NCW Libraries

"After a worldwide cyberwar ends technology as we know it, a former super-soldier teams up with a biopunk to fight the rise of a biological Internet forcing humanity to connect to it--whether they want to or not"--

"For decades, The Department of Truth battled a secret war against its Soviet counterpart, The Ministry of Lies. Now Cole Turner will have to face the consequences of his predecessors as the dark actions of the past unfurl before him..."--

"When an eight-year-old girl literally begins to transform into a tree, her single Mom, troubled brother and possibly insane Grandfather embark on a bizarre, and heart-wrenching odyssey across the back roads of America desperately searching for a way to cure her horrifying transformation before it's too late. But the further they get from home, and the closer the girl gets to completely losing her humanity, the more external forces threaten to tear...

Cole Turner has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn't prepared for what happens when he discovers that all of them are true, from the JFK Assassination to Flat Earth Theory and Reptilian Shapeshifters. One organization has been covering them up for generations. What is the deep, dark secret behind the Department of Truth?

"To earn money for his grandson's medical care, Hiraga Raizou signed up with a secret government organization of assassins. He's partnered up with a child-aged killer, Suzukaze Miharu, to take down the bad guys out of the law's reach. One criminal is at the top of Miharu's hit list, Musou Saburo, the crime kingpin of The Great Chain. He murdered her family and Miharu won't put away her guns until every link of his crime empire is destroyed! With Raizou's...

"A cosmic timewarp deathtrip to the primordial infinite of everlasting love"--Page [4] of cover.

"Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! The race to rescue Lu takes Sakamoto and Shin deep into an underground...

"Most of the Face Card games continue to be a deadly challenge to Borderland's visitors, their often complicated or confusing rules meant to trick players into dooming themselves. In contrast, the King of Spades' game is refreshingly direct--kill or be killed! Can an uneasy coalition of visitors band together to take down the sniper King before his bullets declare game over for everyone?" -- Provided by publisher.

"Eighteen-year-old Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he struggles to exist in a world that can’t be bothered with him, Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true. But this new world isn’t an...

"Shigeru's midnight visit leads Seiichi back up the hill where his mother dropped him as a child...and as events begin to fold in on themselves like the layers of his psyche, Seiichi starts to see the past through Mommy's eyes...With one symbolic act, Seiichi can finally free himself of his mother's malign influence--but is this a nightmare, or is it all too real?!"--Provided by publisher.