As she patches things up with Yamashiro, Ako finds herself considering the point of view of the “soul” opposite her. Meanwhile, Bambi prepares to buy the house where Kanae Hodaka, the spirit guide, grew up, so that he and Ako can live out their lives together...

The story of survival continues; the past is not finished with them. In the aftermath of Primm, the descendants are scattered. Alex, Dot, and Grant lead a desperate band of survivors across the desert with the Boar’s forces close behind. Nicholas and Will risk everything to find Vera, following a trail that carries them far from home and into the reach of powers preparing for war. Vera awakens among the Families, a secret world built upon blood, power, and generations of deception. As she ...

Curd your enthusiasm for a delicious tour of the world's best cheeses.Join cheese connoisseur Hero Hirsh on a witty and deliciously nerdy journey through the science, stories and stinky secrets of the planet's most moreish of morsels.Cheese isn't just something you eat - it's something to savour, study, and obsess over. Learn how to taste like a pro, unlock the perfect pairings (yes, even with chocolate) and hunt down the world's rarest wheels and ...

Eastern Serbia, 1890. Some doors should never be knocked on twice.When young solicitor's clerk Konrad Vogel is sent from Vienna to a remote tower-house above the wine hills of Rajac, he expects nothing stranger than a stubborn client's signature. He finds Xenia instead — a noblewoman untouched by time, whose native soil hides more than three centuries of secrets beneath the old wine cellars, and whose hunger has waited far longer than any man should ever ma...

The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria is a foundational treatise in ancient applied mechanics, assembling devices powered by air, steam, water, and pressure into a vivid demonstration of Hellenistic ingenuity. Written in a lucid, technical style, the work combines geometrical reasoning with practical description, explaining automata, temple mechanisms, fountains, and self-acting machines that blur the boundary between scientific inquiry and spectacle. In the literary context of Alexandrian ...

When Tom, the son of a powerful Senator, becomes stranded in the Plagued States while searching for his lost sister, his only hope of survival rests in the hands of a few grizzled veteran zombie hunters and a mysterious half-breed zombie woman he thinks may know where to find her...In the aftermath of the zombie apocalypse, the humans won by creating a moat surrounding the Plagued States of America. Now zombies roam freely and only the most fearless of hunters venture in, but they ...

Everything's gone wrong. The battleship Timora has crashed into Earth on its arrival, leaving INA stranded on a planet occupied and controlled by mechanized invaders she shouldn't be able to feel with her empathic senses...but she does. Worse, rather than searching for the man she loves, she’s stuck with a vengeful platoon sergeant she hates more than anything in the universe.In this hard-hitting, near-future military science-fiction thriller, the author b...

"A fantastical adventure; ghostly and fun."The Wishing Shelf Book Awards"...a book about moving on, remembering the past, and beating the odds in a fashion that is so well done it deserves to be a beloved beginning to what can only be a fantastic series."San Diego Book ReviewBeing a gargoyle isn't easy. Tiffany wasn’t even born one, but now she has wings, and in the gargoyle world it means she’ll have to figh...

A sweet "aww"-inspiring tale of school life begins!!At school, Kyouko Hori is known for being smart, attractive, and popular. On the other hand, her classmate, the boring, gloomy Izumi Miyamura tends to get painted as a "loser fanboy." But when a liberally pierced and tattooed (not to mention downright gorgeous) Miyamura appears unexpectedly on the doorstep of secretly plain-Jane homebody Hori, these two similarly dissimilar teenagers discover that there are multiple sides to every story.....

Something stirs in the Puerto Rican jungle outside of Arecibo, something no one has ever seen, and it's Wade Carter’s job to make sure it stays that way.When interstellar creatures make landfall near Arecibo, Wade Carter and his black-ops team are dispatched to control the situation, jumping from twenty-thousand feet into what can only be described as chaos. With his only information coming from a battered radio astronomer trapped at the front lines and a sequester...

The sweet, "aww"-inspiring tale of school life continues!!By all appearances, Kyouko Hori and Izumi Miyamura are worlds apart. Bright and capable, Hori is always surrounded by classmates, the center of attention. For Miyamura, a quirky loner, getting through class unnoticed counts as a good day. But ever since these two started sharing secrets, they've found themselves drawn into each other's orbit little by little and the distance between them shrinking bit by bit...

The sweet “aww”-inspiring tale of school life continues!!When he’s out and about, Iura’s the lovable guy who gets on everyone’s nerves. But at home, he’s actually a strict yet kind older brother! Just like Hori and Miyamura, there’s more to their friends than meets the eye…