Fiction - Magical Realism

Being an adult is the dumbest thing I have ever done.Our Heroine: still me. A sleep-deprived me, which, considering I'm a murder and ten cups of coffee away from showing my displeasure to the world, and there're clans to save, is not a good...

A mystical battle between foreign gods and local saints is unleashed as idols are mistaken for garden ornaments; an ambiguous wizard spies on his neighbours from an invisible tower; a cursed duelling pistol influences its owners to commit suicide. With strange combinations of occultism,...

White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it. In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named D綢, is born to "twenty-four mothers," the sisters...

Step back into the magical world of Pendleford with Sarah Painter's new book The Secrets of Ghosts. Don't miss the magical, heart-warming story from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells On her twenty-first birthday Katie Harper has only one wish: to become...

When you're dating a Niuhi shark in human form, there's no such thing as a casual Hawaiian fling.The last thing Justin wants is complications. Jilted at the altar, he's spending his pre-paid Hawaiian honeymoon alone--sort of. Sasha, his ex, won't get out of his...

New Orleans, a city of mystery and magic, of secrets and dreams, and a history drenched in both love and the deepest of heartache. When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of...

WINNER of the Kerry Schooley Book AwardA story as magical as it is real, that asks, if you could stop and restart time for a second chance, would you?Boy's final year of high school is unraveling. Fast. He had it all worked out, from...

A story about one all-inclusive resort, the ghost of an unknown father, and the tragedies we can't forget.What's it like when everyone's dream vacation is your job? Ameera works at a Mexican all-inclusive resort, where every day is paradise -- if "paradise" means endless...

In an old Victorian home at the very end of the Nineteenth Century, Professor Gustav Wainscott is performing a bizarre medical experiment on a mysterious boy. Meanwhile in a religious fervor, riotous mobs, fearful about the end of the civilized world, are destroying and...

Disturbing and sensuous, Audrée Wilhelmy's tale of a hermetic family minding a lighthouse in willed isolation is reminiscent of William Golding's Lord of the Flies.The Body of Beasts is a startling, gorgeously written novel that tells the story of the Borya family living in...

The Black Rose of Halfeti opens with a letter delivered at midnight in Ankara, Turkey. In this letter, an elderly doctor who has begun to experience the first signs of dementia professes his love and desire for a relationship with the narrator, a woman...

WINNER of the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD and A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A finalist for the Kirkus Prize, Andrew Carnegie Medal, Aspen Words Literary Prize, and a New York Times bestseller, this majestic, stirring, and widely praised novel...

In this riveting debut, prize-winning artist and filmmaker Miquel Reina maps out ambitious and fantastical new territory in a novel about a couple holding on for dear life as their world takes an extraordinary fall...On the highest point of an island, in a house...

Noted filmmaker Jess Trevio returns to Arroyo Grande, Texas, to follow the lives and antics of its citizens who were first introduced "in The Fabulous Sinkhole and Other Stories."Author: Jesus Salvador TrevinoISBN-10: 1558858199ISBN-13: 9781558858190Publisher: Arte Publico PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2015Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w...

An award-winning novel that explores what it means to read and be a reader - ultimately acting as a love letter to the power of literature.Author: Goran PetrovicISBN-10: 1646050142ISBN-13: 9781646050147Publisher: Deep Vellum PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/10/2020Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d

Massive explosions Crazy Scientists City Destroying Monsters This book unfortunately doesn't contain any of these things, but it does have an asteroid hurtling towards earth. (Actually now that I think of it, it does have a crazy scientist or two.) With crazy inventions and...

With its openly bleeding heart and philosopher's spirit, the odd and undeniably affecting Ghostlove explores ways in which we haunt ourselves."--Paul Tremblay, New York Times Book Review "...a grave yet hilarious meditation on insanity, depression, companionship, and leaving everything behind."--Publishers Weekly "This is a...

Kip Penfold's apprenticeship as the first non-human sorcerer begins with exploring the ruins left by the vicious attack on Prince George's College of Sorcery some months before. This gruesome task results in a clue that takes him to London, but the closer he gets...

Spanning centuries of human history, the daughters of the lowland hag, the Cailleach, must navigate a world filled with superstition, hatred, violence, pestilence, and death to find their purpose. With each passing generation, their powers wax, and the Cailleach awaits a homecoming that will...

Uninspired writer, Edward Quinn, accidently discovers a mysterious, fable-like manuscript, possibly heretical in nature, and becomes spellbound to prove its validity. Mystery, danger, and misadventure await his visit to Ireland where he seeks the origins of the controversial book. Quinn bungles his way into...

The natural successor to Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg collection, Caves of the Rust Belt: Ohio Stories travels to the Heart of It All, where drowned sailors reminisce over a hot meal, and the rules of the yard sale are law. In his stunning debut, Joe...

Olympia Knife is raised by members of a traveling circus when her parents vanish midair during their act. The mysterious fate befalls another, but she falls in love, and, together, the two women resolve to stand the test of time, even as the world...

"Whatever your jam is -- mind-bending logic, beautiful, lyrical writing, or a deep dive into contemporary life -- there is something brilliant here for everyone." --NPR The dead aren't really gone, they persist as phone numbers, social media accounts, newsletter recipients, and as members...

The worlds in Marilyn Horn's stories are sometimes dark, sometimes surreal, and sometimes both--and yet not so unfamiliar. No matter how fantastic the world, loneliness is the enemy, connection the goal. Within these pages, a brother and sister look to the cosmos for answers...

"Wren is one of the gifted, a college sophomore with the power to compel others feelings and desires. He uses his power as a game of sexual consent until Cameron, a naeive freshman, enters his life. As Cameron begins to understand his sexuality and...

Jachin-Boaz is a maker and seller of maps. In his shop are maps that will lead you to whatever it is you most desire: love, inspiration, wealth. But his greatest achievement is a master-map showing the location of everything that has ever been found...

"Leake weaves together a beautifully rendered historical setting, magic and romance in this stunning debut." --Elizabeth May, author of The Falconer Amid the sumptuous backdrop of the London season in 1905, headstrong Katherine Sinclair must join the ranks of debutantes vying for suitors. Unfortunately...

One drink changed everything. Influencing a man's fate should have been another day behind the bar. Bartender Jake Hongkong has served The Management longer than any other Jake or Jade, but now he doubts his role influencing people's destinies and decisions. Declan is directionless...

Winner of the Best USA Book Awards, Fiction: Multicultural category (2014) Born from the fertile volcanic soil and the sea and mists surrounding the Azorean islands, the characters who inhabit these stories blend realism with magic. Like the nine Muses, each island has its...

**Finalist for the 2018 International Prize for Arabic Fiction** A timely and haunting novel from an exciting new voice in international literature, set in present-day Syria In her therapist's waiting room in Damascus, Suleima meets a strange and reticent man named Naseem, and they...

Passed down through the generations of the Gable family is the ability to create the element of fire through sheer will and desire. The power has diluted bit by small bit as the years rolled by, and Gertrude Gable herself never felt she had...

Six strangely related stories about six encounters that could or should have never happened. A post mortem encounter with a clerk who has a most bizarre offer; an elusive encounter with oneself, only decades older; a seemingly innocent encounter with a bookshop visitor who...

A magical tale of love and rivalry between two brothers.Miguel is beautiful. His beauty is so rare and miraculous that it has made him the object of cult-like devotion in the city. Santiago, his older brother, watches with a mix of admiration and disquiet...

'It took nearly five minutes for her ashes to cool down. Afterwards, someone held out a handful. "Here she is, your Lara. Take her." The agony stuck within me like an iceberg for one thousand days shattered without warning and drowned me in a...

The Writer: A Very Short Novel, without Chapters, about Writing and Darkness Where does all the writing come from? Is it divine inspiration, a bolt of lightning that reveals a whole new work in a single glimpse, or a unique gift granted by demonic...

The Book is not quite a novel, although almost half of it takes the form of a narrative, neither is it an essay, although quite a lot of what is said in it adopts that style. It is actually closest to that rare type...

What could a computer wizard self-exiled in an abandoned Buddhist temple possibly have in common with the humble servant of a medieval fresco painter? What is the link between the enigmatic mission of a giant radio-telescope and a tribe of spherical beings who dwell...

In ten terrifying, intriguing and thrilling dreams, Natsume Soseki (1867 - 1916) treats leitmotifs and antipodes such as: loyalty and treatise, love and death, fame and immortality, social outsiders, honor and loss of face, desperation and hope. Natsume Soseki carries us off into his...

Inspector Marshall's murder investigation is hindered by the gypsies. He uncovers historical cases with a similar MO (dead men, naked women dancing on hilltops, missing albinos) and a legend emerges, generations old, of a gypsy gift. He gets caught up in an ancient dance...

This volume of The Conium Review features eight new stories from Joe Aguirre, Jenny Wu, Debbie Graber, Caroljean Gavin, Charles Conley, Alison Foster, Jasmine Sawers, and Rachel Brittain. Readers will find three darkly funny variants on a devil's bargain, two cursed moonshiner sisters, and...

Raphael is a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions to the novel he has been writing for forty-one years that many of the characters have lost patience and gone off to do their own thing...but somehow, miraculously, the novel seems to...

The Celts knew it as Annwyn, the Otherworld--certainly not a destination IT professional Lori Cooper anticipates when distracting herself with a magazine puzzle page in the dentist's waiting room. Clues buried in the answers lead her to Tamsin, who claims to command a band...

Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city from an ancient evil in the first book of a stunning new novel by Hugo Award-winning and NYT bestselling author N. K. Jemisin.Every great city has a soul. Some are as ancient...

Legends of pirate treasure hidden in the tunnels and caves that run under Belfort Island on the Down East coast of Maine are something Maura Ballard uses to entertain children in the after-school program she runs at the island's library, but practical Maura doesn't...

In the defiantly mundane heartland suburbs of Chris Haven's debut collection, a real estate agent compels a stranger with late-stage dementia to accompany him to sell houses; a gruesome power tool injury somehow heals the tense relationship between two neighbors; and a Baptist minister...

A classic surreal & subversive novel by one of the original magical realist authors, Luisa Valenzuela.Here's what the old masters say: "Luisa Valenzuela is the heiress of Latin American Fiction. She wears an opulent, baroque crown, but her feet are naked." -- Carlos Fuentes,...

Two years after the Revolutionary War, the new College of Sorcery in East Georgia is in trouble. Kip, Emily, Malcolm, and Alice have survived political attacks from Victor Adamson, but their money is running out. The International Exposition of Sorcery is their last chance...

A jerk of a jester who's just lost his job.A fierce old noblewoman about to lose her country.And the thieving magpie who puts them on a collision course full of laughter, danger and plot twists galore!Malfred Murd is supremely talented but undeniably abrasive. Freshly...

Lewis isn't the last of his kind anymore.He knew that eventually, he'd have to figure out a way to make more dragons. Still, he never imagined it would happen so soon, least of all to one of his friends Why would Lucy transform now?...

The Conium Review: Vol. 9 contains new fiction from Heather Cripps, Lucy Duggan, Pearl A. Griffin, Kelly Hill, Trista Hurley-Waxali, Kanya Kanchana, Juliana Lamy, Cassidy McCants, Erin Piasecki, Devin Porter, Xenia Taiga, and Miranda Williams. Shrieking mermaids, men in trapped in bottles, and a...