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  • The book cover for A House of Vipers by Emma Jackson. It depicts a navy blue boarding school uniform with a viper pin and blood spatter. There is a note tucked into the pocket. A backpack strap can also be seen.

    A House of Vipers

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cover for Dangerous and Well-Read by Rebecca Sky, showing a blue background with roses and a snake winding up from the top and bottom and a sword piercing through the word "and" the title is in gold font and the edges are sprayed with stacks of books and a gold snake winding through.

    Dangerous and Well-Read

  • 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

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    Hellbound

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    In the Country I Love

  • Cover for The Bloodweaver depicting the main character, Kerick, standing alone at dusk. He holds a glowing ball of magic in his hand and his eyes are closed. Cast in blue light, he's wearing a double-breasted coat with a cloak adorned with a grape and grapeleaf motif. The title and the author's name C. N. Kuster are written in a art-nouveau-style font that the magic loops through.

    The Bloodweaver

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    The Bone Brides

  • 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

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    The Christmas Curse

  • 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 Forest Bleeds

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    The Greatest Game

  • Book cover for The Halls of the Dead, with the title in neon yellow and the author's name (S. M. Hallow) in white. The cover depicts a teal-colored skull, and a golden imperial moth whose eye-spot intersects the eye socket of the skull. There are burgandy flowers in the background that look like chrysanethemums.

    The Halls of the Dead

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    The Jezebel List

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    The Legacy of Poe

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    The Lure of Wolves and Whispers

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    The Matchmaker’s Cottage

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    The Soul Thief

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    The Third Wish

  • 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

  • The scene is a narrow street with row homes lit by street lamp along the left, with brick stoops. The title is in white sans serif: Whatever Happened to Eddy Crane? The subtitle is smaller, in gold: a memoir and a murder investigation. Kate Crane, is in white caps. The blurb at the top says: Beautifully crafted. Crane stirred the embers of a Baltimore cold case everyone else was willing to forget – her father’s. —David Simon.

    What Ever Happened to Eddy Crane?

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