After returning from a seaside vacation, Nanami is shocked to discover that the townsfolk consider her shrine abandoned. She decides to hold a summer festival for the local humans and yokai to revitalize the shrine's reputation. But Tomoe is strangely reluctant. Can Nanami pull off the festival with a little help from her yokai friends, or will Tomoe's naysaying spell disaster?
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 204, Publishers: Seven Seas, Author: Yukiko Nozawa, ISBN-13: 9781638581369, Date of issue: 2022
With the tabloids still out for blood, Nana and her Blast bandmates move into a weird dorm building run by their agency. But they've barely got enough time to settle into their new digs because their crammed schedule has them running from music studio to TV interview. The stress of band life and dealing with a disintegrating Ren have started to take their toll on Nana. If she collapses now, will she ever get back up?
Experience the pulse-pounding #1 New York Times bestselling YA romantasy series The Lightlark Saga in one gorgeous box set with a collectible bonus poster! From #1 New York Times bestselling author and #BookTok sensation Alex Aster come three hardcover volumes featuring Isla Crown's epic battle for the six realms . . . and her heart. This box set includes an exclusive poster with series art, perfect for fans and collectors. Follow Isla Crown from her Centennial victory to her eventual crowning as ruler of three realms as she fights to restore her decaying kingdom to glory . . . all while striving to conquer the most harrowing opponent of all: her heart. Spilling tears-and blood-along the way, Isla must prove herself against all odds and fight to change her destiny. But with dueling fates and an ever-approaching prophecy, will she save the world . . . or end it? This collectible box set includes the first three books from The Lightlark Saga in addition to a luxe, full-color poster featuring Isla and her two love interests. This box set includes hardcover editions of Lightlark, Nightbane, and Skyshade.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, an intoxicating, hypnotic new novel set in a dreamlike alternative reality.Piranesi's house is no ordinary building: its rooms are infinite, its cor
New Family and Friends 2nd Edition combines brand-new fluency, culture, assessment, and digital resources with the features teachers love from the first edition; fast-paced language, strong skills training, unique phonics programme, civic education and comprehensive testing.
A genre-defining-and redefining-collection of fiction's boldest, most rebellious, and most prescient genre, featuring a smorgasbord of stories from across the globe In The Big Book of Cyberpunk, award-winning anthologist Jared Shurin brings together
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 136, Publishers: Viz Media, Author: Shima Shinya,Mizuki Sakakibara, ISBN-13: 9781974752676, Date of issue: 2025
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 152, Publishers: Dark Horse Comics, Author: Bilquis Evely,Matheus Lopes, ISBN-13: 9781506740065, Date of issue: 2025
Not everyone needs a license to fight for justice!In a superpowered society, there is nothing ordinary about evil anymore. Heroes, trained and licensed to protect and defend the public against supervillains, stand above all the rest. Not everyone can be a hero, however, and there are those who would use their powers to serve the people without legal sanction. But do they fight for justice in the shadows, or for reasons known only to themselves? Whatever they fight for, they are called...vigilantes.The sinister Hachisuka continues to haunt the Naruhata district, distributing the Quirk-boosting drug Trigger. Knuckleduster continues to track her and is closing in. Meanwhile, Pop Step receives an unexpected invitation to perform at the Marukane department store’s grand reopening. With Makoto helping out, it’s going to be nothing less than an all-out entertainment extravaganza! But that’s only if she can organize a disorganized group of performers in time for the show!
This updated course, now over seven levels, gives you even more brain-challenging activities and cross-curricular lessons. With new Online Practice, more opportunities for speaking and more Cambridge YLE Test practice, your class will learn Incredible English and more!
A deluxe bind-up edition of Naoki Urasawa's award-winning epic of doomsday cults, giant robots and a group of friends trying to save the world from destruction! Humanity, having faced extinction at the end of the 20th century, would not have entered the new millennium if it weren't for them. In 1969, during their youth, they created a symbol. In 1997, as the coming disaster slowly starts to unfold, that symbol returns. This is the story of a group of boys who try to save the world. "My father is the Friend?" Kanna asks as she confronts the grim truth. With a heart full of despair, it will take everything for Kanna to continue the fight against the Friends.Meanwhile, Koizumi and Sadakiyo manage to escape the pursuit of the Dream Navigators, but not for long. Can Kanna, caught in an emotional struggle between her fate and the future of the Earth, step forward and head to the rescue of Koizumi?As our heroes continue their fight against the Friends, longtime secrets are revealed and more of Kenji's friends reunite. The war against the Friends has reached yet another crescendo...
The exciting debut novel of bestselling epic fantasy author Brandon Sanderson, Elantris!Elantris was the capital of Arelon: gigantic, beautiful, literally radiant, filled with benevolent beings who used their powerful magical abilities for the benefit of all. Yet each of these demigods was once an ordinary person until touched by the mysterious transforming power of the Shaod. Ten years ago, without warning, the magic failed. Elantrians became wizened, leper-like, powerless creatures, and Elantris itself dark, filthy, and crumbling.Arelon's new capital, Kae, crouches in the shadow of Elantris. Princess Sarene of Teod arrives for a marriage of state with Crown Prince Raoden, hoping -- based on their correspondence -- to also find love. She finds instead that Raoden has died and she is considered his widow. Both Teod and Arelon are under threat as the last remaining holdouts against the imperial ambitions of the ruthless religious fanatics of Fjordell. So Sarene decides to use her new status to counter the machinations of Hrathen, a Fjordell high priest who has come to Kae to convert Arelon and claim it for his emperor and his god.But neither Sarene nor Hrathen suspect the truth about Prince Raoden. Stricken by the same curse that ruined Elantris, Raoden was secretly exiled by his father to the dark city. His struggle to help the wretches trapped there begins a series of events that will bring hope to Arelon, and perhaps reveal the secret of Elantris itself.
The Fellowship of the Ring is the first part of JRR Tolkien's epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings. Sauron, the Dark Lord, has gathered to him all the Rings of Power – the means by which he intends to rule Middle-earth. All he lacks in his plans for dominion is the One Ring – the ring that rules them all – which has fallen into the hands of the hobbit, Bilbo Baggins. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.Part of a set of three paperbacks, this popular edition is once again available in its classic black livery designed by Tolkien himself.
The popular shojo manga series that was adapted into the Blue Spring Ride anime!Futaba Yoshioka thought all boys were loud and obnoxious until she met Kou Tanaka in junior high. But as soon as she realized she really liked him, he had already moved away because of family issues. Now, in high school, Kou has reappeared, but is he still the same boy she fell in love with?Futaba Yoshioka has encountered her first love again in high school, but he seems different from the boy she once knew. Futaba starts dating Toma, and they kiss. Now what will happen when everyone is grouped together on a class trip to Nagasaki?
Ever since she got engaged to Takumi and moved out of apartment 707, Hachi has felt like she's slipping out of Nana's life. When the tabloids start digging up Nana's troubled family history, Hachi tries to step in and take care of things. But will her good intentions stir up more trouble? Blast is rocketing to stardom, and the price for bringing them down keeps going up.
In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Being' In a world in which lives are shaped by irrevocable choices and by fortuitous events, a world in which everything occurs but once, existence seems to lose its substance, its weight. We feel, says the novelist, 'the unbearable lightness of being' - not only as the consequence of our private acts but also in the public sphere, and the two inevitably intertwine. Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence. It offers a wide range of brilliant and amusing philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 432, Publishers: Dark Horse Comics, Author: Miguel Lopez, ISBN-13: 9781506742915, Date of issue: 2024
Oxford Practice Grammar knows that students need different types of explanation and practice at each stage of their study. Basic provides lots of practice and short explanations. Great for the classroom or for self-study and covers all the grammar you need to prepare for the Oxford Test of English, A2 Key and B1 Preliminary exams. NEW design presents each unit clearly to make the grammar topics easy to digest Covers the grammar students need to know for international exams such as the Oxford Test of English, A2 Key and B1 Preliminary exams. Regular revision units and tests help learners focus on the grammar they need to practise most Downloadable progress tests available for each level Exit test makes sure you are ready for Oxford Practice Grammar Intermediate.
An update of the well-loved course for young learners - now fully in line with the revised Cambridge English: Young Learners tests. The fun course for seriously good results! This seven-level course delights children and inspires teachers with its bright ideas. Perfect for general use Kid's Box Second edition is now updated with new vocabulary and activities so that it fully covers the syllabus of the revised Cambridge English: Young Learners tests. The Activity Book covers all the target language from the Pupil's Book. One YLE practice activity per unit familiarises children with the Starters test format.An access code to an online platform unlocks games, supplementary grammar, vocabulary and reading activities, which can be tracked by the teacher.
Nana 'Hachi' Komatsu hopes that moving to Tokyo will help her make a clean start and leave her capricious love life behind her. Nana Osaki, who arrives in the city at the same time, has plans to score big in the world of rock'n'roll. Although these two young women come from different backgrounds, they quickly become best friends in a whirlwind world of sex, music, fashion, gossip and all-night parties!
The English File fourth edition Workbook reinforces what is learned in each English File lesson, and can be used as extra practice during class, or set as homework.
A heart-wrenching, powerfully written novel, spanning three generations of a Palestinian family through love and loss, war and oppressionOVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDETHE 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION 'A powerful and passionate insight into what many Palestinians have had to endure’ Michael Palin'Abulhawa possesses the heart of a warrior’ Alice Walker_____________________________________Palestine, 1948. A mother clutches her baby son as Israeli soldiers march through the village of Ein Hod. In a split second, he is snatched from her arms – and the fate of the Abulheja family is changed forever.Mornings in Jenin is a devastating novel of love and loss, war and oppression, heartbreak and hope, spanning five countries and four generations of one of the most intractable conflicts of our lifetime. _____________________________________Readers love Mornings in Jenin'The most heartbreaking novel I have ever, so far, come to read’ Goodreads review, 5 stars'Within the sadness of its pages glimmers hope for reconciliation and peace’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'The perfect example of how fiction has the power to change and inform us’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'Tragic, powerful, haunting, enlightening, absorbing and devastating’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars'It made me weep every few pages, laugh out loud on others … A truly great read’ Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars
Un maravilloso regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores de García Márquez. «En agosto nos vemos es también otra prueba irrefutable de su talento, dedicación y amor por la literatura.Es una obra imprescindible. El broche final a una carrera y una vida únicas».Juan Cruz, El Periódico Cada mes de agosto Ana Magdalena Bach toma el transbordador hasta la isla donde está enterrada su madre para visitar la tumba en la que yace. Esas visitas acaban suponiendo una irresistible invitación a convertirse en una personadistinta durante una noche al año. Escrita en el inconfundible y fascinante estilo de García Márquez, En agosto nos vemos es un canto a la vida, a la resistencia del goce pese al paso del tiempo y al deseo femenino. Un regalo inesperado para los innumerables lectores del Nobel colombiano.«De muy pocos escritores se puede decir que han escrito libros que han cambiado el curso de la literatura. Gabriel García Márquez lo hizo».The Guardian «Ningún escritor desde Dickens ha sido tan leído y tan profundamente querido como Gabriel García Márquez».Salman Rushdie «Uno de los más grandes y visionarios escritores y uno de mis favoritos desde que era joven».Barack Obama«La prosa envolvente de indiscutible originalidad con que García Márquez nos hace saborear cuanto toca. Objetos, animales, atmósferas caribeñas, hoteles isleños de burguesía ociosa, encuentros amorosos dichos y recreados con la plasticidad envolvente de la metáfora brillante, [...], hace que la novela sea al mismo tiempo una exaltación de la vida, y una fiesta reivindicativa de la libertad femenina».José María Pozuelo Yvancos, ABC«Gabo quiere llegar al alma de una mujer, que quizá no sabía que andaba a la deriva, en un libro que tiene el barniz y el brillo de su prosa envolvente de gran narrador que, en el fondo, era un inmenso poeta que nos hacía y nos hace volar con las palabras».Antón Castro, Heraldo de Aragón«Aq uí, el personaje es una mujer empoderada, fuerte, madura, que toma decisiones sobre su sexualidad. Ana Magdalena Bach ?primera protagonista femenina exclusiva de una novela de García Márquez? es el único eje del libro».Xavi Ayén, La Vanguardia «García Márquez resucita con una novela erótica y feminista».Bruno Pardo, ABC«Pese a la enfermedad, García Márquez despliega esa fabulosa capacidad que tiene de usar el lenguaje para sorprendernos, de inventar metáforas, crear asociaciones entre palabras que nadie antes había pensado. En agosto nos vemos es también otra prueba irrefutable de su talento, dedicación y amor por la literatura. Es una obra imprescindible. El broche final a una carrera y una vida únicas».Álvaro Santana Acuña, El Periódico
The Workbook is the perfect partner to the Student Book, and helps consolidate the material taught in class. It contains further lesson-by-lesson practice for students to complete in their own time, as well as reference material for those who need extra support.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 210, Publishers: Seven Seas, Author: Yukiko Nozawa, ISBN-13: 9781638582069, Date of issue: 2022
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 280, Publishers: IDEA & DESIGN WORKS LLC, Author: Evan Stanley,Bracardi Curry, ISBN-13: 9798887240572, Date of issue: 2024
Three hundred years after the events of the Mistborn trilogy, Scadrial is now on the verge of modernity, with railroads to supplement the canals, electric lighting in the streets and the homes of the wealthy, and the first steel-framed skyscrapers racing for the clouds.Kelsier, Vin, Elend, Sazed, Spook, and the rest are now part of history - or religion. Yet even as science and technology are reaching new heights, the old magics of Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role in this reborn world. Out in the frontier lands known as the Roughs, they are crucial tools for the brave men and women attempting to establish order and justice.One such is Waxillium Ladrian, a rare Twinborn, who can Push on metals with his Allomancy and use Feruchemy to become lighter or heavier at will. After twenty years in the Roughs, Wax has been forced by family tragedy to return to the metropolis of Elendel.Now he must reluctantly put away his guns and assume the duties and dignity incumbent upon the head of a noble house. Or so he thinks, until he learns the hard way that the mansions and elegant tree-lined streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.
The course for busy teachers who want to get their students communicating with confidence.face2face is the flexible, easy-to-teach General English course that helps adults and young adults to speak and listen with confidence. face2face is informed by Cambridge English Corpus and its vocabulary syllabus has been mapped to the English Vocabulary Profile, meaning students learn the language they really need at each CEFR level. The Workbook with Key offers additional consolidation activities and a Reading and Writing Portfolio for extra skills practice.
Cursed Bunny is a genre-defying collection of short stories by Korean author Bora Chung.Blurring the lines between magical realism, horror, and science-fiction, Chung uses elements of the fantastic and surreal to address the very real horrors and cruelties of patriarchy and capitalism in modern society.Anton Hurs translation skilfully captures the way Chungs prose effortlessly glides from being terrifying to wryly humorous. Winner of a PEN/Heim Grant.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 888, Publishers: Dark Horse Comics, Author: Michael Turner,Adam Hughes,Andy Park,Francis Manapul, ISBN-13: 9781506746074, Date of issue: 2025
Two high school geniuses scheme to get the other to confess their love first.Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first…?!Will a mysterious love letter to Kaguya make Miyuki jealous? Is drinking from a coffee cup with Kaguya’s lipstick on the rim an indirect kiss? How will Miyuki react when Kaguya says she’s "done it” before? Then, Miyuki’s phobia is revealed, the student council VP of Shuchiin Academy’s sister school in France displays epic Gallic rudeness, and the student council tries on some costumes…Nobody can resist cat ears.
Game loving shut-in Kazuma Sato's life as a young schoolboy in Japan abruptly comes to an early end...or at least it was supposed to. When he opens his eyes, though, he sees a beautiful goddess that offers him a once in an after-lifetime chance to be reborn in a parallel world. The catch is that the world is violent and threatened by a growing evil! Fortunately, he can choose any one thing to bring with him. So he chooses the goddess, Aqua! And so his adventure with his gorgeous companion begins--if he could just get enough money and food to survive, keep his goddess out of trouble, and avoid grabbing the attention of the Demon King's army!
'Playful and witty, What A Time To Be Alive is a charming meditation on coming-of-age, privilege, and grief' Cecile Pin, author of Wandering Souls'Jenny Mustard writes with honesty and wit about the strange, mundane, and wondrous aspects of youth'Aysegul Savas, author of The Anthropologists'A beautifully plangent coming-of-age novel . . .will go straight to your heart'Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days'A timeless writer . . .reminiscent of the power and grace of writers like Rachel Cusk and Raven Leilani'Molly Aitken, author of Bright I BurnSome people move to the big city hoping to find themselves - Sickan Hermansson isn't leaving it up to chance. Twenty-one, friendless, without money but not without hope, Sickan's arrival at Stockholm University represents a new start. Her lonely childhood in a small southern town has left her utterly unprepared for intimacy: for friends, for sex, for love even.But Sickan is determined to build a new version of herself from the ground up, to make up for lost time. To simply be normal.Just as Sickan seems to be finding her first ever friends, in whose company she finally feels safe, she meets Abbe: beautiful, charming - and by some miracle he wants her too. Unlike Sickan, Abbe seems completely at ease in his own skin.A solid foundation then, on which to build a relationship? Maybe?What A Time To Be Alive is a story of class, sex, loneliness, and the trials of young womanhood. But above all, it's a story of firsts: the first party you're actually invited to, the first moment you fall in love, the first time you betray a friend. The first time you ask yourself, how much of myself am I willing to sacrifice, to finally fit in?
This new edition of Tom Hutchinson's bestselling course combines all the aspects that students and teachers loved from the previous edition with exiting new digital components, extra resources and more teacher support than ever before. Your students will love watching the new animated Mickey, Millie and Mut and Sweet Sue and Smart Alex cartoons. In later levels of the course the cartoons are replaced with dramatized episodes of Kids, the photo-story from the Student's Book. For your kinaesthetic learners there are new fun total physical response pronunciation activities in the pronunciation bank at the back of the Student's Book.Other students will enjoy reading the stories in the extensive reading bank. And you will love all the teacher support available with Project fourth edition. Use digital resources more effectively in your lessons with the digital workshops that give you step by step guides to using some of the most educationally beneficial sites on the internet as well as ideas for how you can use them with the projects in the Student's Book. Key Features: •The tried and tested methodology of Project which is trusted by teachers around the world •New animated cartoons and grammar presentations available through iTools •New extensive reading bank with stories graded at the appropriate level •New pronunciation bank including both TPR activities and quiet individual activities •New test generator which allows you to create unique tests pitched to the right level for your students •More multi-skill and communication exercises to prepare you students for using English in the real world
The New York Times bestselling author of The First Bad Man returns with an irreverently sexy, tender, hilarious and literary novel about a woman upending her life
