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Series
Kamogawa food detectives volume 1
Language
English
Description
"What's the one dish you'd do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that's not the main reason customers stop by . . . The father-daughter duo are 'food detectives'. Through ingenious investigations, they are able to recreate dishes from a person's treasured memories - dishes...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kabuto is a highly skilled assassin eager to escape his dangerous profession and the hold his handler, the sinister Doctor, has over him. The Doctor, a real physician who hands over Kabuto's targets as "prescriptions" in his regular appointments with him, doesn't want to lose Kabuto as a profitable asset, but he agrees to let him pay his way out of his employment with a few last jobs. But the most lucrative jobs involve taking out other professional...
Author
Series
Kyoichiro Kaga mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone in an apartment far away, leaving her estranged son with...
Author
Series
Moon on a rainy night volume 1
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"One rainy night, Saki is rushing to a piano lesson when she crashes into a beautiful, long-haired girl, dropping her sheet music in the process. Saki stutters an apology, but the girl simply hands back her sheet music and leaves without a word. Saki begins her first day of high school the following morning, only to find the stranger from the night before sitting at the desk next to hers. She learns that the girl's name is Kanon and that she is not...
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Author
Publisher
Yen On
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Yen On edition.
Physical Desc
508 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After war with a rival cartel, a drug lord meets a Japanese organ broker, and soon the two travel to Japan for a new business in the organ trade, but while there he takes a young, lonely boy under his wing, and the three lives gradually become entangled in a web of crime and violence.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
452 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Center convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home cooking. The case has captured the nation's imagination...
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Shonen Jump manga edition.
Physical Desc
187 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
"Broke young man + chainsaw dog demon = Chainsaw Man! Denji was a small-time devil hunter just trying to survive in a harsh world. After being killed on a job, he is revived by his pet devil-dog Pochita and becomes something new and dangerous--Chainsaw Man! Denji's a poor young man who'll do anything for money, even hunting down devils with his pet devil-dog Pochita. He's a simple man with simple dreams, drowning under a mountain of debt. But his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
183 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
The Animal Liberation Alliance, an eco-terrorist organization, rescues a pregnant chimpanzee from an animal testing lab--only for it to give birth to a half-human, half-chimpanzee "humanzee" named Charlie! Fifteen years later, Charlie's human foster parents are finally ready to send him to a normal high school, where he makes his first friend: a human girl named Lucy. In the meantime, however, the ALA's stance has become ever more extreme, and now...
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