After battling the Conqueror of Flames, Rimuru earns new, incredible skills that will aid him in his ongoing quest to improve the lives of his subordinates. A distress call brings him and his companions into battle with a crushing crew of ogres who have a score to settle with Rimuru and the residents of the goblin village.
Rimuru and his friends were trying to find craftsmen in the Dwarven Kingdom, but they become caught in a trial where they are forbidden from defending themselves--that's because their accuser is the Dwarven King himself. Their adventure also puts them in the path of Shizu, a demure and mysterious woman who makes a special connection with Rimuru, but may also be hiding a dangerous power inside her.
Rimaru takes on the mask of his long-lost friend Shizu, and in an effort to bridge the gap between the land of the monster and the land of humans, Rimaru take his Shizu mask and take care of the orphans Shizu managed. But his Shizu mask is that of a young lady and Rimaru manages to make enemies before he has a chance to help the children.
After he is murdered by a robber, the lonely, witty, good-natured thirty-seven-year-old, Satoru Mikami, is reincarnated as slime monster and must learn to survive in a fantasy world.
The fate of Bartholomew Lampion, a gifted California child who loses his eyes to cancer at age three and miraculously regains his sight at thirteen, is entwined with the lives of a San Francisco girl born of rape and a man a thousand miles away who learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
Chyna is witness to a brutal homicide and, in her efforts to escape, learns the identity of the killer's next intended victim. Although common sense tells her to run for her life, she is compelled to try and rescue the young girl targeted for murder.
Detective Lindsay Boxer turns to the fellow members of the Women's Murder Club for help as she tries to find the missing teenage son of a recent governor and track down an arsonist that is burning San Francisco's most beautiful homes, with the owners still inside.
Discusses the case of the murder of Emmett Till and examines the investigative and forensic methods that crime scene investigators use in such situations.
a story of two towns, a death, and America's dilemma
Kotlowitz, Alex
Discusses the impact on a community's race relations when a young African-American is found murdered near a river which separates two Michigan towns; one predominantly white and prosperous and the other African-American and impoverished.
