Fiction for Manga Lovers

Aaliyah's novel takes an intimate and humorous look at the world of Japanese manga and anime fandom--in the form of the fictional diary of an 18-year-old girl.

In the second installment of this new series, Heaven Kago continues on her journey of self-discovery to uncover her true identity, her brother's samurai mentor--and the courage to stand on her own. Illustrations. Original.

With gorgeous, electrifying manga-style artwork and cool, entertaining prose fiction, this anthology--a blockbuster hit in Japan--mixes wickedly cool, genre-bending short stories by young authors with illustrations by established manga artists. Young adult.

At its heart a novel about a boy who loves baseball, this suspenseful tale is about a boy who must choose between two ways of life--but finds a way to bridge them.

Karin isn't like all the other teenage girls. Once a month, she experiences an intense nose bleed. Karin is from a family of vampires who love to suck blood, but she prefers to give blood to her "victims." If done right this act of giving can be extremely positive, but the problem is that Karin seems to never do things right. Young adult.

When his older sister Charlie vanishes while traveling through Asia, seventeen-year-old Adam decides he can do more to find her than the nonchalant police and his distraught parents. Without telling his family, he boards a plane for Tokyo. He suspects Charlie may have been involved in the twilight world of bar "hostessing"--or worse. With help from new friends, especially the intriguing and beautiful Aiko, Adam prowls the town. His search ultimately leads him to Tokyo's underbelly of gangsters and drug dealers. Will he learn the truth about his sister's disappearance before it's too late?

Theres a killer loose in Los Angeles and super-sleuth L is on the case. Along with Naomi, a former FBI agent, L helps the LA police solve the grisly crimes. In typical Death Note fashion, things get complicated. And theres a big surprising plot twist at the end of the book. 45,000 pint.

Except for her red hair, Yoko Nakajima is a typical, obedient Japanese high school student. Her life is fairly ordinary--that is, until Keiki, a unicorn in the guise of a young blond-haired boy, tells her that she is his master and must return to their kingdom. Young adult.

When eighth-grader San Lee moves to yet another new school, he plans to be totally different. Then he accidentally answers too many questions in World History on Zen and all heads turn as San has his answer: Hes a Zen Master. And just when he thinks everyone is on to him, everyone believes him--in a major Zen way.

Twelve-year-old Fu and his temple brothers Malao, Seh, Hok, and Long don't know who their parents were. Raised from infancy by their grandmaster, they think of their temple as their home and their fellow warrior monks--their "temple brothers"--as their family. Then one terrible night, the temple is destroyed. Fu and his brothers are the only survivors. Charged by their grandmaster to uncover the secrets of their past, the five flee into the countryside and go their separate ways. Book #1 follows Fu as he struggles to find out more and prove himself in the process.

The Bizenghast world expands in this novelization of the popular graphic novel series. Fans can follow Dinah and Vincent as they embark on various levels of the mausoleum vaults and free spirits with the help of the brother tower guards.

This extraordinary new fantasy--soon to be an anime series on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim--merges the deep well of Eastern myth with the Western fantasy tradition, for a rich, hard-to-put-down novel. Illustrations.

On her 14th birthday, Cassidy Chen discovers she is a direct descendent of the two women who founded Wing Chun kung fu--a rigorous and mystical form of Chinese martial arts created over 100 years ago. The magic begins when she is presented with five gold coins, each connected to a demon she must battle before becoming the Kung Fu Princess.