High schooler Anzu Hoshino has a great life. Every day she plays video games, pigs out on snacks, and pets her beloved cat. But this blissful existence is turned into a confusing mess when a magical creature transports her to an altered reality bereft of her favorite things. Now she’s stuck with hot guys instead!…
Forged by Blood by Ehigbor Okosun
“Fear is a strange master. It makes monsters from the simplest of men.” In the midst of a tyrannical regime and political invasion, Dèmi just wants to avoid the suspicion of the nonmagical Ajes who occupy her ancestral homeland of Ife; to escape the King’s brutal genocide of her people—the darker-skinned, magic-wielding Oluso; and to…
Cat-Life Balance by Akari Otokawa
“His nerves are how he’s survived a harsh world. It’s something he learned. So Puff’s hardened heart won’t melt easily. I hope you’ll keep that in mind as you interact with him.” In this office romance manga with a feline twist, a people-pleaser flirting with burnout discovers his antisocial coworker’s secret: She only smiles when…
The Employees by Olga Ravn
“I look like a human, and feel the way humans do. I consist of the same parts. Perhaps all that’s needed is for you to change my status in your documents? Is it a question of name? Could I be human if you called me so?” Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of…
Swordheart by T. Kingfisher
“This comes of always being the practical one, she thought, a bit wearily. Nobody will comfort you, so you learn to do it yourself.” Halla has unexpectedly inherited the estate of a wealthy uncle. Unfortunately, she is also saddled with money-hungry relatives full of devious plans for how to wrest the inheritance away from her….
The Merman Trapped in My Lake, Vol. 1-2 by Mitchu, R. PPOBI, and Chi pa rang
“I guess even merfolk shed tears of water when they cry.” Servaine Noxirel grew up hearing stories from her great-grandfather―tales of the grandeur their noble house once enjoyed and the madness and obsession that ran through the bloodline. But the strangest of them all was the story of his niece, a sickly young girl who…
Blessings and Disasters: A Story of Alabama by Alexis Okeowo
“In Alabama, we exist at the border of blessing and disaster….” Alexis Okeowo grew up in Montgomery, Alabama—the former seat of the Confederacy—as the daughter of Nigerian immigrants. Here, she weaves her family’s story with her state’s, from Alabama’s forced removal of the Creek Nation, making room for enslaved West Africans, to present-day legislative battles…
A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them by Timothy Egan
“He discovered that if he said something often enough, no matter how untrue, people would believe it. Small lies were for the timid. The key to telling a big lie was to do it with conviction.” The Roaring Twenties–the Jazz Age–has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height…
She Made Herself a Monster by Anna Kovatcheva
“They’re an odd company all around the table, she realizes. Young, and old, and ageless. Women from far away, and girls who have never been anywhere. The others are skilled with herbs, with cooker, with birth and death. What does Anka offer but a problem?” In nineteenth-century Bulgaria, Yana rides from one desolate town to…
The Trident and the Pearl by Sarah K. L. Wilson
“Grief is its own vast sea, and none of us can cross it by the same path.” Queen Coralys rules the Kingdom of the Five Isles, but when disaster strikes, killing her husband and destroying half her nation, she pleads with the gods for salvation. And they do save her, turning back the terrible winds…
The Great Book Wyrm 