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  • 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 Strange Lights showing an illustrated night scene of a campfire by a Winnebago with pine trees in the background. A man in a sweater and jeans and a young child with long hair, rainboots, a backpack stand next to the campfire, both facing away. A third person is visible lounging on the top of the Winnebago, also facing away. Two round roomba style vacuums fly through the air. The title is written in an illustrated font of stars at the top of the image and the authors' name, Mira Gonzalez, is written in slanting font at the base of the image. The color scheme is neon pink, orange, and blue with green.

    Strange Lights

    October 6
  • Cover for "The Three Beasts", showing a large black silhouette of a three-headed dragon on a yellow background.The looming dragon is looking down at the three main characters: Dima, Espie, and Keris, each wielding ornate kalis swords with wavy, serpentine blades. Within the dragon's figure are faint images of more characters (older-looking men) and more dragons of different species. The title is in all-black, stylized Gothic text with swirly flourishes. The Author/Artist is Grovey Pascasio, with contribution by Buddy Beaudoin (Letterer).

    The Three Beasts

    October 27
  • Cover for The Heresy of Thieves, showing a painterly illustrated manticore with pink and gold stylized wings, roaring defiantly before a crowd of armed soldiers. In the background, a city atop a mountain glistens with firelight. The book title and author's name are written in a stylized heavy display font in white.

    The Heresy of Thieves

    October 6
  • A young woman stands hunched over a dark desk in the bottom half of the picture. Her face is hidden behind shoulder-length golden-blonde hair with strawberry undertones. Her dress is long with pink and blue accents, but leaves her shoulders and upper back exposed. A white, smoke-like fog rises off her and into the painted portrait behind her, which holds a young figure in white with a malicious glint in their eye and a wicked smile. The frame is curved and wooden, and the backdrop of the portrait is an ominous purple smoke. At the bottom of the image is the title "This Wretched Beauty" in a large, elegant font, as well as the words "A Dorian Gray Remix" framed beneath it in a smaller, sleeker font. At the top of the page is the name "Elle Grenier" in the same font as "A Dorian Gray Remix."

    This Wretched Beauty

    February 17
  • Book cover for HOLLOW MAGIC by Mars Lauderbaugh. Three characters face the viewer on a dark blue and pink background. There is ice and a the dark outline of a castle in the midground. In the far background, the eyes and hair of a woman is peeking out over the castle. Title text at the bottom of the page reads: HOLLOW MAGIC and underneath the author type reads MARS LAUDERBAUGH.

    Hollow Magic

    August 11
  • Cover for The Southern Sorority of Superstitious Witches, showing an illustrated gothic window with creeping vines around it and a tree branch with moss hanging from it above the window. Three women stand together facing one another with a candlelight illuminating their faces. The book title and author's name, Katie Ortiz, are written in a bold font.

    The Southern Sorority of Superstitious Witches

    October 6
  • Cover for The White North Has Thy Bones, showing a small historical tallship on the sea, surrounded by icebergs. The northern lights is over it, in shades of blue and green. The title is written in chilling, handwritten font.

    The White North Has Thy Bones

    October 22
  • A book cover featuring two characters, a handsome human wizard with his arm around a smaller gray-skinned person with pointed ears and dark hair. There's a weenie dog at their feet and wyverns flying in the air.

    The Education of Imryn Dyre, Wizard’s Apprentice

    November 24
  • Cover for PRINCEWEAVER, showing the title of the book vertically down the centre of the page. Two brunette hair braids cascade down, one on either side of the title. Surrounding it and interwoven with the hair is the image of a red fox, a grey-brown moth, and numerous plants including wood anemones, red berries, oak leaves and acorns, and falling golden leaves. At the top, the text 'MAGIC. MARRIAGE. WAR.' is written off to the left. The author's name, Elian J Morgan, is printed at the bottom.

    Princeweaver

    April 16
  • Four people with their backs to the viewer stride towards a huge gothic castle with the wind swirling arounds its peaks. The nearest person casually tosses a glowing bone in the air. The sky is purple and dotted with falling teeth. The title These Shattered Spires is bright pink across the middle in gothic serif font.

    These Shattered Spires

    March 10
  • Cover for Death in Verse, showing an illustrated girl with rusty red hair and wearing a dress and black sweater standing in a library and holding a book. Her hand touches the pages and ink flows up into the library, where pages swirl around the room. Standing before her is a nonbinary Chinese person in a coat and pants watching her. Beyond the library through the window, rain falls on a forest landscape. The book title and author's name are written in a bold font in all capitalized letters.

    Death in Verse

    September 22
  • Cover for I Was a Teenage Death God showing an illustration of a masculine-presenting teenager in shadow, embracing a vaguely human-shaped entity made of bright colors and light that appear to be disintegrating in their arms. They are surrounded by a flurry of whimsical ghosts with various facial expressions. The title is written in a thick, brightly-colored font and the author's name is scrawled on the sleeve of the teenager's denim jacket.

    I Was a Teenage Death God

    March 3
  • Cover for Champion of the Rose: Volume 1, showing Rey, a seventeen-year-old trans swordsman in the heat of battle. He's surrounded by sharp swords from all over the world. Rey wears a suit of armor and a large rose in bloom, over his heart. Colourful confetti falls around him. The book's title and author names for Cat Aquino and Dominique Duran are set in metallic gold.

    Champion of the Rose: Volume 1

    July 14
  • A purple background with a city skyline. In the middle is a mosque-like building from which a giant skyscraper reaches into the clouds. Surrounding the skyscraper is the title in bright orange: The Third Wish. Between the title, smaller white letters say: What would you wish for? And what would you give up to win? By T. E. Forest.

    The Third Wish

    September 16
  • A beige background is framed by the brown earth of a grave dotted with stylized human bones. Three adorable black kittens with blue eyes peer over the edges as if looking down on the viewer inside the grave. Text reads The Black Cat Detectives: A Mystery, by Kit Gray.

    The Black Cat Detectives

    May 26
  • The scene is a narrow street with row homes lit by street lamp along the left, with brick stoops. The title is in white sans serif: Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane? The subtitle is smaller, in gold: a memoir and a murder investigation. Kate Crane, is in white caps. The blurb at the top says: Beautifully crafted. Crane stirred the embers of a Baltimore cold case everyone else was willing to forget – her father’s. —David Simon.

    What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?

    April 7
  • The illustrated cover of Just Ask Elsie by Ari Koontz features a young white girl with blonde hair, standing in the middle of a school hallway and holding a stack of purple magazines that read "Elsie's Puberty Zine." Around her are cut-out doodles of birds and bees, hearts and emojis, and the progress pride flag. In the background, other students stand in front of blue lockers, watching and whispering. The title words are in mismatched fonts, with "Elsie" handwritten in gold sharpie over a piece of purple duct tape. The overall art style is soft-textured but bright, with pastel colors and rounded lines.

    Just Ask Elsie

    June 16
  • Cover for The Soul Thief. A man with dark hair wearing a white hat and a woman with dark, curly hair, glasses, a red bandana, and tattoos stand back-to-back in a swirl of green, black, and red magic. A city glows behind them and a shadow looms over them. White text in a slashing font reads "The Soul Thief" and "Molly Haniszewski."

    The Soul Thief

    October 13
  • 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
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