Explore Manga!

We have added several Manga titles to our library collection.  What is Manga?  Manga is a Japanese style of graphic novel, many of which are geared for adult readers.

Here are some of the titles we currently have available :

 Ceres : Celestial Legend by Yuu Watase

The protagonist of this story is sixteen-year-old high school girl Aya Mikage, who discovers on her birthday that she is the reincarnation of a celestial maiden named Ceres.








DearS by Peach-Pit

The unlikely protagonist of the series is a temperamental seventeen-year-old Japanese student, named Takeya Ikuhara, with a strong prejudice against the DearS, who are humanoid aliens that were naturalized into Japanese society after their spacecraft crash landed into Tokyo Bay while en route to their home planet of Thanatos,  Takeya's life becomes complicated when finds a young female DearS he calls Ren.

 Othello by Satomi Ikezawa

Titled after the board game rather than the Shakespeare play, this is the story of a shy, naive Japanese teenager with a split personality.  One personality, Yaya, is innocent, timid, and because of her personality, is constantly attacked and ridiculed by people who claim to be her friends. Her second personality, Nana, is tough, cunning, sarcastic, and bold - coming out whenever Yaya needs help because of her inability to stand up for herself.

Ultra Maniac by Wataru Yoshizumi

This series follows 7th grader Ayu Tateishi, a tennis club member, and her transfer student friend, Nina Sakura, who is actually a trainee witch from the magical kingdom.  

Ayu is the president of the girls' tennis club, one of the most popular girls in the school, and she works hard on keeping up her "cool, calm and collected" reputation.  Nina is a magic girl, and a failure who came to Earth as her last chance to prove that she can get things right.

Try a Science Fiction Treat

The Host by Stephenie Meyer is one of the best books I have read in a while. The story is set in the future, on Earth, after humans have treated the planet and themselves so badly that an “alien race” has arrived to help. The alien race are “souls” who are implanted into their host bodies to exist within them and make life perfect on Earth. This may seem like a good idea in theory (it would be nice to exist in a world where there was no violence or hunger), but there are a group of humans in this book that have not been implanted yet and rebel against the aliens. The relationships described in this book are complex and very detailed and the prose is amazing! Mrs. Meyer explores some complex themes in this novel, such as what it means to be a soul as well as human being’s responsibility to the Earth. Mrs. Meyer is also the author of the very popular “Twilight” series of books for Young Adults, of which the first one will be made into a movie soon. Have you read The Host yet? Let us know what you think of the book!