Tags:fantasy
CALL TO ADVENTURE! Defeating Dungeons with a Skill Board (Manga) Vol. 3
Haruki is in the thick of battle with the monster swarm boss--a werewolf! It's pretty clear he's in way over his head; a single blow could knock him out...forever. Does he have what it takes to avoid defeat and take down the boss?
Full Clearing Another World under a Goddess with Zero Believers (Manga) Volume 3
Reincarnated otherworlder Makoto Takatsuki is an apprentice mage with lackluster skills and stats, but when he is recruited by the goddess Noah, he becomes her sole believer. There’s just one caveat—Noah is actually a wicked deity! Along with his fellow mage Lucy, Makoto has been making a name for himself as an adventurer, taking down everything from ogres to griffins. After nearly a year in this new world, Noah finally offers Makoto a helpful revelation: a “fateful encounter” awaits him in the Great Maze Labyrinthos. He enlists the support of his best friend Fujiyan to tackle this vast dungeon, but before long, Makoto and Lucy are attacked by a dragon! When the floor of the dungeon collapses, the pair find themselves stranded deep underground and surrounded by high-level monsters that are eager for their next meal. Is this what a game over screen looks like? And when all seems lost, can a “fateful encounter” save Makoto from a bad end?
The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary (Light Novel) Vol. 8
Loren's enigmatic partner Lapis never did explain how the enchanted greatsword in her family's keeping mysteriously found its way into his hands. But no matter how Loren likes to let Lapis keep her secrets, some tales must be told. Together, they set off to the fabled lands ruled by demons. But first they'll have to make it through the cave system that protects demonkind from the rest of the world, which quickly proves as immense as it is deadly...
Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells (Manga) Vol. 4
With Seras Ashrain's true identity unceremoniously revealed, she's on the run from the Black Dragon Knights, the strongest knight company in the world. To prevent Touka from getting wrapped up in the hunt for her, she escapes the city and disappears. Spurred by Seras' protective spirit, Touka goes after, hoping he can reach her first. Unfortunately for them both, Civit Gartland appears. The arrival of the strongest man in the world changes everything.
The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary (Light Novel) Vol. 7
Loren's wallet is never heavy, and these days it's even lighter than usual. Gula Gluttonia, dark god of gluttony, is devouring everything in sight and leaving Loren to foot the bill. Now Gula's antics have also brought Loren face to face with a fragment of his mercenary past: the renowned Infernal Edge, a mercenary as legendary as the mysterious Cleaving Gale. As luck would have it, the Infernal Edge is hiring muscle, and if Loren can meet her expectations, he might finally break even.
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Norwegian Wood and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World comes a love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for our peculiar times."Haruki Murakami invented 21st-century fiction." —The New York Times • "More than any author since Kafka, Murakami appreciates the genuine strangeness of our real world." —San Francisco Chronicle • "Murakami is masterful." —Los Angeles TimesWe begin with a nameless young couple: a boy and a girl, teenagers in love. One day, she disappears . . . and her absence haunts him for the rest of his life.Thus begins a search for this lost love that takes the man into middle age and on a journey between the real world and an other world – a mysterious, perhaps imaginary, walled town where unicorns roam, where a Gatekeeper determines who can enter and who must remain behind, and where shadows become untethered from their selves. Listening to his own dreams and premonitions, the man leaves his life in Tokyo behind and ventures to a small mountain town, where he becomes the head librarian, only to learn the mysterious circumstances surrounding the gentleman who had the job before him. As the seasons pass and the man grows more uncertain about the porous boundaries between these two worlds, he meets a strange young boy who helps him to see what he’s been missing all along.The City and Its Uncertain Walls is a singular and towering achievement by one of modern literature’s most important writers. "Truth is not found in fixed stillness, but in ceaseless change/movement. Isn't this the quintessential core of what stories are all about?” —Haruki Murakami, from the afterword
Kafka on the Shore
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the acclaimed author of The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and one of the world’s greatest storytellers comes “an insistently metaphysical mind-bender” (The New Yorker) about a teenager on the run and a deceptively simple old man.Now with a new introduction by the author.Here we meet fifteen-year-old runaway Kafka Tamura and the elderly Nakata, who is drawn to Kafka for reasons that he cannot fathom. As their paths converge, acclaimed author Haruki Murakami enfolds readers in a world where cats talk, fish fall from the sky, and spirits slip out of their bodies to make love or commit murder, in what is a truly remarkable journey.“As powerful as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle.... Reading Murakami ... is a striking experience in consciousness expansion.”—Chicago Tribune
End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 1Q84 and The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle comes a relentlessly inventive novel that dives deep into the very nature of consciousness. “Fantastical, mysterious, and funny . . . a fantasy world that might have been penned by Franz Kafka.”—The Philadelphia InquirerAcross two parallel narratives, Murakami draws readers into a mind-bending universe in which Lauren Bacall, Bob Dylan, a split-brained data processor, a deranged scientist, his shockingly undemure granddaughter, and various thugs, librarians, and subterranean monsters collide to dazzling effect. What emerges is a hyperkinetic novel that is at once hilariously funny and a deeply serious meditation on the nature and uses of the mind.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
A "dreamlike and compelling” tour de force (Chicago Tribune)—an astonishingly imaginative detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets from Japan’s forgotten campaign in Manchuria during World War II.Now with a new introduction by the author. In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic, and suffused with comedy and menace, this is one of Haruki Murakami’s most acclaimed and beloved novels.
The Strange Library
From internationally acclaimed author Haruki Murakami—a fantastical illustrated short novel about a boy imprisoned in a nightmarish library. Opening the flaps on this unique little book, readers will find themselves immersed in the strange world of best-selling Haruki Murakami's wild imagination. The story of a lonely boy, a mysterious girl, and a tormented sheep man plotting their escape from a nightmarish library, the book is like nothing else Murakami has written. Designed by Chip Kidd and fully illustrated, in full color, throughout, this small format, 96 page volume is a treat for book lovers of all ages.
Dance Dance Dance
*PRE-ORDER HARUKI MURAKAMI’S NEW NOVEL, THE CITY AND ITS UNCERTAIN WALLS, NOW*An assault on the senses, part murder mystery, part metaphysical speculation; a fable for our times as catchy as a rock song blasting from the window of a sports car.High-class call girls billed to Mastercard. A psychic 13-year-old dropout with a passion for Talking Heads. A hunky matinee idol doomed to play dentists and teachers. A one-armed beach-combing poet, an uptight hotel clerk and one very bemused narrator caught in the web of advanced capitalist mayhem.Combine this offbeat cast of characters with Murakami's idiosyncratic prose and out comes Dance Dance Dance.'If Raymond Chandler had lived long enough to see Blade Runner, he might have written something like Dance Dance Dance' Observer
The Strange Library
Fully illustrated and beautifully designed, this is a unique and wonderfully creepy tale that is sure to delight Murakami fans. 'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, he finds himself imprisoned with only a sheep man, who makes excellent donuts, and a girl, who can talk with her hands, for company. His mother will be worrying why he hasn't returned in time for dinner and the old man seems to have an appetite for eating small boy's brains. How will he escape?'The best novelist on the planet' Observer