“Instead of a family tree…we Lyfoungs have a family forest! Over time, I found my place within this forest. I understood and accepted who I was and where I’d come from. But the journey to self-acceptance was rather bumpy…” Long oppressed, the Hmong struggle to preserve their traditions and way of life in a homeland…
Keyaki Shopping District’s Sakura Bathhouse Vol. 1
Tatsumi Azuma, a sociable third-year student at Keyaki High School, crashes into second-year Shunpei Eguchi and fractures his hand. But the stone-faced Shunpei is no ordinary student—rumor has it he’ll kill anyone who so much as looks him in the eye! Afraid of retaliation, Tatsumi tells Shunpei he’ll do anything to make up for his…
The Bone Witch by Rin Chupeco
“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are, rather than in what they expect you to be.” When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother, Fox, from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she’s…
Library Wars Vol. 1-3 by Kiiro Yumi and Hiro Arikawa
In the near future, the federal government creates a committee to rid society of books it deems unsuitable. The libraries vow to protect their collections, and with the help of local governments, form a military group to defend themselves–the Library Forces! Iku Kasahara has dreamed of joining the Library Defense Force ever since one of…
The Poet Empress by Shen Tao
“How to write a love poem for someone I hated so deeply, with every drop of my blood in my veins?How to do it so convincingly that even the Ancestors believed it?” In the waning years of the Azalea Dynasty, the emperor is dying, the land consumed by famine, and poetry magic lost to all…
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
“To be accused of speaking too loudly about one injustice but not others by someone who doesn’t care about any of them is to be told, simply, to keep quiet.” One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the…
River of Bones and Other Stories by Rebecca Roanhorse
“Short stories, more than anything, are a snapshot of an author in a particular time and place, and the stories collected here are no exception. Authors, like all people, grow and change throughout the years, and while certain themes may recur throughout a body of work, the person writing the story, if they are lucky,…
Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ
“There is nothing in the world more difficult to refuse than self-righteous goodwill.” May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda….
Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver
“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things.I want to be light and frolicsome.I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing,as though I had wings.” Within these pages you will find hawks, hummingbirds, and herons; kingfishers, catbirds, and crows; swans, swallows and, of course, the snowy owl, among a dozen others-including…
Burn the Sea by Mona Tewari
“If you wanted me to be a bauble, you never should have given me a blade.” Abbakka Chowta never expected to be queen. The youngest of Ullal’s two rajkumaris, Abbakka has spent years in rigorous combat training to become her sister’s blade. But when the monstrous Porcugi attempt to lay claim to Ullal, Abbakka’s world―and…
The Great Book Wyrm 