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Fascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. In rural Indonesia, she watches a man clean and dress his grandfather's mummified body, which has resided in the family home for two years. In La Paz, she meets Bolivian natitas (cigarette-smoking, wish-granting human skulls), and in Tokyo she encounters the Japanese kotsuage ceremony, in which relatives use chopsticks...
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Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 12
Publisher
VIZMedia
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"The 4th Ward falls under attack by Assistant Special Investigator Arima of the Commission of Counter Ghoul. Amon finds a connection between the CCG and an underground lab seemingly designed to research turning humans into Ghouls. And an old partnership reforms that could spell trouble for the 20th Ward" -- Page [4] of cover.
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Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 13
Publisher
VIZMedia
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-Ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Investigators from the 20th Ward launch an initiative to take out the Ghoul known as the One-Eyed Owl, who has possible ties to both Akira and Yoshimura. An all-out assault on the Anteiku café, where the Owl...
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Before the coffee gets cold volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In a small back alley in Tokyo at a century-old coffee shop rumored to offer patrons the chance to travel back in time, four customers reevaluate their formative life choices.
In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers coffee-- and the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café...
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Pub. Date
2012
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English
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When a man about to leave his wife is found murdered and the wife has a too-convenient alibi that convinces a smitten lead detective of her innocence, Professor Manubu Yukawa is tapped by a concerned Kaoru Utsumi to solve a seemingly impossible case.
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Before the coffee gets cold volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each...
7) Oh Lucy!
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Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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A single Japanese woman enrolls in an English language class that requires the students to assume a new identity and falls in love with the instructor.
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Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 10
Publisher
VIZMedia
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way... except their craving for human flesh.
Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. While Kaneki and his friends tangle with the ghouls from the Aogiri Tree organization, the Commission of Counter...
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Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 9
Publisher
VIZMedia
Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Six months after its Aogiri Tree Operation, the CCG continues its investigation of the Gourmet and the Binge Eater. Meanwhile, Kaneki and hi scolleagues' search for Rize's true identity brings them face-to-face with the mysterious Madame A.
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What did you eat yesterday? volume 20
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Part comic, part cookbook. In the narrative, a hard-working middle-aged gay couple in Tokyo come to enjoy the finer moments of life through food. After long days at work, Shiro and Kenji will always have down-time together by the dinner table where they can discuss their feelings and enjoy delicately prepared home cooked meals. Not only is food incorporated into the narrative, but the frames actually take readers through the process of preparing meals...
11) While I was away
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Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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When twelve-year-old Waka's parents suspect she can't understand basic Japanese they speak to her, they make the drastic decision to send her to Tokyo to live for several months with her strict grandmother. Forced to say goodbye to her friends and what would have been her summer vacation, Waka is plucked from her straight-A-student life in rural Kansas and flown across the globe, where she faces the culture shock of a lifetime. In Japan, Waka struggles...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Fuyuko Irie is a freelance copy editor in her mid-thirties. Working and living alone in a city where it is not easy to form new relationships, she has little regular contact with anyone other than her editor, Hijiri, a woman of the same age but with a very different disposition. When Fuyoku stops one day on a Tokyo street and notices her reflection in a storefront window, what she sees is a drab, awkward, and spiritless woman who has lacked the strength...
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English
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Combining the incisive intimacy of Sally Rooney with the sharp wit of Helen Fielding, a compulsively readable and astonishingly relatable debut novel about marriage, motherhood, love, self and the vibrant, surprising city that is modern Tokyo. Mizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It's everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether it would be more fun...
14) DAYS 9
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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It's Seiseki vs. Keio in the semifinals of the All Japan Tokyo Regionals, and halftime is over. But their prized Three Arrows are all on the bench, and to make matters worse, one of their center backs has been ejected from the game. The odds are against Seiseki, and they know it...but it hasn't dulled their fighting spirit at all! With the game drawing to a close, Seiseki fights that much harder. But wait till you see how the battle ends...!
15) DAYS 8
Publisher
Kodansha
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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The boys at Seiseki Soccer Club gear up for the semifinals of the All Japan Tokyo Regionals, where they face off against Keiogawara, an up-and-coming team that's only been around for the past two years...and without Mizuki, Oshiba and Kazama out of commission, they'll have to hold their own against Maruoka and Kai's dominant front line without their Three Arrows. If they want to stay in the tournament, it's all up to Kimishita, Usui, and Tsukushi,...
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Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 5
Publisher
VIZMedia
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Kaneki meets Shu Tsukiyama, known as The Gourmet for his interesting and sadistic tastes. And Kaneki learns...
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Tokyo ghoul (Manga) volume 4
Publisher
VIZMedia
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
Ghouls live among us, the same as normal people in every way - except their craving for human flesh. Ken Kaneki is an ordinary college student until a violent encounter turns him into the first half-human half-ghoul hybrid. Trapped between two worlds, he must survive Ghoul turf wars, learn more about Ghoul society and master his new powers. Kaneki meets Shu Tsukiyama, known as The Gourmet for his interesting and sadistic tastes. And Kaneki learns...
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Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A middle-grade introduction to World War II is presented through stories of high-flying action, heroism and survival that illuminate such topics as the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the contributions of volunteer pilots and the roles of aircraft carrier military bombers.
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John Rain novels volume 9
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Returning to Tokyo in 1982 after a decade of mercenary work in the Philippines, a young John Rain learns that the killing business is now controlled by Victor, a half-Russian, half-Japanese sociopath who has ruthlessly eliminated all potential challengers. Victor gives Rain a choice: kill a government minister or die a grisly death. But the best route to the minister is through his gorgeous Italian wife, Maria, a route that puts Rain on a collision...
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Dragonilos volume 4
Publisher
Uranito
Pub. Date
2015.
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Español
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Has una fiesta con todos los niños de Japón. Imita los sonidos de los animales en japonés. Descubre lo que es el origami y realiza en modelo favorito de los dragonilos. Vístete al último grito de la moda con un estilo de vestimenta que atrapará todas las miradas. Conoce a Saya, una maestra robot única en su géero. Podrás hacer todo esto ymuchas cosas más en compañía de los dragonilos rojos de Tokio.
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