Aico Tachibana is recovering from both a car accident that took her father and shattered her body, then a from a world-shaking biological disaster that engulfed her mother and brother. Her rehabilitation is like getting used to a brand-new body, but as a young transfer student shows her, that is no simile. Her body is not her own. Now she must escape shadowy forces who want to kidnap her and join a desperate mission into an organic-matter-infested valley to find the fate of her family, the...

Desperately wanting to be reunited with the surviving members of her family, and needing to unlock the secrets hidden within her own body, AICO Tachibana and Yuya Kanzaki guarded by only a small contingent of divers, break through into the dangers of the restricted area. But fear chases AICO and her allies in the form of violent man-made lifeforms called Matter! Other potential obstacles include the machinations and motivations of the government and other institutions, all leading to twist...

What if Magical Girls weren't Earth's champions at all? Aoe, Thel, and Gen, better known as the Lovely Trio, first burst onto the scene five years ago when they saved Earth from a surprise space monster attack! Since then, everyone, including Gigi, whose brother died as a bystander in a Lovely Trio battle, idolizes them as superheroic pop icons. But when Gigi witnesses the Lovely Trio battling a monster firsthand, she sees something that causes her to question everything she thought she ev...

The Lady in RedTrouble has come to the village of Kingston. A young nobleman has been murdered, and there are reports of a red-cloaked woman stalking the vicinity armed with a bow and arrow. It's something that Myles Rutland, Duke of Beresford, didn't anticipate he'd encounter on returning to his country seat for the first time in years. When his faithful butler is also killed, Myles vows to put an end to this lawlessness, including discovering the identit...

When orphan Carole meets runaway Tuesday, an uptown girl who wants nothing more than to make music, it’s as if they were fated to find each other. With their shared dream, the duo charges headfirst into the world of entertainment-but on colonized Mars, with a consumer base accustomed to “perfect” A.I.-produced songs, is there any hope their organic sound and heartfelt lyrics will reach their audience? In a story based on the hit anime directed by Shinichiro Watanabe (Cowboy Bebop, Samurai ...

He knows just enough to be dangerous. A foreigner in India, wrongfully detained—will he escape before he disappears forever?New Jersey. Red Benjamin took a wrong turn and missed the American Dream. Stuck in a dead-end job, constantly at odds with his father, and overshadowed by his successful brother, the sixty-two-year-old longs for something more. After years of exploring India from his couch, he finally stops postponing and books the trip of a lifetime.B...

What if your favorite superheroes had Regency-era doppelgangers? And what if a group of them were recruited by the Duke of Wellington to gather intelligence for him during the Napoleonic Wars while they protected their own parts of the realm?Wolfgang, one of Lord Wellington's craftiest spies, is a fighter, an indulgent loner who is cunning and bold enough to go where others do not dare. He hates distractions and complications, especially those involving the fairer sex, and his inst...

Espionage, secrecy, and thwarted assassination attempts. The only thing more dangerous is being in love...Gillian Chauncey, Baroness Chauncey, is a master of disguise, trained by herexpatriated husband, a former French royalist, in the arts of espionage.When a dangerous life or death secret lands in her lap, she's thrust into aperilous world of ticking clocks and desperation, arrowing her directly intothe arms of the man who arranged her marriage.

From a much-loved expert and popular science writer comes this straight-from-the-trenches report on how and why folks from all walks of life are using magic mushrooms to enhance their lives.Interest in psychedelic mushrooms has never been greater – or the science less definitive. Popular science writer and amateur mycologist Eugenia Bone reports on the state of psychedelics today, from microdosing to heroic trips, illustrating how “citizen science” and anecdotal ac...

Duty forces him to take on the pirate code, but honor brings him back.Prudence, Duchess of Blackmoor, has one desire—to be happy again. After struggling to overcome the horrifying death of her husband, she accepts an earl's offer of marriage, confident she's taking a step in the right direction. But demons, refuse to die, and Prudence finds herself caught in an intricate web of deceit that threatens the very foundations of all she holds dear.Tobias...

The completely disorganized thoughts of an idiotic scientist.

A Middling Sense of Achievement is divided into three sections, dealing with the gates in and out of the journey of consciousness and all of the trails, windows, floors, and mountains in between. If you look hard enough, you might even find something you didn't know you were looking for.