An instant bestseller when it was first published in Japan, Train Man became a multimedia sensation, generating a smash-hit TV series, a blockbuster film, and multiple manga series. Now here's the novel that started it all.

Boy-bashful and not overly brave-defends girl from obnoxious drunk on a Tokyo train. Girl sends boy a thank-you pair of pricey Hermes teacups. Boy's a geek and doesn't know what to do next. End of story for most nerds-but this one turns to the world's largest online message board and asks for help, so for him it's just the beginning. This matchless love...

Liberty is no ordinary boy. Even so, nothing can prepare him for what he discovers that hot afternoon in a tiny Kansas forest. Now the three alien children must depend on the brilliant boy, Liberty, and his friends to help them get back to the stars When three alien children take their parents' ship out without their permission, no one knows. Now they are lost, with no way home The three aliens are still searching for a way home when they discover an unusual planet-Earth. However, the human kids are not the only ones who've seen the beautiful, blue ship. Now the six children struggle to...