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

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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A book cover in lime green depicting the silouhette of a female rice farmer with her chin slightly raised ,looking upward. Within the silouhette there are images of rice terraces and distant mountains. The cover features the book title, And The Ancestors Sing, and the author name, Radha Lin Chaddah.

    And The Ancestors Sing

    February 3
  • Cover for Socks and Secret Quests, showing four preteens holding various quest weapons standing in front of a cozy-looking cottage with light shining out of the windows. The girl in the front holds knitting needles and a ball of yarn. The book title is in gold letters.

    Socks & Secret Quests

    September 29
  • Cream background with words unhitched the essential divorce guide for women and Oona Metz, LICSW in purple, blue and pink. Two gold rings touch each other.

    Unhitched: The Essential Divorce Guide for Women

    January 13
  • A stylized book cover with ornate pink borders and gothic flourishes. The large word “Beth” appears at the top in white cursive letters, dripping with blood. Below it, in bold block letters, are the words “IS DEAD.” At the bottom, the author’s name “Katie Bernet” is written in a classic serif font. The design has a dramatic, high-contrast aesthetic with a mix of elegance and horror.

    Beth Is Dead

    January 6
  • A girl and boy lean outside a window at a night sky, wisteria flowers carried by wind.

    The Free Verse Society

    March 24
  • Cover for Now That We Don't Talk, featuring a couple sitting on the floor of a cozy ski lodge, in an embrace, as it snows outside. There is a menorah on a table, and a fireplace lighting up the room.

    Now That We Don’t Talk

    October 20
  • Book cover of Just Watch Me by Lior Torenberg. The top third is a bold red-orange background with the title in tall, hand-drawn lettering. The middle section is filled with an explosion of colorful starburst shapes—pinks, yellows, greens, blues, reds—partially obscuring a woman’s eyes and face peeking out. A speech bubble-style star in the lower left reads “A Novel.” The author’s name is in bold red-orange lettering on a soft lavender background at the bottom.

    Just Watch Me

    January 20
  • Cover for Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice, showing an image of a woman in a hanfu with butterflies crawling up her neck and covering her face. There is a snake hidden in her hair ornaments and a pig carved onto the jade pendant at her neck. There is a fisherman featured on the hanfu.

    Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice

    November 10
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