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Author
Series
Heroine complex novels volume 5
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Over the years, the adventures of superheroines Aveda Jupiter and Evie Tanaka have become the stuff of legend -- and now they'll be immortalized in their very own TV show! The pair head to LA for filming, but Aveda struggles to get truly excited. Instead, she's preoccupied wondering about the fate of the world and her role in it. You know, the usual. Now that Otherworld activity has been detected outside the Bay Area, Aveda can't help but wonder...
Series
Wild cards volume 20
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers.
4) The point
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Scarlett Winter has always been an outsider, and not only because she's a hardcore daredevil and born troublemaker-she has been hiding superhuman powers she doesn't yet understand. Now she's been recruited by a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities. Scarlett and her fellow students are learning to hone their skills, from telekinetic combat to running recon missions through strangers' dreamscapes. At The Point, Scarlett discovers...
5) Dear cyborgs
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a small Midwestern town, two Asian American boys bond over their outcast status and a mutual love of comic books. Meanwhile, in an alternative or perhaps future universe, a team of superheroes ponder modern society during their time off. Between black-ops missions and rescuing hostages, they swap stories of artistic malaise and muse on the seemingly inescapable grip of market economics. Gleefully toying with the conventions of the novel, Dear...
Series
Wild cards volume 26
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When students gather at the nation's top high school jazz competition in San Antonio, Texas, the musicians at Xavier Desmond High, teenagers with strange abilities, start going wayward in their efforts to outplay their rivals.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"Superhero geek Evan survives a supervillian's death ray, and is sent to the Academy for Metahuman Operatives. Unfortunately, instead of fighting bad guys, Evan finds himself blacklisted, and on the wrong side of the school's director. Can he convince his semi-retired has-been mentor to become a real hero once again?"--
Author
Series
Press start! volume 2
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Tired of always losing to Super Rabbit Boy in their video game world, King Viking goes to the Secret Lands to find the Super Power Up that will give him super powers--Super Rabbit Boy must stop him, but first he must make it past goblins, ghosts, and other video dangers.
Author
Series
Extraordinaries volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Some people are extraordinary. Some are just extra. TJ Klune's YA debut, The Extraordinaries, is a queer coming-of-age story about a fanboy with ADHD and the heroes he loves. Nick Bell? Not extraordinary. But being the most popular fan-fiction writer in the Extraordinaries fandom is a superpower, right? After a chance encounter with Shadow Star, Nova City’s mightiest hero (and Nick’s biggest crush), Nick sets out to make himself extraordinary....
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere in Chicago, a roomful of people have been taken hostage. The hostages will be killed one by one, the masked gunman says on-screen, unless the police will admit that they faked the death of the legendary superhero called the Kingfisher and helped him to give up his defense of the city thirty years ago. Retired reporter Marcus Waters made his name as a journalist covering the enigmatic superhero's five years of cleaning up Chicago's streets....
Author
Publisher
Talos Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"To some people, Pinnacle City is a glittering metropolis, a symbol of prosperity watched over by the all-star superhero team the Pinnacle City Guardians. But beneath the glitz and glamor is a gritty underbelly, one still feeling the physical and economic damage of the superhero-villain battles of generations past, where the lower class--immigrants, criminals, aliens, sorcerers, and non-humans alike--jostles and elbows for scraps to scrape by. Private...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"An extraordinary and emotional adventure about unlikely friends and the power of choosing who you want to be... Jamie woke up in an empty apartment with no memory and only a few clues to his identity, but with the ability to read and erase other people's memories - a power he uses to hold up banks to buy coffee, cat food and books. Zoe is also searching for her past, and using her abilities of speed and strength... to deliver fast food. And she'll...
14) Supernova
Author
Series
Renegades volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Recent TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audio
TAB 2020 : H-B Woodlawn
TAB 2020 : Jefferson
TAB 2020 : Swanson
TAB 2020 : H-B Woodlawn
TAB 2020 : Jefferson
TAB 2020 : Swanson
Formats
Description
"All's fair in love and anarchy... Supernova, the epic conclusion to New York Times bestselling author Marissa Meyer's thrilling Renegades Trilogy finds Nova and Adrian struggling to keep their secret identities concealed while the battle rages on between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life. Secrets, lies, and betrayals are revealed as anarchy once again threatens to reclaim Gatlon City."--provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Stan Lee's The devil's quintet volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since The Armageddon Code, the Devil's Quintet have been using their demonic powers to fight evil and protect the world, while remaining nothing but an urban legend to the general public. But the Devil is not about to let them keep using his powers for good. Created by Satan himself to counter the Quintet, the Shadow Society are five saintly men and women that have been secretly (and strategically) possessed by five of Hell's most powerful demons....
Author
Series
All those explosions volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
"Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college students superhuman powers. Now Jools and her friends (who haven't even picked out a name for their superhero team yet) get caught up in the hunt for a Mad Genius's misplaced super-weapon. But when Jools falls in with a modern-day Robin Hood and his band of super-powered Merry Men, she finds it hard to sort out the Good Guys from the Bad Guys--and to figure out which side she truly...
18) Actually super
Author
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"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,...
19) Archenemies
Author
Series
Renegades volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nova's double life is about to get a lot more complicated: As Insomnia, she is a full-fledged member of the Renegades, a syndicate of powerful and beloved superheroes. She works with Adrian's patrol unit to protect the weak and maintain order in Gatlon City. As Nightmare, she is an Anarchist - a group of of villains who are determined to destroy the Renegades. And Nightmare wants vengeance against the so-called heroes who once failed her when she...
Author
Series
All those explosions volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Monsters are real. But so are heroes. Sparks are champions of weird science. Boasting capes and costumes and amazing super-powers that only make sense if you don't think about them too hard, they fight an eternal battle for truth and justice . . . mostly. Darklings are creatures of myth and magic: ghosts, vampires, were-beasts, and the like. Their very presence warps reality. Doors creak at their approach. Cobwebs gather where they linger. Kim Lam...
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