**Join friends Sarah, Hector, Ziah, and Olivia as they team up to face the most notorious mobs in Minecraft on a quest for the mythical Elytra!Creators Rachelle Reyes and Abe Taraky take the reins for the second volume of this hit graphic novel series!**Best buddies Sarah and Hector have been playing Minecraft together for a long, long time. But after countless adventures, they come to realize that there’s only so much two players can accomplish. So, Sarah and Hector decide...

Madeleine Talmage Force is just seventeen when she attracts the attention of John Jacob "Jack" Astor. Madeleine is beautiful, intelligent, and solidly upper-class, but the Astors are in a league apart. Jack's mother was the Mrs. Astor, American royalty and New York's most formidable socialite. Despite their twenty-nine-year age difference and the scandal of Jack's recent divorce, Madeleine falls headlong into love—and becomes the press's favorite target.On their extended h...

Masahiro, heir to a yakuza syndicate, has been skating through life without much purpose, but that all changes when he meets makeup artist Tsubaki. Attracted not only to Tsubaki's outer appearance but also his inner strength, Masahiro can’t help but be affected by the statuesque beauty’s influence. But he’s not the only one growing from their relationship—the seemingly put-together Tsubaki can’t help but learn a little something too!

This thrilling and charming middle grade fantasy steeped in Japanese lore and mythology follows Tessa after she breaks a precious family heirloom, sending her on a wild adventure to save herself, her family—and all of Tokyo.Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back hom...

Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis*,* this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a laboratory accident–a man who has lost his face and, with it, his connection to other people. Even his wife is now repulsed by him.His only entry back into the world is to create a mask so perfect as to be undetectable...

"The best friends to enemies to lovers story I needed in my life! The Charmed List utterly enchants with its delightful characters and heartfelt themes of family, friendship, and first love. I adored this fun-filled and swoony road trip romance with a magical twist!" – Axie Oh, author of XOXO and The Girl Who Fell Beneath the SeaSometimes you need a little magic to fall in love.Ellie Kobata has spent most...

The epic finale of the Unmaking trilogy!The road to hell is paved with good intentions.Barely escaping one nightmare with their lives, Alma and the few who remain march tirelessly toward another—Oleth’s domain. Their final destination looms, buried under the ruins of a haunted city where the lost and wicked are said to gather in worship.But can Alma and her people succeed where countless others have failed? So many have perished in ...

n 1968 nobody my age wanted to get drafted to fight a war in Viet Nam. I was one of them....This is my story of the 2 years I went through. The things I went through in the US Army, The woman I loved who left me and the things I disliked. That said I say I honored the young men who went to Viet Nam

See in my opinion there are two types of people in the world.There are people who actually do something with their lives?Who have some kind of values or something?And then there are people like you.A small town. Today. Following a long incarceration, Andy returns to her hometown to restart her life. After securing a job at the local slaughterhouse, the challenges of reentry unfold as she reconnects with her teenage son, B, a staunch vegetarian with a l...

Only Murders in the Building meets The Swifts in the first installment of this cozy whodunit mystery series.Most people would kill to live in a glamorous New York City high-rise on the Upper West Side. Not Casey. She hates her daily morning elevator ride to school. Why? Because she's forced to stand shoulder to shoulder with her two ex–best friends, a way too bubbly new girl, and a very chatty old lady named Grandma Williams. Who cares if...

Divine Rivals meets Red, White & Royal Blue with a dash of Gideon the Ninth. Enter a reimagined Napoleonic Paris in this queer, steampunk-inspired rivals-to-lovers romantasy, the first in a debut duology.The safety of Paris rests on Adrien Beaumont's shoulders. The city teems with reanimated corpses, courtesy of Victor Frankenstein's technology, and every soulless body is an easy target for demons to possess. As the youngest ever head of ...

This is the first book to combine classical vehicle dynamics with electronic control. The equation-based presentation of the theory behind vehicle dynamics enables readers to develop a thorough understanding of the key attribute to both a vehicle's driveability and its active safety. Supported by MATLAB tools, the key areas that affect vehicle dynamics are explored including tire mechanics, the steering system, vehicle roll, traction and braking, 4WS and vehicle dynamics, vehicle dynamics ...