Fiction - Magical Realism

Author: Haruki MurakamiISBN-10: 0593320026ISBN-13: 9780593320020Publisher: Everyman's LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 416Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbs

One look is all he needs to see your triumphs, your tragedies, your deepest secrets. And then, whatever Simon Says must come to pass...As the world's last Druid, Simon carries the combined powers of all his people. In exchange for this gift, he has...

Betrayal strikes deep in bonds forged in friendship and loyalty. Five years after the Knights unified the empires, rebels rise from the ashes of the Althaean Siege, and Mirari and Gaven are thrust into a world of treachery and uncertainty. Gaven will stop at...

When Witches Sing is a novella that takes place after Phantom and Rook.A glitter and glue covered witch calling the man who took him under his wing Dad for the first time.A riverside vigil held for a man thought lost to time, arranged by...

Three years after An Irish Winter, some of that novel's minor characters, along with a few new ones, take centre stage in Cornwall. There, a series of mysterious events on the moor changes their lives forever. Karen is having dreams for the first time...

On her thirteenth birthday in the village of Slexia, Scarlett Atwood's best friend, crowned Prince, Adrian Gray gifts her a cursed necklace. After her mother is mysteriously found dead the following day, Scarlett suspects the Royal Family. Determined to uncover the truth and avenge...

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...

Robert Stikmanz returns to narrative fiction with The Seven Jewel Bird. A novella set in a post-petroleum corner of the Stikmanz universe, the heirs of our fall scavenge depopulated suburbs for whatever can be sold, used or repurposed.Most of the salvage passes through a...

In these four interconnected tales, residents of a rural Illinois lake town in the 1950s move through deep love, loneliness, great joy and the mystical, as they discover the truths that linger just below the surface of everyday lives. A farm couple, a young...

Sometimes, la sangre atrae, "the blood calls you back," and when Maya gets the call to go back to her agave roots to claim the body of her long-missing father, her world changes forever.Set against the backdrop of her childhood in Mexico, this is...

A determined young woman in 1950s Los Angeles walks a darker city than she ever imagined in a spellbinding novel about the power to make dreams come true--whatever the sacrifice.Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959--though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin,...

A world on the brink of destruction, where evil, magic, and ancient diseases intertwine, and three unlikely heroes must rise up to save it. Reginald Betancourt, a celebrated archeologist, died four years ago and woke up in a world of magic and monsters... and...

To be free, we must learn to fly.Tere Sanchez has always known who she was: a professor, a wife, a mother, and a friend. But when her husband dies unexpectedly, she finds herself completely broken. Taking a leave from the university, Tere hopes that...

Jackson Bishop doesn't know what's real.He had a birthday. He met a man. He buried his mother. He got lost in the woods, and then...Jackson woke up.It's his birthday again and his mother is alive, but the man from his dream is selling him...

In a narrative that is fresh, spontaneous and inventive, Kula Saikia delves into the inner feelings of his characters to explore their psychological landscape. The complexities of urban living are depicted in apparently simple storylines and day-to-day situations, but the author frequently forays into...

As a tormented young girl, Margaux Locke had very few friends not made of paper and ink. A strange and wonderful inheritance from her aunt allows Margaux to hear books speak aloud to her-with earnest words of wisdom and ominous warnings. When her husband,...

International Firebird Book Awards for both Women's Fiction and Magical RealismRoyal Palm Literary Award Silver Medal for Women's FictionIndie Florida eBook SelectionThe truth lies at the heart of every great love.Alexis Chandler Leneghan is an author, wife, best friend, and self-described student of human...

For most potential buyers, Franklin Manor was just a huge run-down old house, a former monastery and tuberculosis sanatorium, half buried in Adirondack snow. But to erstwhile professor, Butch Regent, Franklin Manor was a beacon of hope. It would make his bland and unsatisfactory...

For a young woman coming of age in sixteenth-century Guatemala, safeguarding her people's legacy is a dangerous pursuit in a mystical, empowering, and richly imagined historical novel.Catalina de Cerrato is being raised by her widowed father, Don Alonso, in 1551 Guatemala, scarcely thirty years...

"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, author of There, ThereAfter the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young...

Two teenage lovers on the verge of adulthood suddenly find themselves in a fight to save humanity or even reality itself after a megalomaniacal Airforce officer discovers a source of unimaginable power.Author: Joseph HallettISBN-10: 8224524787ISBN-13: 9798224524785Publisher: Joseph HallettLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/21/2021Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.50h...

Victim. Killer. Shadow Monster.Kasima Smith grew up in human foster care, without any knowledge of her birth family or her origins. Then her monster emerges in a moment of extreme peril and her life is changed forever. Now a student at Blackthorn Academy, she's...

Marking a dramatic new direction for Jones, a riveting tale set in the Post WWII South, narrated by a Black soldier who returns to Jim Crow and searches for a mythical ideal Set in the early 1950s, this latest novel from Pulitzer Prize and...

The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story. In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK"A Time-Twisting Delight" --Reese Witherspoon (Reese's Book Club June '23 Pick)If you had the power to change the past...where would you start?Cassandra Penelope Dankworth is a creature of habit. She likes what she likes (museums, jumpsuits, her boyfriend, Will) and...

Rocky meets Elmore Leonard meets Miranda July as Pillow Wilson, a past-his-prime boxer, trains for his last title shot. Shenanigans ensue. Having recently undergone an ethical awakening, Pillow has converted to veganism and is in the middle of trying to rehome his menagerie of...

God can use ordinary people in extraordinary ways.Five ordinary people know what they should do. But will they do what's right no matter what the cost?It's been two years since Natalie, Walter, Kathy, Del, and Julia received anonymous invitations that led them to Haven,...

Ukraine 2001 Dima, Alyona and Sasha, three street-kids with nothing but each other, stumble on a holdall full of cocaine belonging to the Mafia. This could be it. A way out. Leonid, a Mafia hit man who will stop at nothing to achieve his...

Angels Battling Demons, Book One The Battle for James centers around a senior in high school who is on his seventh and last lifetime and he is nearing the end of this life.He has lived six life times before. In three of them he...

Have you ever wondered what happened to the faeries you used to believe in? They lived at the bottom of the garden and left rings in the grass and sparkling glamour in the air to remind you where they were. But that was then...

Many lives have been altered by "spiritual experiences." Pablo, the shoeshine boy, has such an experience, one he assures the reader that they will not believe. And why should we? It's a story so outlandish that Pablo scarce believes it himself.The Shoeshine Boy is...

What would you change if you could do it all over again? The annual Time Lottery offers its winners a chance to go back into their past and make a different life choice, exploring the what-if questions that plague them. Follow the journey of...

Three generations of fiercely strong and stubborn Mexican American women face grief head-on as they attempt to shed generational trauma and discover the true meaning of home in this lyrical novel that features magical realism in the tradition of The Inheritance of Orqu?ea Divina...

Elochian Adrastus is the pinnacle of demon nobility, and he hates it.When he's not leading an aristocracy, in therapy, or rebelling against his birthright by running the most famous bar in Levena, he's solving a millennia old mystery with his newfound friends. He's particularly...

Come with us on the magical journey of the sweetly insane and delusional Mrs. Naomi Billingsley, who has created fantastic, magical and delightful fantasies to break the humdrum existence of her daily midwestern life. She decides to share them with her psychiatrist, who comes...

In 1895, Antonio Sonoro is the latest in a long line of ruthless men. He's good with his gun and is drawn to trouble but he's also out of money and out of options. A drought has ravaged the town of Dorado, Mexico, where...

Liana Dhamon always wanted to be different. Born into a family of spellweavers, and lacking any innate abilities of her own, desperation enhanced by feelings of inferiority compelled Liana and four of her friends to cast her heartfelt plea across the realms. Liana's hope...

February 29th is a quirky and chaotic tale of twin brothers. Frank & Jimmy are 12 years old. Their simple lives start to unravel when Frank's big stupid mouth gets them in real trouble with a mysterious shop keeper called Mr. Blake. They get...

Ten years after a team of chosen completed their last mission, the world is in a bad state all over. They haven't spoken in years and have no purpose in the world.After a a chance encounter with a bunch of thugs, William decides enough...

It's a long way from Grimes to Grundy Center, but not nearly so far as to the Afterworld, a hellish domain of humanoids of odd sizes, ingenious punishments, and anti-geometrical houses made of mushrooms. I could walk for miles, the vista dissolving behind me....

"A bittersweet relic of a sunnier age . . . . A joyous caper . . . playful and ebullient, shot through with magical twists and supernatural turns."--ObserverLonglisted for the International Booker Prize, a Murakami-esque ode to the revered cultural capital of western Ukraine,...

"A fascinating series launch ... that stands apart" -Publishers Weekly (starred review)"A winning offbeat crime novel that begs for a sequel" -Library JournalFrom Ukraine's most celebrated novelist, a perplexing mystery that introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first...

A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garc? M疵quezTrapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent rebellions, his tiny victories. But he is not a...

A thoroughly uplifting novel about a neurodivergent young man who unexpectedly builds a community and saves a friend in need by following--in a way only he can--his mother's words of wisdom. Joe-Nathan likes the two parts of his name separate, just like dinner and...

Step into a world where dragons once soared and mysteries abound. Enter a magical realm full of secrets, strange goings on, and a castle crammed with lies and twists.In the quaint otherworldly Ithric Realm, a land of magic, castles, and royal households, people have...

On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next...

Translated from the Japanese bestseller, a charming and magical novel that reminds us it's never too late to follow our stars. In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return...

"Betrayal, loss, love, redemption, and justice collide in this masterpiece of a novel. You won't want to miss The Book of Thorns." --Paulette Kennedy, author of The Devil and Mrs. DavenportA spellbinding tale of secrets, betrayal, and magic from the author of The Heir...

These stories paint a portrait of a magical realist world that is both chaotic and corrupt. In "Blister" a young widow remains faithful to her wedding vows even after her husband's deception is revealed. The husband in "Others" is haunted by a picture from...

Dreams of Drowning is a work of magical realism that moves between real time where lives are buffeted by political conflict, tragedy and loss and another mysterious time where pain is healed, and love is eternal.It's 1973 and Amy, an American ex-pat, is living...