As the kingdom’s second saint, Ichika has her hands full—with her day-to-day duties, her relationships with two princes, and her elder sister, who has grown far more distant than she remembers. So of course, the king couldn’t have picked a better time to send them all on a diplomatic visit to the neighboring country! As Ichika scrambles to study up on magic before the trip, she encounters a young girl named Levie who offers to teach her. But there seems to be more to this mysterious child ...

**A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER#1 New York Times-bestselling author Jan Karon returns with the fourteenth novel in the beloved Mitford series, featuring three generations of Kavanaghs.**Wounds heal, bonds grow stronger, and celebrations continue...Welcome back to beloved Mitford.After twelve years of wrestling with the conflicts of retirement, Father Tim Kavanagh realizes he doesn't need a steady job to prove himself. Then he's given one. As...

In 1314, as a bitter Highland winter draws in, Lady Blanche McNaghten, the young widow of a chieftain is rediscovering her taste for sexual pleasures. Then fate throws her into the path of Black McGregor, a sworn enemy.Can their mutual lust for each other diminish the natural antagonism?

Young readers will begin sounding out words and reading simple sentences in this Level One I Can Read addition to the Living Lights™ series of Berenstain Bears books. Children will learn how choosing to be kind may not always be the easy decision, but it is always the right one.The Berenstain Bears Brother Bear and the Kind Cub***—***part of the popular Zonderkidz Living Lights series of books with over 13 million copies sold—is pe...

Spirit, Soul, and City offers a new reading of Coriolanus, Shakespeare's most political play and the last of his great tragedies. Portraying the founding of the Roman republic and the life and soul of its legendary warrior, Coriolanus, the play brings to light not only the hidden working of Rome's mixed regime but the inherent tragic tensions in the soul's spirited tendency to strive to go beyond itself in order to be true to itself. Distinguished scholar Jan H. Blits provides a fresh inte...

A compact, carry-along collection of meditative eating practices to use wherever you happen to be.Eating should be a source of joy—not a cause of angst, stress, or calorie-counting. Jan Chozen Bays’s 2009 edition of Mindful Eating demonstrated the timeliness of that message in a world where our relationship with food is often negatively charged to the point where eating disorders are epidemic. Her approach ties together the latest science with Buddhist min...

The world’s deadliest assassin has settled in nicely at the guild, and he’s quickly become their best employee. What’s more, all the girls at work can’t get enough of him, even if he’s too oblivious to notice! But he’s got bigger things to worry about, as his partner Rila, the former Demon Lord, has been kidnapped, and he’ll have to go up against one of her most trusted allies to get her back. But was Rila’s disappearance truly a kidnapping…or was it an escape?

Do you feel you're losing focus and concentration? Is weed taking a toll on your relationships? Is it taking over your life?The longer you have used marijuana, the harder it is to quit. Maybe, like many others, you have experienced anxiety, sleeplessness and strong cravings when you've tried coming off it. This ground-breaking guide is based on the experience of hundreds of users. It cuts through the folklore surrounding marijuana to reveal the truth about its impact on your health...

It's time for Bear Country School's annual musicale, the school's big yearly fundraiser. This year, the musicale is being run by the cubs' least favorite teacher, Ms. Glitch, who does not allow rock music to be part of the festivities. Can the cubs still find a way to rock out?

Jan Svankmajer wrote this remarkable book on tactile art when he stopped directing films and experimented intensively with tactile art after repeated censorship by the communist governmnent of Czechoslovakia. Illustrated with over 100 imges, this book is organised around many reproductions of Svanmajker's wondrous tactile art objects, tactile poems, experiments and games. It includes dialogues with, and artworks by, other collaborating artists from the Group of Czech and Slovak Surrealists...

Photography is a big part of our lives, and we all take photos all the time. By understanding just a few basics of how your camera - or your phone - works, you'll find yourself able to take more exciting, stand-out photos.Within a few pages you'll be able to speak with confidence to photographers about exposure settings, decide what lighting or lenses will lift a scene, or what tactics you can use to make your subject look more interesting.The book also cov...

When Sammy, a young Wilson's warbler, wakes up one frosty August morning near the Arctic Circle, he instinctively knows that it's time to make his first migratory journey south to Panama. But there's one problem — where's Panama? All the other warblers having left without him, Sammy sets off on his journey by himself, stopping to ask the same question of each of the different animals that he meets along the way: "Is this Panama?" From the caribou heading to his winter forest to the monarch...