Kokoro Connect Volume 8: Step Time

Kokoro Connect Volume 8: Step Time
Author: Sadanatsu Anda
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2020-01-28
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718326149

Dating is hard, especially when it's your first time. The solution? A TRIPLE DATE with four of your friends! Meanwhile, Fujishima and the first-years investigate the true meaning of "cool"... Plus, discover how the five original members of the Cultural Research Club first met—and the thrilling ordeal that brought Iori and Inaba closer together! You won't want to miss this "Kokoro Collection" of side stories, including TWO prequel stories for the next volume!

Kokoro Connect Volume 7: Yume Random

Kokoro Connect Volume 7: Yume Random
Author: Sadanatsu Anda
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2019-10-15
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718326122

If someone was in trouble, would you help them—no matter the cost? «Heartseed»'s "final" phenomenon has begun, and the five second-years now get random visions of other people's hopes and dreams. But when Inaba tells the others NOT to take action, Taichi and Yui take matters into their own hands! The club is divided, and worse still, one of Taichi's classmates is starting to suspect that something supernatural is at play... It's time to take sides in volume 7 of the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!

Kokoro Connect Volume 1: Hito Random

Kokoro Connect Volume 1: Hito Random
Author: Sadanatsu Anda
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2018-08-22
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718326009

The Cultural Research Club is an eclectic bunch: a pro wrestling fanboy, a goofy ditz, a master of snark, a laid-back jokester, and a total girly-girl. Their peaceful teenage lives are turned upside-down, however, when they suddenly and inexplicably start swapping bodies with each other. At first it's all wacky hijinks... but then things get a little too personal. Boundaries are crossed, and dark secrets come to light--secrets that threaten to destroy the very foundations of their friendship. Who--or what--is causing the body-swap phenomenon? Will it ever stop? But most of all... can their club survive it? Find out in the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!

Kokoro Connect Volume 11: Precious Time

Kokoro Connect Volume 11: Precious Time
Author: Sadanatsu Anda
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2020-11-24
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718326203

The pro wrestling fanboy, the goofy ditz, the master of snark, the laid-back jokester, and the total girly-girl are now in their third and final year of high school... but don't worry, Fujishima's got a few things hidden up her sleeve to spice things up! Karate, poker, even a three-legged obstacle course — who will win the no-holds-barred Couples' Battle Royale?! But more importantly, can the second-years recruit enough members to keep the club going?! It's a "Kokoro Collection" of silly and poignant epilogue stories in the final volume of the hit ensemble dramedy light novel from award-winning author Sadanatsu Anda!

Kokoro Connect Vol. 5

Kokoro Connect Vol. 5
Author: Anda Sadanatsu
Publisher: Seven Seas
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-10-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 9781626921795

DESIRES REVEALED The five members of the Student Cultural Society (Taichi, Inaba, Iori, Aoki, and Yui) have been put through the wringer ever since a mysterious alien called Heartseed started messing with their lives. Now Heartseed’s final experiment will put the club’s very existence at risk! Under the alien’s influence, the teens start acting on deeply buried desires, misbehaving in class and getting into fights. Even cool, calm Inaba becomes a nervous wreck, terrified that everyone will find out about her crush on Taichi. Will Taichi and his friends get through this last challenge? Or will their desires destroy the bonds they’ve built? The mind-swapping, high school rom-com comes to a thrilling conclusion!

Kokoro Connect Volume 4: Michi Random

Kokoro Connect Volume 4: Michi Random
Author: Sadanatsu Anda
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2019-03-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1718326068

 Valentine's Day has come, and the members of the Cultural Research Club have been embroiled in yet another supernatural phenomenon. But they’re old hands at this by now. How hard could it be to enjoy some normal high school romance for once? Never mind that they can hear each other's strongest sentiments at the most inconvenient times, while their inhuman tormentor is taking on a more direct role than ever. The stress of endless abnormal living may be too much for some, while others start to wonder whether their club is even worth continuing – which may be out of their hands as end-of-year club presentations and school politics threaten its very existence! When the place they carved out together is threatened both from without and within, how will they be able to overcome this latest challenge? Everything is on the line in the 4th volume of Sadanatsu Anda’s dramedy series.

Kokoro

Kokoro
Author: Beth Kempton
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1635869315

This book invites you to cultivate stillness and contentment in an ever-changing, uncertain world, inspired by ancient and contemporary Japanese wisdom. Drawing on a thousand years of Japanese literature, culture, and philosophical ideas to explore the true nature of time and what it means to be human, Kokoro–which mysteriously translates as "heart-mind"–is a meditation on living well. Join Japanologist Beth Kempton on this life-changing pilgrimage far beyond the tourist trail, to uncover the soul of the country, its people, and its deeply buried wisdom. Distilling insight from a rich variety of sources, from centuries-old poetry and ancient Zen texts to martial arts teaching and contemporary philosophy, alongside the real-life stories of modern day pioneers, Kokoro offers an inspiring take on what it truly means to be happy,so that you can live each day with wonder and ease.

Never Saw You Coming

Never Saw You Coming
Author: Erin Hahn
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250761255

"BOLD. IMPORTANT. BEAUTIFUL.” - Laura Taylor Namey, New York Times bestselling author of A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow In Erin Hahn’s Never Saw You Coming, sometimes it takes a leap of faith to find yourself. Eighteen-year-old Meg Hennessey just found out her entire childhood was a lie. So instead of taking a gap year before college to find herself, she ends up traveling north to meet what’s left of the family she never knew existed - all while questioning the ideals she grew up with. While there, she meets Micah Allen, a former pastor’s kid whose dad ended up in prison, leaving Micah with his own complicated relationship with faith. The clock is ticking on his probation hearing and Micah, now 19, feels the pressure to forgive - even when he can’t possibly forget. As Meg and Micah grow closer, they are confronted with the heavy flutterings of first love and all the complications it brings. Together, they must navigate the sometimes-painful process of cutting ties with childhood beliefs as they build toward something truer and straight from the heart. "Heartfelt and utterly genuine... I already want to reread it." - Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of Small Favors

Crazy Like Us

Crazy Like Us
Author: Ethan Watters
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-01-12
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1416587195

“A blistering and truly original work of reporting and analysis, uncovering America’s role in homogenizing how the world defines wellness and healing” (Po Bronson). In Crazy Like Us, Ethan Watters reveals that the most devastating consequence of the spread of American culture has not been our golden arches or our bomb craters but our bulldozing of the human psyche itself: We are in the process of homogenizing the way the world goes mad. It is well known that American culture is a dominant force at home and abroad; our exportation of everything from movies to junk food is a well-documented phenomenon. But is it possible America's most troubling impact on the globalizing world has yet to be accounted for? American-style depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and anorexia have begun to spread around the world like contagions, and the virus is us. Traveling from Hong Kong to Sri Lanka to Zanzibar to Japan, acclaimed journalist Ethan Watters witnesses firsthand how Western healers often steamroll indigenous expressions of mental health and madness and replace them with our own. In teaching the rest of the world to think like us, we have been homogenizing the way the world goes mad.