Fiction - Magical Realism

"He gave her a coat of stars, that she now wears like a second skin." In Kayil York's fourth book, 11:11 is a dive into the world of true love, twin flames, and the magic of connection. A full reality of happiness that surrounds...

A writer in a purgatory bar, an art collecting housewife who time travels, a movie Production Assistant with stigmata, a codependent AA sponsor, a sex addict, a movie star with issues, a two-time liver transplant recipient and an abusive TV costumer who gets what's...

Magic is, and always has been, all around us. At least, Innes has always believed so. Kahrin? She's more skeptical. After all, she's never seen proof. That doesn't stop her from supporting her best friend in his belief, as in all things in their...

A selection of short stories influenced heavily by Fairy Tales, Myths and Legends. Packed into this little book is a curation of beautifully written original and re-imaginations of beloved Fairy Tales. Suitable for YA readers upwards, this book explores the highs and lows of...

The crisis of one stopped heart ignites the healing of two others, as Marc and an enchanting newcomer race to perform CPR on a fallen man in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two strangers, wary survivors of love gone bad, become ardent lovers pledging their...

"I wish it didn't have to be this way. I willedthe thought to fly to you, so you'd know how hard it was to leave you behind. That was the night I lost you, and gained myself. Born in a honeysuckle-choked garden deep in...

The crisis of one stopped heart ignites the healing of two others, as Marc and an enchanting newcomer race to perform CPR on a fallen man in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Two strangers, wary survivors of love gone bad, become ardent lovers pledging their...

Magic is the key... but will it save them, or consume them?For Natalia, there is no choice.Trained as a battle mage, she has the potential to be the most powerful spell caster the family has ever produced.Yet their price is too high While Athgar's...

Finalist for the Manitoba Book Awards' Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First BookLonglisted for the Sunburst Award for Adult FictionThe highly anticipated debut short story collection by Journey Prize finalist Seyward Goodhand.Even That Wildest Hope bursts...

I was supposed to be editing my thesis, not suddenly married to someone I have never met... Someone named Nox - which is as pretentious as it gets, even for the Realm. I had never intended to return to live in the world I...

When the King & Queen of Badulina first entered his restaurant in India, author Gabi Nitzan could not have guessed that his life - like the lives of hundreds of thousands of people all over the world - will change forever. Badulina is a...

In this whimsical, heartwarming adventure, on a lovely fall day an unlikely hero appears on a dusty road outside of Santa Fe to change the lives of a struggling young mother and her son. Is he a madman, magician or a little of both....

Grimoire of Italian witches. A book of shadows.Discover the power of magic and traditional spells of Italian witches, through herbs, flowers and the use of words of power.The Italian witch is a wise woman and a healer, she draws energy from nature and the...

A human conspiracy.A paranormal secret.Can the most powerful witch on the planet find her missing friend without exposing her powers to the world?With Gunther back at the Makepeace Circus and her romantic relationship's future in question, what Charlotte really needs is some peace, quiet...

Join Olivia Carter one last time in the final installment of the Witch's Bite series Loyalties tested. Prophecies fulfilled. And magic's final price. After being kidnapped, shot at, blown up, and barely escaping a collapsing building...I'm done following orders, and the threats don't scare...

It's summer in a small, Midwestern city, and babies are burning to death in their cribs under odd circumstances. A number of theories are presented by the six narrators of the novel, but the truth of just what is going on is elusive, and...

Freek Groenevelt is a mild-mannered journalist who values his peace and quiet above all else. But his orderly life is suddenly upended by the intrusion of a mysterious figure calling himself Joachim Stiller, who seems in insidious ways to be controlling Freek's life and...

A teenager stares at his reflection and sees the Milky Way. A motorbike prowls and growls like a wild animal. A whale sings a song to end loneliness.Philip Ridley's collection of short stories - like his two earlier adult novels, Crocodilia and In the...

WINNER OF TWO NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDSTOP SELECTION FOR A NATIONAL BOOK AWARD"One of the best novels in ten years." Hackney Literary Awards CommitteeDestined to become the next The Book Thief. For fans of Small Great Things, Before We Were Yours, and Orphan Train, and...

Derrick is one of the creatus, created beings who have lived on the earth for more than four thousand years. Many questions surround the origin of these sentient beings who are stronger than humans, eat differently, and live longer. But they were created just...

To rejuvenate her perspective, Ruth has set out to search, absorbing the alchemy nearby grasslands purvey, transforming her outlook in taking notice of rhapsody in all things as they characterize a universal nature to pass away. Rather than rummaging on with the sacred texts...

On the day Concord Webster turned eighteen, the Devil died. The Devil's real name was Judge Martin, but Concord's mother called him the Devil. She said he boiled babies for dinner and made lampshades out of human skin. So why did she, who hated...

A baffling whodunit arises while comical antics abound as USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne continues her Paramour Bay Mysteries...Lady bugs, bumblebees, and butterflies are enjoying the humid summer days and nights in the quaint Connecticut coastal town of Paramour Bay. Completely exhausted, Raven...

Compelling love spells are used to brew up one charmingly delightful whodunit as USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne continues her cozy paranormal mystery series...Boxes of delicious chocolates and roses by the dozen are aplenty in the small town of Paramour Bay as Valentine's...

Shenanigans are brewing up once more in Paramour Bay as USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne continues her cozy paranormal mystery series...New Year's Eve is just a week away, and Raven Marigold knows exactly how she wants to spend the remainder of her holiday...

Welcome back to Paramour Bay as USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne continues her cozy paranormal mystery series that will have you brewing up a cup of tea well past midnight... It's been two months since Raven Marigold discovered she was a witch, and...

USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne switches creative gears and brings you a cozy paranormal mystery that will have you wishing these unique and comical characters could spring to life with a twitch of your nose... An inherited tea shop, a quaint little Connecticut...

In an enchanted city seen only at twilight, a resentful second son uncovers secrets that could cause his world's star to set.Author: Mindy TarquiniISBN-10: 1943006695ISBN-13: 9781943006694Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2018Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001Publishers Weekly 08/13/2018

This volume of The Conium Review features nine new stories from Suzanne Burns, Chelsea Harris, Emily Wortman-Wunder, Sonal Sher, Matt Kolbet, Bridget Apfeld, Anita Goveas, Alison Closter, and Christopher James. Readers will find a mermaid addicted to over-the-counter supplements, a never-ending race, disappearing limbs,...

A girl bonds with a piece of flame leftover from the inferno that consumed her brother, father, and lover. Through this relationship, the girl explores her complicated family history and her place in a world where trees are cruel and deceptive, ghosts rise from...

On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwab's Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a performance artist and best-selling author, and...

From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the...

Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly...

From the award-winning author of "Boy, Snow, Bird" . . .Author: Helen OyeyemiISBN-10: 1628999586ISBN-13: 9781628999587Publisher: Platinum Spotlight SeriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2016Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.80w x 1.10dLarge Print

Jason Walker is a child star turned teen heartthrob turned reluctant B-movie regular who's sick of his failing career. So he gives up Hollywood for northern Idaho, far away from the press, the drama of LA, and the best friend he's secretly been in...

"Originally published in 1988 and written by one of Haiti's seminal authors, still with us at age 90, this vibrant, erotically charged work shows how humans counter fear--particularly the fear of death--in varied more or less magical ways, even as it paints a fresh...

Someone is cutting off victims' fingers in New Delhi and vampires and lycans are suspects in this ambitious mix of detection and the supernatural from Singh.--Publishers Weekly Sajan Dayal, a Delhi detective, pursues a serial (though nonlethal) collector of human fingers. Dayal's team encounters...

"Ivory Apples is a legendary fantasy novel of the great-nieces of their Great-Aunt Adela, almost as celebrated and mysterious as the book itself, and the charming superfan Kate Burden--a sort of wicked Mary Poppins on the dogged hunt for hidden magic. But magic has...

A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders--and the ungodly motives behind them Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they...

This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe's words, "born into a regime where it could not breathe;" he hoped that one day it might rise again. It has no one main character, but evokes the sensations and impressions of a...

Everything you need to know about the universe. The collected short stories and selected microfiction of the elusive CTRLCREEP, a being of unknown origin and mysterious intent. Will you brave the paradox and madness contained herein for a chance to glimpse the incomprehensible poetry...

Morgan Blackmoore has a secret, and she's desperate to hide it from her sisters. So when local paranormal healer Clementine Vega is murdered and Morgan is accused of the crime, she has to do something she's never done before-lie to her family. But soon...

With the root of all evil-at least in Bannen's opinion-behind lock and key, the team is finally free to do something else with their lives. Bannen quite looks forward to living in Gargan, the new house being built, with the occasional mission to spice...

It was a time when gods walked the earth, when armies fought not for bits of land, but for the very existence of humanity. On such a battlefield, five formidable warriors stood against an evil greater than any the earth had ever seen. But...

It was a time when gods walked the earth, when armies fought not for bits of land, but for the very existence of humanity. On such a battlefield, five formidable warriors stood against an evil greater than any the earth had ever seen. But...

It was a time when gods walked the earth, when armies fought not for bits of land, but for the very existence of humanity. On such a battlefield, five formidable warriors stood against an evil greater than any the earth had ever seen. But...

"Zanily inventive . . . This deeply eccentric comedy belongs in the company of the best novels about wildly precocious kids" (The Seattle Times). Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he,...

A man and woman find their genders and sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts, seemingly out of thin air.... A man travels from Japan to Latin America in search of revolutionary purpose and finds much more than he bargains...

For readers of Water for Elephants or The Night Circus, a lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight s ances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair. On the eve of the World's Fair, Ferret...

"Our people are survivors," Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots--could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true?Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone...