A story about the twilight years of youth Yamato Satoshi is a high school student when he finds a Snow Maiden spirit in the snowy mountains near Nagano. Her name is Yuki, and she has an unfulfilled desire preventing her from passing on. She wants to try all the drinks in nearby vending machines! With no one else who can see her, Satoshi is the only one who can help. He returns to the mountains every winter, bringing her new offerings every time, hoping she can find peace. While helping her pass on throughout the years, Satoshi struggles with growing up, starts dating, and makes mistakes. He stands at the border between youth and adulthood while she is on the border between the living and the dead. A boy and girl, the living and the dead – what will they find on their bittersweet journey? Read less

After growing up in cheap motels, moving from town to town with her sister and mother, Cheyenne Christensen is grateful to be on her own. She's grateful, too, for the friends she found once her family settled in California. But she's troubled by the mystery of her earliest memories, most of which feature a smiling blonde woman. A woman who isn't her mother. Although Cheyenne has repeatedly asked for explanations, the people who could help aren't talking. Cheyenne is set on finding answers, but without so much as a birth certificate, it won't be easy. Things get even more complicated when her closest friend is attracted to the man Cheyenne has secretly loved for years. For Eve's sake, she decides to step aside–which lands her right in the arms of Dylan Amos, oldest and baddest of the hell–raising Amos brothers. He's the kind of guy she's sworn to avoid. She can't afford to make a mistake, not when she finally has a chance to learn who she really is and change her life for the better. But...maybe there's more to Dylan than she thought. Maybe letting him go would be a bigger mistake.

Does a firework look different depending on the angle it's viewed from? Norimichi lives in a quiet seaside town. On the day of the big summer fireworks display, he agrees to visit the town lighthouse with his childhood friends so they can see the fireworks "from the side." That evening, however, Norimichi receives a sudden invitation to "elope" with Nazuna, the girl from class he has a secret crush on. The pair's plan fails when Nazuna's mother shows up and drags her daughter away. Hoping to get Nazuna back, Noromichi makes a wish: If only he could get one more try... A miraculous story of young love awaits at the end of a single day repeated.

Jennifer Kincaid, on her way to a writer's workshop in the Colorado mountain town of Lake City, gets lost and is stranded by an avalanche. Catherine Ryan Barrett, running from fame and fortune of her family name, wants nothing more to spend the winter alone and sequestered in her high mountain cabin. She is not prepared for a party crasher. After spending two months together, they form an unlikely friendship that deepens even further. But after the spring thaw, Jen leaves and returns to her life in Santa Fe—and to the man who wants to marry her. All she knows of the woman who rescued her is her name...Ryan.

The final part of the [Salaryman x JK] romcom! “Time continues to march on - slowly, constantly, relentlessly.” Ayumi’s mother attempts to make contact with her daughter - and this spells the beginning of the end for Ayumi’s life together with Sato-san. The inevitable pull of time and circumstance leaves no relationship unchanged, no soul unscathed. Will Ayumi and Sato be able to overcome the obstacle of time? Yumi confronts the consequences of her bullying. She desperately tries to salvage the only positive relationship she has, but is it too late too late? Has the flow of time pulled apart the last threads? Hasegawa and Misaki are each faced with life changing decisions that they must confront. And time won’t allow them to avoid making a choice.

“The world we used to know is fading away, and all we can do is watch it happen.” Japan has fallen and most of its population has died at the hands of a pandemic. Yamada Daisuke and Fujiwara Sayaka have settled at the southern end of Japan, in Kagoshima. The former office worker and former high school student stick together, doing their best to survive the winter. But without modern inventions, even the mild winter of the south is a challenge to weather. But staying in one place feels like a shame, so the two of them decide to travel all the way to the northernmost part of Japan - Hokkaido. Get there by summer and return to Kagoshima before the winter. All around them, the Japan they used to know is fading away. What will they find in these remains?

Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon comes an exciting and thought-provoking science fiction epic—a grand story of annihilation and survival spanning five thousand years. What would happen if the world were ending? A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space. But the complexities and unpredictability of human nature coupled with unforeseen challenges and dangers threaten the intrepid pioneers, until only a handful of survivors remain . . . Five thousand years later, their progeny—seven distinct races now three billion strong—embark on yet another audacious journey into the unknown . . . to an alien world utterly transformed by cataclysm and time: Earth. A writer of dazzling genius and imaginative vision, Neal Stephenson combines science, philosophy, technology, psychology, and literature in a magnificent work of speculative fiction that offers a portrait of a future that is both extraordinary and eerily recognizable. As he did in Anathem, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Cycle, and Reamde, Stephenson explores some of our biggest ideas and perplexing challenges in a breathtaking saga that is daring, engrossing, and altogether brilliant.

A Time Best Book of the Year · An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year · A People Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel First published in 1992, Peter Høeg's Smilla's Sense of Snow instantly became an international sensation. When caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor--a neglected six-year-old boy, and possibly her only friend--has died in a tragic accident, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder. Unpredictable to the last page, Smilla's Sense of Snow is one of the most beautifully written and original crime stories of our time, a new classic.

"If there is no one who listens, nowhere for the bitterness to go, then one day the heart will break." One day after work, Suzuki Kenji is stopped by Saya, a high school girl. She asks him for money, and, eventually he becomes her confidante, her partner in crime, her only friend. They meet up in a park few people go to, on a bench no one ever sits on, a quiet island in the middle of the city. Here they talk about their lives, their secrets - and something they plan on doing, something that no one can find out about. Suzuki Kenji continues to live his life: Go to work, meet new colleagues, dealing with the flow of adulthood. Saya’s existence is just a small, insignificant part of his life. She’s all trouble and no benefit. But he always ends up back on the park bench. Because he knows she is waiting for him.