A fairytale with a twist! After the downfall of her noble family, a young woman is given a second chance when she's reborn as her child self. The first volume of global hit webtoon available for print in english for the first time!Firentia has had a tough life. Spurned since birth for being an illegitimatechild of the noble Lombardi family, she was helpless to do anything butwatch as her once great clan fell to ruin and her father died. However, acarriage accident ...

Here's a Kobo synopsis that fits the style Kobo tends to favor: engaging, descriptive, and focused on the reader's transformation rather than a sales pitch.Before the CollarThe Complete Guide to Vetting Healthy BDSM RelationshipsFinding someone who shares your kinks is easy.Finding someone worthy of your trust is something else entirely.Every healthy BDSM relationship begins long before the first scene, the first protocol, or the first collar. It beg...

He didn't ask.Men like Luca De Santis never do.One phone call.One debt her father couldn't pay.One man who looked at her photograph and decided she was his before she even knew his name.Sienna Moretti thought the worst thing her father ever did was love money more than her.She was wrong.He sold her.Signed her name on a contract and handed her over to the most dangerous man in New York like she w...

He took her in the middle of the night.No warning. No explanation. Just three black cars outside her door and one simple messageYour father owes us. You're coming with us.Zara Calloway did nothing wrong. She studies nursing. She pays her bills. She lives a quiet, clean life in Brooklyn.Until her father's debt lands on her doorstep.Now she's in his house.His rules. His world. His terms.Kael Voss.The mo...

He didn't buy her.He owns her.And God help her she's starting to want him to.Saoirse Callahan is nineteen years old when her mother sells her to pay a dead man's debt.One daughter. One arranged marriage. One way out.The man on the other side of that deal?Declan O'Sullivan. Forty-two. Cold. Ruthless. The most feared name in all of Dublin.He doesn't want a wife. He wants collateral....

For more than three decades, Burma’s political prisoners, activists, and visionaries have embodied moral courage in defying authoritarian repression and unjust laws. At the forefront of this moral struggle stands Aung San Suu Kyi, whose unwavering commitment to nonviolence, democracy, and spiritual renewal has shaped the modern Burmese political landscape. This book undertakes a philosophical exploration of Aung San Suu Kyi’s political thought, drawing inspiration from Johan Galtung’s stud...

As the 1980s commenced, The Bee Gees were ensnared by a fervent backlash stemming from their unparalleled late-1970s commercial halcyon. Undeserving of the anti-disco ire that came to an eruptive peak in 1979, the Gibbs found themselves embargoed from the same airwaves that propelled their musical contributions to the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack and their most successful studio album, Spirits Having Flown, into the stratosphere. Thwarting their detractors, Barry, Robin, and Maurice shi...

A fairytale with a twist! After being reborn as her child self, Tia uses her knowledge of the future to save her noble family from ruin. The second volume of global hit webtoon available for print in English for the first time!Tia's plan to save her family from disaster in the future is going well, but now she's hit her first major challenge. She needs to get her father an invitation to the royal palace as soon as possible, so she can meet the young Prince Perez.

An anthology of the finalist entries in the 2024 San Francisco Writers Foundation annual writing contest. Categories are Adult Fiction, Adult Nonfiction, Kidlit, and Poetry.For our fourth anthology, we've seen a tone of reflection move toward one of action. Since Language was invented, humans have learned through stories. Storytellers guide us toward a better world. They show us how to change ourselves and the world around us. Sometimes, through self-reflection in memoirs. Sometime...

This is Bruce, a confident and agile cat born in Hong Kong. He moves from Hong Kong to England where he learns different things. He tries different jobs while searching for his dream career, using his unique perspective on cats in different areas to demonstrate the challenges of accepting life and continuously seeking personal growth.

Marketing and Social Media: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums, Second Edition is a much-needed guide to marketing for libraries, archives, and museum professionals in the social media age. This book serves as both an introductory textbook and as a guide for working professionals interested in developing well-planned evidence-based marketing campaigns. Chapters cover coordinating efforts with the organization’s mission, goals, and objectives, how to do a SWOT analysis an...

This classic collection of Zen koans offers a profound gateway into the heart of Chan (Zen) Buddhist practice. Compiled by the 13th-century Chinese monk Ekai, known as Mu-mon, The Gateless Gate presents forty-eight enigmatic cases designed to jolt the practitioner beyond rational thought and into direct realization. Each koan, often paradoxical or disarmingly simple, functions not as a riddle to be solved but as a tool for spiritual awakening-challenging deeply held assumptions and disrupt...