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Ibuki Doi has never forgotten his first love from high school--Mikami Baba, the kind, handsome, and totally straight student council president. Though he was too shy to approach Mikami back then, Ibuki always held his idol near and dear to his heart, wishing him nothing but the best! However, when he learns Mikami is soon to be married to a man, he just can't help it--he's absolutely devastated. He drinks himself into a stupor to drown his sorrow but is surprised to wake up and find...he's back in high school?! Could this be Ibuki's second chance to make things go his way?

A multigenerational tale of the heroic Joestar family and their never-ending battle against evil!

The legendary Shonen Jump series is now available in deluxe hardcover editions featuring color pages! JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is a groundbreaking manga famous for its outlandish characters, wild humor, and frenetic battles.

Gyro leads the race at the end of the first stage--but it's too soon to celebrate just yet. Three competitors have turned up dead, and the famous cowboy Mountain Tim has just been deputized to find the culprits. Following the trail of horseshoe tracks, he sets his sights on Johnny and Gyro. But as the three men collide in the hostile Arizona desert, it quickly becomes clear that the second stage of this race may just be their last!

Takashi Natsume has always been aware of the supernatural world, but after he inherits a magical book from his grandmother, the supernatural world is aware of him!

Takashi Natsume can see the spirits and demons that hide from the rest of humanity. He has always been set apart from other people because of his gift, drifting from relative to relative, never fitting in. Now he is a troubled high school student who has come to live in the small town where his grandmother grew up. And there he discovers that he has inherited more than just the Sight from the mysterious Reiko.

Natsume receives a secondhand invitation to a gathering of antiques dealers and afficionados. The event, however, is no mundane auction, and the guest list is filled with friends and foes alike. When the whole building is locked down after a theft is discovered, Natsume must rally his allies before his enemies make their move!

A nerd must fight powerful spirits and aliens all vying for the secret power of his "family jewel," so who better to fight alongside him than his high school crush and a spirit granny?!

Momo Ayase and Okarun are on opposite sides of the paranormal spectrum regarding what they'll believe in and what they won't. Their quest to prove each other wrong leads them down a path of secret crushes and paranormal battles they'll have to participate in to believe!

It is revealed that Vamola, the girl found inside the kaiju suit, is actually a member of the once thriving Sumerian race from deep space! Unfortunately, her home world was attacked by the aliens presently targeting Earth, leaving her people scattered. She herself had been forced to plot her escape from the planet with a group of other women--including Banga, who found her as a child and raised her. Now, having learned of Vamola's past, Momo and the others rise to action, but the aliens they face are a formidable enemy.

A tough-guy omega who believes he can control his heats through sheer willpower meets his match when he faces off with an alpha unlike any he's ever encountered before!

Tsugumi is an omega whose sole goal in life is to beat up any alpha who crosses his path. But when he faces off with Megumi, he's finally met his match--just not in the way he thinks!

Alpha Megumi is finally getting to have a heart-to-heart with his father over dinner about his omega boyfriend, Tsugumi. But when he arrives at the designated restaurant, he finds he's been set up on a blind date with his love rival, Inami! Before things can get too heated, Tsugumi barges in, but instead of flying off the handle, he bows and asks Megumi's father to hear him out. Later, when their respective families finally meet, all hell breaks loose, causing Tsugumi to announce...he's transferring to Kokonoe Academy?!

Rather than a midlife crisis, Fulbright's memoir is a midlife reckoning with identity through the lenses of faith, gender, and race. Guided by a relentless pursuit of the truth, the author traces the trajectory of her colorful, occasionally chaotic, and at times arresting journey from Southern Baptist missionary kid in Zambia to queer feminist preacher in the American South.

With honesty, courage, clarity, and hope, she weaves together her own history of trauma with theological reflections about the nature of God, healing, and liberation. It's a story of breaking silences and breaking cycles.

Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She'll risk her life-and her heart-to be one of them...

Meryn Cooper has never dreamed of being one of the Bonded, the King's elite warriors who form mental links with massive, vicious direwolves. She's made peace with her life scraping by in poverty in the shadows of the castle. But then her younger sister Saela is kidnapped, stolen across the border by the immortal monsters her country has spent centuries fighting.

And Meryn's world falls apart.

Desperate to cross the front and save her sister, Meryn enlists in the army-only to discover that there are Bonding Trials this year, where all soldiers are forced to risk their lives in an attempt to connect with a direwolf. It's too late to turn back; Meryn is thrown into the deadly competition against her will.

Now, she'll need to survive the next four months of training at the castle if she wants a chance of finding Saela. Everything here is a test, from the brutal classes where one mistake means death, to the glittering court parties where every smile hides a knife.

To make things worse, Meryn is bound to a feral direwolf who refuses to communicate. The other trainees would love to spill her common blood. And her gorgeous instructor, Stark Therion, is as malicious as the wolves himself.

Everyone is out to get her-everyone but the dangerously handsome crown prince, Killian Valtiere. But if she loses her heart to him, she may also lose her life.

And the castle is hiding dark secrets...

Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in dark action-packed fantasy series, perfect for romantasy fans of A Court of Thorns and Roses, The Serpent & the Wings of Night, When the Moon Hatched and Quicksilver!

A holiday romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lauren Blakely, with spice and fake dating that follows a fiery designer who teams up with her charming billionaire boss for a week-long Christmas competition, and their pretend holiday romance soon starts to feel all too real.

"Wanted: hot billionaire to pose as my Christmas boyfriend. Must be willing to make my cheating ex jealous by kissing me under the mistletoe at holiday parties. Bonus if you make him cry."

To Fable's surprise, her billionaire boss, Wilder Blaine, is more than willing to take on the challenge of playing her holiday boyfriend. The sexy single dad desperately needs a plus one for a Christmas Eve wedding, where he's the best man and she's the maid of honor. With her ex also in the wedding party, the two team up as a pair of insta-lovebirds for the holiday season. Their partnership includes participating in the annual week-long Christmas competition leading up to the snowy destination wedding.

What starts as late nights crafting the best popcorn balls for the contest soon turns into a passionate night together, where the sparks between them are impossible to ignore. But when the holidays end, can their winter wonderland romance turn into something real back at the office? Or are they destined to go the way of a Christmas tree on New Year's Day?

Mamrie Hart, New York Times bestselling author, comedian, podcast host, and longtime vegetarian, has whipped up mouthwatering meat-free meals and snacks on her socials for years.

With her millions of fans and followers eating up her content and clamoring for her recipes, she delivers all that and more with this larger-than-life debut cookbook. All I Think About is Food features more than 100 tantalizing dishes and spirited cocktails organized into themed-out dinner parties. With her unique spin on Southern Tapas to her take on a steakhouse and an all-aphrodisiac date night, each chapter delivers on flavors and fun. They also each include a "morning-after fill," clever recipes for jazzing up your leftovers.

Fabulous photography, a vivacious design, and Hart's signature warmth and humor make this book the life of the party for every campy home cook.

Regally bearing its Latin title, Rara Avis captures in sparse, moving verse both the splendor and the loneliness of what it means to be exceptional -- a rarified specimen, a strange bird. A son, a husband, and now a father, seasoned poet Blas Falconer explores the relationships among men -- between peers, lovers, parents and children -- to consider and question existing models of authority and power. Falconer's lucid but feeling gaze reveals social complexities with searing and graceful imagery, asking what it means to live outside the heteronormative experience while existing as a man, simultaneously a casualty and a participant in the project of masculinity.

These poems carefully delineate the casual cruelties of queer youth and the beautiful and bitter revelations of adulthood. The wisdom propelling Rara Avis is the knowledge that we are each of us that rare bird; we share our singularity. Everyone has a pancreas, but only one organ matters when Falconer learns his father is afflicted. Alchemized by love, one thing, unlike any other, becomes all things. "All day, everything, / no matter how / small, makes me // think of it" ... The bee / crawling in / blossoms // scattered on / the glass/tabletop. The sound of // a pitcher fill- / ing slowly / with water."

Are you ready to unlock your highest potential and live from a place of authenticity and purpose?

In her book, Alchemy of the Soul, Sarah Lahoski offers a transformative guide to reconnecting with your authentic self. Drawing on her extensive experience in holistic healing, Lahoski illuminates the path to releasing trauma, dissolving limiting beliefs, and embracing your innate gifts.

This enlightening book explores:

• How trauma affects the mind, body, and spirit
• Techniques to access and heal the unconscious
• Ways to balance your energetic system
• Practices for grounding and cultivating presence
• Methods to awaken your intuitive abilities

Alchemy of the Soul offers unique insights and transformative tools will empower you to transmute your pain into wisdom, reclaim your authentic power, and create a life of joy, purpose, and profound connection.

Perfect for fans of vampires, romantasy, and dark academia!

Jonathan Evergreen is a talented sophomore at a prestigious, isolated college in Vermont, who dreams of a career in book conservation. But Jonathan's life isn't as rosy as it may appear. Disowned by his family after they caught him with another boy, he struggles to overcome heartbreak and support himself through his studies. To make matters worse, his advisor and the only ally in the institution run by old money and family connections mysteriously vanishes, and a new enigmatic professor, Dacian Bathory, takes his place.

Even though Jonathan is instantly drawn to Dacian, feeling a deep, intense connection between them, Dacian's hot and cold behavior leaves him puzzled. But things change when Dacian unexpectedly helps him secure a job at the college's Rare Books library from which an antique book recently went missing-a book that Dacian seems to have a deep interest in.

As their attraction grows, sinister events start to unfold around campus: people disappearing in the dead of night, a group of legacies showing signs of increasingly disturbing behavior, and a dead body washing up nearby, completely drained of blood. Plagued by unsettling dreams that feel too close to reality, Jonathan suspects that some of these events might be connected to Dacian.

With the stakes escalating and his own life on the line, can Jonathan unravel the truth about Dacian and confront the darkness before it consumes them both?

" Everyone has their own Audrey, for some she is always twenty years old, for others she is in black and white and for others in color. Sometimes she is a European princess, a tipsy New Yorker or a UNICEF ambassador. Here you will discover her differently, made of ink and paper in a much more intimate and unvarnished dimension, without a soundtrack and with the voice you prefer. I sincerely hope that you will discover her as yours." From the preface by Luca Dotti, Hepburn's son. When Audrey Hepburn is mentioned, one thinks of her being beautiful and elegant, of her films, or of how her image is used to recall something immortal and fashionable. But Audrey was also a little girl who saw the Second World War with her own eyes, a woman who was at times fragile at work and in her private life, with a strong desire for motherhood and, above all, a boundless love for children that would lead her to find her true vocation, far from dancing or acting: she will in fact become a UNICEF ambassador to raise awareness in the world and help minors in difficulty. " When I started acting I didn't have a method, on set and on stage I just pretended to be someone else, like little girls can do for fun. And I won an Oscar!" -Audrey Hepburn.

Although you can get by in France without speaking the language, knowing just a few essential phrases can help you make friends, enjoy service with a smile, and discover richer, more rewarding travel experiences. Fast Talk French is the concise language guide that is guaranteed to get you talking with confidence.

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In her first book, popular TikTok historian J Draper uses her characteristic wit and intellect to introduce us to extraordinary figures marginalized by history, and the lessons we can learn from them.

Witty and engaging TikTok historian J.D. Draper digs out unusual stories of individuals that have shaped the world, and discovers the lessons their unique experiences can teach us.

Breaking away from history as told through the lens of kings, queens and nobles, this book instead lifts the lid on 24 fascinating stories of little-known underdogs, mavericks, trailblazers and oddballs. Through these stories you will meet characters such as:

• The Chevalier d'Eon - a fencing master, spy and diplomat who came out as a woman in 18th-century London
• Ellen and William Craft - a married couple who made a daring escape from slavery in the American south
• Peter the Wild Boy - a child found living in the woods in Germany who was taken to the royal court in England
• Caroline Herschel - the first British woman to be paid for scientific work, and a discoverer of comets
• William Buckland - the man who wrote the first account of a dinosaur - yet who also ate the heart of a French king
• Eleanor Rykener - a gender-bending sex worker from medieval England who spilled juicy gossip about her clients in the clergy Juliana Popjoy - a society beauty who lived in a tree for years
• Paul Robeson - athlete, singer, actor, polyglot, activist... and handsome to boot
• The Rebecca Rioters - a roving crowd of Welshmen who destroyed tollbooths dressed in skirts and bonnets.

These poignant and often hilarious true stories show us that the world as we know it was built by a wider array of historical figures than we experienced in our schoolbooks.