"It's the night before her wedding when Poppy Dunbar meets Tom. He is tall, dark, and handsome with a quirky smile, and Poppy can't shake the feeling she's known him all her life. She can't go through with the meeting they arrange...but she can't go through with the wedding anymore either. Suddenly notorious as 'The Girl Who Jilted Rob McBride,' Poppy leaves for London and a fresh start. Soon she's installed in the bohemian household of Caspar French,...

"They should have never met... The comet's arrival is imminent, and Taki puts his plan into action to save Mitsuha and the people he has come to care for during his time in her body. Convincing a whole town of skeptics that the sky is falling will take some doing--and a little delinquency--but if Taki wants any hope of a future with Mitsuha, they will have to save the town in the here and now...!"--Page [4] of cover.

A fictional retelling of the life of Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha), the founder of Buddhism, in manga style comic format. In volume 1, Siddhartha isn't even born until page 268. Instead, Tezuka introduces Chapra, a slave who attempts to escape his fate by posing as the son of a general; Tatta, a crazed wild child pariah who communes with animals; Chapra's slave mother, who stands by him no matter what; and Naradatta, a monk attempting to discover the...

"Hinoto, Japan's greatest seer, has foretold the end of the world. At the center of her prophecy is Kamui Shiro, a young man who possesses tremendous arcane powers..." -- Inside cover.

En 1345, China está gobernada por los rudos mongoles. Para los hambrientos campesinos de las llanuras centrales, la grandeza es algo que solo se encuentra en las historias. Cuando el octavo descendiente de la familia Zhu, Zhu Chongba, recibe su destino de grandeza, todos se muestran desconcertados y sin saber cómo se hará realidad. La nada que recibe para su futuro la lista y competente segunda hija de la familia, por otra parte, no es más que...

"Six stories set in New York City and a novella in Los Angeles. The New York stories, most of which are set around the turn of the millennium, take up everything from the death-defying acrobatics of the male ego, to the fateful consequences of brief encounters, and the delicate mechanics of comprise which operate at the heart of modern marriages. In Towles's novel, Rules of Civility, the indomitable Evelyn Ross leaves New York City in September, 1938,...

When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters. It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...