Fiction - Magical Realism

Cadence Anderson has the perfect definition of happily ever after . . . Until she doesn't. A freak earthquake shatters her life as surely as her home, taking away everything she holds dear. She wakes in a hospital to find that her beloved husband...

"Klougart has an unusual ability to create phrases, images and a language that you long to stay in and remember forever."--Dagens Nyheter"One can speak of unbearable beauty, but one can also speak of a linguistic beauty that makes it possible to bear the unbearable."--PolitikenIn...

Finalist, 2017 Foreword Reviews Indie Book Awards for Adult Fiction When Silas Fortunato applies for an editorial position for the "spirituality" section of a local newspaper, he is asked to fill in a bubble sheet to mark his religion. The problem is, his beliefs...

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) is known to the world primarily as the author of The Nutcracker. It is less known that E. T. A. Hoffmann is also a pioneer of magic realism, whose works influenced generations of speculative fiction authors. "Choosing the Bride",...

A masterpiece by a young genius, fated to die shortly after he had completed it.--A.N. Wilson, author of Victoria: A Life and Tolstoy: A Biography Shining moments of tender beauty punctuate this story of a youth on the run after escaping from an elite...

A rollicking ride of a magical realist, coming-of-age story that explores sex and gender in ways that will have you laughing out loud. Be prepared to travel light with a somewhat murderous female protagonist en route across the country - where it's so hard...

In a lightning-plagued mining town, a new bride turns to the alluring women of the brothel to heal her husband's chapped skin while strikes electrify the very air around them. A woman is sent to rescue her maiden aunts from imminent collapse into a...

In some dark corners of Mexico, All Saints' Day isn't merely a time to remember the dead. It's an invitation to commune.When a woman cursed with immortality and a man haunted by a bloody war stumble headlong into this strange m lange of mysticism...

After learning how to be human at the Earth Angel Training Academy, the Angels, Faeries, Merpeople and Starpeople are born into human bodies on Earth. Their Mission? Awaken the world. But even though they chose to go to Earth, and they chose to be...

"Sawat, I want to go into the water..." Phuket, Thailand, seemed to be the perfect getaway choice for twenty-two-year-old Calum Armstrong: What he saw, and did, on that holiday proves to have far- reaching consequences; not only for himself, but also for those closest...

Join Olivia Carter one last time in the final installment of the Witch's Bite seriesLoyalties 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 me anymore.My...

Nineteen-year-old Alice Tanmar is summoned to that realm of dreams and wonders known by her grandmother as Wonderland, her mother as Everland, and herself as Otherland. She is the third Alice to assist that dream realm out of difficulty. Why was she is brought...

A rock musician, famous for one hit song in 1983, vanishes without a trace. Due to his mysterious disappearance, his old albums begin to sell again, and there's a movie in the works on his life. But Chance Martin is not dead. In 2006,...

The Last Song is the final novel of The Blue Child Series. In this book Ruby, Agnes and Blue are pursued by the evil Lilin as the two sisters and the Star Child try to return to the House of the Mother. Grace, the...

Scientist and engineer Lauren Giulio knows she cannot ignore her inner voice anymore. Determined to unravel the mystery surrounding her deceased father's childhood and uncover the events that lured both her father and her down a path contrary to cultural and social attitudes, Lauren...

Award-winning author Simon Morden joins Gollancz with a stunning SF quest across a vast world that mirrors every London ever built. Instead of fire, there was water. A wave slapped through the open doorway, and a gust of wind blew into the smoke-filled corridor,...

Meet New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende's most enchanting creation, Eva Luna: a lover, a writer, a revolutionary, and above all a storyteller.Eva Luna is the daughter of a professor's assistant and a snake-bitten gardener--born poor, orphaned at an early age, and working...

An Atlantean civilization engulfed by cataclysm falls through time and space, scattering hundreds of thousands of souls throughout the dimensional fabric of Free Will Universe One. The survivors, trapped on Earth for eons with no way out, attempt to rebuild a Civilization of Light...

The New York Times bestselling author of the "supernatural tour de force" (M.J. Rose, bestselling author) The Map of Time crafts an enchanting collection of twelve evocative and macabre stories delving into the magical, ordinary, and darker aspects of love in all its powerful...

-Redbook Best of the Year Pick -PopSugar's Best Books of the Year -Teen Vogue's Best Books of the Year -Reading with Robin 2016 Favorite A fierce, feisty, and "compulsively delicious" (Redbook) debut with a magical twist about three ordinary, regular young women who suddenly...

What if you could see the future but you were not allowed to interfere?Overflowing with longing, sweet romance, and a dash of magic, bestselling, award-winning author Jennifer Moorman brings you another charming story set in the whimsical small town of Mystic Water.Little Blackbird is...

Miss Mary, Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black..." We've all heard the clapping game song sung by children all over the world. But who exactly was Mary Mack and what are those silver buttons? Taking historical fiction to an all new...

Aaron Poochigian's Mr. Either/Or is an ingenious debut, a verse novel melding American mythology, noir thriller, and classical epic into gritty rhythms, foreboding overtones, and groovy jams surrounding the reader in a surreal atmosphere. Imagine Byron's Don Juan on a high-stakes romp through a...

A Cat McCloud Book. A coming-of-age thriller like never before. Magical realism meets suburban gothic humor in the lakeside town of White Rock. Fish heads are nailed to the trees, a killer lurks under the muck, and the bare lips of one girl must...

A winner of the Reader Views Literary Awards, first place in the Dante Rossetti Awards, and now a short film by Chase Michael Wilson, Black Crow White Lie tells the story of young Carson Calley. He has a rare and magical gift of healing,...

A Publishers Weekly Top Book of the Year INDIEFAB Editor's Choice Award for Fiction Book of the Year "lyrical, evocative" and "sensuous"..."A tribute to magical realism and the transforming power of fiction."-Publishers Weekly, starred review "Compelling...beautiful...and gripping..."-Huffington Post "5 out of 5 STARS!"-Seattle Post-Intelligencer...

Melanie K. Hutsell's debut novel, The Dead Shall Rise, uses magical realism and the earthy authenticity of Appalachia to create its modern folktale world, both beautiful and baleful. It is set in the mountain village of Beulah Creek, whose ordinary inhabitants are unsettled by...

'Twas a time of war. The Black had returned, his despicable Hoard gaining power with astonishing ease amongst those unfamiliar with their own history. Humans and the Magic bearing Races had drifted apart since the Last Holocaust, and many chose ignorance o'er facing the...

A film studies major gets a meat-processing job supervising the systematic dismemberment and disembowelment of chickens. A troubled loner finds the man of her dreams in a shoebox of horse figurines; a depressed mother is riddled with anxiety about her toddler daughter's eerily coded...

The final novel in the award-winning Dry Bones Society trilogy.WORLD WAR III IS THE LEAST OF HIS PROBLEMS... Everyone knows Moshe Karlin is the Messiah. Except for Moshe Karlin.As he wields his newfound political power to fix Israeli society, natural disasters--and some very unnatural...

Continuing their adventures from The Time Dancer escapade, Esmarelda, George Drumm, and Sylvestor the cat have their hands (and paws) full with with unwelcoming Witches, shape-shifting Familiars, half-mad Magicians, and inquisitive New-Agers."The participants were like children to me, harmlessly playing at games they knew...

Can one really navigate the vast sea of Time? Celtic fiddler George Drumm is intrigued by symbols etched on the cairns of his remote Sumweir Isle home by ancient Wanderer tribes. The closed double spiral is said to depict the alternating timelines of two...

Lavished with praise at the time of its 1925 publication, Leonard Cline's phantasmagoric God Head is being republished so a new generation of readers can marvel at its dark magic. Cline's mesmerizing debut follows the journey of Paulus Kempf, a fugitive labor agitator who...

From Katie Schickel, one of Booklist's Top 10 Women's fiction of 2015, comes The Mermaid's Secret, an original, fresh, and absolutely captivating beach read. Life on land is suffocating for Jess Creary, who wastes her summers flipping burgers for tourists on a fishing boat...

From the winner of the New Academy Prize in Literature (the alternative to the Nobel Prize), critically-acclaimed author Maryse Cond blends magical realism and a true story to create an unforgettable masterpiece. On one hand, beautiful Celanire--a woman mutilated at birth and left for...

A haunting tale of love, loss, and redemption."Markert's latest supernatural novel is captivating from the beginning... Readers of Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker will love Markert's newest release." - 4 STARS, RT Book ReviewsIn the wake of World War I in the small, Southern...

Trevor Blackwood lost his wife to the mythical creature known as Bigfoot and never came to terms with her disappearance. It's been over a decade since she vanished, but time hasn't stopped Trevor and his sons Darius and Brock from searching for her and...

When Mariah Easter encounters a large hawk in her urban midtown neighborhood, her father Charlie is concerned. He can see a wild and mystical path opening before his daughter, a path he himself would never be able to resist. The hawk soon reappears: engraved...

SHE'S COMING. Oya. Mighty orisha of lightning, storms, and change. A formidable warrior goddess, she entered into an intimate relationship with a human many years ago. Now, a threat to that human's progeny--and Oya's direct lineage--will pit 'Oya against the other orisha, and those...

What's not to absolutely LOVE this in deal: moving in with your best buddy and his sweetheart into a super-swank three bedroom town home with a WHAMMO view of Seattle and Mt. Rainier? OK, so the materials used to build it were on the...

In the first century A.D., Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverent poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, Malouf has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving novel. Marooned...

Gabriel Garc a M rquez's most political novel is the tragic story of General Sim n Bol var, the man who tried to unite a continent. Bol var, known in six Latin American countries as the Liberator, is one of the most revered heroes...

"Those who lament that the novel has lost its prophecy should pay heed and cover-price: Muck is the future, both of Jerusalem and of literature. God is showing some rare good taste, by choosing to speak to us through Dror Burstein." --Joshua Cohen, author...

The house has sat in this small New Hampshire town for many years. It has been empty with an image of strange happenings and has been called haunted. Now a young boy and his mother are making it their home after the loss of...

The abandoned daughter of Pablo Neruda speaks through "incandescent poetic prose full of magical realism, biographical details and psychological insight." Winner of the Fintro Prize for Literature Malva, a precocious eight-year-old ghost, is running amok in the afterlife with a cadre of other lost...

Bewildered but lovable author, Muldoon, is trapped in the dreamlike narrative of his own surrealistic novel. Beginning with just a title--Incognolio--he enters a bizarre fictional realm that plunges him into an identity crisis of anguishing proportions. Is he writing a story in which his...

How far would you go to learn the truth? If it isn't what you expected, would you accept it? If the world rejected it, would you stand by it? With the Drowned Tower in shambles and its practitioners left to wander the foreign lands...

The island of Inishr n, small and forbidding, holds a deeply protected secret. The sidh , a magical race as old as the earth, also known as fairies, live there. This is their final stronghold in a world that has forgotten them aged only...

It's been several years since Ren of the Undivided and his half-Faerie companion Tr sa stumbled into to the reality where the Faerie are all but eradicated by the Matrachai. With the help of Pete and Logan Doherty, the human twins stranded with them,...

Four troubled people meet beneath Chicago's shadowy streets and discover a woman who changes their lives forever in this powerful, haunting novel of magic and miracles, from the New York Times bestselling author of the V.I. Warshawski series "Truly remarkable."--San Francisco Chronicle"Rich, imaginative, [and]...