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  • Cover for Bound by Fury, showing a mixed media brown-skinned girl facing the viewer. She has grey eyes and two brown buns. She wears a black top and has a gold necklace. Behind her, a white male looks off to the side. In the foreground a castle-like school is in blue tones, and behind them, a large pink moon glows. Blue and pink swirls add detail. The book title and author name - noelle monét - are in a serif font. The book also features celestial sprayed edges in a dark blue.

    Bound by Fury

    August 18
  • A book cover in dark blue depicting a gemstone jutting up from the bottom right. Nestled among the gems rugged facets is a tower with golden windows and a twisted tree. To the top left of the tower are two small white birds. In gold at the top is the book title, Black As Diamond. In white at the bottom is the author's name, U.M. Agoawike.

    Black As Diamond

    March 3
  • Cover for Death Card, showing a Black teen girl with box braids holding a tarot card, the Death Card, in front of her face.

    Death Card

    August 11
  • A girl and boy lean outside a window at a night sky, wisteria flowers carried by wind.

    The Free Verse Society

    March 24
  • A book cover that shows poloraids of three girls with brown skin in bright clothing appearing in front of different locations. The polaroids sit atop a scrapbook page of various patterns.

    The Summer Scrapbook

    May 5
  • Heart's Gambit book cover

    Heart’s Gambit

    February 3
  • 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 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
  • A book cover in varying shades of orange, with a smaller square overlay of pink streaked paint reminiscent of a framed painting that provides the backdrop for the cover art. The title, Don't Tell Me How It Ends, lies within that pink square, and is written in capitalized white block font, which is also made to look like paint strokes. Below the title, an illustrated Black man and woman of varying skin tones embrace, wearing dark colored casual clothing. To their left, the author's name, Adrienne Thurman, is in a white handwriting font, as are the words, "A Novel" just to the couple's right. Along the top border of the cover, in block letters of the deepest shade of orange, the tagline reads, "No spoilers. Just sparks."

    Don’t Tell Me How It Ends

    April 14
  • Illustrated cover for Wench by Erynne Rivers depicting a brown-skinned young woman with long, dark curly hair standing in front of an art nouveau style frame of twisting branches and leaves. She’s wearing a flowing cream dress with a green bodice while holding a bow, with a quiver of arrows slung over her shoulder. A fox sits close at her feet, gazing up at her. Behind her is a circular backdrop of sky blue and green, evoking woodland and magic. At the top, the words “LOVE. FAE. TREASON.” arc above her head. The title WENCH appears large at the bottom, with the author’s name, Erynne Rivers, beneath it.

    Wench

    July 16
  • Cover for Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance, a purple backdrop with green and yellow vines crawling about in a stern and graffiti font.

    Forever for the Culture

    January 27
  • Cover for A Drop of Color, showing a Nigerian-American girl looking over her shoulder surrounded by vibrant colors. The girl has rich, dark brown skin, gold earrings, and black hair. The book title and author's name are written with a paintstroke font.

    A Drop of Color

    November 3
  • Cover for We Run the Night, showing an illustrated black girl looking afraid and two ghostly figures of a boy and a girl staring down at her, on a background of a tree with branches growing through the ghostly figures. The book title and author’s name, Peace Mbengei are written in yellow font.

    We Run The Night

    September 15
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Love, Witches, And Wahala

    November 17
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