Most Popular Books by Shungiku Nakamura

From the creator of "Hybrid Child," this heartfelt boys'' love manga has spawned a popular franchise with novels and CDs. Rated for adults.

From the creator of "Hybrid Child," this heartfelt boys love manga has spawned a popular franchise with novels and CDs. Rated for adults.

The latest volume in this mature series follows the passionate affair of a novelist and his student.

Misaki just can''t catch a break when it comes to the Usami family. Just when he thinks he escaped one mess, he falls right into another one. Will Akihiko be able to rescue him when their relationship is on the line?

A fresh start turns sour after a manga editor''s new boss turns out to be his ill-fated first love! When Ritsu Onodera changes jobs, looking for a fresh start, he''s not exactly thrilled when his new boss turns out to be his old flame. Ritsu''s determined to leave all that in the past—but how can he when his boss is just as determined that they have a future? Manga editor Ritsu Onodera has just been assigned a new artist by his bossy editor in chief—and first love—Masamune Takano. The newbie’s “go get ’em” attitude sweeps Ritsu away, but before he knows it, he’s in way over his head! He could turn to Takano for help, but as Ritsu’s complicated feelings of love, envy, and inferiority keep getting in the way, even Takano finds himself running out of patience!

Miyagi finds closure to his first love by confessing to his second. But such passion and emotion may be too much for Shinobu, taking away the young lover''s independence. Can the two find a balance between being together and being themselves? Meanwhile, Misaki receives a shocking confession from a rival love, and the Egoists play a round of give-and-take while planning a date!

Misaki knows that living with Akihiko Usami, the ever popular boys love novelist, can be challenging. Being in a relationship with this egotistical (and sadistic) man turns the challenge into mission impossible! And when Akihiko''s jealous, pushy cousin moves in and tries to wreck havoc into Misaki''s already chaotic life, all hell breaks loose!

Misaki and Usagi have been living together for over a month now, but when a beautiful female editor named Aikawa enters the picture, will Misaki question his love for Usagi? Later, things get rocky in Hiroki and Nowaki''s relationship when Nowaki contemplates leaving to study abroad! Will anything give these couples a happy ending?

In Dickinson Unbound, Alexandra Socarides takes readers on a journey through the actual steps and stages of Emily Dickinson''s creative process. In chapters that deftly balance attention to manuscripts, readings of poems, and a consideration of literary and material culture, Socarides takes up each of the five major stages of Dickinson''s writing career: copying poems onto folded sheets of stationery; inserting and embedding poems into correspondence; sewing sheets together to make fascicles; scattering loose sheets; and copying lines on often torn and discarded pieces of household paper. In so doing, Socarides reveals a Dickinsonian poetics starkly different from those regularly narrated by literary history. Here, Dickinson is transformed from an elusive poetic genius whose poems we have interpreted in a vacuum into an author who employed surprising (and, at times, surprisingly conventional) methods to wholly new effect. Dickinson Unbound gives us a Dickinson at once more accessible and more complex than previously imagined. As the first authoritative study of Dickinson''s material and compositional methods, this book not only transforms our ways of reading Dickinson, but advocates for a critical methodology that insists on the study of manuscripts, composition, and material culture for poetry of the nineteenth century and thereafter.

When Ritsu Onodera changes jobs, looking for a fresh start, he''s not exactly thrilled when his new boss turns out to be his old flame. Ritsu''s determined to leave all that in the past—but how can he when his boss is just as determined that they have a future? Masamune Takano is rookie shojo manga editor Ritsu Onodera’s boss and first love. But Ritsu also has a fiancée, An Kohinata, who his parents betrothed him to when he was still a child. When Takano finds out about her, their relationship hits the rocks, but Ritsu manages to salvage the wreckage. Now Ritsu has to attend his first formal company dinner party, where he runs into An! She confesses…again, and Ritsu turns her down…again, but this time Takano overhears An when she accuses Ritsu of stubbornly clinging to his old flame from high school, who is Takano himself!