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Comic books, strips, etc Dating (Social customs) Dating (Social customs) Japan Comic books, strips, etc Graphic novels Graphic novels Japan Translations into English Japan Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Japan Comic books, strips, etc Roommates Roommates Japan Comic books, strips, etcSummary: In war-torn medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to a small village to dispatch a malevolent spirit that has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. and discovers that he must face his own personal demons as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Disc 1, Films 1-3. Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi (1962 ; 96 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kenji Misumi -- Zoku Zatōichi monogatari = Tale of Zatoichi continues (1962 ; 72 min.) / a Daiei Co. Ltd. production ; produced by Ikuo Kubodera ; screenplay by Minoru Inuzuka ; directed by Kazuo Mori -- Shin Zatōichi...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC BLU-RAY FOREIGN BLINOgawa, Yayoi.
Summary: "When Hasumi heads back to japan to visit his ailing father, Fukushima follows him to the airport to see him off. But momo is there too... and he's shocked when he sees the two of them together. Momo may be an expert at keeping secrets, but can he stand to keep this one?"--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRAOgawa, Yayoi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRAOgawa, Yōko
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OGAOgawa, Yōko
Summary: "On an unnamed island off an unnamed coast, objects are disappearing: first hats, then ribbons, birds, roses--until things become much more serious. Most of the island's inhabitants are oblivious to these changes, while those few imbued with the power to recall the lost objects live in fear of the draconian Memory Police, who are committed to ensuring that what has disappeared remains...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OGASummary: Set in postwar Japan, the film follows the last two decades in the life of Hyakken Uchida, a free spirited writer and teacher, highlighted by his relationship with his students who venerate him in his old age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WinStar TV & Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Ogawa, Yayoi
Summary: Sumire finally accepts Hasumi-senpai's proposal. But when Momo finds out, he makes a surprising resolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRAOgawa, Yayoi.
Summary: "After Sumire's visit with Hasumi in Hong Kong comes to an end, Momo is suddenly persistent: "Pet me," he says, but Sumire is too preoccupied. When Momo's sister tells him that his parents are going to get a divorce and that Momo's not helping, Momo has no choice but to grow up once and for all..."--Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRAOgawa, Yayoi.
Summary: Life was good for Sumire Iwaya ... until the day she discovers her boyfriend is cheating on her, she gets demoted at work, and her life spirals into the dumps. Things take a turn for the better when she crosses paths with Momo, a homeless guy with a colorful past who puts a bounce in her step and a shake in her hips. It takes two to tango, but when Sumire's first love reappears in her life,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2004
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRAOgawa, Yayoi.
Summary: What's a girl to do? Sumire's boyfriend has proposed, she's been reduced to working as a mascot in a theme park and Momo's been looking decidedly fuzzy! And that's not all ... Sumire is in for a surprise with some new additions to her little family: Momo's brought home a couple of special guests! Can Sumire manage this magically expanding menagerie at home?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2005
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRAOgawa, Yayoi
Summary: Momo has been Sumire's secret pet for a long time. Little does she know that she's not the only one who has a pet. Confused with her feelings for both Hasumi and Momo, who will Sumire choose when the time comes?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tokyopop 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TRAOgawa, Yōko
Summary: In a crumbling seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother tends to the off-season customers. When one night they are forced to expel a middle-aged man and a prostitute from their room, Mari finds herself drawn to the man's voice, in what will become the first gesture of a single long seduction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OGAOgawa, Yōko
Summary: Offers eleven interwoven macabre short stories that take an ominous look at grotesque characters, violent emotions, and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2013
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Summary: When Giraffe decides to write a letter and send it to the other side of the horizon, he finds a penguin pen pal and the two curious animals begin to exchange letters to try to learn more about each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gecko Press 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED IWAMasad, Ilana
Summary: "Intimacy has always eluded twenty-seven-year-old Maggie Krause - despite being brought up by married parents, models of domestic bliss - until, that is, Lucia came into her life. But when Maggie's mom, Iris, dies in a car crash, Maggie returns home only to discover a withdrawn dad, an angry brother, and, along with Iris's will, five sealed envelopes, each addressed to a mysterious man she's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASSummary: "One of a string of late-career masterworks made by Kenji Mizoguchi in the first half of the 1950s, A Story from Chikamatsu (a.k.a. The Crucified Lovers) is an exquisitely moving tale of forbidden love struggling to survive in the face of persecution. Based on a classic of eighteenth-century Japanese drama, the film traces the injustices that befall a Kyoto scroll maker's wife and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: Ember stands with Riley and his band of rogue dragons, instead of becoming an assassin for Talon. Meanwhile, she's lost contact with her twin brother Dante, as well as with Garret, a former-enemy soldier who challenged her beliefs about her human side.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KAGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KAGKagawa, Julie.
Summary: Faery prince Ash--the last remaining son of Mab, Queen of the Unseelie Court--finally gets to tell his story: how he escaped the Winter Court with his life intact and the promise he made to the Iron Queen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Teen 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC KAGHobai, Ioana
Summary: Illustrations and easy-to-read text explore how a mistake can seem enormous and life-changing but, with time, perspective, and reflection, one can move on from even the biggest blunder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Page Street Kids 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE HOBTagawa, Mi
Summary: "It is said that there are some special animals occasionally born with great powers. Senzou the black fox is one of those ... but instead of using his powers for good, he abused his strength until the Sun Goddess imprisoned him for his bad behavior. Three hundred years later, he's finally been released, but only on one condition-- he can't have any of his abilities back until he successfully...
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Publisher / Publication Date: TokyoPop Inc. 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An aging warlord decides to split his kingdom between his three sons, who will live in three separate castles. The two eldest sons are quite happy, but the youngest thinks his father has gone mad, and predicts that it won't be long until the two older brothers are fighting with each other.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RANGala, Marcial
Summary: "The story of an enormous cathedral constructed in a marginal, majority-black neighborhood in Cienfuegos, Cuba, told by a chorus of narrators whose sometimes conflicting, overlapping accounts knit together to form a portrait of the neighborhood and the family of outsiders whose arrival in Cienfuegos sparks a series of dramatic events"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GALCornwall, Gaia
Summary: "Mama and Mommy would like Sweet Pea to settle into bed, but it's not quite time. Even though the bed is fluffy, it's not as snuggly as curling up like a pig in the mud, or as spacious as sleeping in the wide ocean like a blue whale. It's not as fun as sleeping high up in a tree like a koala, or hanging upside down like a bat. And it's definitely not as relaxing as sleeping standing up, like an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2022