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ARCHER & ARMSTRONG: REVIVAL – graphic novel

Archer is master of hand-to-hand combat as well as an expert marksman. He is always on the hunt for truth but is perhaps a bit slow on . Think of him as an updated Kwai Chang Caine. Archer has partnered with Armstrong, a street-smart but none-too-bright fighter who cannot die. He’s been alive since the dawn… Continue reading
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DARRYL OPENWORLD – Oliver Peru

Darryl Openworld is a graphic novel based on a French YA book series by Rémi Guérin. Darryl is a journalist – probably the most popular journalist in all of Openworld because of his ability to travel between realities. Darryl is passionate about being a journalist, and in this world journalists are generally well respected and as… Continue reading
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SHADE OF PALE – Greg Kihn

Jukes Wahler is a psychiatrist working in Manhattan – a city filled with people who could use his services, but is he soon to be in need of a psychiatrist himself? One day, while looking out through a deli window, Jukes sees a tremendously beautiful redheaded woman walking past. She turn to look at him… Continue reading
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THE GREAT ZOO OF CHINA – Matthew Reilly

The Chinese are nothing if they are not good at keeping secrets. For forty years they have been preparing a zoo – a zoo unlike any other in the world with only one animal. As the Chinese government prepares to finally open this special zoo to the public, they first invite some Western reporters and… Continue reading
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BUTTS: A BACKSTORY – Heather Radke

The human butt…. We have a complicated relationship with butts. We obsess over them, we admire them, we assess and critique them and are often complaining about our own while toning them and trying to make them attractive to others. But what is the butt really about? Author Heather Radke explores some historical significance in… Continue reading
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SHADOW AVENGERS – Carrie Harris

Doctor Strange has been preparing for the arrival of Dormammu – a being who rule the Dark Dimension – and formed the Shadow Avengers as a small, super-hero army to do battle with the dark entity and his supporters when the time comes. The team consists of Ms. Marvel, Spider-Man, Luke Cage, and the Black Panther.… Continue reading
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BAD RIVER – Ralph Cotton

Ranger Sam Burrack is on his way south in search of a notorious gang of bandits. He’s gotten a tip from Escalante – a prisoner in the Yuma Penitentiary – that the Cowboy Gang are holing up along Bad River. The mayor of the nearby village is as corrupt as the gang and if the… Continue reading
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HEARTACHE MOTEL – Terri L. Austin, Larissa Reinhart, LynDee Walker

Take one fleabag motel and have three cozy mystery authors bring their regular characters into that motel and you get three novellas loosely tied together. In “Diners Keepers, Losers Weepers” by Terri L. Austin, it is just before Christmas and Rose Strickland and friends are planning a visit to Graceland. Their planned accommodations fall through and… Continue reading
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ART ESSAYS – Alexandra Kinston-Reese, editor

“The art essay is at once not about the art and all about the art – the glance at the piece of art evolves into a meditation on something else entirely” writes editor Alexandra Kingston-Reese in her introduction to the collection Art Essays. This makes this volume a collection of essays very loosely themed around art. … Continue reading
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THE CRACKED SPINE – Paige Shelton

Kansas girl, Delaney Nichols, decides it’s time for a change and accepts a long-distance job in a bookshop in Edinburgh, Scotland by way of a phone interview. All she knows is that it’s time for a personal change and that the work … whatever it is … sounds exciting. The book shop, The Cracked Spine, is… Continue reading
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THE WEIRD OF THE WHITE WOLF – Michael Moorcock

WARNING – SPOILERS AHEAD Michael Moorcock’s The Weird of the White Wolf, now considered to be the fourth (or is it the 5th?) book (chronologically) in the Elric saga, is a collection of three shorter works (novellas? novelettes?). In ‘Book One’ – “The Dreaming City” – Elric’s actions come back to haunt him. At the end… Continue reading
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THE MALEFICENT SEVEN – Cameron Johnston

Take Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai, put a modern, supernatural spin on it in the grimdark sub-genre, and you get an idea of what The Maleficent Seven by Cameron Johnston is about. The woman, Black Herran – a demonologist – is putting together a team to lead her armies and she’s got six of the most ruthless, vicious characters ever… Continue reading

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