The platelets may be the littlest members of the Cells at Work team, but they won't let that stop them! They've got the important job of closing wounds, which they do with pride...and a few hijinks along the way!

Honatsu just started her second year of high school, and already rumors are floating around that she's dating her childhood friend, Toma. While Honatsu isn't totally opposed to the idea, she's not sure what she feels for Toma can really be called love. But when aloof transfer student Shun Tachibana appears, the waters get even muddier... How does Shun connect to the past she can't remember? And can Honatsu decide what she truly wants, when her head and her heart are pulling her two differe...

A human and human-presenting AI slowly become friends—and maybe more—in this moving YA graphic novelIn a near future, augmentation and AI changed everything and nothing. Indira is a human girl who has been cybernetically augmented after a tragic accident, and Fawn is one of the first human-presenting AI. They have the same internship at a gallery, but neither thinks much of the other’s photography. But after a huge public blowout, their mentor gives them an ultimat...

Yukinari's childhood friend Miyu enjoys nothing more than spending time with the man she has secretly always been in love with. But something has always bothered her; he always tells her not to come see him after 9pm for some strange reason. Vol.3, 50 pages.

Yukinari's childhood friend Miyu enjoys nothing more than spending time with the man she has secretly always been in love with. But something has always bothered her; he always tells her not to come see him after 9pm for some strange reason. Vol.4, 50 pages.

'A terrific novel' Angela CarterKoko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will this mean for her already troubled relationship with her daughter? As she faces the future, memories of her own childhood loss flood into her consciousness, threatening to overwhelm her.Combining the beauty and unease of a dream...

'Wonderfully poetic ... extraordinary freshness ... a Virginia Woolf quality' Margaret DrabbleIt is Spring. A young woman, left by her husband, starts a new life in a Tokyo apartment. Territory of Light follows her over the course of a year, as she struggles to bring up her two-year-old daughter alone. Her new home is filled with light, streaming through the windows, so bright you have to squint, but she finds herself plummeting deeper into darkness; becom...

A sweeping novel set between 1938 and 2011, this multi-generational story follows the history of one Japanese family as they live through World War II, a host of family dramas, and, finally, the Fukushima disaster. This deeply felt, formally inventive, ambitious novel pulls heavily from the author's own life, including the death of her famous father, the writer Osamu Dazai.The Culling Times is a multi-generational saga of the Kitamura and Komori families t...

The first widely available, comprehensive selection of New York's consummate outsider and underground poet, spanning a lifetime of work."Steve Dalachinsky is a poet of the real world in a time when reality is despised, dismissed, not understood or lied about."—Amiri Baraka"To write about the life of Steve Dalachinsky, one first has to decide what to call him. 'Poet' comes to mind, given all of his books of poetry, the poetry awards and the ...

'Though their house was new, the wall had been there a long time.'In these two stories, which have never before been translated into English, Tsushima shows how memories, dreams and fleeting images describe the borders of our lives.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Ack...

Set in 1970s Japan, this tender and poetic novel about a young, single mother struggling to find her place in the world is an early triumph by a modern Japanese master.Alone at dawn, in the heat of midsummer, a young woman named Takiko Odaka departs on foot for the hospital to give birth to a baby boy. Her pregnancy, the result of a brief affair with a married man, is a source of sorrow and shame to her abusive parents. For Takiko, however, it is a cause for reveri...

Staying pawsitive in the face of adversity!Born as a felin, the weakest race, and bestowed the empty magical attribute of “sky,” the pathetic Nyango will never amount to anything…or so everyone thinks. Unbeknownst to them, Nyango was a Japanese high school boy who had yearned to live in a fantasy world like in his beloved light novels. So despite being reincarnated into unfavorable conditions, the black cat refuses to let others belittle him and extinguish his passion. He’ll use his ingenu...