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10 best books like BUZZ! (Ananth Panagariya): Yotsuba&!, Vol. 1, Lackadaisy: Volume #1, Seven Blades in Black, Heir Apparent, Hanna is Not a Boy's Name Volume 1, Homestuck, The Property of Hate, As the Crow Flies, Fiction Writer's Workshop, とんがり帽子のアトリエ 1
| Author | Kiyohiko Azuma |
| ISBN | 1413903177 |
[This is a review of the whole series.]
We sometimes encounter things—moments, vistas, sounds, ideas—that wholly disarm us. Things that slide so neatly between our hope for the world and our experience of the world that our rational mind is sheared momentarily from the engine...
| Author | Tracy J. Butler |
| ISBN | 0981959903 |
St. Louis 0 1927.
Times change. Laws change. People still want booze.
For the better part of a decade, hidden beneath the inconspicuous Little Daisy Cafe, the city's best-kept secret has slaked the thirst of a prohibition-wearied populace.
Lackadaisy.
Unfortunately,...
Sam Sykes returns with a new fantasy that introduces to an unforgettable outcast magician caught between two warring empires.
Among humans, none have power like mages. And among mages, none have will like Sal the Cacophony. Once revered, now vagrant, she walks a wasteland scarred by generations...
| Author | Vivian Vande Velde |
| ISBN | 0152051252 |
In the virtual reality game Heir Apparent, there are way too many ways to get killed--and Giannine seems to be finding them all. Which is a darn shame, because unless she can get the magic ring, locate the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, impress the head-chopping statue, charm the army...
Hanna Falk Cross is a paranormal investigator. Or at least, that's what his card says. But as people get to know him, one finds that there is not a lot of detective work in Hanna's daily life, but rather more of a mad scramble to get out of whatever mess he so wonderfully landed himself (and others) in.
Having...
After spending roughly about two years listening to friends talk incessantly in mysterious lingo about strangely named characters and places, and having had the premise of Homestuck explained to me more times than I can recount, I ended up being rather thoroughly "spoiled," so to speak, on many...
"Would you like to be a Hero?" It's what many dream of, and what one young girl is offered when she is woken by a mysterious stranger with a television for a head. In the middle of the night, she is whisked away into a world of fantastical metaphor, where emotions take physical form and the inanimate comes...
Melanie Gillman's unique webcomic turned paperback about a queer (but I only learned this for sure from the cover, because it wasn’t obvious throughout) black (though her Dad appears to be white) teenager on a backpacking trip with what appears to be an all-white, cis-gendered Christian feminist...
| Author | Josip Novakovich |
| ISBN | 1884910394 |
This book exemplifies the best of a writing workshop: thought-provoking instruction, a charismatic teacher and illuminating examples from classic and contemporary literary masters.
Each chapter explores a different aspect of the art of fiction and ends with a series of writing exercises...
| Author | Kamome Shirahama |
| ISBN | 4063886905 |
Thanks to the rave review from Lauren, and this has to be one of the best new manga I have read in the last couple years, the story of Coco, a girl who wants badly to be a witch. But as everyone knows, you have to be born a witch and can't just become one. Still, one day she finds a spell book, copies some spells and...
Rigo is a young woman of her time: specifically, the time just after the collapse of Earth. After living her whole life on a small space station orbiting the planet, the cultural norms and rules of her Californian parents are just history to her. In between work shifts at the station air farm, Rigo explores...
| Author | Ananth Hirsh |
| ISBN | 1620102870 |
If Penny Brighton didn't have bad luck, she'd have no luck at all. She lost her job. And her apartment. In the same day. But it's okay, her friend has a cozy storage unit she can crash in. And there's bound to be career opportunities at the neighborhood laundromat— just look how fast that 12-year-old who...
