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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 Illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami
Booklist review Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Adult Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: September 17, 2024 ISBN: 9781974749720 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Humor, Friendship, Career, VIZ Media 
Illustrated by Ryan Cody
It’s the eve of Ea’s Day but Gilgamesh is not up for celebrating. It’s also the one day each year he trades places with Death himself to fulfill the order of souls to reap. Despite dreading the task, Gil must endure in exchange for his immortality -- or must he? While he devises a way out, Marduk, god of gods, is deciding to end all involvement with mankind. Various entities from Mesopotamian mythology and their personal entanglements are portrayed in the story, delighting readers with lusty interludes and action packed battles. 
The leader of the Night Kids shows up on Mount Akina and challenges Takumi to a race. After that, a driver named Shingo from the Night Kids shows up and bumps Iketani-sensei in his Silvia that just came back from the shop. Itsuki buys a Levin, thinking it was an Eight Six, but it turns out to be an Eight Five. After initially being ridiculed by the Speed Stars, Takumi convinces his friend that owning a car is amazing, and still manages to get down the mountain in record time. Shingo challenges Takumi to a race, which Takumi accepts in order to preserve Iketani's honor, but Shingo adds a stipulation: the drivers must duck tape their right hand to the steering wheel to keep things more interesting.
A big city cop moves to a mysterious mountain town where the former resident police officer went missing, and the Goto family acts peculiar to everyone, especially outsiders. Rumors abound that residence are cannibals, and there are many peculiar traditions and rites of passage where Agawa struggles to prove he can be part of the culture. One day, Granny Goto is discovered dead in the woods, presumably eaten by a bear, and the villagers, particularly the Goto clan, spring into action to avenge her death. Officer Agawa has little time to reign in the situation and handle it as the town’s authority. Instead, he joins the family in the hunt and gets mixed deeper in the mystery that embroiled the former town policeman.
Illustrated by Kelsey Ramsay, colored by Ronda Pattison, lettered by Rus Wooton and Shawn Lee
Teenager Cheyenne and her mom Rebecca move to St. Augustine, Florida with a dream of fixing up an old diner and having it be the gem of the town. Little do they know the history of the diner, that a man was murdered there, and the town’s seething hatred for the building. Later, an investigative reporter named Jean McKnight comes to the town to cover the Founder’s Day celebration, a fluff piece to salvage her career after a terrible outing that tarnished her reputation. The three lives cross when they all find that there is much more to this town, including something supernatural that may trace its roots back to the landfall by Spanish explorers at the heart of the town’s celebration.  Booklist review
Sara's Rating: 8/10 Suitability Level: Grades 10-Adult Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: April 9, 2024 ISBN: 9798888770146 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 8/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Realistic Fiction, Sports, Mental Health, Slice Of Life, Kodansha 
Illustrated by Dan Panosian, lettered by Richard Starkings
Set in Wild West of Utah, Sheriff Azrael William Holt is a legendary figure thanks to exploits that have been popularized in Dime novels, but the fictionalized accounts and horror stories may be closer to reality than the public may believe. In his latest case, Holt is assigned to protect Dr. Ed, a geologist, as he investigates a collapsed copper mine outside the town of Canary. Holt and Dr. Ed get some assistance from Mabel, the town’s saloon maiden and daughter of Canary’s founder. The town and mine have had a string of supernatural occurrences surrounding it, and Dr. Ed theorizes it may have something to do with Canary's water. 
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Sara's Rating: 9/10 Suitability Level: Grades 11-Adult Publisher: Kodansha Publication Date: March 19, 2024 ISBN: 9798888770986 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 9/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Action Adventure, Sports, School Life, Kodansha  Booklist starred review
Sara's Rating: 10/10 Suitability Level: Grades 11-Adult Publisher: VIZ Media Publication Date: January 16, 2024 ISBN: 9781974742745 (Paperback) Tags: Rating: 10/10, Suitability: High School, Suitability: Adult, Manga, Magic, Historical Fiction, Surrealism, VIZ Media |
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