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1) Vicious
Author
Series
Villains (V. E. Schwab) volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-- brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things...
2) Vengeful
Author
Series
Villains (V. E. Schwab) volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she's finally gained the control she's always sought--and will use her new-found power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She'll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks, and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, against each other. With Marcella's rise, new enmities create opportunity--and the stage of Merit City will once again be set for a...
Author
Series
MicroPowers novels volume 1
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Ezekiel Blast has a superpower, or a micropower, if you will. He can find lost things. The problem is most people think he steals them. When the police ask for help, though, he may have a chance to redeem himself.
What good is finding lost bicycles and hair scrunchies, if when you return them to their owners they think you must have stolen them in the first place? Ezekial Blast's friend Beth thinks there must be some way to use his "micropower" for...
Author
Series
Villains (V. E. Schwab) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Victor and Eli started out as college roommates-- brilliant, arrogant, lonely boys who recognized the same sharpness and ambition in each other. In their senior year, a shared research interest in adrenaline, near-death experiences, and seemingly supernatural events reveals an intriguing possibility: that under the right conditions, someone could develop extraordinary abilities. But when their thesis moves from the academic to the experimental, things...
Author
Series
MicroPowers novels volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ryan wakes up to find his contractor dad building walls to turn their big old house into a duplex. The family that moves into the other side includes Bizzy Horvat, the pretty girl he has a crush on at school. Bizzy claims her mother is a witch with the power to curse people with clumsiness or, in Bizzy's case, astonishing beauty. When a bee gets caught in Bizzy's hair, Ryan acts so quickly and radically to save her from getting stung that he attracts...
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 20
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"World War III is over... or is it? Superpowers race to fill the postwar power vacuum in this page-turning thriller, the next in the Dan Lenson series. In the next installment of David Poyer's critically-acclaimed series about war with China, mutual exhaustion after a massive nuclear exchange is giving way to a Violent Peace. While Admiral Dan Lenson motorcycles across a post-Armageddon US in search of his missing daughter, his wife Blair Titus lands...
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 21
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New threats surface in the aftermath of WWIII-this time, in the remote waters of the Arctic. Arctic Sea is the next thrilling entry in David Poyer's critically-acclaimed future war series. In the aftermath of a world war with China, Admiral Dan Lenson is assigned to set up a US Navy base on the rugged North Slope of Alaska, in response to Russian seabed claims that reach nearly to the US coast. Yet the current administration seems oddly reluctant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titan Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the world of Extraordinary When high school student Charlotte Tills is revived from a fatal bus crash, she awakens with ExtraOrdinary powers. Incredibly rare and potentially dangerous to themselves and others, few people know the existence of ExtraOrdinaries, and an organization called EON is determined to keep it that way, hunting and killing all they can find. Reborn and renewed with the ExtraOrdinary ability to see how people will die...
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