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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Adult Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: Oct 28, 2025 ISBN: 9781647294717 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Mystery, Romance, Survival, Kodansha
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After a mysterious accident wiped all of her memories, Yumeko awakens as an entirely new person with a fresh look on life and with a striking confidence and energy. She begins going to work even though she doesn’t remember anything about her role in the company. Along the way, she stumbles upon a sickly man in the park who bears a resemblance to someone occupying a large chunk of a secret photo album on her phone! Once at work, she contributes ideas and pitches in a sales meeting and manages to get a project approved despite her memory lapse. A semi-jealous but helpful coworker helps her prepare for her sales pitch meeting in front of upper management, what could arguably be the most important meeting of her career.
School Library Journal review - part of Fall 2025 Manga Fiction Series, "Hidden Identities and True Love"
Vol 1: A Sunset at Sunrise, Vol 2: Undead Shenanigans, Vol 3: A Mess in the Mess Hall, Vol 4: A Long Way from Tome, Vol 5: Holly Jo Must Go, Vol 6: Blood Is Thicker than Water Sara's Rating: 7/10 Suitability Level: Grades 5-8 Publisher: Abdo Publication Date: November 12, 2024 ISBNs: Vol 1 ISBN: 9798384922810 (Hardcover) Vol 2 ISBN: 9798384922827 Vol 3 ISBN: 9798384922834 Vol 4 ISBN: 9798384922841 Vol 5 ISBN: 9798384922858 Vol 6 ISBN: 9798384922865 Tags: Rating: 7/10, Suitability: Elementary School, Suitability: Middle School, Graphic Fiction, Horror, Mystery  This family-centric story starts with Ao being released from the hospital for the third time. His parents worry he will get sick again and also want him to enjoy life. They come home to a new house they have prepped with a scavenger hunt for him to find seven stickers that leads Ao to explore their new home. Ao wants to have freedoms of other well children. A new bicycle gives Ao access to friends and life outside of the hospital, but concerns for Ao's mom as to Ao's safety. Cryptic postcards start up showing at the home foretelling events that will happen tomorrow unless they are stopped. We don’t know who is sending them or who the postcards are for.
Adapted by Inabe. Character design by riichu.
Booklist review Sara's Rating: 7/10 Suitability Level: Grades 9-12 Publisher: Yen Press Publication Date: August 26, 2025 ISBN: 9798855411720 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 7/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Mystery, Adaptations, Yen Press 
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Sara's Rating: 7/10 Suitability Level: Grades 10-12 Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: June 3, 2025 ISBN: 9798888774885 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Realistic Fiction, Family, Art, Mystery, Kodansha 
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Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 8-12 Publisher: Yen Press Publication Date: July 15, 2025 ISBN: 9798855417326 (Hardcover) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Middle School, Suitability: High School, Manga, Mystery, Family, Yen Press 
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.
Adapted by Suzuka Oda
Mayumi had been searching for a mysterious star she saw when she was four years old, and her obsession had fueled her dream to become an astronaut. But years of dead ends and nagging from her parents have caused her to all but give up her dream, something she’s decided to do on the day of her fourteenth birthday. The day before is when she fatefully meets the president of the Pretty Boy Detective Club, a group of dreamily beautiful young men with unique talents who agree to take up the case to help find her missing star. All of them get swept up in something much larger than an astronomy conundrum, and Mayumi comes to accept several things about herself that she had mostly spurned until that point. 
Scarlet remembers pieces about the Red Spade’s hideout, which Chase thinks is pretty suspicious given she can’t remember anything else. Upon entering, they’re instantly separated, and Scarlet has to face the Boss alone. She clearly remembers Scarlet, but she’s keeping all of her cards close to her chest. Scarlet's fighting skills are dismal, and she barely escapes the encounter with her cursed life. Back in Hell, she accuses Satan of sending her into the world unprepared, and demands he teach her how to fight.
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