FEATHERS OF FATEThe Yamei Palace has become a much less lonely place—despite Jusetsu’s predecessor’s warnings—but the Raven Consort still cannot truly escape the emptiness in her heart. There’s no shortage of visitors who come in the evenings to ask for her help, and tonight is no exception. A mystery within the Hakkaku Palace leads Jusetsu to come across the Eight True Teachings, a religion threatening faith in Uren Niangniang. Meanwhile, Koshun discovers a glimmer of hope that could free Jusetsu from the Raven once and for all. Will the two of them continue to work together?
Yoshino's at the end of her rope with her fiancâe Kirishima, whose secretive actions during their trip back to her hometown of Osaka has come to bad ends. A group of yakuza with the backing of a trust fund baby with his own goals have come to Osaka to take their revenge, and Yoshino's not about to let them. She only has her wits to protect her, but no one can beat her on her own home turf. Meanwhile, the two most dangerous teenagers in the city, Shouma and Kirishima, are destroying everything in their path to clear her way. When all the dust has settled, to the victor goes the spoils. If Kirishima wins, Yoshino has agreed to finally formally start dating him!
THOSE RACY DAYS OF SUMMERWhen an unseasonably hot summer hits Omiko City, Matsuri, Suzu, Reo, and Soga are tasked with finding the cause, thought to be a malicious ayakashi. But the heat warps the mind in weird ways, and Suzu finds herself drawn to Matsuri even more feverishly than before! Meanwhile, Matsuri’s flustered over both Suzu and Reo’s attentions. And what will Soga do when the heat forces everyone to don bathing suits?
RELAXING, REJUVENATING, ROMANCE-FREE ROAD TRIP! UNLESS…Absolute angel Ajisai-san has an awful argument with her family and decides to decamp to the seaside for the summer. In other words: she’s running away from home! Renako Amaori can’t let this innocent ingenue wander the big, bad world alone. She’s coming along, too! Will their high school hearts and minds be healed by bouts of ping-pong and wholesome spells in the hot springs, or will romantic drama find them, no matter where they go?
SHE’S GOT THIS TOTALLY UNDER CONTROL! UNLESS…High school gal pals Amaori Renako and Oduka Mai battled it out to decide if they’d be friends or lovers…and ended in a tie! Now they’re trying a bit of both at once as "friends with Rena-fits". Their in-between arrangement could be the relationship of Renako’s dreams, but then Ashigaya High’s gorgeous ice queen Satsuki-san asks her on a date too! Caught between the two prettiest girls in school, what’s an ex-social-misfit to do?!
A CLASS CRACKS UNDER PRESSUREThe results of the Unanimous Special Exam weigh heavily on Ayanokouji's class. Kushida, Hasebe, and Wang haven't come to school in days. But time marches on, and when details of the Sports Festival are announced, Horikita's opponents disrupt the planning meeting. The class is now behind before the games can even begin! Can everyone live with the choices they've made and come out on top?
"Protect your family. At all costs. Rose has danced with many devils, and this time she makes a deal with the worst one: Celebrity Crush. To protect the ones she loves most, Rose teams up with Connor to turn the spotlight on themselves. But this means Rose must go far outside her well-established comfort zone and tackle some of her deepest insecurities. It'd take the impossible to hurt Connor Cobalt, even for a moment. Now that he's twenty-six, his narcissistic tendencies have made room for the people he loves. And he loves Rose Calloway. But when his love is threatened, when his greatest dreams with her are compromised-what is the cost then? Love will guide his choices. For the first time in his life"--
"Rival archaeologists must team up on a secret Aztec expedition, or it could leave their careers-and hearts-in ruins. Archaeologist Dr. Socorro 'Corrie' Mejâia has a bone to pick. Literally. It's been Corrie's life goal to lead an expedition deep into the Mexican jungle in search of the long-lost remains of her ancestor, Chimalli, an ancient warrior of the Aztec empire. But when she is invited to join an all-expenses-paid dig to do just that, Corrie is sure it's too good to be true...and she's right. As the world-renowned expert on Chimalli, by rights Corrie should be leading the expedition, not sharing the glory with her disgustingly handsome nemesis. But Dr. Ford Matthews has been finding new ways to best her since they were in grad school. Ford certainly isn't thrilled either-with everything going on in his life right now, the last thing he needs is a reminder of their rocky past. But as the dig begins, it becomes clear they'll need to work together when they realize a thief is lurking around their campsite, forcing the pair to keep their discoveries-and lingering attraction-under wraps. With money-hungry artifact smugglers, the Mexican authorities, and the lies between them closing in, there's only one way this all ends-explosively"--
"After her mother's death, Dee and her sister Toni settled with Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas, and Dee attended the University of Kansas. But after falling in love with and subsequently being humiliated by an adjunct faculty member and novelist, Dee is unable to face him--and the rest of the school--and applies to the writing program at Trinity College Dublin. At Trinity, Dee finds solace in a new group of friends: Sam Clery, who dropped out of college and now runs a newsagents ('No brains,' his sister says); .... Tim Woodman, who refused to take back his ex-fiancâee ('You have no heart,' she accuses); ... and Reeti Kaur, who is kindhearted but too afraid to tell her parents she wants to teach underprivileged girls rather than obtain her MBA and work in the family business ('I basically have no courage,' she says). Throughout the semesters, the friends grow closer and encounter new opportunities, love, and heartbreak"
You can get happier. And getting there will be the adventure of a lifetime. Using the tools of emotional self-management, you can take control of your well-being, rather than hoping and waiting for your circumstances to improve. BUILD THE LIFE YOU WANT is your blueprint for a better life.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Memorial and Lot, an irresistible, intimate novel about two young men, once best friends, whose lives collide again after a loss.
"Tali girls is an extraordinary book: poetic in its focus on the most humble moments of life and smallest details of landscape, and utterly devastating in its depiction of bright, passionate girls being crushed by corruption and desperation in an Afghanistan that has tried to render them powerless. That they are not powerless is revealed in sometimes shocking ways"--
A grumpy farmer and a no-nonsense social media influencer have another chance at love in this charming romantic comedy.Evelyn St. James isn’t the kind of woman you forget. Beckett Porter certainly hasn’t. One incredible weekend in Maine, and he’s officially a man distracted. He’s not unfamiliar with hot and heavy flings, but Evie wove some sort of magic over him during their tumble in the sheets. He can’t stop thinking about her laugh. Her hand pressed flat against his chest. Her smiling mouth at his neck. So when she suddenly appears on his farm as part of a social media contest, he is…confused. He had no idea that the sweet and sexy woman he met at a bar is actually a global phenomenon. When Evie disappears again, Beckett resolves to finally move on.But Evie, who has been feeling disconnected from her work and increasingly dissatisfied with life online, is trying to find her way back to something real. She returns to the last place she was happy: Lovelight Farms and the tiny town of Inglewild. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the hot farmer she spent two incredible nights with.
"Riley Rhodes finally has the chance to turn her family's knack for the supernatural into a legitimate business when she's hired to break the curse on an infamous Scottish castle. Used to working alone in her alienating occupation, she's pleasantly surprised to meet a handsome stranger upon arrival--until he tries to get her fired. Fresh off a scandal, Clark Edgeware can't allow a self-proclaimed 'curse breaker' to threaten his last chance for professional redemption (or his traitorous heart). After he fails to get Riley kicked off his excavation site, he vows to avoid her. Unfortunately for him, she vows to get even. Riley expects the curse to do her dirty work by driving Clark away, but instead, they keep ending up on top of each other. Turns out, the only thing they do better than fight is fool around. If they're not careful, by the end of all this, more than the castle will end up in ruins"--
"Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she's fished out of the waters by a band of seafarers and their telekinetic captain. She's immediately given a choice--join their group or die. Bowen has no memory of his life before he became one of the Cãwn Annwn. He and his pirate crew are bound by vow to patrol through Threshold, the magical sea in between realms, keeping the portals to other worlds safe. When he rescues Evelyn, he doesn't expect to be attracted to the unflappably brassy pickpocket. The longer he spends in her presence, the more he begins to question if his heart is the next thing she'll steal. But as tension heats up between Bowen and Evelyn, danger escalates as well. Because Evelyn has no intention of keeping her vows to the Cãwn Annwn, and if she betrays the crew, both she and Bowen will pay the ultimate price..."--
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"Sometimes the world feels broken. And problems seem too big to fix. But somehow, we all have the power to make a difference. With a little faith, and maybe the help of a friend, together we can find beauty and create change. ... [This book] reveals how even the smallest gesture can have a lasting impact"--
A full-color fantasy webtoon/comic of romance, drama, and second chances. Also known as The Fantasie of a Stepmother on the Tapas Media digital platform.This is the story of a beleaguered young noblewoman raising her stepchildren on her own...until she dies and wakes up in the past with the chance to remake her life!The marchioness Shuri Von Neuschwanstein was just a teenager when her husband died, leaving her to manage his lands and raise his children–even though she was young enough to be their sibling. Despite her dedication to her duties, other nobles conspired against her, and her stepchildren rejected her as their mother, leaving her a hardened pariah in her own home. But when she leaves for a new residence during her eldest stepson’s wedding, the marchioness dies and wakes up in the past: on the day of her husband’s funeral! If Shuri is to live these seven difficult years all over again, she’s going to do things differently. Can she rewrite her own fairy tale ending this time around?The hit webtoon also known as The Fantasie of a Stepmother!
A vivid and moving reimagining of the myth of Medusa and the oft-forgotten sisters who loved her, following the trio of gorgons as they struggle against the inherent conflict between sisterhood and individuality, myth and truth, vengeance and peace.
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world. A love letter to food, to wild delight, and to the transformative power of a woman embracing her own appetite.
This new novel offers a meditation on our contemporary era, as a solitary female narrator asks what it means to be alive at this complex moment in history. From the New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through.
The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat competition brings together the world's best thieves, and one thief is playing for the highest stakes of all: her mother's life. With only one winner, the contestants must decide: who to con, and who to trust.
After driving drunk and causing the accident that kills her little sister, fifteen-year-old Violetta is incarcerated and must prove her remorse through a system of Trials. A searing indictment of the juvenile justice system.
Dearie and Cole have always been two against the world, ready to call out their fellow students. But they've never faced a bigger threat than surviving senior year, when Mr. Sandman, a famous serial killer, emerges from a long retirement - and his hunting ground is their school Queer Club. Scream meets Clueless in this YA horror from Adam Sass.
It seems like Sage's whole world is on fire - literally. Her neighborhood is burning down, and she feels more and more distant from her childhood friends. National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson brings readers a powerful story that delves into life's big questions about time, memory, and what we take with us into the future.
A struggling midlist writer travels to New York City to find the successful author who used to be her best friend - and who disappeared after the blood-soaked night that should have bound them together forever. Some friends - and friendships - are worth killing for in this dark, twisty suspense novel by bestselling author Jesse Q. Sutanto.
In 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-cheol was a running prodigy and a contender for the upcoming Olympics. But he would have had to run under the Japanese flag. Nearly a century later, his granddaughter, training to run a marathon, summons Korean shamans to connect with Lee Woo-cheol's spirit. A poetic masterpiece of historical fiction.
Old money. New secrets. One killer party. A glitzy YA thriller set in New York City elite social circles, filled with backstabbing and blackmail, twisty secrets, and a dead body, from New York Times bestselling author Jessica Goodman. Perfect for fans of Euphoria, Holly Jackson, and Jessica Knoll.
The lives of two women - one desperate only to save her missing sister, the other a witch destined to become queen of Norway - intertwine in this spellbinding, powerful novel of Viking Age history and myth from the acclaimed author of The Witch's Heart. This is a deeply moving tale of magic, history, and sworn sisterhood.
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