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    An Inheritance of Lies

  • Book cover of Cosmic Goodness: Surrendering the Shadows to Live in the Light by Cassidy Gard, foreword by Mariel Hemingway. The design features a modern reinterpretation of Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, showing Venus standing in a seashell against a surreal desert landscape with pink, orange, and purple tones beneath a cloudy blue sky. At the top of the cover, a white endorsement blurb from Mark Watts of the Alan Watts Organization, appears. The title “Cosmic Goodness” is in large golden-yellow letters, with the subtitle and author’s name in white and magenta text below. “Foreword by Mariel Hemingway” appears at the bottom. The overall composition conveys themes of transformation, renewal, and self-discovery.

    Cosmic Goodness: Surrendering the Shadows to Live in the Light

  • The cover for Double Happiness depicts an illustration of a young, thirty-something Asian American woman with red lips and sunglasses, with a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. Two yellow bubbles to the upper right and lower left of her depict the silhouettes of her two love interests. The Chinese character for "love" is also shown twice on the cover in vibrant yellow. The title, "Double Happiness," and the author's name, Heather Eng, are written in a bold sans serif font.

    Double Happiness

  • Homebound: a novel by Portia Elan, over a background of blue sky, pink and purple clouds, which dissolve into pixels in places.

    Homebound

  • Cover for How the story goes, featuring a stack of four books against a night sky with the words "How the Story Goes" cascading down their different colored covers at angles. The edges of the books' pages include simple images of a castle, a hand writing, and a couple walking hand in hand, as well as decorative fall leaves and birds.

    How the Story Goes

  • Dark blue book cover with four curvy lines that look like roads (light blue, royal blue, gray-blue, and beige). Title in center reads I'M THE UNDERTOW. Author name below reads ERIC SCOT TRYON

    I’m the Undertow

  • A collection of different ripped papers reading "In Case I Go Missing" on a backdrop of spooky bare trees and sparks from a fire.

    In Case I Go Missing

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    In the Country I Love

  • Cover for She Waits Where Shadows Gather, by Michelle Tang, showing a red cover with mangoes dripping bloody instead of juice, and an insect on the mango. The tagline: "He came back from the dead, but he didn't come alone" is written in creepy font.

    She Waits Where Shadows Gather

  • Cover for Smash or Pass by Birdie Schae, showing an illustration of two girls kissing. They are holding a beach volleyball in front of their faces. The background is a bright blue sky.

    Smash or Pass

  • A boy and a girl run in a cloud of purple mist, with a yellow dragon looming overhead, against a setting of misty mountains, rivers, dandelions, and a full moon.

    Song of the Yellow Dragon

  • On a blue background, a chuppah decorated with flowers is centered with the title Soon By You scrawled inside. One side of the chuppah is on fire, and a broken glass rests beneath it. The tagline reads, "They're certainly a match made in somewhere."

    Soon By You

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    The Black Cat Detectives

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    The Color of Time

  • A dark-blue ocean at night, the rocks spelling out THE COVE. Author and tagline in the sky: Claire Rose. They’ve been waiting for you.

    The Cove

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    The Greatest Game

  • The cover of the Lustrous Dark: The silhouette of a girl facing the entrance to a cave of luminous crystal pillars that swirl with pink, blue, and purple. She is surrounded by a dark, foreboding forest.

    The Lustrous Dark

  • Cover for The Saw Mouth, showing a long black ethereal monster with dripping teeth looming behind a car driving down a country road framed by dead trees reaching over it. The background is orange and the monster is black.

    The Saw Mouth

  • A book cover that shows poloraids of three girls with brown skin in bright clothing appearing in front of different locations. The polaroids sit atop a scrapbook page of various patterns.

    The Summer Scrapbook

  • Two characters stand shoulder to shoulder smirking at each other. The girl has her arms crossed in a short black lace dress with fingerless gloves. Her black hair is braided into buns at the nape of her neck. The boy has chin length black hair and olive skin. He's wearing a maroon kitesurfing shirt and jeans. They stand in front of a large wrought iron gate covered in vines outside a dark turreted mansion. The title covers the image: You're Dead to Me Reed Walker. Above it is the tag line: They'd kill each other. If they weren't already dead.

    You’re Dead to Me, Reed Walker

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