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Comic books, strips, etc Japan Translations into English Female friendship Female friendship Comic books, strips, etc Gender identity Comic books, strips, etc Gender identity Comic books, strips, etc Fiction High school students High school students Comic books, strips, etc Japan Lesbian teenagers Lesbian teenagers Comic books, strips, etcSummary: As a young man returns home after his first year away at college he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed, big city girl that turned his world upside down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Life for minor god Yato isn't getting any easier. He's still broke, shrineless, and his partner-slash-sword-regalia has zero respect for him. Worse yet, Bishamon, one of the deadliest war gods, is after his life. Blaming him for the death of her past regalia, she won't stop until she kills him. But there's more to that story than she could ever realize. And as if that's not bad enough, there's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME NORSummary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Discovering that he is in the terminal stages of cancer, a clerk spends his last months in search of the meaning to life. After his pursuit of pleasure has failed, he finds self-realization in bringing about the building of a children's playground in the slums and dies quiety fulfilled.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2004
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IKIKimbra
Contents: The good war -- Top of the world -- Everybody knows -- Like they do on the tv -- Recovery -- Human -- Lightyears -- Black sky -- Past love -- Right direction -- Version of me -- Real life.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KIMKimbra
Contents: Teen heat -- 90s music -- Carolina -- Goldmine -- Miracle -- Rescue him -- Madhouse -- Everlovin' ya -- As you are -- Love in high places -- Nobody but you -- Waltz me to grave.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KIMKimbra
Summary: Two-time Grammy-award-winning artist Kimbra's fourth studio album is a reflective record capturing the macro reckonings of our world around the environment, health, race, spirituality and feminism. But at the heart of the record is her war with the micro reckonings that she faces internally. It's the most sonically autonomous and confessionally raw she has ever been, finding influence in...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KIMKimbra
Contents: Settle down -- Something in the way you are -- Cameo lover -- Two way street -- Old flame -- Good intent -- Plain gold ring (live) -- Come into my head -- Sally I can see you -- Posse -- Home -- The build up -- Warrior (bonus track).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2012
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK KIMNatsume, Soseki
Summary: Depicts the twenty-three-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly moving "real world" of Tokyo, its women, and university.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Classics 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NATShimura, Takako
Summary: Shuichi, a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino, a girl who wants to be a boy, become friends in junior high school, where they tackle problems such as gender identity, love, social acceptance, and puberty.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANKimura, Ken.
Summary: 999 Tadpoles fit perfectly into a small pond, but when they grow into frogs, its a different story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: NorthSouth 2011
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE KIMShimura, Takako
Summary: "Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station. Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids. It's time for the Fujigaya Theater Festival again, and this year Akira and her...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: "Shimura Takako's sensitive and charming manga series about two middle-schoolers wrestling with their gender identities continues. Faced with unwanted changes to their growing bodies, male-identified Takatsuki-san discovers the wonders of "breast binders," and female-identified Nitori-kun explores the limits of his ability to "pass." Also: the success of their performance of The Rose of...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANKimura, Shinichi.
Summary: Seemingly normal high school student Ayumu Aikawa is actually a zombie and bodyguard to a necromancer, and his crazy life becomes more complicated when he steals the powers of a magical girl and turns into one himself.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yen Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ISShimura, Takako
Summary: "Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station! Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids... Kyoko's fiancé invites a group of her friends to join them at his family's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: "As shown in the first two volumes of this acclaimed series, Shuichi and his friend Yoshino have a secret: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy. But one day, abruptly, their secret is exposed, and the two find themselves the target of sixth-grade cruelty. Their friendship is strained, as Yoshino makes a half-hearted effort at being a 'normal...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANKimura, Yukie
Summary: "When Yukie Kimura was eight years old, her family lived on a tiny island near the coast of northern Japan, where her father was a lighthouse keeper. Her days were filled with adventure and nature: collecting seagull eggs to bake cookies, finding fresh seafood on the shore, and digging for fossils in a cave. But it was also 1945, the final year of World War II. Then, during one sunny weekend,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KIMShimura, Takako
Summary: "Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station. Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids. Fumi is glad Akira is back in her life. Even in kindergarten, Akira knew how to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: V.1: "The fifth grade. The threshold to puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Shuichi Nitori and his new friend Yoshino Takatsuki have happy homes, loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: "With the success of their performances of the play 'The Rose of Versailles', the class decide to do a riff on 'Romeo and Juliet.' Nitori-kun and Chiba-san write the script together, but Chiba-san has an agenda: she wants to play Romeo, with Nitori-kun in the role of Juliet. But Nitori-kun wants the male-idnetified Takatsuki-san to play Romeo. With her usual prickliness, Chiba-san force...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: "A genre-defining saga of love and friendship between girls. Akira Okudaira is starting high school and is ready for exciting new experiences. And on the first day of school, she runs into her best friend from kindergarten at the train station! Now Akira and Fumi have the chance to rekindle their friendship, but life has gotten a lot more complicated since they were kids... Fumi is elated now...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SWEShimura, Takako
Summary: Nitori-kun, a boy who wants to be a girl, explores kissing with girlfriend Anna-chan; and Yoshino-san, a girl who wants to be a boy, finds the courage to go to school wearing a boy's uniform. Meanwhile, one of their male classmates, Doi-kun, who has caused our protagonists misery in the past, becomes intrigued with their grown-up friend Yuki-san, a transwoman. But Nitori-kun finds himself...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako
Summary: "Nitori-kun gets his first signs of acne. This may well be the end of the world. But when he turns to nationally famous model Anna-chan for help, events take an unexpected turn. Meanwhile, Nitori-kun and Chiba-san are scouted by the theater club after the success of their gender-bending play, The Rose of Versailles. But when Takatsuki-san congratulates Chiba-san, Chiba-san calls her a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics Books 2014
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 WANShimura, Takako.
Summary: "In the second volume of Shimura Takako's superb coming-of-age story, our transgendered protagonists, Shuichi and Yoshino, have entered the sixth grade. Shuichi spends a precious gift of cash from his grandmother on a special present for himself, a purchase that triggers a chain of events in which his sister Maho learns his secret, and Shuichi inadvertently steals the heart of a boy Maho in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fantagraphics 2011