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  • The cover of A BARISTA'S GUIDE TO LOVE & LARCENY, featuring a young couple staring at each other. The girl has purple hair in a braid, white skin, and a white sweater with an amethyst necklace. A crow with turquoise feathers sits on the girl's shoulder. The boy has brown hair, tan skin, and a brown sweater. There is a mug of coffee and several bottles on the table where they sit. The backdrop is blue and purple, filled with clouds and stars.

    A Barista’s Guide to Love & Larceny

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    A Fate Worse Than Drowning

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    A Prince Among Pirates

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    A River Like Mine

  • A dark grey five-story tower with pointe turrets and a gate on top, standing on a gold and black dirt clearing surrounded by dark green trees. The black sky has gold stars, and the tower and its windows are glowing red with a red starburst behind it. Black and grey colors encroach upon the scene within a gold border. Text reads AN ARCANE INHERITANCE, BESTSELLING AUTHOR KAMILAH COLE. A NOVEL is at the top, with a backward E in the word NOVEL. There's also a backward E in a gold circle interrupting the border at the top, and a rising sun on the bottom interrupting the border.

    An Arcane Inheritance

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    As Long As You Loathe Me

  • A book cover in dark blue depicting a gemstone jutting up from the bottom right. Nestled among the gems rugged facets is a tower with golden windows and a twisted tree. To the top left of the tower are two small white birds. In gold at the top is the book title, Black As Diamond. In white at the bottom is the author's name, U.M. Agoawike.

    Black As Diamond

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    Bound by Fury

  • A cover with fire on the left edges and ice on the right edges centering around a girl in shorts and a tank top, raising a sword high and summoning lightning in front of a massive purple-y european dragon inside some sort of arena. The title: Child of the Dragon is written across the center in a curly, silver font, and the author name is in a smaller version of the same and says Ashley N.Y. Sheesley.

    Child of the Dragon

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    Death Card

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    Falling Like Snow

  • Book cover with background of roman eagle drawn in oil, with a silhouette in gold of a victorian-garbed woman wielding a sword. Cover text reads Godstorm, Solitaire Townsend and with She Is The Sword in red.

    Godstorm

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    Hellbound

  • The cover art of HOLD ME LIKE A GRUDGE, a novel by Celine Ong, where two male wrestlers (to the left is an Asian man in his 20s with black hair tied up in a man bun and a red fringe cascading down his face, dressed in a pair of black wrestling tights designed to look like flames; to the right is a white man with short blond hair with slight curls at the top, dressed in white tights and blue lines coming up the side) square up in the middle of a ring. They stare at each other with a mix of fierceness and affection, and have an arm on each other. They are illuminated by pinkish, purplish, and blueish stage lights above. In the background, a faceless crowd watches them.

    Hold Me Like a Grudge

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    Homebound

  • On the book cover, the title appears in large gold letters against a dark blue background depicting the night sky. There is a glowing white crescent moon at the top center, and on the left and right edges are two tall hawthorn trees with thorns and red berries. In the branches sit several small animals and other objects, including a weasel, a pair of white mice, a teacup, and a crown. At ground level, there is a cottage and pine trees lighted in green and gold. In front stand two figures in silhouette; the one on the left is taller with short hair, and the one on the right is shorter with long hair, and is holding the leash of a small dog that stands between them.

    Into the Midnight Wood

  • The illustrated cover of Just Ask Elsie by Ari Koontz features a young white girl with blonde hair, standing in the middle of a school hallway and holding a stack of purple magazines that read "Elsie's Puberty Zine." Around her are cut-out doodles of birds and bees, hearts and emojis, and the progress pride flag. In the background, other students stand in front of blue lockers, watching and whispering. The title words are in mismatched fonts, with "Elsie" handwritten in gold sharpie over a piece of purple duct tape. The overall art style is soft-textured but bright, with pastel colors and rounded lines.

    Just Ask Elsie

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    Kill Your Darlings

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    Little Wild

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    Not Your Typical Love Story

  • Cover Once Upon A Song by Nadine Bells

    Once Upon A Song

  • Book cover with a neon sign outline of an arm holding a knife. The neon is the colors of the lesbian pride flag. In brushed font, the title reads Robbie McNeil's Hit List (A Mystery).

    Robbie McNeil’s Hit List

  • Book cover of RUINOUS CREATURES by Jessi Cole Jackson. A dark background with a phoenix skull and flowers behind it.

    Ruinous Creatures

  • 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

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    Smash or Pass

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