When Margaret Welty spots the legendary hala, the last living mythical creature, she knows the Halfmoon Hunt will soon follow. Whoever is able to kill the hala will earn fame and riches, and unlock an ancient magical secret. While...
Magic realist fiction
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Author:Saft, AllisonSummary: - Author:Crawford, Tad.Summary:
A Floating Life will delight lovers of Kafka, Murakami, and the magic realism of Gabriel GarcIa MArquez. A nameless narrator awakens to the muddle of middle age, no longer certain who or what he is. He finds himself at a party talking...
- Author:Olson, Jessica S.Summary:
Myra is a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies. It's a secret she's kept well hidden until the governor's wife discovers the truth and orders her to complete a portrait that resurrects her dead son...
- Author:Greene, ElizabethSummary:
Judith, at fifty, feels that her life is irremediably stalled, and she is depressed. Although she has a secure job teaching English at a university, she is the single mother of a son on the autistic spectrum who has been lurching...
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
A Japanese yuppie plunges into chaos after he discovers a snapshot depicting a unique crossbreed of sheep.
- Author:Murakami, HarukiSummary:
A short, sleek novel of encounters set in Tokyo during the witching hours between midnight and dawn, and every bit as gripping as Haruki Murakami's masterworks The wind-up bird chronicle and Kafka on the shore. At its center are...
- Author:Pan, Emily X.R.Summary:
The only things keeping Hunter Lee from running away are his little brother and the girl at his new high school. Luna Chang feels stifled with graduation and expectations, but a new boy in her class upends her life.
- Author:Raiya, M.Summary:
When James first discovers he can heal, he thinks he has a rare and miraculous gift. But when he learns the price, it feels more like a curse. He falls passionately and completely in love with every person, male or female, he heals. But...
- Author:Schroeder, RandySummary:
On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, aging punk Lor Kowalski is unsure of his sanity. He is haunted by hallucinogens and harbingers, strung out on broken stories that he cannot piece together into a lucid whole. Forced to join his old...
- Author:Macdonald, EdSummary:
Atomic Storybook is a novel about a young painter named Owen who is regularly abducted by beings he calls “the space pricks.” These otherworldly visitors perform experiments on him, befuddle him with an absurd riddle about the moon, and...
- Author:Dubé, PauletteSummary:
“If heaven is full of angels like me, hell must be empty.” So begins Autant, a tale woven over the course of four days and fifty-four years, based on the relationship between bees and one Franco-Albertan family, the Morasses, of Autant...
- Author:Naylor, GloriaSummary:
A "moving and memorable" novel about a cafe where everyone has a story to tell from the award-winning author of The Women of Brewster Place (The Boston Globe). In post-World War II Brooklyn, on a quiet backstreet, there's...
- Author:Houde, NicoleSummary:
Voici un livre étonnant. On y découvre une Nicole Houde rieuse et moqueuse, tendre et grave, avec un brin de fantaisie impertinente. Des fées et des mages s'amusent au milieu d'une foule de personnages croisés au hasard de promenades...
- Author:Demuth, VivianSummary:
Johanna Bergen is a park warden in a Rocky Mountain National Park whose time is spent on such tasks as bear patrol, locating tourists who are lost or in other physical danger and policing park rules. She has a particular affinity for...
- Author:Kawaguchi, ToshikazuSummary:
Down an alleyway in the heart of Tokyo, there is an underground café that's been serving carefully brewed coffee for over a hundred years. Legend says that this coffeeshop offers its customers the chance to travel back in time. The...
- Author:Siré, CoraSummary:
After twelve years in exile, living and teaching in the safety of Montreal, Alma Alvarez has been persuaded to return to Luscano by her old friend Flaco, who has invited her to give a lecture at his university on the tragic Uruguayan...
- Author:Chang, K-MingSummary:
NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE ; Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in this spellbinding, visceral debut about one family’s queer desires, violent impulses, and buried...
- Author:Wallace, DanielSummary:
Sitting by his father's deathbed, William Bloom tries to understand the man quickly slipping away, who is more interested in evading his son's questions than answering them. So William reconstructs his father's life through a series of...
- Author:Brown, EchoSummary:
This program is read by the author "Just brilliant."— Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence,...
- Author:Skinner, NicolaSummary:
A beautifully written, incredibly original and wickedly funny novel for readers of 10 and older - BLOOM is for everyone who has ever felt like they didn't fit in, and for anyone who has ever wanted a little more colour and wildness...
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