Recreation

Young Adults’ New Titles July 2011 (arrived in June)

Fiction

War : stories about conflict, Michael Morpurgo.
Knife.
Dreamless.
Drought, Pam Bachorz.
A young girl thirsts for love and freedom, but at what cost? Ruby dreams of escaping the Congregation. Escape from slaver Darwin West and his cruel Overseers. Escape from the backbreaking work of gathering Water. Escape from living as if it is still 1812, the year they were all enslaved. When Ruby meets Fordan - irresistible, kind, forbidden new Overseer - she longs to run away with him to the modern world where she could live a normal teenage life. Escape with Ford would be so simple. But if Ruby leaves, her community is condemned to certain death. She, alone, possesses the secret ingredient that makes the Water so special: her blood. It's the one thing that the Congregation cannot live without. Drought is the haunting story of one community's thirst for life, and the dangerous struggle of the only girl who can grant it.
Losers in space, John Barnes.
In 2029, hoping to bypass the exams and training that might lead to a comfortable life, Susan, her almost-boyfriend Derlock, and seven fellow students stow away on a ship to Mars, unaware that Derlock is a sociopath with bigger plans.
Gutted, Ken Benn.
"Rochelle is playing hockey for New Zealand against a dirty Australian side. Jack is in a youth facility for a crime he didn't commit, Drew is walking a fine line between right and wrong, and Geek's life is spiralling out of control. Meanwhile, don't forget to watch your back, because a killer is out there. Trust no-one".
Trapped outside a cage, Ken Benn.
"Rochelle's brother, Jack, is in prison for the murder of Methsy, and Rochelle is convinced he didn't do it. But if Jack is innocent, then why has he confessed to the crime? Rochelle is about to find out that something or someone with sinister intentions is behind Jack's actions".
Forever in blue : the fourth summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares.
As their lives take them in different directions, Lena, Tibby, Carmen, and Bridget discover many more things about themselves and the importance of their relationship with each other.
Pop!
Underworld, Meg Cabot.
John Hayden, a death deity, takes seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera back to the Underworld against her will to keep her safe from the Furies, but her family is still at risk and she, herself, may never escape his captivity.
Starfall : Phaeton and the chariot of the sun, Michael Cadnum.
Expands on the myth of Phaeton, a young man who undertakes a long and dangerous journey to the gates of dawn to confront the mighty god of the sun, Apollo, and is granted one wish--to drive the chariot of the sun for a day.
Lost in Las Vegas, Melody Carlson.
The selection.
Dying to know you, Aidan Chambers.
Struggling through his dyslexia to try to fulfill his girlfriend Fiorella's request for a letter revealing his secret self, eighteen-year-old Karl asks Fiorella's favorite author for help, and he agrees only if Karl will submit to a series of interviews, which prove helpful to both men.
City of lost souls, Cassandra Clare.
When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.
The wicked and the just, J. Anderson Coats.
In medieval Wales, this story follows Cecily, whose family is lured by cheap land and the duty of all Englishmen to help keep down the "vicious" Welshmen, and Gwenhwyfar, a Welsh girl who must wait hand and foot on her new English mistress.
On the run, Michael Coleman.
When a persistent youth offender is caught yet again, he is sentenced to community service as the partner to a blind runner.
Eternal Starling, Angela Corbett.
Evie Starling doesn't know it yet, but for the past two hundred and fifty years her soul has been tracked through time by Alex Night and Emil Stone. Both men claim to love her, but one might want her dead.
In the beech forest, written by Gary Crew ; illustrated by Den Scheer.
In the Beech Forest ticks all the boxes for encouraging both male and female teenagers (aged about fifteen years) to read. While illustrated books for older readers usually appeal to young males, In the Beech Forest is illustrated by Den Scheer, a young woman in her teens. Ten to fifteen-year-old males would also relate to In the Beech Forest as its theme is a young man's perilous rite of passage in search of self. The youth involved is actually fearful of the monstrous creatures he faces in his computer games and must overcome this fear to become a man-a growth process which is admirably represented visually with all the irony that only a female teenage illustrator could create: not only does the boy triumph, he realises his triumph by imagining the battle between a monstrous male force and a diminutive female force which the female wins!
The way we fall, Megan Crewe.
Sixteen-year-old old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community.
The last echo.
Benjamin Dove.
The double shadow, Sally Gardner.
Arnold Ruben has created a memory machine, a utopia housed in a picture palace, where the happiest memories replay forever, a haven in which he and his precious daughter can shelter from the war-clouds gathering over 1937 Britain. But on the day of her seventeenth birthday Amaryllis leaves Warlock Hall and the world she has known and wakes to find herself in a desolate and disturbing place. Something has gone terribly wrong with her father's plan. Against the tense backdrop of the second World War Sally Gardner explores families and what binds them, fathers and daughters, past histories, passions and cruelty, love and devastation in a novel rich in character and beautifully crafted.
Scarlet.
The fault in our stars, John Green.
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Changeling, Philippa Gregory.
The year is 1453, and all signs point to it being the end of the world. Accused of heresy and expelled from his monastery, handsome seventeen-year-old, Luca Vero, is recruited by a mysterious stranger to record the end of times across Europe. Commanded by sealed orders, Luca is sent to map the fears of Christendom, and travel to the very frontier of good and evil. Seventeen-year-old Isolde, a Lady Abbess, is trapped in a nunnery to prevent her claiming her rich inheritance. As the nuns in her care are driven mad by strange visions, walking in their sleep, and showing bleeding wounds, Luca is sent to investigate and all the evidence points to Isolde's criminal guilt. Outside in the yard they are building a pyre to burn her for witchcraft. Forced to face the greatest fears of the medieval world dark magic, werewolves, madness Luca and Isolde embark on a search for truth, their own destinies, and even love as they take the unknown ways to the real historical figure who defends the boundaries of Christendom and holds the secrets of the Order of Darkness.
The nature of Ash, Mandy Hager.
"Ash McCarthy thought he finally had it made: away from home and all its claustrophobic responsibilities, he's revelling in the freedom of student hostel life. But life is about to take a devastating turn, when two police officers knock on his door. Their life-changing news forces him to return home to his Down Syndrome brother Mikey, and impels him into a shady world of political intrigue, corruption, terrorism and lies … so many lies. As if this isn't bad enough, the whole country is imploding, as the world's two greatest super-powers start a fight that leaves New Zealand 'piggy-in-the-middle' of their deadly games. While trying to protect Mikey, along with strangers Travis and Jiao, his fight to uncover the truth turns into a nightmare race to save their lives and stop the destruction of all the principles he holds dear"--Publisher information. Suggested level: secondary.
Flirting in Italian, Lauren Henderson.
Spending the summer in the Tuscany region of Italy on a secret mission to solve a family mystery, English teenager Violet is distracted by exciting American roommates and sexy Italian boys on Vespa scooters.
Sweet evil.
The returning, Christine Hinwood.
When the six-year war between the Uplanders and Downlanders is over and Cam returns home to his village, questions dog him, from how he lost an arm to why he was the only one of his fellow soldiers to survive. He must leave until his own suspicions are resolved.
Broken illusions : a midnight dragonfly novel.
The girl in the clockwork collar.
The immortal rules : a legend begins.
Rapture : a fallen novel, Lauren Kate.
While searching for the place where the angels fell to earth to stop Lucifer from erasing the past, Luce and Daniel make a startling discovery.
Sisters of Misery.
The lost sister.
Crazy dangerous, Andrew Klavan.
Sam Hopkins fights back when he sees bullies harassing Jennifer, an eccentric schoolmate who, he learns, is having terrifying hallucinations about demons, death, and destruction, which may just come true unless Sam can stop them.
Team human, Justine Larbalestier and Sarah Rees Brennan.
Calling the gods, Jack Lasenby.
Banishment is the cruellest punishment, and Selene is being driven out unjustly by her own people. A story of violence, love and courage, of leadership and betrayal, a tale of a young woman's heroic persistence against impossible odds.
Party disaster!
I hunt killers, Barry Lyga.
You're seventeen years old and your father is the most notorious serial killer America has ever produced. He brought you up. Taught you everything he knows. Everyone in your ordinary American town knows who you are. So even though Dear Old Dad is safely behind bars, when the killing starts all over again, you are the first person the police come to see. They don't know whether it's nature or nurture. And neither do you.
Snow.
Adorkable.
Never fall down : a novel, Patricia McCormick.
Cambodian child soldier Arn Chorn-Pond defied the odds and used all of his courage and wits to survive the murderous regime of the Khmer Rouge.
Railsea, China Mieville.
On board the moletrain Medes, Sham Yes ap Soorap watches in awe as he witnesses his first moldywarpe hunt. The giant mole bursting from the earth, the harpoonists targeting their prey, the battle resulting in one's death and the other's glory are extraordinary. But no matter how spectacular it is, travelling the endless rails of the railsea, Sham can't shake the sense that there is more to life. Even if his philosophy-seeking captain can think only of the hunt for the ivory-coloured mole she's been chasing ever since it took her arm all those years ago. When they come across a wrecked train, at first it's a welcome distraction. But the impossible salvage Sham finds in the derelict leads to considerably more than he'd bargained for. Soon he's hunted on all sides: by pirates, trainsfolk, monsters and salvage-scrabblers. And it might not be just Sham's life that's about to change. It could be the whole of the railsea.
Some kind of wonderful : a novel, J. Minter.
Tamlyn.
Fallout.
The forgotten pearl.
All the right stuff, Walter Dean Myers.
The summer after his absentee father is killed in a random shooting, Paul volunteers at a Harlem soup kitchen where he listens to lessons about "the social contract" from an elderly African American man, and mentors a seventeen-year-old unwed mother who wants to make it to college on a basketball scholarship.
Alice on board, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor.
Seeking one last adventure before going off to college, Alice and her friends find summer employment on a Chesapeake Bay cruise
All fall down, Sally Nicholls.
When Isabel's Yorkshire village is devastated by the Black Death, it seems that the world is ending in horror and fear. But for the survivors of the terrible plague, a new and freer society will rise from the destruction of the feudal system that enslaved the family. This is a powerful historical novel from one of today's most exciting young writers.
Fated.
Whisper : a Riley Bloom book.
The Fox inheritance, Mary E. Pearson.
Two-hundred-sixty years after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, sixteen-year-old Locke and seventeen-year-old Kara have been brought back to life in newly bioengineered bodies, with many questions about the world they find themselves in and more than two centuries of horrible memories of being trapped in a digital netherworld wondering what would become of them.
Between the lines, Jodi Picoult & Samantha Van Leer.
What happens when happily ever after isn't. Delilah hates school as much as she loves books. In fact, there's one book in particular she can't get enough of. If anyone knew how many times she has read and re-read the sweet little fairy tale she found in the library, especially the popular kids, she'd be sent to social Siberia forever. To Delilah, though, this fairy tale is more than just words on the page. Sure, there's a handsome (well, okay, hot) prince, and a castle, and an evil villain, but it feels as if there's something deeper going on. And one day, Delilah finds out there is. Turns out, this Prince Charming is real, and a certain fifteen-year-old loner has caught his eye. But they're from two different worlds.How can it ever possibly work?
Destined.
Home to mother, Doris Pilkington Garimara ; illustrated by Janice Lyndon.
Burn mark.
Broken, Elizabeth Pulford ; illustrations by Angus Gomes.
Critically injured in a motorbike accident, Zara Wilson lies in a coma. She is caught between many worlds, a world of her hospital room and anxious family, and that of her memories and a dream-like fantasy where she searches for her brother Jem. Zara's adventures in her subconscious unlock dark secrets of a troubled past which Zara must face up to in order to accept her future. Illustrated in a graphic novel style.
Hunted, Cheryl Rainfield.
Cassie, a telepathic teenager, is on the run from government trackers because she is a paranormal in a world where being a "para" is illegal.
Black heart blue.
Illegal, Bettina Restrepo.
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children, Ransom Riggs.
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
Immortal hearts, Ellen Schreiber.
The relationship of Raven and her vampire boyfriend Alexander is tested when his younger sister Stormy comes to town.
The enchantress, Michael Scott.
This is the sixth and final book in the New York Times bestselling Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series. The twins of prophecy have been split. Nicholas Flamel is near death. John Dee has the swords of power. And Danu Talis has yet to fall. The future of the human race lies in the balance how will the legend end?
Shine.
Curveball : the year I lost my grip, Jordan Sonnenblick.
After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he's becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
The stolen, Celia Thomson.
She argues with her mother. She occasionally skips class. And she alternately crushes on two totally different boys. But Chloe King is by no means your typical teenager. The girl can scale buildings and see in the dark. Sometimes, at night, she even likes to leap from rooftop to rooftop. Yes, Chloe has the instincts and ability of a cat. And that makes her unique, indeed.
The bar code tattoo.
Gangsta rap, Benjamin Zephaniah.

Non-Fiction

Beach blanket bongo, [publisher: Matt Groening ; contributing artists: Karen Bates … [et al.] ; contributing writers: Elma Blackburn … [et al.]
Includes the following stories - in "Greek for Me", Mythological misgivings abound as the Simpsons family head back to ancient Greece for a clash of the titans; in "Simpson/Sideshow Sibling Smackdown", Bart and Lisa meet a nemesis more maniacal than Sideshow Bob; in "Recipe for Disaster", the Marge cooks up something monstrous.
Puella magi madoka magica. 1, story by Magica Quartet ; art by Hanokage ; [translation, William Flanagan].
When a new girl joins her class, Madoka Kaname feels she recognizes the mysterious, dark-haired transfer student from one of her dreams - a dream where she is approached by a cat-like creature who offers Madoka an opportunity to change destiny. Madoka had always thought magic was the stuff of fantasy until she sees the transfer student fighting with the very cat-being from her dream! And just like in Madoka's dream, the cat gives her a choice: Will Madoka become a Puella Magi in exchange for her dearest desire? What will be the cost of having her wish come true?
Cross game. 1, story and art by Mitsuru Adachi ; [translation, Ralph Yamada, Lillian Olsen].
Cross Game is a moving drama that is heartfelt and true, yet in the brilliant hands of manga artist Mitsuru Adachi, delightfully flows with a light and amusing touch. The series centres around a boy named Ko, the family of four sisters who live down the street and the game of baseball. This poignant coming-of-age will change your perception of what shonen-manga can be.
Cross game. 4, story & art by Mitsuru Adachi ; [translation, Lillian Olsen].
With Ko in his second year of high school and Aoba in her first, the regionals for Summer Koshien are about to begin! The third round pits Seishu up against mighty Ryuou Gakuin one of the teams favored to win the whole shebang. Do Ko and team have what it takes to even advance that far in the tourney? But first, Aoba's cousin enters the picture, and he might shake things up on a different front.
Cross game. 6, Mitsuru Adachi ; [translation, Lillian Olsen].
The arrival of a new year brings Ko's last shot at Koshien closer at hand.
Cross game. 7, Mitsuru Adachi ; [translation, Lillian Olsen].
With his final summer in high school approaching, Ko and the rest of the team are right in the thick of the regionals to qualify for Koshien. They manage a win in their first game, but the next round pits them against Kurokoma, led by none other than Seishu's infamous former coach, Daimon. Seishu is cautious because they know Daimon would really hate to lose to the "Portables" twice. And as the team battles its way toward Koshien, Akane Takigawa is dealt a blow to her health and is hospitalized.
Scarlet, Brian Michael Bendis, Alex Maleev, created & produced ; Chris Eliopoulous, letters ; editor, Jennifer Grunwald.
The new Avengers. [3], writer, Brian Michael Bendis ; penciler, Neal Adams ; artists, Mike Deodato with Will Conrad ; inker, Tom Palmer.
With the help of legions of disaffected former H.A.M.M.E.R. agents, Norman Osborn has made an epic jailbreak. Now free to rebuild his dark army, Osborn has assembled minions from A.I.M., Hydra and the Hand to take on the Avengers. He's even got the media on his side, and people are listening. And he has another weapon the Avengers may not be able to beat: the new Dark Avengers. Every bit as powerful and far more evil than the original incarnation, Norman's new team is dead-set on destroying the Avengers!
Level 2 economics : study guide, Alastair Blyth.
This new edition covers the five key Level 2 Economics Standards 2.1 to 2.4 and 2.6 being implemented in 2012. It features brief notes, clear explanations, examples, diagrams and numerous activities with answers. Use throughout the year to support classroom work, to help with internal assessments and to revise for end-of-year exams.
Level 2 chemistry : study guide, Suzanne Boniface.
The new edition of this best-seller covers the NCEA Level 2 Chemistry Achievement Standards 2.1 to 2.7 being implemented in 2012. It features brief notes, clear explanations, examples, diagrams and numerous activities with answers in the back. Use throughout the year to support classroom work, to help with internal assessments and to revise for end-of-year exams.
The world of the Hunger Games, Kate Egan.
A companion guide to Panem, the world in the "Hunger Games," as portrayed in the motion picture based on the novel by Suzanne
Oh my goddess! 41, story and art by Kosuke Fujishima ; translation by Dana Lewis and Christopher Lewis ; lettering and touch-up by Susie Lee and Betty Dong with Tom2K.
In their quest to free Hild from Hell, Keichi and the goddesses next face Thrym, a powerful demoness that Belldandy is forced to engage in hand-to-hand combat when magic does not work against her.
Alex Rider. Eagle strike : the graphic novel, Anthony Horowitz … [et al.].
In this title, Horowitz's world-renowned teen super-spy Alex Rider's fourth mission comes to life in a thrilling, fast- paced and stylish graphic adaptation. Relaxing in the south of France, reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is finally able to feel like any ordinary fourteen-year-old until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery. And this time, MI6 don't want to know. Alex is determined to track down his friends' attackers, even if he must do it alone. But it's a path that leads to a long-buried secret and a discovery more terrible than anything he could have imagined. Alex Rider has 90 minutes to save the world. This is a slick, clean, stylishly crafted and coloured graphic adaptation bringing to life all the adventure, thrills and spills of this bestselling story. Following the triumphant, international publication of Stormbreaker: The Graphic Novel, the whole graphic novel series has gained wide recognition among reviewers, fans and literacy experts. Recent government initiatives encourage us to examine the reading habits of boys with literacy levels among children in the UK lower than ever. This is a series of books that may offer an accessible and compelling alternative for otherwise reluctant readers.
Saturn Apartments. 5, Hisae Iwaoka. ; [translation, Matt Thorn].
Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the earth, thirty-five kilometers up in the sky. The society of the Ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments. Mitsu's a window-washer in the Ring System, a civilization constructed after Earth was abandoned and turned into a nature preserve. His father died on the job five years earlier, and Mitsu takes his work seriously. Unfortunately, not all of his coworkers feel the same way, and they begin to resent the care and diligence he puts into clearing a vision of Earth for the residents of the Ring. One day, while staying late to check on his colleague's work, Mitsu loses radio contact. Will he meet the same fate as his father?
Skeleton Key : [the graphic novel], Anthony Horowitz ; adapted by Antony Johnston ; illustrated by Kanako Damerum & Yuzuru Takasaki.
On a routine mission at the Wimbledon tennis championships, reluctant teenage spy Alex Rider gets caught up in Chinese gangs, illegal nuclear weapons, and the suspect plans of his Russian host, General Sarov.
Naruto. Vol. 56, Team Asuma, reunited, [story & art by Masashi Kishimoto ; translation, Mari Morimoto ; English adaptation, Joel Enos].
Naruto and the Allied Shinobi Forces battle Kabuto's hordes of reanimated ninja soldiers. In the process, they come face-to-face with old friends brought back from the dead plus enemies and weapons more fearsome than any they could have imagined!
Thor, the mighty avenger. [Vol. 2], writers, Roger Langridge, Stan Lee & Larry Lieber ; artist, Chris Samnee ; penciler, Jack Kirby ; inker, Dick Ayers.
He's banished, he's mad, and he wants to fight. Roger Langridge and Chris Samnee re-imagine the God of Thunder in Thor the Mighty Avenger! Thrill as he battles robots the size of cities! Gasp as he tames the mightiest sea creatures! Swoon as he rescues damsels from the vilest villains! It's Thor as you've never seen him!
Ultimate comics X. Origins, Jeph Loeb, writer ; Arthur Adams, artist ; Aspen MLT's Peter Steigerwald, colourist ; Aspen MLT's Mark Roslan, digital inks ; Richard Starkings, Comicraft's Albert Deschesne, lettering.
With the world on the brink destruction, the Fantastic Four disbanded, the X-Men gone, and mutants hunted as criminals, an unlikely group of young heroes gather together to save tomorrow. Who or what connects Jimmy Hudson, Karen Grant, Derek Morgan, and Liz Allan, and what drives them to reach out to the most dangerous person in the Ultimate Universe, the Hulk?
Level 1 design and visual communications : study guide, Stewart McKissock.
This guide covers all seven NCEA Level 1 Design and visual communication (graphics) achievement standards. These revised achievement standards were implemented in 2011 and are based on the New Zealand curriculum - From rear cover.
Rasl. [2. The fire of St. George], Jeff Smith.
Jeff Smith's fast-paced sci-fi thriller about an inter-dimensional art thief continues in this action-packed graphic novel. The secrets of RASL's technology and his hidden past are exposed when a mysterious, lizard-faced stranger starts killing the art thief's girlfriends in multiple universes. The stranger knows that RASL used to work for the military-industrial complex on a project code-named The St. George Array, and believes that RASL has stolen secrets that will unlock the power of the universe.
Rasl. [3, Romance at the speed of light], Jeff Smith.
Jeff Smith's fast-paced sci-fi thriller about an inter-dimensional art thief continues in this action-packed graphic novel./dd>
Batman. Volume 1, The court of owls, Scott Snyder, writer ; Greg Capullo, penciller ; Jonathan Glapion, inker.
Following his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed run on Detective Comics, writer Scott Snyder (American Vampire) alongside artist Greg Capullo (Spawn) begins a new era of The Dark Knight as with the relaunch of Batman, as a part of DC Comics The New 52! After a series of brutal murders rocks Gotham City, Batman begins to realize that perhaps these crimes go far deeper than appearances suggest. As the Caped Crusader begins to unravel this deadly mystery, he discovers a conspiracy going back to his youth and beyond to the origins of the city he's sworn to protect. Could the Court of Owls, once thought to be nothing more than an urban legend, be behind the crime and corruption? Or is Bruce Wayne losing his grip on sanity and falling prey to the pressures of his war on crime?
Superman. Grounded. Volume 2, writers, J. Michael Straczynski, Chris Robertson ; pencillers, Eddy Barrows … [et al.] ; inkers, J.P. Mayer … [et al.].
Superman meets the new Wonder Woman for the first time. But why can't he shake the feeling that he already knows her? Then, Superman visits Boulder, Colorado, where The Flash made a strange discovery that relates to Superman. And in Salt Lake City, Batman arrives to revisit one of his earliest adventures with The Man of Steel.
Inuyasha. [11], story and art by Rumiko Takahashi ; [English adaption, Gerard Jones ; translation, Mari Morimoto].
Kagome is an ordinary modern schoolgirl living an ordinary life. Who would have thought the dried-up old well on the site of her family's shrine would be a gateway to Japan's ancient past? Drawn through the gate against her will, Kagome finds herself battling demons for control of what she thought was a worthless trinket but is actually a powerful magical gem, the Shikon Jewel! Together with an unlikely ally, the half demon Inuyasha, Kagome begins a quest to recover the shards of the Shikon Jewel and learn more about her link to the past.
A devil and her love song. Volume 1, story & art by Miyoshi Tomori ; [English adaptation, Ysabet MacFarlane ; translation, JN Productions].
Maria's frank nature gains her more enemies at her new school, but her angelic singing voice inadvertently catches the attention of Yusuke Kanda and Shin Meguro. Can these boys mend her hardened heart, or will they just end up getting scorched?
A devil and her love song. Volume 2, story & art by Miyoshi Tomori ; [English adaption, Ysabet MacFarlane ; translation, JN Productions].
Maria's bold attitude may be exactly what she needs when she inspires an unlikely ally to come to her defence. And when she's given the task to lead her class in a choral competition, she's going to need all the gumption she can muster!
Daken, Dark Wolverine. Empire, [writer, Daniel Way & Marjorie Liu ; artist, Mirco Pierfederici ; pencils, Guiseppe Camuncoli ; inks, Onofrio Catacchio ; background assistant, Grazia Lobaccaro ; colours, Frank D'Armata ; letters, Cory Petit].
For decades, Daken, the son of Wolverine, remained hidden in the shadows of the Marvel Universe, methodically plotting how he would one day dominate the world around him. And now, with his father's soul hanging in the balance, that day has come. This is the beginning.
The story of Saiunkoku. 7, art by Kairi Yura ; story by Sai Yukino ; [translation and English adaptation, Su Mon Han].
Shurei Hong, destitute but of noble birth, has always dreamed of working as a civil servant in the imperial court of Saiunkoku, but women are barred from holding office. The emperor Ryuki, however, refuses to take command, leaving everything to his advisors. Shurei is asked to become a consort to the emperor to persuade the ne'er-do-well ruler to govern. Though Shurei and Eigetsu passed the Imperial Exam with high marks, they are being bullied as they go about their duties as new civil servants in the palace. But it seems the pair may have found an unlikely ally.