Illustrated by Goseki Kojima
Booklist starred review Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Adult Publisher: Dark Horse Manga Publication Date: Dec 9, 2025 ISBN: 9781506747613 (Hardcover) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Action Adventure, Historical Fiction, Dark Horse
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Illustrated by Tetsuo Hara
Booklist review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Adult Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: Dec 9, 2025 ISBN: 9781647295004 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Historical Fiction, Action Adventure, War, Kodansha 
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Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: Nov 11, 2025 ISBN: 9781974759217 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Historical Fiction, Action Adventure, War, VIZ Media 
Charles-Henri Sanson is destined to become the fourth in a line of prestigious executioners, the Monsieur de Paris, but his commitment to justice and kind soul is constantly at odds with his family's cruel line of work. As he enters into his fourteenth year, Henri begins apprenticing with his father, Charles-Jean-Baptiste, and becomes responsible for his first execution. Jean-Baptiste instructs his son on the proper use of his sword to cleanly sever the head in one swing so as to not cause undue suffering to the condemned. Henri nearly gives himself up to become a monk until a fateful night when he instead decides to bear his father's mantel and let the Sanson name die with him.
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Sara's Rating: 7/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: Yen Press Publication Date: July 22, 2025 ISBN: 9798888775165 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 7/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Action Adventure, Historical Fiction, Kodansha 
Young expecting parents Sara and Kouta Takano are trying to plan out everything perfectly for their first child. As we open up, Sara is eight weeks pregnant. They begin by reading as many parenting books as possible, which leads into Sara purchasing many books from parents who have raised remarkable children. The two even make a list of the type of lessons and extracurricular activities they want their child to pursue. Eventually, they find out they are having a girl. One day, Sara hears devastating news on her TV: Malala Yousafzai has been shot, and the world she's been building for her unborn daughter comes crumbling down. Her anxiety about bringing a girl up to become courageous is suddenly called into question.
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Booklist starred review Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 10-12 Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: June 10, 2025 ISBN: 9798888774953 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Historical Fiction, War, Kodansha 
Two seemingly lost young Russians at the beginning of the Bolshevik era find themselves more or less indentured as servants at a large home, though one must utilize a wheelchair and the other has a serious medical condition. Both are each other’s lifeline, and they stay close to the home despite the hardships it brings them because they are looking for something very valuable from before the fall of Tsar Nicolas II. They endure terrible treatment, endentured servitude masquerading as work for The Party, and much more to achieve their goals.
Katsuma-san finishes telling the history of Haretake and the evil lurking inside their foe who now has Tsuki hostage. Katsuma tells of Haretake’s goal to unseal the sessho-seki stones and unleash whatever evil is lurking below and the attempt Haretake will make to control the power inside. With this knowledge, Katsuma sets Konosuke, Aki, and his new apprentice Bokutake off and through a jar to go rescue Tsuki. But Katsuma’s jar drops Konosuke off in a gambling den in the clutches of one of the generals of the Tsuchimikado clan. This would-be professional gambler toys with Konosuke, at first lulling him into a false sense of security, but eventually prodding him to gamble with something very high stakes, much more valuable than money.
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