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Best Laid Plans Author: Mark Waid and Greg Rucka Illustrators: Marco Checchetto, Chris Samnee, Khoi Pham In order to protect the Omega Drive, a Fantastic Four relic that is essentially acting as a store-all for explosive data from Hydra, AIM, Secret Empire, and other Megacrime entities, Daredevil forms several uneasy alliances and hatches a risky plan that just might cost him everything, including his new lady love, DA Kirstie McDuffie in this, Mark Waid’s third volume. Along for the ride, we have the ever sarcastic, and admittedly romantically outcast Spiderman, still experiencing fresh pain from Daredevil’s unfortunate liaison with Black [...]

The king of kings... It’s aptly named.  The undisputed king of the dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex is clearly the most famous and most feared of the ancient Earth’s inhabitants.  Thanks to extensive evaluation of the fossilized remains of more than 50 individuals, an awful lot is known about these former natives of western North America.  With an exquisite sense for the details, British paleontologist David Hone has taken all this knowledge and distilled it down to its pure essence, creating The Tyrannosaur Chronicles, a wide-ranging look at T. rex and its numerous toothy brethren.  If dinosaurs are your thing, this book [...]

A fearless storyteller delivers her best book yet Author: Kelly Corrigan Are you a mother who has dropped the F-bomb too many times in front of her children? Do you get exasperated with moldy towels, perpetual carpooling, and naughty pets? Have you lost a parent? Have you lost a best friend? In her newest book, Tell Me More: Stories About the 12  Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say, Kelly Corrigan offers a vulnerable and gutsy examination of the emphatically unglamorous (and often heartbreaking) moments that wrestle so many women to the ground. Whether she’s squabbling with her teenage daughters or [...]