A fairytale with a twist! After the downfall of her noble family, a young woman is given a second chance when she's reborn as her child self. The first volume of global hit webtoon available for print in english for the first time!Firentia has had a tough life. Spurned since birth for being an illegitimatechild of the noble Lombardi family, she was helpless to do anything butwatch as her once great clan fell to ruin and her father died. However, acarriage accident ...

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Celeste works at a modeling agency, and she avoids having men in her life. Her past has left her with some deep scars that she believes will scare off any man. But when she meets Rafael at a party and talks about the stars with him, she feels her heart move for the first time in ever so long. Rafael is a celebrity, though, so Celeste believes he’ll forget about her as soon as they part ways. When she gets back home, however, her room is full of flowers. Thinking she needs to put some dista...

Chessie’s father committed a crime to protect his family, but then he died. She was at a loss as to what to do after selling their manor, but Miles Hunter, a mystery novel author, gave her an option. He’d let her and her sister stay on at the manor as servants. But Chessie was unused to housework, and her hands soon became rough and her cheap clothes made her a source of gossip in town. Then Miles invited her out to dinner. He had been kind to her lately, so Chessie had started opening up ...

This classic collection of Zen koans offers a profound gateway into the heart of Chan (Zen) Buddhist practice. Compiled by the 13th-century Chinese monk Ekai, known as Mu-mon, The Gateless Gate presents forty-eight enigmatic cases designed to jolt the practitioner beyond rational thought and into direct realization. Each koan, often paradoxical or disarmingly simple, functions not as a riddle to be solved but as a tool for spiritual awakening-challenging deeply held assumptions and disrupt...

“I…was abandoned by both of my mothers.” The first time was by his birth mother. The second time was by the mother who had adopted him. To help forget his past, Justin changed his name and focused on succeeding as a businessman. Unfortunately, due to his stubbornness, he has a tendency of marginalizing the people around him. Even his wife abandoned him and their child to run off with another man. He feels like he will never be loved by anyone, but someone notices the pain in his heart. Thi...

For more than three decades, Burma’s political prisoners, activists, and visionaries have embodied moral courage in defying authoritarian repression and unjust laws. At the forefront of this moral struggle stands Aung San Suu Kyi, whose unwavering commitment to nonviolence, democracy, and spiritual renewal has shaped the modern Burmese political landscape. This book undertakes a philosophical exploration of Aung San Suu Kyi’s political thought, drawing inspiration from Johan Galtung’s stud...

This is Bruce, a confident and agile cat born in Hong Kong. He moves from Hong Kong to England where he learns different things. He tries different jobs while searching for his dream career, using his unique perspective on cats in different areas to demonstrate the challenges of accepting life and continuously seeking personal growth.

excerpts from "Tropical Symphony" - "Nothing ever fills those empty gaps when we lose loved ones. A major lesson I learnt from my grandparents and Mam is nothing truly does. Their Christian faith nourished the belief that they would meet one day and be happy again, singing, laughing and eating. Perhaps this is heaven? I do not know nor could I imagine their unbearable pains of separation and loss. Somehow, they kept on going. ... The story is not over."

This Christmas Eve was supposed to be the best day of Lisa’s life. However, instead of the proposal she was expecting to get from her boyfriend, she was publicly chastised by Oliver Davenport. Lisa tried to defend herself against his nasty accusations, but everyone sided with the wealthy and socially renowned Oliver. Now even her boyfriend and his family are giving her the cold shoulder. But there are reasons why Oliver is acting the way he is…

Olivia must live once again with her estranged husband, Xander. He was in an accident that caused him to lose the past few years of his memory, so he doesn’t remember he and Olivia are in the middle of a divorce. Olivia wants to tell him the truth, but she can’t resist Xander when he needs her so. She fears she may end up losing him twice—she’s reaching out to him, but he may end up hating her all over again! What happened two years ago will never change.

Fantasy novelist Jillian Jones-Jenkins always stays in the house. She hasn’t had a single romantic encounter in the past thirty years, and she’s never been in love. Her friend Andrea is worried about her and assigns her brother Forrest as a “trial horse” so Jillian can find out what love is like. Jillian is a dreamer, who always lives in a fantasy, while Forrest is an A-list celebrity and a realist. They live in very different worlds. But that isn’t the only problem—Jillian has yet to find...