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Even Given the Worthless "Appraiser" Class, I'm Actually the Strongest 5
In a fantasy world where "jobs" are god-given from birth, heroes are born, not made...and Ein's job of "Appraiser" has put him about as far from the "hero" pedestal as possible. Used, abused, and eventually abandoned by his fellow adventurers, Ein decides it just isn't worth going on... Lucky for Ein, though, the end may just be the beginning...and a new lease on life. Turns out, his "worthless" job may just be the key to becoming a hero after all... Ein returns to the monster-infested Rayshik Domain in an attempt to help the villagers suffering there. But it's not just the monsters causing problems...and the feudal lord Nigun has some dark secrets! Can Ein save the villagers and their fallen ruler from the forces of darkness?!
Hunting in Another World With My Elf Wife (Manga) Vol. 3
Shin and his elf wife Saran are on the search for who's behind the elf kidnapping cases. A noble is certainly pulling the strings. It's the only explanation for how well supplied the kidnappers are. In order to investigate the nobles, the two are taking every job the upper crust offers. Then a surprisingly odd request comes from the lord of Sarprast. Now the couple must work with other hunters to take out this big prize!
I Got Caught Up In a Hero Summons, but the Other World was at Peace! (Manga) Vol. 5
Lillywood Yggdrasil, otherwise known as the Earth King, surprises Kaito as he's gathering spirits for the Harvest Festival. As a thank-you for his acceptance of Isis and easing her loneliness, Lillywood offers Kaito a gift that had otherwise slipped through his fingers--the fruit of the world tree. Her generosity, however, also comes with a warning: Beware of No Face, the Illusion King!
My [Repair] Skill Became a Versatile Cheat, So I Think I'll Open a Weapon Shop (Manga) Vol. 1
It's hard for Luke to make a name for himself as an adventurer with all the competition--especially when he's a perpetually low-ranked adventurer whose only skill is [repair]. But when Luke is abandoned by his party and uses that same [repair] skill to survive and escape the dungeon, a new world of possibilities opens up. Suddenly, his despised skill allows him not only to survive but to stand out in a crowded field!
The Abandoned Reincarnation Sage
A great sage, abandoned by humans after his reincarnation, sets about building a powerful empire for monsters! Finally reaching the ant core, Belamus finds none other than his old friend Hereldyne awaiting him. In his hatred for the great sage, Hereldyne has been sending monsters to destroy the village in order to enact his misguided revenge. Seeing that Hereldyne is beyond salvation, Belamus resolves to fight him. Along with the help of Delarosa and her friends, the decisive final battle between the two mages is about to begin! Includes a bonus comic chapter and a new short story by the author of the original light novels!
Rebuild World (Manga) Volume 3
When a pair of ambitious arms dealers lead a horde of ravenous monsters into Akira’s usual hunting grounds, his routine training in the wasteland turns into a fight for survival. And with no time to run and nowhere to hide, the young relic hunter needs all the help he can get. But can even the reckless merchants’ firepower and the ghostly Alpha’s expert guidance see him through this onslaught alive? As wave after wave of mutant creatures wear down his defenses, it becomes clear that only a miracle can save him.And if the beasts of the wasteland don’t kill Akira, the people of his home city just might. After he takes a fledgling gang leader under his wing, he finds himself in the crosshairs of syndicate underlings hoping to climb the ranks, not to mention rival bosses looking to expand their territory. He’s already proven that he can handle himself in a fight; now he’ll need to prove himself as a negotiator if he ever wants to walk the streets in peace again.
Isekai Tensei: Recruited to Another World (Manga): Volume 3
It’s been five years since the devastating attack on Tenma’s hometown. He’s now trying to make a name for himself as an adventurer in Gunjo City, and his abilities and knack for magic are drawing all kinds of attention. After officially joining the adventurers’ guild, he teams up with a trio of identical catgirl sisters. For their first quest together, they opt for something simple: slaying the wild dashboars plaguing a local village. There’s more to this job than meets the eye, however, and the requester isn’t who he seems to be... Can Tenma stay ahead of the treachery afoot?
Beating the Street
Legendary money manager Peter Lynch explains his own strategies for investing and offers advice for how to pick stocks and mutual funds to assemble a successful investment portfolio.Develop a Winning Investment Strategy—with Expert Advice from “The Nation’s #1 Money Manager.” Peter Lynch’s “invest in what you know” strategy has made him a household name with investors both big and small. An important key to investing, Lynch says, is to remember that stocks are not lottery tickets. There’s a company behind every stock and a reason companies—and their stocks—perform the way they do. In this book, Peter Lynch shows you how you can become an expert in a company and how you can build a profitable investment portfolio, based on your own experience and insights and on straightforward do-it-yourself research. In Beating the Street, Lynch for the first time explains how to devise a mutual fund strategy, shows his step-by-step strategies for picking stock, and describes how the individual investor can improve his or her investment performance to rival that of the experts. There’s no reason the individual investor can’t match wits with the experts, and this book will show you how.
Poor Charlie’s Almanack
From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life.“Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up,” Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie’s Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and entrepreneurs seeking to absorb the enduring wit and wisdom of one of the great minds of the 20th and 21st centuries. Edited by Peter D. Kaufman, chairman and CEO of Glenair and longtime friend of Charlie Munger—whom he calls “this generation’s answer to Benjamin Franklin”—this abridged Stripe Press edition of Poor Charlie’s Almanack features a brand-new foreword by Stripe cofounder John Collison. Poor Charlie’s Almanack draws on Munger’s encyclopedic knowledge of business, finance, history, philosophy, physics, and ethics—and more besides—to introduce the latticework of mental models that underpin his rational and rigorous approach to life, learning, and decision-making. Delivered with Munger’s characteristic sharp wit and rhetorical flair, it is an essential volume for any reader seeking to go to bed a little wiser than when they woke up.
Same Kind of Different As Me
A critically acclaimed #1 New York Times best-seller with more than one million copies in print! Now a major motion picture. Gritty with pain, betrayal, and brutality, this incredible true story also shines with an unexpected, life-changing love.Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped the “Man” in the 1960’s by hopping a train. Untrusting, uneducated, and violent, he spends 18 years on the streets of Dallas and Fort Worth.Meet Ron Hall, a self-made millionaire in the world of high-priced deals—an international arts dealer who moves between upscale New York galleries and celebrities.It seems unlikely that these two men would meet under normal circumstances, but when Deborah Hall, Ron's wife, meets Denver, she sees him through God's eyes of compassion. When Deborah is diagnosed with cancer, she charges Ron with the mission of helping Denver.From this request, an extraordinary friendship forms between Denver and Ron, changing them both forever. A tale told in two unique voices, Same Kind of Different as Me weaves two completely different life experiences into one common journey. There is pain and laughter, doubt and tears, and in the end a triumphal story that readers will never forget.Continue this story of friendship in What Difference Do It Make?: Stories of Hope and Healing, available now. Same Kind of Different as Me also is available in Spanish.
Catch Me If You Can
The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name, from the author of Scam Me If You Can. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history. In his brief but notorious criminal career, Abagnale donned a pilot's uniform and copiloted a Pan Am jet, masqueraded as the supervising resident of a hospital, practiced law without a license, passed himself off as a college sociology professor, and cashed over $2.5 million in forged checks, all before he was twenty-one. Known by the police of twenty-six foreign countries and all fifty states as "The Skywayman," Abagnale lived a sumptuous life on the lam—until the law caught up with him. Now recognized as the nation's leading authority on financial foul play, Abagnale is a charming rogue whose hilarious, stranger-than-fiction international escapades, and ingenious escapes-including one from an airplane-make Catch Me If You Can an irresistible tale of deceit.
Catching the Wolf of Wall Street
In this astounding account, Wall Street’s notorious bad boy—the original million-dollar-a-week stock chopper—leads us through a drama worthy of The Sopranos, from the FBI raid on his estate to the deal he cut to rat out his oldest friends and colleagues to the conscience he eventually found. With his kingdom in ruin, not to mention his marriage, the Wolf faced his greatest challenge yet: how to navigate a gauntlet of judges and lawyers, hold on to his kids and his enraged model wife, and possibly salvage his self-respect. It wasn’t going to be easy. In fact, for a man with an unprecedented appetite for excess, it was going to be hell. But the man at the center of one of the most shocking scandals in financial history soon sees the light of what matters most: his sobriety, and his future as a father and a man.