Fantasy Realism

Со временем серебряное зеркало работы венецианского мастера стало фамильной реликвией, передающейся из поколения в поколение по женской линии. В наши дни владелицей артефакта становится Людмила - дочь богатого предпринимателя, недавно потерявшая мужа, умершего при странных обстоятельствах. Скромная, безынициативная, всю жизнь она подчинялась воле жестокого отца.

Jayben has realised his destiny as the Ninth Great Dreamer; he is the only one with the power to defeat Null, the villain who has been making everyone in the elf world forget. A year has gone by since Jayben took half of Null's powerful crystals using the Golden Torch, but now the torch has been stolen. Without it, Jayben must find another way to harness his power.

Ella is trying to survive her depressing life by avoiding her life-of-the-freakin’-party aunt and cousin. She never imagined that finally submitting to one of her cousin’s stupid outings could almost get her killed…or worse. When Ella wakes in the hospital able to read minds, she prays that’s the worst of it. But it turns out there’s a whole obscure world of powered people like her, and they’re intent on dragging her into their little underground war. Now with dangerous people after her, she has to decide if there’s anything in this life worth dying for…or possibly, worth fighting for.

From the undisputed Queen of Vampire Literature, Anne Rice, The Master of Rampling Gate is a chilling tale of vampiric seduction. Set in the gasslit streets of 1888 London and the wild moors of the countryside beyond, The Master of Rampling Gate tells the story of Julie, a young woman who...

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the hundred-odd he has published. "A&P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story. "Pigeon Feathers," the longest story included, tells of a fourteen-year-old boy's fear of death and the answer he finds...

Benson and Jensen treat a number of crucial ways in which anti-realism—popularly known as social constructivism—pervades and ultimately corrodes American culture, everything from soccer to more serious matters such as scientific objectivity and moral realism. Establishment elites in academia, the judiciary, and the media increasingly determine the acceptability of various kinds of political and social views, moral beliefs, even the language we use.

In the face of dark magic and evil witches, a secret witch-hunting society works tirelessly to keep them at bay. The Malleus Maleficarum Council has strict rules and practices for eradicating magic. Due to their work, witches have been almost forgotten, relegated to myth; but rumors are starting to emerge of a new power that will throw the world into chaos.

During a magickal ritual, Hannah Skye receives a prophetic message. She then encounters a series of seven riddles which lead her to discover that there is more to her ancestry than she thought. But someone has been following her, lurking in the shadows. As Hannah begins to unravel the mystery behind what really happened to her parents, she faces a force greater than anything she’s ever imagined, that is bent on destruction. If she doesn’t solve the riddle by Halloween night, her legacy will remained locked forever, and someone else may die, maybe even her.

Eternal Bones is a trilogy that unveils how Fairy and Mutants emerge on Earth after an alien-induced cataclysm. The civilizations we knew during the year 2065 were destroyed, leaving a single person occupying the International Space Station to watch the devastation firsthand. A freelance group of scientists discovered the climatic trend and escaped the disaster, but little did they know that forces beyond their comprehension were managing the future of humanity. Once the survivors emerge from their stasis pods, they realize that the Earth they once knew had drastically changed.

The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction’s most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound novels...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize An extraordinary, “playful, moving, and wholly remarkable” (The Guardian) coming-of-age novel filled with myth and magic from one of England's greatest living writers. An introspective young boy, Joseph Coppock is trying to make sense of the world...

Tras irrumpir en el panorama literario internacional con Purga, que vendió más de un millón de ejemplares en más de cuarenta países y recibió el aplauso unánime de los lectores y la crítica, además de numerosos premios y honores, Sofi Oksanen, una de las principales voces de la narrativa finlandesa actual, vuelve a sorprendernos con Norma, una novela intensa y asombrosa que combina con gran eficacia la intriga, el realismo mágico y la crítica social.

Trouble is brewing on the borders of the Taldorian Empire, and it is the Outrunners who must answer the call to arms. Tensions run high in the Rills family as Aeron faces the trials. With one brother already dead, Aeron must prove he is enough to meet the challenge. Garret wonders if his decision to become an Outrunner was the right one. The overlooked youngest child in a mariner family, he is the only one of countless siblings to reject a life at sea. Now with war on the horizon, his charm may not be enough to save him.

Nowhere is safe. The war rages on in the shadows. A staggering betrayal will prove that no one can be trusted. Lucas, Ophelia, and Elias are on the run, in a chase that spans the far-reaching corners of the globe. Ophelia remains torn between her two companions. Her powerful gift is advancing at a startling speed and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. As events escalate, carefully laid plans begin to spiral out of control, exposing a fierce betrayal. All hope is lost - and all seems to be Forsaken.

Dr. Waycross knows bleeding and blistering, the best scientific medicine of 1822. He arrives in the Georgia mountains to bring his modern methods to the superstitious masses. The local healers, the Winter sisters, claim to treat yellow fever, consumption, and the hell-roarin' trots just as well as he can. Some folks call the sisters herb women; some call them witches. Waycross calls them quacks. But when the threat of rabies - incurable and fatal - comes to town, Dr. Waycross and the Winter sisters must combine their science and superstition in a desperate search for a remedy.

Returning to the home town of his missing father on a search for his own origins, Dominic Rackett is swept up in a murky conspiracy involving a suspicious scholar, a Himalayan legend, and subliminal clues from a silent film festival. As those around him fall prey to rising fear and shrill fanaticism, he follows the branching trails of cinema monsters and figures from a very real past, as phantoms invade the streets of his once-familiar city and one of them, glimpsed in distorted shadows of alleys and urban parks, begins to look uncannily familiar.

Ophelia is cursed with the ability to unwillingly siphon the secrets and emotions from everyone around her. But after a chance encounter with a stranger, she discovers she’s part of the powerful Conduit world, where gods and monsters are frightfully real, and her "curse" is actually her gift. Elias has been hunted since his parents’ murder. Now, he’s the only one left who can stop the Conduit war that has been waged in the shadows of humanity for over 3,000 years.

Das Leben der 23-jährigen Fiona Carter, gelangweilt und auf Krawall gebürstet, gerät jäh aus den Fugen, als ihr junger Bruder scheinbar bei einem Autounfall stirbt. Doch als Fiona auf eigene Faust nach dem flüchtigen Unfallfahrer sucht, sticht sie in ein Wespennest. Die Ereignisse bringen sie nicht nur an ihre Grenzen, sondern über sie hinaus. Sie ahnt nicht, dass es nur der Beginn ist. Auch nicht, dass sie ihre Kräfte nicht nur dem Kampfsport verdankt. Ebenso ahnt sie nicht, dass der geheimnisvolle Drol Wayne sehr viel damit zu tun hat, wer und was sie tatsächlich ist.

30-year-old Bronwyn Artair, feeling out of place in her doctoral program in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT, drops out and takes a job as a TV meteorologist, much to the dismay of her mentor, Diane Fenwick. After a year of living alone in Southern New Hampshire, enduring the indignities of her job, dumped by her boyfriend, she discovers her deep connection to the natural world has given her an ability to affect natural forces. When she finally accepts she really possesses this startling capability, she must then negotiate a new relationship to the world. Who will she tell?

Once upon a time, Ella had wished for more than her life as a lowly maid. Now forced to work hard under the unforgiving, lecherous gaze of the man she once called stepfather, Ella’s only refuge is in the books she reads by candlelight, secreted away in the library she isn’t permitted to enter. One night, among her beloved books of far-off lands, Ella’s wishes are answered. At the stroke of midnight, a fairy godmother makes her an offer that will change her life.