Fiction - Magical Realism

The Top Three Sunday Times bestselling novel from Carrie Hope Fletcher, the author of On the Other Side. A story of love, food and a little bit of magic, All That She Can See is an enchanting and beautiful novel that's guaranteed to be...

A farcical tragedy inextricably entangled with myth, Louis de Bernieres's brilliant first novel is an intoxicating story of life, love, and politics in South America. The war begins when the haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert the village river to fill her swimming pool,...

"Dressed up in the thrill and sparkle of the Roaring Twenties, the classic fairy tale of 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses' has never been more engrossing or delightful. Valentine's fresh, original style and choice of setting make this a fairy tale reimagining not to be...

"Readers fascinated with the Romanovs and this tumultuous period in Russian history will be enthralled by this deliciously dark and memorable novel." --Publishers WeeklyInspired by real characters, this transporting historical fiction debut spins the fascinating story of two princesses in the Romanov court who...

"The settings are vivid and real and the characters loveable. The plots interesting and contemporary. Highly recommended for those who want a true "beach read"-especially a Long Beach one!" Marie Cartier, author of Baby, You Are my Religion: Women, Gay Bars and Theology Before...

New and selected fiction, over half in English for the first time, from the winner of the 2014 Neustadt Prize.Author: Mia CoutoISBN-10: 1771963883ISBN-13: 9781771963886Publisher: BiblioasisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2021Pages: 416Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.20w x 1.10dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 12/07/2020

In a bravura feat of storytelling, Mark Haddon calls upon narratives ancient and modern to tell the story of Angelica, a young woman trapped in an abusive relationship with her father. When a young man named Darius discovers their secret, he is forced to...

Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine Stephen King teams up with long-time friend and award-winning author Richard Chizmar for the first time in this original, chilling novella that revisits the mysterious town of Castle Rock. There are three ways up to...

It surprises no one that the charming but wayward Vadinho dos Guimaraes-a gambler notorious for never winning--dies during Carnival. His long suffering widow Dona Flor devotes herself to her cooking school and her friends, who urge her to remarry. She is soon drawn to...

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....

Mary has always felt a special connection with nature, frequently seeing faces in trees. Spending time in nearby woods, she finds respite from her job in healthcare where she works as a speech pathologist. Mary soon discovers other earth spirits have sensed her ability...

Runa Brandon is na ve and uncertain, and she has been taken advantage of more than once. After disentangling herself from an abusive relationship, Runa begins a new life in Departure Cove, Oregon. Her mother, Asta, believes Departure Cove holds too many secrets that...

"The forty-seven components of Josh Russell's engrossing King of the Animals are always entertaining, never less than mischievous, constantly surprising, and stunningly well expressed. Yes, they are stories, vignettes, parables, moral tales--but none of those descriptions do them full justice. Let's just say that...

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE BOSTON GLOBE AND THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE "So filled with vivid descriptions and complex characters that the reader's experience is virtually cinematic. . . Utterly compelling." - The Washington Post From the author of When We...

"Contemporary fairy tales, cushioned by goofy humor and a deep tenderness for her characters, that aren't always as dark or as sinister as they initially appear." --The New York Times Book Review Aimee Bender's Willful Creatures conjures a fantastical world in which authentic love...

For twenty years, Loravain, a slave to a demon bent on world domination, has dreamed of winning his freedom. To do so, he has become the demon's assassin, hunting down witches and other creatures. Finally, the day comes when the demon offers it if...

SPIRITS SURROUND US ALL, AND IT'S UP TO US TO LISTEN TO WHAT THEY ARE TELLING US-WHERE TO GO AND WHAT TO DO... From the bayous of south Louisiana to the arid hills of Arizona, they follow us. Or maybe they beat us there....

Ten-year-old Lily Nelson lives with her mother, sister, and the wellspring of her hatred: her father, Henry. Since Henry returned to their lives after an unexplained eight-year absence, the family has been uprooted, both physically and emotionally, moving from the mystical forests of Nakusp...

This work presents Juan Rulfo's cinematic second novel in English for the first time ever alongside several stories never before translated.Author: Juan RulfoISBN-10: 1941920586ISBN-13: 9781941920589Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2017Pages: 228Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.52dReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 03/20/2017Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2017...

Giller Prize winner André Alexis's contemporary take on the quest narrative is an instant classic. Although the Green Dolphin is a bar of ill repute, it is there that Tancred Palmieri, a thief with elegant and erudite tastes, meets Willow Azarian, an aging heroin...

From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of M, a highly imaginative thriller about a young woman who discovers that a strange map in her deceased father's belongings holds an incredible, deadly secret--one that will lead her on an extraordinary adventure and to...

Celebrated author Richard Wagamese artfully crafts these thrilling yet vulnerable stories of two young men trying to find their place in the world. The volume brings together two previously published novellas by Richard Wagamese, Him Standing and The Next Sure Thing, with a foreword...

NAMED A "FALL 2020 MUST-READ" AND ONE OF THE "BEST BOOKS OF FALL 2020" BY TIME, VULTURE, THE BOSTON GLOBE, COSMOPOLITAN, WIRED, TOR AND MOREElectrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth...

The only way to fulfill her quest - was to DIE!This read is for anyone who likes science and magic; a dash of humor; light-hearted action adventure sequences; monsters and swordplay, and anyone who enjoys Dungeons and Dragons.Serena Brimstone, fierce Warrior Woman of the...

What if the remarkable story of Ebenezer Scrooge was true? What if the account was relayed to Dickens and he turned it into A Christmas Carol? What if the Ghostly visitations did not begin with, nor end with, Scrooge, but the Ghosts of Christmas...

Winner of the 2022 ReLit AwardsFinalist for the 2022 Trillium Book AwardA Gothic collection of stories featuring carnivorous beavers, art-eaters, and family intrigue, for fans of Alice Munro and Shirley JacksonThe small southern Ontario town known as The Pump lies at the crossroads of...

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting...

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - A Refinery 29 Favorite Book of the Year - A Booklist Top 10 First Novels of the Year - A People Best Book of the Fall "Wonderful... completely transporting." --Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling...

The captivating first novel in the Convergence Saga by Cadwell Turnbull, the award-winning author of The LessonAn Indie Next PickA LibraryReads PickNamed A Most Anticipated Book by Bustle, Buzzfeed, Forbes, GoodReads, Marie Claire, The Millions, and Tor.comProfound and unsettling in the best way...Sharp, insightful...

Library Journal Best World Literature of the Year A fable, parable, and confession, the second novel from the acclaimed author of The Meursault Investigation pays homage to the essential need for fiction and to the freedom from tradition afforded by an adopted language. Having...

When the stock market crashes on the Thursday before Easter, you--an ambitious, although ineffectual and not entirely ethical young broker--are convinced that you're facing the Weekend from Hell. Before the market reopens on Monday, you're going to have to scramble and scheme to cover...

A heartfelt novel of shedding secrets, facing the past, and embracing the magic of love and family by the Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Where the Forest Meets the Stars.After the untimely deaths of her aunt and mother, young Riley...

When John Harvey's watch stops working on the morning of February 3rd, 1987, he has an epiphany. It occurs to him that every personal trauma he is trying to forget has had one thing in common: they all occurred at some point on the...

Within the thirteen stories of Whitney Collins's Big Bad dwells a hunger that's dark, deep, and hilarious. Part domestic horror, part flyover gothic, Big Bad serves up real-world predicaments in unremarkable places (motels, dormitories, tiki bars), all with Collins's heart-wrenching flavor of magical realism....

Gold Award in the Regional Fiction (Europe) category of the 2020 IPPY AwardsGold Medal in the Fiction-Literary category of the 2020 Readers' Favorite Book AwardsSilver Award in the Audiobook: Fiction category of the 2020 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards "Teitelman paints an intensely beautiful world...

A centuries-long stalemate endures over possession of a sentient world.In one corner, a dwindling cabal of shamans holds onto a desperate defense; in the other, a colony of aliens try to control a bio-engineering experiment run amok. In the middle stands a youth who...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER Perfect for fans of Alice Hoffman, Isabel Allende, and Sarah Addison Allen, a family searches for the truth hidden in their past in this "expertly woven tale of family power, threaded with as much mystery as magic" (V.E. Schwab, #1 New York...

In the gridlocked harbor of San Francisco's Barbary Coast, a ship hung with red paper lanterns draws crowds eager to gamble and drink. Aboard this red-lit ship, the fates of two young women will be altered irrevocably--and tied forever to that of an ancient...

Robert Freeman Wexler's potent blend of urban realism and fantasy-"North American Surrealism" is the term Jeff VanderMeer has coined for Wexler's work-is on full display in his second novel, which makes its US debut some 12 years after its initial limited-edition publication in the...

***IPPY AWARDS: LITERARY FICTION - BRONZE*** An audacious tale of murder, privilege, and servitude - of both humans and nature. A stunning work of imaginative fiction, Last Hummingbird West of Chile spins a tale of adventure that is in turn comedic, violent, poignant and...

The book that launched bestselling author Robert Whitlow's career!"Fans of John Grisham will find much to like here." --Library Journal review of The ConfessionIn a world of secrets, where evil has reigned for over a hundred years, the power of an ancient covenant will...

Bearing W.P. Kinsella's trademark combination of "sweet-natured prose and a richly imagined world" (Philadelphia Inquirer), The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world that the indomitable Chicago Cubs traveled...

When Sara and Jamie discovered the seemingly ordinary artifacts, they sensed the pull of a dim and distant place. A world of mists and forests, of ancient magics, mythical beings, ageless bards...and restless evil. Now, with their friends and enemies alike--Blue, the biker; Keiran,...

"The Enchanted wrapped its beautiful and terrible fingers around me from the first page and refused to let go after the last. A wondrous book that finds transcendence in the most unlikely of places. . . . So dark yet so exquisite." -- Erin...

"A chaotic, furious, extraordinary Bengali confection...Irresistible." -- Philip Hensher, Man Booker-shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency"A feminist, fractured fairy tale...this is a story that lingers." - NPR "The book is a riot, a sprightly thriller that will make you not only want to discover...

International Bestseller!"Dizzyingly wonderful . . . a perfectly constructed work of fiction, with audacious twists . . . Collins plays her own game here with perfect skill." -- The Times (UK) An intricate and utterly spellbinding literary epic brimming with enchantment, mystery, and dark...

One of the Best Books of the Year: Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Vulture - This uncompromising look at the immigrant experience, and the depravity of one man, is an electrifying page-turner rooted in a magical reality - "Impossible to stop reading" --Vulture When Lucien flees...

From headless schoolgirls, to talking food and threesomes, pretty much anything can happen in these witty, weird and wonderful short stories by Leone Ross. Ranging from flash fiction to intense psychological drama, magical realism, horror and erotica, these strange, clever, frank and sometimes very...

As much a book of poetry as a novel, as much a symphony as a memoir, this is an extraordinary book from a writer at the top of his powers. Reminiscent of Berger and Calvino, Jeff Talarigo manages to capture the breadth and circumference...

A classic work of magical realism, this bestselling novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman from another time who has a gift for the mystical art of spices. Now immortal, and living in the gnarled and arthritic body...