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The Knight and Her Emperor, Volume 1
When war erupts in the kingdom of Ehas, a terrible man sees an opportunity and sends his least-loved daughter, Pollyanna, to fight in the family's name. The young woman, however, also sees her own opportunity: to become the most esteemed knight who has ever lived, thwarting her father's hopes that she die unnoticed and unknown.
In the enemy kingdom of Acrea, the newly crowned King Luxos plans to utilize the war to achieve his vision of a unified continent. When he captures Pollyanna, Luxos orders her execution - until she puts his knights to shame, showcasing her talent as a fighter and a strategist.
Seeing in each other a chance to make both of their dreams come true, Pollyanna and Luxos vow to work together to establish peace and build a grand empire. But what happens when the young king realizes, battle after battle, that this stalwart knight has conquered his heart?
Volume 1 collects episodes 1-18 of the webcomic The Knight and Her Emperor.
All We Once Had
Piper and her older sister could not be more different. Tati assumed guardianship when their parents died, and in Tati's eyes, Piper is a troublemaker with no direction. Piper knows what she wants, but it isn't the buttoned-up life that her sister has in mind. Usually, Piper can lean on her best friend...except they aren't speaking, just when Piper could really use a confidant.
Escaping to their apartment complex's pool for some space, Piper is stunned to see Henry. Her Henry. The boy who, three years ago, she met at this same pool. Together, they walked the beach and shared a kiss. It was a perfect night. Then she never saw or heard from him again.
Henry is back in Florida to spend time with a dad he barely knows and escape the tangled relationship he left at home. Fate has brought Piper and Henry back together when their lives are the most complicated. With no one to depend on but each other, Piper and Henry must confront their painful pasts and the tumultuous present. Is this the start of another goodbye or a second chance at love?
Tropes
* Second Chance Romance
* Summer Romance
* Healing After Trauma
* Teenage Matchmakers
* YA Romance
Formerly, the Fallen Daughter of the Duke, Volume 7
Now, however, she must reveal to him and her friends the real reason she arrived from an alternate timeline: when her true magical abilities were revealed to the royals of her home country of Noston, a war between Noston and Paffuto broke out. And of course it’s difficult to recount the truth of those events without mentioning her engagement to Prince Vik…In order to prevent the war in this timeline, Claire and the others come up with a plan to introduce a teleportation door between the two countries to foster better relations, but how can they convince Noston to agree?
What Tomorrow Will Be
From USA Today bestselling author Julianne MacLean comes a captivating tale of a life caught between the past and the present…and a true love unbound by space and time. Some loves never die. But only one will shape her future…At nineteen, Sienna MacKay believed she had it all—a promising career ahead of her and a young love destined to last forever. But a tragic accident shatters that idyllic existence, leaving her with a heartbreaking loss. Years later, Sienna has rebuilt her life. She’s a successful designer, a devoted mother, and a woman who has dared to love again—with Nate, a passionate, rising-star chef. But as Nate drifts further into ambition, cracks surface in their once-bright marriage. A stormy confrontation ends in disaster, and Sienna becomes caught between two worlds—her near-perfect past and her more complicated present—where she must ask herself: What is the price of true love…and is she willing to pa? et on the majestic, rugged coastline of Nova Scotia, What Tomorrow Will Be is a magical, emotional novel about first love, second chances, and finding the courage to stay…or the will to go.
Star Wars Outlaws: Low Red Moon
ND-5 and Jaylen Vrax embark on their descent into the galaxy’s underworld in search of answers and opportunity, in this essential prequel to Star Wars Outlaws. Jaylen Barsha, heir to his family’s immense power and wealth, had his life charted out for him neatly and meticulously by his parents, even though he suspected his neglected half-brother Sliro would be a better fit for the bright corporate future his parents envisioned. Then the Empire stripped it all away on trumped-up charges of conspiracy against his family. Before he can reach Sliro for help redeeming the Barsha name, a battle droid arrives at the family compound with a mission to kill every last member of the Barsha clan. Jaylen manages to fend off the attack as the sole survivor, but realizes the droid, who he reprograms, is his only chance to stay alive. But he can no longer be Jaylen Barsha – he’ll have to live now as Jaylen Vrax. Former Separatist battle droid ND-5 knows he should be scrap metal, all things considered. He was a proficient contributor to the Separatist cause, but what is a soldier without a war? A trigger without aim? Loyalty is in his programming, and Jaylen, who treats him as more than just a weapon, has earned it. Perhaps, the droid thinks, with a partner he can be more. ND-5 just has to earn Jaylen’s trust. With the threat against the Barsha clan still shrouded in mystery, the pair has no choice but to leverage the chaos and disappear. They find sanctuary in the anonymity of the underworld, building their reputation among scoundrels, bounty hunters, and crime syndicates. But when their latest score gives the first real clue in years to who sent ND-5 after Jaylen’s family, their biggest opportunity presents a new kind of risk. Do they give up this chance at the wealth and power Jaylen was denied to pursue answers? Or will ambition and the weight of the past shatter their unlikely partnership?
Wild Beast Forest House, Volume 3
'Wild Beast' is the only place in the forest where wild animals can rest under the promise of not hurting each other. When the owner, a wolf called Ragnar, receives the unexpected visit of Yule, a domestic cat, he foresees the boy's going to bring him trouble. But maybe something else too...?
The Violet Flame
Unlock the secret powers of the Violet Flame to heal your shadow, discover your purpose, and awaken your higher consciousness. Awaken your greatest potential, heal your shadow, and unlock your higher consciousness by harnessing the power of the Violet Flame. Let yourself be guided on a profound journey of self-discovery and spiritual awakening as you cultivate a deep connection with the Violet Flame, a powerful etheric fire that courses through every atom of creation with the ability to transform negative energy and deeply heal shadow wounds. Previously shrouded in mystery, there has been little information on how to use it – until now. With practical exercises, rituals, and guided meditations, you will learn what the Violet Flame is, and how to integrate it into your daily life to:· Connect with the ascended masters and angelic beings who are ‘the keepers of the flame’· Illuminate and transform your shadow self and break free from negative patterns· Balance your masculine and feminine energies· Awaken your higher purpose and live with magicOnce you invoke the Violet Flame, nothing will remain the same. You will be empowered to break free from limiting past conditioning and rise into a loving, authentic and divinely guided way of being.
Kid Flash: Going Rogue
Kid Flash and his uncle, Barry Allen a.k.a the Flash, team up to teach a teenaged group of rogues?Golden Glider, Pied Piper, Trickster, and The Top?an important lesson. But is Kid Flash the one who has the most to learn?Ace West has it all figured out. He?s the fastest guy in National City after all! Well, second fastest if you count his uncle, Barry Allen, or you might know him better as THE FLASH. But this young superhero has more to learn than he thinks. After messing up one too many missions by getting distracted signing autographs and taking selfies, Flash takes him and a group of ne?er-do-well kids to a pocket dimension for an intervention. Kid Flash assumes he?s there to show the other kids how to use their powers responsibly, but when Flash gets unexpectedly called away on important Justice League business, Kid Flash must learn it takes a lot more than being super to be a hero. From the writer behind the Spider-Ham trilogy, Steve Foxe, with dynamic and action-packed art by Jerry Gaylord, comes a story about a ragtag group of kids who must work together or be doomed to life as the ?bad kids?.
The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa
The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectualThe African Gold Coast writer and statesman J. E. Casely Hayford (1866–1930) was a key figure in liberal anticolonial thought as well as African and British imperial literary and intellectual history. In this revisionist account, Jeanne-Marie Jackson positions his career as an intriguing case study of anticolonial literature and politics. Jackson maps the contours of Casely Hayford’s thought through sustained attention to his written work within its Gold Coast and British imperial contexts, demonstrating the far-reaching conceptual and aesthetic resources of his elite legal background.Treating Casely Hayford’s 1911 novel, Ethiopia Unbound, as a constitutional document and his legal writings as literary exemplars, Jackson breaks down artificial divisions between African textual traditions. The law, for Casely Hayford and his Fante nationalist peers, was intimately bound to the virtues they attached to textuality: clear-headedness, moderation, restraint, and public discernment. Jackson argues for this liberal disposition as a crucial and neglected part of anticolonial intellectual and political history. Colonial-era legal debates framed the rise of an influential, consummately modern Gold Coast leader deemed fit to steer ambitious new pan-African institutions, and, in Jackson’s telling, Casely Hayford emerges as his era’s most emblematic figure.
Čarokámen
Seznamte se s Lászlem, osmisetletým démonem a nejméně produktivním správcem kleteb v celém Pekle. Ze své kanceláře pod Midtownem dohlíží na Drakefordovu kletbu, která zahrnuje jednu nešťastnou rodinu na severu státu New York a záhadný černý kámen. Sama kletba je nebývale atraktivní – má původ v koloniálních časech a její oběti se mění ve zrůdná monstra –, ale László se nikterak nesnaží maximalizovat její potenciál. Raději se vyvaluje na Ibize, pije jedno martini za druhým a podvádí šejdíře v newyorském metru. V jeho kanceláři však naneštěstí dojde ke změně vedení a Lászlovo zaměstnanecké hodnocení je tak hrozivě špatné, že dostane šest dní na to, aby věci napravil, jinak bude bez milosti roztaven a navrácen zpátky do Primordiálního slizu.
Na scénu vstupuje Maggie Drakefordová, devatenáctiletá nositelka kletby. Za celý svůj život poznala jen ponurý kout Catskillských hor, kde Drakefordova kletba pohltila lidskost jejího otce a rychle začíná usilovat i o tu její. Budoucnost vypadá beznadějně, dokud se před Drakefordovic domem jedné říjnové noci neobjeví László a neoznámí jim, že mají pouhých šest dní na to kletbu zlomit, jinak je bude trýznit až na věky věků.
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Matisse
This lavishly produced volume explores Matisse’s lifelong reinvention of art through some fifty works, six extraordinary fold-out spreads, and illuminating essays.
Providing a unique opportunity to see Matisse’s work at a remarkable scale, this volume echoes the clarity, richness, and innovation of his art. Showcasing dozens of carefully reproduced paintings and cut-outs, the book offers a panoramic view of one of modern art’s most influential figures. Tracing Matisse’s development from early naturalist studies to the luminous intensity of Fauvism and the radical simplicity of his late paper cut-outs, it follows his evolving approach to form, color, and composition.
Brief essays accompany approximately fifty emblematic works, offering new insight into the artist’s changing techniques and the contexts in which he worked. With colored edges, a printed cloth binding, and a design that reflects Matisse’s visual sensibility, the book is as visually compelling in its production as the works it presents.
Six major compositions — including Joy of Life, The Red Studio, The Dance, and The Sorrows of the King — appear as expansive map-style fold-outs, allowing readers to savor their ambition and detail in unprecedented depth. A vivid and layered portrait, this volume invites close attention to the artistic choices that shaped a career of continual reinvention.
Sebastiao Salgado - Glaciers
This majestic collection of black-and-white photographs captures the world's great glaciers as both ancient monuments and fragile frontiers in the age of climate change.
In this arresting visual study, Sebastia~o Salgado brings together 65 duotone photographs from his epic project Genesis, offering a visual survey of some of the planet's most remote and ice-bound regions. From the ice fields of Patagonia and the peaks of the Himalayas to the vast shelves of Antarctica and the volcanic flanks of Kamchatka, these images record the forms, textures, and scale of glacial landscapes around the world.
Shot in Salgado's large-format, black-and-white style, the photographs emphasize the physical presence of ice-its ridges, fractures, density, and drift. Light and shadow reveal the structural complexity of each scene, from massive crevasses to the delicate patterns of wind-swept snow.
An essay by climate scientist Elisa Palazzi examines the science of glacier formation, transformation, and decline. Pairing meticulous sequencing with refined design and premium duotone printing, the book offers a focused and enduring portrait of the world's glaciers at a critical moment in their history.
Yes, Ma'am
In this lively and colourful history, royal expert TomQuinn goes behind palace doors to give a compelling glimpse of Britain’sroyals, ancient and modern. From medieval times, when the Groom of the Stooloversaw the monarch’s lavatorial exploits, below-stairs staff have always had aunique insight into the lives of their royal masters. Through the eyes of serving and recently retired staff,we see how today’s royals live – including how the relationship between Meghanand Harry and William and Kate started with high hopes and descended intobitterness and anger. Now fully updated with a scandalous new chapterrevealing how the former Prince Andrew’s life has changed since being cast outby the royal family, Yes, Ma’am is the ultimate insight into what reallymakes the royal family tick – after all, who better to ask than their army ofservants and staff, past and present?
The American Edge
To regain its capacity to effectively deter China and retain its unmatched global status, the United States must deepen its partnership with the nation''s most innovative tech companies. In The American Edge, Seth G. Jones explains how the industrial bases of the world''s great military powers have risen, fallen, and evolved relative to each other over the past century, from Imperial Germany and Japan during World War II, to the United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War, to the recent rise of China. In doing so, Jones reveals how the US is on a trajectory toward failure-a failure to effectively deter major adversaries, and to fight and win a great power war if necessary.China is on a wartime footing. It is rapidly building its defense industrial base to deter and-if deterrence fails-to fight the United States. During periods of wartime, the US defense industrial base has always needed to maximize production capacity, minimize excessive regulations, and provide incentives to the private sector for innovation. Today, though, the US military industrial base is operating on a peacetime footing despite China''s massive military buildup and Russia''s total war in Ukraine. Set in its ways and trapped in outdated procurement systems, it lacks the capacity, responsiveness, flexibility, and surge capability to meet the military requirements to deter China.However, the US does have a tremendously innovative private sector, from companies like SpaceX to Microsoft and Anduril, and this private sector can be leveraged. If the US can regain its capacity to respond flexibly and deter China in the current struggle for global power, it will need to come through the partnership with and utilization of these private companies. Along with providing a deep history of the economic foundations of how America''s ascent to military superpower, this book shows how these innovative firms are helping the US military regain its edge and thereby retain its status as the world''s paramount military force.
Influencers Who Kill: A True Crime Collection
Thousands of followers. Rapt audiences. Splashy photos and videos that rack up millions of views, crowning the popular few who beat the algorithm ''Online Influencers.'' But what happens when the next reel on the slideshow of someone''s life... is death? Accidental or premeditated? In some cases, only you can decide. This book features 10 fascinating cases, including: Yuka Takaoka, Japanese bar hostess who stabbed her flirty host boyfriend; Nasim Aghdam, YouTube Headquarters shooter; Mary Anne Oliver-Snow/Snow the Salt Queen, cosplay shooter who maintains her innocence; David Katz, sports video game tournament shooter; Samantha Wohlford, Mommy vlogger who tripped over her own lies in the interrogation room; Randy Stair, supermarket shooter who produced - and dated - cartoons; Trey Sesler, ''Mr. Anime,'' who murdered his family; Pekka-Eric Auvinen, admirer of violence who carried out one of Finland''s few school shootings; Abagail White, OnlyFans talent who bullied and killed her husband. Influencers Who Kill will look behind the internet handles and the painted masks and dive into the minds and motives of serial killers and would-be murderers who bloodied their hands with the spotlight trained on them.
The Unbreakable Crown - Feast and Famine 2
Abundance Feast excels at throwing parties, assembling fashionable outfits, and being polite. Prophecies have always been for her sister, Merri, heir of House Feast. Besides, Bun doesn't know magic like her sister. So she's not prepared to be part of the Eternal Three, let alone trapped in the demon realm with Merri, Rue, Wort, and Sage.
Wort Erebos grew up in the woods with his father and little sister. Their life was magical in its own way, but their focus was on survival. In Demonspace, Wort discovers the Erebos family has a long heritage that his father has kept secret...but why? And at what cost? And how can Wort trust the very people who lied to him?
Merri and Rue are anxious to return home to their guardian duties in Fauret, but the pathway between realms is damaged. The only hope of returning is by gaining access to the ancient library at Tenebrun, the magical boarding school for the elite of this world. Merri and Rue spent their lives training for their guardianship duel. How will Bun and Wort survive these Tenebrun trials?
The Primacy of Drawing
A definitive and comprehensive study of drawing, now entirely revised.
Drawing has always been an inseparable part of art-making, both as a distinct art form and a crucial step in many other creative visual practice. Yet, its role has faced increasing scrutiny in recent decades. The popularity of readymades, the endless possibilities of new technologies, and the idea of the artist as a performer have shifted attention away from traditional studies or sketches. Deanna Petherbridge's second edition of The Primacy of Drawing invites new perspectives on the practice, which she argues is central to "all aspects of cultural making and thinking."
Petherbridge begins by exploring ancient myths about the origins of drawing, then examines the contrasts between open-ended sketches and highly formalized studies, which together form a drawing continuum?graphic parameters within which artists continue to experiment. She also delves into the economy of drawing?its qualities of line and mark, and analyzes the strategies behind making, composing, and inventing drawn images. The teaching of drawing in academies has led to complex theories on copying, genre hierarchies, and expressive figure drawing. The manner in which satire, sexuality, and play develop compositional strategies reflects Petherbridge’s perspective as a teacher, deeply engaged with the hows and whys of visual thinking.
The Primacy of Drawing serves as both a much-needed history of the practice and a valuable resource for anyone interested in drawing.
253 color illustrations
Szerelmes ablakok
Tizenhat szívdobbanás.
Tizenhat romantikus történet.
Egy kalendárium, melyben a szerelem számtalan formában megmutatkozik!
A Szerelmes ablakok tizenhat romantikus pillanat gyűjteménye, az első randevúk bizonytalan izgalmától a házasság viharain át az időskori ragaszkodás bölcs csendjéig. A kötet lapjain megjelenik a régmúlt nyugalma, a modern városi lüktetés és a mindennapokat átszövő, titokzatos varázslat. Az érzelemmel szegélyzett út a kínai tengerek végtelenjétől a magyar falvak ismerős lankáin át egészen a Watt-öböl partjáig vezet. Mert a szerelem rád találhat cseresznyevirágzás idején Kyotóban, a hőségben a pesti 4-es-6-os villamoson, vagy akár egy hátsókert örökzöldjei alatt a hűvös Londonban. A szerelem soha nem szabályos: a novellák és versek hol könnyed humorral mesélnek a botladozó én- és társkeresésről, hol elgondolkodtató kérdéseken keresztül tárják fel a közös sors nehézségét és szépségét.
A Szerelmes ablakok egy romantikus kalendárium.
Ha az első történetet Valentin-nap reggelén nyitod ki, a hónap végéig mindennap új történet vár!
Ám olvashatod bármely évszakban, amikor arra vágysz, hogy két hétig újabb és újabb ablakot nyithass a szerelem előtt!
Minden napra jut egy valentini csoda, ami színt hoz a hétköznapba, és eszedbe juttatja, hogy a szeretet a legszebb és legizgalmasabb kaland, történjen bárhol és bármikor a világban.
A szerzők: Bagó Tünde, Bálint Tamás, Csepeli Veronika, Darvas Petra, Hurubás Anna, Jánoki-Kis Viktória, Jeszenszky Zsuzsanna, Kiss Edina, Koller Ágnes, Kőrös András, Mándli László, Nádasi Krisztina, Némethy Alexandra, Sugár Zsigmond, Timár Anikó, Tóth Hajnalka
Ez a különleges kötet akkor olvasható, miután a kedves olvasó a lapokat a perforáció mentén szétválasztja. Ezt megteheti például kézzel, könyvjelzővel, levélbontó késsel. Így a könyv valóban csak akkor tár ablakot az egyes történetekre, ha az olvasó kinyitja az adventi kalendárium napjait!
Az irodalmi Valentin-kalendárium perforált kiadványához kapcsolódó szerzői jogot a KNW kiadó fenntartja.
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