“She had a warmth, a light, that drew me into her orbit—I was a moth and she a flame, I the tides and she the moon. Whatever we were, she was always, always the light, and I the thing skulking in the dark.” Raised by a sorcerer, Odile has spent years preparing for the heist…
Queer as Folklore by Sacha Coward
“If we look at some of the most celebrated or prolific story originators of all time, we find among them a surprising number of eccentric bachelors and unmarried women. People who travelled widely, made strange friends and lived unusual and transient lifestyles.” Leaving no headstone unturned, Sacha Coward will take you on a wild ride…
Hitting Rewind With You, Vol. 1-2 by Hanamaru Kira
Wakaba Kayano is a 20-year-old college student who was too busy studying in high school to experience the quintessential personal milestones of her teenage years, like going on an afterschool date. In a moment of desperation, she goes out on Halloween in her old high school uniform in an effort to take back some of…
Behind Five Willows by June Hur
“You are, to me as well, the kind of soul one finds only once in a lifetime, and travels the next thousand searching for again—” As the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time…
Hmong by Vicky Lyfoung
“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. 1-4 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…
The Great Book Wyrm 