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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 2
Language
English
Description
Unable to discard his humanity but equally unable to suppress his Ghoul hunger, Ken finds salvation in the kindness of friendly Ghouls who teach him how to pass as human and eat flesh humanely. But recent upheavals in Ghoul society attract the police like wolves to prey, and they don't discriminate between conscientious and ravenous Ghouls.
Rated: T+
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 3
Language
English
Description
Kaneki is still trying to get used to his new life when Commission of Counter Ghoul agents Mado and Amon start sniffing around for Hinami. Kaneki and Touka are going to have to get them off her tail and fast. No easy task now that Kaneki's got to bring humans and Ghouls to a rapid truce at the same time.
Rated: T+
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 4
Language
English
Description
Kaneki meets Shu Tsukiyama, known as The Gourmet for his interesting and sadistic tastes. And Kaneki learns more about what happened to Rize and what it means to be a One-Eyed Ghoul.
Rated: T+
Author
Series
Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 5
Language
English
Description
Kaneki, Nishio and Touka struggle to work together to rescue their human friend Kimi while Ghoul Investigator deaths skyrocket in wards 9 through 12. It all leads to an increase in CCG agents and an increased risk for Ghouls. As reinforcements are called in on both sides, the stakes are suddenly higher than ever.
Rated: T+
7) Yi chang
Author
Series
Ri ben chang xiao xiao shuo volume 31
Pub. Date
2021.03.
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
How much I long for this world, how much I hate this world! A beautiful requiem dedicated to modern women, a pungent novel that criticizes class society "Time" and "Daily Telegraph" praise the long-selling crime classics in Britain, France, Germany, and righteousness. Beyond the "Heisei 30 good book" "OUT" society, the most controversial masterpiece of the dark queen, Arai 1, 2, 3. Special Article Guide, although the work of Natsuo Tongye is very...
Author
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tojiro, a young seller of rice cakes in the Japanese capital of Edo, later known as Tokyo, is amazed to discover that the grumpy and shabby old man who buys his cakes is a famous artist renowned for his sketches, prints, and paintings of flowers, animals, and landscapes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to outpace her grief in the wake of her father's suicide, Marina has come to the small, rural Japanese town of Shika to teach English for a year. But in Japan, as she soon discovers, you can never really throw away your past...or anything else, for that matter.
Author
Pub. Date
2002, 1989.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After she leaves India to live with her cousins in England, eight-year-old Nona is overcome with homesickness until her great-aunt sends two Japanese dolls which need love and care. Includes construction plans for a Japanese dollhouse.
11) Bing ping xian
Author
Series
Lan xiao shuo volume 276
Pub. Date
2018
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Nine interconnected stories about residents living on the northern island of Hokkaido.
This book takes the background of the snow-capped Northland. Where people's fate has been decided from birth to life with no methods of escape. Many people there were described as a disqualified person as they were eager to seek of other's body in seeking a piece of warmth for their souls.
《皇家賓館》直木賞作家櫻木紫乃 渾身解數出道之作...
Author
Series
Saint Young Men volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Jesus, the Son of God. Buddha, the enlightened one. Two of history's most important figures whose sagely deeds have been told and retold. After a few millennia of helping humanity, they have decided to take some time off and rent an apartment together in modern-day Tokyo. But even their saintly status hasn't fully prepared them to navigate the ups and downs of life in 21st century Japan, from theme parks, to shopping for rice cookers, to the wonderful...
14) Grotesque
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The murders of two prostitutes in Tokyo allow an intimate look at the lives of girls and women in Japan.
Author
Series
Bride's story volume 9
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori's tale of life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues. Pariya's budding romance with Umar is off to a rough start due to her brash personality and lack of confidence. But if she can't figure out how to say what she wants with words, then perhaps the old adage is true--the way to a man's heart is through his stomach!
Author
Series
Bride's story volume 10
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Life on the nineteenth-century Silk Road continues as young bride Amir Halgal struggles to remain with her new groom despite the wishes of her family, who would see her wed another. Will Amir be able to preserve the bonds she has cultivated in her new home? Karluk has left home to become a man! For four months, he's off to learn falconry from Amir's brothers, living with them at their winter camp. As his training commences, what will Karluk learn...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Different classes, college preparations, and a disapproving father all make it hard for Macharu and Haruna to be together. So when they win tickets for an overnight stay at a resort, it seems like a great chance for them to take their relationship to the next level.
Author
Series
Monkey High! volume 2
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Haruna and Macharu go to an amusement park for their first date.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
日本語
Description
As all of Edo flocks to see the work of the revered painter Hokusai, his daughter O-Ei toils diligently, creating the paintings sold under her father's name. Shy in public, in the studio O-Ei is brash and uninhibited. Seeking to come into her own as an artist, O-Ei sets out into the bustling city of Edo (present-day Tokyo), where she encounters spirits, dragons, con-men and traders.
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