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At last, Nunally has her dream job working in the Hall! But even now, she can't seem to untangle herself from her longtime rival, Rockmann! One day, the Order of Knights requests her help investigating an area where missing people had been found. But she comes to discover that Rockmann is part of the group too! What's worse- he's spending every free moment teasing her along the way...

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If you’ve ever struggled with self-confidence concerning your art, or been overwhelmed by which brushes you need or how to blend paint, look no further than the gorgeous projects offered in No-Fail Watercolor. Through over 25 activities that are as lovely as they are accessible, Mako sheds light on the secrets to making dazzling watercolor paintings and guides you step by step through practicing and polishing your budding skills. Learn to differentiate between monochromatic, complementary and analogous colors in the Color Harmony chapter; build your understanding of different mediums and textures with techniques like Painting with a Sponge or Softening and Blending; and take a tour through exquisite landscapes with projects like Cloudy Sunset Sky, Enchanted Forest or Ocean Cave. Prepare to be challenged in the most fun way and to embrace simple but effective methods that will soon have you mastering watercolor. Above all, No-Fail Watercolor will remind you to let go of rigidity, to revel in the moment and to discover yourself along the way—because therein lies the true meaning of art.

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After transferring to the southern office in Soreiyu, Nunnally begins her new job. Filled with new requests, new friends...and her longtime rival, Rockmann!? It seems not even moving workplaces can sever the ties that bind them together. And this time, for some reason, Rockmann seems to have taken an interest in Nunnally. Between Rockmann's demeanor, and her choice to attend the flower festival with her new colleague, Yakkrin could it be that love finally come for Nunnally?

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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?!

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Ever since she was little, Nunnally has always wanted to be one of the graceful, capable receptionists of the Hall. As only top-rate mages are accepted to the position, she enrolls in the kingdom’s magic academy to hone her skills, where she feels out of place amid 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 in the seat next to her, Alweiss Rockman...!

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With a deeply-imbedded indebtedness to their father Morimasa Morimoto, a self-made man in post-war Japan, two sisters struggle to uphold a family legacy. Sakiko moves to the fantastically free United States. Fragile and unsure in 1960s San Francisco, she clings to her brazen artist husband for stability. Hiroko, headstrong and irreverent, uses her father's money to move to New York, promising to become a famous artist. Intolerant of weakness in others, she crumbles in the face of her own shortcomings. From catty carpooling moms to manipulative stoners, abortions to adultery, White Elephant is a vivid book from a seasoned artist turned writer. Mako Idemitsu, daughter of Rockefeller-esque petroleum executive Sazo Idemitsu, reconfigures her own family discord to reflect on the binds of being female in this gorgeous English translation. Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Mako Idemitsu immigrated to the United States in 1963 where she met and married abstract expressionist painter Sam Francis. Disillusioned with housewife life she picked up an 8mm camera and became a pioneer in experimental video and the feminist art movement of the 1970s. Internationally acclaimed, her work has been featured in major museums worldwide and is included in the MOMA's permanent collection. This is her debut novel. Award-winning translator Juliet Winters Carpenter has rendered the works of Abe Kobo, Fumiko Enchi, and Minae Mizumura. Within the year she will be the first person to have won the prestigious Japan-US Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature twice.

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A LONG, STRANGE TRIPJack and Larry are busy dealing with the typical New York City troubles when an unusual drug case lands in their laps. The “flowers” drug not only gets users weirdly high, it also lets normal humans enter the faerie realm. Jack starts investigating, only to run right into the mysterious man in black again. What does he want to show Jack and Larry?

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There's always trouble on the packed streets of Manhattan, for humans and inhumans alike!Changelings do it all, from mediating underworld backroom deals to tackling a bad case of lovesickness. Now, while raising the baby dragon they accidentally hatched, the faerie Jack Flash and her human brother Larry take on some new cases. But of course, none of them will go as planned!

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