Britt's Staff Picks


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Star rating for Spy x family
Series:
Spy X Family volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
"Master spy Twilight is the best at what he does when it comes to going undercover on dangerous missions in the name of a better world. But when he receives the ultimate impossible assignment--get married and have a kid--he may finally be in over his head! Not one to depend on others, Twilight has his work cut out for him procuring both a wife and a child for his mission to infiltrate an elite private school. What he doesn't know is that the wife...
Book cover for "The way of the house husband"
Star rating for The way of the house husband
Series:
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"He was the fiercest member of the yakuza, a man who left countless underworld legends in his wake. They called him 'the Immortal Dragon'. But one day he walked away from it all to walk another path--the path of the househusband! The curtain rises on this cozy yakuza comedy!"--Provided by publisher.
Book cover for "Flowers of mold"
Star rating for Flowers of mold
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat.
Book cover for "Sappho"
Star rating for Sappho
Description:
These hundred poems and fragments constitute virtually all of Sappho that survives and effectively bring to life the woman whom the Greeks consider to be their greatest lyric poet. Mary Barnard's translations are lean, incisive, direct, the best ever published. She has rendered the beloved poet's verses, long the bane of translators, more authentically than anyone else in English.
Book cover for "Death note"
Star rating for Death note
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects--and he's bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god. Any human whose name is written in the notebook dies, and now Light has vowed to use the power of the Death Note to rid the world of evil. Will Light's noble goal succeed, or will the Death Note turn him into the very thing he fights against?"--P. [4] of cover.
Book cover for "My brother's husband"
Star rating for My brother's husband
Series:
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi's estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji's past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and...
Book cover for "My lesbian experience with loneliness"
Star rating for My lesbian experience with loneliness
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Series:
My solo exchange diary volume Prequel.
Average Rating:
3.7 stars
Description:
The heart-rending autobiographical manga that's taken the internet by storm! My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness is an honest and heartfelt look at one young woman's exploration of her sexuality, mental well-being, and growing up in our modern age. Told using expressive artwork that invokes both laughter and tears, this moving and highly entertaining single volume depicts not only the artist's burgeoning sexuality, but many other personal aspects...

8. Remina

Book cover for "Remina"
Star rating for Remina
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
"An unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body Remina after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe?"--Provided by publisher....
Book cover for "Attack on Titan, colossal edition"
Star rating for Attack on Titan, colossal edition
Series:
Attack on Titan volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"For eons, humans ruled the natural world. But a century ago, everything changed when the Titans appeared. Giant, grotesque parodies of the human form, these sexless monsters consumed all but a few thousand human beings, who took refuge behind giant walls. Today, the threat of the Titans is a distant memory, and a boy named Eren yearns to explore the world beyond the wall. But what began as a childish dream will become an all-too-real nightmare when...