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99 Nights in Logar by Jamil Jan Kochai; An illustration of a nighttime scene. There is a blue crescent moon in the dark sky and a yellow winding path. A person runs down the path while a wolf stands at the end of it. The cover has horizontal yellow lines, as if the paint was running out on a yellow sheet of paper.

99 Nights in Logar

by Jamil Jan Kochai

Book

Conspiracy by De'Nesha Diamond; a woman stands in front of a black and white vertically striped patterned wall. She has shoulder length black hair that covers one of her eyes. She wears a black and white suit jacket that has an abstract pattern. Her hand is on her hip and she's facing diagonally towards the right side of the cover.

by De'Nesha Diamond

Book

A Dog Called Jack by Ivy Pembroke; an illustration of a row of colorful houses. There is a large patch of sand with a dog sitting on it, looking forward. Trailing behind the dog and across all of the houses are his paw prints.

A Dog Called Jack

by Ivy Pembroke

Book

Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World by Isabel Gillies; an eggshell white/pastel yellow background. There are columns of leaves on vines and range from dark blue, medium blue, light blue, yellow and gold colored leaves. The title is inside the middle in a box with thin blue capitalized letters.

Cozy: The Art of Arranging Yourself in the World

by Isabel Gillies

Book

Dead Men's Trousers by Irvine Welsh; an eggshell white colored background. The font looks almost handwritten and is tall and loopy. There is an image of someone's lower half in trousers, but the upper half of their body is replaced by a hot pink scribble.

Dead Men’s Trousers

by Irvine Welsh

Book

Halibut on the Moon by David Vann; a black background with the ocean at the bottom of the cover. The title is in tall and thin script font.

Halibut on the Moon

by David Vann

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Horizon by Barry Lopez; a blue sky and an open blue sea.

Horizon

by Barry Lopez

Book

Risky Play by Rachel Van Dyken; a man and woman sit on some grass, looking down. The man has long shaggy hair, a beard and a big tattoo on his ribs. He is wearing jeans and no shirt, wrapping his arms around the woman. The woman has a black tank top, jeans and long dark brown hair. She holds his arm back.

by Rachel Van Dyken

Book

Roar by Cecelia Ahern; a red background with white capitalized letters. There are illustrations of women handing all over the letters (in the center of the "o", on both of the r's, behind the letter "A").

Roar

by Cecelia Ahern

Book

Talk to Me by John Kenney; a blueish gray background. The title is in capitalized black lettering with white dots. There are 3 people falling down on the cover - a woman in the upper right corner with a colorful dress on, a man in the center with a gray suit and another woman at the lower left corner with a pony tail, white shirt and pink skirt.

by John Kenney

Book

The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie; a black door with gold embellishments on it. There is a gold knocker, being held by a golden raven. In the center of the knocker is a golden tree.

The Raven Tower

by Ann Leckie

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The Women's Suffrage Movement edited with an introduction by Sally Roesch Wagner; a pink background. The title alternates between white cursive and yellow capitalized lettering with each word. The "o" in "women" is a women's symbol with a person's eye in the circle.

The Women’s Suffrage Movement

by Sally R. Wagner

Book

1, 2, 3, Jump! by Lisl H. Detlefsen; An illustration of 3 little girls at a pool. One is wearing a purple suit with orange floaties and is reaching her arm up. The one to the right is wearing a yellow life vest and an orange swim cap. The one in between them is behind them not in the pool. She looks nervous. She is wearing a red suit with a star in the middle, yellow and white striped floaties and a swim cap.

by Lisl H. Detlefsen

Book

Can You Crack the Code? by Ella Schwartz; a teal background with papers/documents scattered about. There are orange colored illustrations of a laptop and other items as well. At the bottom left corner, there are 2 people looking up to observe the items and documents. One is a woman with short black hair, an orange shirt, gray pants, blue shoes and is holding a piece of paper. The guy next to her is tall and thin with a chartreuse sweater, white pants and glasses, red shoes and is holding up a magnifying glass.

Can You Crack the Code?

by Ella Schwartz

Book

A Cat's Guide to the Night Sky by Stuart Atkinson; an illustration of a beige and brown striped cat looking up at the night sky. The background is mountainous with a lake and a large night sky. The sky is full of stars and constellations. Around each constellation is an illustration unique to that set (a centar with a bow and arrow, birds, a dog, etc).

A Cat’s Guide to the Night Sky

by Stuart Atkinson

Book

Dragons Eat Noodles on Tuesdays by Jon Stahl; A large, red dragon waves and sits over a large bowl of noodles. The bowl is blue and says the name "Dennis" on the front. To the left of the dragon are two other characters, one is blue with short ears and the other is small and yellow with tall ears. They both wave. The background is outside in between some trees.

Dragons Eat Noodles on Tuesdays

by Jon Stahl

Book

Duck, Duck, Dinosaur: Spring Smiles by Kallie George; an illustration of a green dinosaur with a blank face sitting down. There are two jumping ducks - one on each side of him - looking excited. There is a white background, but the ground is grass with colorful flowers/plants.

Duck, Duck, Dinosaur: Spring Smiles

by Kallie George

Book

Lambslide by Robin Preiss Glasser; 4 lambs slid down a snowy mountain. One is going down on his back and looks a little bit concerned. This lamb is wearing a bell. A lamb behind this one has a flower crown, a thin red ribbon around the neck and is sliding down with all legs out on the belly. This lamb looks like it is having fun. The lamb across from them (on the opposite side of the title, which is diagonally traveling down parallel to the lambs) has a red bandanna around its neck, going on its belly with its legs straight out and looks excited to be sliding. The tiniest lamb i the back looks scared and is cut off by the cover.

by Robin P. Glasser

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Tangled in Time: The Portal by Kathryn Lasky; a little girl and a woman sit back to back with their side profiles facing the front of the cover. They are wearing old time period clothing. The girl has her honey-golden hair loose and is wearing a shirt with her sleeves rolled up. She looks very relaxed. The woman looks serious and has her orange hair pulled back with an indigo hair piece and crown set on her head. She wears an indigo colored gown and jacket with gold embellishments and jewelry. In between the two is a picture of the little girl with a cat, looking out onto a building an courtyard.

Tangled in Time: The Portal

by Kathryn Lasky

Book

The Chestnut Challenge by Tracey Hect; A nighttime scene in the forest. A squirrel and a badger play a game on a drawn out board on the grass and are using acorns as game pieces. A bat looks excitedly at the game play while a fox looks suspiciously down at the squirrel. The tree and bush behind them are purple. All of the animals besides the squirrel are wearing indigo ascots.

The Chestnut Challenge

by Tracey Hect

Book

The Kid and the Chameleon by Sheri Mabry; an illustration of a little girl riding her bike. She has a red helmet with white dots and is wearing overalls and a white and orange striped shirt. She has orange shoes, brown curly hair, green eyes and a red bike with teal wheels. The background is white, but she rides down a grassy path with flowers. Her chameleon looks scared and is sitting in her white basket at the front of her bike.

The Kid and the Chameleon

by Sheri Mabry

Book

The Remarkable Inventions of Walter Mortinson by Quinn Sosna-Spear; a futuristic looking building. There is a hot air balloon floating diagonally next to the building. In front of the building seems to be a train track.

The Remarkable Inventions of Walter Mortinson

by Quinn Sosna-Spear

Book

The Poetry of Us ed. by Patrick Lewis; 3 kids color an American flag on the sidewalk with chalk.

The Poetry of Us

ed. by Patrick Lewis

Book

The Tree and Me by Deborah Zemke; a little girl in the front and center waves. She has black curly hair and is wearing glasses, a yellow and red polka dot headband and a red short sleeved dress with yellow flowers and a white collar. She is in a tree with a few squirrels, one holding an acorn. A bird flies past her holding a leaf. It's a yellow background with white outlines of sketches.

The Tree and Me

by Deborah Zemke

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Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman; a purple cosmic background with the close-up of a woman in front of it. She has short black hair and a thick gray strip of hair towards the front of her head. She has one brown eye and one glowing eye. A constellation is mapped out across her head.

by Amie Kaufman

Book

How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox; a blue background/overlay. A woman is in the center and faces the right side of the cover. Her hair is short and dark and covers her face. She is wearing a blue striped t-shirt.

How It Feels to Float

by Helena Fox

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Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley; an orange background with a man's white silhouette standing front and center. The end of his torso expands out diagonally to cover the bottom half of the cover, with the title in black capitalized letters. "Nathan" is sliced in half.

Deposing Nathan

by Zack Smedley

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Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki; a guy stands with his back facing us and is wearing a pink jacket. The title is on the back of his jacket. In front of him is Laura Dean, who only has half of her face showing. She has black hair and is holding her hands around his neck. They are in a grassy wood of sorts.

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

by Mariko Tamaki

Book

On a Scale of 1 to 10 by Ceylan Scott; a dark teal background with a woman sitting on the right side of the cover. She is covered in colorful powder and is wearing white shorts and a pink shirt. She holds one arm with the other hand. The title is painted and makes its way from the top left corner down to the woman's face. The 0 in 10 covers her face as a big paint splat.

On a Scale of 1 to 10

by Ceylan Scott

Book

My Body My Choice by Robin Stevenson; 5 women stand on a city street and hold a sign that says the title. There is a comic filter of sorts over the picture.

My Body My Choice

by Robin Stevenson

Book

Stepsister by Jennifer Donnelly; a black background with a glass slipper. The back of the slipper is shattering and glass scatters across the top of the cover. There is a drop of blood on one of the glass shards and the shoe has blood dripping down it.

Jennifer Donnelly

Book

The Lost Coast by Amy Rose Capetta; a white background with rainbow colored trees and text (title and author name). There is a tiny silhouette of a person walking among the trees.

by Amy Rose Capetta

Book

There's Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon; a close-up of a girl's face covered in paint patches. She is laughing with red sunglasses on her head. The background is lilac.

There’s Something About Sweetie

by Sandhya Menon

Book

Trans Mission by Alex Bertie; A photo of a guy with a teal shirt on. He has an illustration of a beard over his face, and his right hand strokes the beard. The background is light blue.

by Alex Bertie

Book

We Contain Multitudes by Sarah Henstra; the title is capitalized in white in the center. An illustration of two guys laying on the grass, one below the title and one above, lay in opposite directions facing each other. The grass has a teal color.

We Contain Multitudes

by Sarah Henstra

Book

Dark Shores by Danielle J. Jensen; a deep sea background with a mast in the center. A ship is in the center and a long sword pierces up into it.

by Danielle Jensen

Book

How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?

Children

Movie

Children

Movie

The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends

Children

Movie

Martha Speaks: Martha’s Superhero Adventures

Children

Movie

Llama Destroys the World

Children

Movie

How to Catch a Unicorn

Children

Movie

The MRG Collective Drama Vol. 2; a stage with a single spotlight in the center. There are two smaller lights, one on each side. The stage has a wooden floor and a red curtain draped. The audience is pitch black.

The MRG Collective Drama Vol. 2

Adult

Movie

Finding Your Roots Season 5; a white background (upper right corner down to lower left corner, the lower half of the page) with maps and documents on the latter half of the cover. In between these two halves are head shots of different people in circles. The title is at the bottom right of the page and there is a tree on top of it. The second "n" in the first word connects with the "t" in "roots."

Finding Your Roots Season 5

Adult

Movie

My Brilliant Friend, Season 1; two women running down the street. Their heads are cut off by the top of the cover. They are running towards the right side of the cover.

My Brilliant Friend, Season 1

Adult

Movie

NASA 50 Years of Space Exploration; an astronaut is pictured horizontally (close-up) with earth in the background.

NASA 50 Years of Space Exploration

Adult

Movie

Citizen Clark: A Life of Principle; a black and white cover with a red capitalized title. A head shot of Ramsey Clark is in the front and center, with photos of human rights activism in the background.

Citizen Clark: A Life of Principle

Adult

Book

Rise of the Rockets; a white rocket blasting off. The rocket substitutes the letter "i" in the first word.

Rise of the Rockets

Adult

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