Ao-chan Can't Study!, Volume 8


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Ao-chan has returned to Japan...and is up for some heavy trials of love with Kijima before they head off to college! What does the future hold for them? Will her name stigmatize her for the rest of her life? Find out in the high school conclusion of Ao-chan Can't Study!




Ao-chan Can't Study!, Volume 1


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When Ao was in kindergarten, she smiled ear-to-ear as she told her classmates how her father, a bestselling erotic author, chose her name: "A as in apple and O as in orgy!" That day still haunts her ten years later as she studies with a single goal in mind: to get into an elite university and achieve independence from her father once and for all. She has no youth to misspend and no time to think about boys...until her classmate, "King Normie" Kijima, approaches her with a shocking confession of love. She tries to lose Kijima, but he just can't take a hint...and as her mind runs wild with dirty thoughts, she realizes her father has totally influenced her!




Ao-chan Can't Study!, Volume 7


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Kijima and Ao-chan are growing closer by the day, but she's in for a big shock when her report card comes in! Now, two choices run through Ao-chan's head...either it's time they consummate their love so she can get it out of her system, or it's time for Ao-chan to push Kijima to arm's length and lose herself in her studies!




Ao-chan Can't Study!, Volume 4


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After months of twists and turns, Ao-chan finally tells Kijima how she feels. It's officially mutual! But now he says he doesn't want to go out until college?! She's sure all it'll take for him to get in the mood is some quality time with the girl he likes...but things are going nowhere fast. He's too pure...and Ao-chan's impatient little heart is about to burst!




Ru


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A runaway bestseller in Quebec, with foreign rights sold to 15 countries around the world, Kim Thúy's Governor General's Literary Award-winning Ru is a lullaby for Vietnam and a love letter to a new homeland. Ru. In Vietnamese it means lullaby; in French it is a small stream, but also signifies a flow - of tears, blood, money. Kim Thúy's Ru is literature at its most crystalline: the flow of a life on the tides of unrest and on to more peaceful waters. In vignettes of exquisite clarity, sharp observation and sly wit, we are carried along on an unforgettable journey from a palatial residence in Saigon to a crowded and muddy Malaysian refugee camp, and onward to a new life in Quebec. There, the young girl feels the embrace of a new community, and revels in the chance to be part of the American Dream. As an adult, the waters become rough again: now a mother of two sons, she must learn to shape her love around the younger boy's autism. Moving seamlessly from past to present, from history to memory and back again, Ru is a book that celebrates life in all its wonder: its moments of beauty and sensuality, brutality and sorrow, comfort and comedy.




We're New at This 1


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Ikuma Saeki finally married his childhood friend and the girl of his dreams, Sumika. But while years of pining came easily to him, physical closeness does not...and he's having trouble navigating the intimacy that comes with marriage. Sumika, too, is having trouble bridging the gap between friend and lover...what is this innocent couple to do but navigate it together, awkwardness and all!




Ao-chan Can't Study!, Volume 6


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Ao-chan manages to make her way out of the changing room in one piece, but she still finds herself overrun with worry and anticipation! Then it hits her … What if she and Kijima only have so many problems because they're not official yet? But she's scarcely got time to wonder, because Halloween's right around the corner ... as well as two trips: one to a hot-springs inn and one to another world! Still, she's determined not to let anyone get in her way!




Ao-chan Can't Study!, Volume 3


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Ao-chan always used to fantasize about you-know-what...but she might not have to settle for fantasy for much longer! Preppy Kijima may be a virgin, but he's been earnest in his feelings for Ao-chan, and she can't help but feel his kindness winning her over a little—body and mind! And after a summer fraught with dangers, like late-night tests of courage and beach hijinks, she can't deny that she's grown closer to Kijima...or that her salacious fantasies are threatening to become reality. But her grades are in a free fall! Ao's torn between her growing hunger for romance and her desire for study. Which will she choose?!




All-Rounder Meguru 19


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It's the All-Japan Amateur Shooto lightweight final. Meguru and Takashi are both battered, yet neither refuses to give an inch. With their friends, mentors, and rivals watching from the sidelines, who will come out on top? Having captured the hearts of fans and pros alike with realistic depictions of fighting across the board, it's time at last to close the curtain on this epic MMA saga.




Information, Physics, and Computation


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A very active field of research is emerging at the frontier of statistical physics, theoretical computer science/discrete mathematics, and coding/information theory. This book sets up a common language and pool of concepts, accessible to students and researchers from each of these fields.