Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1

Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1
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Publisher : Boom! Studios
Total Pages : 31
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ISBN-10 : 9781646689705
ISBN-13 : 1646689704
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Synopsis Strange Skies Over East Berlin #1 by : Jeff Loveness

Herring is a disillusioned American spy stationed on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall, struggling with his role in a Cold War that seems to have no end. But when he's sent on a mission behind enemy lines to infiltrate East German intelligence, he soon learns the Soviets have a secret weapon that could change the tides of the conflict: an alien monster that they don't understand, and can't control. The Soviets are about to learn that they’re not in charge of the monster – it’s already in their minds and has twisted them to its will. Now Herring must find a way to understand the impossible – before it transforms him into a monster unlike any other. Writer Jeff Loveness (Judas) and Lisandro Estherren (Redneck) team up for a story in the spirit of Cold War classics, for fans of period piece science fiction as well as alien action such as Barrier.

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Masquerade #1

Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Masquerade #1
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Publisher : Boom! Studios
Total Pages : 43
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ISBN-10 : 9781646683666
ISBN-13 : 1646683668
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Masquerade #1 by : Jim Henson

All is not as it seems with the guests of Jareth’s famous Masquerade, as one participant slowly awakens to the reality of her topsy-turvy existence in the Goblin Kingdom when Sarah shatters the glass mirrors during her escape. But as this mysterious participant puts together the pieces, her discoveries threaten to unravel everything!

Bury the Lede

Bury the Lede
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Publisher : Boom! Studios
Total Pages : 132
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ISBN-10 : 9781641445443
ISBN-13 : 1641445440
Rating : 4/5 (43 Downloads)

Synopsis Bury the Lede by : Gaby Dunn

Cub reporter Madison Jackson is young, scrappy, and hungry to prove that she deserves her coveted college internship at the premiere newspaper in town, The Boston Lede, so when her police scanner mentions a brutal murder tied to the prominent Boston Kennedys, Madison races to the crime scene, looking for the scoop of the century. What she finds instead is the woman who'll change her life forever: Dahlia Kennedy, celebrity socialite, now widow, covered in gore and the prime suspect in the murder of her husband and child. When Dahlia refuses to talk to anyone but Madison, they begin a dangerous game of cat and mouse that leads the young journalist down a twisted path. From Gaby Dunn (Bad with Money, I Hate Everyone But You) and Claire Roe (Batgirl and the Birds of Prey, Welcome Back) comes an all-new original graphic novel about the thrill of the chase and the dangers of going toe-to-toe with a potential killer.

Leaving Berlin

Leaving Berlin
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9781476704661
ISBN-13 : 147670466X
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Leaving Berlin by : Joseph Kanon

New York Times Notable Book * Named one of NPR and Wall Street Journal's Best Books of the Year * The acclaimed author of The Good German “deftly captures the ambience” (The New York Times Book Review) of postwar East Berlin in his “thought-provoking, pulse-pounding” (Wall Street Journal) New York Times bestseller—a sweeping spy thriller about a city caught between political idealism and the harsh realities of Soviet occupation. Berlin, 1948. Almost four years after the war’s end, the city is still in ruins, a physical wasteland and a political symbol about to rupture. In the West, a defiant, blockaded city is barely surviving on airlifted supplies; in the East, the heady early days of political reconstruction are being undermined by the murky compromises of the Cold War. Espionage, like the black market, is a fact of life. Even culture has become a battleground, with German intellectuals being lured back from exile to add credibility to the competing sectors. Alex Meier, a young Jewish writer, fled the Nazis for America before the war. But the politics of his youth have now put him in the crosshairs of the McCarthy witch-hunts. Faced with deportation and the loss of his family, he makes a desperate bargain with the fledgling CIA: he will earn his way back to America by acting as their agent in his native Berlin. But almost from the start things go fatally wrong. A kidnapping misfires, an East German agent is killed, and Alex finds himself a wanted man. Worse, he discovers his real assignment—to spy on the woman he left behind, the only woman he has ever loved. Changing sides in Berlin is as easy as crossing a sector border. But where do we draw the lines of our moral boundaries? At betrayal? Survival? Murder? Joseph Kanon’s compelling thriller is a love story that brilliantly brings a shadowy period of history vividly to life.

Origins #4

Origins #4
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Publisher : Boom! Studios
Total Pages : 30
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ISBN-10 : 9781646683918
ISBN-13 : 1646683919
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Origins #4 by : Clay McLeod Chapman

When the Network discovers David and Chloe’s refuge, they’re forced to make a devastating sacrifice to escape. To continue into the desolate frozen wastelands towards David’s lab, they’ll need the help of their new-found allies if they want to survive.

The Last Contract #1

The Last Contract #1
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Publisher : BOOM! Studios
Total Pages : 29
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ISBN-10 : 9781681597584
ISBN-13 : 1681597586
Rating : 4/5 (84 Downloads)

Synopsis The Last Contract #1 by : Ed Brisson

A retired hit man, known only as "The Man," is forced back into the game when a list of his kills is leaked by a mysterious blackmailer. The list makes targets out of anyone associated with one of the The Man's previous jobs, not to mention The Man himself. As he fights to protect those the list exposes, The Man sets off to uncover the identity of the blackmailer so he can move on with his new life once and for all, but will the truth ruin those chances forever?

Book of Clouds

Book of Clouds
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 226
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ISBN-10 : 9781448113446
ISBN-13 : 144811344X
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Book of Clouds by : Chloe Aridjis

Tatiana, a young Mexican woman, is adrift in Berlin. Choosing a life of solitude, she takes a job transcribing notes for the reclusive Doktor Weiss. Through him she meets 'ant illustrator turned meteorologist' Jonas, a Berliner who has used clouds and the sky's constant shape-shifting as his escape from reality. As their three paths intersect and merge, the contours of all their worlds begins to change...

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
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Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages : 735
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ISBN-10 : 9781466804272
ISBN-13 : 1466804270
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Sophie's World by : Jostein Gaarder

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Special Forces Berlin

Special Forces Berlin
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Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Total Pages : 383
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ISBN-10 : 9781612004457
ISBN-13 : 1612004458
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis Special Forces Berlin by : James Stejskal

The previously untold story of a Cold War spy unit, “one of the best examples of applied unconventional warfare in special operations history” (Small Wars Journal). It is a little-known fact that during the Cold War, two US Army Special Forces detachments were stationed far behind the Iron Curtain in West Berlin. The existence and missions of the two detachments were highly classified secrets. The massive armies of the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies posed a huge threat to the nations of Western Europe. US military planners decided they needed a plan to slow the expected juggernaut, if and when a war began. This plan was Special Forces Berlin. Their mission—should hostilities commence—was to wreak havoc behind enemy lines and buy time for vastly outnumbered NATO forces to conduct a breakout from the city. In reality, it was an ambitious and extremely dangerous mission, even suicidal. Highly trained and fluent in German, each of these one hundred soldiers and their successors was allocated a specific area. They were skilled in clandestine operations, sabotage, and intelligence tradecraft, and were able to act, if necessary, as independent operators, blending into the local population and working unseen in a city awash with spies looking for information on their every move. Special Forces Berlin left a legacy of a new type of soldier, expert in unconventional warfare, that was sought after for other deployments, including the attempted rescue of American hostages from Tehran in 1979. With the US government officially acknowledging their existence in 2014, their incredible story can now be told—by one of their own.

Batman (2016-) #80

Batman (2016-) #80
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Publisher : DC Comics
Total Pages : 24
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ISBN-10 : PKEY:T1616000805001
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis Batman (2016-) #80 by : Tom King

The bad guys thought they had it made with Bane in control, but with Batman back in Gotham they’ll be reminded what justice feels like…and how it hurts when it hits you in the face. With Catwoman at his side, the Caped Crusader is looking to take down Bane’s army and reclaim his city. But what happens when old allies like Gotham Girl also stand in his way? The legendary art team of John Romita Jr. and Klaus Janson join BATMAN for two action-packed issues that will rock Gotham City to its foundation.