Fiction - Magical Realism

The successful but lonely daughter of a powerful New York theater icon falls for her childhood imaginary friend in this touching love story.As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week,...

Set in an imagined town outside Tokyo, Clarissa Goenawan's dark, spellbinding literary debut follows a young man's path to self-discovery in the wake of his sister's murder. Ren Ishida has nearly completed his graduate degree at Keio University when he receives news of his...

From "one of Iran's most important living fiction writers" (The Guardian) comes a fantastically imaginative story of love and war narrated by two angel scribes perched on the shoulders of a shell-shocked Iranian soldier who's searching for the mysterious woman haunting his dreams. Before...

In this small lakeside town, mothers bake their secrets into moon pies they feed to a silent blue girl. Their daughters have secrets too--that they can't sleep, that they might sleep with a neighbor boy, that they know more than they let on. But...

Now in paperback, New York Times bestselling author Morgan Jerkins's fiction debut, an electrifying novel for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates and Jacqueline Woodson, that brings to life one powerful and enigmatic family in a tale rife with secrets, betrayal, intrigue, and magic. Laila desperately...

In ancient Sumeria, only a thin veil separates the living from the dead. The lives of Ziz, her mother, Meshara, and her father, Temen, are disrupted when a mysterious crevasse rends the earth. Temen becomes obsessed with the mystery and, capturing a crow to...

Lewis used to think school was hard. He's only been a dragon for a week, but he's already nostalgic for boring human classes. Instead of math and science, he's learning how to fly and hunt It would be fun if he wasn't so bad...

An orphaned teenage girl tries to survive on her own and understand her magical powers while a sorcerous plague sweeps the country. She may hold the key to its cure, but what she really wants is somewhere she can call home and family.This story...

Before Dan opened his door to find a wounded woman who had escaped from the tormentors in the mountain, his life had become rather quiet. He and the eight other people in the mostly abandoned town had become friends. They spent peaceful evenings around...

Mark Sandoval--resolutely arrogant, covered head to foot in precise geometric scarring, and still marginally famous after Hollywood made an Oscar-winner based off his memoir years before--has been strongly advised by his lawyer to leave the country following a drunken and potentially fatal hit and...

2019 IPPY Award Silver Medalist2019 IBPA Ben Franklin Award Silver MedalistPowell's Books Best Fiction of 2018"Rosson is a talent to be watched." - Jason Heller, NPRMarvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has...

The Penitent tells the story of Jospeh Shapiro, his rapid climb to prosperity, his quick plunge into promiscuity, and his subsequent flight to Israel in order to find salvation.Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer, M. V. Ed Igor Ed M. V. Ed Igor SingerISBN-10: 0374531536ISBN-13: 9780374531539Publisher:...

In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed...only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, called manitou...

From the world renowned author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes Salman Rushdie's brilliant novel The Ground Beneath Her Feet, featuring an epic, exuberant love story with a rock 'n' roll soundtrack.At the beginning of this stunning novel, Vina Apsara, a famous...

Really, how can human beings ever hope for transcendence while still attached to physical bodies, unsightly paraphernalia hindered by illnesses, old age, economic requirements and the rest. How much better if the best of us, you and me, were transposed into everlasting equipment able...

Is it worth taking somebody's life in order to prepare yourself for a much brighter future and much greater service to your community and humanity as a whole? Even when the world is finally within his grasp, Congressman Jasper Saynt, MD, is unable to...

"A powerful novel about the bond between fathers and daughters, and how stories connect us all. I loved it" Jenny Colgan THE LOST STORYTELLER is the heartwarming and evocative debut novel from a stunning new voice in fiction, Amanda Block. Perfect for fans of...

If you had the power to do practically anything, would it be enough to outrun your destiny?Shar is just a regular twenty-five-year-old guy still trying to figure out life. With an unreturned crush on a childhood friend, a simple banking job, and a set-in-stone...

A Prisoner in Fairyland (1913) is a novel by Algernon Blackwood. Having already established himself as a promising short story writer, Blackwood began publishing novels at the age of 40. A lifelong occultist, Blackwood was interested in the fine line between the human and...

Jashi betrayed them. Kahmel protected them. Together, they must unite them.Nothing is more important to Jashi than proving her worth to her country. But her new role as Faresha and rebel member is both uncomfortable and daunting. Perhaps it's the gap of trust between...

In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. An unnamed, unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following Chevauchet, diplomat of Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to resist a prohibition on sleep in...

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD *FINALIST - THE 2019 BMO WINTERSET AWARD *WINNER - 2019 IPPY AWARD FOR FICTION (CANADA EAST) *FINALIST - 2019 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDS (BEST COVER DESIGN) *WINNER - GEORGIAN BAY READS 2019 *FINALIST - NL...

Named one of Amazon's Best Short Story Collections of 2014 One of Atlanta Journal Constitution's 9 Best Books of 2014 Best Short Story Collection of the Year, Tweed's Magazine Winner of GLCA New Writers Award for Fiction 2014 LA Times Book Prize Finalist Winner...

Imagination has no limit...Our Heroine: Me. And boy, are we all in trouble. A seventeen-year-old with a love of fantasy and unmanageable hair? Hardly anyone's idea of the knight in shining armor. I went about life with no idea the world around me was...

A novel inspired by the legendary spiritual master, Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezar, known as the Baal Shem Tov, the Good Master of the Name, who beckoned forth love from the hearts of rag pickers, ruby merchants, midwives, and murderers. Poor orphan. Simpleton. Harder to...

"All things are formed of patterns..." And within the pattern of the realm of Alorin, three strands must cross: In Alorin... three hundred years after the genocidal Adept Wars, the realm is dying, and the blessed Adept race dies with it. One man holds...

Welcome to the dream world. What you are about to encounter is the unfiltered stuff of the dream, and that is wild, terrifying, provocative, and unsettling material. In this volume, some of the best living Southern writers are offering up a feast of their...

At the heart of Tamson House is the Wood. And in that Wood is the Mystery Tamson House, in modern, urban Ottawa, is a rambling, eccentric curiosity of a house--and a place of hidden Power. Built at a point where the leylines meet, upon...

From World Fantasy Award-winning author Charles de Lint, a tale of love, courage, and the transforming power of imagination Isabelle Copley's visionary art frees ancient spirits. As the young student of the cruel, brilliant artist Vincent Rushkin, she discovered she could paint images so...

Being an adult is the dumbest thing I have ever done.Our Heroine: still me. A sleep-deprived me, which, considering I'm a murder and ten cups of coffee away from showing my displeasure to the world, and there're clans to save, is not a good...

A mystical battle between foreign gods and local saints is unleashed as idols are mistaken for garden ornaments; an ambiguous wizard spies on his neighbours from an invisible tower; a cursed duelling pistol influences its owners to commit suicide. With strange combinations of occultism,...

White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it. In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named D綢, is born to "twenty-four mothers," the sisters...

She thought she was running away from her past, not catching up with it.Rosemary Bell just wants to live a quiet, happy life and raise her daughter as far away from her toxic ex-husband as she can get. But when they move into a...

Step back into the magical world of Pendleford with Sarah Painter's new book The Secrets of Ghosts. Don't miss the magical, heart-warming story from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells On her twenty-first birthday Katie Harper has only one wish: to become...

When you're dating a Niuhi shark in human form, there's no such thing as a casual Hawaiian fling.The last thing Justin wants is complications. Jilted at the altar, he's spending his pre-paid Hawaiian honeymoon alone--sort of. Sasha, his ex, won't get out of his...

Recommended by Booklist, Library Journal, School Library Journal, Locus, and Foreword Reviews. Journey with twenty-one speculative fiction authors through the fractured borders of human migration to examine the dreams, struggles, and triumphs of those who choose or are forced to leave home and familiar...

Tatiana "Pluta" Spektor was a mostly happy, if awkward, young girl--until her sociologist father was disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War. Sent a world away by her grieving mother to attend boarding school outside New York City, Pluta wrestles along with the unresolved tragedy and...

American-style democracy and capitalism come to the sleepy village of Tobiki in this uplifting comedy of cultural conflict set on Okinawa at the end of World War II.The hapless Captain Fisby, with the help of his local interpreter, Sakini, is implementing the U.S. Army's...

New Orleans, a city of mystery and magic, of secrets and dreams, and a history drenched in both love and the deepest of heartache. When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of...

WINNER of the Kerry Schooley Book AwardA story as magical as it is real, that asks, if you could stop and restart time for a second chance, would you?Boy's final year of high school is unraveling. Fast. He had it all worked out, from...

A story about one all-inclusive resort, the ghost of an unknown father, and the tragedies we can't forget.What's it like when everyone's dream vacation is your job? Ameera works at a Mexican all-inclusive resort, where every day is paradise -- if "paradise" means endless...

In an old Victorian home at the very end of the Nineteenth Century, Professor Gustav Wainscott is performing a bizarre medical experiment on a mysterious boy. Meanwhile in a religious fervor, riotous mobs, fearful about the end of the civilized world, are destroying and...

Disturbing and sensuous, Audrée Wilhelmy's tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies.The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the Borya family living in...

The Black Rose of Halfeti opens with a letter delivered at midnight in Ankara, Turkey. In this letter, an elderly doctor who has begun to experience the first signs of dementia professes his love and desire for a relationship with the narrator, a woman...

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel...

In this riveting debut, prize-winning artist and filmmaker Miquel Reina maps out ambitious and fantastical new territory in a novel about a couple holding on for dear life as their world takes an extraordinary fall...On the highest point of an island, in a house...

Noted filmmaker Jess Trevio returns to Arroyo Grande, Texas, to follow the lives and antics of its citizens who were first introduced "in The Fabulous Sinkhole and Other Stories."Author: Jesus Salvador TrevinoISBN-10: 1558858199ISBN-13: 9781558858190Publisher: Arte Publico PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2015Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w...

An award-winning novel that explores what it means to read and be a reader - ultimately acting as a love letter to the power of literature.Author: Goran PetrovicISBN-10: 1646050142ISBN-13: 9781646050147Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2020Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d

"The magic calls her. A prophecy binds her. The ancestors guide her. Dr. Taran Grim, a young professor of occult studies, knows the written history of witches better than anyone in her field. And she should. She's one of them. After a mysterious stranger...

Massive explosions Crazy Scientists City Destroying Monsters This book unfortunately doesn't contain any of these things, but it does have an asteroid hurtling towards earth. (Actually now that I think of it, it does have a crazy scientist or two.) With crazy inventions and...