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A Quiet Teacher  (Quiet Teacher, volume 1)

By Adam Oyebanji 

16 May, 2025

Doing the WFC's Homework

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2022’s A Quiet Teacher is the first of Adam Oyebanji’s Quiet Teacher mystery series.

To the students and staff at Pittsburgh’s prestigious Calderhill Academy, Greg Abimbola is a language teacher whose good looks are made piratical by his eyepatch. Staff and students might be surprised to learn that Greg Abimbola is not the teacher’s real name and that his skill set extends far beyond teaching spoiled children Russian.

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Larger Than Life

Sky Pride, volume 1

By Warby Picus 

15 May, 2025

Special Requests

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Warby Picus’ Sky Pride, Volume One is the first volume in Picus’ ongoing cultivation fantasy webserial.

As her entire family is being cut down by assassins, Madame feeds her sickly son a pill, hoping to usher him into a better life. Scarcely has the boy eaten the pill than the assassins break in, killing Madame.

Accepting doom1 does not mean forgoing revenge. Madame is dead but as the assassins soon realize, her incendiary bombs are perfectly functional. The entire household, dead and living, goes up in flames.

A badly burned, maimed boy wakes up on a garbage heap.

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Old Home Town

The Dark We Know

By Wen-Yi Lee 

9 May, 2025

Doing the WFC's Homework

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Wen-Yi Lee’s 2023 The Dark We Know is a stand-alone horror novel.

Isadora Isa” Chang grew up in the isolated mining town of Slater. The community was repressive, her father was abusive, and two of her three close friends died. Isa fled, enrolling at a distant art school. She left the town, her sister and mother, and her best friend Mason Kane behind.

Art students are often short on money. Thus, when Isa’s father dies, the promise of a small inheritance is enough to tempt Isa back to Slater.

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Lonely Roads

Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 3

By Sakae Saito 

7 May, 2025

Translation

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2021’s Touring After the Apocalypse, Volume Three is the third tankōbon in Sakae Saito’s post-apocalyptic iyashikei manga. Touring has been serialized in in ASCII Media Works’ seinen manga magazine Dengeki Maoh since September 2020. Amanda Haley’s English translation was published in 2023.

Youko and Airi are living the dream… if what one dreams about is touring Japan after an unspecified disaster has (almost) entirely eradicated the human population1. Disaster tourism is a delightful experience.

Or it would be, if Airi didn’t keep falling into something like a coma.

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The Measure of All Things

Wave Without a Shore

By C J Cherryh 

6 May, 2025

Meetpoint

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C. J. Cherryh’s 1981 Wave Without a Shore is a stand-alone science fiction novel set in the Alliance-Union universe.

Sculptor Herrin Law is Freedom’s foremost artist, a creative genius without parallel on the thinly populated, backwater planet. Waden Jenks (friend) and Keye Lynn (occasional lover) might consider themselves his peers, but surely Law is superior to Jenks and Lynn.

At least, that’s how Law sees it. If there is one thing the people of Freedom are good at, it is perceiving reality the way they want it to be.


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