toosday’, how Americans were eating junk food long before the word itself was cooked up - as well as exposing the true origin of the G-string, the original $64,000 question and Dr Kellogg of cornflakes fame.
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(Mystery & Crime, Book Reviews)
by Hoard Member Jessica Cornish on 01/21/08
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Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered in the early morning hours at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the sanctuary walls of the cloistered convent, now stained with blood, lie two nuns-one dead, one critically injured-victims of an unspeakably savage attacker. The brutal crime appears to be without motive, and the elderly nuns in residence can offer little help in the police investigation. But medical examiner Maura Isle’s autopsy of the dead woman yields shocking surprise: Twenty-year-old Sister Camille, the order’s sole novice, gave birth before she was murdered. Then the disturbing case takes a stunning new turn when another woman is found murdered is an abandoned building, her body mutilated beyond recognition.
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