Fiction - Magical Realism

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...

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...

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...

"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...

Helen Kent never dares to step outside her comfort zone. She lives a lonely, mundane life in the city, grinding through her uninspiring marketing job. That is, until a spontaneous online purchase brings her to the little bay town of Oban, Scotland, where a...

Stories have immense power. When Ailith wakes up on her 80th birthday to discover three crane toes where her human foot used to be, she knows she doesn't have much time left. Ailith is an Infinite Being and her human experience is quickly coming...

NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR & ONE OF THE BEST FANTASY NOVELS OF THE YEAR "Astonishing and pristine, the kind of debut I love to be devastated by, already so assured and sophisticated that it's difficult to imagine where...

In the year 1966, a mother gives birth, a configuration of angels assembles, and a golden scroll is opened. A riddle is born. The story follows the life of Yune Bukhari, a young Syrian man, as he prepares for the Second Coming, secretly guided...

Teacher Brigid dares to break the estrangement between her mother and grandfather and stay at tranquil Cairn Cottage for the summer. A sailboat is delivered to a neighboring cottage and a man named Gabe walks into her life, making her feel something she has...

Someone is making a list and checking it twice in this festive holiday whodunit by USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne...What better time for a wedding when the sleigh bells are ringing and the snow is glistening this frosty season in the quaint coastal...

Pumpkin tea blends aren't the only things that are being stirred up in the next baffling whodunit of the Paramour Bay Mysteries by USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne...All Hallows' Eve is only a fortnight away, and the residents of Paramour Bay can't wait...

GOD LOVES YOU JUST AS YOU ARE, RIGHT NOW THE GOD GAMES: Heaven & Hell, is an allegorical Fiction/Fantasy/Science Fiction tale which finds ANN NELSON, who is in HEAVEN, preparing her new life game (one life-time on the planet you choose - Ann chooses...

Whimsical bats aren't the only thing vanishing into thin air in the next whacky whodunit of the Paramour Bay Mysteries by USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne...Summertime is drawing to an end and taking with it the humidity, hay fever, and annoying mosquitos that...

Urban Magical realism novel for fans of Haruki Murakami, Toni Morrison, and Junot DiazDeserted by his father at the age of four and raised by his voodoo queen mother on the fringes of Skid Row, Los Angeles street artist Virgilio Santos believes it his...

The End of the Circus is an allegorical tale about the journey to courage, love, and self-discovery. It follows Jabari, a grieving African runaway, who seeks adventure in faraway lands, but finds himself cleaning the stalls of circus animals, impoverished, and longing to return...

Vic Valentine is lost inside the space between his ears. His lifelong slow-burning mental meltdown, sexual obsessiveness, fatal self-absorption, and epic existential angst have resulted in a complete break from conventional external reality. Now convinced his entire life is a movie, he finds himself...