Similar Covers: Figures on Pier

On Monday, I spotted a familiar-looking book cover on Leslie’s blog, Under My Apple Tree, so I plugged the image into TinEye. And what a popular cover it turned out to be! (I’ve put the books in order of publication, with the CD last.)

• Op de rug gezien by Margriet de Moor (Oct 2007)
• Letter from Point Clear by Dennis McFarland (Thorndike Press, Jan 2008)
• It’s Me, It’s Me, Oh Lord by Eunice Rhames Lewis (Tate Publishing, May 2008)
• Bridge Across Atlantic by Ibe (AtlanticRock.com, Jul 2008)
• Propositions on Christian Theology: A Pilgrim Walks the Plank by Kim Fabricius (Carolina Academic Press, Sep 2008)
• Handbook to the Afterlife by Pamela Rae Heath (North Atlantic Books, Apr 2010)
• Fare Forward by Wendy Dubow Polins (Hamilton Hall Press, Sep 2011)
• When You Can’t Wait for Tomorrow by Tom Wehrle (CD released in 2007)

As if that wasn’t enough, very similar images (same pier, slightly different angle) are used in four other instances:

• Emergency Response Handbooklet: Depression by Group Publishing (Group Publishing, Dec 2007)
• The Magic of Self-Acceptance: How to Be Happy by Michael Sharon (Book Guild, Feb 2008)
• Christian Formation Counseling by John Pugh (Tate Publishing, Aug 2008)
• Releasing Anxiety Guided Meditation MP3 by Total Balance (date unknown)

I do find the first photo quite striking—I especially like the CD cover—and it’s true that many of these titles are fairly obscure, but this still seems like overkill. And it’s pretty weird that Tate Publishing published two of these titles with very similar covers!