Just as Kenji is getting used to being in the Game Development Club, he discovers that there's a member of the club he's never even met! Shio Hachi is a rich pretty boy who gets whatever he wants - and he wants Roka! Hachi immediately pegs Kenji as a rival for Roka's love and challenges him to a game. But Roka's not going to just sit around and watch, especially when her most prized possession is up for grabs as the prize. What starts out as a simple challenge soon becomes a full-blown tournament! Will Kenji survive and make it to the final round?
Kazama Kenji thinks he's a delinquent. He's got the look, the style, and the attitude to match; he even has a second-rate entourage of sorts. Deep down, however, Kazama is a good-hearted kid who finds himself and his loyal gang in over their heads when they stumble upon the Game Creation Club. The club's formidable members, Chitose, Sakura, Minami and Roka, are four girls who he might actually be attracted to if they weren't so freaking weird. The girls claim to have otherworldly powers which they use to defeat Kazama's gang and force him to join their offbeat club. Can Kazama resist the girls' bizarre charms and return to some semblance of a normal, everyday life... or is it "game over" for our hapless hero?
It's been almost half a year since Kazama Kenji first walked through the door to the Game Dev. Club (Temp) and summer vacation is just around the corner. But first Kenji and co. have to deal with the first semester finals...which means it's time for an epic cram session! However, their school woes are soon overshadowed when a meteor stries the Shibasaki family home! With nowhere else to go, Roka has to move in with the Kazama family. As if that isn't enough to grate on Kenji's nerves, Takao and Roka's sister Tsutsuji come following in short order! Does he even have enough comebacks in him to deal with all the incoming shenanigans?!
When Kenji joined the Game Development Club, he didn't realize what he was signing up for! The girls in the club are totally comfortable with threatening, blackmailing, and doing whatever it takes to compel Kenji to take part in their latest crazy scheme. While Kenji has pretty much resigned himself to his own fate, everything changes when the club tries to recruit his little sister Noe into its ranks. Can Kenji keep his innocent sister out of the fray?
The inspirational bestseller that ignited a movement and asked us to find our WHY Discover the book that is captivating millions on TikTok and that served as the basis for one of the most popular TED Talks of all time—with more than 56 million views and counting. Over a decade ago, Simon Sinek started a movement that inspired millions to demand purpose at work, to ask what was the WHY of their organization. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, and these ideas remain as relevant and timely as ever. START WITH WHY asks (and answers) the questions: why are some people and organizations more innovative, more influential, and more profitable than others? Why do some command greater loyalty from customers and employees alike? Even among the successful, why are so few able to repeat their success over and over? People like Martin Luther King Jr., Steve Jobs, and the Wright Brothers had little in common, but they all started with WHY. They realized that people won't truly buy into a product, service, movement, or idea until they understand the WHY behind it. START WITH WHY shows that the leaders who have had the greatest influence in the world all think, act and communicate the same way—and it's the opposite of what everyone else does. Sinek calls this powerful idea The Golden Circle, and it provides a framework upon which organizations can be built, movements can be led, and people can be inspired. And it all starts with WHY.
In this wrenching sequel to Divided We Fall, Danny and friends fight to defend Idaho against a Federal takeover and the ravages of a Burning Nation. At the end of Divided We Fall, Danny Wright's beloved Idaho had been invaded by the federal government, their electricity shut off, their rights suspended. Danny goes into hiding with his friends in order to remain free. But after the state declares itself a Republic, Idaho rises to fight in a second American Civil War, and Danny is right in the center of the action, running guerrilla missions with his fellow soldiers to break the Federal occupation. Yet what at first seems like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows more complicated, as more states secede, more people die, and Danny discovers the true nature of some of his new allies. Chilling, powerful, and all too plausible, Burning Nation further establishes Trent Reedy as a provocative new voice in YA fiction.
"Barthes's most popular and unusual performance as a writer is "A Lover's Discourse," a writing out of the discourse of love. This language primarily the complaints and reflections of the lover when alone, not exchanges of a lover with his or her partner is unfashionable. Thought it is spoken by millions of people, diffused in our popular romances and television programs as well as in serious literature, there is no institution that explores, maintains, modifies, judges, repeats, and otherwise assumes responsibility for this discourse . . . Writing out the figures of a neglected discourse, Barthes surprises us in "A Lover's Discourse" by making love, in its most absurd and sentimental forms, an object of interest." Jonathan Culler
WINNER AND LOSERS Just as Kenji is getting used to being in the Game Development Club, he discovers that there's a member of the club he's never even met! Shio Hachi is a rich pretty boy who gets whatever he wants—and he wants Roka! Hachi immediately pegs Kenji as a rival for Roka's love and challenges him to a game. But Roka's not going to just sit around and watch, especially when her most prized possession is up for grabs as the prize. What starts out as a simple challenge soon becomes a full-blown tournament! Will Kenji survive and make it to the final round?
After a terrible war almost extinguished humanity, the New Terran Empire rises from its own ashes.Sent on an exploratory mission to the dead worlds of the Old Empire, Commander Jared Mertz sets off into the unknown.Only the Old Empire isn't quite dead after all. Evil lurks in the dark.With everything he holds dear at stake, Jared must fight like never before. Victory means life. Defeat means death. Or worse.If you love military science fiction and grand adventure on a galaxy-spanning scale, grab "Empire of Bones" and the rest of The Empire of Bones Saga today!
