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  Yaosen: The Kiss

  Nancy Richter

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  'The first kiss hit the nose. The second landed on the forehead. The third was a straight hit.’ 
  Li Yuanjun, the grandson of the matriarch of the Yaosen School of Cultivators, spends his quiet and uneventful life teaching swordsmanship. Recently, life became a little too quiet for his taste. 
  He Weimin, a blind guest cultivator, brings the highly desired change into his life. He Weimin is friendly and courteous to everyone. But why is he acting aloof and reserved toward Li Yuanjun in particular? 
  The more Li Yuanjun tries to make friends with He Weimin, the more he avoids him. Li Yuanjun is determined to uncover what’s under He Weimin’s stoic mask. And if he’s able to find out his secret along the way, all the better . . . 
  Yaosen: The Kiss is a stand-alone M/M fantasy cultivation novella packed with questionable sword names, exquisite wines, and a happy ending.

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  Supes Ain't Always Heroes -...

  Matthew Snyder, Lynn S. Zubernis

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  Go deeper inside the hit TV show The Boys and its characters with psychologists, media experts, filmmakers, and more—including the original comic series' cocreator and the actors behind Soldier Boy and Stormfront. 
   
   
   
  Supes Ain't Always Heroes offers a fresh look at The Boys, delving into the show's unflinching depiction of celebrity, politics, social media, corporate greed, racism, sexism, and more: 
   
   
   
  ● The true difference between Homelander and Billy Butcher—and who the show's biggest villain really is 
   
   
   
  ● What Soldier Boy's characterization says about how we define masculinity 
   
   
   
  ● How today's media landscape has contributed to The Boys' success 
   
   
   
  ● What the evolutions of Hughie, Starlight, A-Train, Mother's Milk, and other show standouts reflect about addiction, family, identity, and self-acceptance 
   
   
   
  PLUS: Exclusive interviews with The Boys comics cocreator Darick Robertson and actors Jensen Ackles, Jim Beaver, Aya Cash, and Nathan Mitchell provide a unique glimpse behind the scenes. Comments from editor interviews with more of the show's stars give further insight into their experiences in bringing these complex characters to life.

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  Twin-Shadowed Knight Parts One...

  Hideyuki Kikuchi, Yoshitaka Amano

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  "When Vampire Hunter D entered the town of Sedoc it was in search of answers to the meaning of a dying vampire's last words: ""Find Muma."" But when he meets Mia, the daughter of the local fortuneteller, he learns the mists emanating from a smoking crater on the outskirts of Sedoc have reanimated thousands of corpses, compelling them to crawl from their graves and hurl themselves into the smoking chasm. When D goes to investigate, he finds himself split in two: a second Vampire Hunter D, full of passion and lust and hunger for the company of women, is born!Adapted from the novel and produced with a full cast of actors, immersive sound effects and cinematic music!Performed by Scott McCormick, David Cui Cui, Emlyn McFarland, Terence Aselford, Drew Kopas, Kay Eluvian, Michael Glenn, Jenna Sharpe, Christopher Williams, Ryan Dalusung, Matthew Pauli, Eva Wilhelm, Eric Messner, Rayner Gabriel, Daniel Llacca, Steve Wannall, Anthony Palmini, Christopher Walker, John Kielty and Nanette Savard."

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  Adam Bede

  George Eliot

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  A bestseller from the moment of publication, Adam Bede, although on one level a rich and loving re-creation of a small community shaken to its core, is more than a charming, faultlessly evoked pastoral. However much the reader may sympathize with Hetty Sorrel and identify with Arthur Donnithorne, her seducer, and with Adam Bede, the man Hetty betrays,it is George Eliots's creation of the distant aesthetic whole - the complex, multifarious life of Hayslope - which so grips the reader's imagination. As Stephen Gill comments: 'Reading the novel is a process of learning simultaneously about the world of Adam Bede and the world of Adam Bede.'

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  A Daughter Of The Vine

  Gertrude Atherton

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  We are introduced to Englishman Dudley Thorpe on the evening of his arrival in California. At a ball, he is introduced to several belles, including the lovely Nina Randolph. Is this the start of something special? Dudley thinks so, but what about Nina? Why won't she open herself up to love? She is obviously attracted to Dudley. What is the dark secret she is hiding? Will it make a difference to Dudley's feelings? Who will be there for her in her time of need? Dudley or her odious cousin, Richard Clough? And what will San Francisco society make of it all?

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  Comic Book Punks - How a...

  Karl Stock

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  The influence of the comic book has never been greater, from movies to streaming and beyond, but the journey comics took from little-regarded kids' magazines to literary prize-winning books and global franchises turned on a highly unusual group of writers and artists. Few would have expected a small gathering of British comic book fans and creators in the early 'seventies to be a global cultural pivot-point, but this was the start of a disparate movement of punks, dropouts, and disaffected youths who reinvented a medium and became the imaginative heart of a global success story. 
   
   
   
  Based on years of interviews with a generation of leading writers, artists, and editors, Karl Stock reveals the true story of the wild times, passion, and determination that helped, hindered, and saw the reinvention of comics. 
   
   
   
  Stock brilliantly tells the story of the triumphs and disasters that rewrote the rulebook on what comics could be and who they should be for.

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