Villain's Assistant

Villain's Assistant
Author: Carley Hibbert
Publisher: Ember Publishing
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2016-12-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780692496312

Secret designs and dark ambition have split the kingdom of Lam in half. Benjamin Black, raised among exiled villains and traitors on the Thieves' Plain, learned enough nasty tricks to claw his way to valedictorian at the Villains' Academy. Now he's set off on a quest to gain his rightful position as villain's assistant to the newest archvillain. Benjamin's dark future seems assured. After sabotage cuts his employment goals short, a surprising new opportunity rises from the ashes. His choice may lead to something even more ambitious: reuniting a shattered kingdom-a task that will take all of Benjamin's evil genius to survive. A gripping page-turner, Villain's Assistant will keep you guessing until the last diabolical page.

Bushido

Bushido
Author: Rob Levin
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2014-12-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1607062836

VAMPIRES IN FEUDAL JAPAN! Kichiro is an outsider in feudal Japan. Lacking the Japanese blood that would allow him to become a samurai, he must fulfill his dreams of serving the shogun in a less traditional manner... by eliminating every supernatural threat that rears its fangs! Framed for murder by a vampire assassin, Kichiro must clear his name and win back his brother Orochiås trust if there is any hope of saving Japan from the vampire hordes. The criticallyacclaimed miniseries pits vampires against samurai in a battle for the ages! Collects BUSHIDO #1-5.

Supervillains Anonymous

Supervillains Anonymous
Author: Lexie Dunne
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 006236913X

The stakes are huge and the hero is short when Hostage Girl returns snarkier than ever in Lexie Dunne's urban superhero fantasy Supervillains Anonymous New superhero Gail Godwin, the one and only Hostage Girl, is in big trouble: her nemesis Chelsea is loose, her trainer Angélica is dead, and everybody thinks Gail did it. To make matters worse, Davenport Industries has thrown her into a prison that just happens to be full of the very same supervillains who used to kidnap her on an almost daily basis. Outside, things aren't going all that great either. There's a conspiracy that runs all the way to the bedrock of the superhero community, and it's affecting everybody Gail loves. With her friends in the crosshairs, it's up to her to escape and get to the bottom of things. Subterfuge, crime-fighting, and running away from everybody you know should be a cinch, right? Wrong. Gail faces off against hero and villain alike just to stay alive. And you know what they say about supervillains: if you can't beat them…join them.

Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives

Gender and Female Villains in 21st Century Fairy Tale Narratives
Author: Natalie Le Clue
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2022-02-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1801175640

For every hero, there is a villain, and for every villain there is a story. But how much do we really know about the villain? Filling a gap in the field of gender representation and character evolution, the chapters in this edited collection focus on female villains in the fairy tale narratives of 21st Century media.

The Magician's Assistant

The Magician's Assistant
Author: Ann Patchett
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 371
Release: 2004-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0547548796

From the bestselling author of The Dutch House, a secretive magician’s death becomes the catalyst for his partner’s journey of self-discovery in this “enchanting” book (San Francisco Chronicle) “that is something of a magic trick in itself.” (Newsweek) When Parsifal, a handsome and charming magician, dies suddenly, his widow Sabine—who was also his faithful assistant for twenty years—learns that the family he claimed to have lost in a tragic accident is very much alive and well. Sabine is left to unravel his secrets, and the journey she takes, from sunny Los Angeles to the bitter windswept plains of Nebraska, will work its own magic on her. Sabine's extraordinary tale, “with its big dreams, vast spaces, and disparate realities lying side by side” captures the hearts of its readers and “proves to be the perfect place for miraculous transformations.” (The New Yorker)

Son Of Merlin Vol. 1

Son Of Merlin Vol. 1
Author: Robert Napon
Publisher: Image Comics
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2013-11-13
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1607069288

SCIENCE AND MAGIC COLLIDE! Simon Ambrose is a brilliant young professor at MIT. As a man of science, he does not put much stock in faith. When he discovers that he is the bastard son of the worldÍs greatest wizard, Merlin, he is forced to put his skepticism aside and embrace a world of magicƒ and the mayhem it embodies. Collects SON OF MERLIN #1-5

Baba Yaga's Assistant

Baba Yaga's Assistant
Author: Marika McCoola
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2015
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 076366961X

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A Visit from the Goon Squad

A Visit from the Goon Squad
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Anchor
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-06-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307593622

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review

X-Men

X-Men
Author: Chris Claremont
Publisher: Marvel Entertainment
Total Pages: 139
Release: 2023-10-11
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1302526154

Collects Uncanny X-Men (1981) #150, Wolverine: First Class (2008) #2, X-Factor (1986) #24, X-Men/Spider-Man (2008) #4. The X-Verse is filled with fearsome foes, and these are some of the fiercest villains of all! Magneto, the Master of Magnetism, has world domination on his mind and the power to achieve it - but not if the X-Men can stop him! When the savage Sabretooth crashes Wolverine's birthday dinner, it puts the love of Logan's life in danger! As the ages-old history of Apocalypse is told, he unleashes his Four Horsemen on X-Factor - and one of them is frighteningly familiar! And the scheming Mister Sinister cooks up a deadly threat in his cloning vats that even the combined might of Spider-Man and the X-Men may be unable to stop!