en-US Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:48:18 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 1394148 96 Doug Moench 1563891115 Jay 0 currently-reading 2.95 1993
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]]> 210512625
Collecting NIGHTWING (2016) #106-113.]]> 192 Tom Taylor 1779529430 Jay 3 3.95 2024
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]]> 213960815 A gothic sword and sorcery epic graphic novel that’s Conan the Barbarian meets The Wizard of Oz.

From Tom King and Bilquis Evely, the Eisner award-winning, bestselling creative team of Woman of Tomorrow.

Following the tragic death of her late father C.K. Cole, the esteemed pulp writer and creator of the popular warrior character Othan, Helen Cole is called back to her Grandfather's enormous and illustrious estate, Wyndhorn House. 

Scarred by Cole's untimely passing and lost in a new, strange world, Helen wreaks drunken havoc upon her arrival. However, her chaotic ways begin to soften as she discovers a lifetime of secrets hiding within the myriad rooms and hallways of the expansive manor. For outside its walls, within the woods, dwell the legendary adventures that once were locked away within her father’s stories. 

Collects the hit series Helen of Wyndhorn #1�#6 and features a sketchbook section and bonus art by Walt Simonson, Greg Smallwood, Clay Mann, Elsa Charretier, Tula Lotay, Massimo Carnivale, Fabio Moon, and Jill Thompson.]]> 176 Tom King 1506740065 Jay 0 currently-reading 4.35
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]]> 217045858 The Dark Knights of Steel saga, placing DC's heroes in the realm of epic fantasy, continues with a standalone tale starring Deathstroke in a deadly frozen wasteland!

The snow falls thick, blood runs black, and color itself is only a distant memory. The legendary assassin Deathstroke stalks a frozen wasteland, killing for coin among a nation of ever-warring jarls.

But when our murderer for hire finds himself cast in the role of reluctant guardian, will he fight to end the icy curse destroying his land or be consumed by the sins of his own dark past?

The red-hot Dark Knights of Steel epic, which reimagines DC's heroes in a medieval fantasy world, expands into bone-chilling new territories with new surprises in store, with a story written by Jay Kristoff, with striking images from rising star artist Tirso!

Plus, this volume includes a story by Dark Knights of Steel architect Tom Taylor and The Fellspyre Chronicles artist Riccardo Federici, detailing an all-new origin of Aquaman!]]> 224 Jay Kristoff 1799500799 Jay 4 3.13 2025
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]]> 51080 416 Dennis O'Neil 0553572601 Jay 0 to-read 4.06 1994
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]]> 107105 468 Greg Rucka 0671774557 Jay 0 to-read 4.18 2000
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]]> 222916700 Al Ewing Jay 4 3.89 2025
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]]> 223954378 Charles Soule Jay 4 4.53
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]]> 227956231 Batman matches wits with The Riddler and uncovers Gotham’s past in this sequel to Resurrection, set in the world of Tim Burton's iconic Batman.

It’s summer, and Gotham City has cause for celebration. The last vestiges of The Joker’s toxic legacy have finally faded, just in time for the mayor to partner with retail magnate Max Shreck to stage a Fourth of July celebration for the ages. But not everyone is rejoicing. Batman’s eternal vigilance continues as threats from rival gangs and masked criminals escalate by the day. Meanwhile, on the streets, protests grow in opposition to the city’s lavish excesses.

No one is experiencing the struggle between Gotham’s optimism and doubt more than Norman Pinkus. The Gotham Globe’s humble copy boy, he’s the unacknowledged mastermind behind the newspaper’s mega-popular Riddle Me This word puzzles. But Norman harbors a secret. He is the smartest man in Gotham City, using his prodigious skills to solve crimes anonymously for years via the police tip line—before Batman even knows there’s a crime to solve.

While neither fame nor fortune finds Norman, he believes in the promise of Gotham and what’s right . . . until he doesn’t. The man no one notices watches time and again as the city and its leaders cast their eyes high above the rooftops toward Batman. Dejected and unappreciated, Norman devises a With the help of dangerous new friends, he exploits the simmering tensions of the long hot summer to draw the Caped Crusader into a volatile game of riddles to crown Gotham’s true savior. As they clash, Norman—now known as The Riddler—and Batman will uncover hidden secrets about Gotham’s past that will have dire consequences for the city’s future.]]> 400 John Jackson Miller 0593871936 Jay 0 to-read 0.0 2025
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]]> 210410462 After The Joker’s death, Batman and Gotham City face a mysterious new threat in this direct sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic Batman.

The Joker is dead, but not forgotten. Gotham City is saved, but it is still not safe. By night, its new symbol of hope, Batman, continues his fight to protect the innocent and the powerless. By day, his alter ego, Bruce Wayne, wonders whether there may someday be a future beyond skulking the city’s rooftops or the cavernous halls of his stately manor alongside the ever-dutiful Alfred Pennyworth.

But even after death, the Clown Prince of Crime’s imprint can be seen in more than just the pavement. Remnants from The Joker’s gang are leading wannabes fascinated by his bizarre mystique on a campaign of arson that threatens the city—even as it serves greedy opportunists, including millionaire Max Shreck. And survivors of exposure to The Joker’s chemical weapon Smylex continue to crowd Gotham City’s main hospital.

To quell the chaos, Batman needs more than his cape and his well-stocked Utility Belt. Bruce Wayne is forced into action, prompting a partnership with a charismatic scientist to help solve the health crisis. But as he works in both the shadows and the light, Bruce finds himself drawn deeper into Gotham City’s turmoil than ever before, fueling his obsession to save the city—an obsession that has already driven a wedge between him and Vicki Vale. The loyal Alfred, who had hoped Bruce’s efforts as Batman could help him find closure, finds the opposite happening. Nightmares begin to prompt Bruce to ask new questions about the climactic events in the cathedral, and investigations by Commissioner Gordon and reporter Alexander Knox into the arsons only amplify his concerns.

Having told the people of Gotham City that they’d earned a rest from crime, Batman finds the forces of evil growing ever more organized—and orchestrated—by a sinister hand behind the scenes. The World’s Greatest Detective must solve the greatest mystery of all: Could The Joker have somehow survived? And could he still have the last laugh against the people of Gotham City?]]> 418 John Jackson Miller 0593871901 Jay 0 to-read 4.07 2024
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]]> 207294206
Things were bad enough for the hero formerly known as Crossjsack when it was only his tiny hometown that hated him. Now the whole world wants him dead! Stuck in hiding with a tenuous ally, Jack discovers there are some things in his superhero past he just can't hide from.

Meanwhile, something's not right in Farmington, and Jack must stop a dark force torn from the very earliest Image Comics if he wants to finally become a hometown hero.

Collects Local Man #10 - #13, #25 and Local Man: Bad Girls (one-shot)]]> 176 Tim Seeley 1534373209 Jay 0 to-read 3.66
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]]> 210322481 Now, Local Man, already in over his head, is drawn into another twisted case with dark ties to his superhero past.
Collects LOCAL MAN #6-9 and LOCAL GOLD (ONE-SHOT)]]> 168 Tony Fleecs 1534359168 Jay 4 4.00
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]]> 13069
Everybody wants a piece of the rotund gangster Big Joey G., a 102-year-old environmentalist, hard-boiled Miami reporter Britt Montero, lawyer Jake Lassiter,  and a would-be dictator in exile--with ex-president Jimmy Carter and a lovable manatee named Booger thrown in for good measure.

With bodies piling up it's anybody's guess what will happen from one chapter to the next, as an all-star line-up of Florida's finest writers take turns at taking this outrageously original novel to the limit--and beyond.]]> 208 Carl Hiaasen 0449001245 Jay 0 to-read 3.50 1997
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]]> 205982307 Prepare yourself for a shockingly brutal retelling of the first bloody clash between The Joker and the Batman!

Detective Jim Gordon must call on the mysterious Dark Knight to help investigate the latest string of murder and mayhem terrorizing Gotham City. But what will it take to find the culprit behind these darkly comedic antics, and what will the repercussions be for everyone involved?

The Eisner Award-winning team of Tom King and Mitch Gerads reunite to give life to what may be the most frightening Joker story in a generation! Collects King and Gerads's The Winning Card storyline from Batman: The Brave and the Bold #1-2, #5, and #9.]]> 112 Tom King 1779529058 Jay 4 3.89
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]]> 228486188 Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who’s also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border—if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been]]> Christopher Cantwell 1637158238 Jay 0 to-read 4.45
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]]> 228750254 Deniz Camp Jay 4 4.58
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]]> 228345372 Mark Waid Jay 4 3.80
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]]> 228782124 Tom King Jay 4 3.84
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]]> 127305853 From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided.

Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie� McGrath hears these words, it is a revelation. Raised in the sun-drenched, idyllic world of Southern California and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing. But in 1965, the world is changing, and she suddenly dares to imagine a different future for herself. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she joins the Army Nurse Corps and follows his path.

As green and inexperienced as the men sent to Vietnam to fight, Frankie is over-whelmed by the chaos and destruction of war. Each day is a gamble of life and death, hope and betrayal; friendships run deep and can be shattered in an instant. In war, she meets—and becomes one of—the lucky, the brave, the broken, and the lost.

But war is just the beginning for Frankie and her veteran friends. The real battle lies in coming home to a changed and divided America, to angry protesters, and to a country that wants to forget Vietnam.

The Women is the story of one woman gone to war, but it shines a light on all women who put themselves in harm’s way and whose sacrifice and commitment to their country has too often been forgotten. A novel about deep friendships and bold patriotism, The Women is a richly drawn story with a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage under fire will come to define an era.]]> 471 Kristin Hannah 1250178630 Jay 0 currently-reading 4.59 2024
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]]> 48763179 For the past six months, newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner “Jo� Mullein has been protecting the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people. The city has maintained peace for over 500 years by stripping its citizens of their ability to feel. As a result, violent crime is virtually unheard of, and murder is nonexistent.
But that’s all about to change in this new maxiseries that gives a DC Young Animal spin to the legacy of the Green Lanterns!]]> 27 N.K. Jemisin Jay 4 4.25 2019
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]]> 195790849 Ten days, eight suspects, six cities, five authors, three bodies . . . one trip to die for.

All that bestselling author Eleanor Dash wants is to get through her book tour in Italy and kill off her main character, Connor Smith, in the next in her Vacation Mysteries series―is that too much to ask?

Clearly, because when an attempt is made on the real Connor’s life―the handsome but infuriating con man she got mixed up with ten years ago and now can't get out of her life―Eleanor’s enlisted to help solve the case.

Contending with literary rivals, rabid fans, a stalker―and even her ex, Oliver, who turns up unexpectedly―theories are bandied about, and rivalries, rifts, and broken hearts are revealed. But who’s really trying to get away with murder?

Every Time I Go on Vacation, Someone Dies is the irresistible and hilarious series debut from Catherine Mack, introducing bestselling fictional author Eleanor Dash on her Italian book tour that turns into a real-life murder mystery, as her life starts to imitate the world in her books.]]> 342 Catherine Mack 1250325854 Jay 2 ]]> 3.47 2024
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]]> 204294794 The JSA’s greatest hero faces his greatest villain, in a powerful story of courage showcasing DC’s original Green Lantern in an all-new light!

The Green Lantern is the most powerful member of the JSA, beloved by all of America, but his personal life is a well-kept secret. Both his public and private life are threatened when he’s framed by a mysterious killer, and the victims are people from his past!

This is a story about love, about fear, and most of all about courage to stand up to that fear. Alan Scott's past is the key to his future when the Red Lantern appears, ready to strike down the mighty Green Lantern! Can Alan Scott stop his enemy's monstrous plans?

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern by Tim Sheridan and artist Cian Tormey is the first solo series starring DC’s first Green Lantern in decades, telling an emotional story of a closeted gay hero in the 1940s. Alan Scott: The Green Lantern is part of DC’s The New Golden Age initiative, alongside Wesley Dodds: The Sandman and Jay Garrick: The Flash, reinvigorating some of DC’s most enduring characters.

This volume collects Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #1-6.]]> 144 Tim Sheridan 1779527217 Jay 4 3.95
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]]> 16301
From early childhood at the end of the 19th century, through two marriages and two World Wars, and her experiences both as a writer and on archaeological expeditions with her second husband, Max Mallowan, this book reveals the true genius of her legendary success with real passion and openness.]]> 560 Agatha Christie 0006353282 Jay 0 to-read 4.07 1977
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]]> 228452164 Tom Taylor Jay 4 4.21
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]]> 228254262 Scott Snyder Jay 5 4.59
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Writing and drawing Batman punting an evil child into the ocean will get you 5 stars.
]]> 11084145 630 Walter Isaacson 1451648537 Jay 0 to-read 4.15 2011
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]]> 154808 160 John Byrne 0930289285 Jay 0 to-read 3.95 1986
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]]> 12265078 38 Luke Pearson 1907704175 Jay 0 to-read 3.86 2011
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]]> 75634
Bestselling sportswriter John Feinstein persuaded one NFL team to lift the extraordinary secrecy that shrouds the sport and let him see how a team operates at the closest level. One team let him join every practice, every coaches' meeting, every players' gathering, every strategy debate. From the give-and-take of draft day, into the grinder of summer training camps, and from 100-degree practice games to the last game in frigid conditions, Feinstein reveals how a football team works -- or fails to work -- as no writer has done before.

Next Man Up unveils rituals (what a coach tells a player at the moment he cuts him); rules (the inanities of league-appointed "uniform Nazis"); conflicts (the scouts vs. the coaches, the general managers vs. the agents, the offense vs. the defense, the special teams coaches vs. everybody); money (how much a journeyman makes, and how his life differs from the multi-million-dollar-a-year star players)-every nuance of a team's life, from the owner's goals to the coach's day-to-day travails to the feeling of the sleet-soaked ball in the hands of a receiver on artificial turf.

The access John Feinstein enjoyed allows him to discuss with equal understanding the owner's management strategy, the coaches' and coordinators' plans for each new game, and how it all affects the players themselves. Anyone who loves football -- any team, in any era -- will savor the thousands of details revealed here for the first time, and the extraordinary drama that goes into following week after week, the most sensational sport in America.]]> 545 John Feinstein 0316013285 Jay 0 to-read 3.97 2005
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]]> 892594 680 John Feinstein 0316011541 Jay 0 to-read 4.07 1995
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]]> 75639
"A Season on the Brink" not only captures the drama and pressure of big-time college basketball but paints a vivid portrait of a complex, brilliant coach walking a fine line between genius and madness.]]> 352 John Feinstein 0671688774 Jay 0 to-read 4.16 1986
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]]> 39104177 The streets of Gotham City seemingly get darker and more twisted as each night passes over the city, if it weren't for the one beacon of hope fighting against the darkness--Batman. With a never-ending stream of villains stalking the city, can the Dark Knight hold the darkness back?

While the Ventriloquist is peddling a new designer drug called Fever, Batman sets his sights on cleaning up the streets and silencing the gangster's dummy. As the fever breaks, rats swarm out of the sewers, marching to the commands of the mysterious Ratcatcher. Plus, can the Dark Knight survive the touch of the villainous Corrosive Man?

Writers Alan Grant (Batman: Shadow of the Bat) and John Wagner (Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight) and legendary Batman artist Norm Breyfogle (Detective Comics), present Batman: The Dark Knight Detective Vol. 2, collecting Detective Comics #583-591 and Detective Comics Annual #1!]]> 276 Alan Grant 140128468X Jay 0 to-read 3.81 2018
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]]> 40978434
A killer stalking Gotham's streets has his sights set on Batman. The mysterious murderer has slain innocent bystanders after clothing them in the Dark Knight's cape and cowl. Can Batman figure out who this murderous madman is before he strikes again, or will the body count continue to rise? Plus, delve into Batman's past as the origin of Batman's first alliance with Dick Grayson, the original Robin, is revealed.

An all-star cast of talent, led by legendary writers MARV WOLFMAN [NIGHTWING] and JOHN BYRNE [WONDER WOMAN] and featuring the dynamic art of JIM APARO [THE BRAVE AND THE BOLD] and MIKE DeCARLO [LEGION OF SUPER-HEROES], presents BATMAN: THE CAPED CRUSADER VOL. 2, collecting BATMAN #432-439, #443-444 and BATMAN ANNUAL #13.]]> 303 Marv Wolfman 1401287824 Jay 0 to-read 3.78 2019
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]]> 199506160 24 Robert Venditti Jay 3 4.06 2023
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]]> 58762091 29 Robert Venditti Jay 5 4.17 2021
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]]> 80278274 23 D.G. Chichester Jay 3 3.60
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]]> 24370029 23 Alan Grant Jay 5 4.00
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]]> 25435229 Churchill commanded the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to recruit a team of survivalists, free-thinkers, misfits, and outright criminals--men with a wide variety of skill sets that together would enable them to operate purely on their own initiative deep behind enemy lines. And because they would flout the rules of war, these men were to be the SOE's first "deniable" operatives, and the first to be truly "licensed to kill."
The very first of these "butcher-and-bolt" units--the innocuously named Maid Honour Force--was led by Gus March-Phillipps, a wild British eccentric of high birth, and an aristocratic, handsome, and bloodthirsty young Danish warrior, Anders Lassen. Amped up on amphetamines, these assorted renegades and sociopaths undertook the very first of Churchill's special operations--a top-secret, high-stakes mission to seize Nazi shipping in the far-distant port of Fernando Po, in West Africa.
Though few of these early desperadoes survived WWII, they took part in a series of fascinating, daring missions that changed the course of the war. It was the first stirrings of the modern special-ops team, and all of the men involved would be declared war heroes when it was all over.
Written by award-winning historian Damien Lewis, Churchill's Secret Warriors focuses on a dozen of these extraordinary men, weaving their stories of brotherhood, comradeship, and elite soldiering into a gripping narrative yarn, from the earliest missions to Anders Larssen's tragic death, just weeks before the end of the war.
]]> 352 Damien Lewis Jay 0 to-read 4.14 2015
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]]> 25241771
But when his parents are kidnapped by the Obeah Man will Batman be able to save them or will tragedy find Tim Drake?

Then, Robin must survive a final baptism by fire as he travels overseas to learn martial arts from one of the world’s greatest fighters—the deadly Lady Siva. Flying solo for the first time, he comes across a diabolical plot by Batman’s old enemy King Snake and must prove that he is worthy of the mantle of Robin!

ROBIN: REBORN collects in chronological order for the first time ever BATMAN #455-457, DETECTIVE COMICS #618-621, and ROBIN #1-5.

Detailing the journey of fan favorite Tim Drake’s transformation into Robin are classic comic creators ALAN GRANT( BATMAN: SHADOW OF THE BAT), CHUCK DIXON (NIGHTWING), NORM BREYFOGLE (BATMAN BEYOND) and TOM LYLE (STARMAN)!]]> 296 Chuck Dixon 1401258573 Jay 0 to-read 3.84 2015
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]]> 212979306
Six months ago, Tony Stark, a.k.a. Iron Lad, sent Peter Parker a radioactive spider to set him back on the course to become Spider-Man. Since then, Stark, Captain America, Doom, Thor and Sif have begun to do the same for others, building a network of super-powered heroes hungry for change. Now they must band together to destroy the Maker’s Council and restore freedom and free will to a world ruled from the shadows! Together they are the Ultimates! But when Cap reckons with the Maker’s dismantling of nations by visiting the White House, it leads to a massive brawl with the deadly Midas—who’s been holding a superhuman hostage as a power source! The search for answers will lead the Ultimates to…She-Hulk!

Collecting ULTIMATES (2024) #1-6, ULTIMATE UNIVERSE #1 and material from FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 2024: SPIDER-MAN/ULTIMATE UNIVERSE.]]> 208 Deniz Camp 1302957511 Jay 0 to-read 4.16 2025
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]]> 221816291 69 Roy Thomas 1787747794 Jay 0 to-read 4.65 2025
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]]> 579833 112 John Wagner 0878165479 Jay 0 to-read 3.60 1996
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]]> 44512946 Brian K. Vaughn's classic 60-issue post-apocalyptic series is now available in this new omnibus.

In 2002, when all living mammals with a Y chromosome suddenly simultaneously die, Yorick Brown and his pet male monkey Ampersand must figure out why they were the only two males to survive. And while this makes Yorick the most important person in the world, he trecks 10,000 miles around the world for 3 years in search of the most important person in the world to him. But as he learns the factual truths behind his lost fiance, he also finds out the shocking facts behind his own survival.

Collects Y: The Last Man #1-60]]> 1424 Brian K. Vaughan 140129815X Jay 5 4.31 2008
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Jay
average rating: 4.31
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rating: 5
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Re-read. Still get glassy eyed at the last issue...
]]> 220160624 110 Daniel Warren Johnson Jay 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 42835862
The world is under attack by monsters, and Jake's life is falling apart: no band, no girl, no future until he meets MURDER FALCON. He was sent from The Heavy to destroy all evil, but he can't do it without Jake shredding up a storm. Now, with every chord Jake plays on his guitar, the power of metal fuels Murder Falcon into all-out kung fu fury on those that seek to conquer Earth!

Collects MURDER FALCON #1-8.]]> 224 Daniel Warren Johnson 1534312358 Jay 0 to-read 4.43 2019
author: Daniel Warren Johnson
name: Jay
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]]> 62196663 Lona Steelrose wants to be a pro-wrestler, but she's living under the shadow of her mother, the best to ever do it. Everything changes when a wrestling obsessed necromancer asks her to join the grandest pro-wrestling tournament of all time, which is also the most dangerous! It's THE WRESTLER meets DRAGONBALL Z, in a tale where the competitors get more than they ever bargained for!

Collects DO A POWERBOMB! #1-7]]> 168 Daniel Warren Johnson 1534324747 Jay 0 to-read 4.51 2023
author: Daniel Warren Johnson
name: Jay
average rating: 4.51
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rating: 0
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]]> 810675 206 Alan Grant 1563894378 Jay 3 3.50 1999
author: Alan Grant
name: Jay
average rating: 3.50
book published: 1999
rating: 3
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]]> 210177623 Superstar writer Joshua Williamson's era-defining run on Superman continues in the latest collected edition of the Man of Steel’s contemporary adventures!

What started with the Dawn of DC and Superman’s takeover of Lexcorp—now known as Supercorp—continued with the unforeseen menace named the Chained, and the Lobo army invasion of House of Brainiac!

Find out what’s next for the Man of Steel, his friends, and his enemies, in a new chapter of one of the most talked-about periods of Superman storytelling in years.

This volume collects Superman #16-21.]]> 168 Joshua Williamson 1779528531 Jay 0 to-read 3.48 2024
author: Joshua Williamson
name: Jay
average rating: 3.48
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]]> 1606206 208 Brian K. Vaughan 1593078315 Jay 0 to-read 3.89 2007
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Jay
average rating: 3.89
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rating: 0
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]]> 25243735
Collecting: Wytches 1-6]]> 192 Scott Snyder 1632153807 Jay 0 to-read 3.79 2014
author: Scott Snyder
name: Jay
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> 228645147 340 Mark Waid 1799502317 Jay 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 220460403 272 Mark Waid 1799502120 Jay 0 to-read 3.61
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]]> 214438127
Oliver is different. His mother’s history in Burbank, California isn’t the only thing that sets him apart from other 12-year-olds–he has unexplainable, campy powers that more often than not land him in trouble� But the most outlandish and astonishing is yet to come, as a dark presence pursues Oliver from the most whimsical recesses of the unknown� and the strange and mysterious past of his family will be more than he ever could have imagined. Harvey Award-nominated writer Tony Fleecs (Stray Dogs) and acclaimed artist Dave Wachter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) bring this multi-dimensional crossover coming-of-age fantasy to life and remind us that when cartoons get real, the truth is stranger than celluloid. Collects Uncanny Valley #1-6.]]> 144 Tony Fleecs Jay 0 to-read 3.75
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]]> 217929506 The Green Lanterns must deal with the fallout of Absolute Power and Green Lantern: War Journal in ways that will change the DC Universe's cosmos forever! The Dark Star ring represents a dangerous and mysterious threat that only Hal, John, and Guy can get to the bottom of! But how far will they go, and where will this path take them? A brand new era of Green Lantern stories start here]]> 232 Jeremy Adams 1799501434 Jay 4 3.67
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]]> 217929423
The war against the Sovereign is turning a dangerous corner and Steve Trevor must take matters into his own heads � but the consequences might prove deadly! Plus, when Trinity is born, how will Wonder Woman adjust to motherhood in the wake of so much tragedy and bloodshed? These questions and more explored as Tom King’s Wonder Woman epic continues into its third volume, featuring art by fan-favorite artists Daniel Sampere and Khary Randolph.]]> 176 Tom King 1799501442 Jay 5 4.04
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]]> 217484649 After a long and harrowing time away, Batman has returned to Gotham City with a vengeance! Will he and his public-facing initiatives as Bruce Wayne finally transform the city into somewhere safe? And has the Riddler actually gone legit, or is it part of some greater scheme?

Batman is ALL IN! Zdarsky and Jimenez kick off a new era of the Caped Crusader in the aftermath of Absolute Power. Bruce has hit the ground running with brand new initiatives for the public and has his dedicated himself to improving the city both behind the mask and without it, but his plans are complicated by a sudden, apparent change of heart by the Riddler who now claims to have gone legit. Is this actually a new leaf for one of Gotham's most diabolical criminals? Or is there a bigger puzzle at play here - one that only Batman can possibly piece together before it's too late?

Collects Batman #153-157 and the lead story from Batman #150.]]> 192 Chip Zdarsky 1799501698 Jay 3 3.39
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]]> 210320247 GEOFF JOHNS (GEIGER) and JASON FABOK, the celebrated team behind the smash hit Batman: Three Jokers, reunite for an all-new science fiction series!
Hundreds of years from now, the man known as Rook was once a simple farmer who fled the crumbling Earth for a new life on the planet Exodus; a terraformed planet where all of nature, including its imported animal population, was completely controlled by humans called Wardens. But when Exodus’s world engine failed, the Wardens� power fell into the wrong hands, creating chaos and mass evacuation…for those who could afford it. The rest, like Rook, must scavenge for an escape vessel as the war for control of what’s left of Exodus begins. Don’t miss out this new entry in the exciting Ghost Machine rollout—and it’s 44 pages of story for only 3.99!]]> 56 Geoff Johns Jay 4 4.43 2024
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]]> 227233945 Tom Taylor Jay 5 4.25
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]]> 59801902
COLLECTING: Daredevil (1964) 234-252]]> 480 Ann Nocenti 1302945947 Jay 0 to-read 3.47 2022
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average rating: 3.47
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]]> 6298350 432 Wayne Reinagel 0981531202 Jay 0 to-read 4.30 2008
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]]> 269362 310 John D. MacDonald 0449223833 Jay 0 to-read 3.88 1964
author: John D. MacDonald
name: Jay
average rating: 3.88
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]]> 223375688 284 Jeffrey Walker Jay 0 to-read 4.50
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]]> 50623864
Thus begins the extraordinary life of Addie LaRue, and a dazzling adventure that will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art, as a young woman learns how far she will go to leave her mark on the world.

But everything changes when, after nearly 300 years, Addie stumbles across a young man in a hidden bookstore and he remembers her name.]]> 448 Victoria E. Schwab 0765387565 Jay 4 4.16 2020
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name: Jay
average rating: 4.16
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rating: 4
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]]> 217144028 30 Geoff Johns Jay 0 to-read 4.50 2024
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]]> 213954580 31 Geoff Johns Jay 4 4.44 2024
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]]> 214941107
From the publisher that drove Tales from the Crypt, Vault of Horror, Haunt of Fear, and many more into the depraved hearts of an unsuspecting world, the immortal EC COMICS returns . . . with its first ALL-NEW series in nearly 70 years!

In our first extra-sized, 40-page dose of fear, witness shocking tales of torment and tension in the immortal EC tradition—as wrenched from the grave by the vile intentions of acclaimed writers Brian Azzarello ( Damned, 100 Bullets), Chris Condon (That Texas Blood, Night People), J. Holtham (FX's The Handmaid's Tale), and Stephanie Phillips (Harley Quinn, Grim) and realized into bloody reality by "all-slaughter" artists Jorge Fornes (Rorschach, Danger Street), Phil Hester (Family Tree), Peter Krause (Irredeemable), and more!

What the Comics Code Authority couldn't kill has only made it stronger . . . EC COMICS LIVES AGAIN IN EPITAPHS FROM THE ABYSS!]]> 44 Brian Azzarello 1637155751 Jay 0 to-read 3.40
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]]> 224087115 Tom King Jay 5 4.35
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]]> 213960678 28 Geoff Johns Jay 0 to-read 4.08 2024
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]]> 213960669 29 Geoff Johns Jay 3 4.08 2024
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]]> 3354547
Nixon . . .

Kent State . . .

The late 1960s and early 1970s were a time of total turmoil in America-the country was being torn apart by a war most people didn't support, young men were being taken away by the draft, and racial tensions were high. Nowhere was this turmoil more evident than on college campuses, the epicenters of the protest movement.

The uncertain times presented a challenge to two of the greatest football coaches of all time. Woody Hayes, the legendary archconservative coach of Ohio State, feared for the future of America. His protégé and rival, Bo Schembechler of the University of Michigan, didn't want to be bothered by these "distractions." Hayes worshipped General George S. Patton and was friends with President Richard Nixon. Schembechler befriended President Gerald Ford, a former captain and team MVP for the Wolverines.


In this enthralling book, Michael Rosenberg dramatically weaves the campus unrest and political upheaval into the story of Hayes and Schembechler. Their rivalry began with Schembechler arriving in protest-heavy Ann Arbor, Michigan, at the height of the Vietnam War. It ended with Hayes wondering what had happened to his country. War As They Knew It is a sobering and fascinating look at two iconic coaches and a different generation.]]> 374 Michael Rosenberg 0446580139 Jay 0 to-read 4.11 2008
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]]> 11789380 438 John U. Bacon 0809094665 Jay 0 to-read 4.18 2011
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]]> 23492440
As the head coach of the University of Alabama’s football team, Nick Saban is perhaps the most influential—and controversial—man in the sport. Unpredictable in his professional loyalties, uncompromising in his vision, and unyielding in his pursuit of perfection, the highest-paid coach in college football has changed the face of the game. His program-building vision has delivered packed stadiums, rabid fans, legions of detractors, countless NFL draft picks, and a total of four national championships, including three in the last five years. Monte Burke’s Saban—the first definitive biography of the man who has come to epitomize the game—presents this towering figure with a never-before seen human depth.

Though a great deal is known about Nick Saban the coach, not much is known about Nick Saban the man. Little is written about his early climb through the coaching ranks as an assistant in college and in the NFL, or his head-coaching stints at Michigan State and Louisiana State and his struggles as a pro coach with the Miami Dolphins. Through unprecedented interviews with more than 250 friends, coworkers, rivals, former players, and others, Burke reveals the defining moments of the coach’s life, including:

-The beginning of his recruiting career at age ten as he walked door to door with his demanding father gathering players for a Pop Warner football team.
-A team meeting that deterred his plans to attend a student rally at Kent State that would later make history.
-His rapid and at times rocky ascent up the assistant coaching ranks.
-His complicated relationship with one of his coaching mentors, Bill Belichick.
-The birth of his now-famous “Process� and the unlikely man who became its co-architect.
-His dramatic and controversial departures from three different high-profile football teams.
-The building of championship programs at Louisiana State and Alabama.

Saban paints a portrait of a complex and compelling man, fundamentally shaped by both his past and the game he loves, in a way that no previous book has.]]> 352 Monte Burke 1476789932 Jay 0 to-read 4.09 2015
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]]> 7815373
These playbook schemes, many of them illuminated by diagrams, bear the insignia of some of the game's great innovators, men like Vince Lombardi, Don Coryell, Tom Osborne, Bill Walsh, Tony Dungy and Buddy Ryan. But football has also been radically altered by the ingenious work of men with more obscure names, like Tiger Ellison, Emory Bellard and Mouse Davis.

In Blood, Sweat and Chalk, Layden takes readers into the meeting rooms-and in some cases the living rooms-where the game's most significant ideas were hatched. He goes to the coaches and to the players who inspired them, and lets them tell their stories. In candid conversations with some of football's most intriguing characters, Layden provides a fascinating guide to the game, helping fans to better see the subtleties of America's favorite sport.

The game of football is cyclical. Coaches today are getting too much credit for formations and offenses that were dreamed up years ago. Tim Layden does a wonderful job of tracing the origin of those ideas in Blood, Sweat and Chalk.
- Urban Meyer, Head Football Coach, University of Florida

Tim Layden explores the minds and ambitions of the game's formative thinkers. Serious students of football must have this on their bookshelves!
- Steve Sabol, President, NFL Films

Blood, Sweat and Chalk is a must-read for all football aficionados. I, of course, especially enjoyed reading about the great Don Coryell, a true innovator in the game we all love. His ideas changed football-and this book shows you how.
- Dan Fouts, Hall of Fame Quarterback, San Diego Chargers

Tim has created a playbook that's instructional, a history book that's fascinating and a football bible that's a must-read for anybody who loves the game. All in one.
- Dan Patrick, Host, NBC's Football Night in America

Tim Layden does a great job telling the story of the people and the ideas that had a major impact on the game of football as we know it.
- Mack Brown, Head Football Coach, University of Texas

This is one of the most important sports books of our generation-and a lot of fun too. The formations and philosophies that win Super Bowls and national titles are made crystal clear. If you live for fall weekends, this is your book.
- Peter King, Author, Monday Morning Quarterback]]> 256 Tim Layden 1603200614 Jay 0 to-read 4.10 2010
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]]> 1341254
In this surprising and unprecedented dissection of college football's secret season, author Bruce Feldman takes you deep inside the war room of Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron, the combustible Cajun who built national championship teams at the University of Miami and USC before setting up shop in the Deep South. In a blow-by-blow account of the year leading up to National Signing Day 2007, Feldman reveals the inner secrets of Orgeron's success, recounting every step along the way as Orgeron and his Ole Miss staff pick 25 winners from a list of 1,000 names.

Meat Market makes the actual football season the one that runs from September through January read like a postscript.]]> 313 Bruce Feldman 1933060395 Jay 0 to-read 3.88 2007
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]]> 63850522
Eight seconds after magical genies grant every person on earth one wish, the world is transformed forever…and that’s just the beginning!

From #1 New York Times-bestselling author CHARLES SOULE (UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, Light of the Jedi) and superstar artist RYAN BROWNE (CURSE WORDS, GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS) comes the most thought-provoking, hilarious, terrifying, and emotional ride of the year.

Collects EIGHT BILLION GENIES #1-8]]> 275 Charles Soule 1534326723 Jay 0 to-read 4.32 2023
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]]> 223329630 120 Erica Schultz 1302964666 Jay 0 to-read 4.00
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]]> 224004183 160 Jason Aaron 1534329854 Jay 0 to-read 5.00
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]]> 213960698 31 Geoff Johns Jay 0 to-read 4.45 2024
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]]> 210482658 34 Geoff Johns Jay 4 4.47 2024
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]]> 59852733
The sexual revolution has liberated us to enjoy a heady mixture of erotic freedom and personal autonomy.

Right? Wrong, argues Louise Perry in her provocative new book.

Although it would be neither possible nor desirable to turn the clock back to a world of pre-60s sexual mores, she argues that the amoral libertinism and callous disenchantment of liberal feminism and our contemporary hypersexualised culture represent more loss than gain.

The main winners from a world of rough sex, hook-up culture and ubiquitous porn - where anything goes and only consent matters - are a tiny minority of high-status men, not the women forced to accommodate the excesses of male lust.

While dispensing sage advice to the generations paying the price for these excesses, she makes a passionate case for a new sexual culture built around dignity, virtue and restraint. This countercultural polemic from one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary feminism should be read by all men and women uneasy about the mindless orthodoxies of our ultraliberal era.]]> 200 Louise Perry 1509549994 Jay 0 to-read 4.23 2022
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]]> 3316474 240 Ed Brubaker 1401219233 Jay 4 4.34 2008
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]]> 213960671 35 Geoff Johns Jay 5 4.45 2024
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]]> 207297762 The most comprehensive look at championship hockey Why some teams always win, why some teams perennially lose, why some surefire stars never become superstars, and what execs see in unheralded players who grow into fan favorites.Team builders make the biggest decisions in hockey, and indeed in all of sports. They set the culture. They are the ones ultimately responsible for whether a Stanley Cup is raised at the end of the season. In the NHL, it all starts at the top. In this book, journalist Craig Custance takes readers behind the scenes of championship hockey culture where the most impactful (and most secretive) leaders in the NHL operate. For over three years, he has journeyed everywhere to get exclusive time with the most powerful people in an owner’s suite, a private championship ring ceremony, a Pennsylvania country club, a Florida pickleball court, and a bookstore in a northern Michigan resort town, among other locations. In total, the owners, presidents, general managers, and executives featured in this book have won twelve Stanley Cups, an Olympic gold medal and, in one case, led a boycott that changed the sport forever. For hockey fans, there are stories behind memorable trades, the biggest free agent signings and insights into how some of the most successful teams of the last two decades were built. There are never-been-told details about trade demands, a prominent hire that was regretted immediately, and the story of how one general manager risked his life to sign a player he thought could alter his franchise. For those interested in the secrets of sports management, this book details the hiring process, the path to the highest levels of success in hockey, the values in risk-taking, and the character traits most consistent in eventual champions.]]> 304 Craig Custance 1668035448 Jay 0 to-read 4.26
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]]> 210458804 31 Geoff Johns Jay 4 4.06 2024
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]]> 29069374 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.]]> 416 Emil Ferris 1606999591 Jay 0 to-read 4.21 2017
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]]> 25986929
He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world.
He wants to go far away with his true love.
He wants to find some porn.

But Punpun’s life is about to unravel…]]> 426 Inio Asano 1421586207 Jay 0 to-read 4.28 2006
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]]> 3430763 432 Inio Asano 1421523213 Jay 0 to-read 4.22 2006
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]]> 17306314 Nijigahara Holograph, which takes place in two separate timelines and involves the suicidal Amahiko; Kohta, the lovestruck bully; their teacher Miss Sakaki, whose heavily bandaged face remains a mystery; and many more brothers, sisters, parents, co-workers, teachers, aggressors, and victims who are all inextricably linked to one another. Ten years later, all will have to face what they've done or suffered through--and maybe the end of the world.

Nijigahara Holograph--complex, challenging, and elliptical--was named one of the most anticipated new manga at Comic-Con International: San Diego. Hailed as a voice of the current generation in Japan, Inio Asano, whose Solanin was nominated for Eisner and Harvey awards (and was made into a feature film), delves into David Lynchian territory with this psychological horror story.]]> 300 Inio Asano 1606995839 Jay 0 to-read 3.68 2006
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]]> 2179229 182 Jamie S. Rich 1932664882 Jay 0 to-read 3.26 2008
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Set in contemporary suburban Japan, Our Colors is the story of Sora Itoda, a sixteen-year-old aspiring painter who experiences his world in synesthetic hues of blues and reds and is governed by the emotional turbulence of being a teenager. He wants to live honestly as a young gay man in high school, but that is still not acceptable in Japanese society. His best friend and childhood confidante is Nao, a young woman whom everyone thinks is (or should be) his girlfriend, and it would be the easiest thing to play along—she knows he’s gay but knows, too, how difficult it is to live one’s truth in his situation.

Sora’s world changes forever when he meets Mr. Amamiya, a middle-aged gentleman who is the owner and proprietor of a local coffee shop and is completely, unapologetically out as a gay man. A mentorship and platonic friendship ensues as Sora comes out to him and agrees to paint a mural in the shop, and Mr. Amamiya counsels Sora about how to deal with who he is. But it won’t be easy. Mr. Amamiya paid a high price for his freedom of identity, and when a figure from his past suddenly appears, the situation becomes a vivid example of just how complicated life can be.]]> 528 Gengoroh Tagame 1524748587 Jay 0 to-read 4.03 2022
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]]> 210451290 36 Geoff Johns Jay 4 4.35 2024
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]]> 13641208 Tenth of December is his most honest, accessible, and moving collection yet.

In the taut opening, "Victory Lap," a boy witnesses the attempted abduction of the girl next door and is faced with a harrowing choice: Does he ignore what he sees, or override years of smothering advice from his parents and act? In "Home," a combat-damaged soldier moves back in with his mother and struggles to reconcile the world he left with the one to which he has returned. And in the title story, a stunning meditation on imagination, memory, and loss, a middle-aged cancer patient walks into the woods to commit suicide, only to encounter a troubled young boy who, over the course of a fateful morning, gives the dying man a final chance to recall who he really is. A hapless, deluded owner of an antique store; two mothers struggling to do the right thing; a teenage girl whose idealism is challenged by a brutal brush with reality; a man tormented by a series of pharmaceutical experiments that force him to lust, to love, to kill—the unforgettable characters that populate the pages of Tenth of December are vividly and lovingly infused with Saunders' signature blend of exuberant prose, deep humanity, and stylistic innovation.

Writing brilliantly and profoundly about class, sex, love, loss, work, despair, and war, Saunders cuts to the core of the contemporary experience. These stories take on the big questions and explore the fault lines of our own morality, delving into the questions of what makes us good and what makes us human.

Unsettling, insightful, and hilarious, the stories in Tenth of December—through their manic energy, their focus on what is redeemable in human beings, and their generosity of spirit—not only entertain and delight; they fulfill Chekhov's dictum that art should "prepare us for tenderness."]]> 251 George Saunders 0812993802 Jay 0 to-read 3.98 2013
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]]> 22323 Johnny Mnemonic to the technofetishist blues of Burning Chrome.

Johnny Mnemonic (1981)
The Gernsback Continuum (1981)
Fragments of a Hologram Rose (1977)
The Belonging Kind (1981) with John Shirley
Hinterlands (1981)

Red Star, Winter Orbit (1983) with Bruce Sterling
New Rose Hotel (1984)
The Winter Market (1985)
Dogfight (1985) with Michael Swanwick
Burning Chrome (1982)]]> 226 William Gibson 0060539828 Jay 0 to-read 4.07 1986
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]]> 77566 500 Dan Simmons 0553283685 Jay 0 to-read 4.26 1989
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]]> 24983
But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin--barely of age herself--finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history's darkest hours.

Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit.]]> 578 Connie Willis 0553562738 Jay 0 to-read 4.02 1992
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]]> 61240297 The "brilliantly realized" (The New York Times Book Review) modern classic that coined the term "metaverse"--one of Time's 100 best English-language novels and "a foundational text of the cyberpunk movement" (Wired), now in a gorgeous new hardcover edition featuring bonus material

In reality, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizza for Uncle Enzo's CosoNostra Pizza Inc., but in the Metaverse he's a warrior prince. Plunging headlong into the enigma of a new computer virus that's striking down hackers everywhere, he races along the neon-lit streets on a search-and-destroy mission for the shadowy virtual villain threatening to bring about infocalypse. Snow Crash is a mind-altering romp through a future America so bizarre, so outrageous . . . you'll recognize it immediately.]]> 576 Neal Stephenson 059359973X Jay 0 to-read 4.02 1992
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]]> 13453029
The first Wool story was released as a standalone short in July of 2011. Due to reviewer demand, the rest of the story was released over the next six months.

This is the story of mankind clawing for survival, of mankind on the edge. The world outside has grown unkind, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they profess to want: They are allowed outside.

Alternate cover for B0071XO8RA]]> 509 Hugh Howey Jay 0 to-read 4.22 2012
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]]> 39752703
We may never see a playoff series like it again.

Before Gary Bettman, and the lockouts. Before all the NHL's old barns were torn down to make way for bigger, glitzier rinks. Before expansion and parity across the league, just about anything could happen on the ice. And it often did. It was an era when huge personalities dominated the sport; and willpower was often enough to win games. And in the spring of 1993, some of the biggest talents and biggest personalities were on a collision course.
     The Cinderella Maple Leafs had somehow beaten the mighty Red Wings and then, just as improbably, the St. Louis Blues. Wayne Gretzky's Kings had just torn through the Flames and the Canucks. When they faced each other in the conference final, the result would be a series that fans still talk about passionately 25 years later.
     Taking us back to that feverish spring, The Last Good Year gives an intimate account not just of an era-defining seven games, but of what the series meant to the men who were changed by Marty McSorley, the tough guy who took his whole team on his shoulders; Doug Gilmour, the emerging superstar; celebrity owner Bruce McNall; Bill Berg, who went from unknown to famous when the Leafs claimed him on waivers; Kelly Hrudey, the Kings' goalie who would go on to become a Hockey Night in Canada broadcaster; Kerry Fraser, who would become the game's most infamous referee; and two very different captains, Toronto's bull in a china shop, Wendel Clark, and the immortal Wayne Gretzky.
     Fast-paced, authoritative, and galvanized by the same love of the game that made the series so unforgettable, The Last Good Year is a glorious testament to a moment hockey fans will never forget.]]> 288 Damien Cox 0735234760 Jay 0 to-read 3.95
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