Adriana is cute enough to charm the most austere of men and can even talk and run. And if the lavish party thrown for her first birthday is any indication, life as the daughter of the emperor should be nice, right? Now, if only her father would stop treating her like a dog…!
TAKE TO THE SKIES A second faculty member’s disappearance in as many years sends shock waves through Kimberly Magic Academy. Without any clues as to the culprit’s identity, the headmistress is treating everyone as a suspect. Amid this turbulent state of affairs, the student body presidential election is fast approaching, and the incumbent president, Godfrey, has yet to back a successor. Meanwhile, Nanao endeavors to help star athlete Ashbury, who’s hit a wall trying to improve her broomriding speed. To top it all off, there’s a shady new transfer student prowling the school! Yet as friendly as he is, no one seems to know much about him…
Thanks to Sachiko Juraku’s intervention, the game between Mary and Aoi Mibuomi is now a fair-and-square gamble. As the match intensifies, Mary begins to feel something like never before—sheer, unfettered joy. But with that joy comes the threat of confusing her methods with her objectives…
Day two waits for no one! After close calls in every stage on day one of the Inter-High, Team Sohoku is utterly exhausted. But with two full days left, the fight is far from over. Right off the bat, Naruko, Imaizumi, and Ashikiba are once more stuck in a face-off on the dangerous Konsei Pass. Meanwhile, the mounting pressure of the Inter- High is finally catching up to first-year Kaburagi. While the rest of Team Sohoku is racing for the front, Kaburagi is struggling to keep going. Can he endure the grueling uphill battle before him, or will the looming climb prove to be insurmountable?
After Lena’s untimely death at the hands of Valletta’s ruthless assassins, Bete flies into a primal rage, hell-bent on revenge. Every shadowy figure that crosses his path is ripped to shreds, and when he finally relents, none are left to stand before him.However, Valletta is absent, and unbeknownst to Bete, she’s preparing a trap just for him! After he tracks her down, all that’s left is to decide on a plan of attack, but this time, charging straight in might not be the best idea…
Tremendous destruction has been wrought by the central players in the New Demon King War. Gods made flesh have met their end as their names enter the annals of history. Even so, there are still those with enough power to give shape to the new era. Among them are a golem who revives endlessly by conquering whatever weakness caused its downfall, a giant whose far-reaching arrows transform the very terrain, and an entity that reduces everything it touches to dust... When these forces of nature encounter those who would use their powers for their own ends, the world enters a veritable arms race. And while the seat of the True Hero remains empty, those who profit most from conflict bide their time while their champion lights the flames of war once again.
A RIVAL CHILDHOOD FRIEND APPEARS! Hina Fushimi continues her enthusiastic pursuit of Ryou Takamori, but when another old friend of Ryou’s transfers to their high school, she learns her status is not as unique as she thought. With Ai Himejima’s arrival on the scene, Hina and Ryou’s relationship hits a snag. The two girls compete for Ryou’s attention, and both take bold measures to win him over—especially Hina. However, he still remains oblivious to their feelings! On the upcoming school field trip, will this change?
A MUSHROOM TRIP LIKE NO OTHER Having rid the world of the Immortal Monk—Kelshinha—the pair of Man-Eaters travel to Bisco’s ancestral homeland in Shikoku, picking up Tirol somewhere along the way. Once they arrive, Mushroom Keepers young and old venerate Bisco as a living god, throwing celebration after celebration in his honor (much to his dismay). Festivities are cut short, however, when a red-haired man named Apollo crashes the party! He manipulates mysterious, glowing blue particles at will, and wherever they land, skyscrapers sprout with all the ferocity of a mushroom arrow! His goal? Restore Japan to the way it was in the year 2028. In order to understand the significance of that year, Bisco, Milo, and Tirol need look no further than the Tokyo Crater…
Is it bad for me to tell people we’re datingdating? Huh?! Who’s dating whom now? I said I’d think about it. And how exactly does he go from “I’ll come watch your games” to “I’ll be your girlfriend”? Stupid jerk even told the entire basketball team that he’s going out with a third-year. Between those rumors and running into Hakamada-kun—and therefore having to deal with pouty Naruse— everything’s driving me up the wall! Why am I even considering this whole thing...?
After an intense skirmish with Donny’s men, Chateau has been captured, and Ryang-Ha will stop at nothing to get her back. But she’s being held on a top-secret island, and to infiltrate it, he’ll have to form a tenuous alliance with former foes and the heir to the island itself! Meanwhile, Donny sets his plan in motion, helping Chateau finally remember her bloody past...but to what end? As Chateau’s past and present lives collide inside her head, how will she perform her role as the star of Donny’s sadistic play?
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND As Kaito plots his revenge against Eumis, he discovers that the spellcaster has bolstered her powers by selling her sister Shuria’s soul to a demon. Not one to let an opportunity to humiliate his foes go to waste, Kaito saves the girl from the brink of death and invites her to join him and Minnalis on their quest for vengeance. Now the stage is set for the three partners in crime to corner their common enemy and strip her of everything she holds dear in a spectacular act of retribution…
On a whim, Grady Kendall applies to work as a live-in caretaker for a luxury property in Hawai?i, as far from his small-town Maine life as he can imagine. Within days he's flying out to an estate on remote Hokuloa Road, where he quickly uncovers a dark side to the island's idyllic reputation: it has long been a place where people vanish without a trace.When a young woman from his flight becomes the next to disappear, Grady is determined-and soon desperate-to figure out what's happened to Jessie, and to all those staring out of the island's "missing" posters. But working with Raina, Jessie's fiercely protective best friend, to uncover the truth is anything but easy, and with an inexplicable and sinister presence stalking his every step, Grady can only hope he'll find the answer before it's too late.Perfect for fans of Peter Heller and The White Lotus, and from award-winning writer Elizabeth Hand, a master of crime fiction known for her magnetic characters, seductive prose, and fearless excavations into the darkest corners of our world, comes a chilling and illuminating new novel about a place unlike any other-and the deadly cost of keeping it so."Set in a Hawaii so vividly imagined I'm still shaking sand out of my shoes."-Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of The Final Girl Support Group"Twisty and dark . . . easily one of the best thrillers I've read." -Rachel Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Wife Upstairs"This is the perfect book for your summer beach bag-an evocative mystery set in a tropical island paradise." -Jason Rekulak, author of Hidden Pictures
LEVELING UP DOESN’T SOLVE EVERY PROBLEM.The school festival is over, and so is winter break. Tomozaki has reached a major milestone, but now there’s a new hurdle in his path: plans for the future. Of course, Hinami’s training is still ongoing, and between an offline meeting with other Atafami players, a visit to Tama-chan’s house, and his budding relationship with Kikuchi, the new semester is looking to be fuller than ever—and more challenging, too!
Protect A God or Die Trying?! Odin, the chief deity of the Norse pantheon, has come to visit Japan on important business, and Issei and the gang are tasked with keeping him safe. Guarding a lecherous old fart of a god is tough enough on its own, but to make matters worse, Akeno’s estranged fallen-angel father has also been asked to protect Odin. As Issei searches for a way to help the two reconcile, disaster strikes in the form of Loki, another Norse god, who isn’t too happy about how Odin’s been running things. It’s been said that the Red Dragon Emperor has the power to best deities, but will that truly be enough this time? Our hapless hero may need some help from the most unlikely source...
SWORDS AND SORCERY! PSYCHIC BATTLES?! MAGICAL GIRLS?!?! Tired and unfulfilled by his dead-end job, Sasaki decides to adopt Peeps, an adorable pet Java sparrow. Peeps, however, is really Piercarlo, a powerful sage from another world! After Peeps bestows Sasaki with magic and the ability to cross worlds, the two decide to export household items for profit in pursuit of a leisurely lifestyle. But when Sasaki’s new magic gets him mixed up in a whole other kind of supernatural struggle back in Japan, will it destroy his chances at realizing the relaxing life of his dreams?
Fans of RaeAnne Thayne and Catherine Anderson will love USA Today bestselling author Debbie Mason's fifth book in her charming, small-town Highland Falls series.
"Rage revenue-addicted news companies are plagued by shoddy reporting, sensationalism, groupthink, and brain-dead partisan tribalism. Newsrooms rely on emotion-driven blabber to entrance conflict-addled super users. In 'Broken News,' Chris Stirewalt, celebrated as one of America's sharpest political analysts in print and on television, employs his trademark wit and insight to give readers an inside look at these problems. He explains that these companies don't reward bad journalism because they like it, but because it is easy and profitable. 'Broken News' is a fascinating, deeply researched, conversation-provoking study of how the news is made and how it must be repaired, with surprising takeaways about who's to blame."
This wedding needs to be the event of the season. Unfortunately, the best man is doing everything he can to derail it . . .Wedding planner Beth Shipley has seen it all: bridezillas, monster-in-laws, and last-minute jitters at the altar. But this wedding is different—and the stakes are much, much higher. Not only is her best friend the bride, but bookings at her family’s inn have been in free fall ever since an unfortunate food-poisoning incident. Beth’s got one chance to save her family’s business, and she knows she can do it. As long as she doesn’t let Sawyer Silva’s good looks and overprotective, overbearing older brother act distract her.Sawyer learned firsthand that forever doesn’t last. So when his brother decides to race down the aisle with a woman he barely knows, Sawyer is determined to keep him from making the biggest mistake of his life. Yet the more time Sawyer spends around the passionate and hardworking Beth, the more trouble he has disentangling his feelings—about the wedding and the wedding planner. When Beth discovers Sawyer’s plans, can he convince her that his only real objection is to a future that doesn’t include her?
A faux summer fling seemed like the perfect solution . . . until they start falling in love for real. Teacher Stella Marshall’s summer break has just began, but the gossip is already sizzling: Luke Keegan’s back in town! Stella’s high school crush is all grown up and smolderingly sexy. She might even consider a fling with the former Navy SEAL, if she hadn’t already sworn off all romantic entanglements. But there isn’t a single thing she can do to stop the rumor mill whispering about her and Luke being together—unless . . .A showmance! Luke never thought he’d propose a fake relationship, but it’s the only way to stop the runaway speculation about their love lives. Pretending to date a woman as stunning as Stella is easy. Not actually falling for her is the hard part. Luke isn’t sure he deserves a hometown happy ending, when members of his SEAL team never made it back at all. But there’s real attraction buzzing between him and Stella . . . and he knows she feels it too. Could their faux summer romance lead to true love?
A behind-the-scenes tour of the high-stakes world of IPOs and how a visionary band of startup executives, venture capitalists, and maverick bankers has launched a crusade to upend the traditional IPO as we know it.GOING PUBLIC is a character-driven narrative centered on the last five years of unparalleled change in how technology startups sell shares to the public. Initial public offerings, or IPOs, are typically the first time retail investors can own a piece of the New Economy companies promising to rewire economic rules. Selling IPOs is also one of the most profitable businesses for Wall Street investment banks, who have spent the last 40 years protecting their profits. In an era when algorithms and software have made the financial markets more efficient, the pricing of IPOs still relies on human judgment. In 2018, executives at music-streaming service Spotify sought to upend the status quo. Led by a trim and understated CFO, Barry McCarthy, and a shy but brilliant founder, Daniel Ek, they took a wild idea and forged something new. GOING PUBLIC explores how they got comfortable with the risk, and how they lobbied securities watchdogs and exchange staff to rewrite the regulations. Readers will meet executives at disruptive companies like Airbnb, DoorDash, venture capitalists, and even some bankers who seized on Spotify’s labor and used it to knock Wall Street bankers off the piles of fees they’d been stacking for so long. GOING PUBLIC weaves in earlier attempts to rethink the IPO process, introducing readers to one of Silicon Valley’s earliest bankers, Bill Hambrecht, whose invention for selling shares online was embraced by Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they auctioned their shares in 2004. And it examines the recent boom in blank-check companies, those Wall Street insider deals that have suddenly become the hottest way to enter the public markets. GOING PUBLIC tells stories from inside the room, and more.
Poppy LOVES scary movies. Cornbread does not. Poppy ADORES runny cheese. Cornbread does not. Poppy can't WAIT to try a roller coaster. Cornbread...can. But Cornbread and Poppy are the best of friends, so when the Carnival rolls into town, Cornbread agrees to check it out. Their day promises to include fun games, yummy snacks, and big, big rides. What new things will these mice try? Celebrating both partnership and the value of what makes us individuals, young readers will find this classic odd couple irresistible as they encounter relatable issues with humor and heart. Publishing simultaneously in hardcover and paperback.
From the award-winning author of Mrs. and The Fundamentals of Play comes a brilliant and biting short story collection about pride, privilege, and our nagging need to belong. In an era of “hot takes” and easy generalizations, this collection reclaims the absurdities and paradoxes of life as it is actually lived from the American fantasy of “niceness”. In Macy’s world, human desires and fatal blind spots slam headlong into convenient, social-media-driven narratives that would sort us into neat boxes of insider or outsider; good or bad; with us or against us. Time and again, whether at home or in the age-old role of Americans abroad, Macy’s women see their good intentions turn awry. A woman who tries to do a good deed for an underprivileged child sees it go horribly wrong. A wife, attempting to be a good host to a friend’s strange ex-boyfriend, finds herself in a compromised situation. And, in the title story, a newlywed fancies herself a Euro-sophisticate until an accident reminds her just how truly foreign she really is. In tales where shocking and sometimes brutal events disabuse characters of their most cherished beliefs, Macy forgoes easy moralization in favor of uncomfortable truths that reveal the complexity of what it means to be human.
When high-schooler Ryou Takamori steps in to save a girl on a crowdedtrain, he neverexpected her to be his childhood friend Hina Fushimi. Thoughthe two of them sit nextto each other in class, they haven''t spoken sincemiddle school-but this heroic actmight give Hina the push she needed toshorten the distance between them!
Asuma and the maidens defended the school from the attack of the UltraReincarnationParty, but at great cost. Seeking greater strength,InnamiΓÇÖs group throw themselvesinto training, but they may get arematch with one of the PartyΓÇÖs executives soonerthan theyexpect...!
In the world of Nozaki and friends, pandemonium reigns supreme. Whilesearching forthe owner of a rather-unique-book, Hori stumbles across ashocking secret! At thesame time, the life and times of Sakiko Yumeno arerevealed online...And whatΓÇÖs this?Might Wakamatsu actually be able tostay awake the next time Seo sings?! But all ofthat pales in comparison whenthe true agent of chaos, Kashima, introduces a newpartner-in-crime whowreaks havoc wherever they go...
Dotachin was the victim of a hit-and-run. So say the latest rumors runningrampantthrough the town of Ikebukuro. And when rumors take on life of theirown, chaos andconfusion rule the roost! Those suspected of the crime, thosewho avenge crime, thosewho exploit crime-ambition and desire spiral out ofcontrol while the mystery of theDotachin incident has yet to beresolved!!
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