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Pub. Date
2023.
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Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence, until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he's been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, Takako's life is in freefall. She loses her job, her friends, and her acquaintances, and spirals into a deep depression. In the depths of her despair, she receives a call from her distant uncle Satoru. An unusual man who has always...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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A damaged young man meets an enigmatic waitress in a Tokyo cafÉ, and they embark on a journey that will change everything ... an emotive speculative literary novel set in a near-future Japan
It's our world, but decades into the future ... an ordinary world, where cars drive themselves, drones glide across the sky, and robots work in burger shops. There are two superpowers and a digital Cold War, but all conflicts are safely oceans
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Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun...
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Pub. Date
2021.
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349 pages ; 20 cm
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Nestled deep in the mist-shrouded mountains, The Village of Eight Graves takes its name from a bloody legend: in the Sixteenth Century eight samurais, who had taken refuge there along with a secret treasure, were murdered by the inhabitants, bringing a terrible curse down upon their village. Centuries later a mysterious young man named Tatsuya arrives in town, bringing a spate of deadly poisonings in his wake. The inimitably scruffy and brilliant...
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Tokyo ever after volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
It isn't easy being Japanese American in a small, mostly white, northern California town, being raised by a single mother. When Izumi Tanaka discover her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, it means irreverent Izzy is literally a princess. She travels to Japan to meet the father she never knew-- and discovers being a princess isn't all ball gowns and tiaras. There are conniving cousins, a hungry press, a scowling bodyguard, and thousands of years...
8) Hamlet
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
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195 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Description
The year is 2107. Global climate change has devastated the earth. This is now a cyberworld in constant dread of war. Prince Hamlet of Denmark has come home to face an uncertain future.
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Pub. Date
2020.
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414 pages ; 22 cm
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"Cain Lemaire is an ex-Secret Service agent from New Orleans. With help from his sister who's working in Japan, Cain takes a job in Tokyo as head of security detail for a very successful and important CEO. Cain ends up tangling with the yakuza (Japanese mafia) and unraveling a sex slavery ring"--
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Tatami galaxy volume 1
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"An unfulfilled college student hurtles through four parallel realities to explore the what-might've-been and the what-should-never-be in this Groundhog's Day-esque campus chronicle"--
11) The mask
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Vanessa Michael Munroe novels volume 5
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"Vanessa Michael Munroe, chameleon and information hunter, has a reputation for getting things done: dangerous and not quite legal things that have taken her undercover into some of the world's most deadly places. Still healing from a Somali hijacking gone wrong and a brutal attack that left her near death, Munroe accepts an invitation from her lover, Miles Bradford, to join him in Japan where he's working as a security consultant protecting high-value...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm
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A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins--soon to be a major film from Sony. Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin in the world"--boards a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka with one simple task: grab a suitcase and get off at the next stop. Unbeknownst to him, the deadly duo Tangerine and Lemon are also after the very same suitcase--and...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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229 pages ; 21 cm.
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In the Nakano Thrift Shop, the objects hold many secrets-- as do the staff and the customers. Hitomi, the young woman who works the register, falls for her reserved co-worker Takeo. She seeks advice from Masayo, her employer's sister. Hitomi soon comes to realize that love requires acceptance of idiosyncrasies and secrets.
14) Memorial
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Mike is a Japanese American chef at a Mexican restaurant. Benson is a Black day care teacher. They've been together for a few years, but now they're not sure why they're still a couple. There's the sex, sure, and the meals Mike cooks for Benson, and, well, they love each other. When Mike finds out his estranged father is dying in Osaka just as his acerbic Japanese mother, Mitsuko, arrives in Houston for a visit, Mike picks up and flies across the...
15) Fire Force: 26
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Series
Fire Force volume 26
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
189 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
The Great Cataclysm has begun, bringing Adolla closer than ever and when the sixth and seventh pillars appear at the same time, the Special Fire Force has their hands full with Company 8 missing and wanted for treason.
16) Ichiro
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Pub. Date
2012
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[275] p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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Raised by a Japanese mother in New York City, his American father killed in a war, Ichiro finds it difficult to figure out where he fits in. A trip to Japan leaves the boy with his grandfather, in a country he does not know. And one night Ichi gets dragged down a hole by a monster. When he awakens he isn't in Japan nor the mortal world. He has entered into the domain of the gods. Will Ichiro ever find a place to call home?
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My love mix-up! volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
149 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
When Aoki borrows Hashimoto's eraser, it not only causes talk among his friends, but is at fault for making him flunk a quiz! And Ida is ready to talk about what she and Aoki are to each other.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 19 cm
Description
Un rumor circula por Tokio... Oculta en uno de sus callejones hay una pequeña cafetería que merece la pena visitar no solo por su excelente café, sino también porque, si eliges bien la silla donde sentarte, puedes regresar al pasado. Pero como incluso lo incre̕ble está sujeto a limitaciones, no podrás salir de la cafetería mientras dure el viaje, volverás cuando se enfr̕e el café y, hagas lo que hagas el presente no cambiará....
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Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm
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Kokoro ha sufrido bullying hasta el punto de tener que abandonar el instituto, y sus días se han vuelto monótonos mientras se esconde en su habitación, incapaz de enfrentarse a su familia y amigos. A medida que cae en la desesperación, su espejo comienza a brillar; con un toque, Kokoro deja su solitaria vida y aparece en un resplandeciente castillo de cuento de hadas custodiado por una extraña chica con una máscara de lobo. Otros seis estudiantes...
Author
Series
My love mix-up! volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto, the girl in the seat next to him in class. But he despairs when he borrows her eraser and sees she's written the name of another boy--Ida--on it. To make matters more confusing, Ida sees Aoki holding that very eraser and thinks Aoki has a crush on him!"--Page [4] of cover.
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