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12062) The Day of the Triffids
Pub. Date
©2011
Description
"It's an up-to-date setting of the 1951 sci-fi thriller. With the world blinded and the Triffids set loose, it falls upon a band of scattered, sighted survivors to fight this carnivorous plant invasion. With a brave new world of maniacs, warring factions and renegades, the battle on the streets is not only directed at the purple-headed organisms but a battle to survive the sinister street-army headed by megalomaniac Torrence"--Www.imdb.com.
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Series
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Sesshomaru has his and Inuyasha's father's powerful sword, the Tetsusaiga, making it nearly impossible for Inuyasha, Kagome, Shippo and Miroku to fend off his attacks. For her safety, Inuyasha tries to send Kagome back to her time. And Inuyasha tries to figure out why Naraku deceived him 50 years ago.
Pub. Date
[2020] .
Description
Bill & Ted's excellent adventure: Interplanetary rulers from the 27th century send two teenaged boys, who should have been studying history instead of playing rock music, on a guided trip through time and history.
Bill & Ted's bogus journey: When the evil De Nomolos dispatches robots to kill Bill & Ted, not only is the future of the universe at stake, but there's no way they can win the battle of the bands. Luckily, when they knock on death's door,...
12065) The arrival
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Radio astronomer Zane Zaminsky believes he's picked up a cosmic noise that is signaling extraterrestrial intelligence. But after turning over the tape to his boss Phil Gordian, Zane's fired, his girlfriend get transferred and his partner is found dead from an apparent suicide. Zane's desperate search for answers leads him to Mexico and a mysterious power plant this is generating more than electricity and is run by people who are not what they appear...
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Pub. Date
2017
Description
What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? The U.A. students have reached the practical portion of their final exam, but they didn't expect to...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Midoriya has learned a few tricks from Gran Torino, but some things just have to be experienced to be understood. Even though he's not ready, when the League of Villains attacks in the town of Hosu, Midoriya rushes to help Ida, who is engaged in a life-and-death struggle with Hero Killer Stain. Stain has some very particular ideas about heroes and their place in society and he means to purge every hero he can find.
12069) Save yourselves
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A young Brooklyn couple heads to an upstate cabin to unplug from their phones and reconnect with each other. Blissfully unaware of their surroundings, they are left to their own devices as the planet falls under attack.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
On an exploratory mission, two astronauts discover an extraterrestrial container (referred to as a dumpster as a result of its smell) and breach the unit, inadvertently releasing the evil alien sorceress Rita Repulsa from 10,000 years of confinement. Upon her release, she and her army of evil space aliens set their sights on conquering the nearest planet: Earth. The wise sage Zordon, who was responsible for capturing Rita Repulsa, becomes aware of...
12072) Alliances: orphans
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"From the mind of legendary comics creator Stan Lee, the architect of the Marvel Universe, comes Alliances: Orphans, a brand-new original graphic novel set in the New York Times best-selling Alliances universe, co-written by Lee with Luke Lieberman (Red Sonja) and Ryan Silbert (The Coldest Case). This cosmic adventure features fully painted artwork by Bill Sienkiewicz, who handles the prologue and cover, and Szymon Kudranski. Orphans blasts readers...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Revelation road: "Chasing Josh at every turn is the brutal outlaw Hawg and his rolling gang of killers. On the day after the biblical Rapture, law and order have broken down - the highways have become a no-mans-land of bandits and looters. Josh's world has been shaken to the core, and he must make a choice: embrace his past as a man of violence, or learn a new path and become a man of faith. Which will he choose?"--Container.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Behind the mask is Lelouch Lamperouge, once a prince of the Britannian Empire who is hell-bent on revenge for his mother's death and protecting his younger sister, Nunnally. He is given a gift, a power known as Geass that allows him to control the mind of anyone he looks at. It is with his Geass that his plan to bring a world worthy of his sister is close to fruition; until he faces off with knight of Britannia and his former best friend, Suzaku Kururugi....
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
After aliens arrive on Earth, a Marine Staff Sergeant on the verge of retirement goes into Los Angeles to help a platoon evacuate civilians and fight the alien invaders; an ex-government agent falsely convicted of espionage against the U.S. is offered his freedom if he can rescue the president's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum-security prison.
12076) Godzilla vs. Kong
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
An ancient rivalry is rekindled when a Hollow Earth scholar receives private funding and wants to use Kong to discover the origin of the Titans. Protected inside a biodome since his discovery in the 70s, Kong was the only kaiju who did not participate in the epic battle against King Gidorah, and Godzilla is determined to become the final apex predator. Meanwhile, the humans begin to suspect that everyone involved is being manipulated by an industry...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Being a preteen super hero is hard. Doing it when your parents finally know about it is even harder. Good thing Lunella Lafayette (A.K.A. Moon Girl, Inhuman super-genius) has a plan to keep heroing. To give herself the perfect alibi, she organizes a roller-derby team of other Inhuman kids! It's just supposed to be an excuse to get out of the apartment with all her super-hero gear in tow, but it turns out to be kind of ... fun? That is, until one of...
12078) John Carter
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Description
A war-weary former military captain is inexplicably transported to Mars and reluctantly becomes embroiled in an epic conflict. It's a world on the brink of collapse, and Carter rediscovers his humanity when he realizes the survival of Barsoom and its people rests in his hands.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Blade Runner 2049: A young blade runner's discovery of a long buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years.
Blade Runner: the final cut: In a future Los Angeles, Rick Deckard of the LAPD's Blade Runner unit prowls the steel & microchip jungle. His job is to track down and eliminate assumed humanoids known as 'replicants.' Replicants. The city that Deckard must search for his prey is a...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.