Download or read book The Sorcerer s Receptionist Volume 1 written by Mako and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2020-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of everyday magic, Nanalie has always dreamed of becoming a receptionist at the prestigious Sorcerer's Guild. To achieve her goal, she needs to attend a magic school full of princes and the daughters of nobles. Determined to prove that a commoner can be the number one student, she must compete with Rockmann, the son of a duke. When she graduates, she lands her dream job and they go their separate ways. Nanalie enjoys spending each day alongside her familiar Lala and her kind co-workers, but it seems that fate won’t let her escape her entanglement with Rockmann that easily...
Download or read book The Sorcerer s Receptionist Volume 3 written by Mako and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2021-03-21 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Orcinus Operation, life has calmed down for Nanalie. Beginning her second year as a “Receptionist Lady” with a new receptionist to help train, she has more duties than ever! But, capable as she is, she’s taking it all in stride. While both the identity of the demon that attacked the palace and the name it uttered—“Städel”—are still mysteries, life goes on. From every kingdom on the continent, mages of all different magic types are gathering to compete in the Wall Helenus, a massive magical tournament. In the midst of preparations for the tournament, however, Rockmann warns Nanalie that demons are “after her Ice-type blood”!? On top of that, it seems that there is a special reason why Nanalie just can’t seem to get Rockmann out of her life... The story of this optimistic young woman working and living in a fantasy world finally comes to a climax!
Download or read book The Sorcerer s Receptionist Volume 2 written by Mako and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanalie has finally achieved her childhood dream of becoming “A Receptionist at the Sorcerer’s Guild.” New on the job, she spends her days enjoying her life at Harré with her familiar Lala and her kind fellow receptionists. But somehow she finds herself still competing with her old rival from her school days, Rockmann. One day, Nanalie, two of her fellow receptionists, and the Order of Knights all head out together to investigate the place where a missing person was found—and one of the Knights is Rockmann!? And on top of that, he won’t stop bugging her about every little thing she does! Here is the long-awaited second volume of this slice-of-life isekai fantasy series about one optimistic young woman!
Download or read book Sorcerers Secretaries Volume 1 written by Amy Kim Ganter and published by TokyoPop. This book was released on 2006-02-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nicole Hayes sure likes to daydream, especially during her boring part-time job as a receptionist. Josh can't seem to snap her out of her daydreams and get her to notice him.
Download or read book The Last Dragonslayer written by Jasper Fforde and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As magic fades from the world, 15-year-old Jennifer Strange is having trouble keeping her magician employment agency business afloat, until she begins having visions that foretell the death of the last dragon and the coming of Big Magic.
Download or read book Thank You for Smoking written by Christopher Buckley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PEOPLE AND USA TODAY • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Nobody blows smoke like Nick Naylor. He’s a spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies–in other words, a flack for cigarette companies, paid to promote their product on talk and news shows. The problem? He’s so good at his job, so effortlessly unethical, that he’s become a target for both anti-tobacco terrorists and for the FBI. In a country where half the people want to outlaw pleasure and the other want to sell you a disease, what will become of Nick Naylor?
Download or read book The Rhesus Chart written by Charles Stross and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hugo Award-winning author of The Delirium Brief reveals the secrets of The Laundry Files in an adventure of Lovecraftian horror and espionage hi-jinks... As a newly appointed junior manager within the Laundry—the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats—Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative to help the agency battle the forces of darkness. But shining a light on what’s best left in the shadows is the last thing Bob wants to do—especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus. Traders employed by a merchant bank in London are showing signs of infection—an array of unusual symptoms such as super-strength and -speed, an uncanny talent for mind control, an extreme allergic reaction to sunlight, and an unquenchable thirst for blood. While his department is tangled up in bureaucratic red tape (and Buffy reruns) debating how to stop the rash of vampirism, Bob digs deeper into the bank’s history—only to uncover a blood-curdling conspiracy between men and monsters...
Download or read book I Want to Be a Receptionist in This Magical World Vol 1 manga written by MAKO and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since she was little, Nunnally has always wanted to be one of the graceful, capable receptionists of the Hall. As only first-rate mages are hired for the position, she enrolls in the kingdom’s magic academy to hone her skills, where she feels out of place in a classroom of nobles—including a genuine prince. She decides that despite being a commoner, she’s going to be the top of her class...but for some reason, she just can’t beat the one person she’d most like to—the snobbish boy seated next to her, Alweiss Rockmann...!
Download or read book Chronic City written by Jonathan Lethem and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Best Book of the Year. A searing and wildly entertaining love letter to New York City from the bestselling author of Motherless Brooklyn and Fortress of Solitude. Chase Insteadman, former child television star, has a new role in life—permanent guest on the Upper East Side dinner party circuit, where he is consigned to talk about his astronaut fiancée, Janice Trumbull, who is trapped on a circling Space Station. A chance encounter collides Chase with Perkus Tooth, a wily pop culture guru with a vicious conspiratorial streak and the best marijuana in town. Despite their disparate backgrounds and trajectories Chase and Perkus discover they have a lot in common, including a cast of friends from all walks of life in Manhattan. Together and separately they attempt to define the indefinable, and enter into a quest for the most elusive of things: truth and authenticity in a city where everything has a price. "Full of dark humor and dazzling writing" --Entertainment Weekly
Download or read book Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody Vol 2 light novel written by Hiro Ainana and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2017-05-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in a gamelike fantasy world, Satou Suzuki is in no hurry to get back to his "death march" at home. He's content to take in the sights of Seiryuu City, go to a play with his friend Zena, and take care of the five girls in his party. After he discovers one of them was summoned from Japan like him, though, he prepares for a journey to learn more--until another friend is kidnapped by an evil sorcerer!
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book The Sorcerer s Receptionist Volume 4 written by Mako and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s been eight months since the world lived through a peril unlike any other that came before. Nanalie continues to enjoy her freedom, working at Harré, hanging out with friends, and even seeing Rockmann on rare occasion. When she hears a rumor of a wax doll that can send people into the past or future, she doesn’t make much of it. Little does she know said doll is about to turn her whole life on its head, forcing her to reflect on questions she’s avoided like the plague... A jealous former classmate travels into the past to take Rockmann for herself, leaving Nanalie and company no choice but to follow. How will they stop the homewrecker, and who’s truly behind the whole mess? Meanwhile, the director of Harré, Theodora Locktiss, has her own troubles to confront. A heavy loss in the distant past. A suffocating air that sometimes hangs in the guild. What transpired on that fateful day when the hands of her clock stopped moving?
Download or read book Overlord Vol 8 light novel written by Kugane Maruyama and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After being saved from danger by Ainz, Enri and the apothecary Nfirea have been living life to the fullest as they spend their days together in Carne Village alongside their goblin-guard neighbors. But after the Wise King of the Forest left the region, the balance of the forest has been disrupted and something has filled the vacuum of power...
Download or read book The White Cat s Revenge as Plotted from the Dragon King s Lap Volume 1 written by Kureha and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteen-year-old Ruri Morikawa gets wrangled into a messy situation when her selfish childhood friend strands her in another world! To make matters somehow worse, a mysterious conspiracy then gets her abandoned in a perilous forest. Through an unexpected turn of events, she comes into possession of a mystical bracelet that allows her to transform into a white cat. Now that she's in the Land of the Dragon King, she has to hide the fact that she's humanâwhich means spending her days as a little white cat, for the time being... But how will she exact her much-earned revenge against those whoâve wronged her while stuck in the form of a small, fluffy, cuddly kitty cat?!
Download or read book Wolf s Fall written by J.D. Tyler and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A top secret team of wolf shifters, the Alpha Pack are former Navy SEALS that use their Psy powers to take on the world’s greatest predators. But while each member is loyal to the pack, it can be hard to deny the call of desire… Still tormented by his recent captivity, Alpha Pack commander Nick Westfall isn’t sure he’s fit to lead—especially when he meets the one woman he can’t claim without reliving the torture he endured at the hands of a rogue vampire. Vampire princess Calla Shaw has seen her own share of heartbreak, but she can tell that the wild attraction she and Nick feel for each other could turn into something significant—if only he’d let it. But Calla isn’t about to give up on her mate without a fight. Time is running out, not only for Nick to claim his mate, but for Calla and her coven. A vampire war is on the horizon, one the Alpha Pack can’t hope to win if their leader can’t pull himself back from the abyss…
Download or read book I Want to Be a Receptionist in This Magical World Vol 2 manga written by MAKO and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s Nunnally’s first day at her dream job as a receptionist of the Hall. With a staff to serve as her weapon and a new, powerful uniform for protection, things are off to a great start...only for everything to immediately descend into chaos when searching for someone who went missing in the woods leads Nunnally’s party to run into a magical beast only ever sighted once in history. To make matters worse, she teleports them away from it straight into...the Rockmann estate?!
Download or read book Man Play and Games written by Roger Caillois and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to Roger Caillois, play is an occasion of pure waste. In spite of this - or because of it - play constitutes an essential element of human social and spiritual development. In this study, the author defines play as a free and voluntary activity that occurs in a pure space, isolated and protected from the rest of life.
