"Enter the Grindhouse of X! When Jubilee and Boom-Boom agree to take Dazzler out for a night on the town to console her after her nasty breakup, they have no idea they're about to be kidnapped and put into elaborate death traps for their efforts! What are three young women with the power to blow things up to do? Find a fourth who is not afraid of a little blood, sweat and carnage! Laura Kinney, the Wolverine, completes the quartet of deadly X-Women...

Police can read your mind and detect potential future crimes! The hero of this story is a member of the Thought Police, whose job it is to detect when people are thinking criminal or anti-social thoughts. But what happens when he commits a thought crime? Sci-Fi Fantasy Graded Readers for ELT are designed to bring science fiction and fantasy into the ESL or EFL classroom. These genres allow readers to grapple with serious issues in a way that promotes...

You're the greatest hero of the Marvel Universe. So why doesn't anyone remember you? Your name is Bob Reynolds. You prefer cartoons over CNN. You drink too much, and you're thirty pounds overweight. You're afraid of heights and hate crowds, and your wife blames you for your dog's moodiness. And you know you were once a superhero. You were the Sentry.,But then something terrible happened. Something that threatened all life,on Earth, something that...

"Six weeks into the slow burn of the historic Arroyo Fire, a crew of women from an inmate firefighting program are risking everything on the frontlines when their newest recruit--a white-collar convict with a deep network of shady dealers--discovers they're mere miles from her crooked former associate's abandoned mansion. When she proposes a plan to abandon their duties and hunt for riches under cover of smoke and ash, the team must decide if they're...

This is an unexpected road movie into the Far East of Mongolia and Japan. Seamlessly intertwining the past and the present into a visually stunning journey of adventure and exploration, love and death, conspiracies, and the fall of nations. All told by a dead Finn from the distant north. It is also the story of Finnish linguist and diplomat G. J. Ramstedt's travels into the age-old world of beliefs and traditions of the late 19th century, a world...

From the writer of Barbaric comes the world-hopping, skull-crushing adventures of The Mighty Barbarians! They're barbarians. They loot, they plunder, they conquer. That's what they do, and they do it alone...until NOW! Kull leads the brave band of warriors on a treacherous journey back to his homeland in search of information on the mystical objects that will help them fight their enemy. But this only puts them on a longer, darker path to the heart...

Alex finds himself at the mercy of Dr. Tramontano and the Think Tank as they attempt to utilize his abilities to open dimensional portals, but for what reasons? The truth behind the death of Alex's parents is revealed, and the battle for control of Alex's mind - in the other-dimensional realm where he spent 16 years in a catatonic state - rages on. Meanwhile, who is the mysterious figure that observes Alex's struggle in a realm of his own creation,...

The stirring story of Star-Lord! Before Peter Quill was a Guardian of the Galaxy, he was...an astronaut! Or at least he wanted to be. But as NASA's biggest burnout, Quill seemed destined to stay grounded on Earth. Now, discover how he finally journeyed out into the galaxy! But getting off-world is one thing - surviving is another. Especially when Yondu and his space pirates find him! Plus: Relive Star-Lord's pre-Guardians adventures: teaming with...

"As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber ... at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the 'One Piece', said to be the greatest treasure in the world... Luffy has just landed in Wano and he's already lost his crew! After a chance meeting with a young girl, he begins to learn more about this strange...

Meet Clark Kent, a young reporter who just learned that the world will soon come to an end, and there's nothing he can do to save it. Sounds like a job for his alter ego...Superman! After years of standing idle, the young man from Krypton defies the wishes of his fathers to come out to the world as the first superhero of the Space Age. As each decade passes and each new danger emerges, he wonders whether this is the one that will kill him and everyone...