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"Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to close the secondhand bookstore he has inherited from his beloved bookworm grandfather. However, one day, a talking cat named Tiger appears and asks Rintaro to save books with him. Of course, "ask" is putting it politely -- Tiger is demanding Rintaro's help. The world is full of lonely books, left unread and unloved, and only Tiger and Rintaro can liberate them from their neglectful owners. And...
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"In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café which has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. In Before the Coffee Gets Cold, we meet four visitors, each of whom is hoping to make use of the café's time-travelling offer, in order to confront the lover who left them, receive a letter from their husband whose memory...
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Elin's family cares for the fearsome water serpents that form the core of their kingdom's army. When some of the beasts mysteriously die, Elin's mother is sentenced to death as punishment. With her last breath she manages to send her daughter to safety. Alone, far from home, Elin discovers that she can talk to both the terrifying water serpents and the majestic flying beasts that guard her queen. This skill involves her in deadly plots that could...
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In Tokyo, seven students are hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face their family and friends -- until the moment they find the mirrors in their bedrooms are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives into to a wondrous castle straight out of a Grimm's fairy tale. As time passes, only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved. As they struggle to abide by the rules of the game, a moving story unfolds,...
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"The murder has been solved and Santa becomes the newest addition to UQ Holder. Soon after, Tōta encounters a woman who claims to be a friend of his grandfathers. She invites Tōta to enter the legendary Mahora Martial Arts Tournament, hoping he can help solve a peculiar mystery: Someone else has entered the tournament&and his name is Negi Springfield" --
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Tata, Kuromaru and Karin are on a missing protecting the poor residents of the slums when they come under the fierce attack by powerful enemeis who seem to specialize in hunting down and killing immortals. Tata and Kuromaru take a nasty beat down and in a moment of desperation, Tata finds a new power that may be great or terrible or both!
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"After their showdown, Negi asks Tōta to follow in his footsteps. The request brings Tōta and Kirië to Kyoto in search of an old workshop owned by Nagi Springfield, Negi's father and Tōta's great-grandfather. But uncovering the workshop isn't such an easy task, and with Kirië struggling over her conflicted feelings for Tōta, the trip might be more than the two of them can handle."--Page [4] of cover.
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"Nowatari Rui has long been the subject of her husband's novels, depicted as a pure woman who takes great pleasure in sex. With her privacy and identity continually stripped away, she has come to be seen by society first and foremost as the inspiration for her husband's art. When a decade's worth of frustrations reaches its boiling point, Rui consumes a bowl of seeds, and buds and roots begin to sprout all over her body. Instead of taking her to a...
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"In one's footsteps. After travelling all the way to Kyoto, Tōta and Kirië finally track down Nagi's old workshop, where they meet Albert Chamomile, Negi Springfield's old partner. There, Albert shows Tōta memories from Negi's past, including an alternate timeline of how Negi's life would have been if Tōta didn't exist. Tōta watches from the sidelines as a decisive battle unfolds between Negi and Nagi, and finally sees firsthand the overwhelming...
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"A riveting new collection of short stories from the beloved, internationally acclaimed, Haruki Murakami. The eight masterful stories in this new collection are all told in the first person by a classic Murakami narrator: a lonely man. Some of them (like "With the Beatles," "Cream," and "On a Stone Pillow" ) are nostalgic looks back at youth. Others are set in adulthood--"Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova," "Carnaval," "Confessions of a Shinagawa Monkey"...
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"After viewing Chachazero's memories, Tōta learns more about Negi Springfield and Evangeline's mysterious pasts, as well as their efforts to defeat the seemingly indestructible Ialda Baoth. Determined to save the world now more than ever, Tōta resumes his training with Kurōmaru--and the two soon discover that they must enter a special contract in order to obtain the power they seek. But with Kurōmaru's conflicting feelings for Tōta only...
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This magnificent new novel has a similarly extraordinary scope and the same capacity to amaze, entertain, and bewitch the reader. A tour de force of metaphysical reality, it is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who never recovered from a wartime affliction and...
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"The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, best-selling author of 1Q84 and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage, Killing Commendatore is an epic tour de force of love and loneliness, war and art--as well as a loving homage to The Great Gatsby--and a stunning work of imagination from one of our greatest writers"--
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Having quit his job, Toru Okada is enjoying a pleasant stint as a "house husband", listening to music and arranging the dry cleaning and doing the cooking - until his cat goes missing, his wife becomes distant and begins acting strangely, and he starts meeting enigmatic people with fantastic life stories. They involve him in a world of psychics, shared dreams, out-of-body experiences, and shaman-like powers, and tell him stories from Japan's war in...
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Set at the time of the catastrophic 1995 Kobe earthquake, the mesmerizing stories in After the Quake are as haunting as dreams and as potent as oracles.
An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package— and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who views himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives...
An electronics salesman who has been deserted by his wife agrees to deliver an enigmatic package— and is rewarded with a glimpse of his true nature. A man who views himself as the son of God pursues a stranger who may be his human father. A mild-mannered collection agent receives...
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