Adapted by Mamenosuke Fujimaru
Nanao is starting to settle in at her new home and figure out what her role is as bride-to-be for Lord Yako of the Benitsubaki clan. Yako introduces Nanao to a doctor in the capital who gives her medicine to reduce the effects of her spirit seal so others won’t smell or detect her Ayakashi orangutan markings as she goes about her day. Nanao and Yako later go shopping along the busy streets but are attacked by an Ayakashi. Nanao lends her strength to Yako, necessitating another trip to the hospital. This time, Reito and Akemi of the Byakurenji clan are there too, and they want some answers.
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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Adult Publisher: WEBTOON Unscrolled Publication Date: Nov 4, 2025 ISBN: 9781998341665 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Animals, Humor, Mental Health, WEBTOON Unscrolled 
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.
Illustrated by Rito Kohsaka
Lord Kudo and Miyo have a fateful meeting at the Usuba house, the home of Miyo’s maternal family, where her grandfather and cousin (of sorts) explain that Miyo does, in fact, have a gift, and this is what has been causing her to have nightmares and deteriorating health. Arata challenges Lord Kudo for the right to protect Miyo and have her live in the Usuba mansion where she will learn to harness her power, and Arata’s Usuba powers are meant to control other gift-bearers like Kudo, regardless of how strong they are. In another part of the kingdom, someone has unleashed many grotesqueries, leaving Kudo and his unit to pick up the pieces. 
Adapted by Mamenosuke Fujimaru
School Library Journal review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: March 25, 2025 ISBN: 9798888773475 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Romance, Family, Magic, Fantasy, Mental Health, Kodansha 
Doctor Rei's other patient, Miss Alde, finally arrives, but she isn’t like Mira suspected. Alde wants nothing to do with Mira and believes that no one can truly understand her affliction. Alde suffers from shadow sickness, which makes her unable to be outside in the sunshine, nor have anything touch her that has had the sun shine on it. Mira enlists the help of Mr. Capri to try to break down the walls Alde has built around herself. After Alde and Mira’s encounter, Miss Stella takes Mira on an adventure to a beautiful night forest full of wonderful starry rivers, magical creatures, and illuminated plantlife.
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Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 7-12 Publisher: Yen Press Publication Date: October 22, 2024 ISBN: 9781975399689 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Romance, LGBTQ+, Friendship, Music, Mental Health, School Life, Yen Press 
During a school trip to the beach, a friend group is shaken up when two of them give into their feelings and become a couple. Amber and Nico lose themselves in each other and completely and forget their friends. Slumber parties stop. Hanging out stops. When the friend group speaks up, Amber and Nico escape further into each other and into a dream world where everything is peaceful -- until Nico wants to return, and Amber doesn’t. In her anger, Amber turns their dream world into a nightmare, putting her remaining friendship at risk.
Hiroto is a pretty carefree 29-year-old, except he finds it difficult to talk to attractive women around his own age. He has no problem befriending older ladies, including an 81-year-old former lunch lady he affectionately calls Granny. He has dinner at her house twice a week until she suddenly dies of a heart attack and leaves her two-bedroom house to him. When Hiroto’s cousin Nat comes to live with him as she attends art school, the two learn to live together and figure out what it means to be adults in their various stages of life - Nat as a struggling college student with social anxiety, and Hiroto trying to figure out his purpose in life.
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