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Dragons are as valuable as they are rare. It’s said their meat tastes exquisite, their blood can heal any wound, and their hearts grant immortality when consumed. A tiger is lucky enough to capture one, but as she’s about to devour the beast, she pauses—he’s much too young to make into a meal. The tiger decides to raise the dragon herself, and it turns out there’s more to him than meets the eye. Is it simply natural instincts that draw the predator and her prey to each other, or is it some...

Sakuya Outsuki is the son of a legendary detective, striving to follow in his father’s footsteps with the help of his assistant, Lilithea. This isn’t your average high-school sleuth, though-because he comes back to life every time he’s killed! Being a little too familiar with death and always awakening to Lilithea by his side, Sakuya’s happy to take on low-risk cases. Surely investigating a movie producer’s affair on a luxury cruise ship won’t pose any real threat! But when the duo ends up...

Stretch your brain up, down, and sideways with addictive area mazes!Introducing a new puzzle obsession for sodoku lovers . . . amazing, absorbing area mazes.First invented for gifted students, area mazes blend grade-school math with genius logic. Put down that calculator! You can always find "?" using simple, whole numbers, your wits—and a pencil.Already hooked on area mazes? Venture into the third dimension with 100 3D puzzles, included here for the ...

Hekidou and Hakurei have been separated by Shinsui, Hekidou’s birth mother, who intends to mate with her own son to repopulate the endangered dragon race—and she isn’t afraid to use Hakurei’s life as a bargaining chip to get her way. In Shinsui’s eyes, no act of coercion is too cruel if it’s to save the species…but is that what Hekidou wants? While he weighs his options for escape, Hakurei roams the land in search of him, even risking stepping into enemy tiger territory. Will the two be ab...

Determined to stay together for as long as possible, the young dragon Hekidou and his tiger companion embark on a journey to find a way to extend the tiger’s lifespan. But they must move quickly, as Hekidou has a pursuer on his tail—a female dragon who wants nothing more than to be with the only other survivor of her kind. Between her and the numerous animals who are eager to taste a dragon’s heart, Hekidou struggles for freedom in the relentless wilds. Can the tiger huntress protect her p...

As Hekidou and Hakurei continue along their journey, they are invited into a forest that forbids meat eaters from entering. There, they meet their hosts: a herd of herbivores who are completely unaware of the outside world, and their elder, a lone dragon!

Hekidou and Hakurei continue their trek through the wilds as they search for a way to extend Hakurei’s lifespan, dodging dangerous predators along the way. Eventually, they must answer an important question: Why do they want to stay together so badly? Is their connection one born of free will, or are they bound by biological instinct? A discovery about the past just might provide some guidance…

While investigating a cruise ship, Sakuya Outsuki learns of a tragedy that shouldn’t have been possible: His own father, the legendary Immortal Detective, is dead! If that wasn’t bad enough, all the sleuths working for his dad have leftft as well. To protect his father’s agency—and ensure they have a home to return to—Sakuya and his assistant, Lilithea, must truly work as one. In this fifinal volume, can they solve the murder mystery at the perplexing Kowloon’s Hotel?

This volume examines the major cultural, religious, political, and urban changes that took place in the Iranian world of Inner and Central Asia in the transition from the pre-Islamic to the Islamic periods.One of the major civilizations of the first millennium was that of the Iranian linguistic and cultural world, which stretched from today’s Iraq to what is now the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China. No other region of the world underwent such radical transformat...

Perfect for sudoku fans—the rules for these 100 logic puzzles are simple, and the math is easy. But the puzzles get harder and harder!Once you match wits with area mazes, you'll be hooked! Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value.Just Remember:Area = length × widthUse spatial reasoning to find helpful relationshipsWhole numbers are all you need. You can always get th...

Perfect for sudoku fans—the rules for these 100 logic puzzles are simple, and the math is easy. But the puzzles get harder and harder!Hooked on area mazes? YOU'RE IN LUCK! Volume Two delivers 100 more puzzles. Your quest is to navigate a network of rectangles to find a missing value. Just remember:Area = length × widthUse spatial reasoning to find helpful relationshipsWhole numbers are all you need. You can always ...