Friday, May 25, 2012

New Books

Graphic Novels:

Blue Exorcist Vols 4-7 --While most of the students at True Cross Academy head home for the summer break, Rin and his classmates are sent to a training camp in the forest district, and the right to go on a real mission is riding on their performance! Locating and recovering their objectives in the woods is tough and will require teamwork, skill, and more than a little magic -- and Rin will have to learn to rely on his friends. But, is Mephisto masterminding something behind the scenes?!
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Vol. 5 -- Chibi-Usa gets sucked into the far reaches of space-time and vanishes! It's up to Tuxedo Mask to reach her and get her back safely while Sailor Moon and the others must escape Nemesis and the evil clutches of Wiseman and his cronies. But as Tuxedo Mask travels through the space-time storm, he encounters an ominous woman claiming to be his daughter! Who is this strange woman? Is she really Chibi-Usa?!
Death Note black edition. Vol. 1 --     Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects -- and he's bored out of his mind. But, all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now, Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Will Light's noble goal succeed, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?
Hana-Kimi Vol. 1 -- Mizuki Ashiya is no slouch when it comes to a challenge. She's a star of track and field at her high school, after all. So when she falls for fellow athlete Izumi Sano, she figures out an ingenious plan to get close to him. Now, she's moved to Japan, enrolled in the all-male high school Sano goes to, and become his roommate! How? She's disguised herself as a boy! Whatever happens next, things are about to get seriously complicated!


Fiction:

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake -- For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
Confusion of Princes by Garth Nix -- Battling aliens, space pirates, and competitors, Prince Khemri meets a young woman, named Raine, and learns more than he expected about the hidden workings of a vast, intergalactic Empire, and about himself.
City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare -- Mortal Instruments, book 5 --     When Jace vanishes with Sebastian, Clary and the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world and Clary infiltrates the group planning the world's destruction.

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