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Description
Brief Description:
"Parental advisory ... recommended for ages 16 and up ... contains violence"--Colophon.
Biographical Note:
Kiiro Yumi won the 42nd
LaLa Manga Grand Prix Fresh Debut award for her manga
Billy Bocchan no Yuutsu (Little Billy's Depression). Her latest series is
Toshokan Senso Love&War (
Library Wars: Love & War), which ran in
LaLa magazine in Japan and is published in English by VIZ Media.
Marc Notes:
First published in Japan in 2009 by Hakusensha, Inc., Tokyo--Colophon.; Parental advisory ... recommended for ages 16 and up ... contains violence.--Colophon.; Reads from right to left in manga style.; When the federal government creates a committee to destroy books deemed unsuitable, libraries and local governments form the Library Forces, a military group dedicated to defending books from destruction.; 1; Rated T+ for older teen.; Translated from the Japanese.
Publisher Marketing: A New York Times best seller and librarian favorite that will appeal to shojo and non-shojo fans alike!
In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves--the Library Forces!
Iku and Commander Inamine are abducted by Bakushu-kai terrorists, who demand sensitive material from the library's protected collection in return for the hostages! Dojo is worried about Iku, his problem student with limited field experience. But what Iku lacks in training she more than makes up for in gumption, and she is not going to let library material go without a fight!
