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Ōoku: The Inner Chambers, Vol. 2

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Marvel 1602

Neil Gaiman · 248 pages

Marvel 1602 is an eight-issue comic book limited series published in 2003 by Marvel Comics. The limited series was written by Neil Gaiman, penciled by Andy Kubert, and digitally painted by Richard Isanove; Scott McKowen illustrated the distinctive scratchboard covers. The eight-part series takes place in a timeline where Marvel superheroes have been transplanted to the Elizabethan era; faced with

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Goong: The Royal Palace, Vol. 3

So Hee Park · 200 pages

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Sailing to Sarantium

Guy Gavriel Kay · 448 pages

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A Brother's Price

Wen Spencer · 310 pages

On an alternate Earth, where the population is ninety percent female and a man is sold by his sisters to marry all the women in a family, Jerin Whistler is coming of age. His mothers are respected landed gentry, his grandfather a kidnapped prince, and his grandmothers common line soldiers blackballed for treason, trained by thieves, re-enlisted as spies, and knighted for acts of valor. Jerin wants

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The Boleyn Deceit

Laura Andersen

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Blood of Tyrants

Naomi Novik · 471 pages

Shipwrecked and cast ashore in Japan with no memory of Temeraire or his own experiences as an English aviator, Capt. William Laurence finds himself tangled in deadly political intrigues that threaten not only his own life but England's already precarious position in the Far East.

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Heaven's Net is Wide

Lian Hearn · 484 pages

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My Lady Jane

Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows · 491 pages

Edward is the King of England. He's also dying, which is inconvenient, as he's only sixteen and he'd rather be planning his first kiss than who will inherit his crown. Jane, Edward's cousin, is far more interested in books than romance. Unfortunately, Edward has arranged to marry her off to Gifford secure the line of succession. And Gifford is, well, a horse. That is, he an Eðian (eth-y-un, for th

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Shōgun

James Clavell · 979 pages

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen--Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and free

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Red River, Vol. 22

Chie Shinohara · 190 pages

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1945

Robert Conroy · 432 pages

America has dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.But Japan has only begun to fight. . . .In 1945, history has reached a turning point. A terrible new weapon has been unleashed. Japan has no choice but to surrender. But instead, the unthinkable occurs. With their nation burned and shattered, Japanese fanatics set in motion a horrifying endgame--their aim: to take America down with them.In

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Glitter

Aprilynne Pike · 375 pages

"A teenager living in an alternate-history futuristic Versailles must escape its walls by selling a happy-enducing makeup called Glitter"--

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The Deep-Seated Grudge, Part 1

Kazuo Koike, Kazuo Kamimura · 288 pages

Yuki works as a master assassin, living out an old tradition of vengeance for crimes committed against a family she never met.

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Borgia: Blood for the Pope

Alejandro Jodorowsky, Milo Manara · 56 pages

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Rurouni Kenshin, Volume 20

Nobuhiro Watsuki · 200 pages

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Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 23: Tears of Ice

Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima · 320 pages

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East of West, Vol. 2: We Are All One

Jonathan Hickman · 144 pages

"We Are All One" follows our cast around the fractured future-scape of America as we learn more about a world that's rapidly coming to a end.

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Barefoot Gen, Volume Two: The Day After

Keiji Nakazawa · 240 pages

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Samurai Deeper Kyo, Volume 01

Akimine Kamijyo · 192 pages

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Vagabond, Volume 15

Takehiko Inoue · 200 pages

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Stepping on Roses, Volume 3

Rinko Ueda · 208 pages

Sumi begins to regret running away with Nozomu and wonders if she loves him after all. Nozomu's love for her, however, is bordering on becoming an unhealthy obsession. When things heat up and Sumi's life is in danger, will Soichiro come to her rescue?

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The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye

Sonny Liew · 320 pages

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