“A story can be long or short, happy or sad. All a story needs to do is to tell us something you know that you would like us to know.” On the banks of the Ya-lé River, the town of Luntien gathers to celebrate the start of the rainy season, but the celebration is marred…
Sakura, Saku, Vol. 1-3 by Io Sakisaka
A mysterious boy comes to Saku Fujigaya’s rescue when she falls ill on a train, but he leaves before she can thank him. After this experience, Saku never ignores strangers in need of help to emulate the boy who helped her. Saku Fujigaya would like to thank the boy who helped her, but all she…
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings
“The legacy of Protestant moralism and race science as it related to fat and thin persons loomed large. Indeed, many early to mid-twentieth-century physicians relied on moral and racial logics to rail against persons deemed too fat or too thin. But over time, a growing number did so specifically, and exclusively, to condemn fatness.” In…
The Summer War by Naomi Novki
“Celia took one step and then another back from the edge. She had promised to care, and she would keep her promise. She’d care about Roric, and she’d care about the people of Prosper, and she’d even care about the summerlings, and give them a chance to write new stories of their own.“ Celia discovered…
Romantic Killer, Vol. 1 by Wataru Momose
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…
The Great Book Wyrm 