Magical Realism

Never Forgive and Never Forget. Hunted as witches during the Salem Trials and haunted by their past sins, the Crowhart women carry a deep secret and an inescapable curse. Rhiannon Crowhart, the renegade second sister of the notorious family, returns to the sleepy town of Crow's Nest in a flurry...

After her husband’s infidelity, devastated Katrine Blackthorn reluctantly returns to Faith Falls, Minnesota, to her family’s Queen Anne mansion on the hill and the magic that binds them all. Her grandmother Velda charms everyone she meets. Her mother, Ursula, is a brewer of potions who sees a threat around every corner. And there’s her estranged sister, Jasmine, broken by something no one will name. With Katrine’s return, all that the Blackthorns have feared seems to be manifesting.

When Dana and Nigel got married, they had such promise. After sixteen years, the cracks are showing. Dana is a burned-out ER nurse, and Nigel is a recently unemployed stay-at-home dad whose professional identity is disappearing. Questioning the directions their lives have taken, Dana and Nigel are each granted a wish from a mysterious stranger. For one week they can escape the pressure of their lives in favor of ones in which they never married.

The remarkably life-affirming novel from the highly acclaimed author of Still Life, set in 1940s Cornwall following the unlikely friendship between an eighty-nine-year-old woman at the end of her story and a young soldier, reeling from World War II, at the start of his own. Marvelous Ways has...

Some stories don't end. They wait to be found… Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories… To honour her...

Erst als er ein Zuhause gefunden hatte, merkte er, dass er nach einem gesucht hatte. Savannah war ganz anders als alle Städte, die Derek bisher gesehen hatte. Zum ersten Mal seit seiner Ankunft in Cydaria traf er eine angesehene Stadtherrin. Natalie Savannah und die Stadt, die sie regierte, waren viel beeindruckender, als er es sich vorgestellt hatte.

Seine Fähigkeiten sind durch einen mächtigen Fluch versiegelt, und Thorn kämpft gegen die Zeit, um seine Stimme wiederzuerlangen. Wird eine Suche quer durch die Welt die Antwort sein, oder wird alles, was er erreicht hat, weggenommen? Thorn ist zwar der Greymane, aber nach dem katastrophalen Ende der letzten Weltquest ist er nicht in der Lage zu regieren. Thorn macht sich mit seinen Freunden auf den Weg, um das Heilmittel für seinen Fluch zu finden, und lässt die Mondwolfzitadelle hinter sich, um nach dem schwer fassbaren Weltenbaum zu suchen.

Set in Thailand from 1976 to the present, Mother, Ghost, Mango Seed is a haunting yet hopeful exploration of grief, motherhood, and cultural identity ‘With pathos and swift, transporting prose, Natalie Gregory reveals a version of Thailand rich with counterculture, protest, and the lingering...

A marine biologist makes the discovery of a lifetime when called to rescue the inhabitants of a small Maine island being menaced by a giant, glowing jellyfish in this richly imagined, wholly original debut. As featured in People ∙ Entertainment Weekly ∙ NPR ∙ Marie Claire ∙ Katie Couric...

Tokyo’nun en esrarengiz kütüphanecisi Sayuri Komaçi tarafından sık sık sorulan ünlü soru: Ne arıyorsun? Çoğu kütüphaneci gibi Sayuri de raflarındaki tüm kitapları okumuş. Ama onu bilge kütüphaneci yapan şey bu değil; Sayuri kendisine kitap danışanların ruhlarını okuyabiliyor.

In a desperate gamble to save her throne, a young monarch conceals a secret marriage in the shadows of an enchanted forest—and unknowingly alters the fate of her world—in this dazzling novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bear and the Nightingale. “I loved every moment I...

A Goodreads Editors’ Pick | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Summer | A Time and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year | A People Most Anticipated Summer Read A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite...

Am Orden der bösen Viper angekommen, will Jake unbedingt seine Alchemie verbessern... Aber die Realität ist oft brutal. Denn während er sich darum bemüht, Fortschritte zu machen, muss sich Jake mit der politischen Landschaft im Orden auseinandersetzen. Er muss seine Identität als Auserwählter des großen Bosses verbergen, wird zur Teilnahme an irgendwelchen Treffen gezwungen, besucht Vampire, um ihnen uralte Memorabilien anzudrehen und versucht nebenbei, sich in der Alchemie zu verbessern. Jake hat also mehr zu tun denn je.

En el corazón de Hakodate hay un lugar extraordinario: una pequeña cafetería que sirve café con un aroma intenso y envolvente, capaz de hacerte evocar emociones lejanas y de revisitar un momento del pasado. Sin embargo, adentrarse en este establecimiento tan especial no es para todos, y solo los que reúnen el coraje necesario pueden arriesgarse. Es el caso de Yayoi, quien, privada del cariño de sus padres cuando aún era muy pequeña, no cree poder afrontar la vida con una sonrisa.

Bookseller Nelly Blake has a secret. When she touches someone, she sees exactly how their love story will end. She's seen every kind of romantic disaster and has concluded the safest option is to stay single forever. No touching. No dating. No love. But after a brutal rent hike and her beloved Aunt Polly's cancer diagnosis, Nelly is forced to take on a flatmate to make ends meet. Enter Oliver James — bestselling romance author and recently heartbroken man hiding more than just his actual name. Then Nelly accidentally touches him… and sees nothing. No ending. No heartbreak. No clue.

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice.

It is 1880, and immigrants are flocking to a new refuge from the economic and racial turmoil of the late nineteenth century. For New Orleans chef Amadeo Roselyn, the Isle of Touperdu is where he can open his own restaurant and raise his daughters as educated, marriageable ladies in a place free...

Elliot West has built her brand on rejecting love. On her hit radio show, she trashes fairy-tale endings and insists happily ever afters are nothing more than a marketing ploy. Cynicism sells, and for Elliot, it’s paid off big-time. But when a mysterious tarot card reader casts a spell on her, Elliot laughs it off…until she wakes up the next morning in a life she doesn’t recognize. Leo, her summer fling, is suddenly her boyfriend, as if they never said goodbye.

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From the award–winning author of Fiebre Tropical, an electric, highly anticipated novel set in Colombia’s underground queer scene. It is a known fact that the queens who refuse their destiny are haunted. Rejection turns itself inward, a bullet to the heart of said queen, and unleashes, per...

Auf einen Schlag zwanzig Kunden verloren, eine Tochter, die nicht zur Schule gehen will, das schlechte Gewissen, weil er sich um seine Mutter kümmern sollte – Shûichi Okada hält sich für den unglücklichsten Mann Japans. Und ausgerechnet er bekommt die Chance, sein Glück zu wenden, als ein mysteriöser Taxifahrer auftaucht und ihm anbietet, ihn immer genau dort abzusetzen, wo er den Weg zu einem glücklicheren Leben einschlagen kann.

Three sisters are separated as children. Decades later, with so much lost and changed, can they find their way back to each other? In 1990, a boat of asylum seekers leaves war-torn Sri Lanka, bound for Australia. When a mother dies on the journey, her three young daughters are separated and...

Gestaltwandler-Romantasy über einen Eisbären, der die stärkste aller Wandlerinnen an seiner Seite bräuchte, sich aber in die zarteste verliebt, und eine Kolibriwandlerin, die erst versteht, wie stark sie ist, als das Schicksal ihren Seelengefährten offenbart. ArctusMeine Welt besteht aus Eis und Blut. Doch dann taut eine fröhliche Kolibriwandlerin einen Teil meines Herzens auf, von dem ich nicht wusste, dass es ihn gibt. Von da an will ich ihre sprudelnde Lebenskraft und ihre glühende Freude ganz für mich allein haben.

A meddling ghost. A magical mishap. One secret that changes everything. Ophelia Turner is working at her late mother’s shop, Hexed, when a snowstorm threatens to shut her in for the night. Before she can head home, a surprise Sam Watts stops in. He’s tall, handsome, very human—and sure...

A fated avalanche. A week with the Alpha. One discovery that changes everything. When Junie Watts finds herself stranded in a snowstorm, she never imagined her rescuer would be the very creature she’s been told to fear: a brooding, dark-haired werewolf shifter. After three years without a...