Helen McCarthy

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

North Carolina

A guide to the Japanese comic book describes the genre's characters from Astro Boy to Yu-Gi-Oh.

500 Manga Heroes and Villains

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Christopher Hart

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

How to Draw Characters for Japanese Animation

There's no doubt about it: Japanese animation is hot. Television shows, films, and videos featuring the anime style of animation are wildly popular. Japanese animation is like a comic book come to life, retaining all its power but in moving form. It has a very different style from traditional western animation, incorporating heavy shading, dramatic camera angles, and beautifully rendered special effects--especially the fantastic anime depictions of ocean waves, storms, smoke, and explosions. Easier to draw than its western counterpart, anime is more limited and simpler in its execution. In Japanese anime the characters move, but their movements are generally staccato, sharp, and dramatic--not free-flowing with lots of overlapping action, anticipation, and follow-through.

In Anime Mania, famous cartoonist, teacher, and best-selling author Christopher Hart demonstrates how any comic book artist can become expert in this wonderful style of animation. Step by step, he details how to draw the coolest anime characters from the widest selection of popular styles: high-tech cyberpunks who live in the world of the future; teen characters--with troubled relationships at school, home, and on the street; and mighty monsters, fantasy warriors, and giant robots. Aspiring animators will also find chapters on anime's spectacular special effects, the role of storyboarding in anime, sketching and the art of character design, and a mini-crash course in perspective. The book concludes with interviews with Scott Frazier, an American anime director working in Japan, and Mahiro Meada, a renowned Japanese animation director.

Brimming with hundreds of spectacular examples, illustrations, and step-by-step exercises, Anime Mania details how anyone can become a real anime artist without having to reinvent the art of drawing.

Anime Mania

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How to Draw the Charming and Romantic Characters of Japanese Comics

Reveals the techniques of shoujo, the style of Japanese comic book based on stories of peer pressure, friendship, and romance, and offers information on its unique stylistic characteristics and tips on drawing different character types.

Manga Mania Shoujo

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Heejeong Haas

Steve Dutro

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

When the impoverished people of her village sacrifice her to the water god Habaek in order to end a drought, Soah is instead rescued and treated as a welcome guest by Habaek.

Bride of the Water God Vol 1

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Yoko Matsushita

Asato Tsuzuki, a Shinigami, or "Guardian of Death," in the Ministry of Hades, faces a number of challenges as he pursues his occupation of escorting the dead to their final resting places, including tyring to persuade Hisae, a fatally ill dancer who is clinging to life for the chance to compete in one final contest, that it is past time for her to go.

Descendants of Darkness, Vol. 1

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The Tarot Cafe

Sakura Kinoshita

These mysteries are stranger than fiction! Private Investigator Loki is certainly an extraordinary fellow with an incredibly demanding profession. While his boyish good looks disguise his true nature, no challenge is too tough for Loki. Not only is it Loki's job to solve mysteries, but he must also protect his own interests, namely his family, especially when those who want him rubbed-out enter the picture. Loki must dig up evidence surrounding kidnappings, murders, suicides and the like. When old adversaries strike too close to home, Loki must prepare, not only to solve the crime, but to survive the vicious attacks! If the action's hot, you can count on Loki being there!

The Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok

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Kentaro Yabuki

Black Cat, Vol. 1

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William Shakespeare

Gonzo

SPWT

Complete series

Neo-Verona was once peacefully ruled by the Capulet family, but the rival house of Montague led a coup against the Capulets, wiping them out. Fourteen years later, Lord Montague rules Neo-Verona with an iron fist. But there is hope for the suffering citizens: Juliet Capulet survived the massacre and now turns her sword against the wealthly Montagues in an effort to aid the poor. When she meets the son of Lord Montague at the Rose Ball, she discovers that he is similarly disturbed by his father's cruelty. As Juliet finds herself falling in love with her sworn enemy, she is conflicted... Is there any hope for a love that crosses enemy lines?

RomeoxJuliet Omnibus

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Kaoru Ohashi

Teenager Masayoshi Kurozuka must learn to live with the fact that he is the reincarnation of an evil woman named Oni-bime.

Sengoku Nights Vol 1

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Matsuri Hino

Spine and cover damage and yellowed pages. Pages inside are still good! 

On the way to school one morning, Airi loses her mirror - one that had been passed down to her through generations - and suddenly finds herself in a bizarre situation. Never in her wildest dreams did she expect Aram, a little boy from a magical kingdom, to have emerged from the mirror in the short time it took her to track it down!

MeruPuri, Vol. 1

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Tohko Mizuno

Beyond the Stream of Time

Akane is your typical teenage girl...until she swallows a Dragon Jewel, which transports her to the Heian period of ancient Japan! There in the city of Kyou, Akane learns that she has been foreordained to lead the people as the Priestess of the Dragon God! But all is not well. Akram, the head of the Oni Clan, has sworn death and destruction on Kyou. So Akane appoints eight young men, the Hachiyo, to stand by her side as she faces the danger that awaits...

Haruka

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June Kato

David Walsh

When Amu, a shy girl who wishes that she had the courage to truly be herself, finds three strange little eggs in her bed, she discovers that Guardian Characters are in each egg and each can give her the power to be someone new.

Shugo Chara! Vol 1

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Kazune Kawahara

Haruna, a tomboy, is determined to change her stripes when she enters high school, but is sadly lacking in fashion or social sense, so she recruits cute upperclassman Yo to instruct her on how to make herself more appealing to boys.

High School Debut, Vol. 1

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Nunzio DeFilippis

Christina Weir

Complete Series

The dying captain of the pirate ship Destiny's Hand and his crew search for the Devil's Eye, an artifact that has only been heard of in legend.

Destiny's Hand Omnibus

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Tomu Ohmi

Kaoruko Mochizuki runs an herb shop in a small seaside town. One day, a mysterious man dressed in black named Kaname Hibiki enters her shop and reveals that Kaoruko is actually a witch. And what’s more, Kaoruko needs Kaname to help control her awakening power! Among the shocking news that Kaname imparts is that Kaoruko’s mother is still alive and has entrusted Kaoruko with the immense power of the Witch Queen. As long as Kaoruko has that power, she will be the target of humans and demonic spirits alike. Kaname claims to be a “knight” that protects witches, but then he steals a kiss from Kaoruko…!

Spell of Desire, Vol. 1

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Brion Foulke

Flipside (Signed)

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Hiroyuki Iizuka

Learn the ins and outs of drawing shojo manga from the masters themselves! Yuu Watase, Mayu Shinjo, and many others lead you through the steps to creating your own manga, including tips and tricks for using screen tone and digital coloring. A materials index includes what your favorite mangaka use to make their magic.Featuring:Shoko Akira, Yukiko Iisaka, Miyuki Kitagawa, Mayu Shinjo, Chie Shinohara, Emiko Sugi, Rie Takada, Masami Takeuchi and Yuu Watase

Shojo Beat Manga Artist Academy

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"Revenge. Three hundred years ago the Sorcerer Kalutika Maybus sealed the vampire Deshwitat in limbo after killing his fiancee, Lilith. For centuries, Deshwitat's mind calculated revenge while his body slumbered...until now. A band of spiritual investigators has inadvertently broken the seal that binds him, and Deshwitat has been released. Redemption.A lot has changed since the 17th century. Cars have replaced carriages, the Internet connects the world, and vampires have become the stuff of legend. But beneath the veneer of technology, magic and religion still reign supreme. Kalutika is the most powerful person in the world, although few actually know he exists. Prophecy foretold that Kalutika would destroy the Earth. Deshwitat's quest is now not just one of revenge, but of redemption...for himself, and the world. Rebirth. Joined by an excommunicated exorcist and a spiritual investigator, Deshwitat begins his bloodquest. The hunted is now the hunter!"--P. 4 of cover.

Rebirth Vol 1-3

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A. G. Slatter

A lush and twisted dark fairy tale suffused with witchcraft, dark secrets and bitter revenge from the award-winning author. Exquisite, haunting and at times brutal, readers of Naomi Novik and Erin Morgenstern will be entranced.

Asher Todd comes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows little about being a governess but she is skilled in botany and herbcraft, and perhaps more than that. And she has secrets of her own, dark and terrible - and Morwood is a house that eats secrets. With a monstrous revenge in mind, Asher plans to make it choke. However, she becomes fond of her charges, of the people of the Tarn, and she begins to wonder if she will be able to execute her plan - and who will suffer most if she does. But as the ghosts of her past become harder to control, Asher realises she has no choice.
 
From the award-winning author of All the Murmuring Bones, dark magic, retribution and twisted family secrets combine to weave a bewitching and addictive tale.

The Path of Thorns

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Ellen Schreiber

Minor wear. Rip on chapter 2 of book 1. Taped on both sides. 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Book 1 & 2 of the Full Moon series

Seventeen-year-old Celeste Parker finds herself falling for Brandon, a boy from the wrong side of their small, midwestern town, even though she suspects that he is a werewolf. By the author of the Vampire Kisses series. 75,000 first printing.

Once in a Full Moon & Magic of the Moonlight

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Meg Cabot

Book 1 and 2 of Abandon series

A near-death experience, a horrible incident at school, and a move from Connecticut to Florida have turned seventeen-year-old Pierce's life upside-down, but when she needs him most John Hayden is always there, helping but reminding her of her visit to the Underworld.

Abandon & Underworld

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Nicole Castroman

"A reimagining of the origin story of Blackbeard the pirate and his forbidden love affair with a maid in his father's house"--

Blackhearts

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Yvonne Woon

Minor usage. Bent spine on book 1 and bend in book 2 

Book 1 and 2 of Dead Beautiful series

On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder. After the funeral Renée’s wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the “Crude Sciences.” It’s there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably drawn. As they grow closer, unexplainable things begin to happen, but Renée can’t stop herself from falling in love. It’s only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried’s past that she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems./DIV Little does she know, Dante is the one hiding a dangerous secret, one that has him fearing for her life. Dead Beautiful is both a compelling romance and thought-provoking read, bringing shocking new meaning to life, death, love, and the nature of the soul.DIV

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