Undertow
A wealthy beach-town woman reunites with her first love and must choose between family expectations and old heartbreak.
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Hey, Zoey
A woman’s life unravels after she discovers her husband’s AI sex doll and begins confronting buried truths.
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Migrations
A restless woman boards a fishing boat to follow the last Arctic terns through a near-future world of extinction.
Project Hail Mary
An amnesiac scientist wakes alone in deep space and must solve a cosmic threat to save Earth.
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進撃の巨人 24 [Shingeki no Kyojin 24]
A flashback-heavy volume shifts to the enemy side, deepening war, trauma, and politics before a major cliffhanger.
Hold Back the Stars
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The Vital Abyss
A captive scientist recounts the hidden backstory behind a disastrous secret research program in the Expanse universe.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin
A lone surviving Turtle in a ruined future NYC fights for revenge, justice, and his lost family’s legacy.
Overseas
A Wall Street analyst is drawn into a sweeping time-travel romance that links modern New York to WWI France.
Chasm City
A security operative chasing revenge enters a plague-ravaged city where memory, identity, and history unravel.
Eleutheria
A hopeful young woman joins a climate-cure commune on a Bahamian island, only to uncover betrayal, power, and secrets.
Attack Surface
A gifted hacker for surveillance firms must choose between lucrative complicity and helping the dissidents her tech targets.