Percy Jackson, The keepers, Fire Investigator Nanase, Devil and Love Song.

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• Chapter Book:
  
  1. The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 2) by Rick Riordan.
     - Borrowed from BPL.
     - read by Jesse Bernstein
     - Fun adventures for Percy and co. continue.
  2. THE KEEPERS - Book One: A Wizard Named Nell by Jackie Koller.
     - Borrowed from APL.
     - read by Davina Porter.
     - Princess with a dragon pet, on a quest to be wizard's apprentice. She's generous and able.
• Manga:
  
  1. Fire Investigator Nanase 1-4 Story by Izo Hashimoto, Illustrated by Tomoshige Ichikawa
     - borrowed from ILL
     - Very good read, it's hard to know which character is with interior (I mean) ulterior motives (bad) vs without (good).
     - Too bad the later volumes aren't available in English.
  2. A Devil and Her Love Song 12 by Miyoshi Tomori. Ebook.
     - Some insights into Yusuke's thoughts. He's such a nice kid.
     - Some insights into Shin's feelings, he declared his devotions to the wrong people :P, later to the intended person.

Rambling:
• Last week I missed 1 title from Hakusensha's Jan 2014 list here. ダンシグラシ (Danshigurashi) (standalone?) by NISHIKATA Mai
• From Amazon.jp: Non-Hakusensha Tankobon released in December that I'm following:
  • Honey Bitter 9 by Miho Obana
  • ひるなかの流星 (Hirunaka no Ryuusei) 8 by YAMAMORI Mika
  • 日々蝶々 (Hibi Chouchou) 6 by MORISHITA Suu
  • eta Kemono no Souja (beast player Erin) 9 by UEHASHI Nahoko and TAKEMOTO Itoe
  • eta2 伯爵と妖精 新たなるシルヴァンフォードに​て (Earl and Fairy light novel) by TANI Mizue
• Went to Kino yesterday to pick up Earl and Fairy anime sound track and I also got:
  • ぼくらはバラの子 (Bokura wa Bara no Ko) 1 by Yamamori Mika
  • げっかんしょうじょのざきくん (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun) 1-3 by TSUBAKI Izumi - the author of Oresama Teacher, I enjoy her 4-panel omake there very much, and this series is only 4-panel, it's published by Square Enix, I hope Yen Press will license it, since they've done at least 1 series 4-panel already (?)
  • 動物のお医者さん (Doubutsu no Oisha-san) 4 (Hakusensha 40th anniversary edition by SASAKI Noriko