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"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, 'Sunny Side Up' is at once a compelling 'problem' story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world"--
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Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and...
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Touma has returned Orsola Aquinas to the Roman Orthodox Church--and it turns out to be a terrible mistake! Orsola's ability to read the Book of the Law is deemed a threat to Roman Orthodoxy, making her a prime target for execution. Can Touma, Index, and Stiyl save Orsola... and risk incurring the wrath of the world's largest Church?
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The Birth of Kitaro collects seven of Shigeru Mizuki's early, and beloved, Kitaro stories, making them available for the first time in English, in an all-new, kid-friendly format. These stories are from the golden era of the late 1960s, when Gegege no Kitaro truly hit its stride as an all-ages supernatural series. Mizuki's Kitaro stories are both timelessly relevant and undeniably influential, inspiring a decades-long boom in stories about yokai,...
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Locke and Key volume 2
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The three Locke children - survivors of a horrific home invasion that claimed their father - have just begun to rebuild their lives when little Bode discovers a key with incredible power.
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Fables volume 6
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Homelands follows Boy Blue on a mission of revenge as he uncovers the Adversary's true identity. Plus, the 2-part story of Jack's adventures in Hollywood and the one-shot story of Mowgli's return to Fabletown.
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As Mike continues his journey of discovery concerning Ryoji's past, Yaichi gradually comes to understand that being gay is just another way of being human. And that, in many ways, remains a radical concept in Japan even today. In the meantime, the bond between Mike and young Kana grows ever stronger, and yet he is going to have to return to Canada soon--a fact that fills them both with impending heartbreak. Concluding volume.
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Akira volume 4
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In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a city destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira--a subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong. Imprisoned for three decades in frozen stasis, Akira sleeps, but his awakening is a terrifying inevitability. Surrounded by those who want to use him, those who want to destroy him and those who want only to protect him, Akira is the nexus...
11) Bottled
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Jane is sick of her dead-end life in the suburbs and desperate for a change. Her old schoolmate Natalie made it out, working in Japan as a fashion model. Now, as Natalie comes back to town on business, Jane sees a way for her friend to do her a favor... whether she likes it or not"--front flap.
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In a world where order is more important than civil rights, Peter Parker, an old man, feels there is nothing left to fight for, and even forgets what it was like to don the red and blue and swing through the night sky. Everything changes when an old friend shows up on his doorstep, bearing a package and a message.
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Boruto volume Vol. 2
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Boruto gets through round two of the Chunin Exam and receives praise from his father. But what Naruto doesn't know is that his son is cheating by using prohibited ninja tools. What will happen to Boruto when the truth is revealed? Meanwhile, darker forces are advancing behind the scenes ... -- Publisher description.
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Five years after a strange catastrophe devastated Japan, engineering students Umatarō and Hiroshi work together to create A106 (nicknamed 'Six') -- an unassuming, mild-mannered robot who has insane super-strength! When their university's lack of funding threatens to shut Six down forever, the trio must enter the murky world of robot fighting to keep their dream alive!
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"Mexico, 1952. Haunted by the death of a friend, Hellboy, the world's greatest occult detective, has become a drunken luchador for hire. But now, to save the life of an innocent young girl, he must put his own problems behind him and battle an evil hunchback, the Frankenstein monster, a werewolf, and vampire women in a madman's house of horrors"--Page 4 of cover
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Locke and Key volume 4
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"With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke's family's mystery ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion."--Amazon.com
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Rai volume Vol. 1
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The year is 4001 A.D. Led by the artificial intelligence called "Father," the island nation of Japan has expanded out of the Pacific and into geosynchronous orbit with the ravaged Earth below. With billions to feed and protect, it has fallen to one solitary guardian to enforce the law of Father's empire -- the mysterious folk hero known as Rai. They say he can appear out of nowhere. They say he is a spirit -- the ghost of Japan. But when the first...
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"Enter a land of monsters and buried secrets. A land once known as...Japan. More than two centuries have passed since Japan was devastated by nuclear war. Cut off from the world, the island is now a place of terror and mysteries: wonders of science some believe best forgotten, monuments to a bygone era of human decadence, and irradiated monsters ready to tear apart any humans foolish enough to set foot there. After being wrenched from his family and...
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Follows the fortunes of a common housemaid swept up in the feminist militancy of early 20th century Edwardian Britain. As the growing hunger for change grows within a culture of rigid social mores and class barriers, Sally and thousands like her rise up to break the bonds of oppression at the risk of ostracization and violence.
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