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"When an airport stakeout goes wrong, Hit-Girl finds herself trapped in a cargo box and headed for Italy. Soon she's racing through the ancient city on a scooter, in hot pursuit of a thief and her stolen loot. But once Mindy gets hold of the package, she becomes the target of a sinister crime lord and an army of crazed religious zealots. These people will stop at nothing to regain their disturbing prize, and Mindy might need a sidekick on hand to...
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After moving to Tokyo's downtown district of Ikebukuro to experience the excitement of city life, Mikado, an average high-school student, encounters a mysterious "headless rider" on a black motorcycle and gets caught up in local gang feuds and supernatural occurrences.
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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?! Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld....
7) No. 6: 3
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On the run from No. 6, Shion moves in with Rat in West Block. Though life outside the comfort of the city is a trial, Shion learns to survive. Meanwhile, back in Chronos, the elite core of No. 6, Safu begins to look into Shion's disappearance only to find herself under arrest! What can Shion possibly do from exile to help his lifelong friend?
8) No. 6: 8
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For Shion, an elite student in city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study and occasional visits with his friend Safu are the order of the day. One fateful day however he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy from a typhoon. But this boy is a fugitive living outside the tapestry of control of the city.
9) No. 6: 5
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Armored vehicles from No. 6 roar through the gates into West Block, massacring the helpless and arresting everyone else. Amid the chaos, Shion and Rat realize this could be their only chance to get into the Correctional Facility and save Safu. But when they make it inside, they find it is worse than anyone imagined.
10) Underground
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Park Ranger and avid caver Wesley Fischer is on a one-woman mission to stop Stillwater Cave from being turned into a tourist trap, but public opinion is not on her side. When violent locals begin blasting in the cave, Wes and a fellow ranger investigate. A confrontation between both parties spirals into a deadly chase, forcing the two rangers to flee deep under the Kentucky mountains. First to escape pursuers, and then the deadliest threat--The cave...
11) The dark
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"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"--
12) No. 6: 4
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"OUR CHANCES OF SURVIVAL ARE ROUGHLY ZERO PERCENT." Shion accidentally learning that his childhood friend Safu is under arrest -- and all because of him! Not wanting to get Rat involved, Shion sets out alone to save her. But how can he possibly infiltrate No. 6's secure correctional facility and escape with a high-priority prisoner all on his own?
13) No. 6: 6
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A series of strange incidents cast a pall over No. 6 as it prepares to celebrate its "Holy Day." Meanwhile, in the tunnels beneath the Correctional Facility, Shion and Rat meet with the mysterious "Elder," who reveals the perverse origins of No. 6, and their connection to Rat's past. How will Rat react when Shion begins to touch his most secret scars?
14) Chariot: Vol. 1
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The Chariot was a Cold War-era secret government project to provide its star agent with a weapon unlike any other in the form of a super-charged muscle car. It sank into the ocean decades ago, and the agent along with it. Now, a petty criminal looking to reform his life has stumbled upon the Chariot, and he's about to find out that the agent's consciousness is still controlling it in this synthwave thriller.
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Meet Leo, who can plan the perfect heist...but only if he can be convinced the job is safe enough. See, Leo is not a shoot-first think-later guy; Leo is a professional. But to some criminals, even professionals, the right payout is worth almost any risk. So when an old friend and a crooked cop approach with a plan to seize millions of dollars in contraband from an evidence transport van, Leo must make tough choices, knowing there's nothing you can...
16) Pulp
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"Max Winters, a pulp writer in 1930s New York, finds himself drawn into a story not unlike the tales he churns out at five cents a word--tales of a Wild West outlaw dispensing justice with a six-gun. But will Max be able to do the same when pursued by bank robbers, Nazi spies, and enemies from his past?"--Provided by publisher.
17) Stray dogs
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Meet Sophie, a dog who can't remember what happened. She doesn't know how she ended up in this house. She doesn't recognize any of these other dogs. She knows something terrible happened but she just.. can't... recall... Wait! Where's her lady? It's all coming back to her now, and it's enough to raise Sophie's hackles. Now Sophie has to figure out where she is, what's happening and how she's going to survive this.
18) No. 6: 7
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For Shion, an elite student in city No. 6, life is carefully choreographed. School, study and occasional visits with his friend Safu are the order of the day. One fateful day however he takes a misstep, sheltering an injured boy from a typhoon. But this boy is a fugitive living outside the tapestry of control of the city.
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Harper Connelly, a young woman with the paranormal ability to find dead people and learn how they died, has just wrapped up a case in Same, Arkansas, but finds reasons to stay when people keep on dying and she starts falling for the local deputy, whose wife died under mysterious circumstances.