New Releases by Nunzio Defilippis

Destiny''s Hand: a pirate ship that cannot be sunk led by a dying Captain who will not give up. His final wish before he dies is to find the legendary Devil''s Eye. And who does he appoint to lead his fearless crew in search of the lost treasure, but Olivia Soldana, a brash 16-year-old girl who can outdo any man.

"The mysterious Ruin has proven to be one of Superman''s most dangerous foes, threatening the lives of the Man o f Steel''s friends and loved ones time and again"--Page 4 of cover.

Amazing Agent Luna is the story of Luna, the perfect secret agent. A girl grown in a lab from the finest genetic material, she has been trained since her birth fifteen years ago to be the U.S. government''s ultimate espionage weapon. But now she is given an assignment that will test her abilities to the utmost — high school. In order to uncover an evil plot, the government sends Luna to a prominent high school to pose as a student. Luna''s training has left her completely unprepared to handle the stresses and strains of ordinary teenage relationships — making friends, creating rivals, and having her first big crush on bad boy Jonah, the son of her arch-nemesis, Count Von Brucken! Making matters worse, Luna''s "father" is the overly warm-and-fuzzy Dr. Andy and her "mother" is the always business-like, unemotional Control.

Her name is Luna, and she''s the perfect secret agent. Grown in a lab from the finest genetic material, she has been trained since her birth fifteen years ago to be the U.S. government''''s ultimate espionage weapon. But now, she is given an assignment that will test her abilities to the max--high school! Her mission: to pose as a high school student at Nobel High and uncover a sinister plot engineered by her arch nemesis, Count Von Brucken. But the one thing she has not been trained to handle is her own feelings. Especially when she starts making friends, rivals, and crushing big time on bad boy Jonah, son of the evil Von Brucken himself!

Moonstar, Karma, Magma, and Wolfsbane - the former X-Men-in-training who helped define a generation - are back. But what happens when these "New Mutants" find out Professor Xavier''s up-and-coming students think of them as the "Old Mutants?" Former students become the teachers as the old guard is asked back to help prepare the next generation of New X-Men. Collects New Mutants #1-6.

The Hellions spend the summer in California, where they''ll discover the dirty secrets from one of their pasts and will face a temptaion that will determine whether these kids will be heroes or villains!

Xavier Institute is haunted and the New X-Men have to find out who or what is there before it causes too much damage. Plus, David Alleyne, a.k.a. Prodigy, has the block removed from his mind, allowing him to absorb and retain all of the knowledge of anyone near him. What will he do with so much information?

In 1922, Lord Earl Carnarvon financed the Egyptian expedition that unearthed King Tut''s tomb. While the fact that the dig gained a reputation for being "cursed" is well known, Mathias Fowler slipped away into anonymity. Fowler, an American on the team, had grown obsessed with the Ancient Egyptians and when he returned to the States it was with several stolen artifacts in tow. Fowler had become so consumed by the era that when he died, he killed all of his household staff and had them buried in his mansion with him—a modern day Pharaoh''s Tomb. Almost 60 years after Fowler''s death, Jessica Parrish, archeologist and would-be-Indiana Jones, has been hired to assemble and lead a team into the house to take back the missing pieces and disable the booby traps that have already cost one unfortunate group their lives. Can Parrish and her comrades navigate the elaborate deathtraps with their persons intact or will the curse of Tut''s tomb just add to its mounting body count?

For every action there''s an equal reaction. Or at least that''s what we''re told, but Rey Quintana just learned the hard way what Noah Conway already knew. Rey''s a good kid who''s made some mistakes. He doesn''t run with a gang and he''s working hard both at his job and in his community college courses. Noah''s an ex-cop who became a bondsman in a failed attempt to salvage his marriage. It didn''t work and now his job has taken over his life all over again. One choice is about to send both their lives into chaos and set the pair on a collision course that can only end in tragedy. With a unique dual-perspective storytelling, THREE STRIKES fearlessly calls what''s foul and what''s fair.

". . . Day-to-day story in the Deep South, set in the gothic, swampy southern town of Wet Moon, a place fraught with lousy love lives, teen angst, and shadowy rednecks. ... Goths, friendship, romance, sex, betrayal, gossip, cats, murder, guilt, a squirrel monkey, and all the terrible and wonderful things people do to each other."--Publisher.

As a new semester begins at the Xavier Institute, the students learn that they are to be placed into different squads and separated from their best friends.

Few events exude as much joy, happiness, and hope as a wedding, and for the Pirellis these ceremonies mean even more. Pirelli weddings are about tradition and family as much as they''re about the happy couple, or at least they used to be. When Joseph Pirelli married Matthew it rocked the clan to its knees. Now a year later, the tension and downright animosity between different factions of the family have turned Maria''s special day into a powder keg. And poor Frankie, Joseph''s outspoken brother, is holding the match. But while some fear the fuse being lit, others in the family are ready for and secretly looking forward to the blow-up. Frankie, on the other hand, thinks his reputation for speaking his mind is undeserved. He just wants to see his favorite cousin get married and maybe rekindle his childhood romance with Maria''s maid of honor, Brenna. Can Frankie balance the Pirellis expectations of him with his own or will the scales tip and bring the whole ceremony crashing down?

Something has gone wrong in the American desert. An FBI agent has turned up dead, presumably skinned alive, and Officer Anne Adakai fo the Reservation Police believes that the killer has stolen the agent''s identity and is now inhabiting his skin. Greg Haworth has been sent by the FBI to find his lost colleague, and as more bodies and empty skins litter the killer''s trail across the country, he realizes Adaki may be right. Now the question becomes, how do you stop a crook who can take on any face, be anyone, and never the same person twice?

Most girls, when they get to a new school, just want to fit in. But Dashiell Brody isn''t like most girls. A natural at softball, Dashiell discovers her new school has a championship level baseball team, and Dashiell want to play ball. One girl''s quest to play the national pastime with the boys will turn her family, her school, and her state upside down.

Pulled out of exile from a dark corner of the world, renowned-surgeon-turned-fringe-medicine-eccentric Doctor Randal Horne must return to New York City to investigate a tragic research lab accident that’s left one man dead, and inexplicably headless. Now with the help of a distrusting NYPD detective and a team of doctors from the CDC, Horne must diagnose this and other seemingly unexplainable medical phenomenon in a world where the line between medical science and science fiction is blurry at best.

The children at the X-Mansion thought they had it tough when Professor X was running things - but now that Cyclops and Emma Frost have taken over the reins of the school, they''re wishing for the simpler times of yesterday! As a new semester begins at the Xavier Institute, the X-Men-in-training are just getting comfortable with one another as the devastating news hits: The teachers plan to separate them into different squads! What happens when best friends are torn from one another in the name of school policy? And what do the New X-Men do about it?