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

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  • The cover of A BARISTA'S GUIDE TO LOVE & LARCENY, featuring a young couple staring at each other. The girl has purple hair in a braid, white skin, and a white sweater with an amethyst necklace. A crow with turquoise feathers sits on the girl's shoulder. The boy has brown hair, tan skin, and a brown sweater. There is a mug of coffee and several bottles on the table where they sit. The backdrop is blue and purple, filled with clouds and stars.

    A Barista’s Guide to Love & Larceny

    January 13
  • In the bottom left and right are two temples, and both are foregrounded by blue and red flames. PRODIGAL TIGER is in the center of the cover. There are flames reaching up all across the cover in shades of blue, red, pink, orange, and green. A Malaysian-Chinese girl stands in the top center of the cover, accompanied by a white blue and white tiger. At the top is Samantha Chong's name.

    Prodigal Tiger

    March 17
  • Cover for (Mostly) Human Resources, showing a blue forest with a pale desk sitting between the trees. On the desk are a crumpled map, glasses, and a lit lamp. On the ground are a backpack, lit flashlight, jackalope, key, and journal. The book title is in bold white text with a tagline above it that reads, "Nothing bonds rivals like a missing person."

    (Mostly) Human Resources

    August 4
  • Two people are facing one another. On the left, a tall man with long, wavy brown hair with primroses in it. He wears a plaid in various shades of green with leafy embellishments. He’s smiling down at the woman, gently holding her chin with his thumb. The woman on the right has long, tawny hair tied halfway back with a thin ribbon, a white rose behind her left ear. She wears a long sleeved dress in a sandy color and holds a basket full of flower in the crook of her arm. She is looking up at the man. The two are surrounded by rose bushes in pastel colors. The image is framed in black with an intricate bronze border. In the foreground there is the title in white letters with purple borders: “My Thorns For Your Roses” with the author’s name “Kristen Argyres” below. In small text above the woman, next to the man’s head are the words “The Cairnwood Reel Series.”

    My Thorns For Your Roses

    May 5
  • The cover of the Lustrous Dark: The silhouette of a girl facing the entrance to a cave of luminous crystal pillars that swirl with pink, blue, and purple. She is surrounded by a dark, foreboding forest.

    The Lustrous Dark

    May 19
  • Cover for The Poet Empress by Shen Tao. It shows a reddish-pink dragon against a visit blue night sky. A blurb from Andrea Stewart says, "A breathless reading experience."

    The Poet Empress

    January 20
  • Cover for We've Hit Turbulence. Illustrated characters of a tall white man with short brown hair and a shorter woman with curly dark brown hair stand back to back, looking over their shoulders at each other. Both are wearing flower leis and have rolling suitcases next to them. They stand on a small island with white sand set in a blue ocean with a pink sunset sky behind them.

    We’ve Hit Turbulence

    January 13
  • The cover shows a young girl swimming in the ocean, her body like a shadow. She is red-haired. There are vibrant pink and orange coral reef beneath her. Above her is the watery shape of a woman representing Moana, the ocean. Moana wraps the young girl in her arms. Moana's body is all blue, made of water, fish, waves, and bubbles. In the center is the title of the book in thin, gold letters: Salt Water Blood. The author's name, Manuia Heinrich, is written in white at the bottom of the cover.

    Salt Water Blood

    November 17
  • The UK cover for Vile Lady Villains, showing an illustration of two women, one with red hair, a white dress and a red cloak, and one with black hair and a black dress. Both are holding daggers on each other's throats.

    Vile Lady Villains

    April 2
  • Cover for A Fate Worse Than Drowning, showing dark red waves leading up to a craggy island and a lighthouse that is shining yellow light across a sky with stars.

    A Fate Worse Than Drowning

    July 21
  • Cover of the novel 'A Good Animal' by Sara Maurer, featuring a pastoral landscape with a sunset, trees, a barn, and a flock of flying birds under a partly cloudy sky.

    A Good Animal

    February 24
  • Ocean maelstrom surrounded by rainbow eucalyptus tree, sampaguita flowers, and green leaves. At the heart of the maelstrom is a wooden ship with red Asian-style sails.

    Saltswept

    February 26
  • A black book cover with a gold fringe on either side, as well as a gothic looking arch, in the same gold, with hot pink roses inside two triangles. Under the arch is a golden bat, and beneath that, the title The Book of Blood and Roses, in a gold and white font. Beneath the title is a white and pink book, flanked by two pink candles. Beneath is a golden rectangle encasing the author’s name, Annie Summerlee, in a gothic font.

    The Book of Blood and Roses

    January 13
  • A bright pink book cover with a large rose in the background. The title reads “Most Eligible,” under which it says the author’s name, Isabelle Engel. At the top, there is a quote that says “sizzles with drama and intrigue on every page—Ava Wilder” and at the bottom, there is a tagline that says “she’s not there for love.”

    Most Eligible

    January 13
  • A man reads on a park bench beneath a modern lamp post in the upper left corner, upside down. A woman waits beneath an old-fashioned lamp post in the bottom left corner, right side up, both silhouetted in light blue against yellow clouds. Silhoettes of St. Paul's cathedral sit in opposite corners in blue. The title, All We Have is Time, covers the center in stacked words over grey and yellow clouds on a navy blue background dotted with stars. The authors name sits beneath it.

    All We Have is Time

    February 24
  • Two characters stand shoulder to shoulder smirking at each other. The girl has her arms crossed in a short black lace dress with fingerless gloves. Her black hair is braided into buns at the nape of her neck. The boy has chin length black hair and olive skin. He's wearing a maroon kitesurfing shirt and jeans. They stand in front of a large wrought iron gate covered in vines outside a dark turreted mansion. The title covers the image: You're Dead to Me Reed Walker. Above it is the tag line: They'd kill each other. If they weren't already dead.

    You’re Dead to Me, Reed Walker

    May 12
  • Background shows a sunrise by a river with rowing crews. In the foreground, a man and woman look at each other, with the man's hand lifting the woman's chin. Tagline reads: He was definitely not in her training plan.

    Racing Hearts

    February 10
  • The cover of The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, by Reena McCarty The background is a night sky, dark blue on top, fading down to a bright blue behind a mountain range. There is a little peek of sun or moon behind the mountains, and a stone circle in the foreground at the bottom. The bulk of the cover is a slightly stained scroll that has the title, The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, written in two different fonts. The scroll is surrounded by and almost holding back a bunch of plants and flowers–pine branches and cones, balsamroots, lupines, and prairie rockets, along with things like chokecherries, huckleberries, and morels. There are also a few other things in the border–a bronze dagger, a salt shaker, a spoon, and a pen, along with a scattering of iron nails.

    The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains

    April 7
  • Cover for The Finalist, showing a small ballerina in costume, in an open grey-scale palm, against a red and black background.

    The Finalist

    October 6
  • A white cabin sits on a black background with a white ground that bleeds into dripping red. White birch trees with eyes surround the cabin. In white text, the title surrounds the cabin and trees saying: THE DARKNESS GREETED HER. In red text at the top right is a tagline that says: Everyone has a monstrous side... In red text on the bottom left is the author's name: Christina Ferko. A red slash of color with a white fire symbol is centered on the left side of the cover signifying the book as part of Sourcebooks Fire's Midnight Reads line.

    The Darkness Greeted Her

    February 3
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