Nakamura, Fuminori
Summary: The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket. Anonymous in his tailored suit, he weaves in and out of Tokyo crowds, stealing wallets from strangers so smoothly sometimes he doesn't even remember the snatch. Most people are just a blur to him, nameless faces from whom he chooses his victims. He has no family, no friends, no connections. But he does have a past, which finally catches up with him when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAKNakamura, Fuminori
Summary: "On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, besides which is lying a gun. From the moment Nishikawa makes the decision to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the gun brings an intoxicating sense of purpose to his dull university life. But Nishikawa's personal entanglements are becoming unexpectedly complicated: he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAKNakamura, Fuminori
Summary: Informed by his father that he was created to cause misery, Fuminori is educated to invoke as much destruction and unhappiness as possible and lives a hedonist life without repercussions before starting to question his father's mandates.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAKNakamura, Fuminori
Summary: On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, besides which is lying a gun. From the moment Nishikawa makes the decision to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the gun bringsan intoxicating sense of purpose to his dull university life. But Nishikawa's personal entanglements are becoming unexpectedly complicated: he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC NAKNakamura, Fuminori
Summary: "Yurika is a freelancer in the Tokyo underworld. She poses as a prostitute, carefully targeting potential Johns, selecting powerful and high-profile men. When she is alone with them, she drugs them and takes incriminating photos to sell for blackmail purposes. She knows very little about the organization she's working for, and is perfectly satisfied with the arrangement, as long as it means she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NAKSummary: In the midst of epic violent intrigue in twelfth-century Japan, an imperial warrior falls for a lady-in-waiting; even after he discovers she is married, he goes to extreme lengths to win her love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN GATOkazaki, Miles
Contents: Kudzu -- Mischief -- Box in a box -- Eating earth -- Black bolt -- The west -- The calendar -- Caduceus -- Borderland
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Salish Sea Music, SESAC 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ OKASakakibara, Mizuki
Summary: "The heroes have uncovered that Kriem is the one controlling the Mad Bears and move to neutralize those stationed around Stern Bild. Meanwhile, Kotetsu and Barnaby finally reveal the secret behind Jake's mysterious powers"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media, LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIGTakahashi, Kazuki
Summary: The mysterious Zorc Necrophades rewinds time, forcing Yu-Gi-Oh to fight Bakura all over again.only this time without the Egyptian Gods!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2006
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 YUWebb, Kinari
Summary: "A "magnificent, empowering" (Bill McKibben) memoir about a woman spearheading a global initiative to heal the world's rainforests and the communities who depend on them. When Kinari Webb first traveled to Indonesian Borneo at 21 to study orangutans, she was both awestruck by the beauty of her surroundings and heartbroken by the rainforest destruction she witnessed. As she got to know the local...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WEBB, KINARI WEBTakamatsu, Misaki
Summary: The critically acclaimed romantic comedy about a country girl chasing her dreams in Tokyo! Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SKITakamatsu, Misaki
Summary: "While Mitsumi adjusts to big city life, her cheerful and forthright personality brings joy to her classmates. Now that she's getting the hang of high school, her circle expands even further."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SKITakahashi, Kazuki
Summary: Yugi has gathered all the Egyptian God Cards, and with the Millennium Eye he is now able to unlock his memories of his past life as an Egyptian pharaoh and travel back in time to battle his enemies of the past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2008
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 YUTakahashi, Kazuki
Summary: When Yugi and his friends joined a "Monster World" role-playing game, they did not realize the game might take the rest of their lives. Their new game master, Ryo Bakura, wants to use the power of the Millennium Ring to seal the souls of them inside his "Monster World" miniature--forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz 2004
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 YUGSummary: The Fall of Fujimori is a character and interview-driven documentary that explores the volatile events that define Alberto Fujimori's decade-long reign of Peru: his meteoric rise from the son of poor Japanese immigrants to the presidency; his fateful relationship with the shadowy and Machiavellian Vladimiro Montesinos; his self-coup that dissolved overnight both Congress and the Judiciary; and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre Studio 2006
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FALSakakibara, Mizuki
Summary: "When he was a child, Barnaby lost his parents to a shadowy organization called Ouroboros. The search for his parents' killers may lead both Barnaby and Kotetsu into a dangerous conspiracy that has wider implications for everyone in Stern Bild City. The the heroes jump into action against rampaging mecha, renegade NEXTs and the secretive hand behind it all!"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIGSakakibara, Mizuki.
Summary: The NEXT supremacist Jake Martinez has declared that all NEXT should join him in ruling over humanity! After issuing his call to rebellion, he heads for Justice Tower intending to seize it and establish his rule. The heroes find themselves scrambling to confront him as other old enemies appear, and Barnaby, faced at last with the man who murdered his parents, can no longer hold himself back.
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2015
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIGKozak, John.
Summary: Through the Eyes of Rose details the story of Rose Kozak and how she successfully defied the Czechoslovakian Communists in October 1949 and escaped with her children through the wilderness of the Bohemian Forest to the freedom of West Germany. John Kozak was just seven when he escaped with his mother and older sister from oppressive Communist rule. His emotional retelling of his mother's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: iUniverse.com 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KOZAK, ROSE KOZCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Memoir KozakMizuki, Shigeru
Summary: "Shigeru Mizuki-Japan's grand master of yokai comics-adapts one of the most important works of supernatural literature into comic book form. The cultural equivalent of the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, Tono Monogatari is a defining text of Japanese folklore and one of the country's most important works of literature. This graphic novel was created during the later stage of Mizuki's career,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly 2021
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 MIZSakakibara, Mizuki
Summary: "Superpowered humans known as NEXT appeared in the world 45 years ago. Some of them fight crime in the city of Stern Bild while promoting their corporate sponsors on the hit show Hero TV. The people love their superheroes, even if they don't completely understand them, and not all of the NEXT use their powers for good. Veteran hero Wild Tiger has years of experience fighting crime, but his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: VIZ Media 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TIGKuzki, Shaw
Summary: Twelve-year-old Nozomi's understanding of the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945 is transformed when she learns how those she knows and loves were affected by the event. Includes author's notes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KUZIsaki, Uta
Summary: A poignant coming-of-age story about a young woman coming into her own as she discovers her identity as aromantic asexual. When it comes to love, high schooler Chika wonders if she might be an alien. She's never fallen for or even had a crush on anyone, and she has no desire for physical intimacy. Her friends tell her that she just 'hasn't met the one yet,' but Chika has doubts...It's only when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 ISAMinaki, Peter
Summary: Make following the Mediterranean diet even easier with The Everything One Pot Mediterranean Cookbook. Combining the diet's myriad health benefits with the ease of one pot preparation (and clean-up!), this cookbook provides 200 healthy recipes that readers will love to make time and time again-in no time!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Adams Media 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.591822 MINYamada, Kazuaki
Summary: A little girl gets on a bus with her new red balloon, but when the balloon blows away, her friends and fellow passengers try to help her find it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 2014