Fiction - Magical Realism

"Every book lover says it at one time or another, don't they? That they want to read 'all the books'?"In 1960, junior editor Dottie Barber is up to her elbows in the slush pile of a New York publishing house. All of Dottie's friends...

Follow the life of a young boy, Jack, as he survives the Crystal Desert and grows up on the Rumalian Plains. He cannot forget his family and his promise. He lives to make the Freedom Fighters pay for what they did. Unaware that his...

This Tenuous Atmosphere is a linked series of surreal, speculative fictions. This innovative and lyrical narrative follows Asia, a Korean girl who becomes a hybrid spacecraft and goes to live among the ghost men and their culture of destructive capitalism in space. In this...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the incredible, adventurous life of one woman as she journeys the globe trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she stops moving. Paris,...

The ultimate beach read, with a Chocolat-esque touch of magical realism, this debut novel will delight and charm readers from start to finish, whisking them off to a Greek Island where food and wine are the stuff of life, where friendships lift you up,...

"I did like this thriller, and I loved the way you worked supernatural with a murder mystery, I haven't quite seen it handled like this and I think you have all the right instincts for what goes where." -Maddy D., Beta Reading and Editing,...

Confused and unwell, alone in a faraway land, through blind luck, and as suddenly as one moment changes to another, an ordinary man is confronted by a serene epiphany. Unsure of its mysterious origins, he returns to Paris indelibly marked and foolishly flees to...

Voyd and Marjorie are two Martians working in America. It's their goal to work at MarsCorp peddling holograms. But will they get a chance? This summer, I found an old paperback copy of Danny Dunn and the Weather Machine and a strange code was...

What you seek lies in darkness. An island not traversed by the weak. Tread carefully, lest you lose yourself in the journey. Izand re is where she belongs. Or, so Fura's been told. Yet, three months into her journey she still feels like an...

Have you ever wondered "what if?" What if you hadn't broken up with that boy? What if you'd taken that other job? Moved to another town? What if someone you loved hadn't died? Discontent in her second marriage, Rachel Montgomery sows a bitter seed...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in the Debut Fiction "Swim Home to the Vanished is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic."--Tommy Orange,...

Embark on a thrilling journey through the mystical streets of Meridian with "Street Magic" a gripping urban fantasy novel that intertwines magic, mystery, and adventure in a world brimming with hidden powers and dark forces.Key Features: Immersive Urban Fantasy: Explore the enthralling city of...

A bizarre encounter between doubles in a foggy park. The mysterious sudden death of one of the passengers in a train's restaurant car. The hilarious yet tragic consultation of a psychiatrist with her highly unusual patient. A conversation in a Turkish bath between an...

In the enchanting town of Willowbrook, a young man named Benjamin discovers a remarkable power-the ability to bring stories to life. When he encounters a reclusive Beast named Adrian, cursed to shift between a fearsome ice dragon and a human form that freezes everything...

Thomas-O, known to all as the beggar of Blackthorn Hill, lives his life in a world that offers him everything that his heart desires. He has no worldly possessions but a wealth of freedom to his name. His motto is quite simple: before doing...

Voyd and Marjorie are two Martians working in America. It's their goal to work at MarsCorp peddling holograms. But will they get a chance? This summer, I found an old paperback copy of Danny Dunn and the Weather Machine and a strange code was...

The pop-legend for the Europeanized Hypatia as a beautiful, young, virgin scientist comes to us through 1,600 years of hearsay, gossip and assumptions legitimized by Voltaire and other Age of Enlightenment anticlerical thinkers. This tabloid-like legend is summarized in Wikipedia as such: "Hypatia, born...

A collection of short stories from Portland, Oregon's Alexx Bollen. Featuring the critically acclaimed: The Theravāda Machine; The Book of Lists; and The Mandela Effect. Including two new stories: The Great Portland Earthquake; and A Pervasive Thought. Author: Alexx BollenISBN-10: 0578536358ISBN-13: 9780578536354Publisher: Outlet PressLanguage:...

After collapsing from an illness while attending a business meeting, a dying Artemio Cruz, a rich and powerful land owner in modern Mexico, is driven by conscience to recall his corrupt life.Author: Carlos FuentesISBN-10: 0140255826ISBN-13: 9780140255829Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/TrLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/1996Pages: 272Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize:...

A young girl spends her summer vacation in a country house where a tiger roams...A man reading a mystery finds out too late that he is the murderer's victim...In the stories collected here--including Blow-Up, on which Antonioni based his film--Julio Cortazar explores the boundary...

"Molly is one of the greatest young female characters I've had the luck of reading since I picked up Joy Williams's The Quick and the Dead back in 2000 . . . I TRULY LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!!!" --Gillian Flynn, Gillian Flynn Books"Holly Wilson's Kittentits...

"An exquisitely rendered tale... A stunner of a book from a writer to watch." - The Prairie Book 5 Star Review Nov 2023"Dianne Adel's use of fantastical elements to reinforce the themes of the narrative hits the nail right on the head..." - Readers'...

Lyrical and intensely moving, The Opposite House explores the thin wall between myth and reality through the alternating tales of two young women. Growing up in London, Maja, a singer, always struggled to negotiate her Afro-Cuban background with her physical home. Yemaya is a...

A New York Times Editors' Choice A USA TODAY Bestseller A Booklist Editor's Choice A Goodreads Choice Award Nominee A "beautifully written" (Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See) debut novel of marriage, motherhood, metamorphosis, and letting go, this...

Cornwall, 1286 CE ​Now nearly seventeen, Megge and Brighida must endure another brutal loss. And as they perform the rites of transition that precede a burial, Megge accepts a daunting new charge that carries consequences not even her cousin the seer can predict. It...

This collection features beloved and enchanting fairy tales, such as Cinderella and the Sleeping Beauty, and thrilling stories packed with the adventures of Sindbad and Aladdin, along with excerpts from iconic works such as Oliver Twist and Gulliver's Travels. All this and many more...

Rell never imagined an 18th birthday like this.When Rell's stepmonster Regina summons her to Lauele, Hawai'i, she knows better than to expect umbrella drinks, birthday presents, and open arms. The most she hopes for is some quality time with her twin step-sisters, a walk...

Unable to feel, to taste, to smell, or to love, Sarah's existence in Valek's soul cages seemed destined to go over forever. Until the Minister Knights' bravery plucked her from its depths and she became flesh once more. Once she reaches the wondrous world...

"Combining history, the occult, human greed, and a touch of feminism, this is a fine addition to the gothic genre." --ALA's Booklist on The Last Heir to Blackwood Library In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and the rise of the floriography craze in...

Being magickally inclined is punishable by death. And secrets run rampant through the city. Lucy, Liliana and Travis are three sides of the same triangle. Witch, Watcher, Werewolf. Their bond unbreakable and set in stone before they were ever born. Nefertiti and Karrept are...

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue meets Life of Pi in this dazzlingly epic debut that charts the adventures of one woman as she walks herself around the world many times over trying to outrun a mysterious curse that will destroy her if she...

A dark yet heartwarming collection perfect for fans of Deesha Philyaw, Tracy Deonn, and Octavia Butler.What happens when the world is ending, but society wants to move on and ignore it? Apocalypse Still explores the fears, rage, and hopes of Black women and girls...

This Omnibus edition of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of Eighteen Mindbending stand alone short stories - from Nine of todays top speculative fiction writers. Slipstream Tales like you've never read before.Author: Will Swardstrom, A. K. Meek, Hank GarnerISBN-10: 0997793813ISBN-13: 9780997793819Publisher:...

Between Fathers and Sons: It's the dawn of the 21st century, and Miles Johnson is on the cusp of tumultuous changes in his life. He has just become a teenager and is wrestling with higher expectations from the adults in his life, as well...

In the rolling mountains of northwest New Jersey, a powerful magic stone is passed on through millennia, often into the wrong hands, until it ends up in the present day with Cobb: a middle-aged borderline recluse unprepared for the existential upheaval that occurs when...

Following the deaths of his wife and daughter, special ops agent Cody Willis struggles to cope with his overwhelming grief and, as a result, is sent on temporary leave from his work--one of the only places that ever felt like home to him. No...

A writer who craves a real-life happily ever after and a gruff fisherman who doesn't believe in them find out they're part of the greatest love story of all time. "Cleverly imagines the epilogue Romeo and Juliet didn't get to have, and how curses...

A charming novel for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and How to Stop Time, following a cat through his nine lives in Edinburgh, moving through the ever-changing city and its inhabitants over centuries Early morning, 1902. At 7/7 Marchmont Crescent, Eilidh the...

A surreal and darkly comic collection of stories that offer a fresh and irreverent look at life in contemporary Northern Ireland from "one of the most exciting and original Northern Irish writers of her generation" (The Sunday Times, London). Humorous and horrifying, tender and...

"An utterly romantic story about second chances and the power of love."--#1 New York Times bestselling author Ali Hazelwood A woman must woo her lover's soul back into his body to wake him from a coma--or risk losing him forever--in this moving novel from...

The Flying African follows the journey of an unnamed traveler, a young Armenian writer who spends fifty-four adventurous days in Africa, one day in each of the continent's countries. Fifty-four chapters provide vignettes of the visits to each country, in which the traveler experiences...

With In Plain Sight, author Dan Kennard sets out to make his presence known to his fictional characters, to become as obvious as possible to his own creations, and to awaken them to the true nature of their existence as sentences on a page....

Things go bump in the night in this hauntingly riveting tale in the Hex on Me Mysteries by USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne...Lou can't even manage to dip a chocolate chip cookie into her glass of cold milk without getting a premonition of...

On a rainy night in Philadelphia's Ninth Street Market, sixteen-year-old Fiora, newly-orphaned by the 1918 influenza epidemic, is dumped at an old man's door. Daughter of the local fortune teller, Fiora arrives with a little money, a lot of attitude, and her mother's formidable...

When Violet and Greg feel the need to separate again, they assume it is for their highest good.They have no idea that it's because the Angels are meddling in their lives.Will they find their way back to each other again before it's too late?Also...

After 82 years buried underground, Pinocchio returns to life behind a car repair shop in America. He soon runs off into the night after jazz and quickly returns to his usual troubles. An adventure for all ages of readers.Author: Allen FrostISBN-10: 1645169871ISBN-13: 9781645169871Publisher: Good...

Why is Walt Amherst trapped in a 1945 B-movie? Read and find out where his long night of dreams take him. From Jungle to Office, featuring singing cowboys, a gorilla, mayhem and misadventures in a paper floating memory. With that in mind, this is...

M is a bylaw officer, living with two brothers, in their parents' old house. While investigating a suspicious yard sale, M discovers a red chesterfield sitting in a ditch. Looking closer, M finds a running shoe-and a severed foot. Now M is involved in...

Author: Bridget CollinsISBN-10: 0063220016ISBN-13: 9780063220010Publisher: William Morrow & CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/20/2024Pages: 384Format: HardcoverReview Citation(s): Library Journal 03/01/2024 pg. 1