Magical Realism

After her husband’s infidelity, devastated Katrine Blackthorn reluctantly returns to Faith Falls, Minnesota, to her family’s Queen Anne mansion on the hill and the magic that binds them all. Her grandmother Velda charms everyone she meets. Her mother, Ursula, is a brewer of potions who sees a threat around every corner. And there’s her estranged sister, Jasmine, broken by something no one will name. With Katrine’s return, all that the Blackthorns have feared seems to be manifesting.

Don't miss this heart-stopping drama from the nation's favourite storyteller! Will the sleeping shadows of a family’s past torment a new generation? Twenty years ago, an unspeakable crime tore Jack’s family apart. An evil that consumed his mother and ripped him away from everything and...

When Dana and Nigel got married, they had such promise. After sixteen years, the cracks are showing. Dana is a burned-out ER nurse, and Nigel is a recently unemployed stay-at-home dad whose professional identity is disappearing. Questioning the directions their lives have taken, Dana and Nigel are each granted a wish from a mysterious stranger. For one week they can escape the pressure of their lives in favor of ones in which they never married.

Welcome to Lavender Hollow… your next small town romance obsession! Grace fled London with a broken engagement and a wedding dress she still hasn't paid for. Max returned home with secrets of his own, and a painful past he’d much rather leave behind. But neither expected to find magic hiding...

Some stories don't end. They wait to be found… Book editor Lucy Thomas has just inherited her grandmother’s windswept Cornish home, and with it, a library bathed in sunlight, a spiral staircase that leads to secrets, and a battered box filled with unfinished stories… To honour her...

A Goodreads Editors’ Pick | A Boston Globe Best Book of the Summer | A Time and LitHub Most Anticipated Book of the Year | A People Most Anticipated Summer Read A spellbinding story collection from Booker Prize finalist Ruth Ozeki, about the lives we almost lived, the people we can’t quite...

It is 1880, and immigrants are flocking to a new refuge from the economic and racial turmoil of the late nineteenth century. For New Orleans chef Amadeo Roselyn, the Isle of Touperdu is where he can open his own restaurant and raise his daughters as educated, marriageable ladies in a place free...

On the eve of her fortieth birthday, a woman wakes up from a pickleball accident with the unexpected chance to relive her twenties in this sparkling novel from a fresh, new voice.

Seine Fähigkeiten sind durch einen mächtigen Fluch versiegelt, und Thorn kämpft gegen die Zeit, um seine Stimme wiederzuerlangen. Wird eine Suche quer durch die Welt die Antwort sein, oder wird alles, was er erreicht hat, weggenommen? Thorn ist zwar der Greymane, aber nach dem katastrophalen Ende der letzten Weltquest ist er nicht in der Lage zu regieren. Thorn macht sich mit seinen Freunden auf den Weg, um das Heilmittel für seinen Fluch zu finden, und lässt die Mondwolfzitadelle hinter sich, um nach dem schwer fassbaren Weltenbaum zu suchen.

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The frontier’s shadows hid monsters. The guild hides something worse. Velik left the frontier behind after finally destroying the source of the endless monsters that plagued it. But life in the Monster Hunters Guild isn’t the fresh start he imagined. People and politics bring a different set of challenges —and Velik has never been good at playing by the rules. Even worse, the guild has a secret, one it’s willing to kill to protect. As Velik comes closer to uncovering the truth, what looks like coincidence might be calculated moves to erase him.

A marine biologist makes the discovery of a lifetime when called to rescue the inhabitants of a small Maine island being menaced by a giant, glowing jellyfish in this richly imagined, wholly original debut. Dr. Jo Ness prefers jellyfish to people. Her best friend, Aldo, was the exception, but he...

En el corazón de Hakodate hay un lugar extraordinario: una pequeña cafetería que sirve café con un aroma intenso y envolvente, capaz de hacerte evocar emociones lejanas y de revisitar un momento del pasado. Sin embargo, adentrarse en este establecimiento tan especial no es para todos, y solo los que reúnen el coraje necesario pueden arriesgarse. Es el caso de Yayoi, quien, privada del cariño de sus padres cuando aún era muy pequeña, no cree poder afrontar la vida con una sonrisa.

Bookseller Nelly Blake has a secret. When she touches someone, she sees exactly how their love story will end. She's seen every kind of romantic disaster and has concluded the safest option is to stay single forever. No touching. No dating. No love. But after a brutal rent hike and her beloved Aunt Polly's cancer diagnosis, Nelly is forced to take on a flatmate to make ends meet. Enter Oliver James — bestselling romance author and recently heartbroken man hiding more than just his actual name. Then Nelly accidentally touches him… and sees nothing. No ending. No heartbreak. No clue.

Am Orden der bösen Viper angekommen, will Jake unbedingt seine Alchemie verbessern... Aber die Realität ist oft brutal. Denn während er sich darum bemüht, Fortschritte zu machen, muss sich Jake mit der politischen Landschaft im Orden auseinandersetzen. Er muss seine Identität als Auserwählter des großen Bosses verbergen, wird zur Teilnahme an irgendwelchen Treffen gezwungen, besucht Vampire, um ihnen uralte Memorabilien anzudrehen und versucht nebenbei, sich in der Alchemie zu verbessern. Jake hat also mehr zu tun denn je.

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.

Set in Thailand from 1976 to the present, Mother, Ghost, Mango Seed is a haunting yet hopeful exploration of grief, motherhood, and cultural identity ‘With pathos and swift, transporting prose, Natalie Gregory reveals a version of Thailand rich with counterculture, protest, and the lingering...

Elliot West has built her brand on rejecting love. On her hit radio show, she trashes fairy-tale endings and insists happily ever afters are nothing more than a marketing ploy. Cynicism sells, and for Elliot, it’s paid off big-time. But when a mysterious tarot card reader casts a spell on her, Elliot laughs it off…until she wakes up the next morning in a life she doesn’t recognize. Leo, her summer fling, is suddenly her boyfriend, as if they never said goodbye.

For readers of Shark Heart and Hollow Kingdom, a funny, magical, and tender novel following a lonely, conflict-averse man whose sudden ability to understand animals sends him on a wild romp around NYC, and ultimately helps him discover his own voice. Strolling through Central Park on a blind...

What if you had the chance to revisit every choice that mattered? Sabrina Sorensen is thirty-seven, single, and just lost a fabulous job as manager of a posh Parisian restaurant. She heads home to California for her younger sister’s engagement party, and it's an open door for her mother and...

Lionel Wallace is a man of enviable success - a brilliant politician on the verge of the Cabinet, a pillar of Victorian society, and a master of his own destiny. But behind his mask of achievement lies a devastating secret: a green door in a white wall that he first stumbled upon as a lonely...

Three women. Three losses. One sanctuary that changes everything. When Tiffany, Charlotte, and Heather buy an old farmhouse nestled in the quiet hills of New England, they hope to rescue animals-and perhaps themselves. Each carries a private grief: a sudden loss, a life unraveled, a heart still searching for meaning. Together they begin to rebuild, creating a haven for creatures in need and discovering comfort in simple rhythms-the bleat of a goat at dawn, the rustle of wings, the hush of twilight settling over the fields. But the land has a memory.

Was würdest du machen, wenn ein Fluch auf dir liegen würde? »An meiner Seite spürte ich Yu, seine Finger verschränkten sich mit meinen. Der Junge, den ich als Dieb am Hafen kennengelernt hatte, hatte sich in mein Herz gestohlen.« Der Berg hatte sie freigelassen, trotzdem waren sie immer noch Gefangene. Warum fanden sie nicht nach Hause? Was hielt sie an diesem eigenartigen Ort gefangen, der zwar wie das Northern Territory aussah, aber irgendwie auch nicht? Die Aborigines, auf die sie getroffen waren, konnten Fenja und Yu auch nicht helfen, wieder nach Hause zu kommen.

Auf einen Schlag zwanzig Kunden verloren, eine Tochter, die nicht zur Schule gehen will, das schlechte Gewissen, weil er sich um seine Mutter kümmern sollte – Shûichi Okada hält sich für den unglücklichsten Mann Japans. Und ausgerechnet er bekommt die Chance, sein Glück zu wenden, als ein mysteriöser Taxifahrer auftaucht und ihm anbietet, ihn immer genau dort abzusetzen, wo er den Weg zu einem glücklicheren Leben einschlagen kann.

“Heartfelt, heartwarming, joyful, and uplifting. You can't go wrong with a Rachel Linden book.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber A tantalizing novel about a struggling chocolatier who is granted a magical vision of the future of her dreams, only to realize that her...