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Fantasy fiction Fantasy fiction. Fiction Fiction. Fictional Work Graphic novels. novel Novels Novels. Romans.Azuma, Kiyohiko
Summary: The curious and curiouser Yotsuba moves to a new town with her dad. In the process of moving in, Yotsuba encounters things like swingsets and broken door handles, which all bring about a never-ending torrent of questions and shrieks of amazement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2009
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Summary: When a love potion gone wrong causes Cam to forget his best friend Remy completely, they travel through Tokyo to rediscover his memories, make new ones, and maybe even fall in love all over again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ABEAbe, Julie
Summary: "Tessa Miyata has never fit in. When she and her two sisters are told they will be staying at their grandparents in Japan, Tessa is thrilled. A summer in Japan could be her chance to go on an adventure worthy of impressing her classmates back home. Her hopes are quickly dashed when, all too soon, she realizes that life in Japan is just like being in California: her sisters are old enough to go...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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Summary: "Be it ever so crazy, there's no place like home -- especially at the Arbuckle asylum. Fashion fiascos abound! Dim-wittedness and drool rule the day! There's so much bizarre behavior from Jon and Odie that sometimes Garfield even seems normal. Of course, that delusion doesn't last for long. Soon, the quirky cat is conversing with a sock puppet and deflating a puffer fish (as well as an ice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine 2017
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Summary: "From the author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Café comes another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer. Along with some familiar faces from Kawaguchi's previous novels, readers will also be introduced to a daughter, a comedian, a sister and a lover, each with something they wish they had said...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWO'Neill, Kay
Summary: Kit is excited to prove her worth as a Moth-Keeper, a protector of the lunar moths that allow the Night-Lily flower to bloom once a year, but she quickly finds that life as a Moth-Keeper is not what she imagined it would be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Graphic 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 O'NECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: JFIC O'NE (graphic novel)Kawaguchi, Toshikazu
Summary: In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAWOda, Eiichirō
Summary: "With all the Officer Agents defeated, only Crocodile and his final plan to destroy the palace stands in the way of peace. While Luffy battles it out with the evil Croc in the royal tombs, Vivi and the rest of the Straw Hats have to find the bomb before it blows up the capital--with everyone in it!"--Cover
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2009
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Summary: When Jonah and two of his friends are whisked away to Neverland by Peter Pan, Abby and the fairy Maryrose follow them to make sure they are safe--but soon Abby uncovers a plot by the evil fairy Gluck and Tinkerbell to trap Maryrose in Neverland forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2023
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Summary: "From Anthony Award-winning writer Alex Segura comes Secret Identity, a rollicking literary mystery set in the world of comic books. It's 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn't care. She's an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn't have the creative zeal of Marvel nor the buttoned-up efficiency of DC, but it doesn't matter. Carmen is tantalizingly close to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEGMurata, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MURGalarza, Josh
Summary: Fueling all his anxieties into his comic book series, Brett must face the painful truths of his real life and his escalating eating disorder when someone posts his journal--and his deepest insecurities--online.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC GALYuzuki, Asako
Summary: "The cult Japanese bestseller about a female gourmet cook and serial killer and the journalist intent on cracking her case, inspired by a true story. There are two things that I can simply not tolerate: feminists and margarine. Gourmet cook Manako Kajii sits in Tokyo Detention Center convicted of the serial murders of lonely businessmen, who she is said to have seduced with her delicious home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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Summary: Told in rhyming verse, a stone is considered from a variety of environmental and emotional perspectives, as it sits where it is, surrounded by grass, dirt, and water, an unchanging certainty in the world. To some animals it's a pebble, To others it's a hill, and to others, a home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books LLC 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WENJean, Emiko
Summary: When the Imperial Household Council refuses to approve the marriage of her parents, eighteen-year-old Izumi decides to become the perfect princess to help win the council's consent, but will she sacrifice her own heart in order to secure her parents' happiness?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JEAKinney, Jeff
Summary: "In Diper Överlöde, book 17 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley is finding out that the road to fame and glory comes with some hard knocks. When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn't realize what he's getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2022
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Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga's own mother. A decade ago, Tokyo Police Detective Kyoichiro Kaga went to collect the ashes of his recently deceased mother. Years before, she ran away from her husband and son without explanation or any further contact, only to die alone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2023
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Summary: "Desde que Emoni Santiago se quedó embarazada durante el segundo año de instituto, su vida se ha reducido a tomar decisiones difíciles y hacer lo mejor posible para su hija y para su abuela. Pero el único lugar en el que puede olvidarse de todo es en la cocina: allí permite que sus manos le digan qué cocinar, sigue su intuición y agrega una pequeña pizca de magia en cada receta, lo que...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ACEOsborne, Mary Pope
Summary: The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: "When she is only six years old, Allegra Dixon's party-loving mother leaves without so much as a goodbye. Her father, an emotionally distant military officer, is also unable--or unwilling--to care for her. Sent to live like a ghost in her grandparents' joyless home, Allegra finds her only solace through an escape into books. Attending boarding school, life finally takes a turn when she meets a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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1 available in New Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STEWalton, Julia
Summary: Seventeen-year-old Phoebe Townsend created her blog, The Circle in the Square, as a place for her research into sex, and now she answers other teens' questions while trying to stay anonymous, but as the number of her followers rises, Phoebe finds herself exposed to the darker side of social media.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2022
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Summary: When professional typist Letitia Glover is desperate to learn more about the fate of her twin sister Flossie, Enola enlists the help of her brother Sherlock and her friend Tewky to investigate Flossie's husband, the sudden death of his first wife, and the mysterious appearance of a black barouche.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wednesday Books 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SPRMlynowski, Sarah
Summary: Abby and Jonah are at home with Jonah's friends and their fairy friend, Maryrose, when they receive a visit from another fairy--a famous one. It's Tinkerbell! She's come to their window with none other than Peter Pan. It's exciting at first--but when Peter Pan announces that he needs new Lost Boys, he whisks away Jonah and Jonah's friends. It's up to Abby (and Maryrose) to follow them all into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC MLYMontague, Liz
Summary: Rose, Amethyst, and Lavender, fifth-year students at the Brooklyn School of Magic, need to pass the Equinox Test in order to move up to Middle Magic--but they soon face self-doubts, a cheating scandal, and trouble brewing in the magical community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2024