Library wars 1 Love and War

Library wars 1 love & war / story and art by Kiiro Yumi ; original concept by Hiro Arikawa.—San Francisco : VIZ Media, 2010.
[166] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
(Library wars; Volume 1)
Shojo Beat edition
English translation and adaptation Kinami Watabe
ISBN: 9781421534886

1. Censorship -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc. 2. Graphic novels -- Japan. 3. Libraries -- Japan -- Comic books, strips, etc. 4. Science fiction comic books, strips, etc.

741.5952


For years Iku Kasahara has dreamed about joining the Library Forces. But now that she’s been accepted, the young soldier thinks that drill instructor Sergeant Dojo is making her training unnecessarily hard. Her friends tell her that’s because he has high hopes for her, but Iku isn’t so sure. After finishing a strenuous run weighed down with a rifle, she finished twelfth out of fifty trainees and first among the women, he snapped at her and made her do push-ups because she collapsing after she crossed the finish line.

Thirty years ago the Central Government passed the Media Betterment Act and the Media Betterment Committee began raiding bookstores and libraries. In response the Provincial Governments created the Library Forces to fight the censorship and protect their libraries. In this near future Manga the struggle for freedom of the press and the rights of readers to read what they want is no longer fought by lawyers and librarians using court cases; it’s fought with fists and automatic weapons. It gives a new dimension to the Unshelved® T-shirt that reads Intellectual Freedom Fighter.

Rain Rain Rivers

Rain Rain Rivers / words and pictures by Uri Shulevitz.— [New York] : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1988, c1969.
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Sunburst edition (paperback)
ISBN: 0374461953

1. Rain and rainfall – Fiction.

813.54

In the comfort of an attic bedroom a girl and her cat contemplate the rain outside the window. The girl watches it rushing down the eaves, gushing out the drainpipes and thinks of the puddles that she can sail her toy boats in tomorrow. She imagines it raining on hills and fields far from her city home and collecting in rills, and brooks and rushing into the sea. “Oceans are swelling, Melting the skies.” She anticipates the joy of playing in the puddles with her friends. “We’ll run barefoot in puddles and stamp in warm mud. I’ll jump over pieces of sky in the gutter.” Her lyrical contemplation is illustrated in a muted palette of blue, yellow, and green over black ink.

Oryx and Crake

Oryx and Crake : a novel / Margaret Atwood.— New York : Nan A. Talese, 2003.
376 p. ; 25 cm.
1st American edition
ISBN: 0385503857

1. Dystopias. 2. Genetic engineering – Fiction. 3. Human beings – Extinction – Fiction. 4. Male friendship – Fiction. 5. Science fiction. 6. Triangles (Interpersonal relations) – Fiction.

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Snowman was formerly known as Jimmy, but his friends and colleagues all adopted the names of extinct species, like Crake and Oryx. He renamed himself Abominable Snowman, or just Snowman for short; he doesn’t want to come across as too frightening to those under his care. Snowman is, like his namesake, slowly melting away, but not from the tropical sun. Although it’s warm enough that he only needs a sheet for clothing, he can’t get enough food and he’s wasting away from malnutrition. His charges, the children of Crake, are able to live off the raw vegetation of the land because they have been genetically engineered that way. Snowman can’t, and he lives in constant fear of an infection or being attacked by the wolvogs or pigoons. He frets and wonders how did things get so bad?

Mississippi Jack

Mississippi Jack : being an account of the further waterborne adventures of Jacky Faber, midshipman, fine lady, and the Lily of the West / L. A. Meyer ; read by Katherine Kellgren.— [Roseland] : Listen & Live Audio, Inc., 2009.
1 WMA downloadable audio file (250188 KB) (17 hr., 25 min.)
(Bloody Jack adventure; 5)
Unabridged.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN: 9781593164478 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)


1. Adventure stories. 2. Fink, Mike, 1770-1823?—Fiction. 3. Mississippi River – History – 19th century – Fiction. 4. Orphans – Fiction. 5. River boats – Fiction.

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With the aid of her friends, Jacky Faber again escapes a British naval brig and heads west into the American wilderness Unknown to her, and delayed by the fickle fortunes of fate her true love, Jaimy Fletcher, is following in her tracks. Relieving the boisterous boasting Mike Fink of his keelboat on the Allegheny River she poles, paddles, and floats downstream to the headwaters of the Ohio River at Pittsburgh. She and her growing crew of companions repaint and outfit their craft as “The Belle of the Golden West” and take this miniature showboat and gambling den down the Mississippi to New Orleans. Along the way she and her crew outwit, out gun, or with the aid of fate, escape hostile natives, settlers, slave traders, British agents (some cruel and some amorous), (other) river pirates, a hurricane and a tornado.

Kellgren reads, sings, and acts Jacky’s adventures with the full gusto that Meyer’s text deserves. Hearing Mississippi Jack leaves no doubt in the listeners mind about why she has (so far) been awarded three Odyssey honors for her narration of Bloody Jack’s adventures.