NATIONAL BESTSELLER - Years ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children's author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will...
Magic realist fiction
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Author:Shaffer, Meg.Summary: - Author:Wiersema, Robert J.Summary:
Eleven-year-old Brian Page spends every waking moment in the forest behind the house where he lives with his father. But forests are always deeper than anyone can know. Secrets are hidden in the eternal twilight of the trees. Those...
- Author:Krueger, LesleySummary:
A richly atmospheric portrait of women's agency and the timelessness of love, Time Squared explores the enduring roles of rights, responsibility, and devotion throughout history The game will change when you remember who you are Robin...
- Author:Robinson, EdenSummary:
In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex--a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking. And...
- Author:Lane, AmySummary:
"I am not beautiful ..." Knife's entire existence has been as twisted as his flesh and his face. The only thing beautiful in his life is his sister. When Gwennie is obliged to turn a suitor down because she fears to leave her brother to...
- Author:Bonin, Jean-FrançoisSummary:
Récit, conte ou sotie, Un secret de Polichinelle est une jubilante allégorie dans laquelle Jean-François Bonin donne libre cours à sa fantaisie. Trois joyeux lurons, Mylène, Émile et Rock-Igor, s’y moquent allègrement des travers de...
- Author:Laverdure, Bertrand, Avasilichioaei, OanaSummary:
From celebrated Quebecois author Bertrand Laverdure comes Universal Bureau of Copyrights , a bold, strange and addictive story that envisions a world where free will doesn't exist, and an enigmatic global corporation buys and sells the...
- Author:Jones, KellySummary:
Twelve-year-old Sophie Brown feels like a fish out of water when she and her parents move from Los Angeles to the farm they've inherited from a great-uncle. But farm life gets more interesting when a cranky chicken appears and Sophie...
- Author:Dimaline, CherieSummary:
Métis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she'll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and...
- Author:McCauley, KyrieSummary:
Beck and Vivian never could stand each other, but they always tried their best for their mutual friend, Cassie. After Cassie's murder, Beck and Vivian finally find common ground: vengeance. They memorialize Cassie by painting...
- Author:McLemore, Anna-MarieSummary:
Winner of the 2016 Tiptree Award! Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Stonewall Book Award Honor.
“McLemore’s second novel is such a lush surprising fable, you half expect birds to fly out...
- Author:Barnhill, Kelly ReganSummary:
A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman's place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are...
- Author:Blooms, AshleySummary:
Maren Walker tells herself she wouldn't need to sell pills for long. She dreams of walking through her door to leave it all behind. The doors have always appeared to the people of her town, though no one knows where they lead.
- Author:Wilhelmy, AudréeSummary:
White Resin is an ethereal love story of the almost-impossible reconciliation between the manufactured world and the haunting and feminine nature that envelops it. In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named...
- Author:Peacock, KathleenSummary:
Cat hasn't been to Montgomery Falls, the town her family founded, since she was twelve years old. Since the summer she discovered she could do things that no normal twelve-year-old could do. Since she had her first kiss with Riley...
- Author:Taylor, GeneSummary:
Intimidated by the clubs and cabarets of 1970s Chicago, shy English teacher Graham Thomas needs a miracle just to be able to talk to a man. When help arrives from a Robert Redford look-alike wizard, Graham brushes him off—he’s obviously...
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