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

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  • Cover for the novel Ghost Orchid, showing an evening swamp scene with a shack on stilts standing in the swamp in the background, its windows glowing with light. A heron wades across the swamp in the foreground, and the scene is framed by mossy trees.

    Ghost Orchid

    September 22
  • Cover for The Greatest Game. A woman with blonde hair stands in front of an African American man as they stare defiantly at each other. They wear sports clothes and their whistles are tangled together. In the background is a soccer field with a goal and soccer ball.

    The Greatest Game

    May 5
  • Cover the The Haunting of Lavender House, showing a white woman with shoulder-length dark hair looking out from the window of a house. The house has teal-green shutters, and the wall around it is also teal-green. The woman is wearing a lavender colored dress and she is looking over her shoulder at the viewer. In her hands, she is holding a bundle of lavender. Behind her, a dark silhouette of a person looms. The area around her, in the house, is colored an ominous bright red. Along the top and bottom of the cover are embroidered vines and flowers, resembling lavender. The book title is written in a bold, white font.

    The Haunting of Lavender House

    October 20
  • Cover for Cut to the Ending, showing a M/F illustrated couple embracing against a blue background. She is a white woman with red hair wearing a burgundy shirt, brown skirt, and purple tights and is holding his face. He is a white man with brown hair wearing jeans and a flannel with a robed action figure in his shirt pocket. The book title and author's name (Maria Millage) written in yellow font.

    Cut to the Ending

    November 3
  • Cover of THE PATRON SAINT OF WHITE MENAGERIES by Lauren T. Davila. It is a dark cover, featuring a tan woman's hand behind the white text. She is grasping a white peacock feather and there are orange, purple, and red flowers surrounding her and the feather.

    The Patron Saint of White Menageries

    September 1
  • A beige book cover with bright, multicolored block letters and hot pink doodles of a heart, a lightning bolt, and the crossed-out letters from a nostalgic M.A.S.H. game. The title reads “The MASH Up” and the words “a novel” are circled beneath it in pink. The author’s name, Laura Marie Meyers, is in a blue script font along the bottom, and at the top, in pink text, is a blurb from author Emily Giffin, which reads, “An irresistible, page-turning treat from first laugh to last swoon.”

    The MASH Up

    July 7
  • Cover for How the story goes, featuring a stack of four books against a night sky with the words "How the Story Goes" cascading down their different colored covers at angles. The edges of the books' pages include simple images of a castle, a hand writing, and a couple walking hand in hand, as well as decorative fall leaves and birds.

    How the Story Goes

    May 5
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    We Sent Them Down Singing

    July 21
  • A mermaid with glowing eyes and tentacle-like hair curling around a human girl, while seaweed and coral obscure them from view.

    Endless Blue Beneath

    June 9
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Death in Verse

    December 31
  • Cover for The Night Hunter showing leopard in tree.

    The Night Hunter

    July 28
  • The cover for Double Happiness depicts an illustration of a young, thirty-something Asian American woman with red lips and sunglasses, with a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Two yellow bubbles to the upper right and lower left of her depict the silhouettes of her two love interests. The Chinese character for "love" is also shown twice on the cover in vibrant yellow. The title, "Double Happiness," and the author's name, Heather Eng, are written in a bold sans serif font.

    Double Happiness

    May 19
  • Dark blue book cover with four curvy lines that look like roads (light blue, royal blue, gray-blue, and beige). Title in center reads I'M THE UNDERTOW. Author name below reads ERIC SCOT TRYON

    I’m the Undertow

    May 5
  • Cover for The Shrouded Queen, showing the silhouette of a girl in a blue cloak bordered by gold symbols. On the left border are Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, on the right are Viking runes. The book title appears in a golden circle at the center with the author's name just below.

    The Shrouded Queen

    June 16
  • Cover for Home Sick, showing two sheep heads staring out at the viewer on a gradiated pink background. One of the sheep has creepy black eyes, like a shark. The book title and author's name, Rhiannon Grist, are written in a thick, pointed font.

    Home Sick

    July 14
  • Cover for The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies, showing a bright blue sky with a hint of an Oxford college at the bottom. A man and woman's sillouhettes stand beside the title with a fountain pen spilling red ink stabbing the letters.

    The Oxford Guide to Scandal and Lies

    September 1
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    You’re the One That I Haunt

    December 31
  • A young man with red hair holding a camera walks down a city street. Flocks of crows fill the air. The title 'The Last Death Poet' is overlaid in a gothic script

    The Last Death Poet

    April 2
  • Cover for Rabbit, Fox, Tar, showing a linocut of a tall house and a woman in a large hat walking by on a beige background. There are smudges of purple across the cover. The book title and author's name, P.C. Verrone, and the phrase “A Novel” are written in a bold, serif font.

    Rabbit, Fox, Tar

    June 2
  • Cover for Between Sun And Shadow, showing two illustrated teen girls. On the left, Adria is tall and muscular, with short unruly hair. She has wings and claws, presently holding a small glowing sphere. On the right, Kori is a little more than half her height, fully armored except for her helmet, and brandishing a pistol.

    Between Sun and Shadow

    May 5
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