What should have been a simple school trip to Tataratus veers off path when Kazu meets an ambitious shape-shifting tanuki, Kaiko, whose dream is to become a revered artisan. With her sights set on being an apprentice at Hitomi’s grandpa’ forge, Kaiko sticks close to Kazu and his friends to prove her worthiness, but she accidentally entangles them in another melee with the Scarlet Crown! This time a rematch with Pandora may not be enough. Can the Hemlock crew level up their skills and come ...

Enter into this epic telling of Twin Aces which follows the lives and adventure of Vail & Muan two childhood friends who face the ultimate test of friendship.Immune to the outside world living simple lives all changes as they are introduced to Silla, a jinni from the parallel realm of the world long forgotten by mankind.Shifting the lines between the seen and unseen realms Vail & Muan must walk a path unknown as they try to right the wrongs in this mind-altering tale of fri...

Settling into her new life as the Lady Woolsey, Alexia finds her days quite challenging. Whether it is a regiment of supernatural soldiers camped out on her front lawn or the demands of being the Queen's "muhjah," there never seems to be a want of new hurdles to overcome. But when stories of supernaturals rendered normal by some unknown force begin cropping up, Alexia has a rather serious mystery on her hands. Can she root out the cause of this phenomenon, which smacks of some larger plot ...

Breaking through the boundaries of realms, Vail & Muan find themselves in an alien existence unable to reverse the hands of time. Out of options and only able to push onwards unsure of their next steps in a world beyond words, the true fight for survival begins.

The life of a spinster in Victorian London isn't an easy one on the best of days, but such a life becomes infinitely more complicated when said spinster is "soulless" - a preternatural bridging the gap between the natural and supernatural worlds. Miss Alexia Tarabotti has this unique distinction, and when she is assailed at a formal gathering by a rove vampire, an encounter that results in the death of the half-starved creature, her circumstances become exponentially more complicated indee...

R.E.M.'s hit song is brought to life in this joyful picture book celebrating friendship and togetherness."In this picture-book adaptation of R.E.M.'s song, a young fox and rabbit show the adults that everyone can be friends . . . A pop song finds new life as a simple yet heartfelt story of acceptance." — Kirkus Reviews"Shiny happy people laughingEveryone around, love them, love themPut it in your hands, take ...

A Doll's House/Ghosts/Pillars of the Community/An Enemy of the People'Our home has never been anything other than a play-house. I've been your doll-wife here, just as at home I was Daddy's doll-child'These four plays established Ibsen as the leading figure in the theatre of his day, sending shockwaves throughout Europe and beyond. A Doll's House scandalized audiences with its free-thinking heroine Nora. Ibsen's even more radical follow-up, Ghos...

In a lush solarpunk future, plants have stripped the poison from the air and trained warriors keep resource hoarders in check.Orfeus only wants to be a travelling singer, famed and adored. She has her share of secrets, but she’s no energy criminal, so why does an assassin come for her head? Not just any assassin but the Wolf, deadliest killer in all the Order of the Vengeful Wild.Orfeus will call in every favour she has to find out, seeking answers while clinging to her pri...

Condemned by society and her werewolf husband due to a pregnancy she cannot explain, Alexia Maccon - preternatural, tea aficionado - seeks an explanation for this "infant inconvenience" so as to cleanse her sullied reputation and prove her fool of a husband wrong. Preternaturals are a rare breed and the only history of their kind lies in Italy with the Templars, a group that once partnered with preternaturals to hunt down werewolves and vampires. Will Alexia find an explanation for her imp...

This book provides a snapshot of the current state of the art related to the development of tools, frameworks and techniques for designing and implementing multi-agent systems. The single contributions are diverse in nature, with some providing overviews of toolkits, while others focus on specific features or application domains.To reflect this diversity, the book has been organized into two parts. The first part covers Languages, Frameworks and Platforms and contains six ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Multi-Agent Systems, EUMAS 2024, which took place in Dublin, Ireland, on August 26, 2024.The 24 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Multi-Agent Based Simulation; Multi-Agent Learning; Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Planning; Human-Agent Interaction; Coordination, Organ...

“Award-winning author Alan Rems brilliantly tells of the campaigns in the South Pacific, a region long overlooked, offering both the big picture and the foxhole view” — Military Officer “A fitting tribute to the men who fought and died in an often overlooked theater of World War II. As such, it is a welcome addition to our knowledge of World War II in the Pacific Theater.” — On Point: The Journal of Army History While the Pacific War has ...