Magical Realism Fiction

Eliza Paladin is disillusioned with normal life. She and her talking cat, Pal, discover a world where magic is as real as taxes. Even as all her fantasies come true, Eliza discovers a sinister plot that could result in losing the very powers that have given her life meaning.

One of the most beloved and bestselling novels of spiritual adventure ever published, Ishmael has earned a passionate following. This special twenty-fifth anniversary edition features a new foreword and afterword by the author. “A thoughtful, fearlessly low-key novel about the role of our...

Tornado et June sont deux chats nourris de poésie et de musique qui se sont mis à penser et se racontent, à tour de rôle. Ils vivent sur une péniche avec " Ceux-qui-se-croient-leurs-maîtres ". Depuis que ces derniers ont perdu un enfant après une fausse couche, ils peinent à se reconstruire. Et June abrite en son cœur le fantôme de Macha, cette petite fille qui aurait pu naître. Quand le récit commence, un autre drame menace. Tornado est malade et n’a peut-être plus que quelques jours à vivre.

After failing to save the enslaved magical creatures, Lesti and Astria redouble their training efforts. Now, joined by Aurelia and Fang, they continue to unlock new ways of using magic. However, a critical challenge lies just around the corner: the spring tournament. Lesti will have to win if she is to have any chance of taking the lordship of her homeland. At the same time, Astria spots a girl with unique powers at the academy. But she runs away screaming before she can even learn her name.

When their Ukrainian grandmother is lost on a trans-Atlantic Flight, two sisters are swept into a quest across eastern Europe to find the woman who had always told more tales than truths. From Poland to Slovakia to Hungary and beyond, Larissa and Ira navigate the steps of Ukrainian folk dance, the cliff-side paths of Slovak Paradise National Park, and the stark realities of war, folktales, and feminism, all for the sake of chasing who they're starting to believe is a true Baba Yaga. Understanding their family's roots has never been more clear.

October 1840. A young woman staggers alone through a forest in the English countryside as a huge pair of impossible wings rip themselves from her shoulders. In London, rumors of a fallen angel cause a frenzy across the city, and a surgeon desperate for fame and fortune finds himself in the grips of a dangerous obsession, one that will place the women he seeks in the most terrible danger.

To the exotic Aminpour sisters, Ireland looks like a much-needed safe haven. It has been seven years since Marjan Aminpour fled Iran with her younger sisters, Bahar and Layla, and she hopes that in Ballinacroagh they might finally find a home. The sisters set about creating a Persian oasis and soon sensuous wafts of cardamom, cinnamon, and saffron float through the streets-an exotic aroma that announces the opening of the Babylon Cafe. And it is an affront to the senses of Ballinacroagh's uncrowned king, Thomas McGuire.

Whale, set in a remote village in South Korea, follows the lives of many linked characters, including Geumbok, an extremely ambitious woman who has been chasing an indescribable thrill ever since she first saw a whale crest in the ocean; her mute daughter, Chunhui, who communicates with elephants; and a one-eyed woman who controls honeybees with a whistle. Brimming with surprises and wicked humor, Whale is an adventure-satire of epic proportions by one of the most original voices in international literature.

"In these irreverent pages, a shapeshifter gets a crash course in gender and sexuality by inhabiting both sides of the binary and arriving precisely somewhere in the middle." —O, The Oprah Magazine “HOT” (Maggie Nelson) “TIGHT” (Eileen Myles) “DEEP” (Michelle Tea) A Kirkus...

Harper Harlow, ghost hunter extraordinaire, has seen it all. Ghosts, back-from-the-dead boyfriends, and parents ping-ponging between divorce and reconciliation are the norm for her. Finally, though, she’s about to get everything she’s ever wanted - if the ghosts don’t get in the way first. Join Harper and her motley crew of friends, as they solve mysteries, and have a heck-of-a lot of fun!

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite...

May Rosevere has reached the grand old age of 110, thanks to several slices of toast with butter every morning, a glass (or two) of port, and the wonders of the Cornish sea air - or so she tells everyone. But there’s much more to May than her remarkable age. She has a secret. One that no one has ever discovered....

“Heartfelt, heartwarming, joyful, and uplifting. You can't go wrong with a Rachel Linden book.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber A magical cookbook and a summer on her family’s Italian olive farm help a brokenhearted social media chef cook up a satisfying new...

A cryptic note leads the Blackmoore sisters to a haunted island in the Atlantic Ocean. Many have looked for the treasures reported to be buried there by pirates decades ago, but precious few treasures have been found. And certainly not the powerful energy-infused jewel the Blackmoores are looking for. Abandoned for decades following several mysterious fatal accidents, the sisters have the island to themselves...or so they think.

Un beau jour de printemps, un train à destination de Kamakura déraille et tombe d'une falaise, laissant des dizaines de familles endeuillées. Tomo ne se mariera jamais avec son fiancé, Sakamoto ne pourra pas se réconcilier avec son père, le jeune Yuta ne recroisera pas son premier amour et Kitamura ne reverra plus son mari, le conducteur du train. Alors, quand deux mois plus tard, la rumeur d'un fantôme ayant le pouvoir de vous renvoyer au jour du terrible accident commence à circuler, les proches des victimes décident qu'ils n'ont rien à perdre.

Powers are determined by geographic birth locations, and only the rich and powerful are permitted access to prized sites. SC is the first person born in space. The punishment for unauthorized births is death. Out of fear, SC keeps his strange abilities as his darkest secret. But when his mother is kidnapped by an unknown organization, SC has no choice but to act.

A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he's there, or how he arrived, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man's cryptic questions, he leaves—and plunges into a history spanning centuries, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself.

Alys Stevens is running out of familiar road. Approaching the same age as her mother’s death and muddling through a messy divorce, the 40-something home renovator has lost the control she so deeply craves. So when her siblings show up demanding a girls' night full of fun, the three brew up an ancient family cocktail...and accidentally unleash powerful magic.

En Barcelona, una prostituta que va entrando en la vejez entrena a su perro para llorar ante la tumba que ha escogido para sí misma. En Viena, una mujer se vale de su don de ver el futuro para convertirse en la adivina de una familia rica. En Ginebra, el conductor de una ambulancia y su esposa acogen al abandonado y aparentemente moribundo ex presidente de un país caribeño, solo para descubrir que sus ambiciones políticas siguen intactas.

Lorsque le jeune étudiant Fumiya découvre cette rumeur, il quitte Tokyo pour partir en quête de l'ouvrage qu'il recherche depuis des années. À son arrivée, il tombe sur Makino, la patronne rayonnante de la librairie, Waku, le propriétaire un tantinet agressif, et Sugawa, le libraire taciturne au nœud papillon. Mais ce que Fumiya ne sait pas encore, c'est que lorsque vous y entrez, les problèmes, les maux du quotidien, les petits tracas ou les difficultés semblent disparaître comme par magie.