Best of
Slice-Of-Life

2012

Garfield Vol. 1


Jim Davis - 2012
    Join Garfield as he begins his comic book exploits with Jon, Odie, and the rest of the gang in this all-ages must-read from KaBOOM! THE GARFIELD SHOW writer and comics luminary Mark Evanier teams up with beloved Garfield strip cartoonist Gary Barker to bring you all the laughs (and lasagna) you can handle.

My Love Story!!, Vol. 1


Kazune Kawahara - 2012
    But one day when he saves a girl named Yamato from a harasser on the train, his (love!) life suddenly takes an incredible turn!Takeo can hardly believe it when he crosses paths with Yamato again, and he finds himself falling in love with her… But with handsome Sunakawa around, does Takeo even stand a chance?

April


Mackey Chandler - 2012
    She finds herself involved with intrigues that stretch her abilities after a chance run in with a spy. There is a terrible danger she and her friends and family will lose the only home she has ever known in orbit and be forced to live on the slum ball below. It's more than a almost teen can deal with. Fortunately she has a lot of smart friends and allies. It's a good thing because things get very rough and dicey.

Kase-san and Morning Glories


Hiromi Takashima - 2012
    Suddenly, a different sort of beauty catches her eye -- the vivacious track star, Kase-san. Although the two girls don't seem to have much in common, they soon start a romance where each must learn an important lesson in tending their budding relationship. Can the two girls, so different from each other, learn how to make their first love blossom?

氷菓 1 [Hyouka 1]


Honobu Yonezawa - 2012
    When he starts high school, his older sister sends him a letter requesting him to join the Classics Club. The club meant a lot to her, and its number of members has been reduced to zero.Houtarou reluctantly signs up for the club, only to find that someone else has joined, too! She's Chitanda Eru, a cute, big-eyed girl with an overwhelming sense of curiosity. A mystery crops up that catches Eru's interest, and also draws in Houtarou's friend, Fukube Satoshi. They continue solving mundane mysteries together, and soon they draw in Satoshi and Houtarou's friend, Ibara Mayaka, as well. Mayaka has had a blatant crush on Satoshi since middle school, but he always fends off her advances. Together, they search for the truth in a mystery that involves the history of the Classics Club...*This is an entry for the manga. For the light novel visit-http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/72...

Na Willa: Serial Catatan Kemarin


Reda Gaudiamo - 2012
    Hillarious experience in a girl's mind and tells us how complicated being a child.

The stories of those around me (The stories of those around me #1-4)


Omyo - 2012
    These 25-year-old girls are very close and believe in that they can keep thier friendship and love forever. However, everything changed after Mira’s blind date.

True Vines


Diana Strinati Baur - 2012
    But it's never that simple, especially when old family ties have been strained by years of geographic and emotional distance. A chance encounter with a childhood friend brings back a betrayal she could never put to rest, and readjusting to life in the States in upper mid-life wears her thin in ways she never could have imagined. Just when Meryl feels she can't go on, Providence steps in and gives her permission to completely fall apart. Only then can she finally manage to grieve both her magnanimous, flawed Francesco and the unforgettable country she left behind.True Vines traverses the manicured rows of northern Italy's majestic wine country and the winding path of Pennsylvania's Delaware River as Meryl seeks to reconcile her past and her present. Several people on each side of the Atlantic guide her as she relives her own stories: a spirited sister-in-law, a petulant physician, a strong-willed landlady, a good-guy boss, a determined mother-in-law, an amazing flood survivor, a Senegalese English student, a young co-worker. Each recollection and encounter deepens Meryl's insight into how to make peace with her new reality.Saying goodbye to one existence allows Meryl to swing the door open to another as she weaves a new, uniquely beautiful tapestry that transports her to exactly the place in this short, sacred life she is meant to be.

Assassination Classroom


Yūsei Matsui - 2012
    The series follows the daily lives of an extremely powerful octopus-like teacher and his cohort of "misfits" in class E-3. The students of E-3 have been assigned the task of assassinating their 'Koro-Sensei', meaning 'Unkillable Teacher", before time runs out and he destroys Earth.

不存在的学园!


Hu Xuan - 2012
    Can he stay alive or will he die from the rigors of school? Why have evil spirits suddenly acquired a taste for his flesh?(-novelupdates.com)

The Friendly Winter, Volume 1


Lee Jun - 2012
    A Friendly Winter shares with us the endearing story of their day-to-day lives, joys and tribulations.

お参りですよ [Omairi desu yo]


Kotetsuko Yamamoto - 2012
    While he professes to have pledged himself to the cloth, vowing to remain unmarried and celibate for life…he’s harbored a crush on his best friend Saburou since middle school. Now that Saburou’s back in town, taking over his parents’ tofu shop after an eight-year absence, Yuuji must deal with feelings he thought he’d long since moved past—and that’s when he gets drunk one evening in Saburou’s presence.

The Rain Snake: A Children's Color Illustrated Book of the miracles of prayer and love


Jeannie Walker - 2012
    This is a true story based on real events.A young girl learns a valuable lesson about prayer and the magic of an Indian legend.

Dear Only You Don't Know! Volume 1


Yuria - 2012
    Everyone knows women are tricky beings, with layers upon layers of secrets they hide,but there are some secrets women must risk everything in order to keep hidden! These women with such hidden secrets are being revealed in the new series, "Dear, Only You Don't Know!"Original Webtoon

Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist


Baye McNeil - 2012
    Loco of the influential blog "Loco in Yokohama) vividly illustrates with unflinching introspection and candor, the birth and evolution of a racist, and in doing so makes the persuasive argument that the only way to cure this social virus is by first acknowledging and engaging one’s own racism. Loco takes us on a scintillating journey from the streets of Brooklyn, where a child’s first playground was the frontlines of the Black Nationalist Movement of the seventies, to a period of black militancy, military service, interracial romance and corporate bigotry in the eighties and nineties. Following the traumatic events of 9/11/2001, Loco relocates to Japan where he learns that old adage -— you can’t hide from yourself -— the hard way. He finds the woman he was made to love; only she’s a member of a race he has come to loathe. In the name of this love, Loco confronts this dark stowaway with deep roots even as the world is literally falling apart around him, in the form of the Tohoku disaster of 3/11/2011. A book that is both a memoir and an impassioned call to arms, Hi! My Name is Loco and I am a Racist tells us in no uncertain terms that while racism continues to be demonized as a dark aberration that only “evil people,” ignorant fools, or people lacking compassion and common decency are subject to, then it will remain at large – hiding in plain sight, in our schools, offices, carpools, living rooms...and sometimes even in the mirror.

The Keepers of Discord


Hoopy McGee - 2012
    Unfortunately, it seems that Celestia has other ideas.She has appointed these ponies... these 'Keepers', as she calls them, to keep me entertained during my incarceration.Honestly? I'd prefer the boredom.

Float


ToastedBagels - 2012
    But after her divorced parents can’t agree on who gets to have her for the summer, Waverly gets shipped off to Holden, Florida to spend a couple months with her aunt, Rachel. Her hopes for the perfect summer seem crushed. Then she meets Blake Hamilton, Rachel’s seventeen-year-old neighbor. He’s athletic, outgoing, arrogant, tan, and pretty much Waverly’s exact opposite. She's eager to avoid him at all costs, hoping to fit in with the other kids in Holden without drawing too much attention to herself. But when Blake discovers that Waverly has been hiding the rather embarrassing secret that she can’t swim, he does the unthinkable: he offers to teach her.From Wattpad.

10276 in Two Months : A Novel: An Unlikely Facebook Love


Giok Ping Ang - 2012
    Every day they chat on Facebook, and every day they live, love and die a little. 10276 is the number of love messages they chatted in two months. Mark Fallen is a screenwriter from England, and Lim Shi Yi is a poet and novelist from Singapore who is married with two daughters.It seems a perfect love made in heaven as they both share the same interests in calligraphy, music, painting, cooking and above all, poetry. She decides to write a script to document their love entitling The Secret Love Of Two Poets and he becomes her script mentor as they spiral deeper into a painful love affair.Two parallel love stories, both virtual, both intense and life altering yet contrasting in development. She is to find out that it is much easier conjuring physical contacts and rendezvous for her characters in her script than it is for her own love and in the end has to choose between family and success or true love.

A Christmas Inspiration


L.M. Montgomery - 2012
    Together, the friends plan a surprise to make this the best Christmas ever for Miss Allen—and maybe for them as well.

Eternity


Randy Alcorn - 2012
    Eternity is a graphic novel.

Love*Com Two (Lovely*Complex Two)


Aya Nakahara - 2012
    

Dumbing of Age, Volume 1: This Campus is a Friggin' Escher Print


David Willis - 2012
    This 180-page full-color book includes the entire first year of strips (the first six storylines) from September 2010 through October 2011! There's commentary! There's cast bios! There's bonus features! It's the most beautiful book I've ever done.

Genetic Imperfections


Steve Hadden - 2012
    But despite his sacrifices and prayers, he helplessly watched him die. On that day his heart hardened, and he embarked on a path of cynicism, materialism and self-indulgence. Now, at forty-five, he's ready to collect the payoff for selling his soul when he takes Rexsen Labs public. Propelled by the pending FDA approval of CGT, the first genetic cure for leukemia, he's on the verge of becoming Newport Beach's newest billionaire. But his dream suddenly becomes a nightmare when his jet crashes into the Pacific Ocean. While David miraculously survives, he loses control of Rexsen to his ruthless wife, Priscilla, her scheming brother, and her Wall-Street-cover-boy lover. Meanwhile, Rexsen researcher Tori Clarke discovers a fatal flaw in CGT, and becomes the target of a deadly cover-up to save their multi-billion dollar payday. Framed for murder and on the run, David joins forces with Tori to regain control of Rexsen, fix CGT, and save a young girl's life. Trapped between the authorities and the company he helped build, David risks everything to give meaning to his second chance at life and his only chance for love. Genetic Imperfections is a story of redemption uniquely packaged in the thriller genre. It's a story about how the fundamental goodness in one man can be buried by tragedy and replaced with bitterness and greed--and how the path to redemption reveals itself in mysterious ways. According to the National Institute of Health, there are over sixty clinical trials for cancer using gene therapy underway in the US--there are none underway to treat greed.

Charnel House


Andrew James Pritchard - 2012
    Chris' only desire is to return home to the Irish village where he grew-up. He knows that a mundane life without any chance of improvement will be his fate if he survives the war, but as long as Jane, the girl of his dreams, waits for him back home then nothing else matters.Deepak Shrestha also wants to return to his native country of Nepal to be with his wife and children, but first he must earn money as a mercenary in the Royal British Army to support his family. Will they survive, will there be anything left of the world they knew of if they do? Will Deepak convince Chris to forget about Jane and develop an interest in his cousin Zebba? Charnal House is an old term for a slaughter house. A building, room, or vault in which the bones or bodies of the dead are placed; a charnel: A scene or place of great physical suffering and loss of life:

The ABC's of BDSM


Dama deNoche - 2012
    Instead, it is meant to give you an idea of where you can start and what you need to get started. How to make things a bit safer, as what we do can be--and usually is--dangerous. The danger is what turns many of us on: the ability to tiptoe on that edge of sanity and danger without causing harm is erotic and just fun. This book gives you a place to start so that you know what questions to ask.This will also give you the understanding that you are not alone in your desire for what you need. You are not sick, just different. Your drummer is now our drummer and we march in the same basic direction.Welcome to the kinky universe we have been living in for a while. Explore safely and enjoy.

Faerie Fool


Silver James - 2012
    But then he meets Delaney Burns. Again. In life after life, the man Rory was slips beyond Delaney's grasp, and she falls for the wrong man. This time, Delaney turns to Rory for solace and discovers she's loved him in every lifetime. So why the barriers between them? Neither believes in reincarnation, but as their dreams reveal the past, they realize their memories hold the key to the future. To keep history from repeating itself, they must pronounce the binding words before the Faerie feud spills into the mortal realm, but the words dance beyond Rory's memory. When the fae harper arrives to collect Rory's old debt--his life for Delaney's--he's dragged to Faerie, leaving Delaney the hostage of a disturbed man. Can Rory escape and save her? Or will he lose her...this time forever?

The Jelly Bean Crisis


Jolene Stockman - 2012
    The whole school watching. Now Poppy’s an ex-straight-A with no Plan B.When Poppy Johnson throws away a full scholarship to Columbia, she can only blame the jelly beans. The yucky green ones? Midnight cram sessions and Saturday’s spent studying. The delicious red? The family legacy: Columbia, and a future in finance. Except now it’s starting to look like Poppy’s jelly bean theory is wrong. School has been her life until, but maybe it’s time to start living now.Poppy has thirty days to try a new life. No school, no studying. Just jumping into every possible world. Thirty days to find her passion, her path, and maybe even love. The Jelly Bean Crisis is officially on.

A Rebel Chick Mystic's Guide: Healing Your Spirit with Positive Rebellion


Lisa Marie Selow - 2012
    Lifelong psychic Lisa Selow leads you to uncover your true self, reveal your life purpose, and carve out your spiritual path. She invites you to engage in positive rebellion by subverting your good-girl persona, letting go of limiting beliefs that you’ve inherited, and creating your own definition of perfect. Lisa encourages you to be a different type of rebel, one that defies the stereotype of being a loner, without a cause. Instead, you’re called to make a difference, rocking the world with your unique gifts and talents.      Through enjoyable, engaging exercises, Lisa facilitates your creating your very own manual for living according to your own rules. She shows you how you can, as a modern mystic, graduate yourself from the school of hard knocks, using your dark night of the soul as a healing catalyst. Lisa uses her own compelling life stories and those of other women (including ones from history) to illustrate that you can radically rewrite your own life story, creating a happy, purposeful life. Starting your journey from the premise that you already are perfect, you will excavate the real you, along with being guided to design action plans to move forward with your dreams and goals.

Jacob's Cellar


Richard G. Sharp - 2012
    The cellar itself is a darkforeboding place used for family gatherings, asa hiding place for objects and refugees, a retreat for lovers, a den of betrayal and ultimately the source of legends that ensures the salvation of protagonists from the crucible of the Civil War The novel concerns the experience of ordinary rural Americans caught on the wrong side of history in most respects, participants in a journey leading to the disintegration of old cultural identities and assimilation into the larger society. Their individual triumphs and tragedies are tales of survival through these overwhelming events.

Wawahte: Subject: Canadian Indian Residential Schools


Robert P. Wells - 2012
    By shining the light on a dark part of our past we have a chance to create a bright new day for aboriginals and all Canadians. We will all know what happened and then come to realize that what happens now and our vision for a future together is what really counts. Together we will stand for what is right and the intention of Indian residential schools and colonization will not happen again! With Deep Respect, Chief Robert Joseph, Executive Director

Ore ga Doutei o Sutetara Shinu Ken ni Tsuite (About How I'll Die if I Lose My Virginity, #3)


Mario Morita - 2012
    He lived his entire life as a playboy and had had countless sexual encounters with women until that fateful day that he was killed. He realizes that his murderer was his old high school friend Tanaka Masaki who was jealous of Kazuya’s relationships and his built up anger eventually exploded. Taken back 15 years into his past, it seems that he has been given a second chance at life and given a chance to make different choices. He decides that the way to prevent his eventual demise is to make sure Masaki is more successful with girls and loses his virginity before Kazuya. But fate seems to be steering Kazuya towards the path of his previous life and keeps introducing the same girls he had sexual encounters with.

Tomo: Friendship Through Fiction: An Anthology of Japan Teen Stories


Holly ThompsonLeza Lowitz - 2012
    Authors from Japan and around the world have contributed works of fiction set in or related to Japan. Young adult English-language readers will be able to connect with their Japanese counterparts through stories of contemporary Japanese teens, ninja and yokai teens, folklore teens, mixed-heritage teens, and non-Japanese teens who call Japan home. Tales of friendship, mystery, love, ghosts, magic, science fiction, and history will propel readers to Japan past and present and to Japanese universes abroad.Portions of the proceeds of Tomo will be donated to the Japanese non-profit, HOPE FOR TOMORROW, to support ongoing relief efforts for teens in Japan.Contents:Shocks and tremors: Lost by Andrew FukudaShuya's commute by Liza DalbyHalf life by Deni Y BéchardKazoku by Tak ToyoshimaAftershocks by Ann Tashi SlaterFriends and enemies: Bad day for baseball by Graham SalisburyHalf a heart by Mariko NagaiThe bridge to Lillooet by Trevor KewBlue shells by Naoko Awa, translated by Toshiya KameiBorne by the wind by Charles De WolfGhosts and spirits: The ghost who came to breakfast by Alan GratzHouse of trust by Sachiko Kashiwaba, translated by Avery Fischer UdagawaStaring at the Haiku by John Paul CattonKodama by Debbie Ridpath OhiWhere the silver droplets fall by transcribed and translated from Ainu into Japanese by Yukie Chiri, translated and illustrated by Deborah DavidsonPowers and feats: Yamada-san's toaster by Kelly LuceJet black and the ninja wind by Leza Lowitz and Shogo OketaniHachiro by Ryusuke Saito, translated by Sako IkegamiThe lost property office by Marji NapperAnton and Kiyoshime by Fumio Takano, translated by Hart LarrabeeTalents and curses: Love right on the yesterday by Wendy Nelson TokunagaThe dragon and the poet by Kenji Miyazawa, translated by Misa Dikengil LindbergJust wan-derful by Louise George KittakaIchinichi on the Yamanote by Claire DawnA song for Benzaiten by Catherine Rose torresInsiders and outsiders: Fleecy clouds by Arie Nashiya, translated by Juliet Winters CarpenterThe zodiac tree by Thersa MatsuuraOne by Sarah OgawaLove letter by Megumi Fujino, translated by Lynne E. RiggsSigns by Kaitlin StainbrookWings on the wind by Yuichi Kimura, translated by Alexander O. SmithFamilies and connections: The law of gravity by Yuko Katakawa, translated by Deborah IwabuchiThe mountain drum by Chloë DalbyPaper lanterns by Jennifer Fumiko CahillI hate Harajuku girls by Katrina Toshiko Grigg-SaitoPeace on earth by Suzanne Kamata

Ore ga Doutei o Sutetara Shinu Ken ni Tsuite (About How I'll Die if I Lose My Virginity, #4)


Mario Morita - 2012
    He lived his entire life as a playboy and had had countless sexual encounters with women until that fateful day that he was killed. He realizes that his murderer was his old high school friend Tanaka Masaki who was jealous of Kazuya’s relationships and his built up anger eventually exploded. Taken back 15 years into his past, it seems that he has been given a second chance at life and given a chance to make different choices. He decides that the way to prevent his eventual demise is to make sure Masaki is more successful with girls and loses his virginity before Kazuya. But fate seems to be steering Kazuya towards the path of his previous life and keeps introducing the same girls he had sexual encounters with.

Genshiken Omnibus 2: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture


Shimoku Kio - 2012
    As the new president, Kanji attempts to shake the sluggish members of Genshiken out of their apathy by proposing they create a fanzine to sell at the next Comic-Fest. When Genshiken is accepted as an official vendor at the summer Comic-Fest, they find themselves with a deadly short deadline to create a real doujinshi. Can President Sasahara get his slacker constituents to level up their productivity?

크리퍼스큘 1


Mirchi - 2012
    He has red eyes, just like Vampires do, and he is bullied by the other kids for it. One day he meets Setz, a genuine Vampire of a Noble clan who is the only one that doesn’t call him a monster or bully him. Eventually they become friends, but when Lark finds out he may have to return to the orphanage, Setz decides he does not want to lose his friend, so he invites him to his home... The world of the Vampires.