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  • 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

    March 24
  • 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

    March 10
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Victoria Dare and the Blood of Kings

    December 31
  • 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

    March 31
  • Cover of the book "Burn the Sea" with the title written in swoopy gold-yellow font. There is a woman in the foreground playing a tambura. She is wearing a teal-green lehenga with gold trim and is holding the tambura such that its neck is covering half her face. She is staring at the audience and her unbound curls cascade down her shoulders. A dagger leans against one of her legs. She is sitting in a stepwell, and her toes and hem are in the pool of water at the base. There is a snake made of smoke hovering in the upper right corner.

    Burn the Sea

    April 21
  • Cover for Kill Your Darlings, showing an illustrated teenage girl, Thulasi, who is horrified when monsters appear to coming from her open book. She is shadowed above by the villain, Addison Greer, wearing a menacing smile, and surrounded by a contingent of monsters, including a vampire, a harpy and a howling dog.

    Kill Your Darlings

    September 22
  • Homebound: a novel by Portia Elan, over a background of blue sky, pink and purple clouds, which dissolve into pixels in places.

    Homebound

    May 5
  • A book cover in turquoise, blue, and purple depicting a girl facing away with Tudor-style hair and dress, and arms slightly raised. Waves rise and crash around her. There is ocean and a dark rocky island in the background. The cover features the book title, Tidespeaker, and the author name, Sadie Turner.

    Tidespeaker

    January 6
  • Cover for Bound by Fury, showing a mixed media brown-skinned girl facing the viewer. She has grey eyes and two brown buns. She wears a black top and has a gold necklace. Behind her, a white male looks off to the side. In the foreground a castle-like school is in blue tones, and behind them, a large pink moon glows. Blue and pink swirls add detail. The book title and author name - noelle monét - are in a serif font. The book also features celestial sprayed edges in a dark blue.

    Bound by Fury

    August 18
  • 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

    December 31
  • A bright yellow cover with a minimalist illustration of two orbits and multiple orbiting bodies. A small black spaceship with a white skull against it is illustrated at the bottom of the cover. The Iron Garden Sutra is written in large, white letters across the cover in three lines.

    The Iron Garden Sutra

    February 24
  • Cover for An Inheritance of Lies, showing a woman dressed in a white blouse and a grey skirt sporting her curly hair loose about to board the RMS Lusitania, docked by the quay. The book title, An Inheritance of Lies, and the author's name, Rebecca A. Carter are written in an elegant font.

    An Inheritance of Lies

    May 5
  • 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

    March 3
  • Cover for It's All In Your Head by Sabina Nordqvist. Over a light purple background, the title is written in 3D lettering in pink and white. Illustrations show a red-haired white woman wearing chronic illness awareness socks and reclining on the word "ALL". A brown-haired white man holding a cane leans against the word "HEAD." Other illustrations show snowboarding goggles, a pill, and a snowboard. The tagline reads "Your fake relationship shouldn't come with chronic feelings."

    It’s All In Your Head

    February 10
  • On a navy blue background with stars, an illustration of a woman and a man standing together, clasping hands. The woman is of East Asian appearance, with long black hair, and she is wearing a white grey and white striped t-shirt and blue jeans. The man is of Caucasian appearance, with short blond hair, and he is wearing a white button-up shirt with a pair of glasses tucked into the chest pocket, and brown trousers. Surrounding them is an illustration of a wooden-framed window with several arches. The central arch frames the couple, while two pointed arches on either side contain stained glass depicting images of a black cat (left) and a green lizard (right). Pointed arches on either side of those are empty with the night sky visible. Ivy surrounds the wooden frame. Silvery grey text reads: "International bestselling author / Keshe Chow / Strange Familiars". Smaller text in blue reads: "Academic rivalry is beastly."

    Strange Familiars

    May 19
  • 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

    March 24
  • A young man with bronze skin and brown curly hair, wearing 18th century clothes smiles up at a taller pirate with brown skin and locs, a blue ribbon tying his hair back. Behind them is a spanish galleon in the sunset, framed by mermaids and a background of a turquoise kasbah trellis. White text reads "A Prince Among Pirates" and below that "Katie Abdou".

    A Prince Among Pirates

    June 16
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Little Wild

    June 6
  • 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

    January 13
  • Black background with a colorful design of hands with elongated fingers and various fungi. The title, Wife Shaped Bodies, is embedded in the design. The author's name, Laura Cranehill, is written at the top.

    Wife Shaped Bodies

    April 21
  • 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

    March 31
  • A white cabin sits on a black background with a white ground that bleeds into dripping red. White birch trees with eyes surround the cabin. In white text, the title surrounds the cabin and trees saying: THE DARKNESS GREETED HER. In red text at the top right is a tagline that says: Everyone has a monstrous side... In red text on the bottom left is the author's name: Christina Ferko. A red slash of color with a white fire symbol is centered on the left side of the cover signifying the book as part of Sourcebooks Fire's Midnight Reads line.

    The Darkness Greeted Her

    February 3
  • Cover for That Which Feeds Us, showing a girl with short curly hair sitting next to a green wall. Persimmon tree branches, full of ripe and rotting fruit, are growing out of the wall behind the girl and are piercing her skin. There are moths on top of the tattoo sleeves covering her arms and plumeria flower buds unfolding near her face. The book title and author's name, Keala Kendall, are written in a bold font.

    That Which Feeds Us: a Hawaiian Gothic

    May 26
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    Not Your Typical Love Story

    December 31
  • Blue placeholder image that reads "Cover coming soon!"

    The Finalist

    October 6
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