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House of El vol 2 by claudia gray

6/26/2022

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Cover of House of El volume 2. Sera and Jahn are running towards the middle of the frame with Kryptonian buildings behind them. The sky is a dark orange like a sunset.
Vol 2: The Enemy Delusion, illustrated by Eric Zawadzki
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The adventure continues right where we left off - Zahn and Sera have stolen a piece of technology from the house of El, but the can't figure out how to unlock more than its surface-level recordings to what, Sera assumes, is more information on the genetic manipulation Lara did to her. Later, Zahn and his classmates are analyzing the damage from an earthquake to a vital system. Zahn proposes rerouting the system to share the resources with the lower caste, and he's punished instead of applauded. Elsewhere, Sera is likewise reprimanded for proposing a new strategy to fighting deadly pests in the upper atmosphere of the planet. Zahn gives the group of dissenters, Midnight, the idea to go after the structure his classmates were just working to fix, but they are planning to take the attack too far, and he fears how many people might be in danger.


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frieren: beyond journey's end vol 3 by kanehito yamada

6/25/2022

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Cover of Frieren: Beyond Journey's End volume 3. Frieren, Fern, and Stark are standing in a city street with colorful buildings behind them. The demons they're fighting in this volume are standing around a lush chair, with the main demon sitting in it.
Frieren continues to battle the powerful demon just outside the city, while Fern, her apprentice, and Stark take care of the two henchmen still in the city. Between the two battles, Fern and Frieren manage to fool their demon enemies by using a “dishonest” trick Frieren’s master taught her, which had kept her alive in the face of many demon battles. The group then travels to the north, where Frieren learns she will need to test for a mage's certification before she’ll be allowed to travel any farther north.


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Nicola traveling around the demons woRld vol 1 by asaya miyanaga

6/24/2022

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Cover of Nicola Traveling Around the Demon's World volume 1. Nicola is standing at a bar talking to a bear-like demon. She has her blue hood on that covers most of her head and sticks up like a witch's hat. Around them are various bins full of food and other sundries.
Nicola is a human girl and a struggling witch, saved by the demon Simon, who now finds herself traveling incognito in the Demon World, where humans aren't allowed. The two of them make a bit of an odd couple as they travel around. Simon peddles trinkets and some possibly fraudulent pieces in his attempt to make a living in what can sometimes be a hostile world. He tells Nicola about the stereotypes in the demon world and she successfully finds beings who buck his stereotype, which encourages Simon to be less judgmental. While searching for rare mushrooms, Nicola finds a little clough and tries to keep him as a pet, but the call to rejoin his kind is stronger than their little bond. In a Demon Hotel, seeing ghosts is thought of as good luck, but that doesn't mean Nicola isn't scared of them.


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Canto vol 3 by David M Booher

6/22/2022

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Cover of Canto volume 3: Lionhearted. Canto stands in the foreground with his axe up, ready to swing. Behind him is another warrior with sword up, read to swing. Both look off in opposite directions. Behind them is the clock and gear work that has been prevalent on the other three covers.
Vol 3: Lionhearted, illustrated by Drew Zucker, colored by Vittorio Astone 

The big battle is coming, and all inhabitants of the Unnamed World will be swept up by it. Canto and Aualar* set out to find the Vikus, the former slavers of Canto’s race, to hopefully win then to their side before The Shrouded Man can, but it’s an unpopular decision amongst Canto’s friends. Several of them set out to the Emerald Tower to try and take on The Shrouded Man in a surprise attack, but this ends poorly for them. Canto is forced to choose between saving his friends or protecting his people, but hopefully some of his new allies can be counted on.


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Taproot by keezy young

6/19/2022

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Cover of Taproot. Blue and Hamal are nestled in a tree surrounded by plants and a couple of tombstones. Blue, true to his name, is a bluish-green and in a hoodie. Hamal is in a white shirt with the sleeves cut off.
This story follows a gardener who can see ghosts, and a ghost who has fallen in love with the gardener. Hamal tries to go about his day at the nursery where he works, but customers constantly complain about his odd behavior and how he talks to himself. But Hamal is actually talking to the ghosts, including his best friend, Blue. Blue and a few other ghosts keep getting swept into a creepy, dead forest. A reaper approaches Blue and reveals there is an unlicensed necromancer in the vicinity, and asks for Blue’s help, but Blue is sure it's Hamal, and he can’t betray him like that. The reaper catches up to them anyway, but gives Hamal a way to make balance between the world of the dead and the world of the living - work for the reaper, but the jobs aren't as gnarly as one might think working for a creature of death.


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I hear the sunspot vol 2 by yuki fumino

6/17/2022

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Cover of I Hear the Sunspot volume 2. Kōhei and Taichi sit on a fence facing each other. Both are wearing a light colored shirt and dark pants.Around them, the sun peaks through tree leaves in a park-like setting.
Vol 2: Theory of Happiness
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After Kōhei kissed Taichi, the two don’t quite know how to act around each other. Taichi is still willing to take notes for Kohei, but then Maya comes along - another hard-of-hearing person who thinks Taichi is just taking advantage of Kōhei and his seemingly endless supply of lunches. Taichi stumbles upon a business called SIGN that helps train people in some basic sign language and works with other companies to be more inclusive, and Taichi’s impassioned plea to not exclude the hard-of-hearing from their company’s work impressed the owner so much that he offers Taichi a job. While he’s mulling over the offer, Taichi realizes he would probably be better off working full time instead of wasting money going through college without direction. But will Kōhei be ok with another note taker?


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Steins;gate by nitroplus

6/6/2022

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Cover of Steins;gate. On the bottom, the LabMem stand side by side looking out at us. At the top, Okabe is staring at us but we can only see from the neck up. He has a stern look on his face.
Illustrated by Yomi Sarachi
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Okabe aka "Kyoma the Mad Scientist," attends a press conference on time travel that changes his entire life. Together with his lab assistants, or LabMem, they create a time machine with a cell phone and a microwave, and he can send text messages back in time that can affect the current world line they’re on. Okabe can feel the changes to the world, a type of energy he calls Steiner, but not all of the changes end up positively impacting the lives of those involved or around them. A seemingly innocent change to make one of the LabMem closer to their true self spirals into the death of another, and Okabe scrambles to put everything back to normal. But, another traveler from the future tells him he has one more major change to make, one that can stop World War III from killing billions of people.


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Fullmetal edition vol 17 by hiromu arakawa

6/3/2022

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Cover of Fullmetal Edition volume 17. An angry, muscular man glares at us with his red pupils and stern look
The human sacrifices have been assembled, but Father is one sacrifice short. Along with his homunculi, they force another alchemist to attempt human transmutation to become the fifth human sacrifice and round out the transmutation circle. Greed and his followers are meanwhile trying to keep Wrath occupied and keep the main gate of Central Command closed; Major General Armstrong and her remaining Briggs troops are trying to keep the interior of Command under control; and the rest of Mustang's loyal soldiers regroup outside Command and try to keep King Bradley's wife safe and unaware of the predicament her husband and son are currently in.


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Ace of The diamond vol 1 by yuji terajiMa

5/31/2022

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Cover of Ace of the diamond volume 1. Eijun in his baseball uniform is winding up for a pitch with the words
Eijun Sawamura and his middle school baseball team fail to win their championship game based on a wild pitch from Eijun. After he recovers from his disappointment, he’s content to head to the local high school with his friends and continue to play baseball with them. Then, Rei Takashima turns up, scouting Eijun for Seido High, a top baseball high school in the country. Eijun feels guilty for leaving his friends behind, but a trip to watch the team practice mostly solidifies Eijun’s decision. He doesn’t make a great first impression on the Coach, however, after showing up late for the first day of practice. The coach gives him an ultimatum to be able to throw a ball over 300 feet or give up pitching all together, and Eijun of course can’t back down from a challenge.


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Your lie in april vol 3 by Naoshi Arawaka

5/24/2022

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Cover of Your Lie in April volume 3. Watari, Arima, and Tsubaki lay in sort of a circle staring up at us. They're surrounded by school things like bags and books.
Kaori signs Arima up for his first piano competition in two years, and she coaches/berates him into practicing and getting back to the level he was once at. She tries to get him to put his own emotion into the pieces, but this is something Arima has always struggled with. Similarly, it's time for all the sports tournaments, with Tsubaki competing in softball and Watari competing in soccer. Tsubaki becomes jealous of how close Kaori is to Arima, and she relives some of their childhood memories when she supported him through physical and mental anguish, including carrying him home after he hurt his ankle. She's pleasantly surprised to see Arima come out to support her in her tournament, and even more pleased when he carries her home after she hurts her ankle.


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