Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning 'red pine', and Oumi, 'blue sea', while the girls' names were Shirane, 'white root', and Kurono, 'black field'. Tazaki was the only last name with no colour in it. One day Tsukuru Tazaki's friends announced that they didn't want to see him, or talk to him, ever again. Since that day Tsukuru has been floating through...

This novel is a tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and now is drawn toward Kafka for reasons that, like the most basic activities of daily life, he cannot fathom. Their...

"Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he has inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. However, one day, a talking cat named Tiger appears and asks Rintaro to save books with him. Of course, "ask" is putting it politely -- Tiger is demanding Rintaro's help. The world is full of lonely books, left unread and unloved, and only Tiger and Rintaro can liberate them from their neglectful owners. And...

Sophie hides out in the moving castle of the wizard Howl in order to escape the Witch of the West, and discovers that Howl is different than she previously thought.

Now that she's 13 years old, it's time for younf Kiki to start thinking about her future. So one night, under the shine of a full moon, she grabs her black cat Jiji, hops on her mother's broom and heads into the night. The next day she alights upon a friendly oceanside city called Corico. This is where she'll spend the next year learning how to become a real honsedt-to-goodness witch.

On her 13th birthday, a young witch named Kiki must fly away from home to a new city to find her niche in life. Accompanied by her chatty cat, Jiji, she starts a flying service and has lots of fun-filled escapades and meets plenty of new friends.

The sorcerer Orphen is on a magic-for-hire-mission; he even receives a nocturnal visit from a ghost! Ethereal entities are the lest of Orphen's worries, though, as hired assassins (and ghastly snake men appear)--hungry for blood. Along with his wand-wielding understudy (and bone-headed companion), Orphen must retrieve a magical ring from the mansion of a beautiful young woman. This should be no sweat for the seasoned sorcerer, but a young woman--very...

"On her search for famous Pokemon trainer Red, Yellow Caballero finds both human and Pokemon friends--and enemies. Now Yellow must team up with other trainers, gym leaders and even evil Team Rocket to fight the Elite Four! Yellow Caballero prepare to battle the Elite Four's top trainer, Lance... It'll take everything you have and everybody you know to beat him!"--cover.

Chihiro, a young girl, is trapped in a strange world of spirits that has turned her parents into pigs. Chihiro must call on her courage to free herself and her parents and return to the real world.