manga

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Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
2007
A graphic novel exploration of the life of Gandhi that discusses his childhood, move to England, education as a lawyer, experiences with racial discrimination, nonviolent peace movement, and more.

5 centimeters per second

2012
An adaptation of the animated film portraying three interconnected tales of love and lost innocence told as Takaki reminisces while traveling by train from Tokyo to reunite with his childhood best friend, Akari.

The lapis lazuli crown

2009
While Miel's family has magical powers, she wishes only to live a normal existence, but when she runs into a boy who needs help, and happens to resemble the handsome prince of the realm, she realizes she might have found the motivation to develop her special abilities.

Shirley

2008
After Shirley Madison answers an advertisement that does not list an age requirement, she is hired on as a maid in Miss Bennett Cranley's household, a single woman who runs a pub that she inherited, despite the fact that Shirley is only thirteen years old.

Manga sisters

in Japanese & English
2007
Manga artists and sisters Saori and Misato Takarai share insight into the experiences of sisterhood, with forty original manga illustrations. Presented in English and Japanese.

Happy happy Clover

2009
Clover the bunny hopes to impress Rambler by hopping through a difficult obstacle course, but first she must make a new friend and escape from a farmer who wants to serve Clover for dinner.

Claire and the water wish

2009
Claire, nervous about starting a new school soon, starts to grow apart from her friend Jet, who takes photographs with the popular kids, and when Claire befriends Sky, who lives in the Lovesick Lake community, she learns about the actions of some polluters, which causes the three girls to work together for a solution.

Tsubasa

2007
Princess Sakura and her friends compete in a flying race on Piffle World in hopes of winning the prize, which is a feather-shaped fragment of Sakura's lost memories. Due to cheating and sabotage, only Sakura remains in the competition, and her life is in danger.

Cross game

2012
The new school year sees Ko one step closer at Koshien, but Adane Takigawa's resemblance to Wakaba threatens to steal his heart. Azuma and Aoba grow close, and all around young love blossoms in Ko's third high school year. Plus, the Seishu baseball players have to deal with a new coach.

Case closed

2012
Even though he is shrunk to the size of a first grader, Jimmy Kudo, a.k.a. Conan Edogawa, continues to solve mysteries that just happen to find him. In this case, Richard Moore loses a ten-million-yen contract to two blond detectives, Eva Kaden--Richard's ex--and Vivian Kudo, the actress and Jimmy's mom, yet even these two crime-solving veterans will be hard-put to find a killer who cannot be seen. Meanwhile, Conan and his friend Anita may finally have been caught by the Men in Black, those who originally shrunk Conan.

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