Stray cats Maruru and Hachi were taken in by Yasuo the Catnapper and are now living in the shelter. Maruru used to be a house cat, so he's friendly with the humans, but Hachi won't let his guard down. While at the shelter, they're reunited with another stray friend, Sabi-neesan, and are living pretty peaceful lives--until Hachi is taken away by Yasuo, and they hear him scream...

On his way to Amande, Rio encounters Liselotte’s party and a delegation from the Beltrum Kingdom. After helping them fight off a monster attack, he joins them for the rest of the journey. A familiar face from his past is among the group, but the reunion is a nuisance to Rio, who has already bid farewell to his former life.To thank him for his aid, Liselotte offers Rio and his friends free accommodation for their stay in Amande, hoping to forge a good relationship with him going for...

Thanks to the barrier created by the Wise God Lina, Rio is finally reconnected with those he cares about most. But while everyone else is celebrating, Lina possesses Miharu’s body and approaches Rio with crucial advice. However, her suggestion is something he could never agree to...Meanwhile, after agonizing over the future of the Restoration, Duke Huguenot makes a plan to bring Rio into their organization. What fate awaits the thoughtless, arrogant fools who incurred the wrath of ...

The insidious Fleet Street barber slit his first throat in an 1846 "penny dreadful," one of those gaudy serialized novels that gleefully offered thrills and gore to sensation-hungry Victorians. TitledThe String of Pearls, it told of Sweeney Todd, whose shop stood next to St. Dunstan's Church, just a few blocks from the Royal Courts of Justice. On this site, he robbed and murdered hundreds of customers. To dispose of their remains, he carried them to an underground bakery of one Mrs. Lovett...

This masterwork of interpretative history begins with a bold declaration: “The Modern Age is the Jewish Age, and the twentieth century, in particular, is the Jewish Century.” The assertion is, of course, metaphorical. But it drives home Yuri Slezkine’s provocative thesis: Jews have adapted to the modern world so well that they have become models of what it means to be modern. While focusing on the drama of the Russian Jews, including émigrés and their offspring, The Jewish Century...

A collection of fanciful, philosophical science fictions by “one of Mexico’s finest novelists” (Vulture).The characters that populate Yuri Herrera’s surprising new story collection inhabit imagined futures that reveal the strangeness and instability of the present. Drawing on science fiction, noir, and the philosophical parables of Jorge Luis Borges’s Fictions and Italo Calvino’s Cosmicomics, these very short stories are an inspired exten...

Under the cold, pouring rain, Christina pleads for Rio to hold her. The sight of the delicate and frail girl weighed down by her burdens fills Rio with concern. But the next day, she’s back to her calm and dignified self, and Rio is unable to confront her problems with her. Meanwhile, empowered by Rio’s embrace, Christina plans her next steps with determination. “Are you sure you’re prepared to pay any price?” Does the future-seeing goddess lead them toward hope, or something that defies r...

Maruru and Hachi, once strays, have been taken in by Yasuo along with some of their friends. They're living at the shelter along with a variety of other cats: a very rowdy kitten, a quiet female cat, and one that messes with everyone else's food... Meanwhile, another cat is on Yasuo's mind. Enjoy volume 4 of this cute cat manga that'll hit you right in the feels!

A new royal yuri fantasy!As a young girl, Princess Anisphia regained her memories of her past life in another world, and ever since, those memories have inspired her. Though her inability to usemagic has affected her reputation, she has dealt with this shortcoming by researching and harnessing the arcane in her own way. When her brother breaks off his engagement with Euphyllia, the daughter of a duke, Anisphia suggests the two move in together and study magicology to restore Euphyllia’s ho...

Ghost of Japan is a collection with the most horrifying stories, this book is the most comprehensive compilation with the most gruesome paranormals events in the Japanese history. If you like the short stories or if you enjoy reading good horror stories you need to had this book in your collection, many of these stories are completely unknown to the people in Europe and America, Enjoy it.

On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the epic story of an enormous apartment building where Communist true believers lived before their destructionThe House of Government is unlike any other book about the Russian Revolution and the Soviet experiment. Written in the tradition of Tolstoy's War and Peace, Grossman’s Life and Fate, and Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, Yuri Slezkine’s gripping narrative tells the ...

Winner of the 2016 Best Translated Book AwardFeatured in The Guardian's 100 Best Books of the 21st CenturySigns Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move fro...