by Lea Hernandez (2003)
The popular warrior girl series is at last collected into one thick tome in a handy pocket format! Raven Tansania Ransom is a promising pilot-in-training of personal armor known as a Hardskin, at exclusive girl?s school academie Juliet. Carmen Cameron, another pilot-in-training, reveals to the school Raven?s shady background, making her the butt of gossip and cruel pranks. Raven challenges Carmen to full-Hardskin combat, not knowing Carmen?s fixing the fight. Raven?s coach, who is also sexy media celebrity pilot Crimson August, faces a crisis as well: his popularity is slipping, leading the suits to give him a new rival. Someone young, innocent and female. Someone very much like Raven.
story by Madoka Takadono
Devils and Realist is an ongoing supernatural manga series that pits a young, suave nobleman against Hell's princely demons. Each volume of Devils and Realist features beautiful bishounen-styled artwork and a color insert.
Teresa Edgerton
Captain of the Queen's Guard Wilrowa Blackheart is given the task of regaining the jeweled Chaos Machine that holds the kingdom of Mountfalcon together. He discovers a conspiracy that threatens much more than just his kingdom.
[story and art by Clamp
As Kamui's last surviving blood relative gives her life to obtain the Sacred Sword, the time draws close for Kamui to decide whether he will be humanity's savoir or its scourge, a decision that has dire consequences for Fuma and Kotori as well. Meanwhile, members of both the Dragons of Earth and the Dragons of Heaven converge on Tokyo, among them Subaru Sumeragi, a powerful magic user who will help Kamui see the path he must take.
D.M. Thomas
The Flute-Player, is set in an unnamed city of chaos, probably in Russia; there are glimpses of Leningrad, and the book is dedicated to the dissident Russian poets Mandlestam, Pasternak, Akhmatova, and Tsvetayeva. Elena, a flute player, here is the embodiment of the persecuted creative spirit, endangered by the city's totalitarian regime. Her presence is often lost, though, in the novel's whirl of characters, fast-moving incidents, and mood changes. --http//biography.jrank.org/