Fiction Realism

The Alehouse at the End of the World is an epic comedy set in the 16th century, where bawdy Shakespearean love triangles play out with shapeshifting avian demigods and a fertility goddess, drunken revelry, bio-dynamic gardening, and a narcissistic, bullying crow, who may have colluded with a foreign power.

Cometierra ha elegido dos cosas: un barrio nuevo y no volver a usar su poder adivinatorio nunca más. Rodeada de desconocidos, va saliendo poco a poco de su encierro y aprende a manejarse en su nuevo entorno, al tiempo que aguarda el nacimiento de su sobrino, hijo de su hermano Walter y de la novia de este, Miseria.

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. The 14-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to a master's work.

Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home - a house, perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea. His parents are long dead, his mother having drowned in the water his house overlooks. His younger sister, Enola, works for a traveling carnival reading tarot cards and seldom calls.

Zu lange waren Opaline, Martha und Henry nur Nebenfiguren in ihrem eigenen Leben. Doch als diese drei ahnungslosen Fremden einen mysteriösen, verschwundenen Buchladen entdecken, wird alles anders. Dieser magische Ort zieht sie in ihren Bann und lässt sie erkennen, dass ihre eigenen Geschichten genauso außergewöhnlich sind wie die auf den Seiten ihrer geliebten Bücher. Während sie Geheimnisse lüften, tauchen sie in eine Welt voller Wunder ein, in der nichts so ist, wie es scheint.

Am glücklichsten war Wilbur mit Maggie, der großen Liebe seines Lebens. Damals, in ihren Flitterwochen in Venedig. Bevor er alles aufs Spiel setzte. Nichts wünscht er sich sehnlicher, als die Zeit zurückzudrehen und einen anderen Weg einzuschlagen. Aber damit könnte er alles zerstören, was ihm je etwas bedeutet hat.

David wird aus seinem alten Leben gerissen und landet in einem rätselhaften Camp, das vorgibt, seine verborgenen Talente zu fördern. Dort trifft er Caleb – impulsiv, verschlossen und doch auf seltsame Weise vertraut. Zwischen den beiden wächst eine Freundschaft, die mehr als einmal auf die Probe gestellt wird. Während sie versuchen, sich in einer Welt zurechtzufinden, in der Regeln und Kontrolle über allem stehen, erkennen sie: Sie sind Teil eines Systems, das nicht nur formt, sondern auch täuscht. Wahrheit wird hier gemacht – von jenen, die das Bild der Realität diktieren.

Marvin Deitz has some serious problems. His mob-connected landlord is strong-arming him out of his storefront. His therapist has concerns about his stability. He's compelled to volunteer at the local Children's Hospital even though it breaks his heart every week. Oh, and he's also the guilt-ridden reincarnation of Geoffroy Thérage, the French executioner who lit Joan of Arc's pyre in 1431. He's just seen a woman on a Los Angeles talk show claiming to be Joan, and absolution seems closer than it's ever been . . . but how will he find her?

The one that got away... Six years ago, Tacitus Everard, the Marquess of Dare, made the worst mistake of his life: courting vibrant, sparklingly beautiful Lady Calista Chance - until she broke his heart. Is the only one she wants. Six years ago, Calista Holland made the biggest misstep of her life: begging handsome, wealthy Lord Dare to help her run away from home - then marrying someone else.

Beyond Belief is the fourth and final audiobook in the acclaimed Clan of the Ice Mountain saga. Beyond Belief introduces bow-and-arrow technology and the domestication of dogs, as well as the meeting of roving bands of killers booted from Attu's Clan who people soon discover are related to them, speaking a similar language that is much changed from their many generations off the ice.

Welcome to the Midwest, America's Heartland, home to a hidden community of witches and wizards. When Maria Apple receives a strange music box for her 19th birthday, everything changes. She begins to showcase odd magical abilities, glowing blue, seeing ghosts, and talking to creatures that shouldn't be able to talk, all while trying to juggle the task of being a typical teenage girl. Now, not only does Maria learn she is a witch, but her grandfather, Ignatius, reveals he was once a famous warrior from a planet named Oriceran.

On the day Concord Webster turned eighteen, the Devil died. The Devil's real name was Judge Martin, but Concord's mother called him the Devil. She said he boiled babies for dinner and made lampshades out of human skin. So why did she, who hated him so venomously, have a key to his house? The key will unlock more than just Judge's front door. It will also unlock a multitude of stories - where magic children talk to crows, men disappear in piles of leaves, and James Dean lookalikes kiss in dark alleys - and reveal a secret history that will change Concord's life forever.

The Years with Laura Diaz is Carlos Fuentes' most important novel in several decades. Like his masterpiece The Death of Artemio Cruz, the action begins in the state of Veracruz and moves to Mexico City - tracing a migration during the Revolution and its aftermath that was a feature of Mexico's demographic history and that is a significant element in Fuentes' fictional world. Now the principle figure is not Artemio Cruz (who, however, makes a brief appearance) but Fuentes' first major female protagonist, the extraordinary Laura Diaz.

A stunningly original love story between a museum employee and the man in a masterpiece hanging on the walls—a breathtaking debut about time, art, and the enduring power of love. “This wildly inventive, deeply moving novel blurs the line between art and those who behold it.”—Jodi Picoult...

Published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Pnball, 1973 is the second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series. It is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami...

Eddie Asher arrives at Hudson Valley Psychiatric Hospital panicked that he may have murdered his brother’s fiancée, Lucy, with whom he shared a profound kinship. He can’t imagine doing such a terrible thing, but Eddie hasn’t been himself lately. Eddie’s anxiety is nothing new to Pär, the one Eddie calls his Other, who protects Eddie from truths he’s too sensitive to face. Or so Pär says. Troubled by Pär’s increasing sway over his life, Eddie seeks out Dr. Richard Montgomery, a specialist in dissociative identities.

Der Krieg zieht über das Land und fordert Opfer. Auch die Großmutter und Mo müssen das erfahren und versuchen sich mit Geschichten und Gedichten zu trösten. Bis Mo aufbricht, verfolgt von bedrohlichen Stimmen. Sie lassen erahnen, dass hier das Böse höchstpersönlich seine Finger im Spiel hat. Doch zwischen den Schatten flackert Licht. Weitezeit erzählt von Mut, Erinnerung und der stillen Kraft, die in uns wächst, wenn alles verloren scheint.

In the small town of Lazy Rivers, where secrets run as deep as the river that gave the town its name, three generations of Rivers women are about to discover that some memories can't stay buried forever. When Serenity Rivers returns home to care for her dying mother, she brings with her a gift she's spent years trying to escape—the ability to see other people's memories. But as boys start disappearing just as they did fifty years ago, Serenity realizes her gift might be the key to solving both the present mystery and the shadows of the past.

From the critically acclaimed author of Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune comes a new delightful novel about exploring all the magical possibilities of life in the most extraordinary city of all: Paris. Vanessa Yu never wanted to see people's fortunes—or misfortunes—in tealeaves...

Sur une colline de la ville côtière de Marigold, une mystérieuse laverie est apparue comme par magie dans l’obscurité de la nuit. Jieun, l’énigmatique propriétaire, a imaginé un endroit où l’on peut entrer sans crainte, un lieu où l’on soigne les âmes comme on prend soin des vêtements. Car Jieun ne s’occupe pas uniquement des tissus, elle propose à ses clients de nettoyer leur coeur en effaçant leurs souvenirs les plus douloureux. Et si certaines âmes n’ont besoin que de quelques coups de fer à repasser pour se défroisser, d’autres doivent être raccommodées de part en part.