When summer vacation comes, Kao gets closer to Nagisa at volleyball training camp and at a summer festival! Kao’s feelings get stronger and stronger, and during Obon vacation, she suddenly gets a call from Nagisa inviting her out…?! She thinks she’s heading for a date, but instead it turns out she’s being asked to help out at a caf$(D+1 as a part-time job. As the two pretend to be dating, their feelings become more similar, but is something going on between Kuze-kun and Miki, who works at the caf$(D+1…? Haruka Mitsui draws a brilliant after school love! It’s the thrilling, heart-throbbing 4th volume!
When Kiryu gets closer to Kao, Nagisa begins to want Kao to be more aware of him. So what are Kao’s feelings for the two boys…?! As the feelings of love heat up more and more, the tournament also begins. And there, something happens that Kao doesn’t expect…?! Events unfold at a rapid pace in Volume 7!
Asahi tells Kao about his true feelings. On the other hand, Nagisa, who’s become aware of his feelings for Kao, suddenly surprises Kao with a confession at the end of the tournament? And what about Asahi, who lost out…? Young love filled with sparkling moments, a full volume of emotions!
Kao’s feelings for Nagisa grow deeper at the culture festival. When Kiryu-kun sees Kao like that, he declares war on Kuze-kun! As the day of the match approaches, Nagisa also makes a resolution… Will a big change come to this heart-throbbing love triangle? And has a new rival for Kao made an entrance?! Both love and club activities are heating up!! Volume 6, where everybody is serious!
Mizuha's 17th birthday is the pits. Her parents totally forgot, and the sempai she likes isn't interested in her. But when her longtime childhood friend asks her out, Mizuha has to sort out what this change in relationship could mean. And her feelings may not be the only ones changing...! A brand-new school love story from the author of I Fell in Love After School!
It’s her first summer training camp. On the morning of the second day, when Kao, who’s worn out from carrying out her manager duties all day, wakes up, she’s in the same futon with Kuze-kun for some reason?! The calm and cool Kuze-kun covers for her, and nobody finds out, but her heart is pounding…! Amidst all of this, the girls of the volleyball club ask her to find out if Kiryu-kun has a girl he likes… Haruka Mitsui has drawn a dazzling after-school love! When Kuze-kun and Kiryu-kun swing into action, temperatures rise swiftly in this third volume!
During summer vacation, Kao is touched for the first time by Kuze-kun at their part-time cafe job. The two become closer and closer, but when summer’s over, there’s more happiness to come!! The school festival and club activities take place during the second semester… and Kuze-kun wants to do his best to…? Watching the two of them, it seems as if Kiryu-kun also goes into serious mode?!
Kao has no interests, no hobbies, and no friends ... so when she's pushed by her brother to become the manager for the boys' volleyball team, she reluctantly accepts. But her future as manager is contingent on roping in the equally reluctant Kuze-kun, who, despite his passion and talent, seems intent on leaving volleyball behind ...
PARENTING NEVER ENDS. From the founders of the #1 site for parents of teens and young adults comes an essential guide for building strong relationships with your teens and preparing them to successfully launch into adulthood The high school and college years: an extended roller coaster of academics, friends, first loves, first break-ups, driver’s ed, jobs, and everything in between. Kids are constantly changing and how we parent them must change, too. But how do we stay close as a family as our lives move apart? Enter the co-founders of Grown and Flown, Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington. In the midst of guiding their own kids through this transition, they launched what has become the largest website and online community for parents of fifteen to twenty-five year olds. Now they’ve compiled new takeaways and fresh insights from all that they’ve learned into this handy, must-have guide. Grown and Flown is a one-stop resource for parenting teenagers, leading up to—and through—high school and those first years of independence. It covers everything from the monumental (how to let your kids go) to the mundane (how to shop for a dorm room). Organized by topic—such as academics, anxiety and mental health, college life—it features a combination of stories, advice from professionals, and practical sidebars. Consider this your parenting lifeline: an easy-to-use manual that offers support and perspective. Grown and Flown is required reading for anyone looking to raise an adult with whom you have an enduring, profound connection.
“A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy. What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in movies and books and Facebook posts? Or does obsessing over those love stories hurt our real-life relationships? When her parents divorced after a twenty-eight year marriage and her own ten-year relationship ended, those were the questions that Mandy Len Catron wanted to answer. In a series of candid, vulnerable, and wise essays that takes a closer look at what it means to love someone, be loved, and how we present our love to the world, “Catron melds science and emotion beautifully into a thoughtful and thought-provoking meditation” (Bookpage). She delves back to 1944, when her grandparents met in a coal mining town in Appalachia, to her own dating life as a professor in Vancouver. She uses biologists’ research into dopamine triggers to ask whether the need to love is an innate human drive. She uses literary theory to show why we prefer certain kinds of love stories. She urges us to question the unwritten scripts we follow in relationships and looks into where those scripts come from. And she tells the story of how she decided to test an experiment that she’d read about—where the goal was to create intimacy between strangers using a list of thirty-six questions—and ended up in the surreal situation of having millions of people following her brand-new relationship. “Perfect fodder for the romantic and the cynic in all of us” (Booklist), How to Fall in Love with Anyone flips the script on love. “Clear-eyed and full of heart, it is mandatory reading for anyone coping with—or curious about—the challenges of contemporary courtship” (The Toronto Star).
