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Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking for love and she's hoping to find it in the big city.Nana Osaki, on the other hand, is cool, confident and focused. She swaggers into town and proceeds to kick down the doors to Tokyo's underground punk scene. She's got a dream and won't give up until she becomes Japan's No. 1 ...

Wildly-popular artist Ai Yazawa’s beloved fashion-centric manga, Paradise Kiss, is back in a glamorous omnibus edition to celebrate 20 years since the manga began serialization.Follow Yukari’s through-the-looking-glass journey as she is drawn into the world of fashion by a group of passionate, young aesthetes who are determined to make their couture label a success, with Yukari as their muse...

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei examines censorship and self-censorship, through the lens of his compelling personal history, offering readers profound insights into an important topic of current and perpetual relevance.Ai Weiwei is one of contemporary art's greatest practitioners. He has been a voice for artistic and personal freedom of expression for decades within his native China and around the world.This publication offers a compelling exploration of cen...

Three cowboys walk into a bar.It’s not the start of a joke.It’s the start of the biggest, baddest bar brawls the Old West has ever seen.In the dusty, lawless towns of the untamed frontier, a quiet drink is a luxury few can afford. Especially for an unlikely trio of heroes. One a mountain of a man with fists like boulders, another a lanky brawler with a reach that defies reason, and the third a lightning-fast warrior...

Previously published as Wolfgang: The Man. The Myth. The Music. by Tom Connell.He could dazzle a court—and still worry about the next bill.From a crowded family home in Salzburg to the courts, concert rooms and theatres of Europe, Mozart follows the composer's extraordinary thirty-five years: child performer, ambitious composer, husband, father and fiercely independent musician.Behind the familiar image of genius lies a life of friendship, love and ...

He could make a piano sing—and a letter sparkle with mischief.Fryderyk Chopin left Warsaw at twenty, expecting a journey. He never returned. In Paris he built a life through teaching, friendships and music that made his name travel far beyond the rooms in which he preferred to play.From a lively family home to the salons of Paris, from George Sand’s household at Nohant to a demanding tour of Britain, this biography follows the man behind the familiar melodi...

He wanted a life of his own. Making room for it took more than music.A court musician’s son leaves Bonn for Vienna with a farewell album, a few useful introductions and a formidable talent. There Beethoven builds a reputation at the piano, bargains with publishers and patrons, and discovers how much independence depends on other people.This illustrated biography follows the man through friendships, rented rooms, family responsibilities and the daily busines...

Peppy and creative teenager Mikako wants nothing more than to make it as a fashion designer. But when she enters art school alongside her lifelong friend Tsutomu, she finds herself distracted by his sudden popularity and subsequent love life. Despite her feelings, Mikako forms a club with Tsutomu and her friends to sell their creations at a local flea market. While the group is out scouting the flea market, however, discord arises between members in the group and what begins as an exciting...

Anxious to get into a Tokyo groove, both women are on the prowl for a funky and cheap place to live. But inexpensive apartments in Japan's capital city are hard to find. Thank goodness each Nana has a clique of cool friends willing to help out. Too bad these friends are a little wiggy!

Harrowing confessions from the grave. Missing children, deaths, framing, Oakland County, Michigan

In a brand-new high school of only first-years, Midori, a girl who gives her all, runs for a spot on the student council alongside Akira, a guy who sees things through. Once elected, they start a new legacy at the school while also falling in love.

The West is haunted.Its ghosts don’t just whisper.They ride, they shoot and they drag you to hell.Across the unforgiving frontier, in forsaken towns like Deadwater and Dry Gulch, grizzled lawmen and hardened drifters discover that the deadliest threats don’t carry six-shooters. From the cursed peaks of Hangman’s Ridge to the shadowy depths of Black Hollow Mine, an ancient evil stirs. The sins of the past refuse to s...