Naruto, Volume 29

By Masashi Kishimoto

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Guy vs. Kisame!! Kakashi vs. Itachi!!! We finally learn what may be happening to Gaara and what might also be in store for Naruto, when they both come face to face with a devious common enemy...the Akatsuki!

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Naruto, Vol. 1

From VIZ Media LLC

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Author Masashi Kishimoto made his debut in Weekly Shonen Jump in 1999 with Naruto, which won the Hop Step Award. Naruto must pass the difficult test to enter the Ninja Academy; deal with his rival, Konohamaru; and learn to get along with his new classmates, Sasuke and Sakura. Assigned to a three-person team, Naruto, Sasuke, and Sakura must survive a brutal test against their upper-level ninja instructor, Kakashi. Only two can pass — will Naruto be one of them? More detail >>>

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My son LOVES it, but...
You may not realize it is bound backwards, since it is a japanese book. Strange, since the words are in english.

Naruto, Volume 27

By Masashi Kishimoto


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Everything changes as Sakura, Sasuke and Naruto part ways to begin new training, each with different mentors. You'll never believe whom they choose. Plus, take a trip back in time as we finally learn the true story of Kakashi's greatest secret!

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good way to end an arch
It's a good way to end a story arc. Since this is the most popular of the story archs so far, I'd say I'm content with what I have.

Snakehead (Alex Rider Adventure)

By Anthony Horowitz

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What goes up must come down, and when we last saw Alex Rider, he was as up as can be—in outer space. When he crash lands off the coast of Australia, the Australian Secret Service recruits him to infiltrate one of the ruthless gangs operating across South East Asia. Known as snakeheads, the gangs smuggle drugs, weapons, and worst of all, people. Alex accepts the assignment, in part for the chance to work with his godfather and learn more about his parents. What he uncovers, however, is a secret that will make this his darkest and most dangerous mission yet . . . and that his old nemesis, Scorpia, is anything but out of his life. More detail>>>

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Best Book Yet Snakehead is a thrilling and action-packed book based on Espionage. It involves a teen age spy, Alex, and the most notorious international terrorist organization The Snakeheads. Alex is put through illegal martial arts fighting, exploding Mines, and mass ballistic gunfights between rival factions in order to find what secrets lie at the core of the Snakehead. Alex is also accompanied by his Godfather who has some secrets that Alex may not want to hear. So check out the seventh book in this intense series called The Alex Rider series, and prepare to be BLOWN off your chair and into a world of Chaos and Mass-Destruction!

Watchmen

By Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons

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Has any comic been as acclaimed as Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen? Possibly only Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, but Watchmen remains the critics' favorite. Why? Because Moore is a better writer, and Watchmen a more complex and dark and literate creation than Miller's fantastic, subversive take on the Batman myth. Moore, renowned for many other of the genre's finest creations (Saga of the Swamp Thing, V for Vendetta, and From Hell, with Eddie Campbell) first put out Watchmen in 12 issues for DC in 1986-87. It won a comic award at the time (the 1987 Jack Kirby Comics Industry Awards for Best Writer/Artist combination) and has continued to gather praise since.The story concerns a group called the Crimebusters and a plot to kill and discredit them. Moore's characterization is as sophisticated as any novel's. Importantly the costumes do not get in the way of the storytelling; rather they allow Moore to investigate issues of power and control--indeed it was Watchmen, and to a lesser extent Dark Knight, that propelled the comic genre forward, making "adult" comics a reality. The artwork of Gibbons (best known for 2000AD's Rogue Trooper and DC's Green Lantern) is very fine too, echoing Moore's paranoid mood perfectly throughout. Packed with symbolism, some of the overlying themes (arms control, nuclear threat, vigilantes) have dated but the intelligent social and political commentary, the structure of the story itself, its intertextuality (chapters appended with excerpts from other "works" and "studies" on Moore's characters, or with excerpts from another comic book being read by a child within the story), the finepace of the writing and its humanity mean that Watchmen more than stands up--it keeps its crown as the best the genre has yet produced. --MarkThwaite More detail>>>