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  1. Death Note, Vol. 11: Kindred Spirits

    by Tsugumi Ohba
    A teenage genius and a mysterious detective battle against a powerful and dangerous death god.

    Light's latest machinations are putting a strain on even his formidable intellect as Near flies to Japan to beard Kira in his den. Near is sure that Light is Kira, but his sense of honor as L's heir ... (Goodreads)

  2. Death Note, Vol. 9: Contact

    by Tsugumi Ohba
    Light and L's battle against one another intensifies as the forces of justice and evil clash.

    Light has always been confident in his ability to out-think everyone, but L's protégés are proving to be more of a challenge than he anticipated. The more Light mentally maneuvers, the tighter the ... (Goodreads)

  3. Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run

    by Tsugumi Ohba
    Dark fantasy tale of a teenager wielding a mysterious notebook with the power to kill.

    Light is chafing under L's extreme surveillance, but even 64 microphones and cameras hidden in his room aren't enough to stop Light. He steps up the game, but before the battle of wits can really ... (Goodreads)

  4. Naruto, Vol. 08: Life-and-Death Battles

    by Masashi Kishimoto
    Naruto and his friends face deadly challenges as they continue their ninja training and confront powerful enemies.

    As the preliminaries to the third phase of the Chūnin Exams begin, the student ninja face off against each other in no-holds-barred, one-on-one bouts. Deaf to Sakura's pleas to withdraw from the ... (Goodreads)

  5. Bleach, Volume 03

    by Tite Kubo
    A young man discovers he has supernatural powers, and embarks on a journey to protect the innocent from evil.

    Part-time student, full-time Soul Reaper, Ichigo is one of the chosen few guardians of the afterlife. Ichigo Kurosaki never asked for the ability to see ghosts—he was born with the gift. When his ... (Barnes & Noble)

  6. Naruto, Vol. 1: Uzumaki Naruto

    by Masashi Kishimoto
    A young ninja's quest to gain acceptance and recognition, as he battles a powerful group of evil antagonists.

    The world’s most popular ninja comic! Naruto is a young shinobi with an incorrigible knack for mischief. He’s got a wild sense of humor, but Naruto is completely serious about his mission to be the ... (Barnes & Noble)

  7. Naruto, Vol. 11: Impassioned Efforts

    by Masashi Kishimoto
    Naruto and the gang take on a dangerous mission to save an old friend from a deadly enemy.

    Now preparing for the finals of the Chûnin Selection Exams, Naruto studies with naughty new mentor Jiraiya and struggles to harness the power of the Nine-Tailed Fox chakra locked within him. ... (Barnes & Noble)

  8. One Piece, Volume 6: The Oath

    by Eiichiro Oda
    Monkey D. Luffy and his crew face off against Captain Kuro and his band of pirates in a battle for their hometown.

    Luffy's pirates thought they were just stopping in for a quick bite...but now Luffy's been made a busboy on Baratie, the oceangoing restaurant, and it turns out some of the worst-mannered pirates on ... (Goodreads)

  9. V for Vendetta

    by Alan Moore
    A dystopian future, where a mysterious vigilante fights for freedom and justice.

    On Guy Fawkes Night in London in 1997, a young girl goes to see her boss after curfew when she is sexually attacked by three men who are actually members of the state secret police , called "The ... (Wikipedia)

  10. Death Note: Another Note - The Los Angeles BB Murder Cases

    by NisiOisiN
    A prequel to the popular manga series, following the investigation of a serial killer in Los Angeles.

    The story is narrated by Mello , a character from the manga. It recounts the time the detective L worked with FBI agent Naomi Misora to stop a violent serial killer. The murderer calls himself ... (Wikipedia)

  11. Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 7

    by Hiromu Arakawa
    Brothers Edward and Alphonse continue their quest for the Philosopher's Stone, facing new enemies and uncovering dark secrets.

    Alchemy tore the Elric brothers’ bodies apart. Can their bond make them whole again? A hardcover collector’s edition of one of the most beloved manga and anime of all time! Fully remastered with an ... (Barnes & Noble)

  12. Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 2

    by Hiromu Arakawa
    A brother and sister strive to restore their bodies after a failed alchemical experiment.

    In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical "auto-mail" limbs, Edward ... (Goodreads)

  13. One Piece, Volume 5: For Whom the Bell Tolls

    by Eiichiro Oda
    Monkey D. Luffy and his crew face off against the tyrannical Captain Kuro and his band of pirates.

    Once upon a time, Usopp was just a local boy with a talent for tall tales. Everyone in his little seaside village knew him as the joker who claimed to be a pirate captain and woke people up in the ... (Barnes & Noble)

  14. One Piece, Volume 1: Romance Dawn

    by Eiichiro Oda
    A young pirate's swashbuckling adventure to become the King of the Pirates.

    A new shonen sensation in Japan, this series features Monkey D. Luffy, whose main ambition is to become a pirate. Eating the Gum-Gum Fruit gives him strange powers but also invokes the fruit's curse: ... (Goodreads)

  15. Fruits Basket, Vol. 13

    by Natsuki Takaya
    Tohru Honda continues to navigate the Sohma family's curse and their complicated relationships, while facing her own feelings for Kyo and Yuki.

    The number one manga in America continues! The time for Yuki's parent-teacher conference has finally arrived, and Yuki must learn how to make his own decisions if he wants to have a say about his ... (Goodreads)

  16. Scott Pilgrim, Volume 2: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

    by Bryan Lee O'Malley
    A young man's fight against his love interest's seven evil exes, with a dose of magical realism.

    Scott Pilgrim, a 23-year-old slacker, lives in Toronto with his roommate Wallace Wells. He is the bass player for Sex Bob-omb, an unsuccessful band consisting of himself, guitarist Stephen Stills, ... (Wikipedia)

  17. The Devotion of Suspect X

    by Keigo Higashino
    A genius physicist helps his neighbor cover up a murder, while a relentless detective investigates the crime.

    Yasuko lives a quiet life, working in a Tokyo bento shop, a good mother to her only child. But when her ex-husband appears at her door without warning one day, her comfortable world is shattered. ... (Goodreads)

  18. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Vol. 1

    by Hayao Miyazaki
    A young princess embarks on a quest for peace, unifying the humans and the giant insects of the Valley of the Wind.

    In a long-ago war, humankind set off a devastating ecological disaster. Thriving industrial societies disappeared. The earth is slowly submerging beneath the expanding Sea of Corruption, an enormous ... (Goodreads)

  19. Fullmetal Alchemist, Vol. 10

    by Hiromu Arakawa
    Brothers Edward and Alphonse continue their quest for the Philosopher's Stone, facing new enemies and uncovering dark secrets.

    Alchemy tore the Elric brothers’ bodies apart. Can their bond make them whole again? A hardcover collector’s edition of one of the most beloved manga and anime of all time! Fully remastered with an ... (Barnes & Noble)

  20. Garden of Shadows

    by V.C. Andrews
    A family's dark secrets are revealed as they struggle to maintain their wealth and status.

    Tall, plain Olivia Winfield is rescued from spinsterhood by the smart and handsome Malcolm Foxworth. She thinks she has found "the one" since this is the first man to ever show interest in her. ... (Wikipedia)

  21. Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

    by Bryan Lee O'Malley
    A young man's misadventures in love, learning lessons of responsibility and maturity.

    Scott Pilgrim's life is totally sweet. He's 23 years old, he's in a rock band, he's "between jobs," and he's dating a cute high school girl. Nothing could possibly go wrong, unless a seriously ... (Barnes & Noble)

  22. Chobits, Vol. 1

    by CLAMP
    A young man finds a discarded android, who happens to be a "Chobit" - a highly advanced and rare type of android with human-like emotions.

    Chi isn't your average humanoid computer. She can't do word processing, she can't connect to the Internet, and she's incapable of networking with other persocoms. Even her sound card seems broken. No ... (Goodreads)

  23. Fairy Tail, Vol. 01

    by Hiro Mashima
    A young wizard named Lucy joins the Fairy Tail guild and embarks on magical adventures with her new friends.

    THE WICKED SIDE OF WIZARDRY Celestial wizard Lucy wants to join the Fairy Tail, a club for the most powerful wizards. But instead, her ambitions land her in the clutches of a gang of unsavory pirates ... (Goodreads)

  24. Fruits Basket, Vol. 18

    by Natsuki Takaya
    Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo continue to learn more about each other and themselves as they struggle to accept their fate.

    As rumors swirl about Machi trying to kill her little brother, Kakeru figures that the only person who can get the truth out of her is Yuki. But when the two of them visit her, they learn a shocking ... (Goodreads)

  25. Naoki Urasawa's Monster, Volume 1: Herr Dr. Tenma

    by Naoki Urasawa
    A brilliant surgeon saves the life of a young boy who grows up to be a serial killer. The surgeon must stop him before more lives are lost.

    An ice-cold killer is on the loose, and brilliant Dr. Kenzo Tenma is the only one who can stop him! Conspiracies, serial murders, and a scathing indictment of hospital politics are all masterfully ... (Goodreads)

  26. Loveless, Volume 01

    by Yun Kouga
    A young couple's struggle to find a missing person and their own place in the world.

    The long-awaited continuation of the best-selling series, a masterpiece tale of intrigue and innocence lost. Ritsuka Aoyagi is alone in the world—never fitting in at school and alienated from his own ... (Barnes & Noble)

  27. Battle Royale

    by Koushun Takami
    High school students forced to fight to the death in a dystopian society.

    Battle Royale takes place in a fictional fascist Japan in the year 1997. The state, known as the Republic of Greater East Asia (,大東亜共和国,, Dai Tōa Kyōwakoku,) , arose after an alternate World War 2 ... (Wikipedia)

  28. Robot Dreams

    by Isaac Asimov
    Exploration of the potential of artificial intelligence, and the ethical considerations of robotics.

    Robot Dreams collects 21 of Isaac Asimov's short stories spanning the body of his fiction from the 1940s to the 1980s–--exploring not only the future of technology, but the future of humanity's ... (Goodreads)

  29. The Fall of Five

    by Pittacus Lore
    The Lorien Legacies continue as the Garde face their toughest challenge yet. Betrayal, action, and suspense ensue.

    The Fall of Five opens with Sam, reliving his experience of torture from Setrákus Ra. He is then taken to Dulce Base before being rescued by Adam, a mogadorian, and his father, Malcolm. Adam holds ... (Wikipedia)

  30. Vampire Mountain

    by Darren Shan
    Half-vampire Darren Shan and his allies journey to Vampire Mountain to attend a council meeting and face their deadliest foes.

    In the fourth book of the bestselling Cirque Du Freak series, Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the very heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on ... (Goodreads)