Fantasy Realism

It’s 2005, and 24-year-old Jane is miserable. Overworked, buried in debt, she senses the life she wanted slipping away—while the world around her veers badly off course, hurtling toward economic and ecological collapse. She wants to find something better. But she has no idea where to start.

Als Linna zufällig den Übergang zu Olympia Magica entdeckt, einer geheimen Schule für magische Sportarten, kann sie ihr Glück kaum fassen. Hier trainieren Athletinnen und Athleten in unglaublichen Disziplinen: Wellenzähmen, Sternenschießen, Flossenschwimmen – und Wahrheitstauchen, bei dem verborgene Wahrheiten ans Licht gebracht werden. Nicht zu glauben! Sollte etwa auch in ihr ein magisches Sporttalent schlummern?

La vita di Callum Hunt è a pezzi.Il suo segreto è stato svelato al mondo.Alex, la spia del Nemico, è riuscito a fuggire. E ora Call si trova a vivere dietro le sbarre, chiuso in una cella, bandito dal resto della comunità magica per ciò che è... o meglio, per ciò che potrebbe diventare.Una speranza di libertà ci sarebbe. Ma tutto ha un costo, e lui non sa se è disposto a pagarlo.

Dare voce a chi non ha voce: questo è l’intento di L’anima di Antonio – Storia di un operaio metalmeccanico morto sul lavoro. Chi sicuramente non ha voce per raccontare la propria storia è il protagonista del racconto, l’operaio manutentore Antonio, morto il 24 settembre 2019 in una fabbrica della provincia di Frosinone. Antonio è morto schiacciato tra due stampi del reparto lastratura mentre è addetto al cambio stampi di una pressa, ma la sua anima, per disposizione dell’Uno, vaga ancora qualche mese tra le officine della fabbrica, assistendo in prima persona al suo post mortem.

Claire Walker has always had her life in perfect order, including her high-powered job at one of Manhattan’s top corporate law firms. Yet the one thing she cannot seem to find is a perfect love to complete it, until fate pushes Matías de León into her path. Matías is a Spanish artist who is everything that Claire is not: free-spirited and creative, chaos to her order. She falls for him, hard—and he for her. A year later, however, Claire begins to question everything about their relationship.

“My Legacy” by Geromin Reyes, a captivating tale of soul discovery and celestial revelation, is part 2 of the Kharak & Ter series. The story follows Maly’s soul, embarking on a transcendent journey alongside Kharak & Ter, Dark & Dess, and other mystical beings in the soul realm. However, an unexpected event shatters their unity when Maly vanishes in a bolt of lightning during a crucial ceremony.

Sante was a baby when she was washed ashore in a sea-chest laden with treasure. It seems she is the sole survivor of the tragic sinking of a ship carrying migrants and refugees. Her people. Fourteen years on she's a member of Mama Rose's unique and dazzling circus. But, from their watery grave, the unquiet dead are calling Sante to avenge them: A bamboo flute. A golden bangle. A ripening mango which must not fall.

Abandoned by her parents the day she was born and raised by her Sensei, Fin, Sparrow has grown up bitter and doubtful of her identity. Forced to train beside the elite “Anomalies” - a secret society of superhuman fugitives on a mission to rescue a war-torn world from the Reformed Global Militia - Sparrow fights her own powers, desperately wishing she could live like a normal teenager. But her rebellious streak comes to a screeching halt when Fin transfers her to a new school (which just happens to be a cabin in the woods) to train alongside the best of the best.

A new century has brought a new competitor to the Great Game of Empires: The Germans, in alliance with the Young Turks of the Ottoman Empire, hope to gain control over the oil fields of the Middle East. And while treachery and deceit have always been part of the espionage trade, teenagers Elizabeth Bankroft and Michael O’Connell, alumni of the intelligence school known as the Viceroy’s College, must also use their mystic arts training to help their military masters.

Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except 17-year-old Leighton Barnes. For Leighton, it’s no stranger than her house, which inexplicably repairs itself every time her father loses his temper and breaks things. Leighton doesn’t have time for the crows - it’s her senior year, and acceptance to her dream college is finally within reach. But grabbing that lifeline means abandoning her sisters, a choice she’s not ready to face.

There is a middle world between life and death, and Tess must navigate it to save her brother in this heart-wrenching story infused with the fractured and fantastical realms of Finnish mysticism. Axel and Tess are bewildered when a stranger shows up in their backyard accompanied by a giant brown bear, but before they can investigate the bizarre encounter, something more harrowing happens: their father is killed in a freak car accident.

Sheils is very pleased with her perfectly controlled life (controlling others while she's at it). She's smart, powerful, the student body chair, and she even has a loving boyfriend. What more could a girl ask for? But everything changes when the first-ever interspecies transfer student, a pterodactyl named Pyke, enrolls at her school. There's something about him - something primal - that causes the students to lose control whenever he's around.

A whispering voice at the back of my mind reminds me that I've been this way for some time. Dead, that is. The dead have a very broad view of the living, of actions performed out of sight, of thoughts believed to be private. I would know. Losing both parents is a trial no child should endure, and Marina and Dylan have endured enough. They deserve the one thing I could never give them: a mother's love. A mother's love, and the truth.

Female dragons have come to earth to find a safe place to lay their eggs, protected from predation by males of their own kind. They need humans to care for the eggs, keep the hatchlings from killing each other, and protect them from rival males. Unfortunately, before the dragons can leave their young in the humans' care, humans must stop killing each other. In surprise lighting-swift raids, fifty fire-breathing female dragons invisible to radar quickly disable all the world's air forces and navies, destroying any weapon that can threaten them.

As far back as anyone can remember, the women of the Strand family have been magical. Their gifts manifest when they each turn fifteen, always in different ways. But Nell Strand knows that her family's magic is a curse. Her mother’s age changes every day; she's often too young to be the mother Nell needs. Her older sister bleeds music and will do anything to release the songs inside her. Nell sees the way magic rips her family apart again and again. When Nell’s own magic arrives in the form of ladybugs alighting on the keys of her beloved piano, the first thing she feels is joy.

Callum Hunt ha tredici anni, frequenta il secondo anno del Magisterium e dovrebbe essere morto. Perché prima di essere uccisa, sua madre ha lasciato una scritta incisa nel ghiaccio: UCCIDETE IL BAMBINO. Ma questo non è il peggiore dei suoi segreti. Callum sa di avere dentro di sé l'anima del Nemico, che si è impadronito di lui dopo il Massacro Gelido. E sospetta che suo padre voglia rubare l'Alkahest, il guanto di rame, unico oggetto magico in grado di salvare il mondo dalla malvagità assoluta.

Fourteen-year-old Kirby Renton is a gifted theatre kid who wants to fix things: his dads’ marriage, his younger brother’s epilepsy. When ten-year-old Baxter’s seizures start involving visits from “the lightning people,” who descend from the sky and show him strange symbols, Kirby knows he needs to protect his brother, but how? He thinks he’s found the answer when the neurologist advises his family to consider a seizure-alert dog, but the cost is too much for his family to afford.

From the author of The Wolf Road comes a compelling thriller about a boy caught up in a land of shadows ruled by a mysterious queen. In a dangerous land enslaved by the cruel Regent, where the Dreamers have the magical power to turn dreams into reality, Toby meets Tamurlaine, a strange girl who has lost her memory. To uncover the mystery of her identity and get Toby back home, the pair must go on a thrilling journey to the heart of the kingdom, the castle of the Regent.

Dive into a Contemporary Romance with a hint of Magical Realism, heartbreaking family drama, Sizzling romance and the deep connection between human and animals. A gift that sent her running, a prized stallion sentenced to death, and a steamy one-night stand send Calamity Jane Hamlyn’s world into a whirlwind of heartache, adventure and desire. Working in a small bookstore in New York City was a far cry from the ranch she had grown up on in Colorado, but for Calamity, it was the only way to hide the gift she called a curse, by removing herself from the animals that brought it to life.

È passata una generazione da quando Constantine Madden, il Nemico della Morte, è arrivato vicinissimo a fare ciò che mai nessun mago aveva saputo: riportare i morti alla vita. Non ci è riuscito... ma ha trovato un modo per continuare a vivere, nel corpo di un bambino, il piccolo Callum Hunt. Costretto ad affrontare ciò che è, Callum ha combattuto contro il male per tutti i quattro anni del suo addestramento magico al Magisterium, sconfiggendo finalmente le forze del Caos in una battaglia epica. Ora, trionfatore con il cuore spezzato, il ragazzo si prepara a finire la scuola.