The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish: Canji Baojun De Zhangxin Yu Chong (Novel) Vol. 1

The Disabled Tyrant's Beloved Pet Fish: Canji Baojun De Zhangxin Yu Chong (Novel) Vol. 1
Author: Xue Shan Fei Hu
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2024-04-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

When Li Yu falls asleep reading a webnovel about a ruthless, mute tyrant falling in love with a dainty male concubine, he doesn't expect to wake up inside the world of the novel--especially not as a fish! Li Yu soon finds himself adopted as Prince Jing's pet carp, tasked by a less-than-helpful Magic System with preventing the prince from becoming a cruel tyrant. If he can accomplish this mission, Li Yu will regain his human form. Yet how can he succeed from inside a fish bowl?!

Solo Leveling, Vol. 3 (novel)

Solo Leveling, Vol. 3 (novel)
Author: Chugong
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2021-10-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 197531932X

JINWOO SUNG, OFFICIALLY S RANK ​Leveling up in C-rank dungeons has become next to impossible for Jinwoo. But an E-rank hunter attempting anything higher? Well, that would raise some serious red flags…so the time has come for a reevaluation. And when the results are back, it’s official—Jinwoo is the tenth S-rank hunter from South Korea! An entirely new world, brimming with powerful magic beasts and elite hunters, is now open to him. But before he can immerse himself in it, there’s something absolutely vital he has to do…

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Ex, Vol. 4 (light novel)

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Ex, Vol. 4 (light novel)
Author: Tappei Nagatsuki
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1975316029

Murder in the empire means war for the Kingdom of Lugunica! While Julius, Reinhard, and Ferris are on a diplomatic mission to secure a peace treaty, a Volakian general winds up dead. All fingers point to...the Sword Saint? The three knights find themselves on the run and abduct the ruler of the Empire himself, Vincent Volakia. Their only hope is to stay alive long enough to uncover the real culprit behind the killing. With the famous Nine Divine Generals after them, however, that might be easier said than done!

OWARIMONOGATARI, Part 1

OWARIMONOGATARI, Part 1
Author: NISIOISIN
Publisher: Kodansha America LLC
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2020-08-25
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 164659729X

The latest book of the final season of the best-selling MONOGATARI series. Before we witness the series’ climactic showdown in the third volume of the "End Tale"—each part of which forms its own cohesive whole—narrator Araragi wrestles with a crucial bit of history that had turned him into the loner we met at the very beginning, who opined that friendships only lowered his intensity as a human. What initiates his pilgrim’s progress of a reckoning is his first encounter, at school, with the mysterious freshman Ogi Oshino, self-described niece of the equally enigmatic aberration expert Mèmè, and the book’s opening chapter is a harrowing standalone novella of a whodunnit involving a locked room of sorts. Our increasingly well-adjusted hero kept on being decent at one thing even when he was just hanging on, but this forte, an unlikely aptitude for math, of all things, becomes the focus of a cheating scandal and a web of recollections that forces him to come to terms with, what do you know, his capacity to connect to people.

Elevator Pitch

Elevator Pitch
Author: Linwood Barclay
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2019-09-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0385687214

**INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER** The #1 bestselling Linwood Barclay returns with an edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the beach—a heart-pounding tale of terror and menace that will make you think twice the next time you hit Up. It all begins on a Monday, when four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower. Each presses a button for their floor, but the elevator proceeds, nonstop, to the top. Once there it pauses for a few seconds, but the doors don't open. Instead, the elevator begins to descend floor-by-floor. Then it plummets. Right to the bottom of the shaft. It appears to be a random accident. . . . But on Tuesday, it happens again, in a different Manhattan skyscraper. And then Wednesday brings yet another tragic high-rise catastrophe. In only three days, one of the most vertical cities in the world—and the nation's capital of media, finance and entertainment--is plunged into chaos. Clearly, this is anything but random. This is a cold, calculated bid to terrorize the city. And it's succeeding. Fearing for their lives, thousands of men and women working in offices across the city refuse to leave their homes. Commerce has slowed to a trickle. Emergency calls to the top floors of apartment towers go unanswered. Who is behind this? Why are they doing it? Are these deadly acts of sabotage somehow connected to a fingerless body found on the High Line? Two seasoned New York detectives and a straight-shooting journalist race against time to uncover the truth before the city's newest, and tallest, residential tower has its ribbon-cutting on Friday night. With each diabolical twist, Linwood Barclay ratchets up the tension, building to a shattering finale. Elevator Pitch is a riveting tale of psychological suspense that is all too plausible . . . and will chill you to the bone.

Bungo Stray Dogs: Wan!, Vol. 7

Bungo Stray Dogs: Wan!, Vol. 7
Author: Sango Harukawa
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2024-04-16
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 197534040X

From the chill of winter to the pollen of spring, the Armed Detective Agency has your back year-round as the relaxing tales from the peaceful world of Bungo Stray Dogs continue! Atsushi and Chuuya get stuck in an elevator together, the Port Mafia try to sus out Tachihara’s secret, and the organizations of Yokohama duke it out in a soccer showdown!

So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 13 (light novel)

So I'm a Spider, So What?, Vol. 13 (light novel)
Author: Okina Baba
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 197533986X

THIS SYSTEM IS RIGGED... ​Man…whoever thought being a god would make life easy needs a serious reality check. I mean, I offed humanity’s champion, then I hacked into the world’s System to literally erase the pesky Hero title once and for all, but I still can’t catch a break. Now Yamada’s inherited his brother’s title, and it looks like he and the other reincarnations are on their way to the elf village juuust when the demon army is looking to conquer it. Ugh, this is becoming way too big a headache...Time for plan B. I think I’ll have a little “chat” with Sariel.

The Last Bookseller

The Last Bookseller
Author: Gary Goodman
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2021-12-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1452966915

A wry, unvarnished chronicle of a career in the rare book trade during its last Golden Age When Gary Goodman wandered into a run-down, used-book shop that was going out of business in East St. Paul in 1982, he had no idea the visit would change his life. He walked in as a psychiatric counselor and walked out as the store’s new owner. In The Last Bookseller Goodman describes his sometimes desperate, sometimes hilarious career as a used and rare book dealer in Minnesota—the early struggles, the travels to estate sales and book fairs, the remarkable finds, and the bibliophiles, forgers, book thieves, and book hoarders he met along the way. Here we meet the infamous St. Paul Book Bandit, Stephen Blumberg, who stole 24,000 rare books worth more than fifty million dollars; John Jenkins, the Texas rare book dealer who (probably) was murdered while standing in the middle of the Colorado River; and the eccentric Melvin McCosh, who filled his dilapidated Lake Minnetonka mansion with half a million books. In 1990, with a couple of partners, Goodman opened St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater, one of the Twin Cities region’s most venerable bookshops until it closed in 2017. This store became so successful and inspired so many other booksellers to move to town that Richard Booth, founder of the “book town” movement in Hay-on-Wye in Wales, declared Stillwater the First Book Town in North America. The internet changed the book business forever, and Goodman details how, after 2000, the internet made stores like his obsolete. In the 1990s, the Twin Cities had nearly fifty secondhand bookshops; today, there are fewer than ten. As both a memoir and a history of booksellers and book scouts, criminals and collectors, The Last Bookseller offers an ultimately poignant account of the used and rare book business during its final Golden Age.

Solo Leveling, Vol. 2 (novel)

Solo Leveling, Vol. 2 (novel)
Author: Chugong
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1975319303

ARISE! Once dubbed the Weakest Hunter of All Mankind, Jinwoo is now…well, something else entirely. Armed with his mysterious system, he’s currently powerful enough to single-handedly clear dungeons that once would have proven life-threatening. He just has to ready himself to take on the Demon’s Castle—and what better way to do so than finishing a quest? Exclusive new weapons and skills from an assassin-class job may be just what Jinwoo needs… but the system seems to have other plans for him!

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 7 (light novel)

The Saga of Tanya the Evil, Vol. 7 (light novel)
Author: Carlo Zen
Publisher: Yen Press LLC
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2020-06-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316560758

The eastern front is a place where soldiers never sleep and artillery guns howl without rest. This quagmire is where the Salamander Kampfgruppe has been hurled once again, just another cog in the grand war machine of their fatherland. Still, there's only so much one unit can do. As the fighting ramps up with renewed enemy attacks and a brand-new weapon that pitches the Federation's quantity against the Empire's quality, Tanya faces one of her toughest battles yet, making a certain visitor's arrival a sight for sore eyes...