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Books by first-time debuts (authors who have never published any book before).

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  • Cover for My Violent Muse, showing classic painting of two women inside art-work frame upon black background. One woman is kissing the other on the head, the other woman is staring straight ahead. The book title is written in gothic light pink font, and the author name is written in dark pink cursive font.

    My Violent Muse

    October 6
  • Cover for Once, Again, Always, showing an illustration of an auburn-haired woman and a blond-haired man sitting on opposite sides of a deep blue, antique sofa. The woman looks uncertain, clutching a book. The man looks apprehensive, running a hand through his hair. A fluffy white cat sits between them. Above them, the book title is written in a dark blue script, and below them, the author's name, Amanda Gayle, is written in a light blue sans-serif font. In the background of the scene sit several stacks of books and bookshelves.

    Once, Again, Always

    October 6
  • Book cover for The Art of Living Forever by A. T. Rainach. An ornate black-and-gold design features tall Gothic columns, decorative gold filigree, white and pink flowers, and an elaborate cream, black, and gold masquerade mask. A small gold pendant hangs above the mask. Large stylized silver lettering displays the title against the dark background.

    The Art of Living Forever

    November 3
  • Cover for Under Cover of Chaos, showing a torn Unite Nations mail sack on a dark wood road. In the image background, there is a woman sitting on the side of the same road looking lost and frustrated. The book title and authors' names are in bold fonts.

    Under Cover of Chaos

    June 18
  • Cover for An Embodiment of Souls by Julia Laurel. The illustration depicts a Gilded Age city at night lit by lanterns, the moon and stars. Intricate architecture transitions into a more austere brick building with red accents, and within the alcoves of the building are skeletons and the abstract forms of human bodies controlled by outstretched hands. Bones and skulls adorn the ground.

    An Embodiment of Souls

    November 10
  • A book cover that is purple with wisps of gold and pink. Atop grass are two black silhouettes of women with a golden tether wrapping around them. Pink text says: WAXING AND WANING. Above that is an eclipse.

    Waxing and Waning

    December 1
  • A girl sits beside a large mango.

    Confessions of a Mango

    April 14
  • Cover for FUNCLES, showing a cute and brightly illustrated neighborhood building that is bustling with life. There is a boy on the third level smiling and looking down at all the uncles he sees in his community. The book title is written in a green stylistic font while the author and illustrator's names are presented below the title.

    Funcles

    November 3
  • Cover for Whale Fall, showing an illustration of an orca from above the water. In the water's ripples, there is the shadow of a human being. The book title and author's name appear in block font.

    Whale Fall

    September 15
  • Cover for Mythspeaker, showing four Native children facing outward as if preparing to battle something dangerous. Back left child is wearing an owl mask and cloak of feathers while pointing to something we cannot see. Front left is a girl with a long braid and shirt of red hide with tassels. She has a triangle tattoo under each eye. Front right is a boy with long hair wearing a blue vest with triangular patterns. He's holding a large, glowing ember in one hand. Back right child is a boy with a scalplock also wearing a vest and holding up a stone knife to defend himself. Behind them is a large egg swirled with colors of blue and red. Flame surrounds it. Looming behind everything and largest in the image is an enormous lion-like creature with glowing golden eyes and mouth. Huge antlers grow from his forehead, intertwining with the title in bold gold lettering.

    Mythspeaker

    February 24
  • Cover for Fire and Death, showing a gilded bronze fire with cracks and blue symbols coming out of it, with fire underneath. ‘Through shadows and sunlight, everything was hiding. The truth hadn’t changed. But I did’ is written at the top. The title is written in semi-dramatic font, and this is book one of the Fire and Water series.

    Fire and Death

    September 22
  • A cover image for The House That Eats the Dead.

    The House That Eats the Dead

    August 18
  • Cover for Portrait of a Witch Undone, showing a misty marsh setting in surrealist pink and purple fog with an empty frame in the middle. A hand is curled around the edge of the frame.

    Portrait of a Witch Undone

    August 25
  • A South Asian woman is featured in the center wearing a pink sparkly outfit with two men standing on either side of her. One with blonde hair in a grey suit and the other with black hair in a traditional South Asian kurta top. The background is bright pink, and the title font is white.

    Everything She Wanted

    October 6
  • Cover of Then We'll Be Happy: vibrant, typographical cover in blue, green, orange and yellow. A teenage boy in a power wheelchair watches as a bus pulls away. Dotted around are Cheerios and a ball. The author's name, Alan Carrigan, is at the bottom in slanted white letters.

    Then We’ll Be Happy

    July 30
  • Cover for Devil of the Deep showing an illustrated, larger than life, Black woman partially submerged in a turbulent sea while a storm rages in the background. The woman manipulates the sea with her hands and wears a conch shell on her head as a headdress. She has strings of beads and pearls dangling from her neck and wrapped around her wrist. The book title is written in the top left corner in, bold, white letters. The author's name, Falencia Jean-Francois is printed in the bottom left corner in smaller but still bold, blue font.

    Devil of the Deep

    April 7
  • Cover for Lost in Curiosity, showing a night sky with stars and galaxies, framed by a collage of tropical plants, an iceberg, a planet, a coyote, a frog under a magnifying glass, binoculars, and a camera.

    Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown

    July 21
  • Cover for The Stolen Women: A Novel by Alysandra Dutton, which is a moody blue with two orange vector illustration silhouettes of Roman women reaching and swooning, evoking paintings of the Sabine women from the past.

    The Stolen Women

    October 27
  • Cover for Another Name for Red, showing a forest, a blue sky, and a redness spreading across the bottom of the forest. The book title takes up most of the cover, and the red silhouettes of a woman and a dog walk through letters of the title.

    Another Name for Red

    October 13
  • Cover for Beneath the Edelweiss by Elizabeth Noel. The cover is split into a lower and upper section. The upper section shows a mountain scenes with two figures moving toward the peaks and the lower shows mountain herbs and a hand drawn edelweiss with notes around it.

    Beneath the Edelweiss

    October 20
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