Nanami sees a person who looks like Suzumura’s mom, who left him behind seven years ago—and she even has a five-year-old daughter named Koto! Nanami and Andou decide to investigate while keeping it a secret from Suzumura, but he finds out at the worst moment imaginable! Could this be the crisis that breaks up the family!?
It’s an absolute secret-our relationship! When Nanami finally gets a chance to meet her mom’s new husband and his son, the last person she expects to see is one of her classmates, Kyouhei Suzumura. Not only is her new stepbrother cool and completely unapproachable, but even worse-he’s the crazy-hot guy Nanami’s been crushing on for months...! Only time will tell how Nanami’s unexpectedly forbidden romance will play out...
A compact connoisseur's guide, with recipes, to today's cutting-edge array of chocolates and chocolate makers from former Chez Panisse pastry chef David Lebovitz. In this compact volume, David Lebovitz gives a succinct cacao botany lesson, explains the process of chocolate making, runs through chocolate terminology and types, presents information on health benefits, offers an evaluating and buying primer, profiles the world's top chocolate makers and chocolatiers (with a whole chapter dedicated to Paris alone!), and shares dozens of little-known factoids in sidebars throughout the book. The Great Book of Chocolate includes more than 50 location and food photographs, and features more than 30 of Lebovitz's favorite chocolate recipes‚ from Black-Bottom Cupcakes to Homemade Rocky Road Candy, Orange and Rum Chocolate Mousse Cake to Double Chocolate Chip Espresso Cookies. His extensive resource section (with websites for international ordering) can bring the world's best chocolate to every door. A self-avowed chocoholic, Lebovitz nibbles chocolate every day‚ and with The Great Book of Chocolate in hand, he figures the rest of us will too.
Prepare for a lethal dose of terror… A young boy’s art takes a sinister turn when the monstrous creature from his drawings reaches into the real world. The clues to a fiendishly clever crossword puzzle predict a series of tragedies for a witch’s nosy neighbors. And a creepy old doll brings pain and misfortune to a woman struggling to cope with her mother’s illness… As you’re about to go under the knife, Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatural horror is the morphine you need. This new volume holds thirteen tales of bone-chilling terror. More than enough to send a shock though your system. Goosebumps, nightmares, shivers running down your spine… The physiological symptoms of fear infest your body. Just relax as your demonic nurse tightens the straps on the operating table. The doctor is in, and he’s ready to begin the operation. All you need is a good old-fashioned scream—and this just so happens to be this sinister surgeon’s specialty. So, shall we begin? This is going to hurt a little. Or a lot… This volume contains the following: 1. Cross Words by Peter Cronsberry 2. Hybrid by Justin Boote 3. Pipe Dreams by William Sterling 4. “For My Next Trick...” by Bryan Clark 5. Blood Debt by Susan E. Rogers 6. Smudge the Head by Kyle Winkler 7. See Me by Charles Welch 8. Half Larva, Will Travel by Andrey Pissantchev 9. Just We Two by Shell St. James 10. Caustic Whispers by Zach Friday 11. Roach by C. M. Saunders 12. Unarmed by Warren Benedetto 13. Gwen Speaks by Ron Ripley
A self-proclaimed candy fanatic and lifelong chocoholic traces the history of some of the much-loved candies from his youth, describing the business practices and creative candy-making techniques of some of the small companies.
I don’t know what you two are up to...but I don’t want you to see him again. Well, one of my problems has been solved, at least. The Naruse-leaving- the-team-to-practice-alone- because-he-didn’t-want-to-look-lame one. But that was so much easier to deal with than the Naruse-wants-me-to-say-Ilike-him or the Naruse-wants-me-to-be-his-girlfriend problem. And now we’re adding the Naruse-jealousy drama and the Hakamada-kun-not minding-his-own-business mess into the mix too?! Gimme a break already...
Even though they come from completely different backgrounds, two twenty-year-old women who share the same name, Nana Komatsu and Nana Osaki, somehow meet and become best friends, in a series exploding with music, sex, fashion, gossip, and all-night parties.