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1) Grenade
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Three women tell the story of their time with Lafcadio Hearn, a globetrotting writer best known for his books about Meiji-era Japan. Their accounts witness Hearn's remarkable life but also seek to witness their own existence and luminous will to live unbounded by gender, race, and the mores of their time.
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Series
Hana-kimi volume 1
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
185 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 20 cm
Description
When Mizuki is almost caught changing clothes, the school goes wild with rumors about a mysterious girl on campus. Can she keep her secret, or will she be outed and separated from Sano?
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Soul Eater. Main series volume 22
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
200 pages : chiefly illustrated ; 20 cm
Description
The remaining Death Weapons, along with Kid, gather to stage their assault on the moon. As they approach the Kishin's hideout, Stein and Justin clash in a violent, madness-fueled battle. Stein struggles to maintain his grip on sanity while Justin draws power from the Kishin's inexhaustible aura of madness.
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My hero academia. Main series volume 22
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
189 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
"What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called 'Quirks'? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless?... In the third match of the joint battle training, the students of Class 1-A have their hands full...
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"On December 7, 1941 -- "a date which will live in infamy" -- the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000...
10) A single swallow
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"On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast, in which Emperor Hirohito announced Japan's surrender to the Allied forces, bringing an end to World War II, three men, flush with jubilation, made a pact. After their deaths, each year on the anniversary of the broadcast, their souls would return to the Chinese village of their younger days. It's where they had fought, and survived, a war that shook the world and changed their own lives in unimaginable...
11) The Wolverine
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Summoned to Japan by an old acquaintance, Wolverine becomes embroiled in a conflict that forces him to confront his own demons.
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Series
Demon slayer volume 5
Pub. Date
2019, 2021.
Physical Desc
unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"At Mt. Natagumo, Tanjiro, Zenitsu and Inosuke battle a terrible family of spider demons. Taking on such powerful enemies demands all the skill and luck Tanjiro has as he and his companions fight to rescue Nezuko from the spiders' web. The battle is drawing in other Demon Slayers but not all of them will leave Mt. Natagumo alive--or in one piece!"--Page 4 of cover
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Series
Demon slayer volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
186 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"In Taisho-era Japan, Tanjiro Kamado is a kindhearted boy who makes a living selling charcoal. But his peaceful life is shattered when a demon slaughters his entire family. His little sister Nezuko is the only survivor, but she has been transformed into a demon herself! Tanjiro sets out on a dangerous journey to find a way to return his sister to normal and destroy the demon who ruined his life. Tanjiro and Nezuko cross paths with two powerful demons...
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
vii, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The LGBTQ Comics Studies Reader explores the exemplary trove of LGBTQ comics that coalesced in the underground and alternative comix scenes of the mid-1960s and in the decades after. Through insightful essays and interviews with leading comics figures, volume contributors illuminate the critical opportunities, current interactions, and future directions of these comics. This heavily illustrated volume engages with the work of preeminent artists across...
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Naruto (Manga) volume 44
Pub. Date
2009, c1999
Physical Desc
188 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Description
Naruto struggles to decode Jiraiya's final words, and tries to figure out how to approach his battle against those who killed his beloved mentor.
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Drifting classroom volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006-2008]
Physical Desc
11 volumes : illustrations ; 19 cm
Description
"In the aftermath of a strange earthquake, an entire elementary school vanishes, leaving nothing but a hole in the ground. While parents mourn and authorities investigate, the students and teachers find themselves somewhere far away, somewhere cold and dark, a lifeless, nightmarish wasteland in which their school stands like a lone fortress. As panic turns to terror, as the rules start to fall apart, a sixth-grade boy named Sho and his friends must...
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