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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
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"The tale of Kvothe, from his childhood in a troupe of traveling players, to years spent as a near-feral orphan in a crime-riddled city, to his daringly brazen yet successful bid to enter a difficult and dangerous school of magic. In these pages, you will come to know Kvothe as a notorious magician, an accomplished thief, a masterful musician, and an infamous assassin. But this book is so much more, for the story it tells reveals the truth behind...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (203 pages : chiefly illustrations)
Language
English
Description
After saving much of the superhero community from certain doom, costumed crime fighter Empowered is dismayed to find that, in the suspicious eyes of her caped colleagues, she's gone from being merely a pair of training wheels for supervillains to possibly being a closeted supervillain herself! Worse yet, she's wrestling with envy and resentment that her roommate Ninjette and boyfriend Thugboy are now more popular in masks-and-tights circles than she...
3) Angel eyes
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Language
English
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Three different individuals--American agent Teri Nunn, out to infiltrate the Medellin drug cartel; Irina Ponomareva, searching for a secret Soviet organization; and an ex-cosmonaut transformed by a space accident--become players in a deadly international game.
4) Stories for kids who dare to be different: true tales of amazing people who stood up and stood out
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Profiles over seventy people who broke the rules and smashed stereotypes, including such figures as Emma Gonzalez, Andy Warhol, Bjork, Hans Christian Andersen, and Sally Ride.
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (246 pages : chiefly illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Not only is costumed crimefighter Empowered saddled with a less-than-ideal superhero name, but she wears a skintight and cruelly revealing supersuit that only magnifies her body-image insecurities. Worse yet, the suit's unreliable powers are prone to failure, repeatedly leaving her in appallingly distressing situations... and giving her a shameful reputation as the lamest cape in the masks-and-tights business. Nonetheless, she pluckily braves the...
Author
Series
Umbrella academy volume 1
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
In an inexplicable worldwide event, 47 extraordinary children were spontaneously born to women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, To save the world.These seven children form the Umbrella Academy, a dysfunctional family of superheroes with bizarre powers. Their first adventure at the age of ten pits them against an erratic and...
Author
Series
Dark Tower volume 4
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
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Roland and his band have narrowly escaped the city of Lud and boarded Blaine, a train that will take them to, of all places, Kansas, where the ghost city of Topeka has been depopulated by a superflu and where, alongside Interstate 70, an emerald palace rises enchantingly. Before Roland and the companions of his ka-tet continue along the Path of the Bean, Roland must tell his companions the tale that defines him both as a man and hero, a long-ago romance...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color))
Language
English
Description
Now Axe Cop and Dinosaur Soldier are being treated like bad guys, not only by the police, but by the president and the army, too! But when a pair of psychic brothers barge in from outer space and turn the army into bad guys, who gets the call to set things right? Axe Cop! This volume, with art from Eisner nominee Ethan Nicolle, collects the three-issue miniseries. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Axe Cop volume 5
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
After a messy divorce with Abraham Lincoln, Axe Cop is determined to find a new wife to help raise his newly adopted bat and monkey children in Axe Cop Gets Married! This book also features the epic bowzer battle story The Dogs, multiple Ask Axe Cop episodes, guest comics, Axe Cop Presents, a foreword by Nick Offerman (Parks and Recreation) and much more awesomeness! Axe Cop Volume One has sold over 20,000 copies to date and was the winner of a 2012...
10) Vicious
Author
Series
Villains (V. E. Schwab) volume 1
Language
English
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Ten years after an experiment designed to tap a human's supernatural abilities goes terribly wrong, Victor breaks out of prison and resolves to track down his former roommate, Eli, who resolves to eradicate the world's super-powered people.
Author
Series
End league volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (145 pages : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
A Gift Comes! is jam-packed with new characters and monumental developments in the evolving Beanworld culture. It kicks off with the birth of the next generation of Beans: the baby Pod'l'pool Cuties. It chronicles the discombobulation of Mr. Spook's fork by greedy Goofy Service Jerks. Meet Mr. Teach'm, who raised Mr. Spook on a cloud. See the crazy breakout origin of Heyoka, Beanworld's upside-down-and-backwards Bean. Read how Professor Garbanzo first...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (349 pages : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
If you're already dead, you might as well make the best of it. Someone brutally murdered reporter Elisa Cameron, but back from the grave as the spectral avenger Ghost, Elisa intends to find out who killed her and why…and grab a double dose of .45-caliber retribution. This book collects Ghost Special issue one, Ghost issues one through 12 (first series) and Sweet Things from A Decade of Dark Horse issue two.But Ghost's journey to the truth follows...
13) My hero
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English
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Would-be romance writer Bailey York was a woman who'd already failed twice at love. As far as she was concerned, men were wonderful to read, and to write, about, but that was as close as she wanted to get. Which was probably why she had such difficulty creating a hero. She needed a real-life model, she finally decided. And she found one. Parker Davidson was everything a hero should be. Compellingly attractive. Forceful and determined, yet capable...
Author
Series
Dragonships of Vindras volume 3
Language
English
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Skylan Ivorson and his Vindrasi clan must sail the Sea of Tears into the heart of the Forbidden Empire of the Cyclops, to implement a cunning yet delicate plan that risks his life and leadership -- for a new enemy lies deep in the sea, one who draws upon powers never harnessed by land dwellers.
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Deltora quest volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The international bestselling series returns for a new generation with a fresh look and bonus content from the legends of Deltora.Lief, Barda, and Jasmine have almost reached their goal. Six gems for the Belt of Deltora have been collected. Now the last one must be found before Deltora can be freed from the evil Shadow Lord. The companions have faced many terrors before but the worst is yet to come. Emily Rodda is the author of the hugely...
Author
Series
Sacred throne volume 3
Language
English
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"Heloise and her allies are marching on the Imperial Capital. The villagers, the Kipti, and the Red Lords are united only in their loyalty to Heloise, though dissenting voices are many and they are loud. The unstable alliance faces internal conflicts and external strife, yet they're united in their common goal. But when the first of the devils start pouring through a rent in the veil between worlds, Heloise must strike a bargain with an unlikely ally,...
17) Doctor Sleep
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
On highways across America, a tribe of people called The True Knot travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless -- mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and spunky twelve-year-old Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the "steam" that children with the "shining" produce when they are slowly tortured to death. Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (144 unnumbered pages : color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
When a tribe of dead Indians start scalping the policemen in the city, Hellboy's crime-fighting hero Lobster Johnson and his allies arrive to take on these foes and their gangster cronies!. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Lobster Johnson volume 4
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
A Manhattan sporting event goes terribly wrong as the ref is killed in front of a live audience by two crazed - and seemingly bulletproof - wrestlers. Who is behind this new reign of terror?. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Lobster Johnson volume 3
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations)
Language
English
Description
Hellboy's favorite gun-blazing vigilante takes justice to the skies aboard a Nazi-filled zeppelin and to the gritty alleyways of Chinatown against an army of monkeys. --Provided by publisher.
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