After losing his parents, Minoru supports himself and his two younger siblings by working at a gay bar, where he meets the mysterious Kan. At first, Kan's sudden advances daunt Minoru, but as he gradually gets to know Kan -- a man who is, at times, wildly passionate; at others, kind and caring, like he's always been a member of the family -- Minoru begins to open up his heart. However, Kan has a dark past about which he remains steadfastly silent, frustrating Minoru the more his feelings grow... Also included in this moving and dramatic, concluding volume is an original bonus episode titled "1,800 days later", showcasing the two's peaceful, love-filled life after the events of the main story, and the caring, loving people who surround them.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Meet Kouji, college student by day, catfisher by night. He repeatedly gets men he meets online to support his lifestyle while making sure they don't find out he's a guy! His luck runs out this time as his mark Nuts figures out who he is. You'd think Nuts would rat him out, but he has other plans, and takes him to a hotel... Kouji, awoken to a side of himself he had no idea existed, covers his butt - and his feelings - while just maybe trying to plot some kind of way to get back at Nuts.
A mysterious group of phantom thieves skulks in the shadows of Tokyo,changing the hearts of corrupt adults. But behind their masks are--normalteenagers and a talking black cat?! PERSONA 5: MEMENTOS MISSION is an all-newmystery featuring the cast of PERSONA 5. IN THIS VOLUME: Rivals RenAmamiya and the famous high school detective Goro Akechi team up to bring thismystery to an end. Will the true identity of the mysterious Twin Fang Killer berevealed? Mystery solving, fishing, and homework... this slice of Ren'sextremely busy phantom thief life comes to an end!
Makoto Kambayashi, the former strongest motorcycle gang leader, lives an honest and self-fulfilling life while still getting admired by his juniors. Behind his cool background, he is actually a virgin whose first kiss was stolen by the honored student, Chigusa Tokuyama. Many years later, Makoto's nemesis returns to the town, now working as a detective. Innocent Makoto allows Chigusa to crash at his house, but suddenly Makoto was pushed down. "I know that you are still a virgin," Chigusa whispered lewdly. How did he?! Makoto wanted to push him back, but why do his mind and body gradually desiring Chigusa instead? Will that pure and embarrassing "word" spilled out of his mouth?"Spill!" is a light crime BL that would bring smile and excitement with powerful characters and entertaining narratives.
The new employee, Takanashi, could not believe his ears when his mentor, Tokunaga, confessed that he is a gay that has a crush on their president, Mr. Furuya. Since then, Takanashi has awkwardly struggled to adapt to a company that doesn't seem to bother about Tokunaga's sexuality. But once Takanashi understood his mentor feelings, he couldn't take his eyes off of him anymore. Wait? Is this feeling... Love? "A love story between my Boss and Me" is indeed a sweet rom-com between a "straight" subordinate and his cute superior that will warm your day!
Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
* Instant NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller * * GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD WINNER for BEST DEBUT and BEST ROMANCE of 2019 * * BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR* for VOGUE, NPR, VANITY FAIR, and more! * What happens when America's First Son falls in love with the Prince of Wales? When his mother became President, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius—his image is pure millennial-marketing gold for the White House. There's only one problem: Alex has a beef with the actual prince, Henry, across the pond. And when the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex-Henry altercation, U.S./British relations take a turn for the worse. Heads of family, state, and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: staging a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, Instragramable friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations and begs the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colors shine through? Casey McQuiston's Red, White & Royal Blue proves: true love isn't always diplomatic. "I took this with me wherever I went and stole every second I had to read! Absorbing, hilarious, tender, sexy—this book had everything I crave. I’m jealous of all the readers out there who still get to experience Red, White & Royal Blue for the first time!" - Christina Lauren, New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners "Red, White & Royal Blue is outrageously fun. It is romantic, sexy, witty, and thrilling. I loved every second." - Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones & The Six
Hanada was once popularly known as a skillful euphonium player in high school, but he unwillingly quit music completely to help running his parents company. In high school reunion, Hanada met again with the flashy Hashizaki, a now-Host who had been admiring him for a long time. Suddenly, Hashizaki offers to comfort Hanada with his mouth to the drunk Hanada?! Will his reunion with Hashizaki, bring the brightness from their youth days back? Or will Hanada fall deeper into his labyrinth of insecurity and regret instead? This Volume also Includes: Trumpet of MelancholyThe happy-go-lucky Kai is desperately inviting his fellow club member, Takara to perform a trumpet duet with him. At first, Takara, who does not like doing bothersome things, kept avoiding Kai. But when he finally started to tear down his heart wall, he accidentally heard about Kai's crush?
Satou and Misaki grow closer and even pose as a couple when Satou's mother comes for a visit. Later, Satou and Yamazaki share their frustrations over love and women and decide to funnel that into their hentai game. Misaki worries that Satou is headed down a road of destruction--is she right?
