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After being rescued before drowning in a glass coffin, Gwyn now knows why she ended up on the lawn to Wickmore Academy and who sent her. But now everything just got more complicated, as she is tasked with breaking out of the strange prison, not only to save herself but all the villains as well.

After surviving a danger-filled trip to Peru, Russ Becker looks forward to a laid-back summer spending time with his new love, Nadia. But plans go awry when he and his friends are invited by the Praetorian Guard to the event of the season. The mission? To protect the president and her daughter from assassination at the elegant Presidential Black Tie Bash. While Nadia struggles with her own troubles at home, Russ is torn, but determined to do his job. Battling for his life against the evil Associates, Russ confronts his worst fears and learns shocking revelations about those around him.

Thomas may look like your normal 14-year-old boy—one who attends a Galactic High School, competes with other boys for the attention of girls, and plays sports such as the extremely popular and very dangerous cyclone surfing. But that's not him at all. You see, Thomas is a Sentinel. Sentinels are born to protect the galaxy in case the demonic race known as the Nefarious ever escape their prison in Hell. When his Sanctuary comes under attack by an organization known as The Marked, Thomas, his mother, and his trainer have to journey the galaxy in order to awaken his full power.

After defeating their supervillain father, Bait and Switch are now seen as heroes rather than potential supervillains. Their classmates finally accept them and even most of their teachers have gotten over their distrust of the two. Life seems to be getting better and better. But things take a turn for the worse when a superhuman terrorist organization targets the Academy. Their target: A mysterious new student whose power they want to use to throw the superhero community into utter chaos. Now Bait and Switch must defend this student from the terrorists, but that's easier said than done, ...

A group of empathic teenagers discover they can do more than just sense emotions. They can absorb them to gain superpowers—supernatural strength, speed, healing, and more...driven by hate, fear, and love. Livvy and her friends soon find themselves in a world of dangerous con artists, shadowy soul-sucking villains, and secret organizations. When the strongest are those with the most ability to feel, can one heart be large enough to triumph over evil? If you like nonstop action, supercharged romance, and inspiring heroism, then you'll love this tale of young adult superheroes.

High school sophomore Matt Pine always thought he’d grow up to be a superhero—after all, not everyone can move things with their mind. But he can only move small stuff, nothing big enough to matter; it wasn’t big enough to save his mom from dying in a fire five years ago. Ever since he failed that night, he’s been hiding from his Ability, and he’s come to grips with the fact that superheroes aren’t real. Now he just wants to get through high school in one piece.

The Minimum Wage Sidekick returns in an all-new adventure! Eighteen-year-old Alex Fry (Beams) thinks he's seen it all in his year and a half as a part-time sidekick. That's why he's surprised when the police call him and his boss to investigate the gruesome slaughter of a local crime gang. Nineteen of Golden City's most wanted killed in one night by one man. The culprit: A supervillain knight known as Slasher seeking to conquer Golden City in the name of his mysterious king. Slasher is willing to kill anyone who stands in the way of his conquest of the city and Beams and Rubberman are at ...

Faith Herbert can finally admit that she’s not a regular teen — and take advantage of her new flying superpowers. After the chaos of her first semester, Faith just wants to end her senior year in a normal way — enjoying all the hallmarks of graduating high school, like prom, with her best friends Matt and Ches.

Triumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types. This YA anthology features thirteen short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still paying homage to the genre that has found fans for more than eight decades. And there will be no mistake—superheroes don’t have to just be generic handsome white dudes.

When their favorite teacher almost assassinates the President of the United States before their eyes, Bait and Switch think that life can't get any worse. That is, until they learn that their supervillain father has led the most successful prison break in American history and formed an army of supervillains out of the various prison escapees who broke out with him. His target: Bait and Switch themselves, whose powers he intends to use for world domination. Now Bait and Switch must defeat their father and his supervillain army one last time before he gets them. But with the leaders of the ...

In 2019, emotionally lost foster teen Philo Nockby is suddenly told his dead parents were time-traveling agents and is whisked away to the year 3451. In this complex future, some humans evolved to have triple helix DNA and civilization expanded to live below oceans, in the skies, and rule over Antarctica. Philo and his new friends Raelyn, Alani, and Xendo must investigate human history and the ancient martial art of kineoka at the same academy that destroyed his family, to defend the world's future from the devastating secrets his parents fought to reveal.

Returning home from his lavish 18th birthday party, Bruce Wayne stops a criminal's getaway - disobeying the police and crashing his car during the chase. Sentenced to community service in Gotham City's Arkham Asylum, he encounters some of the the city's most dangerous and mentally disturbed criminals. Among these, Bruce meets the intriguing Madeleine who has ties to the Nightwalker gang that is terrorising Gotham City. She's a mystery Bruce has to unravel - but can he trust her?

He's back. He's bitter. And he's better than before. Helped by the enigmatic Arthur, Simon has escaped torture, but the Green Hood's underlings are hot on his heels. He believes they are safe for now—or so they thought. Regrouping on a secluded Scottish island with his wife and friend, Simon and the others train for a fight they know will be bigger than they've ever faced.

Mysterious murders, shadowy figures, and high school. Life can be hard, death can be harder. Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing. The community has been quarantined. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko? Time is running out.

Es ist kurz vor den Sommerferien, und eine Hitzewelle hat Nova City fest im Griff. Dennoch ist Nick Bell guter Dinge: Mit seinem supersexy Freund Seth und seinen Freundinnen Jazz und Gibby hat er ein Superhelden-Team gegründet, um die Bürger von Nova City zu schützen. Keine Sekunde zu früh, wie sich herausstellt: Simon Burke kandidiert für das Amt des Oberbürgermeisters. Sollte er gewinnen, würde das das Ende der Extraordinairies bedeuten. Doch damit nicht genug: Gerüchten zufolge ist Superschurke Shadow Star aus dem Gefängnis geflohen.

L'Era dell'Anarchia avrebbe potuto proseguire all'infinito. Poi, quasi all'improvviso... la speranza. La speranza che risplendeva luminosa, vestita con mantelli e maschere. La speranza, bellissima e piena di gioia, che prometteva di risolvere tutti i problemi, di trafiggere i nemici con la spada della giustizia. La speranza che prendeva il nome di Rinnegati. Sono passati ormai dieci anni da quando i Rinnegati, un gruppo di giovanissimi Prodigi, uomini e donne dotati di poteri straordinari, decisero di usare le loro capacità per contrastare il caos generato dal governo degli Anarchici su Gatlon City, e riportare ovunque pace e stabilità.

Seventeen-year-old Asha's days are spent training in martial arts, attending homeschool classes, and helping in the kitchens of a luxurious Miami resort which she seldom leaves. Until the night her grandfather arrives home mysteriously injured, accompanied by a terrifying stranger. Asha begins to suspect that nothing is what it seems when she is abruptly sent to Punjab, India, to live with relatives she never knew she had.

Isabel is having an existential crisis. She’s three years into high school, and everything she’s learned has only shaken her faith in humanity. Late one night, she finds herself drawn to a niche corner of the internet—a forum whose members believe firmly in one thing: that there are indeed people out in the world quietly performing impossible acts of heroism. You might even call them supers. No, not in the comic book sense—these are real people, just like each of us, but who happen to have a power or two.

The headmaster from Not-Earth is gone, but Brendan and the A.V. Club are on the watch for his return. Just when they thought they could find some semblance of normal, a new mystery foe threatens the peace of the school. What are the mysterious machines flying over Dutchman Springs Academy? And who is trying to steal the secret to the Headmaster’s otherworld gate machine? Brendan must look to a new ally to win this fight and find out who among his friends is betraying him. This will take him on a journey beyond school grounds where supervillains aren’t just publicity seekers and evil ...

The Secret Supers are bored out of their minds during summer vacation-until they go to Space Camp. They learn all about the space program, try out moon gravity and zero-g simulations, and practice docking with the International Space Station.