All Misaki wanted was a free education. Instead, she accidentally lands an exclusive contract with the most prestigious girl in school... to serve as her personal maid! Misaki soon discovers that Amanotsuka Academy for Girls is no ordinary schoolâher classes are all about how to be a maid, too! Students who impress the schoolâs elite young ladies with their domestic service skills might be lucky enough to become a âSeraph,â guaranteeing them a job with an upper-class household after they graduate. But Misaki doesnât want to be a maid; she just wants to study hard, go to college, and work for a good company. So why did Himeko make her into her Seraph out of nowhere? What kind of rich girl hires a maid who wants nothing to do with the job?! If she wants to get through high school, Misaki has a lot to get used to!
Thereâs never a dull moment in Misakiâs life as a maid at Amanotsuka Academy for Girls. Her first paycheck is a cause for celebration, but when she has to find the perfect thank-you present for Himeko, she just canât decide! Then a spooky mystery haunts the school, with students claiming to have seen a ghost in the woods. Itâs up to Misaki to brave the danger and find out if there really is a spirit among them! If all that wasnât hubbub enough, thereâs a new lady on campus, and sheâs an exchange student. In fact, sheâs the former mistress of Misakiâs British classmate. The Sky Salon wants to recruit her, but it seems like sheâs in high demandâeven from an unexpected party. Surprises and revelations are afoot!
A month after arriving at Amanotsuka Academy for Girls, Misaki is getting used to her new life as a maid, even if itâs not what she was expecting. Sheâs even gotten to meet a whole host of new faces, friendly and otherwise! However, thereâs trouble in store when a head maid is chosen for their class: a British exchange student named Sarah. When she judges Misaki and her friend Kirara on their domestic service skills and finds them lacking, things start to look bleak! Thatâs not allâthe staff of Erisuâs Ãcole Kitchen, a restaurant on campus, have fallen out of their mistressâ favor due to their dismal customer turnout. If business doesnât pick up, not only will they never be made into Seraphs, theyâll lose their maid contracts altogether! Misaki wants to help, but what can she possibly do?
Itâs a battle of the salons! At the school for mistresses and maids, three groups are vying for the new girlâs attention. Will Sakura join the Sky Salon, the Paradise Palace, or the Gloriana Guesthouse? Kagura, head of the Sky Salon, is determined to beat the competition fair and square. Itâs a battle of wits, ambition, andâbelieve it or notâhomemade confections. Plus, the mystery of who spread the word about Sakuraâs arrival is solved. During summer vacation, a new problem arises. Matsuri, a Seraph whoâs been working hard to pay off her familyâs debts, suddenly finds herself spurned by her cruel mistress. Misakiâs determined to help, but what can she and Himeko do? This vacationâs going to be anything but relaxing!
As a self-professed no-lifer, Yuri idles his days away in front of a computer. This all changes the moment his life in Japan comes to an abrupt end and he finds himself reborn in the strange new world of the Shiyalta Kingdom. His new life includes everything he once lacked: loving parents, a comfortable home, and a promising future breeding and raising birds on his dad’s ranch. For centuries, the kingdom he now calls home has enjoyed peace and prosperity, shielded by friendly nations that, like Shiyalta itself, were established with the collapse of a once-great empire. War is a distant problem, relevant only to Shiyalta’s ruling families whose warriors periodically set out to join the fighting upon massive birds trained by Yuri’s dad and others. But this peaceful existence can’t last forever. Something rotten lies at the heart of the kingdom, and it doesn’t take someone with Yuri’s exceptional intelligence to realize that those distant battles will only remain irrelevant for so long.
Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1 and 2 of Humboldt’s Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne from 1825 to 1827. Alexander von Humboldt was the most celebrated modern chronicler of North and South America and the Caribbean, and this translation of his essay on New Spain—the first modern regional economic and political geography—covers his travels across today’s Mexico in 1803–1804. The work canvases natural-scientific and cultural-scientific objects alike, combining the results of fieldwork with archival research and expert testimony. To show how people, plants, animals, goods, and ideas moved across the globe, Humboldt wrote in a variety of styles, bending and reshaping familiar writerly conventions to keep readers attentive to new inputs. Above all, he wanted his readers to be open-minded when confronted with cultural and other differences in the Americas. Fueled by his comparative global perspective on politics, economics, and science, he used his writing to support Latin American independence and condemn slavery and other forms of colonial exploitation. It is these voluminous and innovative writings on the New World that made Humboldt the undisputed father of modern geography, early American studies, transatlantic cultural history, and environmental studies. This two-volume critical edition—the third installment in the Alexander von Humboldt in English series—is based on the full text, including all footnotes, tables, and maps, of the second, revised French edition of Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne from 1825 to 1827, which has never been translated into English before. Extensive annotations and full-color atlases are available on the series website.
In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beasts roamed that could curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans lived in safety and peace. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, a quiet fairytale begins. This is a story of two people--one human, one inhuman--who linger in the hazy twilight that separates night from day.
"The NYTPD sent her to 1986 New York City to investigate the Quintum Mechanics megacorporation for crimes against time. Piecing together the clues, Dayoung Johansson discovers the "future" she calls home -- a high-tech alternate reality version of 2013 -- shouldn't exist at all!"--Back cover of Volume 1.
Five young teens tapped as models for theme park “guides” (using a new hologram technology developed by the Disney Imagineers) find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches that threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Featuring a new cover design and additional content!
Experience the first three books in Alicia Michaels’ series of young adult fairy tale retellings, The Lost Kingdom of Fallada Volume 1 box set. Save $1 when you download this 3-in-1 collection, containing modern spins on the tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Rose Red, and The Princess and the Frog. Three lost princesses take their place in the kingdom of Fallada once they learn of a prophecy foretelling their prosperous reign. First, however, they must defeat a vain, evil queen bent on having the kingdom for herself. With the Brothers Grimm and a Faerie General on their side, three young girls will find the strength to step into their destinies. In the process, they will find love … but with war brewing on the horizon and the forces of evil working against him, living happily ever after will not be easy. Book One: Daughter of the Red Dawn Book Two: Child of the Sacred Earth Book Three: Rise of the Tide
