Genre - Josei

Yonekura Komugi is a young woman from a rich family, who thinks one of the happiest moments of life is when you eat something truly delicious. She dreams of being a chef at the Italian restaurant L'aurora, a place that held special significance for her grandmother. Unfortunately, she sabotages herself by making a terrible first impression on the prickly L'aurora top chef, Tetsuri. Join Komugi as joins the staff at L'aurora and works her way to becoming a chef that can share the joy of delicious food with others!

No matter how many times she sleeps with Arai, Negishi realizes that neither her nor Arai’s feelings were being conveyed. Their sex felt “like” love, but only feeling “like” something wasn’t the same thing as having it. What is Negishi supposed to do in order to get Arai to understand her true feelings?

From Fictiondb: She didn't intend to deceive him When Philomena Peabody met her boss's son, he was suffering temporary snow blindness. "You sound like somebody's mother;" Penn Wilderman said, convinced by her no-nonsense attitude that she was "a sweet little old lady." Even after she'd moved into his luxurious mansion to help look after his son, Phil couldn't disillusion Penn about her age. To help win a custody battle for his teenage son, Phil agreed to marry Penn. But she dreaded facing him once the bandages were off, and he could see his attractive twenty-seven-year-old wife....

'I want to meet my destined prince!' I worked so hard for that goal, and I get this? How is it possible?! Nanase, who chased after her dreams and is now a nurse, has reunited with the doctor she so admired. This is the beginning of her days of happiness! Or that's what she thought until their meeting shakes things up...

A collection of stories / oneshots from est em.

Kurashita Tsukimi is a "kurage (jelly fish) otaku" girl who wants to be an illustrator. She went to Tokyo and started to live in a girl-only apartment Amamizukan. One day she met a fashionable lady, who saved a jelly fish. But she turns out to be a man in drag.

From Aerandria Scans: Venice, the latter half of the 16th century. Young Legare works as an apprentice to his father, an apothecary, but his real passion is the forbidden art of Alchemy. One day, a fortune teller predicts that he will meet four people with the power to change destiny and shortly after, his father is incarcerated on suspicion of alchemy. Legare, the real alchemist, is forced to produce gold for the person who arrested his father. Follow him through the mysteries of Venice, through his struggles, his encounters with powerful friends and enemies, and his search for the Philosopher’s stone.

From Day of the River: Nakajima Hiromi was born into an ordinary family and raised under ordinary circumstances. Working at a medium-sized company, she hopes that one day she'll be able to attain some sort of happiness. With the fear of being isolated, Hiromi isn't sure how to interact with her introverted coworker, Katsuma Yukihiro. But in order to help things along, somehow Hiromi has entered his home... and will be living with him?!

28-year-old Kiwako meets a man who smoking on the balcony one day. Her next door neighbour, Nuihara, a lazy, 52-year-old college professor. As Kiwako is considering abandoning her career as a ballet dancer, he gives her some sincere advice. Until now, Kiwako had given up on love, but his words have stirred up a passion within her.

Aoyagi Ritsuka is one troubled 6th grader. Two years ago, he mysteriously lost his memory and developed an alternate personality. His mother constantly berates (and occasionally beats) him, asking what happened to the real Ritsuka, and his only defender and friend, his older brother Seimei, was recently killed. Suddenly, Seimei s apparent friend, Soubi, appears. Soubi tells him that Ritsuka s true name is Loveless, and that Soubi was assigned by Seimei to take care of Ritsuka and protect him. Ritsuka soon gets sucked into a bizzare underground society where teams of people, a Fighter Unit, and a Sacrifice, battle using elaborate and beautifully-phrased spells. He seeks both acceptance of himself, and the answer to the mystery of who killed his brother and why. (Source: Tokyopop)

A push and pull romance between a woman who is trying to solve a curse that turns her into a dog every midnight and a man who is afraid of dogs!

Akihime is a seemingly normal girl attending junior high school, but she is actually the daughter of Ryokuhouzan's tengu. She lives with her mother in the human world, living a normal human life. However, her childhood friend Shun is constantly trying to convince her to go to the mountains with him, so that they can become tengus together. Despite his continuous urgings, Akihime refuses because she has feelings for her classmate, Takeru-kun. Machi de Uwasa no Tengu no Ko won the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shoujo.

From the manga habit: Rio is a 14 year old boy with no particular special traits, except his burning love for books. He’s awkward and considered odd at best by his peers. Rio also has a twin brother, Mao. Although they look alike, they couldn’t be more different. Mao is good at everything, popular, and has future plans to have a big, happy family. Despite their differences, the brothers are close. One day, when Rio attempts to retrieve a cat that wandered into the street, he is hit by a car right in front of his brother’s eyes. Everything fades to black. In the darkness, a voice offers a choice: to live or to die. Fading rapidly, Rio gives the obvious answer: to live! Turns out this was quite the loaded proposition. Rio awakens in a world filled with foreigners and strange animals he’s never seen before. That’s not the only odd thing–Rio now has the form of a black cat! He quickly learns cats are revered in this world because of their special role as familiars of wizards.

Set 13 years after the original series, the story focuses on Miki and Yuu's little siblings.