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Series
Kiki's delivery service volume 2
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
142 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
142 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
BL metamorphosis volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
138 pages : chiefly illustrations (some colour) ; 21 cm
Language
English
6) 1Q84: novel
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ode to George Orwell's "1984" told in alternating male and female voices relates the stories of Aomame, an assassin for a secret organization who discovers that she has been transported to an alternate reality, and Tengo, a mathematics lecturer and novice writer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Comics
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
187 p. : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This volume locked in battle with Ryōkotsusei - the same demon responsible for his father's death - Inu-Yasha may have a chance at victory... but not if he can't master the "Backlash Wave" (Bakuryu-ha). Meanwhile, when Kagome is bitten by Tsubakí's familiar, the Shikon Jewel shards themselves are affected. What can it mean for the shards to turn black...?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Inuyasha volume 20
Publisher
Viz Communications
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
Action ed.
Physical Desc
190 p. : chiefly ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young writer is assigned a difficult task by his editor: he is to write an investigative biography of a death row inmate named Yudai Kiharazaka, a thirty-five-year-old photographer who has been convicted of the murders of two women. Kiharazaka's victims--or his "models"--Had been burned alive while the photographer tried to capture the perfect picture of their essences. But trying to unearth the truth about Kiharazaka will force the writer to grapple...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Kids
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
200 p : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pokémon trainers Pearl and Diamond have a lifelong dream to star in a Pokémon comedy act, but somehow end up as bodyguards to a pampered rich girl on a quest to reach the peak of Mount Coronet.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey"...
Author
Series
BL metamorphosis volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
146 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Boy's love for the ages. Ichinoi, a seventy-five-year-old woman living a peaceful life, unwittingly buys a boys' love manga one day, and is fascinated by what she finds inside. When she returns to the bookstore to buy the next volume, the high school girl working there - Urara, a seasoned BL fan - notices a budding fangirl when she sees one. When Urara offers to help Ichinoi explore this whole new world of fiction, the two dive into the BL fandom...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, a charming, internationally bestselling Japanese novel about how the perfect book recommendation can change a readers' life. What are you looking for? So asks Tokyo's most enigmatic librarian. For Sayuri Komachi is able to sense exactly what each visitor to her library is searching for and provide just the book recommendation to help them find it. A restless retail assistant looks to gain new skills, a mother...
Author
Series
Before the coffee gets cold volume 1
Language
English
Description
"In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to confront the lover who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"The debut short novels--nearly thirty years out of print-- by the internationally acclaimed writer, newly retranslated and in one English-language volume for the first time, with a new introduction by the author. These first major works of fiction by Haruki Murakami center on two young men--an unnamed narrator and his friend and former roommate, the Rat. Powerful, at times surreal, stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism, these novellas bear...
18) Spot 7 animals
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents twelve pairs of seemingly identical animal-themed photos, each containing seven differences the reader must find, and also includes riddles and challenges to find specific items on the right-hand pages.
19) Grotesque
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life at the prestigious Q High School for Girls in Tokyo exists on a precise social axis: a world of insiders and outsiders, of haves and have-nots. Beautiful Yuriko and her unpopular, unnamed sister exist in different spheres; the hopelessly awkward Kazue Sato floats around among them, trying to fit in.Years later, Yuriko and Kazue are dead — both have become prostitutes and both have been brutally murdered. Natsuo Kirino, celebrated author...
Author
Publisher
Grove Atlantic
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
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