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You can't live all on your own! vol 1 by Mizoko Tsuno

6/28/2025

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Cover of You Can't Live All On Your Own volume 1. Four women all walking in different directions about to do different tasks -- bake, play guitar, go to work, go on a date perhaps -- and the background is solid pink.
Four women close to thirty live together, and they're all in very different places in their lives. Shuu works hard at her day job and is mostly waiting for love to find her spontaneously, but she’s feeling the pressure to marry as those around her are finding relationships. Mii is a guitarist and has been seeing the drummer in her band, but he drops a bombshell on her that makes her question where their relationship is and where it’s headed. Eika is solidly a career woman who continuously takes on big projects, and she doesn’t let anyone doubt her ability to handle the workload. Shio used to work at a large, successful corporation, but the long hours and stress were not what she was looking for in life.


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King the land vol 1 by Choi Rome

6/15/2025

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Cover of King the Land volume 1. Gu Won and Sa Rang are standing in front of some bushes. Sa Rang looks joyful to be there, while Gu Won is surprised and doesn't know what to do with himself.
Adapted by SPOON

Gu Won is a young boy from a rich family, and he has been told his whole life that he must be the highest achieving student in order compete with his step sister to inherit his father’s successful hotel chain. The coldness with which he is raised causes him to hate everyone who artificially smiles at him and treats him with fake kindness. One day, he meets Sa Rang, a young girl and the daughter of one of the family’s servants, and he realizes happiness can be a genuine emotion. The two of them form a friendship that allows Gu Won to break down some of the steel barriers he’s built around himself, but life isn't fairy tales, castles, princes and princesses -- it's business.


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Sheltering eaves vols 1-3 by rie aruga

5/13/2025

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School Library Journal review - part of Spring 2025 Fiction Made Simple, "8 Manga Fiction Series with Emotion, Drama, and All the Feels"

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


Publisher: Kodansha
Publication Date: November 12, 2024
ISBNs: Vol 1 - 9798888772157(Paperback)​

Publication Date: January 14, 2025
ISBNs: Vol 2 - 9798888773246 (Paperback)​

Publication Date: March 18, 2025
ISBNs: Vol 3 - 9798888773253 (Paperback)​

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Romance, Family, School Life, Realistic Fiction, Kodansha
Cover of Sheltering Eaves volume 1. The two leads are standing very close to one another.
Cover of Sheltering Eaves volume 2. The two leads are standing underneath an umbrella.
Cover of Sheltering Eaves volume 3. The two leads are in their pajamas sitting on the floor, and the girl has her head on the guy's shoulder.
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Wash it all away vol 1 by Mitsuru Hattori

4/23/2025

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Cover of Wash it All Away volume 1. Kinme is holding an armful of clothing and walking through her store front.
Wakana Kinme can’t remember anything about her life previous to two years ago, except how to wash clothes. She runs a local specialty cleaning service that does wet cleaning, stain removal, polishing of leather, and more. Kinme even offers to pick up or drop off items, which is a popular service for her aging clients given the hilly community in which they live. After a long day of work, nothing hits the spot more than a dip in the hot bath or a hot spring, something her small town is known for.


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Scars vol 1 by Brandon Arias

4/8/2025

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Cover of Scars volume 1. Kyonosuke is looking at us with a sad look on his disfigured face.
Booklist review

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

Publisher: Kana
Publication Date: December 17, 2024
ISBN: 9781419778353 (Paperback)

​Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Manga, Realistic Fiction, LGBTQ+, Family, Kana

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Leap by Simina Popescu

12/16/2024

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Cover of Leap. Two girls sit on the floor of a ballet studio with the sun shining through the windows. Ballet shoes are on the ground next to one.
Carina and Ana attend a high stakes dance school in Bucharest, Romania, where if you aren’t good enough, if your body is taking up too much space, if you were hurt too long, if you don’t do better, you will lose all you ever wanted. Carina puts all she is into dance. Ana puts all she is into Carina. Ana's roommate, Sara, is possibly the best dancer the school has ever had, but she's infatuated with her teacher. Each practice or missed practice exposes the flaws of the unrequited relationships. ​Perhaps the next dance will be the one that gets them to understand who they are, their potential, and their dreams.


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Days with my stepsister vol 1 by Ghost Mikawa

10/16/2024

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Cover of Days with my Stepsister volume 1. The siblings are standing in the kitchen cooking a meal in their school clothes.
Illustrated by Yumika Kanade
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When his parents get divorced, Yuuta decides he won’t get close to another woman so he can’t be disappointed by them again. Then, his father remarries, and he becomes brother to a stepsister his same age. Yuuta's new stepsister is also closed off and mysterious, and the two strike up an uneasy truce in order to cohabitate. They end up deciding that living together is not all that bad, but both have some definite trust issues to overcome.


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Is love the answer by uta isaki

8/26/2024

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Cover of Is Love the Answer. Chika is wearing a white shirt and is holding her bag over her shoulder. She's smiling slightly. Behind her are the grey, white, and purple stripes of the asexual flag.
High school student Chika thinks there might be something wrong with her. She doesn’t feel romantic attraction like everyone else does, but when a boy asks her out, she decides to try it after everyone says this is how she’ll fall in love. A terrifying rush into intimacy leaves Chika feeling like there’s definitely something wrong, but she moves to Tokyo to attend college and study Psychology under a professor who writes about gender identity and sexual attractions. In her first semester, Chika rents a room from that same professor, meets other psychology students, and does a lot of self-discovery that leads her to believe she may be asexual.


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Fly me to the moon vol 14 by kenjiro hata

7/15/2024

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Cover of Fly Me to the Moon volume 14. Nasa is sitting on the ground wearing a grey sweatshirt and dark grey pants. Tsukasa is laying on a fancy old couch with red cushions. She's wearing a white button down blouse.
Nasa's students begin filming the horror movie in the abandoned mansion, but Nasa and Tsukasa are mostly there to check out the furniture. As soon as the door closes and the lights go out, the students are freaked out by the headless suit of armor and giant worms chasing them, but Tsukasa is cool as a cucumber. She grabs a sword and starts fighting back! She nearly ruins the movie except for her unbelievable swordsman skills, and her dual with the mastermind behind all of it. After their harrowing adventure, Kaname convinces Tsukasa that she has to match Nasa in showing affection, including being able to say "I love you," which Tsukasa thinks is the height of embarrassing.


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Fly me to the moon vol 13 by kenjiro hata

6/26/2024

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Cover of Fly Me to the Moon volume 13. Nasa and Tsukasa are in yukata and looking at something beyond us. Nasa is in a dark blue yukata and Tsukasa is in a white one with a white flower in her pink hair.
The mysterious Kaguya gives advice to a stressed out classmate on how to pass a math exam, and we learn more about her genius and her sad home life. Nasa continues his job tutoring at a high school, and when the girls find out he lives at a public bath, they invade so they can sneak a peak at his cute wife. Later, the girls want to film their own version of The Blair Witch Project at an abandoned but luxurious local mansion that is reportedly haunted. Nasa and Tsukasa want to peak on the inside to get furniture and decorating tips, but the girls need a teacher chaperone.


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