A large, animal-like mechanic x a Shiba Inu-like streamer! Introducing the noisy neighbor of your nightmares: a Youtuber. It's been six months since broody auto-mechanic Kumazawa moved in next door to Koichi, a streamer who claims to be an expert on love. After one too many loud recordings, Kumazawa finally snaps and shows up at Koichi's door... only to shut him up with a passionate kiss! Kumazawa has no interest in pursuing a straight guy, but Koichi stops by night after night and won't leave until he's "satisfied." Coming off the heels of a traumatic breakup in which his partner cheated, Kumazawa is convinced he and Koichi won't work out, but Koichi is determined to persuade him otherwise. Can a physical relationship between two people who are totally NOT "meant to be" turn into something real...?

A primer on intersectional environmentalism aimed at educating the next generation of activists on how to create meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable change.  The Intersectional Environmentalist is an introduction to the intersection between environmentalism, racism, and privilege, and an acknowledgment of the fundamental truth that we cannot save the planet without uplifting the voices of its people -- especially those most often unheard. Written by Leah Thomas, a prominent voice in the field and the activist who coined the term "Intersectional Environmentalism," this book is simultaneously a call to action, a guide to instigating change for all, and a pledge to work towards the empowerment of all people and the betterment of the planet. In The Intersectional Environmentalist, Thomas shows how not only are Black, Indigenous and people of color unequally and unfairly impacted by environmental injustices, but she argues that the fight for the planet lies in tandem to the fight for civil rights; and in fact, that one cannot exist without the other. An essential read, this book addresses the most pressing issues that the people and our planet face, examines and dismantles privilege, and looks to the future as the voice of a movement that will define a generation.  

The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service. Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier. Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead.

ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-awareness, laid down their tools, wandered, en masse into the wilderness, never to be seen again. They faded into myth and urban legend. Now the life of the tea monk who tells this story is upended by the arrival of a robot, there to honor the old promise of checking in. The robot cannot go back until the question of "what do people need?" is answered. But the answer to that question depends on who you ask, and how. They will need to ask it a lot. Chambers' series asks: in a world where people have what they want, does having more matter?

A bold and searing investigation into the role of white women in the American slave economy Bridging women’s history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South’s slave market. Because women typically inherited more slaves than land, enslaved people were often their primary source of wealth. Not only did white women often refuse to cede ownership of their slaves to their husbands, they employed management techniques that were as effective and brutal as those used by slave-owning men. White women actively participated in the slave market, profited from it, and used it for economic and social empowerment. By examining the economically entangled lives of enslaved people and slave-owning women, Jones-Rogers presents a narrative that forces us to rethink the economics and social conventions of slaveholding America.

A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.Growing up, Patricia Kaishian felt most at home in the swamps and culverts near her house in the Hudson Valley. A child who frequently felt out of place, too much of one thing or not enough of another, she found acceptance in these settings, among other amphibious beings. In snakes, snails, and, above all, fungi, she saw her own developing identities as a queer, neurodivergent person reflected back at her—and in them, too, she found a personal path to a life of science.In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces readers to the queerness, literal and otherwise, of all the life around us. Fungi, we learn, commonly have more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship. Glass eels are sexually undetermined until their last year of life, which stumped scientists once dubbed “the eel question.” Nature, Kaishian shows us, is filled with the unusual, the overlooked, and the marginalized—and they have lessons for us all.Wide-ranging, richly observant, and full of surprise, Forest Euphoria will open your eyes and change how you look at the world around you.

A supernatural Boys' Love manga about an ornery snake god and his obstinate sacrificial offering.Uzumaki Nanao was born to be a sacrifice. However, when his family delivers him to the god who's supposed to eat him, things don't go quite as expected. The god is more interested in taking it easy than sacrificial offerings, totally ruining Nanao's end-of-life trajectory. Can he convince the god to eat him? Or will he learn that there's more than one way to be devoured by a god?

A supernatural Boys' Love manga about an ornery snake god and his obstinate sacrificial offering.Uzumaki Nanao was born to be a sacrifice. However, when his family delivers him to the god who's supposed to eat him, things don't go quite as expected. The god is more interested in taking it easy than sacrificial offerings, totally ruining Nanao's end-of-life trajectory. Can he convince the god to eat him? Or will he learn that there's more than one way to be devoured by a god?

Fated to love but raised to be heartless – A story of two souls who must uproot the loveless systems that tore them apart. In the dystopian future of Erth, Mena, a powerful being, is trapped in the Underground where she and hundreds like her are forced by their self-proclaimed creator, Bishop, to commit unforgivable sins. Hazy memories of Mena’s past show glimpses of another life beyond the cold walls that conceal them. The only solace in her dream of escape is her team, and the bond they share in knowing this is not what they were meant to be. Under orders from another world, Azrael, the Angel of Death, locates Mena and her team. He soon discovers she’s far more than the stolen angel he was led to believe and yearns to keep her safe… but the laws of the Upper World make his growing feelings for her a danger of their own. Whilst all Mena wishes for is revenge, Azrael learns that Bishop’s cursed soul threatens the fate of Erth and the angels of the Upper World, and to give them a fighting chance, Mena has to heal her enemy, not kill him. Mena and Azrael’s destinies become deeply entwined as they traverse saving two worlds that have long oppressed them, to create a home where their people can be free. But what if their pasts have destroyed too much to repair?

「最悪な夜に出会った沼な男――」 医学部をストレートで卒業し、心臓血管外科でエリートドクターの出世街道を歩んでいた樋口聖高。 しかし、専門医資格を取る直前に"とある理由"で九州の辺ぴな田舎町に内科医としての異動を命じられ、現在はご老人たちのキツい訛りのリスニングに日々、悪戦苦闘している。 左遷とも言える自分の状況を嘆きヤケ酒を繰り返す聖高は、ある日の夜、酔い潰れて泣いているところを、"テンジュ"と名乗るヤクザの男に助けられ、訳も分からないまま淫らな行為に耽ってしまい――

Love changes you. So do the Outer Gods. Now: Alone in a cottage, Lavinia writes to the woman she loved. Fifteen years ago: Middle-aged Lavinia Whateley escapes her hilly Massachusetts town when the townsfolk decide to sacrifice her on Halloween. After almost dying in the woods, she's saved and housed by the stoic and mysterious Asenath Waite, or Azzie. On the coastal outskirts of East Providence, they start to fall in love. However, things change when Azzie, with her secret past and the strange "scars" on the side of her neck, begins to transform into an eldritch creature of the deep.