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Appliqué Patterns Censorship Comic books, strips, etc Censorship Japan Comic books, strips, etc Government policy Japan Comic books, strips, etc Graphic novels Graphic novels Japan Libraries Japan Comic books, strips, etc Libraries Japan Fiction Man-woman relationships Comic books, strips, etc Quilting PatternsKajikawa, Kimiko.
Summary: A wealthy man in a Japanese village, who everyone calls Ojiisan, which means grandfather, sets fire to his rice fields to warn the innocent people of an approaching tsunami.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: J398.20952 KajSummary: "Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has - until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Encore Films 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.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! Iku Kasahara has dreamed of joining the Library Defense Force ever since one of its soldiers stepped in to protect her favorite book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC LIBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, 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 Media Betterment Committee has silenced a famous writer, and Library Forces member Iku Kasahara and her supervisor and secret crush,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2014
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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!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, Kiiro
Summary: When several ranking officers are injured in a fierce skirmish, a rift develops in the Library Forces management causing Iku to question her place in the military group, and Iku's relationship with Dojo grows more intimate.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Iku is witness to a disturbance during a Board of Education speech on protecting children from the danger of books. The perpetrators are two young boys protesting the banning of their favorite books. But while Iku wants to reach out to the next generation of book lovers, Dojo insists that they can't play favorites. Will Dojo's prickly insistence on sticking to the rules ruin their budding...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC LIBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, Kiiro.
Summary: "There's a groper in the library and Library Force members Iku and Shibazaki are sent in as bait! Iku's undercover outfit makes her vulnerable-- will she be able to defend herself if the pervert targets her? Later, Library Force members are required to take a test that involves reading stories to a group of rambunctious schoolkids. Coming from a big, unruly family, Iku definitely has the upper...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, Kiiro.
Summary: "Hikaru's big brother is working for the enemy, and he wants to reunited with Hikaru. Meanwhile, someone is posting negative reviews on the library's website, and Kasahara intends to find out who. Later, personal issues are set aside when the Library Forces find out about a book burning on their home turf!" -- p. [4] of cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, 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,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, Kiiro.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC LIBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, 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 Library Forces have decided that a censored author, Toma, must defect. But as he and the LF attempt to leave the courthouse, the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, Kiiro
Summary: Library Forces member Iku Kasahara has plans to go out for tea with her supervisor and secret crush, Dojo, but just figuring out what to wear puts her in a tailspin. When an urgent call comes in about an author seeking protection from the government, Iku realizes that the fight against censorship never takes a break!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Summary: Iku Kasahara has dreamed of joining the Library Defense Force ever since one of its soldiers stepped in to protect her favorite book from being confiscated in a bookstore, but now that she's a recruit, her dream job is more like a nightmare.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBYumi, 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! Iku Kasahara has dreamed of joining the Library Defense Force ever since one of its soldiers stepped in to protect her favorite book...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y GRAPHIC LIBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LIBTobimatsu, Kimiko
Summary: "A moving and honest graphic memoir about the unexpected cancer journey of a young, queer, mixed-race woman. At the age of twenty-five, Kimiko Tobimatsu was a young, queer, mixed-race woman with no history of health problems whose world was turned upside down when she was diagnosed with breast cancer. In an instant, she became immersed in a new and complicated life of endless appointments,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Arsenal Pulp Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.196 TOBSummary: "One of the ineffably lovely domestic sagas made by Yasujiro Ozu at the height of his mastery, The Flavor of Green Tea over Rice is a sublimely piercing portrait of a marriage coming quietly undone. Secrets and deceptions strain the already tenuous relationship of a childless, middle-aged couple, as the wife's city-bred sophistication bumps up against the husband's small-town simplicity, and a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FLABarber, Kimiko.
Summary: Presents an introduction to the culinary art of Japan, including historical background, the place of traditional ingredients in the country's culture, and two hundred recipes for sushi, vegetables, fish, rice, and noodle dishes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kyle Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.595 BARHahn, Kimiko
Summary: "Kimiko Hahn's new work uses the free-form Japanese artistic technique zuihitsu--made famous in the tenth-century masterpiece The Pillow Book--as a prism for exploring her various identities as mother, lover, poet, and daughter of Eastern and Western traditions." -- back cover.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 HAHSummary: Tokyo teenager Gorgeous is upset with her long-widowed father--he wants to marry his new girlfriend Ryoko. Seriously miffed, Gorgeous hits the road to visit her aunt in the country, bringing along her best girlfriends Sweet, Melody, Fantasy, Prof, Mac, and Kung Fu. The titular house belongs to the wheelchair bound aunt, whose large white cat has been immortalized in artwork throughout. Things...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HOUSudō, Kumiko.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quilt Digest Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 SUDSudō, Kumiko.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Contemporary Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.0952 SUDSudō, Kumiko.
Contents: Flower origami, a guide to technique -- Awakening -- Sun rose/Sun rose sewing kit -- Thistle -- Tangerine/Tangerine tote -- Dwarf dahlia -- Begonia -- Discovery -- Delphinium/Delphinium cache -- Fennel flower -- Barberry -- Firewheel/Firewheel purse -- Gloriosa daisy -- Joy -- Star allium/Star allium pochette -- Mallow rose -- Dwarf primrose/Dwarf primrose purse -- Wild poppy -- Tulip tree --...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Breckling Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.445 SUDSudō, Kumiko.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Quilt Digest Press 1997