Your favorite Hololive VTubers like you’ve never seen them before!Magatsuhi-no-Kami, a great evil that once terrorized Yamato, may be on the brink of resurrection! Recognizing the need for stalwart allies, Kyubi dispatches Fubuki and Mio to Akihabara, a cultural hub where an ancient power slumbers. After resolving a local stigma incident, the duo meets an elite shrine maiden moonlighting as a popular idol. Could this Sakura Miko be the help they’re looking for?

In Singapore, a loudly ‘pro-family’ society, why is work-life balance so elusive? And why are parents so uneasy? What accounts for this gap between the lived reality and ideal narrative of Singapore families?Sociologist and bestselling author Teo You Yenn turns her eyes to the contours and rhythms of life inside families, exploring how ‘kiasu’ parents are made and investigating the ways in which inequality marks life in contemporary Singapore. Drawing from in-depth interviews with ...

You-jeong Jeong braids three lives—a primatologist, a deadbeat, and a trafficked bonobo—in this speculative meditation on communication, control, and what humans owe the animal world.Primatologist Jini has tried to forget her betrayal: when she found a baby bonobo headed for the abuses of the black market, she failed to set it free. But a late-night car accident reunites them years later, embedding Jini's consciousness in the terrified animal and leaving her human ...

Jini dedicates her life to the study of primates. One night, she helps rescue a bonobo that has escaped from a burning building. As she holds the bonobo in her arms on the way back to the Center for Primate Studies, an accident throws her through the windshield and a strange fusion takes place: while her body is taken to the hospital, between life and death, Jini's spirit takes refuge in the body of the little bonobo. Thus begins a fascinating coexistence between the two beings.Fro...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThis New Edition of This Is What Inequality Looks Like by Teo You Yenn features a new Afterword by the author, and a Foreword by Kwok Kian Woon, Professor of Sociology at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try?The way we frame our questions shapes the way we see solutions. This book does what appears to be a ...

Alec, an A-rank adventurer, meets Shiori, a woman with the mysterious appellation “housekeeping mage.” She has so little magical power that she’s useless as a combat mage, but to make up for it, she uses her magic to take care of all the daily chores of an expedition, like washing and cooking, single-handedly.As Alec adventures with Shiori, her novel use of magic provides a warm bath and delicious food...in other words, an environment much too comfortable to be called “camping”!

Now that they’re roommates, Shiori and Alec are paving their way toward a beautiful life together. Alec has decided to face his past, and arranges a meeting with his brother Olivier as well as his former lover, Rebecca—to apologize, make amends, and look forward to a brighter future, one unburdened by regrets. Before that, however, he and Shiori start their search for a place to turn into an adventurer sharehouse and education center. As luck would have it, the perfect place has just lande...

A graded reader for learners of English (EFL).Level 3 - A2/B1 Intermediate (1)Word count: 7,623Billy and Joey are art thieves. They steal paintings from museums and castles.Mr. Sweeney, a rich art collector, asks Billy and Joey to steal the famous painting "The Girl in the Blue Dress".If they steal it for him, he will give them a million pounds.Billy is excited. He wants to steal the painting because he wants the money.Joey is not so su...

DISCOVER THE KOREAN BESTSELLER AND STEP INTO A MAGICAL WORLD WHERE ANYTHING IS POSSIBLEAn uplifting and healing gift of a book that asks would you trade your life for another one?'A warm and wondrous story [...] Gentle, affirming, and utterly transportive' Julie Long, author of The Teller of Small Fortunes----On the first day of the monsoon an old ramshackle building appears.This is The Rainfall Mark...

IT’S PLAY TIME!Rita is Convict No. 999, a former legendary assassin who now works at a kindergarten for the children of the world’s most powerful people. Her job is to protect the kids from the clutches of would-be assassins! But even with her overwhelming strength, Rita has one fatal flaw—she falls head over heels for good-looking men, even if they’re her enemies! Can she find the hottie soulmate of her dreams amid the chaos at the “world’s safest kindergarten”?

Excitement is building in Storydia as the summer solstice festival nears, but sightings of a Fenrir—a wolf-type mythical beast—near Brovito Village have the locals worried that tourism will suffer as a result. And what if there is another wolf attack?! Shiori and Alec agree to investigate, but when the Fenrir goes out of its way to find them before they can find it, the stage is set for...a fateful bonding of brothers?What’s more, looming in the north as all of this is happening ar...

Shiori is an average Japanese office worker who was suddenly teleported to another world. Four years later, she’s managed to carve out a niche for herself—as a housekeeping mage.Alec is an A-rank adventurer, just returned from a long-term assignment. When his friend Zack, the local Guild Master, tempts him into going on a manticore hunt by promising to bring in a mage with special skills, what Alec finds is the last thing he could have expected.On the outside, the two could...