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March Releases

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  • Cover for The Geomagician, with the title in the center and illustrations of fossils and florals in pinks, purples, and green. The largest items are a pterodactyl skeleton and an ichthosaur skeleton. The background is a parchment-color, and the illustrations are vintage in style.

    The Geomagician

  • The Jump cover with a girl trotting her horse in hand against a sunset.

    The Jump

  • A little girl is dressed in a kimono and a flower in her hair. Her arms are outstretched in a dance and there is a sun in the background. The book title, author's and illustrator's names are in all-caps.

    I Am a Bon Dancer

  • Cover for The Book Tour, showing an illustration of a woman and man sitting atop an implausibly large stack of books, with artful plane routes surrounding them.

    The Book Tour

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cover for The Survivor. It shows subway train speeding past a platform, the motion fast enough to blur the details. There is the book title, the author's name, and a quote from Mark Greaney that reads, "an absolute delight to read a thriller this damn good."

    The Survivor

  • A white woman's and white man's faces are seen through a layer of blue guitar picks on a white background. The Encore and Juliet Izon are written in bold, black text.

    The Encore

  • A white male tennis player in a white polo shirt and blue shorts leans in for a kiss with a Latino tennis player in a black tank top and black shorts. They are standing in front of the net on a pale green tennis court with fans in the stands behind them and a blue sky with clouds above.

    Thirty Love

  • An illustration featuring the large side profile of a young woman with the silhouette of two two figures below standing in an otherworldly landscape with floating rocks. Planets with rings, a starry backdrop, and futuristic clothing add a touch of sci-fi to the image.

    The Celestial Seas

  • A dark blue, starry cover for MIDNIGHT ON THE CELESTIAL by Julia Alexandra. A black cruise ship surrounded by skulls, gold filigree, and red aerial silks.

    Midnight on the Celestial

  • A Latte Like Love book cover by Michelle C. Harris. Two hands reach out and graze fingers across a table colored with a blue gradient. A steaming latte with a heart in the foam is in the background, and a sketchbook with a male and female couple pressing their foreheads together romantically is open and facing the viewer in the foreground. The book’s title is drawn in sweeping brushwork script flowing against a bright pink gradient background, summing like a warm autumn sunset.

    A Latte Like Love

  • The book cover depicts a sunset of blended pink, blue, and orange behind a small town nestled in the mountains. A teenage girl and boy are featured in the center standing on the home plate of a baseball field, surrounded by the glowing stadium lights. He stands behind her, his hands on her waist as she grips a baseball bat as if ready to take a turn in the box. Both look at each other lovingly. The title is written in loopy white text above the main characters, and the author’s name is written in pink near the bottom of the image.

    Meet Me Under the Lights

  • A girl and boy lean outside a window at a night sky, wisteria flowers carried by wind.

    The Free Verse Society

  • A pre-Raphaelite painting of a woman biting a flower with the title 'A Good Person' by Kirsten King and a blurb from Marcy Dermansky that says "I could not put it down."

    A Good Person

  • In the bottom left and right are two temples, and both are foregrounded by blue and red flames. PRODIGAL TIGER is in the center of the cover. There are flames reaching up all across the cover in shades of blue, red, pink, orange, and green. A Malaysian-Chinese girl stands in the top center of the cover, accompanied by a white blue and white tiger. At the top is Samantha Chong's name.

    Prodigal Tiger

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

    Ruinous Creatures

  • Cover of Lady Tremaine by Rachel Hochhauser. The title is rendered in ornate gold lettering against a black background, with the large initial "L" filled with detailed botanical illustrations of colorful flowers. A falcon perches on the gold "L", gripping a red-and-white flower in its beak. The author's name appears in smaller white text to the right. The overall design is rich, gothic, and elegant, evoking themes of femininity, control, and beauty with an edge.

    Lady Tremaine

  • the book’s title, ANYWHERE ELSE appears in white text at the top of the cover, and the subtitle “Essays on Florida” is centered. The cover image features an ice cream cone upside-down in the sand, half melted. At the bottom of the cover is the author’s name, Rachel Knox.

    Anywhere Else: Essays on Florida

  • A yellow background with two teen girls side-eyeing each other over their shoulders. Between them is the title, As Long As You Loathe Me, in pink letters with flames coming off them. Tagline: Bring down the cheerleader. Just don't fall in love with her. At the bottom: Author of Match Me If You Can, Swati Hedge.

    As Long As You Loathe Me

  • A collage of details from classical paintings, including flowers, birds, and insects, with an arm emerging from between them, against a dark background. The title, "Honeysuckle", is written across this collage in light color and with a fairy-tale-esque font, and the author's name is written in orange, in a blocky font, at the bottom of the cover.

    Honeysuckle

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cover for Sparring Partners by Erin Rose; the backdrop is dark blue with a red MMA octagon and heavy bag in the back. Front and center are a man and a woman, each wearing MMA gloves and posed as if about to spar. Both are smiling. The man is muscular with a brown fade cut and many tattoos on his arms. The woman is also muscular and a brunette. They're each wearing sparring gear. There's a blurb from bestselling author Emilia Finn: "Dive into the gritty world of lust and loss, found family, and how important it is to fight for those we love. I was hooked."

    Sparring Partners

  • 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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