Search Results: Titles starting with X from Kayleighbug Books

20th Century Fox, 2007-10-02. DVD. Very Good/Very Good. 0x7x5. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. good condition DVD in original case with inserts; When a failed assassination attempt occurs on the President's (Cotter Smith) life by the teleporting mutant Nightcrawler (Alan Cumming), it's Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and his School for Gifted Youngsters who are targeted for the crime. While Jean Grey (Famke Janssen) and Storm (Halle Berry) try and locate the assassin, Cyclops (James Marsden) and Xavier (also known as 'Professor X') seek answers from their old foe Magneto (Ian McKellan) in his glass cell...Little do they know they're walking into a trap set by the villainous William Stryker (Brian Cox), a mysterious governmental figure that figures into Wolverine's (Hugh Jackman) secretive past, along with information about the X-Men's operation, supplied by Magneto through a mind-controlling agent. Meanwhile Wolverine, just home from a failed mission to… Read More

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX, 2006-02-06. DVD. Very Good/Very Good. 0x7x5. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. good condition DVD in original case with inserts; One of the most popular superhero teams in comic book history finally comes to the screen in this big-budget adaptation of the long-running Marvel Comics series. Psychic Professor Xavier (Patrick Stewart) leads a school of skilled mutants called X-Men, a peacekeeping force to safeguard the world against a race of genetically mutated humans known as Homo Sapiens Superior. However, Magneto (Ian McKellen), a mutant with a powerful magnetic charge, has also begun to organize a team to strike first against what he believes to be a threat from humanity. When he kidnaps Rogue (Anna Paquin) from the X-Men's compound, Xavier and his forces must rescue her, even as they continue to vie with Magneto for the fearsomely strong mutant battler Wolverine (Hugh Jackman). Both Xavier and Magneto also have to contend with Senator Kelly (Bruce Davison), a… Read More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. First American Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 339 pages; ex-library with usual markings; some edge wear to jacket and boards, corners bumped, small tears in jacket; June 11, 1940 - where is Winston Churchill? A private aircraft takes off from a small town in central France, while Adolf Hitler, the would-be conqueror of Europe, prepares for a clandestine meeting near the Belgian border. For more than forty years the events of this day have been Britain's most closely guarded secret. Anyone who learns of them must die - with their file stamped: XPD - expedient demise

New York: Eos, 2007. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 370 pages; Felix Gomex has survived Operation Desert Freedom, being turned into a vampire, and the onslaught of a ravenous horde of nymphomaniacs. Now he faces his toughest investigation in this follow-up to Acevedo's acclaimed debut, "The Nymphos of Rocky Flats.

London: Cassell, 2002-05-28. Hardcover. Good/Good. 124x12x164. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. light edge wear to boards and jacket; ex-library with usual markings; Does evidence that there was once water on Mars mean that it could have been - and could still be now - a home for life? Does the existence of stars like our Sun mean that life could exist on the planets surrounding them? In this title, John Gribbin and Simon Goodwin show how the world's experts are searching for life in space, and why they could be just around the corner from finding it. Illustrated with a range of photographs and state-of-the-art graphics, this book is about life itself: under what conditions it can develop and survive, how it might evolve to be intelligent, where it may exist in the universe and how we could come to find it.

EMI, 2005. Very Good/Very Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. excellent condition CD in original jewel case with inserts; After Radiohead refused to accept the mantle of "world's biggest and most important rock band," Coldplay stepped up to the plate with their debut, Parachutes. Tasteful, earnest, introspective, anthemic, and grounded in guitars, Coldplay was everything Radiohead weren't but fans wanted them to be; Parachutes became a transatlantic hit and the sequel, A Rush of Blood to the Head, was even bigger, positioning Coldplay to be new Radiohead and the new U2. To that end, Coldplay's third album, X&Y, is designed to elevate them to the major leagues. It's deliberate and sleek, hip enough to sample Kraftwerk and blend in fashionable post-punk allusions without altering the band's core. X&Y is hardly a bold step forward, but rather a consolidation of Coldplay's strengths, particularly their skill at crafting surging, widescreen epics.… Read More