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Survival in Another World with My Mistress! (Manga) Vol. 2
Kousuke is adjusting well to his new life as a slave in a world where his video game expertise operates as actual Crafting abilities. But it's not the magic that makes a life of servitude so cozy, it's his sexy dark elf Mistress, who puts him to work in and out of the bedroom! But it'll be more out than in-and-out as Kousuke must develop his power and grow strong enough to build a giant bulwark around the elven lands, or everyone may die at the hands of an overwhelming invasion force!
Backstabbed in a Backwater Dungeon: My Party Tried to Kill Me, But Thanks to an Infinite Gacha I Got LVL 9999 Friends and Am Out For Revenge (Manga) Vol. 4
After bringing the hammer of justice down on the adventurer-slayer Kyto and his fast-talking accomplice Yanaaq, Light receives some excellent news! Ellie reports that preparations for Light's revenge on Sasha the elf are finally complete. The stage is set for Light to storm the Elven Queendom with all the power he's built up over his three years in the Abyss--and another name is about to be crossed off his ever-growing kill list!
The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects (Manga): Tales of Blue Dias and the Onikin Alna: Volume 4
Dias’s attempts at farming are finally paying off (thanks to Senai and Ayhan’s secret forestkin magic!) but he won’t be able to rest on his laurels just yet. The village needs to work out a more effective form of governance; meanwhile, the dogkin arrive with a literally monstrous surprise in tow. And outside the Nezrose domain lurks a burgeoning threat: a vengeful Princess Diane dreaming of conquest. Oh, and in the midst of all this, guard captain Klaus falls in love!
Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be an Adventurer! (Manga): Volume 3
After a harsh realization, Sere’s world is shattered. During her peaceful school days, she and Lou work on a plan to counter Maribelle and protect her loved ones. But with characters diverging from the plot, how can Sere know what the future holds?
The Magic in this Other World is Too Far Behind! (Manga) Volume 10
Suimei and company’s showdown with the imperial princess comes to an unexpectedly...diplomatic... conclusion, marking the end to the mysterious coma incidents in the capital. Suimeihas his suspicions, but he doesn’t have long to dwell on them. Between trying to find a wayhome and trying to survive a threat from within, he’s busier than ever. And that’s all before awhole host of new evil rears its ugly head in the capital. Just how much longer is Suimei going tobe able to keep playing dumb about his true power?
The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Tales of Blue Dias and the Onikin Alna: Volume 2
Dias is getting used to life on the plains with his new wife—er, fiancée—Alna, and they even have actual subjects now: Dias’s old war buddy Klaus, and a group of refugees fleeing a civil uprising in the neighboring Kasdesk domain. Dias is desperate to raise the population in Nezrose without resorting to slavery, but he’s about to get a visit from none other than the lord of the Kasdesk domain himself, an infamous womanizer always accompanied by a harem of slaves. Dias will soon learn that as on the battlefield, politics and diplomacy is all about seeing who’s friend or foe.
The Frontier Lord Begins with Zero Subjects: Tales of Blue Dias and the Onikin Alna: Volume 3
With the Nezrose Domain expanding, Dias realizes that he needs to prepare for winter, which means a more stable and self-sufficient food supply. He decides to try his hand at cultivating farmland, but he’s about to find out that nothing grows on the grassy plains except for, well, grass. Unbeknownst to Dias, however, some kind of force is at work upon the soil, and the twins Senai and Ayhan hold the key to making the land fertile once more.
The Magician Who Rose From Failure (Manga) Volume 1
Cursed with a naturally low supply of aether, Arcus Raytheft is disinherited and shunned by his family. Things start to change when he experiences another man’s life through a dream—a dream that shows him marvelous technological wonders that don’t exist in his world. Armed with this new knowledge, Arcus sets about showing his parents that they were wrong about him. Surely an arsenal of mind-blowing spells will be enough to convince them you don’t need aether to succeed?
The Magician Who Rose From Failure (Manga) Volume 3
Arcus is still leveraging his otherworldly scientific knowledge to improve his magic. On hearing news that Lecia, his beloved sister, had been kidnapped, Arcus set off to rescue her, only to be thrown into the Holy Tower. There, he runs into an old friend...or rather, enemy. They say no one can escape the Tower, but if he doesn’t, there’s no telling what might happen to Lecia...
The Accidental Creative
Have better ideas, faster, without the stress and burnout. It isn't enough to just do your job anymore. In order to thrive in today's marketplace, all of us-even the accountants-have to be ready to generate brilliant ideas on demand. Business creativity expert Todd Henry explains how to establish effective practices that unleash your creative potential. Born out of his consultancy and his popular podcast, Henry has created a practical method for discovering your personal creative rhythm. He focuses on five key elements: •Focus: Begin with your end goal in mind. •Relationships: Build stimulating relationships and ideas will follow. •Energy: Manage it as your most valuable resource. • Stimuli: Structure the right "inputs" to maximize creative output. •Hours: Focus on effectiveness, not efficiency. This is a guide for staying inspired and experiencing greater creative productivity than you ever imagined possible.
Herding Tigers
A practical handbook for every manager charged with leading teams to creative brilliance, from the author of The Accidental Creative and Die Empty.Doing the work and leading the work are very different things. When you make the transition from maker to manager, you give ownership of projects to your team even though you could do them yourself better and faster. You're juggling expectations from your manager, who wants consistent, predictable output from an inherently unpredictable creative process. And you're managing the pushback from your team of brilliant, headstrong, and possibly overqualified creatives.Leading talented, creative people requires a different skill set than the one many management books offer. As a consultant to creative companies, Todd Henry knows firsthand what prevents creative leaders from guiding their teams to success, and in Herding Tigers he provides a bold new blueprint to help you be the leader your team needs. Learn to lead by influence instead of control. Discover how to create a stable culture that empowers your team to take bold creative risks. And learn how to fight to protect the time, energy, and resources they need to do their best work.Full of stories and practical advice, Herding Tigers will give you the confidence and the skills to foster an environment where clients, management, and employees have a product they can be proud of and a process that works.
If You Love Me: True love. True terror. True story.
'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.' This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love – over and over again. Within days of spending their first evening together, Alice and Joe were talking about getting married and spending the rest of their lives with each other. Everything about Joe seemed perfect, and Alice was the happiest she’d ever been. Then one day Joe saw a message on her phone from an old love, and that changed everything. He ignored Alice’s explanations and desperate pleas. And soon the violence and abuse began. As she attempted to prove to Joe that he really was her world, Alice gave up everything that mattered to her, including her family, her friends and her job. But still it wasn’t enough. Then the ‘challenges’ started, and finally Alice dared to hope that this time, maybe this time, Joe might just believe she loved him ...