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  • 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 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • A boy and a girl run in a cloud of purple mist, with a yellow dragon looming overhead, against a setting of misty mountains, rivers, dandelions, and a full moon.

    Song of the Yellow Dragon

    May 12
  • 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. Blurb from Richard Swan reading: "Sorcerous chicanery meets high-stakes political scheming".

    The Revenant of Surolifia

    July 7
  • Cover for The Forest Bleeds, showing an illustrated and haunting anatomical heart comprised of skeletal bones, blooming red and yellow flowers, and withered leaves on a black background. The book title and the author's name, Rachel Kitch, are written in a bold white font.

    The Forest Bleeds

    October 13
  • An illustration featuring the large side profile of a young woman with the silhouette of two two figures below standing in an otherworldly landscape with floating rocks. Planets with rings, a starry backdrop, and futuristic clothing add a touch of sci-fi to the image.

    The Celestial Seas

    March 31
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Cover of the book "Burn the Sea" with the title written in swoopy gold-yellow font. There is a woman in the foreground playing a tambura. She is wearing a teal-green lehenga with gold trim and is holding the tambura such that its neck is covering half her face. She is staring at the audience and her unbound curls cascade down her shoulders. A dagger leans against one of her legs. She is sitting in a stepwell, and her toes and hem are in the pool of water at the base. There is a snake made of smoke hovering in the upper right corner.

    Burn the Sea

    April 21
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