Victoria was handpicked to be an assistant by the crown prince of the desert kingdom of El Deharia. So then why would the Imperial Guard suddenly break into her room and drag her away wearing nothing but a negligee? Her good-for-nothing father has been in trouble for gambling before, but to think he would have tried to cheat at cards against Prince Kateb... The prince's personality is as fierce as his scarred face. He earned the scars amid a failed kidnapping, during which they say he killed a man. Rejecting palace life, he has been known to disappear to a desert village for months at a time. Victoria despises her father, but can't abandon the promise she made to her dying mother. She pleads with the prince to set him free, and the prince agreed...on one condition. She would become his lover, and join his desert harem! (Source: Harlequin)
Little Princess in Fairy Forest is a breathtaking saga of a young princess, Lala, who must fight for her very existence with the last of her royal knights, Gideon Thorn. Her pursuer, the tyrannical Lord Designs Siegfried, will stop at nothing to wed Princess Lala and legitimize his reign—he’s already massacred the rest of the royal family. Princess Lala and Gideon are doggedly pursued even as they flee into the Forbidden Forest, a land relegated to myth and legend because of dragons—the mortal enemies of knights.Join Lala and Gideon as they flee for their lives in an attempt to survive the traitor’s deadly machinations. Gideon is willing to do anything to protect his princess, even if it means engaging the mighty dragons in combat.
Based on the popular Capcom videogame series Onimusha, Twilight of Desire fills in more of backstory of this rich world and its characters. In this all-new chapter, Samanosuke clashes blades with Toyotomi Hidetsugu, nephew of the villainous Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Plus, learn more about how Hideyoshi came to utilize the dangerous Genma Power.
Everything’s gone screwy at Tagai Academy. When the headmaster forces Minagi’s entire class to study Einstein’s theory of relativity over summer school, Minagi volunteers to go in their place. There’s just one problem: He’s never even heard of relativity before! Luckily, Minagi has the plucky Miss Uraga to teach him. Follow along with The Manga Guide to Relativity as Minagi learns about the non-intuitive laws that shape our universe. Before you know it, you’ll master difficult concepts like inertial frames of reference, unified spacetime, and the equivalence principle. You’ll see how relativity affects modern astronomy and discover why GPS systems and other everyday technologies depend on Einstein’s extraordinary discovery. The Manga Guide to Relativity also teaches you how to: Understand and use E = mc2, the world’s most famous equation Calculate the effects of time dilation using the Pythagorean theorem Understand classic thought experiments like the Twin Paradox, and see why length contracts and mass increases at relativistic speeds Grasp the underpinnings of Einstein’s special and general theories of relativity If the idea of bending space and time really warps your brain, let The Manga Guide to Relativity straighten things out. (Source: No Starch Press)
Shiraishi Tsubura just transferred to Ryuugabuchi Academy High and is trying to keep an extremely low profile. To live the normal high school life. But she's an amazingly talented baseball player who doesn't want anyone to know about it. Why is she trying to keep it a secret?
The bloody and vengeful grudge of Ju-On returns in this manga sensation from Japan! The landmark horror film franchise is captured in comics form, opening on a gruesome and tantalizing series of images from an operating room - a lightning storm, gory medical instruments and a single witness to the scene and whatever lay on the table. Cut to peaceful scenes of everyday life that are taking place in and around a familiar apartment complex. But what eerie presence sits just below the surface, itching to manifest itself and take out its deep-seated rage on innocents? What could have caused such hatred, and why is the spirit terrorizing again? The chilling answer to these questions is found in the pages of Ju-On Volume 2. (Source: Amazon)
Elissa and Helen are determined to have their vengeance after their sister Lucy is betrayed by her fiancee. They decide that their stepbrother Jack should pretend to be Lucy's new fiancee, and make her former lover jealous. Even though they are not blood-related, Lucy cannot imagine Jack being her lover. Her sisters try to persuade the hesitant Lucy by telling her, "you are destined to be with Jack". This is true, if one believed the legend of the "Mansion of Love". Lucy finally starts to see Jack, not as her brother, but as a man...
Enjoy this moving masterpiece full of vivid imagery that depicts everything from the basics of falconry down to the minutiae of the lives of hawks. Find out if Gentarou, a young boy, will be able to forge a bond of trust with his Hodgson's hawk-eagle, a stubborn bird who refuses to yield easily to humans. (Source: Manga Reborn)
Five hundred years of conflict between witches and the Church has finally ended in an uneasy peace, but pockets of violent resentment linger throughout the land... Saybil, the worst student in the short history of the Royal Academy of Magic of the Kingdom of Wenias, has no memory of his life before he enrolled. Nevertheless, Headmaster Albus sends him out into an unknown world, ordering him to take part in a special field training program in the South, where anti-witch sentiment still burns strong. Accompanying him are star pupil Hort; Kudo, the Academy's only beastfallen student; and their unusual chaperone: Loux Krystas, the ancient Dawn Witch, whose only goal is to peruse the pages of the legendary Grimoire of Zero, source of all magic. But as they journey south, nothing will be what they expected... (Source: Kodansha USA)
Sai is a normal student - until one day suddenly a battle robot appears in front of him and tells him it is his mission to wipe out all humanity! If he did not succeed, the robot would pick another person to do the job. But Sai finds out that he can control the robot with his cell phone - and is determined to save humanity from its end!
Today is Dilly's wedding. The preparations were all steadily underway when she discovers a shocking truth from a conversation between the groom and her father. He proposed to her because he had his eye on some reward? It was all a plan devised by her father because he was worried about his thirty-year-old, single daughter. Thoroughly humiliated, Dilly runs up the aisle and out of the church still clad in her wedding dress. She jumps into the white limousine that was supposed to be used for her honeymoon and instructs the handsome chauffeur to drive away. Dilly just isn't meant to fall in love. She'll never be able to get married. While staring in astonishment at Dilly's angry antics, chauffeur Mick is roped into playing the part of her groom...? (Source: Renta!)
Jack's wife, Cassandra, is standing in front of him, but he just married another woman that very day! Cassandra was declared dead after she went missing while on a research expedition into the remote Amazon three years ago. Heartbroken, Jack quit his job as a professor and started a new job. Today he married his new boss's daughter. Faced with his first wife, Jack doesn't know what to expect, but he's completely blindsided when she introduces herself as his younger sister and ends up staying in the newlyweds' home. Now there are two wives in the house, and Jack must figure out how to be the right husband! (Source: Renta!)

