Whenever Naruto proclaims that he will become the Hokage - a title bestowed upon the best ninja in the Village Hidden in the Leaves - no one takes him seriously. Since birth, Naruto has been shunned by his fellow villagers. Their contempt isn't because Naruto is loud-mouthed, mischievous, or because of his ineptitude in the ninja arts, but because there is a demon inside him. When he is assigned to Team 7 - along with teammates Sasuke and Sakura under...

Hideki Motosuwa attends cram school and works daily at a bar to make ends meet, thus missing out on the world's latest invention—human-like computers called Persocoms. He's met with a stroke of luck when he stumbles upon an abandoned persocom in a garbage pile. Upon finding the power button, Hideki finds his new robot to be faulty and only capable of uttering the word "Chi." Chi, however, is no ordinary persocom: capable of thinking and learning...

"After their chores, the rambunctious group presents even more amazing mini-comics. By working together, the baby frogs discover that small things can have a huge impact" Provided by publisher.

Thousands of years ago, there existed those gifted with the power of God. Their mission: to destroy the evils known as Akuma. Led by the Millennium Earl, Akuma seek to destroy fragments of Innocence, the only weapons capable of harming the Earl and his army. To prevent tragedy, the Black Order was formed to fight the Earl. They recruit Exorcists, those with the inherent ability to accommodate Innocence, to fight against the Akuma. In the late 19th...

In 1999, a meteorite crashed into Antarctica, melting the ice and raising sea levels, damaging the climate and causing the deaths of over half of the population. In 2015, creatures referred to as "Angels" ravage what remains of the planet. In the heavily fortified city of Tokyo-3, 14-year-old Shinji Ikari is destined to halt the Angels' onslaught. Recruited by his father's secret organization NERV, Shinji is enlisted as a pilot of an Evangelion, a...

"PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, Pushcart Prize winner, and Best American Stories contributor, Eric Puchner returns with an ambitious and deeply moving novel set against the backdrop of the American West that follows three lifelong friends and the betrayal at the center of their entwined fates. Cece and Charlie are in love and a few weeks away from their summer wedding. But when Cece meets Charlie's best friend from college, Garrett, her long-held expectations...

It's summer, and Sunny is BORED. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to baby-sit way more than Sunny wants to baby-sit. There's nothing good on TV. The only place that's cool (in a not-boring sense) and cool (in a not-hot sense) is the community pool. Sunny loves going there . . . and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving soft ice-cream like a pro . . . with the assistance...

"When white silver screen icon Kitty Karr Tate dies and bequeaths her multimillion-dollar estate to the three Black St. John sisters, it prompts questions. A celebrity in her own right, Elise St. John would rather focus on sorting out Kitty's affairs than deal with the press. But what she discovers in one of Kitty's journals rocks her world harder than any other brewing scandal could--and between a cheating fiancé and fallout from a controversial...