Left behind on a deserted island he was visiting on business, Yuichi must now spend his days with his good-for-nothing co-worker/boss Imakura until someone realizes they're missing! As the two spend more and more time in each other's presence, Yuichi's "nice-guy" facade starts to break down, and...!

The forces of the God of Light and the Goddess of Darkness have waged a ruthless war across the land of Toyoashihara for generations. But for 15-year-old Saya, the war is far away and unimportant - until the day she discovers that she is the reincarnation of the Water Maiden and a princess of the Children of the Dark. Raised to love the Light and detest the Dark, Saya must come to terms with her heritage even as she tumbles into the conflict that is destroying her country.

A family moves into a new home on a windswept hilltop in suburban Tokyo. Around them is the sky, forests, and farms. But developers are coming, and the children are growing up. There are meals, quandaries, conversations... Junzo Shono's portrait of this family's daily life has the resonant power of fine photography, where the most minute details suggest a changing, unforgiving universe.

Naota's life is not simple. He lives with his eccentric father and grandfather in a city distinguished by a gigantic hand-iron shaped factory perched on a hill. His brother's ex-girlfriend makes passes at him. And to top it all off, an impish, playful alien has run him over with her Vespa and smacked him in the head with a bass guitar! Little does he know that this is only the beginning of his involvement in an interplanetary ideological war.

The youth of Tatsumiya Island lived ordinary lives, but their peaceful existence was all a lie. The invasion of the Festum, the shining golden enemy, transforms their peaceful island into a high-tech military fortress. The beginning of a whole new Fafner, this novel includes the thoughts of Soshi, Maya, Shoko and more that didn't appear in the anime series along with battles of the Fafner and Festum.

This book follows five determined women in their always amorous and usually illicit adventures. The five heroines are Onatsu, already wise in the ways of love by the age of sixteen; Osen, a faithful wife unjustly accused of adultery; Osan, a Kyoto beauty who falls asleep in the wrong bed; Oshichi, willing to burn down a city to meet her samurai lover; and Oman, who has to compete with handsome boys to win her lover's affections.

Set in eighteenth-century Japan, The Flower Mat unravels the story of a young bride born into a traditional family, groomed in the virtues of ideal womanhood, and finally tempered in tragedy brought about by political intrigue. This book is an account of personal development and responsibility in the life of one Japanese woman.

Jindai High School was a relatively safe place, right up until Sousuke Sagaka transferred there. A total nut, he wreaks havoc on the school's student body and gets into a world of trouble with the teachers! But there's more to Sousuke than meets the eye - not just a hell-raising student, he's actually a member of an elite military unit, on an undercover mission to protect the beautiful schoolgirl Kaname Chidori from the KGB.

When Kalinin and Tessa investigate the capture of a suspected terrorist by the Japanese government, they expect the procedure to be routine - but find it's anything but! Then, when Tessa turns to Sousuke for help, a seemingly jilted Kaname only increases the drama quotient.

While on summer vacation, Chidori Kaname is invited to an island in the pacific by Sousuke Sagara, the world's biggest war nut. She's really excited - until she finds out Sousuke isn't planning a relaxing tour of nature, but a high-speed adventure full of thrills, chills and danger! She can't even unpack her swimsuit before a chemical weapons facility falls down around her, having been attacked by a scarlet-colored steel demon named Venom.

Edward works as a State Alchemist, but his true goal is to return his younger brother Alphonse to his true form. Ed and Al travel to the town of Xenotime, once a rich gold-mining community, following a lead on researchers developing a Philosopher’s Stone, the legendary alchemical artifact that can work wonders, and possibly even restore Al's body.

Alphonse and Edward get caught up in a string of terrorist bombings. Enlisting the help of Col. Roy Mustang, the two alchemists must hunt down the insurrectionists and stop their reign of terror.