Summary: In the wake of a brutal civil war, the legendary and feared killer Kenshin Himura throws down his sword and vows to turn his back on bloodshed. Choosing instead to live his life as a peaceful wanderer, Kenshin soon finds that the world around him is rapidly changing and not for the better. A sadistic drug lord, Kanryu, oppresses the people, poisoning them with opium and stealing what little...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Manuro

Summary: "This new middle-grade graphic novel series features an interactive pick-a-path storyline, full of puzzles, treasures, fantasy creatures, and gameplay you can enjoy again and again! Enter a world inspired by favorite fairy tales, complete with gingerbread houses, a girl dressed in red, and seven brothers lost in the woods. Readers can play as Hocus (a girl) or Pocus (a boy), choose a magic...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2018

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Manuro

Summary: Siblings Hocus and Pocus, students at a magical school, investigate the strange disappearance of Snow White's seven cousins, in a book where the reader's decisions determine the end of the story.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Quirk Books 2019

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Ishikawa, Masaji

Summary: Half-Korean, half-Japanese, Masaji Ishikawa has spent his whole life feeling like a man without a country. This feeling only deepened when his family moved from Japan to North Korea when Ishikawa was just thirteen years old, and unwittingly became members of the lowest social caste. His father, himself a Korean national, was lured to the new Communist country by promises of abundant work,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: AmazonCrossing 2017

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Ishikawa, Akira

Contents: Wanyama na mapampbazuko -- Na tu penda sana -- Vita -- Pigmy.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Tamura, Yumi.

Summary: Rescue workers Rei and Uozumi were looking for earthquake survivors when they uncovered man-made violence. Then their squad was attacked and murdered. Some secret lurks in those ruins. To find it, Rei and Uozumi join a privately funded hostage rescue organization run out of a Tokyo bar called Chicago. They help people while they look for their own salvation.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2002

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OKAKURA, KAKUZO

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: TUTTL 0000

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Tamura, Yumi.

Summary: When rescue workers try to help Tokyo after a great earthquake, Rei discovers that the team's members are murdered.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2003

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Summary: After discovering she can leap through time, high school student Makoto Konno does what any teenager would do. She re-takes tests, corrects embarrassing situations, and sleeps in as late as she wants, never thinking that her carefree time traveling could have a negative effect on the people she cares about. By the time she realizes the damage she's done, she'll have to race against time to set...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Shimura, 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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Shimura, 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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Shimura, 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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Takano, Ichigo

Summary: "Experience the world of orange from a whole new perspective, as the fate of the present and future timelines unfolds from the point of view of the ever-cheerful third wheel, Suwa Hiroto. Reuniting years later in college, Suwa and Naho's lives have been forever scarred by their experiences in high school. They say time heals all wounds, but sometimes, time is not enough"--Back cover.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2018

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Takalo, Tiitu

Summary: "In Memento Mori, celebrated Finnish graphic novelist Tiitu Takalo chronicles her sudden, unexpected cerebral hemorrhage and the long road to recovery she had to travel. It is a dramatic story about a life turned upside down overnight: a ruptured cerebral aneurysm, the days and nights spent in an intensive care unit, and the long, painful recovery that led the artist to reflect on her life both...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2023

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Shimura, 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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Shimura, 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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Martines, Lauro.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003

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Tafuri, Nancy.

Summary: A variety of babies are featured such as: agama lizard, arctic tern, pickerel frog, brown trout, common yellowthroat, and human; all asking the question, "How am I special?"

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2003

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