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  • Cover for Mirrorwoven, showing a silhouette of a girl in a ball gown in front of a large stylised mirror. In the upper right and left hand regions of the mirror are two additional silhouetted girls. The book's title is in large letters inside the mirror frame. Surrounding the mirror are swirls and sparkles and a shattered mirror effect bursts from the middle. The colour palette is mainly teal, turquoise and orange.

    Mirrorwoven

    July 2
  • Two 13-year-old girls stand back to back in greenery with yellow flowers. They are both white. One has a long brown braid and and is wearing jeans and one has short blonde hair and is wearing glasses and long shorts. The brown-haired girl is looking back at the other one. The book title is written in all caps, one word stacked on top of the other.

    When You’re Brave Enough

    April 7
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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 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 The Color of Time by Millie Abecassis, showing an illustrated canyon landscape with a star-filled sky above it. In the middle is the protagonist, a woman with blue eyes wearing a green suit, a cloak, and a mask covering her face. She holds an astronaut helmet in her left arm, and two snakes. On the left and right sides of the cover are symetrical green snake-like patterns. The title is displayed above the character, and the author's name at the bottom.

    The Color of Time

    May 19
  • Cover image for Fire Power, a novel by Mir Benitz. Image shows two people in racing gear, holding their helmets in front of them—one is a blonde-haired woman in a red suit with embroidered patches; the other is a dark-haired man in a black and gold suit with a family coat of arms on the chest. Behind the title is a pair of red dragon's wings.

    Fire Power

    September 1
  • 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
  • Book cover for We Sent Them Down Singing by Libby Edwardson. Font in black with an image of a yellow canary with a black hole in its stomach, overlaid over mountains and trees in blue, gray, and black. White background.

    We Sent Them Down Singing

    July 21
  • Cover for The Saw Mouth, showing a long black ethereal monster with dripping teeth looming behind a car driving down a country road framed by dead trees reaching over it. The background is orange and the monster is black.

    The Saw Mouth

    May 12
  • 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 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 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 THE BONE BRIDES, by Marley Rose-Teter. The cover’s main color palate is glowy blues and aquas and features two girls holding hands while standing face-forward. One girl has a missing eye and a place her torso reveals instead a ribcage. The other girl has a hand that has become skeletal. In a satchel the second girl wears sits a skeleton-rabbit. Behind the girls looms a large skeleton-deer, with one antler replaced by vines. Very moody and atmospheric. The book has pale-green sprayed edges, stenciled with deer skulls and the same antler/vine combination.

    The Bone Brides

    September 29
  • 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
  • Two women, side by side. The first is in a blue Regency dress, holding a fan, while the second is in a red minidress. The backgrounds show the same row of houses, but the scene behind the first woman shows historic scenes and young trees while the trees behind the second woman are much older and the scene more modern.

    The Regency Switch

    February 26
  • 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
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