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"Ai!" However, life is too lonely. I also want to keep a low profile, but the System doesn't allow it! " Looking at the originally arrogant crowd, Xiao Xiang felt helpless."You can't even call me father! If I don't kill you, how can I face the System! "

From a rising-star author, winner of the both the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards, a richly inventive, brutal and beautiful science-fantasy novella. A story of family, loss, oppression and rebellion that will stay with you long after the final page. For readers of Nghi Vo’s The Empress of Salt and Fortune, Neon Yang’s The Black Tides of Heaven and Kritika H. Rao’s The Surviving Sky.Liu Lufeng is the eldest princess of the Feng royalty and, bound by duty and traditio...

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei examines censorship and self-censorship, through the lens of his compelling personal history, offering readers profound insights into an important topic of current and perpetual relevance.Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's greatest practitioners. He has been a voice for artistic and personal freedom of expression for decades within his native China and around the world.This publication offers a compelling exploration of cen...

Riveting and highly inventive Chinese-inspired science-fantasy of a royal family torn apart, painful betrayal and deadly secrets. Set on a drowning continent full of corruption and deception and strange technology this is a richly envisioned and powerful debut novel from the winner of the Bram Stoker® and Nebula Awards.Long isolated from her family following her parents’ murder, Princess Xīlián of Piāo discovers the corrupt royal advisors are plotting to overthrow ...

Harrowing confessions from the grave. Missing children, deaths, framing, Oakland County, Michigan

Three cowboys walk into a bar.It’s not the start of a joke.It’s the start of the biggest, baddest bar brawls the Old West has ever seen.In the dusty, lawless towns of the untamed frontier, a quiet drink is a luxury few can afford. Especially for an unlikely trio of heroes. One a mountain of a man with fists like boulders, another a lanky brawler with a reach that defies reason, and the third a lightning-fast warrior...

Dive into the world of AI with 'ChatGPT Essentials: Prompt Engineering for Life and Work,' your essential guide to understanding and using ChatGPT effectively. Much like being internet-savvy was crucial in the early digital age, learning prompt engineering is key in today's AI-driven world. This book breaks down the complex world of ChatGPT, making it easy to understand its development, capabilities, and how it can be applied in everyday life and work. Whether you're starting out or lookin...

From Chinese-Canadian award-winning author Ai Jiang comes a masterful debut collection of short fiction that explores both near-future and far-future societies, the fantastical and surreal, the horrific and psychological, found family and those we've lost, generational disparities, the value of language and identity and memories, and more.Memories Are Only Valuable If They Can Be Lost features 40 works of sci-fi, horror, and fantasy, including the Hugo Awa...

Yichang municipality, Hubei province, China, early 1970s. High-school student Jingqiu is one of many educated urban youth sent to the countryside to be "re-educated" under a dictate from Chairman Mao. Jing's father is a political prisoner somewhere in China, and her mother, a former teacher branded as a "capitalist," is now reduced to menial work to support Jing and her two younger siblings.When Jing arrives with a group at Xiping village in the Yangtze River's Three Gorges region,...

The Thrills of the Mundane: An AI-Generated Rollercoaster with Paul Lloyd Hemphill as Your Fearless Co-Pilot!Welcome to a world where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, and even the simplest tasks transform into epic adventures—thanks to our robot overlords!That's right, folks; this collection of hilariously absurd tales was primarily crafted by AI, with Paul Lloyd Hemphill swooping in like a word-wrangling superhero to tweak a few phrases.Think of...

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city.Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 ...

Miku is in a bind: her father has taken on too much debt, subjecting her family to so much work and stress that now her mother has fallen ill. Miku is willing to do what it takes to help her family, so she agrees to become a wealthy benefactor's mistress to raise the cash they need! Unfortunately, that alone isn't enough--the wealthy man has a preference for women who are experienced in bed, and Miku is anything but. That's when the man's butler, Kamishiro, steps in. The gorgeous but sharp...