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"What lurks in the shadows, just below waking consciousness?" Subtext can be the most important element in text and in a performance. It's an unseen force that speaks directly to the reader's unconscious, deepening meaning and understanding. Great subtext reveals more than simple dialogue and action and is at the heart of the best books and films. It is what glues us to the screen. This book goes far beyond dialogue, action, gestures, genre, and...

Until she is washed up panting on the farther shore of self-understanding. A screwball comedy of ideas, Rameau's Niece is insightful, affecting - and hilarious. At once an affectionate satire of New York intellectual life and a moving account of a young wife's coming-of-age, it confirms the stylistic accomplishment and command that critics hailed in Schine's previous fiction while advancing her work to new heights of comic complexity and psychological...

Kanie Seiya has saved the park... right? Well, you can hardly call it "saved" when they're majorly understaffed and their budget is running on fumes! Which means that if Seiya wants to give his newfound friends more than a brief stay of execution, he'll have to navigate a new set of trials. Touch-and-go employee interviews and razor's edge investor negotiations may be par for the course... but when things escalate to literal trials in a literal dungeon,...

Co-workers need to get along... right? Well, things aren't that easy for the stars of AmaBri's fourth most popular attraction, Elementario. Salama is forced to slum for crash space after losing her apartment in a fire; Kobory wrestles with social anxiety amidst well-meaning rumors of a helpful park "fairy;" Muse takes a grilling from her castmates about her romantic prospects; and Sylphie... starts a dance riot?! But none of these troubles compare...

Kaoru gets reincarnated in another world and receives cheat powers that allow her to create potions. She uses them to help those in need by curing the sick and saving a noblewoman from having her household taken over. Naturally, this catches the attention of others and she's targeted by greedy men. While all this is happening, someone sets their sights on Layette. What will the enraged Kaoru decide to do? Will she never get the peaceful life she wishes...

When their worst nightmare is haunting them once again Touka Kimizuki and her twin brother, Yuuto, are a high-schooler who works as a secret agent for Public Security Intelligence Agency (PSIA). After failing to arrest the target in their previous mission, they're now facing another problem where a hacker group known as Incognito posted a video online, exposing the Transhuman Development Project to the general public. Not long after the top-secret...

It's important to keep your work life and personal life separate... right? Well, the two are about to collide for Adachi Eiko when her boss, Macaron, stumbles into a fight with her fiancé in a bar! Now, to keep her influential father from taking his anger out on Amagi Brilliant Park, Macaron will have to win him over. Can he, Seiya, and Tricen put on a show good enough to impress the discerning doctor? And what sinister magical device has Seiya arranged...

Drawing three million people in a year is impossible for a tiny park...right? Well, Seiya thinks so, but he's about to get help. The leader of the world's most popular theme park has taken interest in Amagi, and he wants to see Seiya reach his goal, no matter what the cost! Unfortunately, for Seiya, the cost might prove too high...when Latifah loses her memory again, he'll have to make a grim decision about what really matters.

En una calle de negocios tradicionales, llena de "mascotas" (personas que se disfrazan para promocionar, conviven los protagonistas de esta irreverente fábula; Guillermo, escritor que se disfraza de gallina; Gardenia, una atractiva mujer que, como una leona, busca pagar una deuda; y el Lléntelman, un caballero de sombrero de copa y frac, cuya voz es inconfundible. Cuando la apertura de un centro comercial amenaza con sacarlos del negocio, el Lléntelman,...

"-Are you telling me that it's an enormous electromagnet?!" In the wake of rescuing the mindcontrolled AnchoR, moments later, Naoto and Marie come to a rude awakening over a crucial element of the behemoth's design: its natural ability to disrupt clockwork technology! Caught between a desperate Tokyo Military and a doomsday weapon stronger than even they anticapted, the two geniuses are facing their greatest crisis yet! The third volume of the gear...