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Traditionally published books coming out in 2026 from debut authors.
Please buy all of them and make your friends and family buy all of them too!

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February Featured Collections

For Black History Month, we have a collection of books by Black authors.
For Valentine’s Day, our Love Is in the Air Collection features romantic books.

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February New Releases

  • Cover of the novel 'A Good Animal' by Sara Maurer, featuring a pastoral landscape with a sunset, trees, a barn, and a flock of flying birds under a partly cloudy sky.

    A Good Animal

  • 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

  • Cover for Play with Fire, showing an illustrated man and woman outside a firehall with a red fire truck. The woman has blonde hair in a ponytail and wears a firefighter uniform, leaning against a pink cherry blossom tree. She looks up at the man, who has dark hair, glasses, broad shoulders, and is playfully tugging her suspenders. The book title is written in a swirly red font.

    Play with Fire

  • A black background with the hot pink image of a baby carriage. Below that is the title in blurry hot pink letters. Beneath that in white text are the words "A THRILLER". Above the baby carriage is the author's name in white text.

    The Better Mother

  • A man reads on a park bench beneath a modern lamp post in the upper left corner, upside down. A woman waits beneath an old-fashioned lamp post in the bottom left corner, right side up, both silhouetted in light blue against yellow clouds. Silhoettes of St. Paul's cathedral sit in opposite corners in blue. The title, All We Have is Time, covers the center in stacked words over grey and yellow clouds on a navy blue background dotted with stars. The authors name sits beneath it.

    All We Have is Time

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Background shows a sunrise by a river with rowing crews. In the foreground, a man and woman look at each other, with the man's hand lifting the woman's chin. Tagline reads: He was definitely not in her training plan.

    Racing Hearts

  • A bright yellow cover with a minimalist illustration of two orbits and multiple orbiting bodies. A small black spaceship with a white skull against it is illustrated at the bottom of the cover. The Iron Garden Sutra is written in large, white letters across the cover in three lines.

    The Iron Garden Sutra

  • Heart's Gambit book cover

    Heart’s Gambit

  • Cover for Love and Other Brain Experiments, showing two illustrated people in front of a pink background. One is a white man leaning against a table wearing a blue shirt, and with his hands around the lanyard of the woman opposite him, who wears a green shirt and has her hands propped against her waist. Bookshelves are in the background carrying book and varying science items, like a diagram, a 3D model of a brain and an atom model.

    Love and Other Brain Experiments

  • Cover for It's All In Your Head by Sabina Nordqvist. Over a light purple background, the title is written in 3D lettering in pink and white. Illustrations show a red-haired white woman wearing chronic illness awareness socks and reclining on the word "ALL". A brown-haired white man holding a cane leans against the word "HEAD." Other illustrations show snowboarding goggles, a pill, and a snowboard. The tagline reads "Your fake relationship shouldn't come with chronic feelings."

    It’s All In Your Head

  • Cover for The Found Object Society, showing a tangled, green vine image with various objects hidden throughout: a QR code, a hand, a ring, a perfume bottle, a cigarette lighter, glasses, a bank vault door, along with the title and author name in a yellow font.

    The Found Object Society

  • 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

  • A white cabin sits on a black background with a white ground that bleeds into dripping red. White birch trees with eyes surround the cabin. In white text, the title surrounds the cabin and trees saying: THE DARKNESS GREETED HER. In red text at the top right is a tagline that says: Everyone has a monstrous side... In red text on the bottom left is the author's name: Christina Ferko. A red slash of color with a white fire symbol is centered on the left side of the cover signifying the book as part of Sourcebooks Fire's Midnight Reads line.

    The Darkness Greeted Her

  • The cover of The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, by Reena McCarty The background is a night sky, dark blue on top, fading down to a bright blue behind a mountain range. There is a little peek of sun or moon behind the mountains, and a stone circle in the foreground at the bottom. The bulk of the cover is a slightly stained scroll that has the title, The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains, written in two different fonts. The scroll is surrounded by and almost holding back a bunch of plants and flowers–pine branches and cones, balsamroots, lupines, and prairie rockets, along with things like chokecherries, huckleberries, and morels. There are also a few other things in the border–a bronze dagger, a salt shaker, a spoon, and a pen, along with a scattering of iron nails.

    The Tricky Business of Faerie Bargains

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