Fiction - Magical Realism

Compelling love spells are used to brew up one charmingly delightful whodunit as USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne continues her cozy paranormal mystery series...Boxes of delicious chocolates and roses by the dozen are aplenty in the small town of Paramour Bay as Valentine's...

Shenanigans are brewing up once more in Paramour Bay as USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne continues her cozy paranormal mystery series...New Year's Eve is just a week away, and Raven Marigold knows exactly how she wants to spend the remainder of her holiday...

Welcome back to Paramour Bay as USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne continues her cozy paranormal mystery series that will have you brewing up a cup of tea well past midnight... It's been two months since Raven Marigold discovered she was a witch, and...

USA Today Bestselling Author Kennedy Layne switches creative gears and brings you a cozy paranormal mystery that will have you wishing these unique and comical characters could spring to life with a twitch of your nose... An inherited tea shop, a quaint little Connecticut...

In an enchanted city seen only at twilight, a resentful second son uncovers secrets that could cause his world's star to set.Author: Mindy TarquiniISBN-10: 1943006695ISBN-13: 9781943006694Publisher: SparkpressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2018Pages: 324Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001Publishers Weekly 08/13/2018

This volume of The Conium Review features nine new stories from Suzanne Burns, Chelsea Harris, Emily Wortman-Wunder, Sonal Sher, Matt Kolbet, Bridget Apfeld, Anita Goveas, Alison Closter, and Christopher James. Readers will find a mermaid addicted to over-the-counter supplements, a never-ending race, disappearing limbs,...

A girl bonds with a piece of flame leftover from the inferno that consumed her brother, father, and lover. Through this relationship, the girl explores her complicated family history and her place in a world where trees are cruel and deceptive, ghosts rise from...

On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwab's Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a performance artist and best-selling author, and...

From accomplished writer Ken Sparling comes a spare verse novel about a girl and a boy and the life they're writing together. But the girl wants a story and the boy wants a poem, and the furniture in the house is stuck in the...

Raising the literary bar to a new level, Jerome Charyn re-creates the voice of Theodore Roosevelt, the New York City police commissioner, Rough Rider, and soon- to-be twenty-sixth president through his derring-do adventures, effortlessly combining superhero dialogue with haunting pathos. Beginning with his sickly...

From the award-winning author of "Boy, Snow, Bird" . . .Author: Helen OyeyemiISBN-10: 1628999586ISBN-13: 9781628999587Publisher: Platinum Spotlight SeriesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/01/2016Pages: 500Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.70h x 5.80w x 1.10dLarge Print

Jason Walker is a child star turned teen heartthrob turned reluctant B-movie regular who's sick of his failing career. So he gives up Hollywood for northern Idaho, far away from the press, the drama of LA, and the best friend he's secretly been in...

"Originally published in 1988 and written by one of Haiti's seminal authors, still with us at age 90, this vibrant, erotically charged work shows how humans counter fear--particularly the fear of death--in varied more or less magical ways, even as it paints a fresh...

Someone is cutting off victims' fingers in New Delhi and vampires and lycans are suspects in this ambitious mix of detection and the supernatural from Singh.--Publishers Weekly Sajan Dayal, a Delhi detective, pursues a serial (though nonlethal) collector of human fingers. Dayal's team encounters...

"Ivory Apples is a legendary fantasy novel of the great-nieces of their Great-Aunt Adela, almost as celebrated and mysterious as the book itself, and the charming superfan Kate Burden--a sort of wicked Mary Poppins on the dogged hunt for hidden magic. But magic has...

A fiendishly clever mystery in which Dr. Siri and his friends investigate three interlocking murders--and the ungodly motives behind them Laos, 1979: Retired coroner Siri Paiboun and his wife, Madame Daeng, have never been able to turn away a misfit. As a result, they...

This poignant novel, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe's words, "born into a regime where it could not breathe;" he hoped that one day it might rise again. It has no one main character, but evokes the sensations and impressions of a...

Everything you need to know about the universe. The collected short stories and selected microfiction of the elusive CTRLCREEP, a being of unknown origin and mysterious intent. Will you brave the paradox and madness contained herein for a chance to glimpse the incomprehensible poetry...

Morgan Blackmoore has a secret, and she's desperate to hide it from her sisters. So when local paranormal healer Clementine Vega is murdered and Morgan is accused of the crime, she has to do something she's never done before-lie to her family. But soon...

With the root of all evil-at least in Bannen's opinion-behind lock and key, the team is finally free to do something else with their lives. Bannen quite looks forward to living in Gargan, the new house being built, with the occasional mission to spice...

It was a time when gods walked the earth, when armies fought not for bits of land, but for the very existence of humanity. On such a battlefield, five formidable warriors stood against an evil greater than any the earth had ever seen. But...

It was a time when gods walked the earth, when armies fought not for bits of land, but for the very existence of humanity. On such a battlefield, five formidable warriors stood against an evil greater than any the earth had ever seen. But...

It was a time when gods walked the earth, when armies fought not for bits of land, but for the very existence of humanity. On such a battlefield, five formidable warriors stood against an evil greater than any the earth had ever seen. But...

"Zanily inventive . . . This deeply eccentric comedy belongs in the company of the best novels about wildly precocious kids" (The Seattle Times). Al Santamaria is a child prodigy, maybe a genius. It is not out of the realm of possibility that he,...

A man and woman find their genders and sexualities brought radically into question when their bodies sprout new parts, seemingly out of thin air.... A man travels from Japan to Latin America in search of revolutionary purpose and finds much more than he bargains...

For readers of Water for Elephants or The Night Circus, a lush and thrilling romantic fable about two lovers set against the scandalous burlesques, midnight s ances, and aerial ballets of the 1898 Omaha World's Fair. On the eve of the World's Fair, Ferret...

"Our people are survivors," Calliope's great-grandmother once told her of their Puebloan roots--could Bisabuela's ancient myths be true?Anthropologist Calliope Santiago awakens to find herself in a strange and sinister wasteland, a shadow of the New Mexico she knew. Empty vehicles litter the road. Everyone...

This is the story of Mary, a young girl born in a beautiful city full of rose gardens and fluttering kites. When she is still very small, Mary meets Lanmo, a shining golden snake, who becomes her very best friend. The snake visits Mary...

A startling novella from the heir to Haruki Murakami and Gabriel Garc a M rquezTrapped in Tokyo, left behind by a series of girlfriends, the narrator of Slow Boat sizes up his situation. His missteps, his violent rebellions, his tiny victories. But he is...

Does true love have supernatural power? Where Did You Sleep Last Night is a love story about a teenage girl who embarks on a relationship with Kurt Cobain. Evelyn Gray is a sad and lonely sixteen-year-old from Carnation, Washington who is terrorized by her...

A startling, moving magic realist debut Almost immediately upon Julie Bird's return to the small port town where she was raised, everyday life is turned upside down. Julie's Gulf War vet father, Marty, has been on the losing side of a battle with PTSD...

Ofelia Rosas, a family matriarch, ensured that her legacy was one to be remembered, for generations to come. She highly impacted those around her, but especially the lives of her grandchildren.Leo, the eldest grandson, is a police officer, whose son becomes a homeless drug...

An enchanting, inspirational story set in 1950s New York City with Jesse, a 6 year-old, orphaned boy of comic charms and soul-lighting wisdom. He is raised by his beloved Irish gypsy grandmother, Dearie, who owns her own theater, and his uncle Conor, who is...

During a violent thunderstorm at a poor, farming village in Mexico, lightning strikes and a man appears out of thin air. His body is covered in horrible scars, and he has no memory of who he is or where he came from. 2,500 miles...

Cadence Anderson has the perfect definition of happily ever after . . . Until she doesn't. A freak earthquake shatters her life as surely as her home, taking away everything she holds dear. She wakes in a hospital to find that her beloved husband...

"Klougart has an unusual ability to create phrases, images and a language that you long to stay in and remember forever."--Dagens Nyheter"One can speak of unbearable beauty, but one can also speak of a linguistic beauty that makes it possible to bear the unbearable."--PolitikenIn...

Finalist, 2017 Foreword Reviews Indie Book Awards for Adult Fiction When Silas Fortunato applies for an editorial position for the "spirituality" section of a local newspaper, he is asked to fill in a bubble sheet to mark his religion. The problem is, his beliefs...

Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822) is known to the world primarily as the author of The Nutcracker. It is less known that E. T. A. Hoffmann is also a pioneer of magic realism, whose works influenced generations of speculative fiction authors. "Choosing the Bride",...

A masterpiece by a young genius, fated to die shortly after he had completed it.--A.N. Wilson, author of Victoria: A Life and Tolstoy: A Biography Shining moments of tender beauty punctuate this story of a youth on the run after escaping from an elite...

A rollicking ride of a magical realist, coming-of-age story that explores sex and gender in ways that will have you laughing out loud. Be prepared to travel light with a somewhat murderous female protagonist en route across the country - where it's so hard...

In a lightning-plagued mining town, a new bride turns to the alluring women of the brothel to heal her husband's chapped skin while strikes electrify the very air around them. A woman is sent to rescue her maiden aunts from imminent collapse into a...

In some dark corners of Mexico, All Saints' Day isn't merely a time to remember the dead. It's an invitation to commune.When a woman cursed with immortality and a man haunted by a bloody war stumble headlong into this strange m lange of mysticism...

After learning how to be human at the Earth Angel Training Academy, the Angels, Faeries, Merpeople and Starpeople are born into human bodies on Earth. Their Mission? Awaken the world. But even though they chose to go to Earth, and they chose to be...

"Sawat, I want to go into the water..." Phuket, Thailand, seemed to be the perfect getaway choice for twenty-two-year-old Calum Armstrong: What he saw, and did, on that holiday proves to have far- reaching consequences; not only for himself, but also for those closest...

A merman's mate-bond is for life... or is it?Rubac's mate is dead, and he's soon to follow. His only hope to escape the curse is to find a human female, seduce her, and sacrifice her. Finding and seducing one is the easy part, however....

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...

Join Olivia Carter one last time in the final installment of the Witch's Bite seriesLoyalties tested. Prophecies fulfilled. And magic's final price.After being kidnapped, shot at, blown up, and barely escaping a collapsing building...I'm done following orders, and the threats don't scare me anymore.My...

Nineteen-year-old Alice Tanmar is summoned to that realm of dreams and wonders known by her grandmother as Wonderland, her mother as Everland, and herself as Otherland. She is the third Alice to assist that dream realm out of difficulty. Why was she is brought...

A rock musician, famous for one hit song in 1983, vanishes without a trace. Due to his mysterious disappearance, his old albums begin to sell again, and there's a movie in the works on his life. But Chance Martin is not dead. In 2006,...

The Last Song is the final novel of The Blue Child Series. In this book Ruby, Agnes and Blue are pursued by the evil Lilin as the two sisters and the Star Child try to return to the House of the Mother. Grace, the...