'" Hokaze Junko, one of the top "handmaidens" of Shokuhou Misaki, has always blended into the background of Tokiwadai--an easy feat when you go to an all-girls'' school full of powerful psychics. But when a ghostly figure starts stalking her, Junko is suddenly the center of attention! As Junko investigates her stalker, she starts to learn new things about her classmates...and herself! "'

'"In Academy City, trouble is afoot at the prestigious all-girls' school Tokiwadai. Hokaze Junko is being stalked by a ghostly girl who needs Junko''s help to find out who--or what--she is, since she has no memory of her own identity. Unfortunately, Junko's investigation into this lost spirit has to take a back seat when her beloved Shokuhou Misaki falls into enemy hands! Is Junko strong enough with her Rampage Dress psychic ability to save her queen? "'

NO ESCAPE Kimi and her crew have taken over the Reformatory and abducted Uiharu. Their goal? To force her to construct a global network that will allow them to release Academy City's hidden ability development technology and throw the world into chaos! But behind this sinister plan lies a dark secret from Kimi's past. Will Mikoto be able to rescue her friend before it's too late?!

When high schooler Haruka moves to Okinawa, she falls in love with the beach that opens up right outside her front door. She resolves to form a beach volleyball team with her cousin Kanata--but Kanata's a little on the short side, and gave up on the sport a long time ago. Can Haruka convince Kanata to take it up again in time for the junior tournament?

Throughout Academy City, the rumors are spreading like wildfire. People are finding mysterious envelopes containing free cash cards in and around the back alleys of the Seventh School District. Whipped up into a frenzy, the populace looks for as many cash cards as they can get their hands on, even if it means braving the perilous Skill-Out Territory, risking injury or worse by roving gangs of Level 0 thugs. Judgement is left with no choice but to step in... While Shirai and Uiharu try to crack the case and figure out who is behind the cash card chaos, Misaka decides to take to the streets herself... and soon gets embroiled in a disturbing scientific conspiracy the likes of which will rock her world to the core.

In the final battle against the Accelerator, the truth cuts like a knife, while romance blossoms between Misaka and Touma. Meanwhile, Tokiwadai Middle School welcomes its newest student, the egotistical Kongou Mitsuko, who immediately sets off a power struggle among the student body as she seeks to form her own faction. While tensions run high at the school, what better time than to throw a sports festival? It may sound like all fun and games, but Academy City is about to see an explosive competition the likes of which it's never known before!

THE 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH NEW, NEVER-BEFORE-PUBLISHED MATERIAL After the Internet, what came next? Enter the Metaverse - cyberspace home to avatars and software daemons, where anything and just about everything goes. Newly available on the Street - the Metaverse's main drag - is Snow Crash. A cyberdrug that reduces avatars in the digital world to dust, but also infects users in real life, leaving them in a vegetative state. This is bad news for Hiro, a freelance hacker and the Metaverse's best swordfighter, and mouthy skateboard courier Y. T.. Together, investigating the Infocalypse, they trace back the roots of language itself to an ancient Sumerian priesthood and find they must race to stop a shadowy virtual villain hell-bent on world domination. In this special edition of the remarkably prescient modern classic, Neal Stephenson explores linguistics, computer science, politics and philosophy in the form of a break-neck adventure into the fast-approaching yet eerily recognizable future. 'Fast-forward free-style mall mythology for the twenty-first century' William Gibson 'Brilliantly realized' New York Times Book Review 'Like a Pynchon novel with the brakes removed' Washington Post 'A remarkably prescient vision of today's tech landscape' Vanity Fair