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  • The Decagon House Murders

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    “Ayatsuji’s brilliant and richly atmospheric puzzle will appeal to fans of golden age whodunits… Every word counts, leading up to a jaw-dropping but logical revealPublishers Weekly

    A hugely enj

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    • Series: Pushkin Vertigo
    • Author: Ayatsuji, Yukito
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: May 25, 2021
    • ISBN10: 1782276343
    • Language: English
  • No Longer Human

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    Mine has been a life of much shame. I can’t even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.

    Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human narrat

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    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0811232433
    • Language: English
  • Parasyte Full Color Collection 4

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    The sci-fi horror manga classic returns, with an updated translation and lettering, in a fully-colorized, premium-quality hardcover for the first time! If you’ve never read the story of Shinichi and t[more below]

    • Series: Parasyte Full Color Collection
    • Author: Iwaaki, Hitoshi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 17, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1646516427
    • Language: English
  • A Wild Sheep Chase

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    A New York Times bestselling author–and “a mythmaker for the millennium, a wiseacre wiseman” (New York Times Book Review)–delivers a surreal and elaborate quest that takes readers from Tokyo to the [more below]

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Murakami, Haruki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: April 09 2002
    • ISBN10: 037571894X
    • Language: English
  • The Premonition

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    The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitabl[more below]

    • Author: Yoshimoto, Banana
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 1640093710
    • Language: English
  • The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World

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    Laura Imai Messina’s international bestselling novel is a story about grief, mourning, and the joy of survival, inspired by a real phone booth in Japan with its disconnected “wind” phone, a place of p[more below]

    • Author: Imai Messina, Laura
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 416
    • Publish Date: October 04 2022
    • ISBN10: 1419754319
    • Language: English
  • Studio Ghibli: The Complete Works

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    A beautiful, full-color dive into the history and future of Studio Ghibli, Japan’s preeminent animation house. In-depth looks at every one of their 26 feature films – including the latest, Earwig and [more below]

    • Author: Studio Ghibli
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: December 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 1647291496
    • Language: English
  • The Final Curtain: A Mystery

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    From the acclaimed author of Malice and Newcomer, a confounding murder in Tokyo is connected to the mystery of the disappearance and death of Detective Kaga’s own mother.

    A decade ago, Tokyo Police Det

    • Series: Kyoichiro Kaga #4
    • Author: Higashino, Keigo
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: December 12, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1250767520
    • Language: English
  • Hiroshima

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    Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey’s seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the

    • Author: Hersey, John
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 152
    • Publish Date: March 04, 1989
    • ISBN10: 0679721037
    • Language: English
  • Kappa

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    The Kappa is a creature from Japanese folklore known for dragging unwary toddlers to their deaths in rivers: a scaly, child-sized creature, looking something like a frog, but with a sharp, pointed bea… [more below]

    • Author: Akutagawa, Ryunosuke
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: June 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 0811232166
    • Language: English
  • Fullmetal Alchemist: Fullmetal Edition, Vol. 1

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    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 up

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  • The Travelling Cat Chronicles

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    A book that “speak s] volumes about our need for connection–human, feline or otherwise” (The San Francisco Chronicle), The Travelling Cat Chronicles is a life-affirming anthem to kindness and self-sa[more below]

    • Author: Arikawa, Hiro
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: October 23 2018
    • ISBN10: 0451491335
    • Language: English
  • The Flowers of Buffoonery

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    The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba–the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age–is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his f

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    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: March 07 2023
    • ISBN10: 0811234541
    • Language: English
  • Breasts and Eggs

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    A BEST BOOK OF 2020
    TIME MagazineThe AtlanticBook RiotElectric LiteratureThe New York Times (Notable Book of the Year)

    The story of three women by a writer hailed by Har

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    • Author: Kawakami, Mieko
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: March 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 160945670X
    • Language: English
  • Hayao Miyazaki

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    A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki

    A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick

    For over four decades, Hayao Miyazaki has b

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    • Author: Miyazaki, Hayao
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 07 2021
    • ISBN10: 1942884818
    • Language: English
  • Neuromancer

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    Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece–a classic that ranks as one of the twentieth century’s most potent visions of the future.

    Case was

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    • Series: Sprawl Trilogy #1
    • Author: Gibson, William
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 336
    • Publish Date: July 01 2000
    • ISBN10: 0441007465
    • Language: English
  • Berserk Deluxe Volume 4

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    The acclaimed adult fantasy/horror manga now in 7×10 deluxe hardcover editions

    Guts, the feared Black Swordsman, has saved the Band of the Hawk mercenaries from annihilation at the hands of the army

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    • Author: Miura, Kentaro
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 704
    • Publish Date: March 10 2020
    • ISBN10: 1506715214
    • Language: English
  • Schoolgirl

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    Essentially the start of Dazai’s career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the str… [more below]

    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 104
    • Publish Date: October 15 2011
    • ISBN10: 1935548085
    • Language: English
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

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    A “dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)–an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’

    • Series: Vintage International
    • Author: Murakami, Haruki
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 624
    • Publish Date: September 01, 1998
    • ISBN10: 0679775439
    • Language: English
  • Days at the Morisaki Bookshop

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    The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie–about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself–a tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the

    • Author: Yagisawa, Satoshi
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: July 04, 2023
    • ISBN10: 0063278677
    • Language: English
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