Yumi, Kiiro.
Summary: In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces! The war between the Library Forces and the government's censorship committee heats up! Iku Kasahara, once a lowly Library Forces recruit,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBArikawa, Hiro
Summary: Daisuke Sorai, a 29-year-old fighter pilot who was exempted from P due to an unexpected accident, was transferred to the Public Relations Office of the Air Staff Office of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force, Ministry of Defense. Awaiting you are Sagisaka (also known as fraudster Sagisaka), the director of Miha, Yuki, a red-spotted beauty who scratches his ass, and Hiromi Maki, Sagisaka Fan Club...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gentōsha 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 495.6 FIC ARIMurata, Kiyoko
Summary: "In 1903, a fifteen-year-old girl named Ichi Aoi is sold to the most exclusive brothel in Kumamoto, Japan. Despite her modest beginnings in a southern fishing village, she becomes the protégée of an oiran, the highest-ranking courtesan at the brothel. Through the teachings of her oiran, Shinonome, Ichi begins to understand the intertwined power of sex and money. And in her mandatory school...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: Trailblazing pop star, actor and director, Hayley Kiyoko debuts her first novel, a coming-of-age romance based on her breakthrough hit song and viral video, GIRLS LIKE GIRLS. Its summertime and 17-year-old Coley has found herself alone, again. Forced to move to rural Oregon after just losing her mother, she is in no position to risk her already fragile heart. But when she meets Sonya, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC KIYArikawa, Hiro
Summary: "A life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sacrifice, The Travelling Cat Chronicles shows how the smallest things can provide the greatest joy. We take journeys to explore exotic new places and to return to the comforts of home, to visit old acquaintances and to make new friends. But the most important journey is the one that shows us how to follow our hearts... An instant international...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ARIJean, Emiko
Summary: Izumi Tanaka has never really felt like she fit in, it isn₂t easy being Japanese American in her small, mostly white, northern California town. Raised by a single mother, it₂s always been Izumi, or Izzy, because 'It₂s easier this way,' and her mom (and her trusty terrier sidekick, Tamagotchi) against the world. But then Izzy discovers a clue to her previously unknown father₂s identity, and he₂s...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC JEAJean, Emiko
Summary: Each generation, a competition is held to find the next empress of Honoku. The rules are simple: survive the palace's enchanted seasonal rooms. Conquer Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Marry the prince. Only the yōkai, supernatural monsters and spirits, are not eligible to compete. Mari has spent a lifetime training to become empress-- but she is a yōkai with the ability to transform into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Ishihara, Keiko.
Summary: At an all-girls school during the Taisho era of Japan, rumors swirl that heiress Sayaka Yoshimura is having a forbidden love affair with her chauffeur, Shinobu Narutaki! Sayaka scoffs at the rumors, but could a romance between master and servant actually be brewing? Sayaka wears a crimson ribbon that signals she is at the top of her class, and her classmates all revere her. So when Narutaki...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 HEILim, Emily
Summary: When Benji receives an origami book, he tries hard to fold the paper animals. But he fails to get them right and gives up - until his new neighbour Yumi shows him a surprising way to look at his creations. Their special friendship unfolds in a delightful story that readers will enjoy again and again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: AFCC Publications 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Set Japanese Lim-Leh 2016Grant, Kimi Cunningham
Summary: "A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing novel of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GRASummary: The 27th day (1947, b & w, 76 min.): Five ordinary humans are given a box by aliens containing capsules capable of killing millions of people. If they can refrain from using the capsules for 27 days, the Earth will be spared. Will they be able to stand firm, especially when word leaks out and a panicked and furious population starts to hunt them down?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015