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Five high school classmates hold secrets close to their hearts--hidden talents, unspoken feelings, and buried pain. As they collide with each other on the path to growing up, they might jostle some of those secrets free. From Yoru Sumino, acclaimed author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas and I Had That Same Dream Again comes a gentle, intriguing tale about love, life, and the things we leave unsaid.

Cale Henituse is a man more eager to top off his wine than topple his foes, but adventure always seems to find him! This time, he befriends a kind yet sheltered necromancer, an ancient gold dragon, and twin saints on the run. But the stakes rise when the fierce Tiger Tribe arrives from the far east, seeking both refuge and revenge. Their shared enemy wields a powerful fleet, offering Cale a golden opportunity to turn the tide in his favor. With land, sea, and sky at play, Cale must craft a brilliant strategy to outmaneuver his foes—and maybe even come out ahead for once!

Noblewoman Giselle's world is turned upside down when she's summoned to serve as the king's prized concubine. Her heart already belongs to her manservant, Wallace, a soldier who worships the ground she walks on. Just as Giselle accepts that their blissful days are numbered, Wallace steals into her room in the palace with a desperate, hungry gaze. Spending the night with him is tantamount to treason...but their love is not one so easily denied.

" Ils n'utiliseront pas mes larmes pour leur divertissement. " – Haymitch Abernathy. Redécouvrez l'un des personnages les plus emblématiques de la série culte, à travers le timbre atypique et nuancé de Xavier Baur ! À l'aube des cinquantièmes Hunger Games, la peur s'empare des districts de Panem. Cette année, en l'honneur des Jeux de l'Expiation, le nombre de tributs arrachés à leur famille pour participer à ces jeux cruels sera doublé ! Dans le district 12, Haymitch Abernathy tente de ne pas trop penser au terrible tirage au sort. Il est concentré sur sa survie et sur la survie de celle qu'il aime.

Junior high schooler Marii Yukari sees all humans, aside from herself, as robots through her vivid, purple eyes. Yet even with such a strange perspective on the world, her classmates treat her like an unassuming, strange girl, including Manabu "Gaku" Hatou, her sole friend. Yet strange things start occurring around Yukari, and when she is recruited into an underground organization due to her unique talents, Manabu finds herself tangled up in a realm of dangerous experiments and quantum physics unlike anything she could have ever imagined!

Ten years ago, Calamity came. It was a burst in the sky that gave ordinary men and women extraordinary powers. The awed public started calling them Epics. But Epics are no friend of man. With incredible gifts came the desire to rule. And to rule man you must crush his will. Nobody fights the Epics...nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them. And David wants in. He wants Steelheart - the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father.

After defeating the strongest human in the world with his "useless" spells, Mimori Touka's quest for vengeance is back on track! He knows he's still too weak to defeat the foul Goddess, so he sets out to find more information about the Forbidden Magic that could be key to taking her down. His search will bring him into the path of a corrupt duke, a fierce beastwoman gladiator, and a fighting tournament where the stakes are life and death!

Thirty years after the Demon Wars, peace has returned to the land of Lodoss--but darkness looms. After defending his village against a horde of goblins, a headstrong young warrior named Parn sets out on a quest to restore his father's honor and save the realm. Joining Parn are Deedlit the high elf, Slayn the wizard, Etoh, a fledgling priest, Ghim, a grizzled dwarven warrior, and Woodchuck, a wily thief. Along their journey, Parn and his companions discover an evil witch who, for eons, has been manipulating events from the shadows.

After being contacted by one of the princes, Liam finds himself dragged into the Empire's succession conflict. The Guide warns him about his "true enemy," but...who could it be? Then, Liam finally completes his military service and it's time to start his college career. His friends poke fun at him for not having any "fun" in his schooling so far, so he sets his sights on a brave new world of casual flings with coeds! Will Liam finally grow into the perfect evil lord with a league of ladies by his side?

The Grimsby series follows the true to life path of oft beloved, and sometimes much maligned, Attorney at Law Grimsby as he navigates through the every day world of the law business in the United States on behalf of every day people whose issues and problems you will likely recognize. Grimsby focuses on trying to "right wrongs". Grimsby - Beauty and the Legal Beast contains humor, maybe dark humor, detailing smashing successes and some crushing defeats. There is also a love story along the way.

Monster-filled dungeons have recently appeared in our world. When average office worker Mizuki Ryousuke gets transferred to the Japanese countryside, by the time he gets there, the office is gone and a dungeon's sitting in its place! He finds a number of odd things when he ventures inside, like a fairy about to be eaten by goblins and a mysterious skill book that allows him to turn skills—even overpowered ones—into cards so he can use them at will!

Every night, Adachi transforms into a nightmarish creature--and every morning, he reverts to human form. When he encounters his ostracized classmate Yano Satsuki in his monstrous state, the two develop a peculiar bond. But daylight brings its own form of terrors. Which is worse, the monsters at night, or the cruel realities of the classroom by day?

Pete has finally escaped Vegas—but walking away from him is proving harder than he ever imagined. The violence, the captivity, the chaos... it should have left nothing but scars. So why can't he stop thinking about the man behind the madness? Meanwhile, Porsche is spiraling. A photograph and a cryptic message hint at a devastating truth: Kinn's family may be tied to his own parents' deaths. The closer Porsche gets to the truth, the more uncertain everything becomes—including his love for Kinn.

In this intimate biography of the Prince of Soul, David Ritz provides a candid look at a star and a friend. Ritz had been collaborating with Marvin Gaye on his story for several years before the singer's tragic death and had conducted a series of extraordinary interviews in which Gaye discussed his deepest secrets. What emerges is a full-scale portrait of a charming but tortured artist, a brilliant singer with a divided soul.

In the mystical Taihang Mountains, where magic flows and powerful yao roam, Hongjun has grown up sheltered from the human world. A half-yao himself, he's never had reason to leave--until the mountain's ruler sends him on a dangerous mission: hide his true nature and join the Great Tang Department of Demonic Exorcism in Chang'an. Upon arriving in the bustling capital, Hongjun meets Li Jinglong, a luckless soldier with no spiritual power tasked with leading a team of extraordinary exorcists.

It's been 10 years since The Collapse. The survivors live off what they can grow, find or steal. A man known as Ryker is among the survivors, a family man with a mysterious past. When his family's relative safety is taken, he's forced to join what's left of civilization to care for his wife and children. But will his newfound allegiance to the government of The Tennessee Zone save them or plunge them into darker peril, and will the powers-that-be use Ryker for their own nefarious needs?

Though the dust has settled from the showdown at Biheiril Kingdom, for Rudeus Greyrat and his companions, another chapter is just beginning. This collection of stories details more of the post-battle ups and downs, including the worst crisis the Greyrat family has ever faced: the sudden elopement of Rudeus's son, Arus! The shocking story unfolds from both Rudeus's and Arus's perspectives. What is Arus thinking, and what will Rudeus do? Only one thing's for sure—after these events, life will never be the same!

In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how "entertainment values" have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television.

It's been exactly 10 years since the murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and Charlotte (Charlie for short) has spent those 10 years trying to forget. Her father was the owner of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and the creator of its four adult-sized animatronic animals, and now Charlie is returning to her hometown to reunite with her childhood friends on the anniversary of the tragedy that ripped their town apart.

Kaori and Suimei have finally realized how they feel about each other, but their love will have to wait—the bookstore is in terrible danger. One day, a fox spirit called Hakuzousu storms in, screaming, "The spirit realm has no use for such an unscrupulous bookstore!" He blames his daughter's love for a human on the influence of human books. Shinonome can't just shrug off such an insult, and Kaori fears that a fight between her father and the fox will reduce the store to ashes.