Fiction - Magical Realism

"Bianca Marais is a genius" -- Ann Patchett, #1 New York Times bestselling authorA coven of modern-day witches. A magical heist-gone-wrong. A looming threat.Five octogenarian witches gather as an angry mob threatens to demolish Moonshyne Manor. All eyes turn to the witch in charge,...

Asmoday is part lust demon, part elf. Everybody wants a piece of him, but no one takes him seriously. He's mostly okay with that. Until he meets her.Now, Daruka and Asmoday are about to take on Satan himself, and Asmoday still isn't even sure...

Remone is a realtor who is struggling with his career. Maybe he is lazy, or maybe he is disillusioned by the tactics used at his office--business practices that are based more on greed than helping clients. A camping trip in the extreme cold of...

On the day her mother dies, Brynn discovers she has a power. Supernatural, sentient hair! Brynn is a selfless optimist who copes with her trauma by saving the world. But she's unable to save her best friend the night the police murder him. Something...

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller.In an unforgettable love story, a woman's impossible journey through the ages could change everything...Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather's stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home...

Ella Janssen, spunky, physics major, and soon-to-be college grad, is looking forward to a summer of relaxation before her future unfolds.Instead, she finds herself reluctantly agreeing to fill in for her mom while she went on an extended honeymoon with her new husband, and...

Assassination. War. A nineteen-year-old girl who must save a nation.When she finds out she is the sole heir to the throneof Highacre, Lily thinks she's dreaming. After all, other dimensions aren'treal, right? But as she discovers the royal family has been assassinated andnefarious forces...

Something had to be done. The specter of incorrigible keyboard anonymity had become a virus.Online trolls were sapping the world of basic human courtesy, and their sentiment was spilling over into society at large.Enter the cure, Daniel Navarro, a man who knew a little...

Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award Gritty and unflinching, yet also tender, fantastical, and funny, a trans woman's tale about finding a community on the margins. In Sarmiento Park, the green heart of Cdoba, a group of trans sex workers make their nightly rounds....

From the North rides the brutal and menacing knight known as Ulric. His true past and intentions are unknown save the thinly veiled fact that they both involve violence and blood. In his wake many things follow, of which, death and destruction are near...

Welcome to the magical world of love, where you'll meet a very bright child named Meadow! Meadow wants to design, but not just anything dresses made with flowers and leaves, my what joy that would bring! But when she realizes she doesn't know how...

suffused is a blend of diary, antipoetry, musings, and flash fiction that come together as a speculative work of autofiction that touches upon the romantic, the personal, and the political.Author: Kenning Jp GarciaISBN-10: 838769357XISBN-13: 9798387693571Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2023Pages: 110Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 9.00h x...

"With creeping claustrophobia and a filter of the surreal over lushly detailed lives, The Pecan Children captures both the magic and despair of trying to hold onto home when the world is determined to take it away from you." -- Kiersten White, #1 New...

The daughter of the Last American Cowboy is tasked with putting her late-father's ashes to rest, but has plans of her own. A woman wakes up after the first night with her lover to discover she's birthed a pile of maggots. The ghost of...

Martina, a Latina student from Queens, becomes entwined with Ellis, a hockey player from New Jersey, at a predominantly White university, against the backdrop of the early 21st century. As their connection grows, Martina encounters Ellis's inner demon, embodied by the enigmatic entity known...

Debilitating stress causes even psychics to make catastrophic decisions.At least that's my excuse.The snooty call from my future employer put a crimp in my plans. I can be frugal, but waiting seven weeks for my first payday is a lot to ask of a...

"This summer's sweetest confection is J.C. Cervantes's The Enchanted Hacienda. This book is like dipping your brain into a jar of serotonin." --New York Times Book Review"This is a contemporary coming-of-age story, with a sprinkling of magic, that's one of my most anticipated reads...

For lovers of Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones, Berserk, and the Mistborn series.The world of Eriand prospers at the dusk of an age. Rig, a young man from the snowy northern country of Nordfold is freshly released from his conscription to the...

From acclaimed novelist John Vercher, a profoundly moving novel of what it means to be a father, a son, a writer, and a biracial American fighting to reconcile the past Reeling from the sudden death of his teenage son, our narrator receives a letter...

A searingly original debut about two sisters and their flight from genocide--which takes them from Hollywood to Paris to San Francisco's Cannery Row--each haunted along the way by the ghosts of their murdered friends, who are not yet done telling their stories El Salvador,...

Maximus Karlson the Third, A.K.A. Max, is an average eighteen-year-old who recently graduated high school and sold his soul to a multinational corporation called Idolon. He inherited two things from his late father; an old wristwatch and an unwanted legacy. Max's father and grandfather...

In this lyrical novel, Julie Martin and Rachel Hardy both have an attachment to Meadowbrook Acres, and both try to reinvent their lives in its ghostly, antique embrace. Julie struggles to define herself in an adult role, bucking against demons until an encounter with...

Jade has spent her life fighting boredom in the terminally ill ward. Surfing the net or reading, she always envied the ability of others to go out and experience the world. She knew her wish to live a normal life was far beyond her...

By Way of The Sea a Novel by Julian Bound One monk's journey of discovery Struggling with his beliefs, Tenzin, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, begins a journey to see the sea he has always imagined. Travelling on foot through Tibet, Nepal and India to...

Welcome to "Secret Homes of Tea Pot Fairies", a whimsical coloring book that invites you to embark on a magical journey into the enchanting world of fairy homes nestled within delightful tea pots. Unleash your creativity as you explore a realm where tea and...

"In the Hour of Crows enthralls like a delicious dark spell."--Glendy Vanderah, bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the StarsIn a small town in Appalachia, people paint their doorways blue to keep spirits away. Black ferns grow where death will follow. And Weatherly...

Lina Karpenter expected changes after the death of her mother. What she couldn't foresee was the entrance of a father she thought was dead, and a new life centered in the southern world of gun-toting fifteen-year-olds who drive dinghies and pickup trucks. Navigating her...

Lina Karpenter expected changes after the death of her mother. What she couldn't foresee was the entrance of a father she thought was dead, and a new life centered in the southern world of gun-toting fifteen-year-olds who drive dinghies and pickup trucks. Navigating her...

FOLLOWING AN UNEXPECTED DEMISE, Clayton "Clay" Mitchell is thrust into the labyrinthine confines of Purgatory. With a heart fueled by twin desires-to find his treasured fiancé, Ava, who preceded him in death, and to escape the spectral chains binding him-Clay embarks on an odyssey...

A surreal exploration of one woman's life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with...

Memories are open to interpretation, just like the best stories...From eastern Europe to the Pacific Northwest, this collection explores the complicated and often contradictory dreams and desires of women of all ages and the role that memory plays throughout our lives. A daughter returns...

Book 1 of a series... Consumed by darkness. Determined to live. A struggle to survive.As you pass through the pages of this magical portal of a book containing a cross-genre of many fictional stories, each one will take you on a unique journey. You...

Sexy beach book? Adventure sports enchiridion? Guide to opening your 7 chakras?This is the story of Blaze, former bartender and current hang gliding instructor, whose developing psychic abilities and obsession with past love complicates his present romance and his quest for peace of mind.So,...

Aus dem Buch: "Unz hlige Sterne gl nzen aus dem tiefblauen Himmel auf Bagdad hinab; sie spiegeln sich in den lauen Fluten des Tigris, und an den bunten Kacheln der Minaretts, der Palast- und Moscheekuppeln werden auch die Glanzlichter der Sternenwelt glitzernd umhergestrahlt. Die...

Kara is a contemporary single lady with a string of bad romances too odd for even a Lady Gaga lyric. After another failed May-December fling, she muddles through the intrusions of her comically well-meaning family, until she meets Deke White; Sexy, funny, kind, even...

Set in a timeless haven on the shore of the Arabian Sea, this story chronicles an appointment with destiny through the eyes of a mortal who witnesses the transformation of a strange visitor. The simple sensory backdrop of a left-behind beach town imbues the...

After being courted by the local coven, my anticipation over meeting someone who could be like me builds. But that person is even closer than I think when she comes into my bakery asking me to find her grandmother. Or more specifically, her grandmother's...

During the season of good cheer between Christmas and Epiphany, erstwhile professor Butch Regent becomes increasingly burdened by lack of money and failing spirits. His dream of turning his dilapidated former sanatorium/monastery into an artists' retreat seems out of reach. Nurse, Scap, Sister Julia,...

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"An immersive, sensual experience." --The New York Times "Essential." --The Washington PostFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. "A must-read...

"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...

Praised by EM Forster in his essay series Aspects of the Novel, Flecker's Magic is a fantasy in which imaginative American, Spike Flecker--an aspiring young painter enduring poverty in Paris--meets a girl in a café who tells him that she is a witch. The...

Praised by EM Forster in his essay series Aspects of the Novel, Flecker's Magic is a fantasy in which imaginative American, Spike Flecker--an aspiring young painter enduring poverty in Paris--meets a girl in a café who tells him that she is a witch. The...

"A shape-shifting novel about the power of stories...Helen Oyeyemi is a literary pied piper -- her voice is the kind that readers gamely follow into the most bewildering and unnerving of situations." - The New York Times "A metatextual masterpiece." --Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW...

WITH OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD, THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING SENSATION ARRIVES IN AMERICA. For fans of magical realism and the Before the Coffee Gets Cold series by Toshikazu Kawaguchi comes this cozy fantasy debut.What if there was a store that sold dreams? Which would...

Rocker Jimmy Brandt has given up on his dreams. He's settled down in the suburbs with his girlfriend and cat... until strange forces tempt him back to his former life. Soon he faces a choice between good and evil, and life is so rewarding...

What you don't remember can't hurt you.Richard Easter's "Snow Trilogy" continues.A thirty-year-old woman called Jane Dawn wakes in a hut surrounded by a snow-covered forest.She remembers nothing apart from her name, but strange echoes flicker about her mind; that once she flew, time was...

The richly atmospheric and luminous debut about three generations of women whose magic is as much a part of life as love, death, and the rich, dark earth beneath their feet--perfect for fans of Practical Magic and Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe. There's something...

A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK A heartwarming and emotionally poignant time-loop novel about a stressed woman who must relive the same day over and over, keeping her family and work life from imploding as she attempts to spare her husband from an unfortunate fate....

Alex, the storyteller in Forget Me Not, unfurls the multicolored banner that is his family history. In vivid and rich narration, from his grandfather's bull fighting ranch in Mexico and his father's chiropractic education in Iowa, to his own search for self and the...

When a travel writer haunted by old ghosts comes face to face with a new one-who just happens to be one of the most famous men in the world-she has no choice but to dig into his past ... and her own. Fifty-six-year-old Neena...