Japanese Young Adult

Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of 20 remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the listener from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this extraordinary place.

A certain college girl who's loved books ever since she was a little girl dies in an accident and is reborn in another world she knows nothing about. She is now Myne, the sickly five-year-old daughter of a poor soldier. To make things worse, the world she's been reborn in has a very low literacy rate and books mostly don't exist. She'd have to pay an enormous amount of money to buy one.

Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick.

Marty Friedman's upbringing was as atypical as his career. Growing up in a Jewish household in Maryland, the son of an NSA executive, he lacked motivation until he discovered the guitar. Enjoying a hazy adolescence overflowing with partying, music, and teen antics, he achieved local stardom in Deuce, then burst onto the national scene by pioneering a radically new style of playing, bringing attention to the guitar aficionado label, Shrapnel Records. Friedman moved to California and scored a gig in Megadeth.

Agnes is an unusual young woman with peach-blossom hair and the fairy-given ability to make mushrooms sprout willy-nilly. Fortunately, she's now in a relationship with a handsome dragon prince who's absolutely obsessed with her mushrooms! Unfortunately, Agnes is still trying to get over the trauma of her last relationship, and it'll take a lot of spoiling from Claude to help her! This is the story of how, through a series of unlikely events, Agnes has found her mushroom-loving prince charming.

Twelve-year-old Sumiko feels her life has been made up of two parts: before Pearl Harbor and after it. The good part and the bad part. Raised on a flower farm in California, Sumiko is used to being the only Japanese girl in her class. Even when the other kids tease her, she always has had her flowers and family to go home to. That all changes after the horrific events of Pearl Harbor.

kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining

Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are people's eyes. When Katie and her family move from a Japanese community in Iowa to the Deep South of Georgia, it's Lynn who explains to her why people stop them on the street to stare.

ついに総二たちの世界へとやってきたフェニックスギルディ！　圧倒的な力を振るいながら、ツインテイルズに戦う意味を問いかける。その時、心の隙を突かれたイエローにある異変が……！？　衝撃の第７巻！！

Japan is a single nation, but its origins are so old, and often, so fragmented, that unified mythology and folklore can be difficult to point to. Still, there are some key texts, tales, and characters we can focus on which will give us a pretty good sense of Japanese mythology. In this audiobook, you'll discover stories of mystery, horror, and romance while simultaneously learning about the Japanese culture.

Tomi was born in Hawaii. His grandfather and parents were born in Japan and came to America to escape poverty. World War II seems far away from Tomi and his friends, who are too busy playing ball on their eighth-grade team, the Rats. But then Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, and the United States declares war on Japan. Japanese men are rounded up, and Tomi’s father and grandfather are arrested. It’s a terrifying time to be Japanese in America. But one thing doesn’t change: the loyalty of Tomi’s buddies, the Rats.

異世界から帰還し、残りの夏休みを満喫する総二たち。一方、テイルレッドの正体が男であると知ったダークグラスパーは、フェニックスギルディと果てしない戦いを繰り広げていた……。新展開の第６巻！

“Congratulations, you’ve won the lottery!” shouts the angel Prapura to a formless soul. The soul hasn’t been kicked out of the cycle of rebirth just yet - he’s been given a second chance. He must recall the biggest mistake of his past life while on "homestay" in the body of 14-year-old Makoto Kobayashi. It looks like Makoto doesn’t have a single friend, and his family don’t seem to care about him at all. But as the soul begins to live Makoto’s life on his own terms, he grows closer to the family and the people around him and sees their true colors more clearly.

Emiko lives with her Ojiichan in a small town on BC's West Coast surrounded by friends and neighbors, including her childhood friend Kenzo Sanada, who wants her to spend less time meddling in every else’s love lives. But Emiko can so clearly see who belongs together, even when her targets don't know it themselves. She simply has to meddle—for the sake of true love! As for her own romantic life though . . . who has time for that?

In A Foul Thing, Roma and Juliette have established themselves as the heads of an underground weapons ring in Zhouzhuang, making a living the way they do best while remaining anonymous in their peaceful, quiet life. But when they hear about several Russian girls showing up dead in nearby towns, they decide to investigate—and ultimately discover that this mystery is much closer to home than they ever imagined.

TVアニメ化決定！「このライトノベルがすごい！２０１８＆２０１９」２年連続第１位！シリーズ累計１２０万部突破！

クラスの背景である俺――温水和彦は、あるとき人気女子・八奈見杏菜が男子に振られるのを目撃する。「私をお嫁さんにするって言ったのに、ひどくないかな？」「それ、いくつの頃の話？」「４、５歳だけど」

エルフと人間の即席夫婦、幸せ生活始めます「――お前の婚約は解消になった」ハーフエルフのミスラは、草原で暮らすようになった「遊牧エルフ」の一族のなかに身の置きどころがない、つまはじきものの底辺姫。純血のエルフではないせいでついに婚約解消されてしまったミスラは、街に住む人間の錬金術師アスランと、会ったこともないまま結婚する運びになったが――「連れてきた家

二年ぶりに島へ帰省した船見カナエは、その日の夕方、時間が遡行する現象“ロールバック”に巻き込まれる。幼馴染で初恋相手、保科あかりの兄の死を知ったカナエは、その現象を利用して彼の命を救おうとする

勇者、胎動――ミカエルの野望を阻止するため、各所で激闘を繰り広げるリムルたちだったが、フェルドウェイの策略により魔王レオンを奪われてしまう。

ちょっぴりビターな、バレンタイン狂想曲迫るバレンタインデー。佳樹が手作りチョコを贈るのはーーまさかの兄以外！？そんな、佳樹にかぎって……。動揺する俺に、文芸部の連中は冷たい。「妹ちゃん、好きな人でもできたんでしょ」「お、男だな」……こいつら、コトの重大さが分かっていないな。佳樹はまだ中二なのだ。本命チョコなんて早すぎる。