Feel the Spirit Within!Rio's journey back to his hometown in Yagumo takes him and Latifa further into the forest. But even here, danger lurks when the local inhabitants attack! Can Latifa convince the Spirit Folk's warriors of Rio's innocence and begin building a new bond? And what of Haruto's spirit, still residing within? Drunken dwarves and harem hijinks are great and all, but trouble is never far away.

Crooks and killers.' Vladimir Bukovsky, Observer The Age of Assassins describes in gripping detail how Vladimir Putin destroyed democracy in Russia after his rise to President from an unpromising start as a Berlin KGB officer exporting East-German lingerie to supplement his income. Under the guise of manipulated elections, he and a few hundred secret service agents looted Russia's wealth through fake news and sophisticated cheating, co-operation with the ...

Ryouta Arata is an otaku who's just lost his job after the dissolution of his company. Unwilling to return to his old NEET ways, he applies online to a private military security company, thinking the benefits to be promising. After what appears to be a baffling test, he's assigned to be an "operator of operators" and begins his training in a foreign country. Little does he know, the life of a private mercenary is far more grueling than he could have ever imagined!

Presciently researched before the invasion of Ukraine, Blowing up Ukraine is the first comprehensive investigation into the lethal methods Russia has used since 1999 to take over Ukraine – culminating in full-blown unprovoked war in 2022 and mounting atrocities. In this chilling, riveting and alarming narrative the authors cite ample evidence, draw historical analogies, and marshal sources that are new, little known, or anonymous by necessity.Over twenty years, Vladimir Putin skilfully man...

A plague has brought death to the city. Two feuding crime families with blood on their hands need our hard-boiled hero, the Redeemer, to broker peace. Both his instincts and the vacant streets warn him to stay indoors, but the Redeemer ventures out into the city’s underbelly to arrange for the exchange of the bodies they hold hostage.Yuri Herrera’s novel is a response to the violence of contemporary Mexico. With echoes of Romeo and Juliet, Roberto Bolaño, and Raymond Chand...

The characters that populate Yuri Herrera's first collection of stories inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Borges's Fictions and Calvino's Cosmicomics, these very short stories signal a new dimension in the work of this significant writer.In Ten Planets, objects can be sentient and might rebel against the unhappy human family to which they...

Rio's journey finds him stumbling upon a village in the Yagumo region, where he is welcomed into the home of Chief Yuba and finds friendship with Sayo and Ruri, two girls close to him in age. Suddenly, the king and queen request Rio's audience in the capital, where they discuss the secret of his parents' origins, his birth, and a tragic past that has made him an arbiter of vengeance.As time passes and Rio prepares to leave the village, Sayo's feelings morph into something more comp...

Rio and Latifa’s pleasant days in the spirit forest together sadly couldn’t last forever. Promising a reunion sometime in the future, Rio then heads for his parents’ hometown in the Yagumo region, where a village awaits that holds the secrets of his birth.

Meet Rio: a callous orphaned boy living in the slums. At only 7-years-old, he realizes he’s actually the reincarnation of Haruto Amakawa, a Japanese university student with a tragic past. While still reeling from this shocking epiphany, Rio also comes to learn that he possesses extremely potent magical abilities and uses his new powers to solve the kidnapping case of a little girl. His good deed is acknowledged, and he’s rewarded by being enrolled into... a prestigious academy for noble ch...

Going on the Offensive...With the Chinese Army presenting an overwhelming difference in firepower to his own forces, Arata employs guerrilla tactics to successfully take out a key refueling base. However, this enrages the Chinese Army more than expected, leading to an air strike against Camp Hakim in retaliation. With the Burmese Army still disorganized and his sponsors unwilling to lend further aid, the only person Arata can rely on to get them out of this mess is himself.

Love is constantly changing, never the same. Chishin, a gay monk, stuck in his own thought of "I will never falling in love again", because of his past trauma. But a free-spirited new trainee Keijyu brought a tornado into Chishin's heart. Confused by the pure and free words and action of Keiju. Black-haired cute Keiju brings Chishin back the feelings of love. Monk costumes! A true boy's love story! The monks put their full hearts into love and self-development.

The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, one of the leading figures of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was murdered in 1829 by a Tehrani mob during the sacking of the Russian embassy.One of the central texts of Russian formalist literary production, the novel is a brilliant meditation on the nature of historical and poet...