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Hana-Kimi, Vol. 1

Hisaya Nakajo · 184 pages

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Little Butterfly, Volume 02

Hinako Takanaga · 184 pages

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Loveless, Volume 4

Yun Kouga · 192 pages

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Skim

Mariko Tamaki · 146 pages

"Skim" is Kimberly Keiko Cameron, a not-slim, would-be Wiccan goth who goes to a private girls' school in the early '90s. When her classmate Katie Matthews is dumped by her boyfriend, who then kills himself — possibly because he's (maybe) gay — the entire school goes into mourning overdrive. It's a weird time to fall in love, but that's what happens to Skim when she starts meeting secretly with he

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Vampire Knight, Vol. 5

Matsuri Hino

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the day class and the night class. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the guardians of the school, protecting the day class from the Academy's dark secret: the night class is full of vampires!

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Sand Chronicles, Volume 2

Hinako Ashihara · 200 pages

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Olivia

Dorothy Bussy, Olivia, Dorothy Strachey · 114 pages

“Considered one of the most subtle and beautifully written lesbian novels of the century, this 1949 classic returns to print in a Cleis Press edition. Dorothy Strachey’s classic Olivia captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris. The innocent but watchful Olivia develops an infatuation for her headmistress, Mlle. Julie, an

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Kitchen Princess, Vol. 01

Miyuki Kobayashi · 208 pages

Najika is a gifted cook and attends the prestigious Seika Academy cooking school. Her friendship with two brothers, Sora and Daichi, creates resentment with other girls at the school. Her greatest rival is a popular, teen model, Akane who tries to drive Najika from the school by staging a cooking contest.

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Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic

Alison Bechdel · 236 pages

A fresh and brilliantly told memoir from a cult favorite comic artist, marked by gothic twists, a family funeral home, sexual angst, and great books. This breakout book by Alison Bechdel is a darkly funny family tale, pitch-perfectly illustrated with Bechdel's sweetly gothic drawings. Like Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, it's a story exhilaratingly suited to graphic memoir form. Meet Alison's

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Gakuen Alice, Vol. 09

Tachibana Higuchi · 192 pages

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Heartstopper

Alice Oseman · 336 pages

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Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 1

Bisco Hatori · 184 pages

A female scholarship student at exclusive Ouran High School ends up working for the school's swankiest club after she stumbles upon the all-male Host Club--who mistake her for a boy--and accidentally destroys a valuable vase. While working off her debt, she learns how the other half really lives.

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Thérèse and Isabelle

Violette Leduc · 126 pages

"Thérèse and Isabelle is the tale of two boarding school girls in love. In 1966 when it was originally published in France, the text was censored because of its explicit depiction of young homosexuality. With this publication, the original, unexpurgated text--a stunning literary portrayal of female desire and sexuality--is available to a US audience for the first time. Included is an afterword by

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Rosario+Vampire, Vol. 3

Akihisa Ikeda · 178 pages

Tsukune is trying to hide the fact that he is human from the rest of Yokai because monsters kill humans on sight, especially humans who discover the existence of Yokai. Now, Kuyo, leader of the Security Enforcement Committee, has gotten a hot tip that Tsukune is human. Not only does that mean death for Tsukune, but his friends and allies--Moka and the rest of the newspaper club--may also have to d

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Platinum End, Vol. 1

Tsugumi Ohba

As his classmates celebrate their middle school graduation, troubled Mirai is mired in darkness. But his battle is just beginning when he receives some salvation from above in the form of an angel. Now Mirai is pitted against 12 other chosen humans in a battle in which the winner becomes the next god of the world. Mirai has an angel in his corner, but he may need to become a devil to survive.

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La Esperança, Volume 01

Chigusa Kawai · 208 pages

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Winger

Andrew Smith

Two years younger than his classmates at a prestigious boarding school, fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West grapples with living in the dorm for troublemakers, falling for his female best friend who thinks of him as just a kid, and playing wing on the Varsity rugby team with some of his frightening new dorm-mates.

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The Crimson Spell, Volume 1

Ayano Yamane · 192 pages

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Junjo Romantica, Volume 02

Shungiku Nakamura · 194 pages

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Embracing Love, Vol. 2

Youka Nitta · 224 pages

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My Hero Academia, Vol. 02

Kohei Horikoshi · 208 pages

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