In a dark Manhattan alley, a young woman suddenly collapses from a brain hemorrhage. The statistics say it's rare to have happened to someone so young and healthy, yet all signs point to natural causes. But when Kyle Vine, the man she was supposed to meet that night, learns she wasn't the only victim, he knows there's something more going on and soon discovers a mysterious link to the sudden success of a journeyman pitcher for the New York Yankees.As the lethal brain bleeds continu...

The skybus raced haplessly towards its inevitable fate on the Mars New Home Colony. A cop saves the passengers from death . . . but this is only the beginning.Alex Sverlov regains consciousness in the middle of the Indian Ocean with his leg tied to an anchor rope . . . but this is only the beginning.A new world power arises. The New China Empire conquered Asia in two regional atomic wars and is taking its place on the world stage . . . but this is only the beginning.Th...

A story set in the world of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury! Five years have passed since the bloody Vanadis Incident led to the prohibition of the controversial GUND format in medicine and mobile suit production. On Earth, Kiyu Lavot works as a young assistant to former researcher Vilda Miren. As they travel across a planet afflicted by violent conflict and economic inequality, the two carry some very precious (and forbidden) cargo in tow…

Milton H. Erickson, the father of modern clinical hypnosis, is rarely presented in the multidimensional format he worked in. When I trained it was so frustrating having to consult so many books in order to get a comprehensive sense of his work. After 50 years of clinical experience, I decided to write a book that contained his basic principles, presenting them in both linear and non-linear style—the way he worked, no jargon, in plain English. The following reviews best describe this book.

In the beginning, this place was filled with someone’s memories—sad memories. With the passage of time, those memories break down, and every so often, they creep into our everyday world as…disturbances. Why do they show themselves to us? Perhaps they seek a mouthpiece for their own despair, or something else entirely. When strangeness takes root in a place of woe, the seeds of dread begin to germinate… Horror fans won’t want to miss this beloved anthology series!

Read the novel that ignited the phenomenon!In the year 2022, gamers rejoice as Sword Art Online - a VRMMORPG (Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) like no other - debuts, allowing players to take full advantage of the ultimate in gaming technology: NerveGear, a system that allows users to completely immerse themselves in a wholly realistic gaming experience. But when the game goes live, the elation of the players quickly turns to horror as they discover that, for...

"There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die..."One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead. Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, t...

Death is taboo. Death is incomprehensible, inexplicable; and, yet, inevitable.The most ancient desire of humankind is to conquer death; we humans don’t see death as part of life. We want to play God, want to find a new direction in the eternal circle of life—or stop it altogether.After publishing Cluster (“one of the best science fiction novels published from a Hungarian author” - Köki Terminal Bookshop), in Stephen Paul Thomas’s new short story collection, we can look deep...

Yotsuba can’t wait to go to school! The teacher will know the names of all the trees and birds that Yotsuba saw while climbing Mount Takao for sure! Daddy didn’t know aaanything—and neither did Yanda, obviously. Daddy was worried the trail might be too hard, but nothing could stop Yotsuba, not even the super-long stairs at the end! Yotsuba found all kinds of cool stuff, but Daddy seemed really interested in finding all the benches for some reason…

From peglegged Peter Stuyvesant to CBGB’s, the story of the Bowery reflects the history of the city that grew up around it.It was the street your mother warned you about—even if you lived in San Francisco. Long associated with skid row, saloons, freak shows, violence, and vice, the Bowery often showed the worst New York City had to offer. Yet there were times when it showed its best as well.The Bowery is New York’s oldest street and Manhattan’s broadest boule...

Yuuki Asuna was a top student who spent her days studying at cram school and preparing for her high school entrance exams--but that was before she borrowed her brother's virtual reality game system and wound up trapped in Sword Art Online with ten thousand other frightened players. As time passes, Asuna fears what will become of her life outside the fantasy realm--the failure she might be seen as in the eyes of her peers and parents. Unwilling to wait on the sidelines for more experienced ...

A RACE AGAINST THE CLOCK!The secret feud between the Nachtoy and the Korloy families, who control the Volupta Grand Casino on the seventh floor, takes an unprecedented turn when Kirito and Asuna intervene. But when Kirito attempts to expose the Korloy family’s misdeeds, he ends up stumbling into a trap. Now he has just two days to unravel a mystery, put an end to an unscrupulous conspiracy, and defeat the floor boss. It’s all leading up to a showdown in the arena where everything’s on the ...