Weird tales of horror and the bizarre are part ofa peculiar vision of the world in this collection of shortstories. "The Anomal graphicnovel collection provides a fun, occasionally touching eclectic assortment ofshort manga stories with a supernatural skew that should fascinate and entertainreaders that are tired of ordinary superhero comics "-AnimeNation “Anomal is agood book that plays with the genres and keeps the reader interested because ofit; here again Gen has preserved the artistry of...
Bad boys turned good, kisses in the rain, climbing through bedroom windows... It only happens in the movies.When Audrey meets Harry, it's the start of a truly cinematic romance - or is it?Audrey knows that Harry is every movie cliché rolled into one. But she still chooses to let him into her heart...A love letter to cinema with a powerful cynical bite from the queen of UK YA - "This is Bourne at her outrageous, courageous, necessary best." The Guardian
Anna and the French Kiss (Anna and the French Kiss, #1)
by Stephanie Perkins
Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris - until she meets Etienne St. Clair: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home...
Sacrificial Princess & the King of Beasts, Vol. 8 (Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts, #8)
by Yu Tomofuji
As Acting Queen, one ofSariphi's duties is to soothe and comfort the citizens of Ozmargo. Embarking ona journey for this purpose, Sariphi is joined by Randbert, the Captain of theRoyal Bodyguards. Randbert's words and actions are anything but royal, and theyshake everyone's faith in him...everyone besides Sariphi. But when Lord Brown,the local governor, is attacked, suspicion falls on Randbert. Will Sariphi'strust be enough to clear him? And after being separated from Leonhart for solong, what a...
"Perfectly captures how it feels to be an outsider. I loved it." Tamsin Winter Fifteen year old Sander wishes he was like everyone else. But he has Silver-Russell syndrome, a condition that affects one in a hundred thousand. It means he is smaller than all the other kids in school, a place where the biggest and the loudest get all the attention. Like Niklas.Everyone thinks Niklas is cool and good-looking - except Sander. He doesn't like the way Niklas brags, behaves like a jerk and lies. Niklas...
Finding your voice. Speaking the truth. Falling in love. All the biggest drama happens in high school... Mean Girls meets To All The Boys I've Loved Before in this hugely relatable high-school takedown from the queen of UKYA. Paige is used to staying quiet in the face of lies. Like how popular girl Grace is a such an amazing person (lie). How Laura steals people's boyfriends (lie). How her own family are so perfect (lie). Now Grace and friends have picked their "best" high-school moments for Pa...
Festival of Shadows
by Atelier Sento, Cecile Brun, and Oliver Pichard
**A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection **Recommended by the New York Public Library among its list of '50 Best New Comics for Adults' in 2023 What happens when the living risk their lives to save the souls of the dead? Every summer, in an isolated Japanese village, a celebration known as the Festival of Shadows takes place. The villagers are entrusted to assist the troubled souls or "shadows" of those who died tragically, and to help them come to terms with their deaths and find eter...
Sawa Mitoma, a shy andunconfident girl, has just started high school, and it's already not goingwell...until she makes friends meets the President and Vice-President of thestudent council. But little does she know, they're Sohmas!? It's FruitsBasket...again!
She's lonely and searching for connection. He's lonely, but afraid to reach out. But is finding someone else really the answer to their problems? CRUSHING, an illustrated misadventure in love and loneliness, is a story told in silence - a story about connections in the big city - making them, missing them and longing for them. Small but meaningful moments of comfort and connection are celebrated through wordless, dreamlike illustrations, along with the bliss that comes from finally finding som...
Simon and Monty head South, thinking they can make a fortune playing country music in Nashville. They find plenty to write home about, of course, in the sordid world they encounter there.
Incredible Doom (Incredible Doom, #2)
by Matthew Bogart and Jesse Holden
Janet's been friends with Paul since they were kids. The only problem is, Paul is corporeally challenged. Ghostly puppy love might be enough for Paul, but when Janet meets the (alive) man who just might be the one, her phantom doesn't take it well. Then, when Janet finds out that the guy of her dreams has his own skeletons in the closet, their fledgling romance is hit hard. Will love overcome death? Or will their pasts haunt them forever?
Tony Price is a popular high school track star and occasional delinquent aching for his dad’s attention and approval. Eli Hirsch is a quiet boy with a chronic autoimmune disorder that has ravaged his health and social life. What happens when these two become unlikely friends (and a whole lot more . . . ) in the spooky town of Blackwater, Maine? Werewolf curses, unsavory interactions with the quarterback of the football team, a ghostly fisherman haunting the harbour, and tons of high school drama...
Love, right? I was sure itwas love... There's no easy way to getover a first love, as Kai and Riko are both loath to find out. With theannouncement of Suwa and Akemi's marriage, Riko has been forced to deal with herlong secret feelings, and is surprised to find affection for someone elsestirring underneath...
Fabio Moon (Daytripper, How to Talk to Girls at Parties) says "It is so good reading VINCENT, by Vitor Cafaggi, that when it ends it leaves you longing for more." In this hip, beautiful illustrated series, populated with an irresistible anthropomorphic cast of characters, things are really heating up for Vincent. It wasn't too long ago that he could only dream about being in a serious relationship, and suddenly finding himself involved with not one, but two incredible females. He's made his deci...
The biggest fashion disaster in comics is back! Fashionblogger Lottie Person just wants to live up to her flawless online persona— but why is real life so much harder? “An extremely satisfying read.” —THE SLINGS & ARROWS “Perfectlycapture[s] the aesthetic of a generation.” —SEQUENTIALPLANET “One of comics’ bestpsychological thrill rides.”—IGN Collects SNOTGIRL 11-15