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Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"After spending a year and a half wandering through the darkest corners of America, John Constantine has returned home! His port of entry is Liverpool, where the decaying landscape and gentle undercurrent of despair match his frame of mind. Of course, no sooner does he set foot upon his native land than he stumbles into a small-time necromancy-and-murder ring centered on his own sister's apartment building. More worrying than this sordid little power...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Miles Morales is the new Spider-Man but must also walk the balance between his personal high school & family life and his life as a superhero. While being Spider-Man, he becomes familiar with the Spider-Verse, where there are endless variations on Spider-Man. One of the Spider-Man variations living inside the Spider-Verse is Spider-Man, Peter Parker, who guides Miles in his journey as the new Spider-Man and introduces him to the multitude of other...
Author
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Serial Killers are the most notorious and disturbing of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity. Yet they endlessy fascinate and continue to capture the public's attention with their strange charisma and deadly deeds. From Jack the Ripper to Ted Bundy and the Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley, these killers transfix us with their ability to commit utterly savage acts of cruelty and depravity.
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After angering a number of hostile spirits in England, 13-year-old magician Johnny Constantine has to find a way out of the country. Persuading his parents to send him to America, John arrives at the Junior Success Boarding School in Salem, Massachusetts. But once there,he finds himself to be something of an outcast. And he is also convinced that his homeroom teacher really has it in for him. Worse, he's convinced that's she's really a witch. Fortunately,...
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"John Constantine is back in London, reuniting with old friends--and older enemies: There's Chas Chandler, his best mate; Mercury, the young psychic, the Earth elemental known as the Swamp Thing; and, of course, more demons and djinns than you can cast a curse at. If he's going to survive this hell-raising homecoming, Constantine will have to play fast and loose with the rules--and with the souls of everyone residing in the Old Smoke. Evil is a surprisingly...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
[Border incident]: The Mexico-California border is the power-keg setting for a tale of government agents versus greed and murder. [His kind of woman]: Hard-luck gambler Dan Milner is in sudden luck. He'll get $50,000 to hang out at a posh Mexican resort. $5,000 now and the big payoff when the reason he's been sent there is revealed. Of course, the gangsters making the offer don't expect him to live long enough to collect. [Lady in the lake]: Philip...
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Working-class sorcerer. Golden-tongued con man. Sneering punk. Absolute bastard. Accidental savior. A dweller at the crossroads where street smarts a meet the dark arts, John Constantine has been all these things and more. And from London to Los Angeles, his name echoes through the minds of magicians and occultists the world over. So when the granddaughter of his best mate Chas gets sucked into a supernatural coma, Constantine comes calling. To save...
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Time Traveler's Almanac is the largest and most definitive collection of time travel stories ever assembled. Gathered into one volume by intrepid chrononauts and world-renowned anthologists Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, this book compiles more than a century's worth of literary travels into the past and the future that will serve to reacquaint readers with beloved classics of the time travel genre and introduce them to thrilling contemporary innovations....
Series
Hellblazer volume 23
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"To restore his mind and save his life, John Constantine was forced to give a day of his life to a she-demon named Rosacarnis. It was a bad bargain, and one that he knew he'd regret--but he had no idea how quickly everything would go straight to hell in its aftermath. Over the course of that single day, England's savviest street sorcerer lived several lifetimes--and sired three infernal offspring, whose incandescent hatred of him was carefully nurtured...
Publisher
Vertigo/DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The human race is a vast herd--one that John Constantine separated himself from a long time ago. The lonely path he's taken since then hasn't been an easy one, but in the end it's probably been for the best. Given his notoriety as England's greatest street-level sorcerer, every tie that binds him to his fellow man is just another potential weapon for his infernal enemies to use against him. Self-sufficiency, however, can all too easily shade into...
Publisher
DC Comics/Vertigo
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"I like loose ends. I trust loose ends. But this feels like someone's been pulling my strings... Coincidence. Sychronicity. Damned good luck. Whatever you want to call it, street-smart sorcerer John Constantine has counted on it for survival all his life - and he's never second-gueseed its source. Until now. From out of the killing fields of war-torn Sudan, a cannibalistic mage called Mako has come to England to feed on misery--and to find the eternal...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning debut novel set in the rugged, rural landscape of northwest England where two sheep farmers lose their flocks and decide to reverse their fortunes by stealing sheep from a rich farm in the south-for fans of Annie Proulx and Cormac McCarthy. Inearly 2001, a lethal disease breaks out on the hill farms of northern England, emptying the valleys of sheep and filling the skies with smoke as they burn the carcasses. Two neighboring shepherds...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
[Disc 1]: Star trek: the motion picture: A massive alien presence of enormous power enters Federation space, destroying three powerful Klingon cruisers and neutralizing everything in its path and Admiral James T. Kirk returns to the helm of an updated U.S.S. Enterprise and sets course to meet the aggressor head-on. [Disc 2]: Star trek II: the wrath of Khan: On a routine inspection of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Admiral James T. Kirk's Starfleet career...
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