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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm
Description
"Never say never. As preparations begin for the student council's play, Touko and Yuu grow even closer--and Touko starts to wonder just how close she can get before she crosses the line. Meanwhile, as Sayaka witnesses their relationship grow, her jealousy reaches a breaking point. Yuu, on the other hand, isn't sure how to deal with the budding intimacy, and starts to doubt whether she'll ever truly fall in love."--Page [4] of cover.
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Series
My love mix-up! volume 6
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
161 pages, 13 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 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. Aoki is dating Ida, a boy in his class. In order to buy Ida a birthday present, Aoki started working part-time, but now it seems Ida doesn't want Aoki to spend his hard-earned...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm
Description
"Practice makes perfect. The script for the student council play is finally finished! To make sure it is a success, the council holds a practice camp during summer vacation. Touko, Sayaka, and Yuu soon find themselves faced with sleeping together in the same room. Whatever happens at camp, it promises to be three days of super-charged emotions!"--Page [4] of cover.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 24 cm
Description
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
2019.
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"On a summer afternoon, Tsukiko and her former high school teacher have prepared and eaten somen noodles together. 'Tell me a story from long ago, ' Sensei says. 'I wasn't alive long ago, ' Tsukiko says, 'but should I tell you a story from when I was little?' 'Please do, ' Sensei replies, and so Tsukiko tells him that, when she was a child, she awakened one day to find something with a pale red face and something with a dark red face in her room,...
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Series
Love at fourteen volume 5
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
188 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Description
"On the heels of the sports festival comes the biggest middle school event yet--the class trip! But before Kazuki and Kanata can worry about keeping up appearances in Kyoto, they'll have to ptheir exams. When Kazuki's math skills don't measure up to his--or Kanata's--model-student standards, though, the only person he can ask for help is ... Shiki-san?!"--Page 4 of cover.
49) The factory
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In an unnamed Japanese city, three seemingly normal and unrelated characters find work at a sprawling industrial factory. They each focus intently on their specific jobs: one studies moss, one shreds paper, and the other proofreads incomprehensible documents. Life in the factory has its own logic and momentum, and, eventually, the factory slowly expands and begins to take over everything, enveloping these poor workers. The very margins of reality...
50) Moshi Moshi
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In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshie's much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown woman. It is only when Yoshie and her mother move to Shimo-kitazawa, a traditional Tokyo neighborhood of narrow streets, quirky shops, and friendly residents that they can finally start to put their painful past behind them. However, despite their attempts to move forward, Yoshie is haunted by nightmares in which her father is looking for the phone he left...
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Series
I think our son is gay volume 5
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
120 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Description
A doting mother and her two beloved sons, one of whom she thinks is probably gay, go about their daily lives in this hilarious and heartwarming LGBTQIA+-friendly family comedy! Tomoko is no stranger to change. With two boys in high school and a husband who's away on the job a lot, being able to adapt to new situations comes with the territory. Now, Hiroki is throwing himself into his afterschool activities with bestie Daigo despite nursing a potential...
52) Drone command
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Series
Troy Pearce novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"When China stakes a dubious claim in the hotly disputed waters of the East China Sea, the prime minister of Japan threatens to dispatch the country's naval assets and tear up its antiwar constitution unless the Americans forcefully intervene. The war-weary Americans are reluctant to confront the powerful Chinese navy directly, but if the Japanese provoke a military conflict with their historic enemy, treaty obligations would draw the United States...
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Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Hearing rumors of the construction of a formidable Japanese battleship capable of adversely shifting power in World War II, Lieutenant Commander Gar Hammond is charged with leading a first American submarine into the Inland Sea in the hopes of finding and stopping the seemingly invincible ship.
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Series
Rei Shimura mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
viii, 293 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Rei Shimura is a Japanese-American antiques dealer who, looking to supplement her income, has begun writing a column for the Gaijin Times, Tokyo's English-language newspaper. When the paper's owner decides to transform the publication from a conventional news outlet to a comic book magazine, Shimura gets what is, for her, an unwanted assignment--to write an article on the history and culture of manga. Shimura discovers Mars Girl, a manga that follows...
55) Brave story
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
816 pages : map ; 23 cm
Description
With a determined plan to reunite his mother and father, the 10-year-old boy named Wataru knowingly enters a fantasy realm inhabited by a goddess who has the power to change destiny. With the help of the Lizard Boy, the Cat Girl, and the Fire-breathing Dragon, Wataru faces a series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure. One way or another, the young hero must reach the Tower of Destiny and bring his mother and...
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
576 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"This tour-de-force is widely regarded as the quintessential post-WWII Japanese novel. A plan to kidnap a major corporation's CEO becomes an allegory for the alienation of the individual self, a mirror to modern-day Japanese identity. In 1995 in Tokyo, five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on the horses. They have little in common except a disaffection with their lives. One is a poorly socialized but genius factory welder. One is a demoted...
57) Catfish rolling
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"There's a catfish under Japan, and when it rolls the land rises and falls. At least that's what Sora was told after she lost her mother to an earthquake so powerful that it cracked time itself. Sora and her father are some of the few who still live near one of these "zones"--the places where time has been irrevocably sped up or slowed down. Sora's father leads a research team studying the zones, and even as his colleagues begin to fall ill, he refuses...
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Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 12
Pub. Date
[2006], c1999
Physical Desc
185 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
"At last, the finals of the third phase of the Chunin Selection Exams begin!"--Cover.
59) Memorial
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Description
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...
Author
Series
Naruto (Manga) volume 10
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
175 p. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
In the village of Konohagakure, school is literally a battlefield where classmates are ninjas in training competing to become the greatest ninja in the land.
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