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Whoever wins the heart of the most eligible gentleman in London will need to be an extraordinary catch indeed.London, 1813—fae and humans alike are abuzz whenever Torquil's Tribune drops a juicy new tidbit. At the center of the gossip is handsome fae, Emrys Wrenwhistle, heir to his family's fortune. As speculation over his prospects grows, the search for a suitable spouse begins.The trouble is, Emrys can't find anyone who measures up to the person ...

Plastic surgery has exploded in popularity in the recent decades, with South Korea emerging as a leader of the global beauty economy. In Remedying the Body, So-Rim Lee explores a cultural discourse of plastic surgery in South Korea through the feminist politics of care. Pulling together archival and cultural materials from the 1950s to the 2020s, Lee takes Korea as a paradigmatic example to reimagine coalitional ways of surviving a world governed by oppressive bodily norms.

AI is not just changing what we do. It is changing who we are as thinkers. How do we get the best out of AI without making ourselves worse?AI promises effortless solutions and endless capacity. But the collision of human intelligence and machine intelligence has also started to create two diverging groups: those who use AI to think better and those who use AI instead of thinking. What if the accessibility of a tool this fast, creative, and smart is eroding our abil...

I don't think I'll ever find a light that shines as bright as you.London, 1814: hopelessly romantic fae Keelan Cricket has grown listless since returning to town. He agrees to help the Council study fae-human magic, eager to erase the memory of his passionate encounter in the country.But the man he can't forget is now in London and, even worse, joining the project too.Silas Rook-Worth hates London. His magic won't behave and he's weary of t...

Trouble, that's what you are.Hollywood, 1934: Montgomery Kincaid is striving to break out of the B pictures he's been relegated to, using his magically-enhanced charm whenever possible. But when his dream role goes to another movie star, he falls into a self-destructive spiral that threatens to destroy everything he's worked to build.Enter: Hilliard Burke — Monty's best friend, soon-to-be-co-star, and now his studio-mandated roommate — in other wor...

This town was built on magic and dreams.Hollywood, 1934: Jesse Morgan only knows struggle and hardship. But after he inadvertently impresses a bigshot producer with the magic in his dancing feet, his whole world turns upside-down. Soon he finds himself navigating the glitz and glamor of Hollywood. Even more surprising is learning he'll be working with the only movie star he's ever admired — the urbane Cal Campbell.Cal is tired. Tired of his job, hi...

On their quest to find a Dragon Slayer sword in the deeper levels of the dungeon, Iarumas’s party is attacked by a group of bandits. Newbie adventurer Berkanan never expected to have to fight other humans, and for the first time, she tastes the true fear of death. Although they manage to fend the bandits off with the help of Garbage, Berkanan’s feeling of powerlessness continues to torment her…and to make matters worse, the party soon finds themselves under attack by wandering monsters!

The Elder Lich is making his comedy debut?! And secret rules for surviving Nazarick are revealed?! With a guide to entering Nazarick and more, this volume is packed with stuff you won't find elsewhere!

For twelve years, the virtual world of Yggdrasil has served as the playground and battlefield for the skeletal lord Momonga and his guild of fellow monsters, Ainz Ooal Gown. But the guild's glory days are over, and the game is shutting down permanently. When Momonga logs in one last time just to be there when the servers go dark, something happens-and suddenly, fantasy is reality. A rogues' gallery of fanatically devoted NPCs is ready to obey his every order, but the world Momonga...

Yeld, an orc sick of life in his dark-fantasy realm, decides to move to Tokyo and become a manga editor. One day, he's visited by a full-time armored swordswoman, part-time aspiring manga artist-one who gets practically suicidal whenever her work gets rejected! Between her, a tentacle monster summoned as an assistant, and a slime girl with all kinds of ""helpful"" manga tools, there's never been a stranger pack of creators! It's the most realistic(?) depiction of the manga industry yet!

Who knew making friends could be this hard? Ainz and Mare have donned disguises and joined Aura in the dark elf village, where things aren’t exactly going according to plan.The villagers have no idea how they should interact with these extraordinary visitors, and it looks like finding some friends for the twins is going to be a lot tougher than expected. Meanwhile, the Theocracy’s invasion finally knocks on the doors of the elf capital, prompting Ainz to make his move even as some ofthis w...