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A Summary of the Principles of Socialism - Written for the Democratic Federation is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1884. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A Summary of the Principles of the Law of Simple Contracts is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1879. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

A summer parish - Sabbath discourses and morning service of prayer is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1875. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST • A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “Buenos Aires’s sorceress of horror” (Samanta Schweblin, The New York Times)“Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors. . . . A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories.”—Los Angeles Times“As vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales.”—Minneapolis Star-TribuneWORLD FANTASY AWARD FINALIST • IGNYTE AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE TELEGRAPH, ELECTRIC LIT, PASTE, LATINA MEDIAOn the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women.Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”

Park ranger Anna Pigeon returns, in a mystery that unfolds in and around Lake Superior, in whose chilling depths sunken treasure comes with a deadly price. In her latest mystery, Nevada Barr sends Ranger Pigeon to a new post amid the cold, deserted, and isolated beauty of Isle Royale National Park, a remote island off the coast of Michigan known for fantastic deep-water dives of wrecked sailing vessels. Leaving behind memories of the Texas high desert and the environmental scam she helped uncover, Anna is adjusting to the cool damp of Lake Superior and the spirits and lore of the northern Midwest. But when a routine application for a diving permit reveals a grisly underwater murder, Anna finds herself 260 feet below the forbidding surface of the lake, searching for the connection between a drowned man and an age-old cargo ship. Written with a naturalist's feel for the wilderness and a keen understanding of characters who thrive in extreme conditions, A Superior Death is a passionate, atmospheric page-turner.

This 24 page full color supplement to our popular "A Scale Modeller's Guide to Aircraft from the Adventures of Tintin" features a further 35 aircraft profiles in 1/72 and other common modeling scales with detailed color information. Aircraft featured are those with a minor or incidental role in the stories, or some of the many colour variations from serialisations of the Tintin stories in 'Le Petit Vingtieme', 'Coeurs Vaillants' and 'Tintin Magazine'.

This exuberantly praised--and uproariously funny--first collection of nonfiction pieces by one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time--the author of "Infinite Jest"--"reconfirms Mr. Wallace's stature as one of his generation's preeminent talents" ("New York Times").

Commemorating 75 years since the Empress of Crime's first book, the fourth volume in a set of omnibus editions presenting the complete run of 32 Inspector Alleyn mysteries.

This research aims at investigating the present situation of residential buildings in Greater Khartoum, and to evaluate them using a sustainable assessment method. The problems of residential buildings that are to be investigated are environmental problems in the indoor and outdoor environment and services in Greater Khartoum. The methodology of the research starts by reviewing the principles of ecological design; the suitable passive solutions for hot-dry climates; the conditions of the case studies; the environmental assessment methods; previous methods adopted to evaluate the case studies; and the quantitative, the qualitative and sustainable assessment methods. The previous methods are not applicable to the case study conditions; hence, reflecting the identified eco building principles to the case study conditions, and then rationalizing a new method of assessment that evaluates the residential areas in the hot-dry climate of Greater Khartoum. The proposed assessment method contains eight categories, which are sustainable site, indoor environmental quality, outdoor thermal control, building form, materials and resources, water supply, drainage system and Env. design process

Learn how to create exquisite, lifelike sugar flowers and arrange them with fresh blooms in the floral arrangements of your dreams—regardless of season or availability.“A Sweet Floral Life is pure magic.”—Ariella Chezar, author of The Flower Workshop and Seasonal Flower ArrangingRising Instagram star Natasja Sadi’s floral arrangements have a sumptuous, old-world look straight out of a classical painting. But among the glorious profusion of fresh flowers, there is often a surprise twist: handmade sugar flowers (traditionally used in cake decorating) that are indistinguishable from real ones and last forever.In A Sweet Floral Life, Natasja guides you through her creative process of flower arranging and developing your personal style, along with tutorials for seasonal arrangements, living and entertaining with flowers, and how to photograph flowers.A former fashion designer, Natasja began making flowers out of sugar to honor her African and Indonesian ancestors who worked in the sugarcane fields of Suriname. In A Sweet Floral Life, Natasja provides steps for sculpting sugar flowers, a versatile medium with limitless possibilities—they can be used in fresh floral arrangements, displayed on their own as unique home décor, or used to adorn cakes. And whether it’s the middle of summer or the dead of winter, sugar flowers are always in season and always in perfect full bloom.Capture the romance, set the mood, and be swept away by gorgeous and inspiring floral art with A Sweet Floral Life.

"Once a young woman uncovers a dark secret about her neighbor and his mysterious new wife, she'll have to fight to keep herself -- and the woman she loves -- safe in this stunning reimagining of The Selkie Wife"--

Siobhan Dowd lived in Oxford with her husband, Geoff, before tragically dying from cancer in August 2007, aged 47. She was both an extraordinary writer and an extraordinary person.Siobhan's first novel, A Swift Pure Cry, won the Branford Boase Award and the Eilis Dillon Award and was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and Booktrust Teenage Prize. Her second novel, The London Eye Mystery, won the 2007 NASEN & TES Special Educational Needs Children's Book Award. In March 2008, the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Children's Books Ireland Bisto Awards. Siobhan's third novel, Bog Child, was the first book to be posthumously awarded the Carnegie Medal in 2008.The award-winning novel A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was based on an idea of Siobhan's. Her novella, The Ransom of Dond, was published in 2013, illustrated throughout by Pam Smy.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER PICKED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, INDEPENDENT, IRISH TIMES, SPECTATOR, TLS, NEW STATESMAN, MAIL ON SUNDAY, I PAPER, PROSPECT, REVEW31 AND EVENING STANDARD AS A BOOK OF 2021 'A masterclass from a warm and engagingly enthusiastic companion' Guardian Summer Reading Picks 2021 'This book is a delight, and it's about delight too. How necessary, at our particular moment' Tessa Hadley ________________ From the New York Times-bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves - and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it's more relevant than ever in these turbulent times. In his introduction, Saunders writes, "We're going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn't fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art-namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?" He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity. A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today.LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, NPR, Time, San Francisco Chronicle, Esquire, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Town & Country, The Rumpus, Electric Lit, Thrillist, BookPage • “[A] worship song to writers and readers.”—Oprah DailyFor the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.In his introduction, Saunders writes, “We’re going to enter seven fastidiously constructed scale models of the world, made for a specific purpose that our time maybe doesn’t fully endorse but that these writers accepted implicitly as the aim of art—namely, to ask the big questions, questions like, How are we supposed to be living down here? What were we put here to accomplish? What should we value? What is truth, anyway, and how might we recognize it?” He approaches the stories technically yet accessibly, and through them explains how narrative functions; why we stay immersed in a story and why we resist it; and the bedrock virtues a writer must foster. The process of writing, Saunders reminds us, is a technical craft, but also a way of training oneself to see the world with new openness and curiosity.A Swim in a Pond in the Rain is a deep exploration not just of how great writing works but of how the mind itself works while reading, and of how the reading and writing of stories make genuine connection possible.

Adel Guindy has produced a timely and authoritative account of the Copts' story. It deserves to be widely read... this timely and excellent book will act as a wakeup call.... It reminds us that historically, the Copts have been Egypt's beating heart and that Egypt's future, without them, would be bleak indeed. PROFESSOR LORD ALTON, MEMBER OF THE BRITISH HOUSE OF LORDS A Sword Over the Nile is a most welcome book and contribution to the existing literature. Here in one volume, we have the largely unknown historical experiences of Egypt's Coptic Christians under Islam--and from the most primary if previously inaccessible or untranslated sources. Not only is it a window to the past; it may be an ominous look to the future. RAYMOND IBRAHIM, AN EXPERT ON ISLAMIC DOCTRINE AND HISTORY, IS AUTHOR OF SWORD AND SCIMITAR: FOURTEEN CENTURIES OF WAR BETWEEN ISLAM AND THE WEST

"Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"--these historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate description, as they ricochet around history, might be unintentional disaster-magnets. The Chronicles of St. Mary's tells the chaotic adventures of Madeleine Maxwell and her compatriots--Director Bairstow, Leon "Chief" Farrell, Mr. Markham, and many more--as they travel through time, saving St. Mary's (too often by the very seat of their pants) and thwarting time-travelling terrorists, all the while leaving plenty of time for tea. In the sequel to Just One Damned Thing After Another, Max and company visit Victorian London in search of Jack the Ripper, witness the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral, and discover that dodos make a grockling noise when eating cucumber sandwiches. But they must also confront an enemy intent on destroying St. Mary's--an enemy willing, if necessary, to destroy history itself to do it"--

The life of a live streamer can be a lot of work. Compound that by your live stream being an ever-changing music performance conducted through you by a haunted piano and you might not want to go live ever again. Yet your livelihood, your fans, and the muse that controls you demands it.A Symphony of Your Own Destruction is a new original poetry collection by weird fiction author Robert J Gannon, continuing the story of world famous streamer Amy, aka A.ni.mey, from the Extra Intent universe. What goes through the mind of a brilliant artist with no control over her talent? How do the colored lights and chalk change the story? And why are fans so...controlling?

The book deals with a special syntactic and semantic phenomenon in Hind¿, namely the constructions consisting of nominal and verbal constituents. Depending on the relations between them, some other words, e.g. postpositions, adverbs etc., can also be involved as components of the constructions. Their mutual relations correspond either to the object-predicate phrase, or such phrase may form a semantic, i.e. onomasiologic unit, which describes an action and is either the only name of the action, or a synonym of the simple verb. The study lists the most frequent syntagmas classified alphabetically according to the nominal components, which forms a kind of phrase book or syntagmaticon. It contains nearly eighteen hundred nouns and about five hundred verbs. The Syntagmaticon presents not only simple object-predicate-related constructions and onomasiologic units, but also many idiomatic expressions. It can serve as a manual of Hind¿ phraseology.

A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THE BACKCASTING METHOD IN FUTURES STUDIES. The emergence of future consciousness facilitates the anticipations about studying the future. It is driven by survival needs and evolutionary forces and described as the general awareness of time and temporal consciousness of humans¿ past, present, and future. This could be assumed as the foundational thought behind the art of studying the future. Backcasting method is a futures studies method suitably applicable when conducting research on environmental and sustainability-related issues, most especially when long-term policies are required to be formulated over a given period of related long-term, of about 20-100 years into the future. Welcome to the FUTURE.

Guided by recommendations from a breadth of locals, visitors, and experts, you'll discover the places one must visit and the dishes one must sample in pursuit of the perfect Parisian meal. The book also offers space for your Paris dining bucket list, food memories or dreams from each arrondissement, and notes on the establishments featured.

Two seemingly abstract scribbles - one on the front, one on the back - when held up to a light source they reveal legible names: Carlo for Carl Van Vechten, Fania for Fania Marionoff (Van Vechten's wife), Picabia for Francis Picabia, and Roché for Henri-Pierre Roché, who later gained fame for his novel 'Jules et Jim', adapted into a film by Truffaut. And just like that, the place cards were born. What makes these small paper works so extraordinary is not just their context but also Marcel Duchamp's signature approach. Guests had to hold the cards up to a light source to decipher their names, and some could only be read at a specific angle, in keeping with the principles of anamorphic vision. This party trick seamlessly aligned with the optical experiments Duchamp conducted in the 1910s, which he himself considered preliminary studies for his most famous work, 'The Large Glass'. By the time Marcel Duchamp arrived in New York in 1915, he was already a celebrity. His painting 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2' had caused a scandal at the 1913 Armory Show, earning him immense admiration in artistic and intellectual circles. Duchamp was welcomed as a celebrity and introduced to New York high society, staying with the Arensbergs, who most nights hosted artist salons. The daughters of the wealthy Stettheimer family organized Duchamp's 30th birthday party and reportedly asked him to create the place cards in question for his friends. Three of these place cards - for Van Vechten, Marionoff, and Picabia - were already part of the Staatliches Museum Schwerin's collection, which, with 90 works by Duchamp, ranks among Europe's largest and most significant Duchamp holdings. The fourth and final surviving card - for his closest friend and companion, Henri-Pierre Roché - was acquired by the museum in 2024, completing a globally unique ensemble. For the first time since their creation, all four cards are reunited and presented to the public at the museum's reopening in Schwerin. Kerstin Krautwig has meticulously researched the history of these remarkable place cards.

A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki-shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award"A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be."In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there's only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates' bullying. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who's lived more than a century. A diary is Nao's only solace-and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox-possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. As the mystery of its contents unfolds, Ruth is pulled into the past, into Nao's drama and her unknown fate, and forward into her own future.Full of Ozeki's signature humor and deeply engaged with the relationship between writer and reader, past and present, fact and fiction, quantum physics, history, and myth, A Tale for the Time Being is a brilliantly inventive, beguiling story of our shared humanity and the search for home.

Amos Oz is the internationally acclaimed author of many novels amd essay collections, he has received several international awards including the Israel Prize and Frankfurt Peace Prize. Oz's story dives into 120 years of family history and paradox, the saga of a Jewish love-hate affair with Europe that sweeps from Vilna and Odessa, via Poland and Prague, to Israel.

A new adventure series set in the Land of Stories universe from the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, Chris Colfer, perfect for new and old fans! For fans of The School for Good and Evil and Pages & Co.When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: she is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed, so Brystal is swiftly convicted of her crimes and sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility.But with the help of the mysterious Madame Weatherberry, Brystal is whisked away and enrolled in an academy of magic! Adventure comes with a price, however, and when Madame Weatherberry is called away to attend to an important problem, she doesn't return.Do Brystal and her classmates have what it takes to stop a sinister plot that risks the fate of the world, and magic, forever?Fall in love with an all-new series from Chris Colfer, the no.1 New York Times bestselling author of the Land of Stories series, filled with adventure, imagination, and magic.

A #1 New York Times bestsellerAn IndieBound bestsellerA USA Today bestsellerA Wall Street Journal bestseller The #1 New York Times bestselling series set in Chris Colfer's Land of Stories universe, perfect for both new and longtime fans, featuring A Tale of Magic..., A Tale of Witchcraft..., and A Tale of Sorcery...When Brystal Evergreen stumbles across a secret section of the library, she discovers a book that introduces her to a world beyond her imagination and learns the impossible: She is a fairy capable of magic! But in the oppressive Southern Kingdom, women are forbidden from reading and magic is outlawed, so Brystal is swiftly convicted of her crimes and sent to the miserable Bootstrap Correctional Facility.But with the help of the mysterious Madame Weatherberry, Brystal is whisked away and enrolled in an academy of magic! Adventure comes with a price, however, and when Madame Weatherberry is called away to attend to an important problem she doesn't return.Do Brystal and her classmates have what it takes to stop a sinister plot that risks the fate of the world, and magic, forever?Fall in love with an all-new series from Chris Colfer, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Land of Stories, filled with adventure, imagination, and wonderfully memorable characters both familiar and new.

"Elikki may not have a family, but she has her fierce independence, boundless charm, and enough talent as a jewelry artisan to make a living on the road. Unfortunately for some, she also can't yet manage to control her chaotic magic. . . and her temper. Sweet, soft Barra lives a quiet life with his mas and three sisters, managing the books for his family's business. All he wants is to blend in and not make waves-a bit tricky, as a nearly eight-foot-tall purple half-giant. When Elikki lands in hot water after dealing with a particularly rude customer, Barra finds himself helping her flee the constables. With a bounty on her back-and a severe crush forming on his end-they decide to travel together to the next town. So begins a journey filled with cozy inns, delicious meals, heaps of excellent sex, and a sprinkling of danger. As their adventures bring them closer together and the threat of capture rises they find themselves changing in surprising ways. He's given up on finding love. She's always refused to try. But traveling together, they may discover unexpected, powerful romance and stronger self-identities-if the bounty hunters don't get them first"-- Provided by publisher.

The Inquisitor's Tale meets Impossible Creatures in this immersive middle grade fantasy adventure that follows a girl who must use her remarkable sense of smell to save the world from a perilous plague.

HEAD SAINT...FIA?!During a standoff between King Cerulean and his mother, the queen dowager and head saint, Cerulean makes a shocking announcement: he’s recommending Fia as a candidate for the next head saint! Now, all eyes are on Fia as preparations for the head saint selection event get underway…yet she boldly starts using her powers all over the place! But Fia can just blame the holy stones for any magical feats, right? With such an air-tight plan, what could possibly go wrong?

THE MORE THE MERRIER!Having helped fulfill Cyril’s long-held wish to improve relations between Sutherland and the Náv Kingdom Black Dragon Knights, Fia’s training period finally draws to a close and she is now a knight! Though eager to begin her official duties, she takes an extended leave of absence to visit her elder sister, Oria, at Blackpeak Mountain, as well as her former companion, the black dragon Zavilia. However, she encounters a familiar pair of siblings along the way. What surprises does this unexpected reunion hold?

OLD AND NEW FRIENDS IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOUNTAIN!In the northern region, Blackpeak Mountain towers over all…and that’s exactly where Fia wants to visit during her time off. She's eager to find Zavilia and learn what became of his quest to become the dragon king. During her journey, Fia finds herself in an unexpected family reunion. Then, as her party ascends the mountain, an unknown dragon attacks! What has become of Zavilia? And can Fia and friends survive the deadly Blackpeak Mountain?

A MONSTROUS EXPOSURE RISK!Fia Ruud, youngest of the Ruud family of knights, was easily the least talented swordsperson of her generation–at least, until her past powers as a great saint returned! However, her newly gained aptitude at both magic and swordplay were not without their price. In order to prevent the tragedy of her last life from reoccurring, Fia must keep her identity as a saint under wraps! Unfortunately for her, a learning expedition with the Fourth Monster Tamer Brigade goes awry, and her power’s at risk for all to see!

POWERFUL THINGS COME IN SMALL PACKAGES.Zavilia has joined Fia at the First Knight Brigade, but to keep her cover intact, she disguises him as the weakest monster there is. Unfortunately for the pair, Zavilia’s small size can only hide so much–as one of the three great beasts, his tremendous aura gives him away, and one person in particular is very curious. Despite the interloper’s politeness, Fia and Zavilia worry they’re about to be exposed. And with everyone out in the forest searching for the black dragon, Fia may end up under more scrutiny than is safe for a secret saint…!

"As the knight brigades patrol the forest, a pair of blue dragons has pinned one of the companies, and it's not looking good! When Fia is the target of a deadly attack, Zavilia steps in-and up-revealing his adult black dragon form to protect her. He may have shown their hand, but there's nothing this dragon wouldn't do for his savior."--Provided by publisher.

NEW FRIENDS AND NEW ADVENTURES!After Zavilia sets off on a journey to become King, Fia's in low spirits. Now without her friend, she feels aimless, until a certain captain reveals that he promised to become her friend when she was more than a little tipsy. Now with a new friend at her site, Fia heads to visit Sutherland, Captain Cyril's territory, only to find out that this isn't just another region. It's the former territory of Fia's personal knight from her previous past life, Canopus!

KINDNESS SAVES THE DAY!Fia's travels take her into the heart of Sutherland alongside the First Knight Brigade. There, the land is still scarred from the wounds of "The Lament of Sutherland," and internal conflict instigated by Captain Cyril's parents. Worse still, to this day, the land and its citizens despise knights because of the tragedy, which means trouble for anyone in the brigade. However, Fia won't lose hope. In fact, she might just be exactly what Sutherland needs to help heal this tragic situation!

THE PAST PROVIDES FOR THE FUTURE!With Fia acknowledged as the reincarnation of the Great Saint, the Knight Brigade achieved Captain Cyril’s long-held wish of reconciliation with the people of Sutherland. This recognition comes with an incredibly powerful gift that may be the key to saving countless lives, and Fia is all too eager to share the wealth. Now it's time for her to return to the capital for the end of training as a knight. As her graduation nears, Fia looks to the future. What awaits her over the next horizon, as a bona fide knight of the realm?

The prequel to the light novel and manga series A Tale of the Secret Saint (which inspired an anime)—also available from Seven Seas!It’s three hundred years before Fia and her friends’ adventures in Náv, and Princess Serafina, the blind second princess of the land, lives hidden away in the forest. With only the forest spirits and her cousin, the young knight captain Sirius Ulysses, to keep her company, Serafina leads a peaceful life. But one day, an incident causes mysterious powers to awaken within her, and Serafina takes her first steps on the path that will ultimately lead her to becoming the one and only Great Saint!This fun, light-hearted tale of a tiny saint and the strongest of knights is the prequel to the hit series, A Tale of the Secret Saint!

This best-selling tale is based on the biblical figures of David, Saul, and Absalom. For the many Christians who have experienced pain, loss, and heartache at the hands of other believers, this compelling story offers comfort, healing, and hope. Christian leaders and directors of religious movements throughout the world have recommended this simple, powerful, and beautiful story to their members and staff. You will want to join the thousands who have been profoundly touched by this incomparable story.