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From the creator of My Sweet Girl comes a new manga about four teenagers and their four stories of unrequited love. When you don''t want to lose a friendship but long for something more, the only thing you can do is gaze at your beloved''s face, turned away... A bitter and sweet tale perfect for fans of A Sign of Affection and In the Clear Moonlit Dusk. One might call Hikari extraordinarily ordinary. One day, she takes up a new hobby--imagining what a romance would be like between her pretty friend Mari and the cute guy in their class, Otani. It''s all in harmless fun, until the roles start to get tangled in Hikari''s mind. Does she really have to be just the best friend in this love story? And just who is on Otani''s mind when his eyes drift away...?

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From the creator of My Sweet Girl comes a new manga about four teenagers and their four stories of unrequited love. When you don''t want to lose a friendship but long for something more, the only thing you can do is gaze at your beloved''s face, turned away... A bitter and sweet tale perfect for fans of A Sign of Affection and In the Clear Moonlit Dusk. One might call Hikari extraordinarily ordinary. One day, she takes up a new hobby--imagining what a romance would be like between her pretty friend Mari and the cute guy in their class, Ohtani. It''s all in harmless fun, until the roles start to get tangled in Hikari''s mind. Does she really have to be just the best friend in this love story? And just who is on Ohtani''s mind when his eyes drift away...?

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Rumi: Unseen Poems – the second volume of Rumi in the Everyman Pocket Poet series – is a treasury of poems which have never been translated before, researched and translated by Rumi biographer Brad Gooch and the Iranian writer Maryam Mortaz.The thirteenth-century Persian poet Rumi was trained in Sufism, a mystic tradition within Islam. He founded the Mevlevi Order, often known as the Whirling Dervishes, who use dance and music as part of their spiritual devotion. His poetry combines the sacred and the sensual, expressing both rapturous divine love, and aching human love for his companion and teacher, Shams of Tabriz. It has long been popular in the West, never more so than in the last twenty-five years, when a new wave of free translations introduced him to an ever-widening audience. However, some of these recent translations have been more in the nature of interpretations by writers who are not Persian speakers. Cultural and Islamic references central to an understanding of Rumi's poetry have been toned down or omitted. And so vast was Rumi's output that earlier scholarly translators were obliged to be selective, leaving a rich vein of verse still unmined. From this Gooch and Mortaz have made a selection of ghazals (short lyric poems) and rubaiyat (quatrains), aiming in their own translations to achieve fidelity to the originals while preserving all Rumi's lyric exuberance.This book makes a perfect companion to the first Everyman volume of Rumi, which presents the very best of the twentieth-century translations.

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Los más poderosos clanes de samuráis, los Heike y los Genji, mantienen una encarnizada lucha por el poder en el turbulento Japón del siglo XII.La muerte del emperador Toba ha sumido a la capital en una absoluta oscuridad. Ocultos en las sombras de la corte, dos grupos enfrentados de nobles sin escrúpulos han ido tejiendo una sutil red de intrigas, traiciones y mentiras para hacerse con el poder, manejando a los hijos de Toba como meras marionetas.Pero el precio a pagar por las maquinaciones palaciegas será alto y desembocará en la más cruenta guerra civil que el país haya contemplado. Padres enfrentados a sus propios hijos y hermanos combatiendo contra hermanos. Los samuráis de los clanes Heike y Genji habrán de decidir entre la lealtad militar o los vínculos de sangre y esta difícil decisión no afectará solo al futuro de sus familias sino al destino de la nación al completo.

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Los más poderosos clanes de samuráis, los Heike y los Genji, mantienen una encarnizada lucha por el poder en el turbulento Japón del siglo XII.Una épica historia de ambición y heroísmo, de traiciones y pasiones que narra el fulgurante ascenso de la familia Heike y su trágico final. Fieros samuráis, taimados cortesanos, damas intrigantes, monjes guerreros y niños emperadores. personajes inolvidables que cautivan la imaginación del lector y desfilan por las páginas de la obra cumbre de Eiji Yoshikawa. En la capital imperial, Kioto, la lucha por el poder ha comenzado. El sistema de doble corte, con el poderoso emperador retirado Toba en un lado y el vengativo emperador Sutoku al otro, provoca un estado de confusión e intrigas palaciegas donde los cortesanos buscan apoyos, urden traiciones y gobiernan con astucia. Dos clanes de samuráis, los Heike y los Genji, se perfilan como los dos ejes militares sobre los que oscilará el poder.Una versión moderna del clásico de la literatura me

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La novela de la aclamada película Un asunto de familia (Palma de Oro en Cannes, Premio Donostia en el Festival de Cine de San Sebastián, elegida mejor largometraje extranjero en los Premios César y nominada tanto en los Oscar como en los Globos de Oro), escrita por el propio director.Una noche, Osamu y su hijo se encuentran con una niña sola en medio de un frío glacial y deciden llevársela a casa. Aunque al principio la mujer de Osamu protesta por sus dificultades económicas (para poder llegar a fin de mes incluso cometen pequeños hurtos), cambia de opinión cuando descubren la horrible situación doméstica que sufre la cría. Pero la convivencia feliz que entonces se origina da un vuelco con un suceso imprevisto que pone a prueba los lazos que les unen.Así arranca esta preciosa novela de Hirokazu Kore-eda sobre una familia que, como todas las familias infelices, no se parece a ninguna otra. Y que demuestra, en definitiva, que la palabra familia tiene una infinidad de matices.

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Cuando Chiaki se entera de que su antigua casera acaba de fallecer, decide asistir al funeral. Y esa última visita a la anciana le devuelve a su infancia a través de unos recuerdos en los que se entrelazan la muerte de su padre, los viajes sin rumbo de su madre, una casa protegida por un enorme álamo, un niño que sabe escuchar, una joven que arroja comida a los gatos desde las ventanas...Y sí, la casera: esa mujer huraña con cientos de cartas en un cajón y el deber de llevárselas a los muertos en cuanto fallezca. La Casa del Álamo es una sorprendente novela que reconcilia el dolor de la pérdida con la esperanza de lo venidero.

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Rashin Kheiriyeh, 2014 IBBY Award winner and Iranian-American artist, makes Rumi''s classical story of a parrot wishing to be free fly off the page!A plucky parrot living in the home of a wealthy merchant appears to have everything: the love of his owner, the best food, and a golden cage. But despite all this, the parrot is sad. The merchant will do anything to make his parrot happy! But will he be willing to set his beloved pet free? Rashin Kheiriyeh’s colorful and lively illustrations bring a fresh and distinctive perspective to this thoughtful classic about what is most important in life.

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Cuando el responsable del departamento de diccionarios de la editorial Genbu Books está a punto de jubilarse, se propone elegir a un sustituto para que se embarque en un ambicioso proyecto: la creación del nuevo diccionario La gran travesía. Y Majime, un tímido joven de escasas habilidades sociales aunque con una gran pasión por las palabras, resulta ser la persona adecuada.A lo largo de los siguientes años, el pequeño equipo editorial experimenta momentos agridulces, amistades, rivalidades, enamoramientos y el constante amor por los libros mientras navega por el mar de las palabras, cuyo significado evoluciona con el paso del tiempo y los cambios sociales.La gran travesía es un canto al lenguaje, una preciosa novela que también sirve como diccionario de la vida y que en Japón ha cosechado un inmenso éxito: ha vendido más de un millón de ejemplares, ha ganado el premio de los libreros y se ha adaptado tanto al cine como a una serie de animación.

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Tras el divorcio, durante los primeros dos años, mi madre se dedicó a cambiar incesantemente de ciudad. Cada vez que lo hacía, elegía un nuevo lugar más al oeste, como si estuviera persiguiendo el sol de poniente. Llevábamos una vida como de dos hojas transportadas por el viento, aunque apenas lo recuerdo. Cambiábamos de sitio tan rápido que ni siquiera daba tiempo a que los recuerdos se grabaran en mi mente.A los cuarenta años, la infancia parece muy lejana... Por eso, cuando el protagonista rememora la suya, lo hace con una especie de extrañeza teñida de incertidumbre por los momentos cotidianos al lado de su madre y su abuelo, el Viejo Teko, un anciano con un comportamiento misterioso y hosco que evoca su juventud frente al niño en una atmósfera llena de calidez.Ambientada en una ciudad bañada por el atardecer, esta novela de la autora de Los amigos refleja el enigmático mundo de los adultos a través de los ojos de un niño y sus recuerdos, mucho tiempo después, sobre lo que re

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An immigrant weaves a new, surreal americana, complete with bubblegum fights and bomb queens. Rarely does a new talent arrive in the medium as unmistakably distinct as Rumi Hara. With immersive art and a clear-eyed storytelling rhythm, her uncategorizable debut, Nori, put her playful cartooning on display. Her new collection, The Peanutbutter Sisters and Other American Stories, delights with equal mischievousness. The Peanutbutter Sisters is a glorious balance of contradictions, at once escapism and realism; science fiction and slice of life. Two students explore the urban landscape while following Newton Creek, the polluted Queens-Brooklyn border. As they do, they plan a traditional Japanese play with contemporary pop culture. Another story features an intergalactic race of all living things set in the year 2099 and is a dazzling treatise on the environment and journalism. Yet, sometimes the fantastical collides with the quotidian in the same story. A man struggling with vertigo during quarantine encounters a world of sexual revelry whenever he has a dizzy spell. The Peanutbutter sisters ride a hurricane into NYC and yet aren t able to hitch a ride back with a whale due to a heavily polluted ocean. Hara s magical realist tendencies and diverse cast of characters all contort the tropes of the American comics canon. Yet above all else, her innate control of the comics language her ability to weave the absurd with the real on such a charming and commanding level is refreshingly unrivaled.

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Una noche, Mizuki se encuentra en casa a su marido. El mismo que murió hace tres añosLa joven Mizuki lleva tres años obsesionada por la misteriosa desaparición de su marido, al que la policía ya da por muerto. Una noche, él aparece de improviso en su cocina y, mientras devora sus dulces favoritos, le relata cómo murió ahogado en el mar.A la mañana siguiente, Mizuki comprueba que no se trataba de un sueño y acepta lo que él le pide: que lo acompañe en un último viaje a la costa donde se originó todo.En esta fascinante novela de la autora de Los amigos, los vivos y los muertos se confunden a lo largo de un Japón enigmático donde los fantasmas resultan más reales que la gente entre la que deambulan.

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La novela en la que se basa una de las peli?culas ma?s aclamadas de Hayao Miyazaki (Studio Ghibli).Como dicta la tradición, todas las brujas adolescentes deben pasar un año fuera de casa para aprender a valerse por sí mismas. Nicky, de madre bruja y padre humano, tiene una única habilidad destacable: la de volar.Cuando llega el momento de marcharse por su cuenta, ella y su sarcástico gato parlante parten en su escoba para buscar alguna ciudad sin bruja propia donde puedan ofrecer sus servicios mágicos."Nicky, la aprendiz de bruja" es la preciosa novela de Eiko Kadono (premio Hans Christian Andersen) que Studio Ghibli popularizó en todo el mundo con su adaptación cinematográfica, dirigida por Hayao Miyazaki y una de las más emblemáticas de la productora. El libro, inédito hasta ahora en español, se ha convertido en un clásico contemporáneo de la literatura infantil y fantástica japonesa. Esta edición, traducida directamente del japonés, incluye las ilustraciones originales de A

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Ignatz nominated and MoCCA Arts Festival Award-winning cartoonist Rumi Hara invites you to visit her magical world. Nori (short for Noriko) is a spirited three-year-old girl who lives with her parents and grandmother in the suburbs of Osaka during the 1980s. While both parents work full-time, her grandmother is Nori s caregiver and companion forever following after Nori as the three year old dashes off on fantastical adventures. One day Nori runs off to be met by an army of bats the symbol of happiness. Soon after, she is at school chasing a missing rabbit while performing as a moon in the school play, touching on the myth of the Moon Rabbit. A ditch by the side of the road opens a world of kids, crawfish, and beetles, not to mention the golden frog and albino salamander. That night, her grandma takes to the Bon Odori festival to dance with her ancestors. When Nori wins a trip to Hawaii, she finds herself swimming with a sea turtle, though she doesn t know how to swim. In mesmerizing short stories of black and white artwork with alternating spot color, Hara draws on East Asian folklore and Japanese culture to create an enchanting milieu that Nori tries to make sense of, wrestling between the reality of what she sees and the legends her grandma shares with her.

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Following landmark trade agreements between Japan and the United States in the 1850s, Tokyo began importing a unique American commodity: Western social activism. As Japan sought to secure its future as a commercial power and American women pursued avenues of political expression, Protestant church-women and, later, members of the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) traveled to the Asian coast to promote Christian teachings and women's social activism. Rumi Yasutake reveals in Transnational Women's Activism that the resulting American, Japanese, and first generation Japanese-American women's movements came to affect more than alcohol or even religion. While the WCTU employed the language of evangelism and Victorian family values, its members were tactfully expedient in accommodating their traditional causes to suffrage and other feminist goals, in addition to the various political currents flowing through Japan and the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century. Exploring such issues as gender struggles in the American Protestant church and bourgeois Japanese women's attitudes towards the "pleasure class" of geishas and prostitutes, Yasutake illuminates the motivations and experiences of American missionaries, U.S. WCTU workers, and their Japanese protégés. The diverse machinations of WCTU activism offer a compelling lesson in the complexities of cultural imperialism.

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Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems on friendship from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi—commonly referred to simply as Rumi—has enchanted and enthralled readers from every faith and background with his universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses perfectly express the universal importance of friendship in its many forms. A perfect gift to celebrate a special friendship, allow Rumi to exquisitely express the deeper meanings of being, and having, a friend in your life. With intricately designed and richly colored covers that mirror the beauty of the words within, the Timeless Rumi series presents themed collections of poems from the great Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi that serve as cherished tools for self-reflection. Find Yourself a Friend find yourself a friend who is willing to tolerated you with patience put to the test the essence of the best incense by putting it in fire drink a cup of poison if handed to you by a friend when filled with love and grace step into the fire like the chosen prophet the secret love will change hot flames to a garden covered with blossoms roses and hyacinths and willow spinning and throwing you a true friend can hold you like God and his universe

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The essential poems of the inspirational thirteenth-century Persian philosopher, scholar and mysticThe founder of the order of the Whirling Dervishes, Rumi was also a poet of transcendental power. His verse speaks with the universal voice of the human soul and brims with exuberant energy and passion. Rich in natural imagery, from flowers to birds and rivers to stars, the poems have an elemental force that has remained undiminished through the centuries. Their themes - tolerance, goodness, the experience of God, charity and awareness through love - still resonate with millions of readers around the world. Translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne

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Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems about love from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi—commonly referred to simply as Rumi—has enchanted and enthralled readers from every faith and background with his universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses herein perfectly express and are centered on the theme of love, along with the quest, desire, and deeper meanings of love for not only ourselves, but also of our fellow humankind.The Sweetheart the sweetheart who is blocking my sleep demands tears on my knees throwing me silently into the waves changing the water to liquid sweet With intricately designed and richly colored covers that mirror the beauty of the words within, the Timeless Rumi series presents themed collections of poems from the great Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi that serve as cherished tools for self-reflection.

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Translated by renowned Rumi expert Nader Khalili, over 120 poems on spirituality from the Persian mystic poet and Sufi master have been carefully collected and curated in this beautifully illustrated edition. For more than eight centuries, Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi—commonly referred to simply as Rumi—has enchanted and enthralled readers from every faith and background with his universal themes of love, friendship, and spirituality, which he seamlessly wove into resplendent poetry. The verses herein perfectly express the spiritual quest and desire for a deeper understanding of not only ourselves, but also of our collective oneness as humankind.You Are you are a sudden resurrection an endless bliss you set a fire in the meadow of our dreams laughing today you are happy crashing the prisons blessing the poor With intricately designed and richly colored covers that mirror the beauty of the words within, the Timeless Rumi series presents themed collections of poems from the great Sufi mystic Jalaluddin Muhammad Balkhi Rumi that serve as cherished tools for self-reflection.

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Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207–73) was a 13th-century Persian poet, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Iran. This Chinese-bound volume offers a selection of his many poems with a variety of themes, including love, marriage, life and death, passion and mysticism, as well as his religious collection, Rubaiyat, and his long poem, Masnavi, one of the most influential works of Sufism, an Islamic form of mysticism. Rumi's reach transcends national borders and ethnic divisions: his poetry has influenced not only Persian literature, but also the literary traditions of the Ottoman Turkish, Chagatai, Urdu, Bengali and Pashto languages.

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Exciting to those unfamiliar with Rumi’s verse as well as to the veteran scholar, this volume, following on from Love Is My Savior, offers more of the little-known Arabic poems of Mawlana Rumi. These poems take the reader on a journey of spiritual search, ecstatic union, universal salvation, and mystic reconciliation, in which Rumi reveals his soul and welcomes everyone to his spiritual feast.This dual-language volume, with its informative introduction, is one of the first to bring Rumi’s Arabic poems into English, and it opens a treasury of Rumi’s mystic thought and electrifying poetry. The poems pulsate with desire and longing, with erotic meaning, and with ecstatic celebration. Rumi found in his mystic poetry a vehicle for the expression of the endless spiritual bounties of love. The reader will find, at the center of his faith and doctrine, love and a strong belief in universal salvation and unlimited generosity.

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