California has seceded from America, and Molly and her daughter Phoebe run a bookstore that straddles the troubled border of the two countries. When outright war breaks out, Molly and Phoebe must protect their customers - American and Californian alike - but the customers are not all willing to get along.

Passive and easily satisfied, Roger spends his days managing his secondhand bookstore The Pleiade. He worships modernist classics without fully reading them, he’s gregarious but seldom invited to dinner, and he types novel after novel methodically, but all are rejected. He passes seasons of love and loss in unfailing, impassive routine.

A Black foster teenager looks for escape from his life through books he borrows at a library. A witch-librarian guides his selections along the way, and ultimately gives him an off-limits book to help him literally escape the world.

After the father turns into a tree, a family struggles to figure out what to do with him.

An orchestra tries to pull off an impossible feat: summoning a god.

Curious about the archived contents stowed away in her house, a girl tries to figure out the magical, mysterious backstory behind a cemetery.

After joining the cause of the angels, a girl with a penchant for languages discovers the horrifying truth about their project on earth.

After death, a woman is given an interesting job offer by the vampire clan in her city.