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Amanda has been living happily in the village for years. Her ancestor, a Mage that helped the Hero in subjugating the Demon King about 500 years ago, made sure that the village becomes rich and abundant. Along with her friends – Irene, Jessica, and Grace – they promised to spend the next harvest festival together as they did this year. Until Jessica suddenly left with her lover. Amanda found it mysterious. After a year, Amanda was introduced to a noble during the Harvest Festival. It was supposed to be a routine marriage interview until she woke up in a place that she did not recognize. In the mountain beyond the thick forest that surrounds the village, a large castle looms with darkness. Will Amanda find the truth about her situation, or will she find love instead?
Editor's Note: "HEAD-SHRINKERS: Short-scale Speculative Stories" is a captivating collection of speculative fiction that delves into various imaginative worlds and thought-provoking scenarios. This anthology features a diverse range of stories that explore the unknown and challenge our perceptions of reality. Speculative fiction holds significant importance in today's literature as it bridges the gap between the known and the unknown, enabling readers to explore new ideas, contemplate the impact of change, and envision potential futures. We sincerely apologize for the delays in the publishing procedures, which were unforeseeable and beyond our control. Despite these challenges, we want to ex...
A driven-by-inspiration interest which focuses on the true qualities of sex as the basis for its definition. It is pleasure-filled, somewhat funny but posses didactic remarks on the appropriation of sex.
Looks are deceiving . . . Even the most innocent and kindest person you know can kill in the most unexpected way one could ever imagine. — As a mystery-thriller writer, Marcus dela Fuente enjoyed his fame. Book reviews about his stories, even negative, cannot stop people from idolizing him. This is what he wanted ever since he was a child. But can he handle the often fleeting nature of fame and fortune? How can fame ruin one's life? How can it unleash one's demons? When under the skin, we all know that we are all wicked.
A curious collection of steampunk and speculative flash fiction from around the globe. Featuring the work/s of W. J. Manares, Binod Dawadi, Christopher T. Dabrowski, Shirley Smothers, Eric Esquivel, Jeanne Ellin, Mimi Bordeaux, Joe Stout, R. C. Capasso, and Lilse Asalt. Edited and compiled by W. J. Manares.
The new book in Babette Cole’s bestselling series of “family dilemmas that began withMummy Laid an Egg.” Puberty. Who else but Babette Cole would have the temerity to tackle this subject in a picture book, and the genius to carry it off. The text, which takes the form of a conversation between a small girl and her teddy bear, is ingenious and funny. As it turns out, it is the behaviour of the wonderfully depicted Mr. and Mrs. Hormone that plays havoc with the physical and emotional states of girls and boys between, roughly, eight to eighteen years. The book is bound to be controversial but Babette Cole has never taken the conventional path and her readers love her for her outrageous approach to little-mentioned topics. From the Trade Paperback edition.
When Mister Possum and his greedy family refuse to change their diet of luscious New Zealand trees a plan is hatched to return these hungry visitors to their native Australia.
Get a comprehensive overview on how to set up and design an effective database with MySQL. This thoroughly updated edition covers MySQL's latest version, including its most important aspects. Whether you're deploying an environment, troubleshooting an issue, or engaging in disaster recovery, this practical guide provides the insights and tools necessary to take full advantage of this powerful RDBMS. Authors Vinicius Grippa and Sergey Kuzmichev from Percona show developers and DBAs methods for minimizing costs and maximizing availability and performance. You'll learn how to perform basic and advanced querying, monitoring and troubleshooting, database management and security, backup and recove...
Get ready for an intense and persistent one-up battle of . . . designing Neighborville dwellings?! Plant pals Nate and Patrice suggest a brilliant idea: thwart any attack from the zombies by putting defending plants named "Guard-ens" inside homes, as well as in yards! But as soon as Mr. Stubbins informs zombie leader and Pop Smarts lover Dr. Zomboss, he quickly becomes obsessed with circumventing this idea with an epically evil one of his own--building cages disguised as homes to trap all the tasty brains (and the people they reside within) before the Guard-ens can get there. The plants, Nate, Patrice, and Crazy Dave must now counter Dr. Zomboss's havoc-filled scheme! Eisner Award-winning writer Paul Tobin (Bandette, Genius Factor) collaborate with artist Christianne Gillendardo-Goudreau (Plants vs. Zombies: War and Peas, Plants vs. Zombies: Rumble at Lake Gumbo) for this standalone graphic novel!
The multi-million-copy bestseller WONDER showed how choosing kindness and empathy can change the lives of those around you. Now, in AUGGIE & ME, you can discover a new side to the WONDER story in three new chapters from three different characters: Julian: Auggie's classroom bully Christopher: Auggie's oldest friend Charlotte: Auggie's classmate These three stories are heartbreaking, surprising, funny and hopeful. Just like WONDER, AUGGIE & ME will make you laugh, cry and try to choose kind. Praise for WONDER: "Remarkable . . . It has the power to move hearts and change minds" (Guardian) "Incredibly charming, brutal and brilliant" (Observer) "It wreaks emotional havoc . . . To finish it with a firm resolve to be a better person - well, you can't ask much more of any book than that" (Independent) "When the kids have finished with this, the adults will want to read it. Everybody should" (Financial Times) "Awesome . . . So authentic you'll swear a kid wrote the book. And yes, that's a good thing" (Glamour)