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  • Cover for FUNCLES, showing a cute and brightly illustrated neighborhood building that is bustling with life. There is a boy on the third level smiling and looking down at all the uncles he sees in his community. The book title is written in a green stylistic font while the author and illustrator's names are presented below the title.

    Funcles

    November 3
  • Cover for Mythspeaker, showing four Native children facing outward as if preparing to battle something dangerous. Back left child is wearing an owl mask and cloak of feathers while pointing to something we cannot see. Front left is a girl with a long braid and shirt of red hide with tassels. She has a triangle tattoo under each eye. Front right is a boy with long hair wearing a blue vest with triangular patterns. He's holding a large, glowing ember in one hand. Back right child is a boy with a scalplock also wearing a vest and holding up a stone knife to defend himself. Behind them is a large egg swirled with colors of blue and red. Flame surrounds it. Looming behind everything and largest in the image is an enormous lion-like creature with glowing golden eyes and mouth. Huge antlers grow from his forehead, intertwining with the title in bold gold lettering.

    Mythspeaker

    February 24
  • A South Asian woman is featured in the center wearing a pink sparkly outfit with two men standing on either side of her. One with blonde hair in a grey suit and the other with black hair in a traditional South Asian kurta top. The background is bright pink, and the title font is white.

    Everything She Wanted

    October 6
  • 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 Lost in Curiosity, showing a night sky with stars and galaxies, framed by a collage of tropical plants, an iceberg, a planet, a coyote, a frog under a magnifying glass, binoculars, and a camera.

    Lost in Curiosity: Field Notes From Scientists’ Adventures into the Unknown

    July 21
  • Cover for Another Name for Red, showing a forest, a blue sky, and a redness spreading across the bottom of the forest. The book title takes up most of the cover, and the red silhouettes of a woman and a dog walk through letters of the title.

    Another Name for Red

    October 13
  • Cover for Every Version of You, showing an illustrated person staring at the Los Angeles skyline. There are boxes featuring a woman and a man arguing, a woman and a man embracing, and a cat.

    Every Version of You

    July 7
  • Book cover for From Beijing, With Love by Bei Lin, showing an illustration of two men holding hands with the Great Wall of China in the backdrop. The book title is written in a cursive font. The author name, Bei Lin, is on the bottom of the illustration.

    From Beijing, With Love

    September 29
  • Cover for Casually Yours, showing an illustration of a man and woman holding one another in the window of a historic hotel. It is nighttime. The book title is written in cursive and the author name, Vivian Jia Lac, is written in bold yellow font.

    Casually Yours

    March 17
  • The cover for Freedom to Me by Sidney Quinn featuring a pink California sunset framed by palm trees. There is a tall ship in the background, and a revolver on the sand in the foreground. The tagline says "Mystery, corruption, and a secret that threatens to tear their love apart."

    Freedom to Me

    June 16
  • Cover of These Kindred Hearts by Shari B Pennant, with purple smoke, and illustrations of sword, book, cauldron, skull, rose, cat, fox, bottle, quill and crown.

    These Kindred Hearts

    June 30
  • Cover for There Used to Be People Here, showing a starry night sky with a red streaked comet across it. A car with bright headlights sits on the road beneath the title. The book title and the author’s name are written in a bold, large cap font.

    There Used to Be People Here

    November 3
  • Cover for Last Night I Dreamed of Home, showing an illustrated girl with pink hair opposite a boy with dark blue hair, juxtaposed against a background of the Toronto skyline and an Asian night market.

    Last Night I Dreamed of Home

    October 22
  • Cover for Silk and Sensibility, showing an illustration of pink plum blossoms and two blue swallows on a white background. The book title and author's name, Mengxi Seeley, are written in a simple serif font.

    Silk and Sensibility

    September 15
  • Cover for Frankie Lu's Summer of No Regrets, showing an illustrated girl and boy sitting on a bench, looking out over the Taipei cityscape. The book title is written across the top in a swirling handwritten font and the author's name, Betty Chang, is printed across the bottom of the cover.

    Frankie Lu’s Summer of No Regrets

    September 29
  • Picture of Smile for the Camera's cover: Emilyn and Jase are hugging with Emilyn’s hand on Jase’s chest Jase’s nose on Emilyn’s forehead. There are Sampaguitas (the national flower of the Philippines 🇵🇭) and doodles of a camera, music notes, and sunflowers. It’s yellow with the Evernight Teen logo on the top left corner.

    Smile for the Camera

    December 31
  • Cover for Beneath the Same Round Moon: A Mooncake Festival Story, showing family members around a yellow moon. Main character is wearing yellow and red, and she's holding a mooncake. Written by Jasmine Fang and illustrated by Rong Pham and Vinh Nguyen.

    Beneath the Same Round Moon: A Mooncake Festival Story

    September 15
  • 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
  • Book cover of Good For Her: A Second Chance Horror Romance by Tylor Paige. Dark pink background with “Good” lettering in lightbulb sign style and “for her” in slasher red font. Images of bullet holes, a film reel, and a clapperboard. The image shows the book also has sprayed edges in the same dark pink as the cover background.

    Good For Her

    April 28
  • 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
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