The Animated Flowers Vol 1

Azami has always been attracted only to boys, especially the handsome Gwyn. Intelligent, sporty, attractive and just a little older than Azami, she's sure he would be an ideal boyfriend. Then, on the day Azami finally gets the courage to confess her feelings, everything she believes is suddenly called into question when she finds out that Gwyn is actually a girl! Despite her initial shock at learning Gwyn’s secret, Azami quickly realizes that love transcends gender, putting her feelings for Gwyn before her previous prejudices. But it turns out Azami isn’t the only girl who’s got her eye on Gwyn!

Choko Kuze is the sensible daughter of a venerable family who went bankrupt. She joins a real estate company as an entry-level office worker, but her eccentric boss is harder on her than anyone else in the company! After hearing him inadvertently call her "milady," she realizes he was the young servant boy she knew as a child. At work he's a tyrant, but after hours he insists on treating her like a lady of the nobility. Is romance even possible for a couple locked in such a crazy role reversal? -- VIZ Media

Included in this set: Her Captive Wolf: When I get word of an illegal dogfighting ring on the edge of town, I’ll do everything in my power to stop it. Once we bring those dogs back to Forever Home animal shelter and get them cleaned up, we realize they’re not dogs at all. They’re wolves. Doesn’t matter--we’ll nurse them back to health and give them a second chance at life before releasing them into the wild. I have to admit, I’m getting attached to the blue-eyed wolf who won’t leave my side. And on the full moon, they shift. That wolf who wouldn’t leave my side? His name is Shadow, and he’ll do whatever it takes to thank me for saving his pack. Not everyone in town is happy the Sawtooth Shifters are back, and their enemies have set their sights on a new target—me. Shadow swears he’ll keep me safe because I’m his mate. But I destroyed my last relationship, and I can’t do that to him too. But if I deny his claim, the pack is doomed. Her Guardian Wolf: Once upon a time, there was a little girl who grew up in a man’s world. Surrounded by brothers, she joined the Army the first chance she got. But after a bomb blast changed everything, she doesn’t know where she belongs anymore. That little girl…is me. Now I’m working at Forever Home animal shelter as part of my rehabilitation for PTSD. And it’s a rescued werewolf that sees me like no one else ever has. Baron and I have a lot in common. Too much, maybe. All his family has known is war, and a rival pack has them at their mercy. Those rival wolves think they can use me and my coworkers as pawns. Oh, hell no. He’s been assigned to protect me. That means guarding my apartment at night, and telling me bedtime stories to keep my mind off the shifter war. Baron’s tired of violence, but he’ll fight harder than he ever has to make sure I get my happily ever after. Her Renegade Wolf: When there was a she-wolf shortage in the Sawtooth pack, the elders decided it would be best to sell them to the highest bidder. I was one of those she-wolves. So I was a good little wolf and did the right thing. Now I’m stuck in a loveless marriage with a wicked wolf who considers me his property. But I daydream about what my life would’ve been like if I’d defied my pack and gone with Major Lowe, my fated mate. Now Major’s back after a mysterious disappearance, and claims my husband held him prisoner. He’s determined to avenge what was done to him and his brothers. And he’ll do whatever it takes to claim his fated mate. Me. He promises things will be different this time, and he can give me and my daughter a life full of love and security. But I’m not sure which man poses the greatest threat—the man who owns my body, or the man who owns my heart. Note from Kristen: These stories were originally published as Forever Home, Rescue Me, Protect Me, and Conquer Me. wolf shifters brothers, wolf shifter mates, small town paranormal, second chance romance, fated mates

In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it's conventional condemnation. This insistence on the specificity of ugliness, and on its dynamic status as a process afflicting aesthetic canons, reflects Rosenkranz's interest in the metropolis - like Walter Benjamin, he wrote on Paris and Berlin - and his voracious collecting of caricature and popular prints. Rosenkranz, living and teaching, like Kant, in remote Königsberg, reflects on phenomena of modern urban life from a distance that results in critical illumination. The struggle with modernization and idealist aesthetics makes Aesthetics of Ugliness, published four years before Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal, hugely relevant to modernist experiment as well as to the twenty-first century theoretical revival of beauty. Translated into English for the first time, Aesthetics of Ugliness is an indispensable work for scholars and students of modern aesthetics and modernist art, literary studies and cultural theory, which fundamentally reworks conceptual understandings of what it means for a thing to be ugly.

Whether they're self-made or born with a silver spoon in their mouths, billionaires can be ruthless in the boardroom and the bedroom. Sinfully sexy and demanding, they stop at nothing to get what they want--including the women who own their hearts. Grab this collection of 9 steamy books about irresistible billionaires will have you begging for more and Falling for the Billionaire! This collection includes: - Night Hawke by Gwyn McNamee - Marry Christmas by Kat Baxter - Maid for the Rock Star by Demelza Carlton - His to Claim by Sierra Cartwright - The Price of a Promise by Ember Leigh - Family Business by Megan Matthews - Until Midnight by Liliana Rhodes - Master of Sin by Sienna Snow - The Single Dad by Vivian Wood

As our title suggests, Contraposition is a home for art that is well crafted, but also aesthetically different. The works selected here, be it poetry, short fiction, or visual art, have all be chosen for their authentic and raw exposition of human experience and philosophic concepts. The majority of our work is done by new faces in the literary world; some on the other hand have come from well established, award winning writers and photographers. These pieces presented here have been selected as the best examples of contraposed art. Nathan Rupp & Ev Malcolm

Discover the lessons that helped bring about a new golden age of Disney animation! Published for the first time ever, Drawn to Life is a two volume collection of the legendary lectures from long-time Disney animator Walt Stanchfield. For over twenty years, Walt helped breathe life into the new golden age of animation with these teachings at the Walt Disney Animation Studios and influenced such talented artists as Tim Burton, Brad Bird, Glen Keane, and John Lasseter. These writings represent the quintessential refresher for fine artists and film professionals, and it is a vital tutorial for students who are now poised to be part of another new generation in the art form. Written by Walt Stanchfield (1919-2000), who began work for the Walt Disney Studios in the 1950s. His work can be seen in films like Sleeping Beauty, The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians, and Peter Pan. Edited by Academy Award®-nominated producer Don Hahn, who has prduced such classic Disney films as Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King.