Magical Realism

One of the 20th century's enduring works, One Hundred Years of Solitude is a widely beloved and acclaimed novel known throughout the world and the ultimate achievement in a Nobel Prize-winning career....

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations....

Gemma Turner once dreamed of stardom. Now the actress is on the cusp of obscurity. When she’s offered the lead in a radical new horror film, Gemma believes her luck has changed—but her dream is about to turn into a nightmare....

A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story....

When three delinquents hole up in an abandoned general store after their most recent robbery, to their great surprise, a letter drops through the mail slot in the store’s shutter....

Matt has a terrible life. Seriously—it's awful. It is so bad that Dan the Demon is shocked when Matt turns down his infernal offer: 10 years of a blissful life in exchange for his soul. But Dan is a salesman behind on his quota and his demonic managers are running out of patience....

This is the story of a man who embarks on a highly provocative intellectual adventure with a gorilla - a journey of the mind and spirit that changes forever the way he sees the world and humankind’s place in it....

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child....

O que você procura? Essa é a pergunta que a enigmática Sayuri Komachi faz a quem visita a biblioteca do Centro Comunitário de Tóquio em busca de ajuda....

Paulo Coelho's stunning novel explores the timeless struggle between good and evil and its relevance to our everyday dilemmas....

In the world of speculative fiction… Your favorite authors… Have selected best new voices of the year....

A novel about the magical lure of books and summoning the courage to rewrite our stories by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Keeper of Happy Endings and The Last of the Moon Girls....

Eyes of a Blue Dog (sp. Ojos de perro azul) is a collection of twenty-two death-themed short stories from the Colombian Nobel-winning novelist, screenwriter, and journalist, Gabriel García Márquez....

In these 12 masterly stories about the lives of Latin Americans in Europe, García Márquez conveys the peculiar amalgam of melancholy, tenacity, sorrow, and aspiration that is the émigré experience....

Originally published in Malayalam as Meesha, S. Hareesh's Moustache is a contemporary classic mixing magic, myth, and metaphor into a tale of far-reaching resonance....

Kauan aikaa sitten muinaisessa Kiinassa tapahtui jotain erikoista. Teehuoneenpitäjä päätti auttaa nuorta mutta köyhää ylioppilasta, ja ylioppilas...

On the eve of his 90th birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit - he has purchased hundreds of women - he asks a madam for her assistance....

This modern morality tale by gifted writer and speaker Andy Andrews teaches seven fundamental strategies for creating a successful life....

Lumoava tarina salaperäisestä kartanosta ja sen vieraista. Kun Madeline Hartin elämä särkyy tuhansiksi palasiksi, hän päättää lähteä isovanhempiensa...

One of the most beloved and best-selling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special 25th anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author....

An uproarious, sensual novel, Leone Ross' Popisho conjures a world where magic is everywhere, food is fate, politics are broken, and love awaits....

Three sisters battle against their Nyx-given powers. Can they, the rulers of Fate, escape their own destiny? You've heard the legends, now hear their truth....

The beautiful Indo prostitute Dewi Ayu and her four daughters are beset by incest, murder, bestiality, rape, insanity, monstrosity, and the often vengeful undead....

When a banished witch falls in love with the legendary trickster Loki, she risks the wrath of the gods in this moving, subversive debut novel that reimagines Norse mythology....

A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imagery....

Cassie has never really fit in. She remembers everything. Understands nothing. And consistently says the wrong thing. So when she gets dumped, fired AND her local café runs out of banana muffins - all in one day - it feels like the end of the world. But then Cassie discovers she has the power to go back and change things. With endless chances to get it right, can she stop it all from going wrong?

Das Mondscheincafé hat keinen festen Standort, taucht unvorhersehbar in Vollmondnächten in Kyoto auf – und wird von Katzen betrieben. Eine erfolgreiche Drehbuchautorin in der Krise, ein Fernsehregisseur mit gebrochenem Herzen und zwei Unternehmer mit beruflichen Schwierigkeiten finden sich in der Nacht plötzlich in einem halbträumenden Zustand dort wieder. Im Café erhalten sie neben süßen Köstlichkeiten lebensverändernde Ratschläge zu Liebe, Arbeit und Beziehungen von den charismatischen Katzen, die das astrologische Horoskop ihrer Gäste interpretieren.

Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates - three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, destined to weave the lives, and deaths, of humankind for eternity. But immortality is a heavy burden, and Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos are captivated by the gloriously human lives of the mortals below, especially those of the great warrior Atalanta and her ill-fated lover, Meleager. However, being a Goddess of Fate doesn't make you a master of it. Will these three sisters find a way to free the couple, and themselves, from their destinies? Or will they be bound by Fate forever?

Paris, 1885: Aubry Tourvel, a spoiled and stubborn nine-year-old girl, comes across a wooden puzzle ball on her walk home from school. She tosses it over the fence, only to find it in her satchel that evening. Days later, at the family dinner table, she begins to succumb to a mysterious illness. When a visit to a doctor only makes her worse, she flees to the outskirts of the city, where she realises that it is this very act of movement that keeps her alive. And so begins her incredible lifelong journey on the run from her condition.

After her mother dies, Hannah doesn’t know how to exist without her. Literally. In fact, Hannah’s not even certain that she does exist. No one seems to see or hear her, and she finds herself utterly alone. Grief-stricken and confused, her sense of self slowly slipping away, Hannah sets out to find new purpose in life—and answers about who (and what) she really is.

Los Angeles brims with opportunity in 1959—though not for aspiring fashion designer Cordelia Mai Yin, the first-generation child of Vietnamese immigrants, who finds the city unkind to outsiders and as dispirited as her own family. When Cordi rents a cheap loft in an old apartment building, she quickly warms to kindred souls Tessa, Audrey, and Silly. They also want better things and have pasts they’d rather forget. That they all share the same middle name makes their friendship seem like destiny.

Wie kann man den Mann seines Herzens retten, wenn er alle Hoffnung verloren hat? Die Erkenntnis, dass Talon sie von Beginn an belogen hat, macht Calithea schwer zu schaffen. Dennoch ist sie bereit, für ihn zu kämpfen und den Pakt der Dunkelelfen zu brechen. Mit jedem Tag, der verstreicht, scheint es unmöglicher, gegen die Dunkelheit zu bestehen und das Elfenreich zu retten. Auch Talon ist keine große Hilfe und setzt Calithea unabsichtlich nur noch größeren Gefahr aus. Aber Calithea ist entschlossen. Auch wenn Talon kein Herz in der Brust trägt, wird sie für ihn kämpfen bis zum bitteren Ende.

Violeta Sanoguera had always done what she was told. She left the man she loved in Colombia in pursuit of a better life for herself and because her mother and grandmother didn’t approve of him. Chasing dreams of education and art in New York City, and with a new love, twenty-eight-year-old Violeta establishes a new life for herself, on her terms. But when her grandmother suddenly dies, everything changes.

In the mid-1800s, Saint, an enigmatic and powerful conjure woman, always flanked by a silent companion, travels the South annihilating plantations and liberating the enslaved by means of purposeful violence and powerful magic. She founds a town for those she has freed–and for them alone. They name the town Ours. Surrounded by an impenetrable magical border raised by Saint's powers, Ours is invisible to the outer world and sits blissfully away from prying eyes and violent hands. Saint's mission is to kill slavery–to scourge its damage from the minds of her charges and to keep them safe forever.

Полли забыла, все забыла... Пять долгих и удивительных лет дружбы с Томом, их переписку, истории, которые они сочиняли вместе и которые почему-то оказывались правдой, головокружительные приключения, встречи и разлуки, радости и обиды, угрозы его родных, настаивавших, чтобы они перестали встречаться... и то, как она сама согласилась забыть его. Но самое странное, об этом забыли все окружающие. Будто кто-то стер все, что было, вычеркнул из жизни Полли, подменил память скучной фальшивкой. Даже книга, которую Том подарил ей, загадочным образом преобразилась: одни рассказы исчезли, другие словно кто-то переписал.

When Leona Warlon heads across the city to meet her husband, David, for a rare dinner out, she hopes they can share a moment of relief after their year of loss. But Leona quickly realizes this is no ordinary date night. She hasn’t just stepped into an upscale ristorante; she’s stepped into a different version of her life. One in which her marriage is no longer tender, in which her days are pressured by her powerful in-laws, and in which her precious baby girl lived.

n Ueno Park, Tokyo, as workers and tourists gather for lunch, the pollen blows, a fountain erupts, pigeons scatter and two women meet, changing the course of one another’s lives. Dinah has come to Japan from New Zealand to teach English and grieve the death of her brother, Michael. Yasuko is polished, precise and keenly observant of her students and colleagues at the language school, and of the natural world. When she was 13, animals began to speak to her, to tell her things she did not always want to hear.

В Деревне всегда готовы протянуть руку помощи новым жителям: здесь рады каждому и в каждом видят хорошее. Так же радушно приняли и Мэтти. Когда-то чумазый воришка и хулиган, теперь он прилежно учится в школе и старается жить открыто и честно. Жители Деревни даже доверяют ему носить их письма через Лес, куда сами заходить опасаются. И все же у Мэтти появляется тайна, которой он не может поделиться ни с кем: ведь он сам не до конца понимает, что происходит. И это не единственная его тревога... Настроения обитателей Деревни меняются, а Лес становится гуще и мрачнее.

Após a explosão que afundou seu iate, um grupo de sobreviventes se vê à deriva num bote salva-vidas na vastidão do Atlântico. No terceiro dia, quando o desespero começa a aumentar, um homem surge entre as ondas e é resgatado pelos náufragos. Misteriosamente, ele não tem um ferimento sequer.

Missouri, 1955. Loretta Davenport has led an isolated life as a young mother and a wife to Pete, an ambitious assistant professor at a Bible college. They’re the picture of domestic tranquility—until a local girl is murdered and Loretta begins receiving messages from beyond. Pete dismisses them as delusions of a fevered female imagination. Loretta knows they’re real—and frightening.