Fiction - Magical Realism

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

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,...