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Eighteen-year-old Ichita Tobishima is a young man who, after graduating from high school, enrolls at the prestigious Bidai Manga Academy. Ichita will enjoy his new university life along with other young students who dream of becoming professional mangaka — manga drawers — and working...

In April 1204, the armies of Western Christendom wrote another bloodstained chapter in the history of holy war. Two years earlier, aflame with religious zeal, the Fourth Crusade set out to free Jerusalem from the grip of Islam. But after a dramatic series of...

An illuminating and maddening examination of how gender bias has skewed innovation, technology, and historyIt all starts with a rolling suitcase. Though the wheel was invented some five thousand years ago, and the suitcase in the nineteenth century, it wasn’t until the 1970s that...

A seasonal meander through the wilds of Scotland.If Clanlands was a gentle road trip through Scotland, this almanac is a top down, pedal to the metal up and down odyssey through the many byways of a Scottish year. An invitation to anyone who picks...

From Emily R. King, author of the Hundredth Queen series, comes an epic novel of ancient Greece, Titans and treachery, and the women who dare to rise up against the tyranny of the Golden Age.My mother told me that men would speak about the...

An Arranged Marriage Standalone Mafia Romance. The first time Cassio meets his fiancée, she calls him “sir.” After losing his wife, Cassio is left to take care of two small children while trying to establish his rule over Philadelphia. Now he needs a mother...

There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them . . . A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it...

In these pages, where the iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a...

All the recipes from the magical world of Harry Potter to turn your table into a banquet worthy of the Great Hogwarts dining room. The first cookbook in the Harry Potter saga. 150 delicious recipes for wizards and non-wizards. Food is a spectacular element...

Tracy Chevalier transports readers to a bygone time and place in this richly-imagined portrait of the young woman who inspired one of Vermeer's most celebrated paintings. History and fiction merge seamlessly in this luminous novel about artistic vision and sensual awakening. Girl with a Pearl...

On January 20, 2009, after one of the most participatory elections in American history, Barack Obama became the nation's 44th president and the first African-American to reach the White House. In all that time, eight years of intense mandate, Obama, who received the Nobel...

Homicide Detective Alex Cross teams up with his wife to beat a D. C. criminal at his own game. Washington, DC, has never been more dangerous. After shots pierce the tranquil nighttime calm of Rock Creek Park, a man is dead: what looks at...

Venice. On a full-moon night, the members of a secret society gather in an ancient palace. Bepi Galvano, luminary of physics, is about to celebrate his eightieth birthday just a few streets away. His neighbours, three brilliant kids, are throwing a big party in...

Andrew Leatherbarrow, driven by an insatiable curiosity, brings together in this book all the aspects to understand what happened, what it meant and what Chernobyl means today: the technical details, clearly explained; human stories, through the biographies of its protagonists and a multitude of...

Although the profession of an editor is enigmatic, these papers offer a hectic and at times explosive collection of clues to show how Jorge Herralde exercised it.From the purchase of a typewriter, a table and a chair in 1968 to the decision to hire...

When war reaches the front door or a flood occurs, the population flees. At least that's what most people do, but not Trina, a strong and stubborn woman. Words are the only weapon of this determined teacher; carefully chosen words to write to her...

A few months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, kicking off the U.S. civil rights movement, making headlines around the world and becoming an enduring symbol of the fight for dignity and equality, another...

They are Samuel, Olga, Javi, Tina and Freser, animals like you. Their lives inspire and surprise us with stories of overcoming, friendship, hope, tenderness, and love. They are the stories of the Gaia Sanctuary Foundation, where hundreds of animals have been rescued thanks to...

Prague 1939. Young mother Eva has a secret from her past. When the Nazis invade, Eva knows the only way to keep her daughter Miriam safe is to send her away - even if it means never seeing her again. But when Eva is...

When a child has not yet been taught to order, it is not that they cannot but that they don't know how to do it. Therefore, we must teach them, and the best method is to go step by step. This book talks about...