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  • Cover for Kill Your Darlings, showing an illustrated teenage girl, Thulasi, who is horrified when monsters appear to coming from her open book. She is shadowed above by the villain, Addison Greer, wearing a menacing smile, and surrounded by a contingent of monsters, including a vampire, a harpy and a howling dog.

    Kill Your Darlings

    September 22
  • The cover art of HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, a novel by Celine Ong, where two male wrestlers (to the left is an Asian man in his 20s with black hair tied up in a man bun and a red fringe cascading down his face, dressed in a pair of black wrestling tights designed to look like flames; to the right is a white man with short blond hair with slight curls at the top, dressed in white tights and blue lines coming up the side) square up in the middle of a ring. They stare at each other with a mix of fierceness and affection, and have an arm on each other. They are illuminated by pinkish, purplish, and blueish stage lights above. In the background, a faceless crowd watches them.

    Hold Me Like a Grudge

    December 31
  • Cover for That Which Feeds Us, showing a girl with short curly hair sitting next to a green wall. Persimmon tree branches, full of ripe and rotting fruit, are growing out of the wall behind the girl and are piercing her skin. There are moths on top of the tattoo sleeves covering her arms and plumeria flower buds unfolding near her face. The book title and author's name, Keala Kendall, are written in a bold font.

    That Which Feeds Us: a Hawaiian Gothic

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

    Bones of Jade, Flesh Like Ice

    November 10
  • Full colour, illustrated cover for The Revenant of Surolifia by Florence Chien, with text shown in white and gold. The cover depicts a stern-faced, androgynous figure in their early 30's, with long silver hair. The figure is wearing an elegant black suit and waistcoat with golden embroidery on the lapel. They are standing in side-profile before a gothic window. Dramatic lighting pours down from overhead, backlighting the figure's face to give them a mysterious look. Decorative golden lines radiate from the figure to give them a vaguely religious look.

    The Revenant of Surolifia

    July 7
  • A white woman's and white man's faces are seen through a layer of blue guitar picks on a white background. The Encore and Juliet Izon are written in bold, black text.

    The Encore

    March 3
  • Cover for Witch Daughter showing a beautiful woman on a bright pink background. She is wearing a beaded blue and green dress, an ancient Bactrian crown, and a necklace with a Faravahar pendant.

    Witch Daughter

    September 22
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Death in Verse

    December 31
  • 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
  • Cover for She Waits Where Shadows Gather, by Michelle Tang, showing a red cover with mangoes dripping bloody instead of juice, and an insect on the mango. The tagline: "He came back from the dead, but he didn't come alone" is written in creepy font.

    She Waits Where Shadows Gather

    May 5
  • Cover for Love, Gods & Sinners, showing an illustration of two girls with their backs facing each other. One has short hair and is holding a dagger, one is in an armor-like suit with a long ponytail and holding a sword. The background of the cover is very colourful, with green, turquoise, purple and pink drawings. The title, Love, Gods & Sinners is in cursive at the bottom of the page, as well as the author's name Camille Chong.

    Love, Gods & Sinners

    June 11
  • Cover for Wrong Order, featuring a mint green/almost Tiffany Blue background. An abstract painting in the same shade hangs on the wall in the background.Two illustrated figured stand in the corner beneath the title. The man is wearing a suit and the woman is wearing a suit and dark green blouse. Her arms are crossed while one of his hands is in his pocket, with the other by his side. They are looking at each other. The title and author name are written in modern font.

    Wrong Order

    May 5
  • Cover for Deathly Fates, showing an illustrated Chinese priestess standing on a bridge, reaching out to a ghostly soldier/prince. There are shadowy mountains and a moon in the background. The book title and author's name, Tesia Tsai, are written in an elegant font.

    Deathly Fates

    April 14
  • A little girl is dressed in a kimono and a flower in her hair. Her arms are outstretched in a dance and there is a sun in the background. The book title, author's and illustrator's names are in all-caps.

    I Am a Bon Dancer

    March 31
  • Cover for SUBLIMATION showing two identical copies of a woman emerging from the center of the cover, which is a black void that radiates sunset colors. It looks very thriller science fictiony.

    Sublimation

    June 2
  • Female race car driver and male race car driver standing in front of a track with open wheel race cars in the background.

    The Fast Track

    August 4
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