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The Illustrated Guide to Monster Girls vol 1 By Suzu Akeko

8/31/2023

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Cover of Book review: The Illustrated Guide to Monster Girls volume 1
Booklist review

Sara's Rating: 8/10
Suitability Level: Grades 9-12

Publisher: Yen Press
Publication Date: August 29, 2023
ISBN: 9781975365066 (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, School Life, Supernatural, Yen Press

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Lore Olympus vol 4 by Rachel Smythe

8/25/2023

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Cover of Lore Olympus volume 4. Hades looks out over a grove of pine trees as pink smoke billows up from around them. One of his eyes glows blue.
After Mynthe shreds Hades' soul with her harsh words, he runs into Persephone at Hera's house and falls deeper in love with her. Persephone decides that the two of them need to set some boundaries and confesses her feelings for Hades, but Hades can't bring himself to bring reciprocate because she is so young, and because she is on the path to become an eternal maiden. While Persephone and Mynthe might not be the answer, Hades also knows Hera isn't either, even though the goddess tries to use him to get back at Zeus after he once again cheats on her. Later, Apollo is at Persephone's house, and demands to know why she's been avoiding him. She finally confronts him about how uncomfortable he makes her feel. She seeks some comfort by hanging out with her friend, Cupid, but ends up telling him why she doesn't get along with his uncle, Ares.


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Toilet-bound hanako-kun vol 9 by aidairo

8/23/2023

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Cover of Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun volume 9. Hanako and his bother are bathed in orange light and surrounded by little spirits.
On a seemingly normal day, Nene rushes late into her class but thankfully makes it in before Sensei. Instead, she finds Hanako-kun sitting in the desk behind her, and he’s dressed like a normal student. What’s more, her classmates can see him, and they attest he has been attending classes with them this whole time! In the middle school, Kou reports early for his morning cleaning duty and finds Mistuba is already there. He seems perplexed by Kou's questions about School Mysteries. Upon comparing notes, it's clear that Nene and Kou are the only two that remember the school the way it seemed it was only yesterday, and why is there also a strange tower in the garden that also wasn't there yesterday?


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My happy marriage vol 3 by akumi agitogi

8/21/2023

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Cover of Book review: My Happy Marriage volume 3. Miyo and Kudo are standing in a field of flowers. Kudo is in his military uniform. Miyo is in a kimono that is blue with pink flowers.
Illustrated by Rito Kohsaka
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Miyo has been kidnapped and is brought back to the Saimori house where Kaya and her mother try to force Miyo to refuse Kudo's marriage proposal. Kaya believes she will be able to rearrange fiancés and become Kudo's fiancée while giving Kōji to Miyo. Kōji was unable to stop the kidnapping from happening, but he does the next best thing: he brings Lord Kudo to the Saimori house. Lord Tatsuichi tries to stop Kudo from entering the Saimori house, and even forces a bewildered Lord Saimori to stand with him, but the two of them are no match for Kudo's superior strength. In another part of the kingdom, sinister actors put an evil plan into motion by digging up a sealed grave and introducing new grotesqueries into the world, which Kudo's battalion will have to investigate. 


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The woods vol 1 by james tynion iv

8/19/2023

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Cover of The woods volume 1. The teens are mostly standing around in a group and looking back at us, arranged with their backpacks and ready to go off into the woods, which are purple and behind them. Behind the trees is a pink planet with a lighter pink ring.
Yearbook Edition vol 1, illustrated by Michael Dialynas

On a fateful day in 2013, students and staff at Bay Point Preparatory High are going about their normal days, when they are suddenly transported to an alien and hostile environment with violent monsters trying to eat them all, and strange glowing rocks. Several exceptional teens try to take some modicum of control and seek solutions. Several decide the answers they need lie in the woods, and they soon discover they are not the only humans who have been plucked from Earth! Some of them are abducted by warriors who look seem like Vikings, while others discover a Ziggurat full of writing from ancient civilizations, as well as more questions about why they were brought to . The Viking warriors, take the teens back to a civilization named New London, and they know English, but they are also keenly interested in what the rest of Bay Point might have to offer for their own continued survival.


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Wolverine: Snikt by Tsutomu Nihei

8/4/2023

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Cover of Wolverine: Snikt. The cover is entirely yellow with a giant SNIKT! written across the top. Wolverine has his claws out and a scream on his face like he's about to pounce on someone and stab them.
In a war-torn desolate future, a small group of humans fights desperately against an endlessly replicating monster that seems to have only one weakness: adamantium. With only a few adamantium bullets left, they decide their last hope is to rip a warrior from his timeline. A young girl reaches back into our time and pulls Wolverine forward, but he struggles against her efforts and lands outside their shelter in the wasteland that used to be a city. They rescue him and he sees first hand the terrible enemy they're up against. Wolverine could demand to be sent home, but that means abandoning them to these creatures. Instead, the hero and what's left of these rag-tag warriors must mount a last-ditch, all-out assault against the source of their enemies, hoping they can stop the plague and rebuild their society.


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Villains are destined to die vol 2 by Gwon Gyeoeul

8/3/2023

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Cover of Villains are Destined to Die vol 2. Penelope is in a yellow dress standing in a garden. Her pink hair billows around her. Her maid Emily is behind her with a tray of tea supplies.
Adapted by SUOL

​Penelope is determined to meet the last two love interests in the game to see if either of them can be her actual way out, rather than relying on the two brothers who seem to hate her, or the crazy prince. She must sneak out to rescue Eckles from a slave auction, but she manages to run into both her brothers on the way out. Both accompany her to the festival, but a strange blur of commotion at the festival separates them all, which is advantageous for Penelope, who uses it to attend the slave auction and bid on Eckles, but this plan turns out to not be as fool proof as she thought - Eckles is actually extremely dangerous and a bit unhinged, not quite the docile young knight she remembers from the game.


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clear by scott snyder

8/2/2023

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Cover of Clear by Scott Snyder. A man in a black jacket with black tie and white shirt is holding a gun staring down at the ground. He has on a bike helmet with the visor down. The visor is bright yellow and has two red handprints on it. The background is very neon pink and has a lot of buildings stretching up towards the sky.
Illustrated by Francis Manapul
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In a world full of filtered realities known as "veils", Sam Dunes is an ex-investigator who must take on a challenging case - figure out an apparent suicide of his ex-wife, which he believes could have been a murder in an altered reality. He receives a clue in the mail, and suddenly other entities are after him, wanting what he now possesses. Sam reconnects with many of his criminal underworld contacts to bring himself deeper into the twisted world of black veils, virtual realities deeper inside other realities, and the elite that manipulate everything others can see and believe about their worlds, all while staying just a bit ahead of the actual police who are investigating everyone involved.


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Lost Lad London vol 3 by shima shinya

8/1/2023

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Cover of Lost Lad London volume 3. Al and Ellis are walking by each other in one corner of the cover. Al is wearing a yellow puffy jacket and blue pants. Ellis is wearing a grey jacket and black pants with a black shirt underneath. Behind them, the grey city scape is juxtaposed against a pink sky.
​Detective Ellis is under pressure to as the lead investigator hints that he is going to bring Al in as the primary suspect in the murder of London's mayor. Ellis has no hard evidence that Al isn't the murderer, but he makes a couple of final moves to help those involved make some moves, some wiser than others. Al's bosses open up to him about being racially profiled by the policy when they were younger, and they offer Al guidance and free food, as well as a shoulder if he needs it. Finally, Al is contacted by his half brother and given and ultimatum.


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