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Graphic Novel Collection
Did you know we have more than 1650 Graphic Novels, comics, cartoons, or
manga titles in our collection?
They cover all tastes, all ages and all genres. They come from as far as the
USA, Japan, Korea or Europe. You even have some local artists and writers!
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Waiting for Dan Brown
The new Dan Brown book, The Lost Symbol, is the publishing phenomenon of 2009. There is limited shelf space – and budget – to stock all 830-something requested copies in Waitakere Libraries, alas, but there is also a ray of light.
We’ve hunted down a bunch of other high-octane thrillers to make the wait a bit easier, many of them also brand-new. Who knows, you might even find a new favourite author.
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Buckle your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen, and make sure you've taken your pills. You won't be able to get off this ride till the gut-busting finish. The heroine of The Dirty Secrets Club returns with a hell-for-leather race to find the family of a former soldier with anteretrograde amnesia. In other words, his ability to form new memories has been erased by a biological weapon called Slick. Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett has to try and help him find his missing family, aided by a series of nonsensical clues. However, her subject doesn't know or trust her - he can't remember anything for more than five minutes. All he knows is that his family is due to be sacrificed, and someone has betrayed him. He's willing to kill anyone who gets in his way, if his infection doesn't wipe their memories first. A cat and mouse chase ensues, and only one thing is certain. Either they die - or we all do.
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A lost treasure, a Nazi war criminal, and a lifelong quest to find a missing heirloom are the starting points for this new novel from the author of God's Spy. Father Anthony Fowler, CIA operative and member of the Vatican's secret service, the Holy Alliance, pays a visit to a war criminal living under a pseudonym because of the terrible experiments he performed on Jewish children. Fowler offers him a deal - he will not reveal the man's true identity in exchange for a huge candle covered in fine filigree gold. But it isn't the gold Fowler is after - it is the metallic object preserved within the wax, a missing fragment of an ancient map. Soon Fowler is involved in an expedition to Jordan set up by the enigmatic head of Kayn industries, a reclusive billionaire who has links to the highest levels of the Catholic Church. But there is a traitor in the group who has links to terrorist organisations back in the US, and who is patiently awaiting the moment to strike.
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At last, a local thriller that really does read like a Mark Billingham or Ian Rankin. It starts with engines revving and it doesn't slow down. New to these shores from the UK, James Paxton stumbles across a dead body. Suspicion falls all too easily on the Englishman who's hiding a secret. Not only did Paxton find the dead man - he spoke to him, too. Paxton's carefully constructed new world threatens to crumble as he is sucked into the hunt for a predator, while the police snap close at his heels. And the bodies keep on mounting, one by one ...
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Gabriel Allon's idyllic world is once again thrown into turmoil with shocking news from London. The defector and former Russian intelligence officer Grigori Bulganov, who saved Gabriel's life in Moscow, has vanished without a trace. British intelligence is sure he was a double agent all along, but Gabriel knows better. He also knows he made a promise - a promise that leads to a deadly duel of nerve and wits with one of the world's most ruthless men: the murderous Russian oligarch and arms dealer Ivan Kharkov.
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Thousands of years ago, the Persian king Xerxes the Great was said to have raided the Treasury at Delphi, carrying away two solid gold pillars as tribute. In 1800, Napoleon Bonaparte and his army stumble across the pillars in the Pennine Alps. Unable to transport them Napoleon creates a map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. And when Napoleon dies, the bottles disappear... Treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo are exploring the Great Pocomoke Swamp in Delaware when they are shocked to discover a World War II German u-boat. Inside, they find a bottle taken from Napoleon’s “lost cellar.” Fascinated, the Fargos set out to find the rest of the collection. But another connoisseur of sorts has been looking for the bottle they’ve just found. He is Hadeon Bondaruk - a half- Russian, half-Persian millionaire. He claims to be a descendant of King Xerxes himself. And he wants his treasure back...
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VATICAN CITY, 29 SEPTEMBER 1978: THE WORLD WAKES TO THE SHOCKING NEWS THAT POPE JOHN PAUL I IS DEAD, JUST A MONTH AFTER HIS ACCESSION . . .Thirty years later in London, young journalist Sarah Monteiro receives a mysterious package. Enclosed is a list of names and a coded message. Moments afterwards a masked assassin attempts to silence her for ever. It seems Sarah holds the key to unveiling a deadly secret - a plot that implicates unscrupulous mercenaries and crooked politicians, and which goes to the very heart of the Vatican. Sarah has no choice but to run, forced into a ruthless game of cat-and-mouse. She can trust no one, especially as her father's name appears on the incriminating list . . .Sarah finds herself at the centre of a worldwide conspiracy, whose keepers will stop at nothing to protect it.
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Catherine 'Cat' Velis, a computer expert working for one of the world's largest accountancy firms, is sent on a dangerous assignment to retrieve an object of immeasurable value from somewhere in the remote reaches of Algeria. Montglane Abbey, France 1790, Mireille de Remy and her cousin Valentine are young novices at the fortress-like Montglane Abbey. With France aflame in revolution, the two girls burn to rebel against constricted convent life - and their means of escape is at hand. Buried deep within the abbey are pieces of the Montglane Chess Service, once owned by Charlemagne. Whoever reassembles the pieces can play a game of unlimited power. But to keep the game a secret from those who would abuse it, the two young women must scatter the pieces throughout the world…PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION.
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![Five Greatest Warriors [hardback] cover](images/books/andrea/b23585791.jpg)
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Following the adventures of the uncrushable Jack West Jr from The Seven Ancient Wonders and Six Sacred Stones. They've been separated, their mission is in tatters, and Jack was last seen plummeting down a fathomless abyss. After surviving his deadly fall, Jack must now race against his many enemies to locate and set in place the remaining pieces of The Machine before the coming Armageddon. As the world teeters on the brink of destruction, he will learn of the Five Warriors, the individuals who throughout history have been most intimately connected to his quest. OCEANS WILL RISE, CITIES WILL FALL. Scores will be settled, fathers will fight sons, brothers will battle brothers, and Jack and his friends will soon find out exactly what the end of the world looks like...PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION
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Commander Gray Pierce and the Sigma Force confront humankind's greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint - an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key - and a secret that has already claimed the lives of a famed geneticist, a Vatican archaeologist, and a U.S. senator's son.
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When a blackened skeleton is unearthed in the City of London, no one can have the slightest idea of its extraordinary link to a plot to assassinate the Queen of England over 500 years ago. But there is one very conspicuous clue. On the index finger of the body's right hand is a gold ring topped with a brilliant, round emerald. DCI Jack Pendragon has just transferred from Oxford to Brick Lane Police Station - in part to escape his own past. Immediately, he finds himself investigating three particularly gruesome murders. And he will need all the experience he has acquired from two decades on the force to track down a killer for whom an eerie obsession has become total madness. A killer who draws his murderous inspiration from a Renaissance family whose power and cruelty remain a living legend. PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION
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A great one for fans of historical mysteries - Sansom writes as if he has his own portal to the Tudor Age in his study. In 1540, hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake is trying to keep out of the eye of the powerful Thomas Cromwell, chief advisor to Henry VIII and his erstwhile master. But while defending a girl accused of slaying her young cousin, he is thrust into the hunt for a semi-mythical element. Greek Fire is said to be able to burn on water, used by the ancients to destroy their enemies' navies, but the formula has been lost for centuries. However, someone claims to have found it in the library of a dissolved monastery. Sent to find the formula, Shardlake instead stumbles across a series of brutal murders. His own life and future could rest on pleasing the king...and on staying clear of the killer. Meanwhile a young girl's life rests on his help.
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A mysterious manuscript discovered in the tomb of Charlemagne sends Cotton Malone on a perilous international quest that takes him and twin sisters with their own agenda from an ancient German cathedral to the harsh, unforgiving world of Antarctica in pursuit of the truth about the death of his father on a classified sub mission beneath Antarctica.
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![The Prophecy [paperback] cover](images/books/andrea/b23890812.jpg)
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Jonathon Payne and David Jones are back in the fray in this page–turning, blockbusting new instalment from Chris Kuzneski, bestselling author of Sword of God, Sign of the Cross and The Lost Throne. When the prophetic writings of sixteenth-century apothecary Nostradamus begin to ring alarmingly true, Payne and Jones find themselves in a life-or-death race across the world to stop those who would use the French seer's predictions for their own dark purposes. PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION
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