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Bless the blood : a cancer memoir

Nehanda, Walela,


When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from another realm. Walela's diagnosis becomes a catalyst for their self-realization. As they fill out forms in the insurance office in downtown Los Angeles or travel to therapy in wealthier neighborhoods, they begin to understand that cancer is where all forms of their oppression intersect: Disabled. Fat. Black. Queer. Nonbinary.
Date Published:2024

When Walela is diagnosed at twenty-three with advanced stage blood cancer, they're suddenly thrust into the unsympathetic world of tubes and pills, doctors who don't use their correct pronouns, and hordes of "well-meaning" but patronizing people offering unsolicited advice as they navigate rocky personal relationships and share their story online. But this experience also deepens their relationship to their ancestors, providing added support from another realm. Walela's diagnosis becomes a catalyst for their self-realization. As they fill out forms in the insurance office in downtown Los Angeles or travel to therapy in wealthier neighborhoods, they begin to understand that cancer is where all forms of their oppression intersect: Disabled. Fat. Black. Queer. Nonbinary.

Date Published:2024

Things we left behind

Score, Lucy.


Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his abusive father's mark on the family name, he spends every waking minute pulling strings and building his empire. The more money and power he gains, the safer he feels. Except when it comes to one feisty small-town librarian... Bonded by an old, dark secret from the past and their current mutual disdain, Sloane Walton trusts Lucian about as far as she can throw his designer-suited body. When bickering accidentally turns to foreplay, the flames are fanned, and it's impossible to put them out again. But with Sloane more than ready to start a family and Lucian refusing to even consider the idea of marriage and kids, these enemies-to-lovers are stuck at an impasse. Until Lucian learns the hard way that leaving Sloane is impossible--the very least he can do is to keep her safe.
Date Published:2023

Lucian Rollins is a lean, mean vengeance-seeking mogul. On a quest to erase his abusive father's mark on the family name, he spends every waking minute pulling strings and building his empire. The more money and power he gains, the safer he feels. Except when it comes to one feisty small-town librarian... Bonded by an old, dark secret from the past and their current mutual disdain, Sloane Walton trusts Lucian about as far as she can throw his designer-suited body. When bickering accidentally turns to foreplay, the flames are fanned, and it's impossible to put them out again. But with Sloane more than ready to start a family and Lucian refusing to even consider the idea of marriage and kids, these enemies-to-lovers are stuck at an impasse. Until Lucian learns the hard way that leaving Sloane is impossible--the very least he can do is to keep her safe.

Date Published:2023

The omen girl

Yang, Yue,


Includes reading group guide. Abandoned by her parents when her Omen stain appeared, Sozo survives the streets through her secret weapon: her ability to conceal her curse. It's a rare talent that her shadowy mentor, Esp, sees as the key to infiltrating and competing in the Decade Race of Stars. The race is deadly, but the prize is irresistible: a single wish for anything. Esp dreams of using it to reshape the world, and Sozo convinces herself the risk is worth it, but keeping her stain hidden -- and her monstrous side in check -- is harder with every challenge, especially when sunny Naqi enters the picture, offering her kindness and friendship she was never allowed. As Sozo fights to survive the race, doubts creep in. Should she claim the wish for Esp no matter the cost? But what if it hurts Naqi? With monsters lurking inside and out, Sozo must decide whose future she's fighting for and if she's willing to pay the ultimate price.
Date Published:2025

Includes reading group guide. Abandoned by her parents when her Omen stain appeared, Sozo survives the streets through her secret weapon: her ability to conceal her curse. It's a rare talent that her shadowy mentor, Esp, sees as the key to infiltrating and competing in the Decade Race of Stars. The race is deadly, but the prize is irresistible: a single wish for anything. Esp dreams of using it to reshape the world, and Sozo convinces herself the risk is worth it, but keeping her stain hidden -- and her monstrous side in check -- is harder with every challenge, especially when sunny Naqi enters the picture, offering her kindness and friendship she was never allowed. As Sozo fights to survive the race, doubts creep in. Should she claim the wish for Esp no matter the cost? But what if it hurts Naqi? With monsters lurking inside and out, Sozo must decide whose future she's fighting for and if she's willing to pay the ultimate price.

Date Published:2025

Sakamoto days. 1 /

Suzuki, Yuto


Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld. He's running a neighborhood store with his lovely wife and child and has gotten a bit...out of shape. But one day a figure from his past pays him a visit with an offer he can't refuse: return to the assassin world or die!
Date Published:2022

Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! Time has passed peacefully for Sakamoto since he left the underworld. He's running a neighborhood store with his lovely wife and child and has gotten a bit...out of shape. But one day a figure from his past pays him a visit with an offer he can't refuse: return to the assassin world or die!

Date Published:2022

Campfire cooking in another world with my absurd skill. 2 /

Akagishi K,


Based on the novels by Ren Eguchi. Reads from back to front, right to left. Having decided to flee from the kingdom that brought him to this otherworld, Mukohda and Fel continue their journey. Along the way, Mukohda quickly learns the ropes of having a familiar, and all the trouble that can entail.
Date Published:2025

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun. 1 /

AidaIro (Fantasy comic writer),


Reads right to left. Translated from the Japanese. Translation of Jibaku shonen Hanako-kun volume 1. First published in Japan in 2015 by Square Enix Col., Ltd. Originally published as an ebook in August 2017 by Yen Press. 'Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you there?' At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom... but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!
Date Published:2020

Reads right to left. Translated from the Japanese. Translation of Jibaku shonen Hanako-kun volume 1. First published in Japan in 2015 by Square Enix Col., Ltd. Originally published as an ebook in August 2017 by Yen Press. 'Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you there?' At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school girl who dreams of romance, ventures into this haunted bathroom... but the Hanako-san she meets there is nothing like she imagined! Kamome Academy's Hanako-san...is a boy!

Date Published:2020

Dr. Stone. 1, Stone world /

Inagaki, Riichiro.


Book reads right to left. One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!
Date Published:2018

Bleach : 3-in-1. 1 /

Kubo, Tite,


This book is printed "manga-style," in the authentic Japanese right-to-left format. A compilation of volumes 1-3 of the graphic novel series. 1. Strawberry and the soul reapers -- 2. Deathberry -- 3. Memories in the rain. Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper and member of the mysterious Soul Society. While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some of her powers so that he can save his family; but much to her surprise, Ichigo absorbs every last drop of her energy. Now a full-fledged Soul Reaper himself, Ichigo quickly learns that the world he inhabits is one full of dangerous spirits, and along with Rukia--who is slowly regaining her powers--it's Ichigo's job to protect the innocent from Hollows and help the spirits themselves find peace.
Date Published:2011

This book is printed "manga-style," in the authentic Japanese right-to-left format. A compilation of volumes 1-3 of the graphic novel series. 1. Strawberry and the soul reapers -- 2. Deathberry -- 3. Memories in the rain. Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper and member of the mysterious Soul Society. While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some of her powers so that he can save his family; but much to her surprise, Ichigo absorbs every last drop of her energy. Now a full-fledged Soul Reaper himself, Ichigo quickly learns that the world he inhabits is one full of dangerous spirits, and along with Rukia--who is slowly regaining her powers--it's Ichigo's job to protect the innocent from Hollows and help the spirits themselves find peace.

Date Published:2011

Vinland saga

Yukimura, Makoto, 1976-


Cover title. Book 1 first published in Japan in 2006 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, as Vinland saga, volumes 1 and 2. Manga format; reads back to front, right to left. Includes bonus story: For our farewell is near. Set in medieval England during the Viking invasions, this saga follows the adventures of Thorfinn, a young Viking warrior driven by his twin desires to avenge his father's death and reach the free and peaceful land Leif Ericson called Vinland.
Date Published:2013

Cover title. Book 1 first published in Japan in 2006 by Kodansha Ltd., Tokyo, as Vinland saga, volumes 1 and 2. Manga format; reads back to front, right to left. Includes bonus story: For our farewell is near. Set in medieval England during the Viking invasions, this saga follows the adventures of Thorfinn, a young Viking warrior driven by his twin desires to avenge his father's death and reach the free and peaceful land Leif Ericson called Vinland.

Date Published:2013

Gachiakuta. 1 /

Urana, Kei,


Reads from right to left. Translation of: Gachiakuta 1. Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, under the shadow of the rich, all casting their garbage into the Pit. Then one day, Rudo is falsely accused of murder, leading to an unimaginable punishment--exile off into the abyss, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, other cast-offs have bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo is to discover the truth and seek vengeance, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!
Date Published:2024

Reads from right to left. Translation of: Gachiakuta 1. Rudo lives in the slums of a floating town, under the shadow of the rich, all casting their garbage into the Pit. Then one day, Rudo is falsely accused of murder, leading to an unimaginable punishment--exile off into the abyss, with the rest of the trash. Down on the surface, other cast-offs have bred vicious monsters, and if Rudo is to discover the truth and seek vengeance, he will have to master a new power and join a group known as the Cleaners who battle the hulking trash beasts of the Pit!

Date Published:2024

Campfire cooking in another world with my absurd skill. 1 /

Akagishi K,


Based on the novels by Ren Eguchi. Reads from right to left. When Mukohda Tsuyoshi is summoned to a world of swordplay and sorcery, he's pumped to go on the adventure of a lifetime! Just one problem: he's summoned by mistake!Not only is he not one of the three heroes, his stats are also laughable. Looks like he'll be averagely average in this world too...but given that the people of the kingdom seem the type to take advantage of their heroes, Mukohda's determined to make his own way in this new world. Mukohda aims to lead a comfortable life with the help of his unique skill, "Online Supermarket"! But when he introduces the taste of modern cooking to the fantasy world, Tsuyoshi winds up with repeat customers who just can't get enough!
Date Published:2025

Based on the novels by Ren Eguchi. Reads from right to left. When Mukohda Tsuyoshi is summoned to a world of swordplay and sorcery, he's pumped to go on the adventure of a lifetime! Just one problem: he's summoned by mistake!Not only is he not one of the three heroes, his stats are also laughable. Looks like he'll be averagely average in this world too...but given that the people of the kingdom seem the type to take advantage of their heroes, Mukohda's determined to make his own way in this new world. Mukohda aims to lead a comfortable life with the help of his unique skill, "Online Supermarket"! But when he introduces the taste of modern cooking to the fantasy world, Tsuyoshi winds up with repeat customers who just can't get enough!

Date Published:2025

Mob psycho 100. 1 /

ONE, 1986-


Pages numbered from right to left. A young boy with psychic abilities attempts to live a normal life.
Date Published:2018

JoJo's bizarre adventure : Part 4, Diamond is unbreakable. 2 /

Araki, Hirohiko, 1960-,


Translation of: Daiyamondo wa kudakenai. Reads from back to front, right to left. Jotaro Kujo discovers a lead on the stolen bow and arrow, but is it too late to stop the thief? While Jotaro is investigating that lead, Josuke Higashikata and Koichi Hirose find a new ally in…Okuyasu?! The bully wants to mend his ways after the death of his brother, and the first step is going to school with Jotaro and Koichi. Plus, Yukako Yamagishi enters the scene, and she’s got love on her mind and anger in her heart. Will Koichi survive his first brush with true love?
Date Published:2020

Translation of: Daiyamondo wa kudakenai. Reads from back to front, right to left. Jotaro Kujo discovers a lead on the stolen bow and arrow, but is it too late to stop the thief? While Jotaro is investigating that lead, Josuke Higashikata and Koichi Hirose find a new ally in…Okuyasu?! The bully wants to mend his ways after the death of his brother, and the first step is going to school with Jotaro and Koichi. Plus, Yukako Yamagishi enters the scene, and she’s got love on her mind and anger in her heart. Will Koichi survive his first brush with true love?

Date Published:2020

Gachiakuta. 3 /

Urana, Kei,


Translation of: Gachiakuta 3. Reads from right to left. Hoping to find a way back to the Sphere, Rudo returned with The Cleaners to their HQ. Unfortunately, the one person who might have answers, their boss, was out of town. Trying to be useful, he volunteered himself for a simple job. But it turns out that using his new powers is harder than it looks! To make matters worse, there's a dangerous group called "Raiders" who have their sights set on Rudo, and they'll do anything to get their hands on him...
Date Published:2024

Translation of: Gachiakuta 3. Reads from right to left. Hoping to find a way back to the Sphere, Rudo returned with The Cleaners to their HQ. Unfortunately, the one person who might have answers, their boss, was out of town. Trying to be useful, he volunteered himself for a simple job. But it turns out that using his new powers is harder than it looks! To make matters worse, there's a dangerous group called "Raiders" who have their sights set on Rudo, and they'll do anything to get their hands on him...

Date Published:2024

Gachiakuta. 2 /

Urana, Kei,


Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left. Translation of: Gachiakuta 2. After being falsely accused of murdering the man who raised him, Rudo was dropped into the Pit, where trash beasts roam and the very air is toxic. But there are people known as Givers who have the power to defeat these beasts and Rudo is one of them. If Rudo wants is to find the true killer and return home, he must join an organization of trash beast exterminators called “The Cleaners,” whose boss might just have information Rudo needs…
Date Published:2024

Manga format; reads from back to front, right to left. Translation of: Gachiakuta 2. After being falsely accused of murdering the man who raised him, Rudo was dropped into the Pit, where trash beasts roam and the very air is toxic. But there are people known as Givers who have the power to defeat these beasts and Rudo is one of them. If Rudo wants is to find the true killer and return home, he must join an organization of trash beast exterminators called “The Cleaners,” whose boss might just have information Rudo needs…

Date Published:2024

Zom 100 : bucket list of the dead. 1 /

Aso, Haro, 1980-


Reads from right to left. "Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN"--Colophon. "I'd rather be eaten by zombies than not tell her I love her"--Title page. In a trash-filled apartment, 24-year-old Akira Tendo watches a zombie movie with lifeless, envious eyes. After spending three hard years at an exploitative corporation in Japan, his spirit is broken. He can’t even muster the courage to confess his feelings to his beautiful co-worker Ohtori. Then one morning, he stumbles upon his landlord eating lunch—which happens to be another tenant! The whole city’s swarming with zombies, and even though he’s running for his life, Akira has never felt more alive!
Date Published:2021

Reads from right to left. "Original Japanese edition published by SHOGAKUKAN"--Colophon. "I'd rather be eaten by zombies than not tell her I love her"--Title page. In a trash-filled apartment, 24-year-old Akira Tendo watches a zombie movie with lifeless, envious eyes. After spending three hard years at an exploitative corporation in Japan, his spirit is broken. He can’t even muster the courage to confess his feelings to his beautiful co-worker Ohtori. Then one morning, he stumbles upon his landlord eating lunch—which happens to be another tenant! The whole city’s swarming with zombies, and even though he’s running for his life, Akira has never felt more alive!

Date Published:2021

JoJo's bizarre adventure : Part 4, Diamond is unbreakable. 1 /

Araki, Hirohiko, 1960-,


Translation of: Daiyamondo wa kudakenai. Reads from back to front, right to left. In April 1999, Jotaro Kujo travels to a town in Japan called Morioh to find a young man named Josuke Higashikata, the secret love child of his grandfather, Joseph Joestar. Upon finding him, Jotaro is surprised to learn that Josuke also possesses a Stand. After their strange meeting, the pair team up to investigate the town’s proliferation of unusual Stands!
Date Published:2020

Translation of: Daiyamondo wa kudakenai. Reads from back to front, right to left. In April 1999, Jotaro Kujo travels to a town in Japan called Morioh to find a young man named Josuke Higashikata, the secret love child of his grandfather, Joseph Joestar. Upon finding him, Jotaro is surprised to learn that Josuke also possesses a Stand. After their strange meeting, the pair team up to investigate the town’s proliferation of unusual Stands!

Date Published:2020

Best of all worlds

Oppel, Kenneth, 1967-


Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only . . . one morning he wakes up and the house isn't where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed . . . somewhere else. When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around . . . Until, three years later, another family arrives. Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers -- and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice.
Date Published:2025

Xavier Oaks doesn't particularly want to go to the cabin with his dad and his dad's pregnant new wife, Nia. But family obligations are family obligations, and it's only for a short time. So he leaves his mom, his brother, and his other friends behind for a week in the woods. Only . . . one morning he wakes up and the house isn't where it was before. It's like it's been lifted and placed . . . somewhere else. When Xavier, his dad, and Nia go explore, they find they are inside a dome, trapped. And there's no one else around . . . Until, three years later, another family arrives. Is there any escape? Is there a reason they are stuck where they are? Different people have different answers -- and those different answers inexorably lead to tension, strife, and sacrifice.

Date Published:2025

Iron widow

Zhao, Xiran Jay,


The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead. To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.
Date Published:2021

The boys of Huaxia dream of pairing up with girls to pilot Chrysalises, giant transforming robots that can battle the mecha aliens that lurk beyond the Great Wall. It doesn't matter that the girls often die from the mental strain. When 18-year-old Zetian offers herself up as a concubine-pilot, it's to assassinate the ace male pilot responsible for her sister's death. But she gets her vengeance in a way nobody expected—she kills him through the psychic link between pilots and emerges from the cockpit unscathed. She is labeled an Iron Widow, a much-feared and much-silenced kind of female pilot who can sacrifice boys to power up Chrysalises instead. To tame her unnerving yet invaluable mental strength, she is paired up with Li Shimin, the strongest and most controversial male pilot in Huaxia. But now that Zetian has had a taste of power, she will not cower so easily. She will miss no opportunity to leverage their combined might and infamy to survive attempt after attempt on her life, until she can figure out exactly why the pilot system works in its misogynist way—and stop more girls from being sacrificed.

Date Published:2021

The cruel prince

Black, Holly


Jude, seventeen and mortal, gets tangled in palace intrigues while trying to win a place in the treacherous High Court of Faerie, where she and her sisters have lived for a decade.
Date Published:2018