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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this collection of nineteen unforgettable crime tales, Joe R. Lansdale brings his legendary mojo and gritty, dark humor to harrowing heists, revenge, homicide, and mayhem. No matter how they begin, things are bound to get ugly--and fast"--
In the 1950s, a young small-town projectionist mixes it up with a violent gang. When Mr. Bear is not alerting us to the dangers of forest fires, he lives a life of debauchery and murder. A brother and sister...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Contains Afro Samurai: Afro is out on a mission to seek revenge for the wrongful death of his father. A warrior who travels a solitary path, he encounters a myriad of enemies, friends, and challenges beyond imagination; and Afro Samurai Resurrection: Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace, but the legendary master is forced back into the game by a beautiful and deadly woman from his past. Includes trailers.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Quizá deba considerar la duda de Hamlet: ser o no ser, es la bronca." Sebastian Salcido, alias el Siciliano, esta libre después de pasar más de dos décadas en prisión. Es el líder de un despiadado grupo de exmilitares dedicados al narcotráfico. Lejos de suavizarse en la cárcel, ahora busca con ferocidad vengarse del excomandante de la policía que consiguiera arrestarlo. El Zurdo Mendieta deberá atraparlo, pero muy pronto descubrirá que...
6) Dune
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the year 10191. Arrakis is a desert planet, which contains the only source of 'Melange,' which is necessary for space travel. Two rival families, the Atreides and the Harkonnens, fight to control of the mining operations. When Duke Leto Atreides is assassinated by the evil Baron Harkonnen, his son Paul and Leto's wife, Lady Jessica, flee deep into the desert and are befriended by natives of Arrakis. Paul learns that he has special powers and...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Taking place in the years between VICIOUS and VENGEFUL, ExtraOrdinary follows the tale of a teenage girl named Charlotte Tills who following a fatal bus crash, seemingly dies only to wake up to discover she has become an EO -- a person with ExtraOrdinary abilities. In Charlotte's case, it's the ability to see people's deaths, but when she looks into her own future, sees her own murder at the hands of the self-proclaimed hero and notorious EO killer...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
Español
Description
Chechenia, 1995: Nura sueña con huir de su aldea, donde los clanes marcan la ley y la guerra amenaza con aplastar todos sus sueños de libertad, que para ella se concentran en su posesión más preciada, un cubo de Rubik. Mientras tanto, en Moscú, el joven ruso Aleksandr Orlov abandona al amor de su vida para irse al frente. Veinte años después, este joven idealista y lector se ha convertido en un oligarca al que en Berlín conocen como el General,...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When his life is drastically changed by a terrorist attack during his daughter's piano recital, martial arts instructor Darvil James seeks revenge. His quest intensifies two years later after his daughter is assaulted during a college campus political demonstration. Aided by Buster Caruso, local trucker who rescued her, James finds his efforts to hunt her assaulters down hindered by local authorities and Dr. Alyson Powers, a college Dean determined...
13) Badland doves
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Four gunslinging women motivated by revenge seek justice.
14) The protegé
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody, Anna is the world's most skilled contract killer. However, when Moody is brutally killed, she vows revenge for the man who taught her everything she knows.
15) No mercy
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Out to avenge the death of his partner, tough cop Jillette kidnaps the murderer's girlfriend and flees with her into the bayous of Louisiana.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An astounding debut that reimagines the classic Western through the eyes of a Chinese American assassin on a quest to rescue his kidnapped wife and exact his revenge on her abductors, and "declares the arrival of an astonishing new voice" (Jonathan Lethem). Orphaned young, Ming Tsu, the son of Chinese immigrants, is raised by the notorious leader of a California crime syndicate, who trains him to be his...
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