Shigematsu Narumi

One year after losing her leg, 16-year-old Rin is tired-tired of the painful physical therapy, tired of being treated differently, and tired of her stupid, heavy, awkward prosthetic leg. All that changes when she encounters the Blade Runners, a group of one-legged athletes who run with “blades”-carbon fiber prosthetics specialized for competitive running-made by their gifted prosthetist, Kazami. The blades are light, flexible, and formidably difficult to control-Rin can barely walk with one, much less sprint. But as she tumbles to the ground again and again, she rediscovers many of the things that she’d forgotten, and finds a new goal: to compete in the Paralympics. \[Kodansha]

The young Oniyasha is a commoner who acts inside his father's theater troupe. One day the shogun Ashikaga falls in love with the young boy acting and decides to take Oniyasha under his patronage. The boy is then called Zeami and will become the creator of Noh theater.

After his bibliophile father passed away, the boy Lucas sees a beautifully decorated book in a shop window in Paris. The book decorator there, Stefan Bosch, takes him to his publishing house, and he wanders into the atelier of Stefan Louis. Lucas is enchanted by the bookbinding world of the two Stefans, and he takes up training at their atelier. To find the place where he belongs—