Jeff Lemire
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Thanos, possibly the most diabolical individual in the Marvel Universe, is back - and he's out for vengeance on all who would oppose him! Unfortunately for the Mad Titan, he's also heading for an unexpected reckoning...with his family. Take an ongoing walk on the dark side of the galaxy, and follow the deadly trail of destruction left in the wake of...Thanos! He is pure evil. He is unstoppable. And it's time for someone - anyone - to take him down"--Tp...
2) Roughneck
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Formats
Description
"Derek Ouelette's glory days are behind him. His hockey career ended a decade earlier in a violent incident on ice, and since then he's been living off his reputation in the remote northern community where he grew up, drinking too much and fighting anyone who crosses him. But he never counts on his long-lost sister, Beth, showing up one day out of the blue, back in town and on the run from an abusive boyfriend. Looking to hide out for a while, the...
Author
Series
Essex County volume 1
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Xeric-Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire (Lost Dogs) illustrates the tale of Lester, an orphaned 10-year-old who goes to live on his Uncle's farm. Their relationship grows increasingly strained and Lester befriends the town's gas station owner, and damaged former hockey star Jimmy Lebeuf. The two escape into a private fantasy world of super-heroes, alien invaders and good old-fashioned pond Hockey. Tales from the Farm is the first volume in a trilogy...
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia, Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work. Nothing, however, could prepare him for the pressures of impending fatherhood. As Jack dives deeper and deeper, he seems to pull further and further away from his young wife and their unborn son. Then one night, deep in the icy solitude of the ocean floor, something unexplainable happens. Jack has a mysterious and supernatural...
Author
Series
Descender volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Tim-21, Telsa and Quon finally escape the Machine Moon and head out on a quest to find the ancient robot who may hold the key to the Harvesters. Meanwhile Andy and his rag-tag team close in on Tim, but their fragile alliance is shattered by Driller's revealtions.
Author
Series
Old man Logan volume 5
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Spiraling through his own living memories, Logan is forced to relive moments both poignant and painful in an attempt to put right what once went wrong.
Author
Series
Old man Logan volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Fifty years from now, Logan - the man who no longer calls himself Wolverine - will have endured many atrocities: The Marvel Universe's villains will have banded together and rid the world of its heroes. Logan's closest friend, Hawkeye, will have been murdered in cold blood right before his eyes. And driven mad by the same radiation that gave him his superhuman strength, Bruce Banner will have fathered a family of hillbilly Hulks...that eventually...
9) Snow angels
Author
Series
Snow angels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022-
Description
v. 1: "Collects issues #1-4 of Snow Angels from the ComiXology original digital series" -- v. 2: "Collects issues #5-10 of Snow Angels from the ComiXology original digital series"--
"Two of the most acclaimed comics creators of their generation--writer Jeff Lemire and artist Jock--together for the first time in this ten-part science fiction saga set in a brutal world like no other! Milliken and Mae have never left the Trench--it's all they've ever...
10) Plutona
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Five suburban kids make a shocking discovery while exploring the woods one day after school... the body of the world's greatest superhero, Plutona, laying dead among the mud and grass. This discovery sends them on a dark journey that will threaten to tear apart their friendship and their lives.
Author
Series
Descender volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
" One young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet" -- summary provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Descender volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Young Robot boy TIM-21 and his companions struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"The Justice League Dark team is called into action by Wonder Woman in hopes of finding Pandora's Box, which may hold the only answers to save an ailing Superman. Not about to let the Seven Deadly Sins escape from Pandora's Box, The Phantom Stranger pleads with the remaining members of the Justice League to stop Wonder Woman before she accidentally puts an end to the world as they know it. This volume collects Justice League Dark #22-29"--
Author
Series
Descender volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"One young robot's struggle to stay alive in a universe where all androids have been outlawed and bounty hunters lurk on every planet. A rip-roaring and heart-felt cosmic odyssey that pits humanity against machine, and world against world, to create a sprawling space opera from the creators of Trillium, Sweet Tooth, and Little Gotham. This third volume collects issues #12-16 of the best-selling, critically acclaimed series." --
16) Black Hammer
Author
Pub. Date
2017-
Description
"Wiped out of their superhero universe by a multiversal crisis, the forgotten heroes of Spiral City now live as a dysfunctional family on a mysterious farm in a small town from which they have no escape"--page 4 of cover, volume 1.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"They were just kids with the same problems as anyone. Victor Stone's mother wouldn't stop pushing him to be more than who he is. Tara Markov's mom couldn't tell you a thing about her daughter if her life depended on it. Joey Wilson was drawing further away from his peers every day, into a self-imposed world of silence. And Gar Logan had everything he could want, except the answer to what was happening to him...something that would happen to them...
Author
Series
Animal man (The New 52) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
As the epic crossover storyline with Swamp Thing, "Rot-World", comes to a close, Buddy Baker is a broken man with a broken family. Following the loss of his son, Buddy has become estranged from his wife and daughter, making him feel completely alone in the world. To compound his problems, Buddy cannot even mourn in peace without the constant media intrusions that his newfound fame as an actor have brought about. Even in with his life seemingly in...
19) Sentient
Author
Pub. Date
c2020.
Description
Welcome to the U.S.S. Montgomery. When a separatist attack kills every adult on board a colony ship in deep space, it is up to Valarie, the on-board A.I., to help the ship's children survive. But as they are pursued by dangerous forces, can Valarie become more than what she was programmed to be--a savior to these children?
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Extraordinary adventures demand Extraordinary X-Men, and no frontier is too wild for this crew! While one team of X-Men stages a daring rescue mission in Weirdworld, the members of another delve deep into their own teammate's psyche! Weird is nothing new for hardened mutants like Old Man Logan, Colossus, Iceman and Magik - but are Storm and Jean Grey prepared for what lies in the mind of Nightcrawler? Then, to save the present, the X-Men race into...