Posts By Shanna Horan

Movie and media enthusiasts beware, because the coffee table book to promote and prove your showdown prowess has arrived in the form of Scott C.’s next artistic endeavour, Great Showdowns the Return. This hardback compact book is chock full of Scott C.’s well known watercolor depictions of conflicts between movie, book and television characters.
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Has Dracula risen yet again? Was he ever truly dead and gone? In Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard, vampires have been known in the world since the Master’s time and this tongue in cheek, witty fourth book in the Anno Dracula series by Kim Newman begs the dangerous question; who is Dracula in a world saturated with vampires?
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Into every generation, a Slayer is born … and whether they are brief, unfortunate, tragic or triumphant, these are their brave tales of struggle through an unfair and patriarchal rite of passage known as the Tento di Cruciamentum.
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A zombie book without zombies could be the tagline for the young adult novel Zom-B. The story revolves around B who struggles with being a bully at school, an abusive father at home whom is teaching her how to be racist when she knows underneath being racist is wrong
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Freak, devastating hailstorm, fiery school bus crash, chemical clouds and no adults to guide them, 14 kids face the end of the world as they know it in a superstore, testing their skills, knowledge and ability to survive as their young lives fall apart around them.
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Join the real life superhero adventurer Dr. Mireya Mayor as she shares her nerdy and breathtaking scientific journeys into the wilderness and enjoy her unique perspective, humor and her courage to follow her passion for lemurs and other critters.
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They thought it was a plague, but it is what came in the days that followed the deaths of 99% of the world’s population that truly terrifies. For Michael, it means leaving behind his dead family in the hopes they won’t reanimate and to navigate world of awakening zombie herds whose condition might be worse than imagined.
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An easy to read and simple dystopian tale of a young girl’s struggle with following society’s expectations through futuristic “pretty” plastic surgery and learning to trust her friends and herself.
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The Reapers are the Angels is the introspective story of Temple, a 15 year old girl who has only ever known her zombie apocalypse world in which she must survive the living, the undead and her own demons.
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Meet Mike Hammer, detective extraordinaire with a little 007 skill and a sharp twist of crass, act first think later attitude. Follow his lost adventure in Complex 90 as he runs from the KGB, ghosts of his past and solves the trouble only he could get himself into.
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If you’ve ever argued or discussed the finer points of vampire slaying, Fighting the Forces: What’s at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (2002, by R.V. Wilcox & D. Lavery) is written for you, you analytical obsessive fan you.
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An inspiring tale of teamwork, struggle, growth and creating something for oneself, Rollergirl: Totally True Tales from the Track by Melissa “Melicious” Joulwan tells the creation story of Texas Rollergirls, will all the drama, heartache, laughs, falling down and picking back up again you expect from tough girls in hot skirts and skates.
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