Carroll: 1589 books

Thunder, a hero from the Super Human series, reveals the truth behind one of the world's most famous superhero teams in this short story.

Fans of the hit TV show Heroes will love Quantum Prophecy! Ten years ago, all the superhumans vanished. No one knows what happened to them--until now. Thirteen-year-olds Danny and Colin are shocked to discover that they are in fact the beginning of a renewed superhuman race. As they rise to...

Ten years after every superhuman vanished from the face of the earth, a new generation of heroes has emerged. Endowed with unimaginable powers, these young crime fighters are suiting up and taking on London's worst. But heroes become targets when the secret identities of Colin, Renata, and Danny are...

As the Judges cart Rico Dredd away for questioning and exile on Titan, his clone-brother Joe comes under scrutiny. They’re cut from the same cloth; can Joe Dredd be trusted? An investigation begins, and Dredd is shipped off to an iridium-mining town in the Cursed Earth, which has come under pressure...

You know about me. I’m Rico Dredd, Joe Dredd's big brother. I'm the clone that went bad, that brought shame on Judge Fargo's legacy. I was a Judge, the best the Academy of Law ever turned out. The very best. But after less than a year on the streets of Mega-City One, I was brought down, taken in....

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 2033 A.D. In a time of widespread poverty, inequality and political unrest, Special Prosecutor Eustace Fargo’s controversial new justice laws have come into effect. Protests and violence meet the first Judges as they hit the street to enforce the Law; the cure, it’s clear, is far worse than the disease. Is this a sign of things to come?

"If in the library of your house you do not? have the works of the ancient Greek writers then you have a house with no light" George Bernard Shaw There is so much in the modern world which has its origins in Greece, most notably language and literature. As Shelley once said, "We...

YOU KNOW ABOUT ME. I’M RICO DREDD, JOE DREDD’S BIG BROTHER. I’m the clone that went bad, that brought shame on Judge Fargo’s legacy. I was the very best the Academy of Law ever turned out. But after less than a year on the streets of Mega-City One, I was brought down, sentenced, shipped out...

Name’s Rico Dredd. I was a Judge. I tried to save my city, and they called me a criminal. Twenty years hard labour in a penal colony a billion kilometres from Earth. They gave me mechanical lungs just so I can breathe, laced my skin with polymers so I can walk in sub-zero temperatures. Stripped...

Everyone breaks, that's what they say about Titan. Everyone breaks. But not me. Not Rico Dredd. Not even when they cut out my lungs, injected every inch of my skin with cold-resistant polymers, plastic-coated my eyes and sealed up my mouth and nose. You don’t get to become Mega-City One’s top...

**"A deeply moving story of family, homelessness, and the ghosts that won't let us go. Haunting and unforgettable."—Megan Shepherd, New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Horses of Briar Hill Told in the naïve voice of a homeless girl sheltered by her mother from the world,...

Alice, who ate the cake and fell down the rabbit-hole, and Dorothy Gale of Oz via Kansas, are presented together in this wonderful eBook featuring two of literature’s classic journeying heroines. The similarities are inescapable: both experience strange and wonderful illusions (or are they?) and...

X marks the spot… The thought of what I might discover when I open the old trunk is intriguing, and I sense an exciting adventure is waiting on the other side of the dust-covered lid. I'm not disappointed. Inside the trunk, I find great-great-grandpa Giovanni's journal which contains a code...

Die Geschichte von Alice bezaubert bis heute immer neue Generationen von Kindern und Erwachsenen. Es ist aufregend, als Leser das kleine Mädchen Alice auf ihrer Reise in das Wunderland mit seinen märchenhaften Bewohnern zu begleiten. "Alice im Wunderland" gehört zu den Klassikern der Weltliteratur....