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THQ - Chapter Ten

Tarron stared at the fountain of water rushing from the sandy ground with a mixture of emotions. Behind him, Rebona was busy managing the young men who fought outside the gate. He wanted to investigate why they started an altercation, but the water spewing out of sandy ground took precedence. “The girl escaped into the desert,” one of the officers Tarron wanted to investigate brutality said.…

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Nostalgic Gems: Why These 90s Shoujo Manga Are Still Must-Reads Today

Mars by Fuyumi Soryo Popular Rei and shy Kira are worlds apart until one fateful day brings them together. Rei stumbles upon Kira in the harassing hands of her sleazy art teacher and saves the quiet girl from his clutches. And when the jock plants a kiss on a statue of Mars in the studio, Kira finds herself drawn in and even summons up the nerve to ask him to model for her! This manga is a…

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Fugitive Heart by Mathitu Wairimu - Pre-Order Alert

Fugitive Heart by Mathitu Wairimu Makena has been living in the shadows, evading her abusive past with her young son in tow, running every time it threatens to catch up. Then she crosses paths with David, a kind-hearted stranger who thaws the icy grip of fear around her heart. She faces a dilemma she never expected—to keep running or to confront her past head-on. As their connection deepens,…

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THQ - Chapter Nine

A Strange New World Where Water Is Gold On his tenth day as the Border Adjutant, Tarron woke up to the sound of soldiers doing their morning exercises, carriages coming in from daily missions around the Hodari border, and the sound of sandy winds hitting the glass. The lands at the border with the Hodari Clan had turned to desert. Sands formed endless dunes as the rivers had long dried, and…

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Evaluating Offset Printing vs. Digital Printing for Books

Q. What is the process of offset printing? What kind of machines do you need and why is it so expensive to set up? The Process of Offset Printing Offset printing is a printing technique where an inked image is transferred (or “offset”) from a plate to a rubber blanket and then to the printing surface. The process of offset printing is as follows: offsetprintingtechnology.com 1. Prepress…

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Hana Yori Dango Vol. 1 by Yoko Kamio: A Captivating Manga Story of Love and Adversity

Hana Yori Dango Vol. 1 by Yoko Kamio When her only friend, Makiko, accidentally offends F4 leader Tsukasa, Tsukushi boldly defends her. Enraged, Tsukasa puts the dreaded red tag in Tsukushi’s locker — a sign that she is now a target for the abuse of the F4 gang and the entire school. But when Tsukushi fights the gang with their own weapon, Tsukasa finds himself falling for her! Find Volume 1…

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Essential Book Formatting Guide: Tips and Software for Authors

Book Formatting Once you have written your book and are ready to publish it, it is time to focus on book formatting. Book formatting is deciding what your completed manuscript’s content will look like to your reader, on paper as a printed book or on a digital device as an eBook. 1. Why do you need to think about good book formatting? Good Book Formatting promotes readability. A poorly…

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Discovering Ai Yazawa: Nana and Paradise Kiss Creator

There are amazing women artists in the world of Manga. Today, let’s discover more about Ai Yazawa, the memorable Nana and Paradise Kiss creator. Both mangas have adaptations into anime and live-action movies. About Ai Yazawa Ai YAZAWA (矢沢あい) is a Japanese manga author. Her pen name comes from Japanese singer Eikichi Yazawa, of whom she is a fan.Yazawa started her manga publishing life in 1985;…

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THQ - Chapter Eight

When the Rug Gets Pulled Out from Under You Asukai That night, Asu went to bed and read the strange diary until she fell asleep. She dreamed of a massive fountain spewing from between two rocks, water gushing out in high jets and falling on smooth rocks at the top of a mountain. She saw herself standing at the point where the water was coming out.  Her heartbeat raced at the speed of the water…

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Three Favorite CLAMP Manga

About CLAMP Clamp, stylized as CLAMP, is an all-female Japanese manga artist group that was formed in the mid-1980s. Many of the group's manga series are often adapted into anime after release. The Artist Group currently consists of their leader Nanase Ohkawa, who provides much of the storyline and screenplay for all their works and adaptations of those works respectively, and three artists…

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Binti the Series Guarantees Adventure this May

Let’s fall into adventure. Binti is an amazing series that I got into this May. Read it in one sitting, falling into Binti’s world. Binti by Nnedi Okorafor Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at Oomza University, the finest institution of higher learning in the galaxy. But to accept the offer will mean giving up her place in her family to…

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THQ - Chapter Seven

The Moments She Never Noticed Asukai Two days into their stay at Kinga Farm, Asu was still thinking about Muruthi and his reaction to her question about her mother. The panic in Muruthi’s eyes filled her thoughts often. Shaking her head, Asu turned the page on the old diary she was reading and frowned when she found a drawing of a massive fig tree. The kind with roots that grew around them as…

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THQ - Chapter Six

The Fading Waters TarronCastle KontarEseran Province, Goshalion Standing at the highest balcony at Castle Kontar, Jesah Kontar watched Bura troops march into formation with growing pride. The first time he amassed an army, he only had one hundred thousand soldiers. They were well trained, but not enough to rule a wild landscape like Goshalion. Now, twenty years later, the Bura clan had five…

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THQ - Chapter Five

A Queen’s Secret TarronCastle KontarEseran Province, Goshalion “Alright, we’re out here in the middle of the practice field,” Jaxxan said, pointing to the expanse of the Kontar Military Institute’s practice grounds. The cadets were all in the combat halls, and others in their quarters looking forward to the evening’s festivities. Now that a marshal was named, and a border adjutant, the rest of…

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THQ - Chapter Four

Pity is Painful The Kinga Farm stood in the middle of a forest in the hills found in the Mount Kenya region. Outsiders often could not find the road leading to the farm amid the heavy tree coverage. It was different for Muruthi Kinga. He belonged here. The farm remembered him, and he never took any wrong turn on his way home. Asu had always admired the ease with which Muruthi always managed to…

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Yargo

Yargo by Jacqueline Susann A beautiful earth woman is kidnapped by Yargo, the incredibly attractive ruler of a distant world, and begins a romantic adventure to exotic planets. A tale ensues: I read this book when I was in grade school so many years ago. It was on the home library shelf and the story is not very difficult to read, so I loved it then and still reread it when I remember it.…

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THQ - Chapter Three

Miria’s Coldness Asukai Rain started falling in gentle drops as Asu left the university, blanketing the city of Nairobi in a soft relentless shower. Pedestrians walked fast hoping to avoid getting soaked. Asu Kinga matched her fellow pedestrian’s pace, adjusting the hold on her umbrella and hating the wetness growing in her rubber shoes. She should have worn a pair of good leather shoes this…