Fiction - Magical Realism

Victoria G. Smith, named an outstanding writer by the Chicago Filipino Asian American Hall of Fame, explores the Filipino diaspora with magic, lyricism, and humor. Ousted years ago from the Malaca ang Palace in Manila, where he healed the people's ailments with the power...

Shome Dasgupta, a young American author of Bengali descent, uses magical realism to explore his South Asian roots in this series of fourteen stories mostly set in modern day Kolkata, the city his parents came from and the one where their extended families continue...

An intimate autobiographical account in novel form, of the hidden life of Jesus. Detailing his family life and Initiate training, the lost years, and the Essenes in a tender, caring voice, Yeshu'a as well reveals the true history of the world and speaks of...

About a cat - in the city. "Boo" Van Den Pelt might figure that he has it made. That is, if he ever bothered to reflect on his life of luxury as the pampered pet of a wealthy Park Avenue dowager. When his cozy...

As Jenny pursues her career as a nurse, then a midwife, she forgot about her childhood visitation by a spirit guide, and the importance of her future mission.After a series of strange dreams leading her into past lives, mainly in Atlantis, she encounters a...

Marco Polo is travelling again in the service of Kublai Khan but this time he wanders off the path and ends up in an unknown part of the world. In his solitude he becomes an emperor of dreams. The ghosts of prehistory visit him,...

The true queen of Wonderland returns, but the battle for her crown and her kings is only just beginning.After a brief stint on Earth, Alex returns to Wonderland to find that far too much time has passed. Far too many lives have been lost,...

Iron Wolves Books 1-4 Plus Bonus Christmas Novella...Get the first four books of the bestselling Iron Wolves series by USA Today Bestselling Author Elle Boon in this four book set. Four larger than life alphas, who are sexy as sin, yet when they find...

It's present day, or thereabouts. North America's made up of thirteen countries. Caught in the power struggle between The Christian Republic of Texas and the Republic of California, a soldier named Braxton Alexander searches for the answers to life's burning questions. What is worth...

All three books in one collection Jane is the daughter of Lucifer himself. Jane lives her life as a human and uses witchcraft to cover her demon side. This makes her an outcast in Hell. She doesn't want to help the devil, but how...

A traveler on the Yahm Railroad encounters mysteries at every stop-and even in those places where no train ever stops.The cities along the Yahm Railroad expose many strange aspects of the cosmos-of language, meaning, and reality.Bringing together equal parts of the fabulist tales of...

When wizard detective Eric Naill is found stabbed to death behind the salon of hunky witch hair stylist Graeme "Gray" Quinn, it doesn't bode well for the Quinn clan. Especially when Gray's favorite golden shears appear to be the murder weapon.With both the Council...

Excerpt from AT THE ACADEMY OF MESOZOIC DANCE: AN INTRODUCTION: Welcome to audition and placement examinations for the Academy of Mesozoic Dance, First Year Forms. Applications are open to any dinosaur between two and six years of age, and must be stamped by a...

Like a monarch surveying her domain, the house has stood for over a hundred years in the fishing village of Apalachicola on Florida's northwest coast. She has known life. She has known passionate love. She has known brutal death. But she has guarded her...

From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander novels: The "haunting and fascinating" tale of a young boy's harrowing odyssey from Africa to Sweden (Booklist). In the 1870s, Hans Bengler arrives in Cape Town from Sm land, Sweden, driven by a singular desire: to...

It's a wonder to behold what happens when love moves in . . .Former child star Fiona Hume deserted the movie biz a decade ago--right after she left rehab. She landed in Baltimore, bought a dilapidated old mansion downtown, and hatched dreams of restoring...

Jess Thornton, in his self-penned adventure set in La Crosse Wisconsin, his home town, is a weird tale indeed From his high rise office in the Hoeschler building, to Pettibone Island, and to his best friend's place on Indian Hill on the north side,...

Pistols, potions, and private armies... Madison Mosby is tired of going nowhere in life. Living in the shadows of her grandmother's culinary success, she trudges around one of the many kitchens within her vast empire, swimming in debt and despair. Enter a mysterious man...

Here is a brief novel in the style magical realism about an island with a people in extinction at a distant futur. What shall occur soon afterward?Author: Cacildo MarquesISBN-10: 1532955073ISBN-13: 9781532955075Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/28/2016Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x...

It's been over three hundred years since the forest had spread across the world. Three hundred years since the moon had been cut by an ancient weapon. Three hundred years since the fall of civilization. Ruins buried in the thick canvas of green paint...

As winter approaches in the Adelaide Hills, Rs匤 Clare finds herself swept up in a new cycle of energy and purpose. On the cusp of turning forty-two, she is stepping out with her first solo art exhibition after years of deep inner work healing...

For countless centuries, Isaac Rojas had tried to live the quiet life, but he is forever being pulled to locations just before cataclysmic occurrences. Most recently, he was in New York on 9/11, then in Indonesia when the tsunami hit. Through these events, Isaac...

Ana Wicker is transported to the strange world of Eperidium on a day her life was already changing forever. There she meets Frey, Felix, and Clomtrop, three magical children known in their world as Scions. They explain to Ana that the only person who...

This is the first edition of "Fantasy Art: Surrealism + Magic Art".The concept of this artbook is inspired in the fusion of different traditional art techniques and innovatives techniques using Artificial Intelligence (Ai), neural networks, digital designs.Why Fantasy Art? - Because life itself is...

While it is often that the case that prejudice allocates good people to potentially evil, by appearance only, evil can sometimes present as benevolence. While some applaud what is presented as the wholesome overthrowing of a despotic regime, others will know as fascism. Or...

Award-winning author Martina Boone creates an evocative new romance about illusions, last chances, and embracing hope set against the magical backdrop of North Wales and the glitter of an epic Hollywood historical film. Kath Cameron escaped a horrible mistake by running away to Hollywood,...

Author Winnifred Tataw explores kingdoms and worldbuilding in this fantasy novel full of secrets and twists in her latest book, The Sisterhood of Secrets. The story follows Arcelia, her flawed family, and Prince Rodrick, as they tumble through the deserts and underground city of...

Old dogs can definitely learn new tricks, and so can wise witches.Sara Walters has spent her time teaching other witches about the magical ways, but now that she's fifty and it's time for her to retire, she's not sure what to do with herself....

Even if today is grey, tomorrow might just bring a rainbow. Ask Thomas Blueberry. He knows. Thomas has no job, no girlfriend, no future. Even his new book is going nowhere ... except onto his bedroom floor. Then a fairy appears at the end...

This is book three of The Inner Compass Trilogy. In the first two books Marissa went on a spiritual and emotional rollercoaster ride and it's not over yet, not by a long shot. No longer able to keep the door to the otherworld closed,...

There is a secret world of myth and legend just beneath the surface, hiding in plain sight. Three powerful families known as the Godmakers are responsible for leading and protecting this magical community from ongoing threats and corruption within the ranks.The Never-Ending Storm invites...

Do you ever feel like life is consistently bashing or bullying you? Extracting every pound of flesh?Battle Angel: The Ultimate She Warrior has been written with you in mind. Every female alive has their very own 'She' warrior buried inside. It's just a matter...

From the award-winning writer and director of The Women's Jail Project and author of Dancing the Labyrinth, comes an evocative tale that unashamedly merges renowned historical characters and events into a spellbinding story of destiny. "I should have assumed with parents known to the...

THE SECRET OF THIS WINTER'S TALE HIDES IN PLAIN SIGHT December 2022; Littel Wade village, Dorset.As dark nights fall, darker secrets rise....Seemingly impossible objects are discovered in a scrapyard that may be home to much more than just junk....while two friends try to unravel...

Abby, Seth, and Frances are teenagers bound by a shared tragedy-a deadly act of environmental protest in their coastal community of Scallop Bay. All three are searching for resolution to their grief. Eighteen months after the bombing that claimed her parents, her grandmother, and...

Join award-winning author R.H. Burkett as she takes you on a magical journey across time and space. From her nostalgic short story about her cat to the macabre world of magic and mayhem. This collection includes something for everyone. Her stories will make you...

Tomorrow is the first day of spring... and the day of the Annual Gifting Ceremony. Prince Hakan, his brother Fannar, and their two friends - Shammoth and Joule - anxiously await their turn to pass through the mysterious waterfall that once a year bestows...

Evy Chambers is stuck in an unfulfilling life. Fueled by stubbornness and obligation, she's vowed to never abandon her family the way her mother did when she was little. But working for her father's plumbing supply company, Evy feels as disconnected and futile as...

Collection of short stories with a common theme of mystery, curiosity, suspense, romance and thrill.No major claims, but I believe I have maintained to keep the reader's curiosity levels high. I will be surprised if you dont see yourself in some of the characters...

Four stories (three of which appeared in the New Yorker) and a novella bring wit, compassion, and dizzying absurdity to facing life and death across generations. In "Things We Worried About When I Was Ten," carefree boys running in apparent midwestern freedom are revealed...

There was once a mysterious girl hidden away in a blue roofed house harbouring a magical secret. There was once another girl too stubborn to let her get away with that. Skye Eaton has been obsessed with the blue roof girl since she was...

In this third installment of The Rewired Series, the reset has arrived. Malik's dreams are as vivid as ever. One, in particular, feels strangely real, as though there's a past he only vaguely remembers. Malik awakens to a world threatened by intense solar flares,...

From the author of the "original and electric" Braised Pork (Time), An Yu's enchanting and contemplative novel of music and mushrooms follows a former concert pianist searching for the truth about a vanished musicianFor three years, Song Yan has filled the emptiness of her...

The Girl with the Louding Voice meets The Water Dancer in Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ's magical, award-winning literary debut, Dazzling, offering a new take on West African mythology. Treasure and her mother lost everything when Treasure's father died. Haggling for scraps in the market, Treasure meets...

Lily returns to the magical world of Sa Neo, but nothing is the same as before. The witches are at war with the mermaids and Lily only has herself to blame. There are whispers of peace, and a revolution is brewing, but no one...

The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.In Melissa Broder's astounding new novel, a woman arrives alone at a Best Western seeking respite from an...

Melanie came from a long line of witches. Each generation of her family had to deal with evil seeking to extinguish their family line, but Melanie was convinced she could end it once and for all, but she would require her entire family's help!Author:...

Pythia Apulu is the last of the Greek Oracles. At the height of her power, she served the god Apollo in the Temple at Delphi, foretelling the future for kings and ambassadors from across the ancient world. Then an illness destroyed her power, her...

Supernatural meets Down Among The Sticks and Bones, a novel about the personification of the Fountain of Youth as a teenage girl. "...never dull...a neat twist on the concepts of the fountain of youth and reincarnation." -Kirkus Reviews. In a world teetering on the...

Core Truths is Lisa Fox's debut collection of 18 speculative short stories that explore the quintessential values driving our thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Each tale culminates in a character's pivotal moment, the one that changes them forever. Sometimes their journey leads toward a rare...