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  • Cover of Then We'll Be Happy: vibrant, typographical cover in blue, green, orange and yellow. A teenage boy in a power wheelchair watches as a bus pulls away. Dotted around are Cheerios and a ball. The author's name, Alan Carrigan, is at the bottom in slanted white letters.

    Then We’ll Be Happy

    July 30
  • 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 Beneath the Edelweiss by Elizabeth Noel. The cover is split into a lower and upper section. The upper section shows a mountain scenes with two figures moving toward the peaks and the lower shows mountain herbs and a hand drawn edelweiss with notes around it.

    Beneath the Edelweiss

    October 20
  • Cover for No Man’s Daughter showing a woman with olive skin and dark hair, in frontier clothing, and holding a rifle with glowing runes. The background depicts trees and antlered phantom giants. The book title and the author's name, Justine Lombardi, are written in Nordic font.

    No Man’s Daughter

    June 2
  • Cover for A (Dead) Thing Like Me, showing an illustrated coffin with the title inside. Illustrated Ouija board elements (a planchette, a skull, an all-seeing eye, stars, and moon phases, and the words “hello” and “goodbye”) surround the coffin. The background color is black, and the coffin and elements are hot pink, turquoise, yellow, and orange. In hot pink, a blurb from AS King, Printz award-winning author of “Dig,” says, “Stunning … a suspenseful tale of friendship and healing”

    A (Dead) Thing Like Me

    August 18
  • Cover for The Marigold Bridge shows illustration of a candle in the center with orange and red flowers and greenery around an arch at the edges of the cover. The book title is large white letters in the center.

    The Marigold Bridge

    June 5
  • Cover for Rage of the Wiled, showing atmospheric background with dense, shadowy blue-green foliage bordered in metallic gold vines. From the top dangles a gold spider. A gold fox is centered beneath the large serif title: Rage of the Wiled. Revey Galaer is centered at the cover's bottom.

    Rage of the Wiled

    October 27
  • Cover for Copper Breadcrumbs shows a background of shining copper pennies. In the foreground there are two silhouettes, a short teenager facing a menacing knight silhouette holding a sharp sword menacingly in his direction. The book title and author's name, James Edgar, are written in block copper font.

    Copper Breadcrumbs

    June 11
  • Cover of The Mess That Made Them by Ryan T. Pozzi.

    The Mess That Made Them: How History’s Greatest Artists Failed, Floundered, and Made Something Brilliant Anyway

    September 3
  • Cover for Working Well, showing three paper clips, blue, white, and green, interconnected on an orange background. The book title and author’s name are in bold font and the subtitle is in white font.

    Working Well: How to Build a Happier, Healthier Workplace Through the Science of Attunement

    March 24
  • Cover for These Vile Hearts by Melody Robinette, showing a whimsical tree covered in dripping candles and red flowers, with roots growing into an anatomical heart, flanked by a dryad man with horns and a fairy with black eyes, as well as a dagger and insulin syringe.

    These Vile Hearts

    August 11
  • Cover for How to Love You When You're Gone. A blond teenage boy, in a pasta-water yellow poleo, sits across from a brunette teenage girl wearing a yellow hat. They're at a diner, sitting in a red booth. The walls are bright pink!

    How to Love You When You’re Gone

    May 26
  • Cover for "Casting April," showing an illustrated Chinese girl pulling back a theater curtain to reveal a stage. She is wearing a headset and a tracheostomy tube, and she's holding the script for a play called "Finding Primula." Onstage, an actor in an astronaut costume is looking into the spotlight. The book title is decorated with stars.

    Casting April

    June 16
  • Cover for Space for Saffron, by Rie Neal. Image shows a 10-year-old girl with fair skin and red hair, wearing a bone-anchored hearing aid. She stands in the doorway of a coffee shop, holding a model volcano.

    Space for Saffron

    February 3
  • Cover for War Boys, showing a little blond boy in a military uniform, an image of him as a young man behind it. The book title and author's name are written in white lettering.

    War Boys: A Father and Son Memoir

    July 1
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • A boy in profile view, the focus zoomed in on his head and shoulders as he falls against a teal background. The boy has his eyes closed, with pale skin and dark brown hair that seems to ripple as he falls. Other items fall around him: a microphone, newspapers (including one that reads, MOTHER POISONS HER SON), and a pillbox with pills falling out. The whole scene has a sort of glitched out quality to it, with portions of Alex and the falling items blurring into rainbow static.

    Alex, by Proxy

    July 21
  • Cover for All Her Ghosts by Cynthia Prith showing a ghostly sprig of asphodel and a cold blue mist under the swirling font All Her Ghosts.

    All Her Ghosts

    July 7
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