“You can learn a lot about a culture from the things its people throw away, and the layers left behind are precisely why we have to dig.” Mesopotamia saw the first cities, devised the original writing system, sowed the early seeds of agriculture, and developed myths, medicine, and astronomy that all went on to influence…
Suzuki-Kun’s Mindful Life by Yuki Fujimoto, Vol. 1
Looks can be deceiving. After all, one glance at the towering and intimidating Kaoru Suzuki is enough to send people packing…and get others riled up for a fight. But the guy’s actually a softie inside, as well as a flower lover and an avid baker, to boot! When Suzuki gets harassed on the train, a…
An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
“After all, as a proverb from southern Africa says, ‘When the lions have historians, then the hunters will cease to be heroes.’” For too long, Africa’s history has been neglected. Dominated by western narratives of slavery and colonialism, its past has been fragmented, overlooked and denied its rightful place in our global story. Now, Zeinab…
Marigold Mind Laundry by Jungeun Yun
“Perhaps the only thing we never have to work for is the morning, which comes around to greet us every day.” Overnight, in the village of Marigold on top of a hill, old Jieun has conjured up a magical Mind Laundry, where she cleanses painful experiences from her customer’s hearts, transferring them into stains on…
What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher
“In general I rather like Americans—they’re usually so terribly earnest—but I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t a bit nervous. One American can really fill a room. I assume it only takes a hundred or so to really fill a country.” Alex Easton does not want to visit America. They particularly do not want…
Sabriel by Garth Nix
“Five Great Charters knit the landTogether linked, hand in handOne in the people who wear the crownTwo in the folk who keep the Dead downThree and Five became stone and mortarFour sees all in frozen water.” Sent to a boarding school in Ancelstierre as a young child, Sabriel has had little experience with the random…
Mate by Ali Hazelwood
“He easily resigned himself to a lifetime without her, but… Simply put, he is unwilling to contemplate a universe in which she no longer exists.” Serena Paris is orphaned, pack-less, and one of a kind. Coming forward as the first Human-Were hybrid was supposed to heal a centuries-long rift between species. Instead, it made her…
Empire of Silence by Christopher Ruocchio
“Man is a wolf to man and a dragon to the inhuman.” It was not his war.On the wrong planet, at the right time, for the best reasons, Hadrian Marlowe started down a path that could only end in fire. The galaxy remembers him as a the man who burned every last alien Cielcin from…
We Survived the Night by Julian Brave Noisecat
“Because, like so many other Indian men, Dad is a trickster through and through. He makes things out of the magic in his hands. He scatters stories all about his trail. Usually, he’s in the wind. But sometimes, he stays just a little while, lingering with the loved ones who celebrate his work, remember his…
And the River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun
“Things can happen anytime, anywhere. There is no way to account for every what-if.” When her older sister is found mysteriously drowned in the river that cuts through their small coastal town, Soojin Han disregards every rule and uses her ancestral magic to bring Mirae back from the dead. At first, the sisters are overjoyed,…
The Great Book Wyrm 