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Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 9
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Princess in Black and her friends are enjoying a day of sun and sea on Princess Sneezewort's royal boat when a real, live mermaid princess emerges from the waves! Eeeeeee! Princess Posy needs their help protecting her very cute sea goats from being eaten by a very greedy kraken. But the princesses and the Goat Avenger quickly realize that fighting underwater can be tough for land dwellers, and only the mermaid Princess Posy can save the day....
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kara Zor-El has seen some epic adventures over the years, but she now finds her life without meaning or purpose. Here she is, a young woman who saw her planet destroyed and was sent to Earth to protect a baby cousin who ended up not needing her. What was it all for? Wherever she goes, people only see her through the lens of Superman's fame. Just when Supergirl thinks she's had enough, everything changes. An alien girl seeks her out for a vicious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
10-year-old Aurora Beam lives at home with her utterly unremarkable family, until the day she sees her little sister being picked on in the playground and suddenly beams of light shoot out of her fingers! It's time for her parents to drop a life-changing bombshell. Mum is a secret superhero, fighting crime across the globe while Dad looks after the kids at home. As Aurora's own powers come into play, will she be able to balance her new super skills...
Author
Publisher
Harper Landmark
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
An evolution in the female superhero, 'Super Born: seduction of being' is a romantic satire based on the quirky journalist's search for a reluctant super woman. She is a single mother with 30 years of normal existence before super powers begin to show themselves and complicate her life. As she searches for her new place in the world a crowd of "others" search for her as well. Told from both the journalist's and super hero's point of view, Super Born...
Author
Series
Lucia the luchadora volume 1
Publisher
POW!
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucia zips through the playground in her cape just like the boys, but when they tell her 'girls can't be superheroes', suddenly she doesn't feel so mighty. That's when her beloved abuela reveals a dazzling secret: Lucia comes from a family of luchadoras, the bold and valiant women of the Mexican lucha libre tradition. But when she's confronted with a case of injustice, Lucia must decide if she can stay true to the ways of the luchadora and fight for...
Author
Series
Unbeatable Squirrel Girl (Novels) volume 2
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Doreen uses her extraordinary powers to stop a group of troublemakers she becomes a full-fledged superhero called Squirrel Girl.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Doreen Green's work as a superhero leads to problems with her life in middle school, but when a new shopping mall creates turmoil between two towns, Squirrel Girl is on the case.
Author
Series
Publisher
CBAY Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Elaine Taylor has a stereotypical suburban life: a stay-at-home mom, an accountant dad, a normal start to her junior year of high school. Sure, sometimes images pop into Elaine's head--images that stay with her until she draws them--but that isn't weird. That's artistic inspiration. But it turns out her "artistic inspirations" predict the future, and Elaine's regular world falls apart. Having been identified as a powerful Seer and kidnapped from...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
303 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Aurora Beam discovers that she's the latest in a long line of girl super heroes in her family and is able to shoot beams of light from her fingers, but she's finding this saving-the-world lark isn't all it's cracked up to be. World-famous overnight, Aurora is living in the full glare of the media's flash bulbs. When she attends a global gathering of superheroes, will she find support from new friends who know exactly what she's going...
10) Batwoman
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2017]-
Physical Desc
volumes : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Someone is selling cutting-edge weaponry on the black market, and their aim is to kill as many people--from as many nations--as possible. With help from her intrepid assistant, Julia Pennyworth, and their high-tech mobile command center, the yacht Sequoia, Batwoman quickly tracks the weapons to their source: a small, lawless island known as Coryana, home to pirates, outlaws ... and a year of Batwoman's life. Back before she joined the Bat-Family,...
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
147 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Meet the Hell Hath Club. They're the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic book women who are killed, raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero's storyline will progress. In their linked stories, they show that superheroes are our new fairy tales-- and these six women have their own stories to share.
12) Faith
Author
Series
Faith (Jody Houser) volume 1
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016-
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Orphaned at a young age, Faith Herbert - a psionically gifted "psiot" discovered by the Harbinger Foundation - has always aspired to greatness. But now this once ordinary teenager is taking control of her destiny and becoming the hard-hitting hero she's always known she can be - complete with a mild-mannered secret identity, unsuspecting colleagues, and a day job as a reporter that routinely throws into her harms way! Well, at least she thought it...
Author
Series
Faith volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Faith is not a regular teenager. She has flying superpowers. She's hoping she can get through her senior year in a normal way, but strange things start happening. Meanwhile, she hears rumored sighting of her ex, who was thought to have died months ago.
15) Copycats
Author
Series
Catwoman (DC, 2018 series) volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The wedding night's barely over, but Catwoman's back on the streets, this time to expose a copycat who's pulling heists around Gotham City. As Selina cracks the whip on her former criminal cohorts, she's attracting unwanted attention from one of Gotham's most dangerous groups. The mob? Nope. Try the GCPD. And as if the Bat-Bride didn't have enough problems, don't miss the debut of an all-new villain determined to make trouble for all nine of Selina's...
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
200 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A guide to the world of Wonder Woman includes seventy-five years of iconic characters, major story arcs, and key issues, along with information on locations, enemies, and allies.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When she's not hanging out with her two best friends, Matt and Ches, Faith Herbert is volunteering at the local animal shelter or obsessing over the long-running teen drama The Grove. So far, her senior year has been spent trying to sort out her feelings for her maybe-crush Johnny and making plans to stay close to Grandma Lou after graduation. And there's the small matter of recently discovering she can fly. Then the fictional world of The Grove relocates...
18) Starling
Author
Publisher
InkLit
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
InkLit trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
volumes (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
For Amy Sturgess, life in the big city comes with trouble. Her marketing career is being derailed by a conniving coworker stealing her accounts. Her family crises range from her down-and-out brother running afoul of the law to her mother's growing affections for the house cats. And Amy's love life just flatlined thanks to an unexpected reunion with the one that got away--who's now engaged. When Xanax and therapy fail to relieve her stress, Amy does...
19) Faith: Dreamside
Author
Series
Publisher
Valiant Entertainment LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Even before Faith Herbert, AKA Zephyr, gained the power of flight, joined the Harbinger Renegades, and soared through the skies of the Valiant Universe, deep down she was always a hero at heart. But what's a hero to do in the face of a foe that exists only in nightmares? Face them head-on, of course! To protect the dreams of her teammate, Animalia, Faith must venture into a fantastical new realm the likes of which we've never seen...and she'll need...
Author
Series
Dolphin Girl volume 1
Publisher
Pixel + Ink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
124 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When Captain Dugong flakes out on Dolphin Girl, she must summon her superhero skill to face off against the Sea Cow.
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