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Author
Series
Bride's story volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Language
English
Description
As she and her husband adjust to their arranged marriage, Amir strives to find her role as she settles into a new life and a new home in a society quick to define that role for her.
Author
Series
Guin saga manga volume 1
Publisher
Vertical, Inc
Pub. Date
c2007-<c2008 >
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Shonen Jump manga ed.
Language
English
Description
While the day belongs to humans, the night belongs to yokai, supernatural creatures that thrive on human fear. Caught between these two worlds is Rikuo Nura. He's three-quarters human but his grandfather is none other than Nurarihyon, the supreme commander of the Nura clan, a powerful yokai consortium. When Nurarihyon announces Rikuo as his chosen heir to run the Nura clan, Rikuo is torn between his human nature and his duties as a yokai.
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Shojo beat ed.
Language
English
Description
Mizuki is the female "prince" of her all-girls school and the lead guitarist in an all-girl rock band. Akira is the male "princess" of his all-boys school and he wants to join Mizuki's band. Love may be on Akira's mind, but romance is difficult when everyone keeps mistaking Mizuki for a boy and Akira for a girl.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed., Apr. 2009.
Language
English
Description
"Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye--originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever--the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi has come to be recognized in North America as a precursor of today's graphic novel movement. A Drifting Life is his monumental memoir eleven years in the making, beginning with his experiences as a...
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths...is a semiautobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WorldWar II. The soldiers are told that they must go into battle and die for the honor of their country, with certain execution facing them if they return alive. Mizuki was a soldier himself (he was severely injured and lost an arm) and uses his experiences to convey the devastating consequences and moral depravity...
8) Death note
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Shonen Jump advanced graphic novel ed.
Language
English
Description
When high school student Light Yagami finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a Shinigami death god, he discovers that any person whose name is written in it dies, so Light decides to use the notebook to rid the world of evil.
9) Yotsuba&!
Author
Publisher
ADV Manga
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Yotsuba is the charming new girl in town in this all-ages shojo manga by the author of the popular Azumanga Daioh series. In seven stories, the green-haired four-year-old discovers air conditioners, doorbells, cicadas, swings and more, and does it all with the energy of a small hurricane. Her excitement is contagious and infects her handsome young adoptive father as well as the gaggle of pretty girls next door, all of whom get tangled up in her adventures...
10) Buddha
Author
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
c2003-<c2007>
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
An award-winning fictional graphic novel biography of Siddhartha, Gautama Buddha.
11) Princess knight
Author
Series
Princess Knight volume 1
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
In order to inherit her kingdom, Princess Sapphire is raised as a prince, and must fend off usurpers to the crown, evil witches, and jealous goddesses to secure her throne and find her own handsome prince.
12) Naruto
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Shonen Jump graphic novel ed.
Language
English
Description
"In another world, ninja are the ultimate power--and in the village of Konohagakure live the stealthiest ninja in the world. But twelve years ago Konohagakure was attached by a fearsome threat--a nine-tailed fox demon which claimed the life of the Hokage, the village champion. Today, peace has returned, and a troublemaking orphan named Uzumaki Naruto is struggling to graduate from the ninja Academy. His goal: to become the next Hokage. But unknown...
13) Bleach
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Shonen jump graphic novel ed.
Language
English
Formats
15) Wandering son
Author
Publisher
Fantagraphics Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone : Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy "--Publisher's decription from vol. 1.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ, LLC
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
"Nausicaa?, a gentle but strong-willed, young princess, has an empathic bond with the giant insects that evolved as a result of the ecosystem's destruction. Growing up in the Valley of the Wind, she learned to read the soul of the wind and navigates the skies in her glider. Nausicaa and her allies struggle to create peace between kingdoms torn apart by war, battling over the last of the world's precious natural resources."--Book description, www.amazon.com...
17) Blue exorcist
Author
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Shonen Jump advanced manga ed.
Language
English
Description
When Rin Okumura learns his real father is the Demon Lord Satan, he swears to defeat him and enters True Cross Academy to become an exorcist.
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