Magical realism Books

Flash Fiction writing legend Tommy Dean called this debut collection "wickedly fun, deeply cutting, and as creepy as a funhouse mirror." Meet award-winning author M. M. De Voe in a collection of dark, challenging stories that represent some of her best...

A violent attack could have marked Kaela Morrow's end, had Terran Montgomery not intervened. The mysterious stranger, with powers of his own, saves her but is badly wounded in the process. Fearing his injuries could prove fatal, Kaela risks everything...

Synopsis: For the first time collected, nine stories taken from my varies volumes and put into this bite-sized little adveture. These are what I consider my "best of the best", the ones I point to unabashedly when asked:...

LOST MUMMY: Book 3 of the Dangerous Adventures SeriesAfter their harrowing journey in Bhutan, Max and Hillary should be able to handle anything, right? Wrong. When Hillary recklessly brings home an ancient Native American basket containing a unforgiving...

It's time to take a break from the world you think you know and to step through into another one. These five stories offer a guided tour of new possibilities and different places. They rely on magic, science, and sleight of hand, and will betray your...

The golden threads of their lives lead to this final quest to unlock the secrets of Mt. Kailash … but who will survive the hostile physical challenges or the invisible dark manifestations from inside the void. And just as they enter the...

MY TALISMAN: Book 2 of the Dangerous Adventures SeriesAdventure Meets Magical Realism in the Himalayas Still recovering from the Mount Rainier tragedy, Max yearns to return to the mountains. But little does he know, his next expedition will push him to...

Ayraldia. A land of magic. A land of turmoil. Ainsley Porter has been dealt a lot of big blows in her life. Her mother was murdered, her father is the primary suspect. Her grandmother passed away, and her cousin, Cora-the only person who knew...

Te invito a descubrir la influencia que las mentiras pueden tener en tu vida y cómo pueden llegar atraer una serie de situaciones, que pueden ser transformadoras negativas o positivas, todo dependerá del tiempo y el contexto donde se...

In Kochi, India, Yufei learns from an old Indian Guru. "The answers you seek are found at the birthplace of man … Gobekli Tepe … the same as on your amulet." Yufei is confused, "But I was told my amulet is from Mt. Kailash in the Himalayas...

En man ligger i koma, med ringa chans att vakna ur den. Nära och kära på besök talar fritt ur hjärtat till honom, för de är säkra på att han inget hör. Men det gör han - ibland kanske också...

Vi bör vara mycket försiktiga när vi försöker kartlägga vårt kosmos. Vem vet, om vi lyckas, om vi får ett avgörande genombrott - då kanske alltihop spricker. Som en såpbubbla, när ett...

All three books in 'The Blood Witch Saga', a series of fantasy novels by Natalie J. Case, now in one volume!Thanátou: Thána Archer, a skeptical mid-level manager at a manufacturing company, is forced to confront her disbelief in magic when she discovers...

Träume sind Schäume , oder beeinflussen sie doch unsere Realität? Das, liebe Lesende, entscheiden Sie selbst. Für mich fühlen sich die Erlebnisse in meinen 44 Traumepisoden so lebensecht und überzeugend an, dass ich diese gerne auch hier auf unserem...

Vanessa kann es nicht glauben! Vor ihrem Bett sitzt eine Maus, die mit ihr spricht. Vanessa soll helfen. Die Regenbogenbrücke droht einzustürzen. Zusammen mit der Maus Fridolin und den Katzen Elli und Max, die sich zu ihnen gesellen, macht sich das...

A young traveler meets a German-born, ancient mendicant monk in India. The old Swami is in search of the mirror of truth, the philosopher's stone.The young traveller is on the search for the meaning and vocation of his life.The Shaman Swami is a unique,...

In Sebastanes Grafschaft herrscht unvorstellbarer Wohlstand. Es gibt weder Seuchen, Krankheiten noch Hunger. Dafür zahlen sie nur einen Preis: immer währende Wachsamkeit. Doch ein Leben wie im Traum macht müde. So gelingt es den Kräften, die in seiner...

Disciole est un roman fantastique, une quête au travers des âmes et des histoires croisées d'une famille dont on découvre les ombres et les couleurs au rythme effréné d'une héroïne ballottée d'un sentiment à l'autre dans une tourmente magnifique de...

Six-year -old Annie is living a nightmare no one should have to endure alone.  World War II is raging in Europe and in the Pacific, and though Annie is far from the front lines, she feels the horror of war on the home front: beloved neighbors...

Paris more than blossomed between World War I and World War II-it was considered by many to be the cultural and artistic capital of the world. Artists and thinkers from every corner of the globe visited or moved there, interacting with each other and...

What is the true story of Ruby's Place?For years, gossip has swirled throughout the small Missouri town of Sullivan. "Something strange going on out there at Ruby's," they say. Ruby's Place is no mere bar. Why? The ghosts of Christmases past are all...

When Emerson was twelve, she was enamored by her grandmother Amelia and believed that what others saw as eccentricity or mental illness was instead a misunderstood gift. Five years later, hardened by her mother's suicide and worried that she might be...

Cathy has been set another quest, before she can take up the role as the Head of the Circle of the Dove Stone Coven. This time she has to solve the mystery of the whereabouts of Desdemona's granddaughter Donna Maria. Last seen before her mother...

The Topless Tower is Silvina Ocampo's most imaginative work, one which takes the canon of Western fantasy and turns it on its head. A cross between Alice in Wonderland and the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, it packs a whole...

Erin is very not okay. And it's been this way for a long time. She is depressed. She is numb. She is exhausted down to her bones. She is a misanthrope and has bitterly retreated from the world, becoming a hermit in her small high-rise apartment. But, one...

In this daring collection of speculative fiction, Stephanie Andrea Allen attends to the lives of Black women, mostly lesbian or queer, all keenly aware of the forces seeking to consume them.A Black lesbian working the gig economy runs into a trio of...

Can two hearts be destined to be together?After successfully recovering from a lifelong ailment, travel blogger Nathan Scott is finally ready to explore every corner of the world without restraint. But it seems fate has something else in store when he...

The godspear are in peril! Ravaged by a beetle infestation, the mighty trees succumbed to the onslaught and their numbers dwindled. In a desperate bid to find a cure and save the trees, Ralm Willowsong set out across the dangerous Cryptic Sea along with...

THE TRAIN BROUGHT THEM TOGETHERAt twenty-one years of age, Jim leaves Orlando hoping to begin a new life that doesn't contain costumed characters or ghosts from his past. He meets Sara for the first time on the train. She adds an extra dimension to the...

2021 American Fiction Awards Finalist2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist"Imaginative and often beguiling, like a mashup of Platoon and Gremlins scripted by William S. Burroughs." -Kirkus Reviews"Nikolich's story shimmers with intersecting...

Guasuru "El Elegido". - Inspirado en un ser de alguna tribu indigena, en la selva de algun remoto lugar. Alli imperaba la inocencia, que alguna vez existio en el. Sin embargo, se desvio de sus dones, creyendo seguir la voluntad de los dioses, sin...

The soldiers came at dusk, sweeping like a hungry fire through the village of Ein Karem. During the catastrophe, seventeen-year-old Carmel and her family are forced from their ancestral home and young Carmel is wounded. When she wakes, she finds her...

The world as we know it is built upon choices. If different choices had been made in the past, we might be living in an entirely different world. What if the so-called Lost Colony of settlers in North Carolina were in fact not lost at all but instead...

This flash fiction novella, The Grief Manuscript, illustrates the dream-like, annihilating, and repetitive gestures of a dying marriage. The story recasts the emotional range of grief using metaphorical images and remarkable characters in brief, poetic...

"Opening these pages is like stepping through a secret doorway to discover a menagerie of wonders, impossibly beautiful. There are sentences here so fine, so perfectly worded, they made me gasp. Unsettling, mysterious, slightly subversive, deeply moving,...

Adrianna Morticia always knew she would have to marry a dragon to reclaim her family's right to their ancestral castle, but she didn't think she was going to have to marry one so soon. She thought she had years to prove herself a hero, but when her mom...

A long-lost treasure, a deadly chase, and a magnificent beast of legendsFor almost three hundred years, people have searched for one of the greatest treasures in history-the lost gold of the Scottish Jacobites. Following his father's death and a brazen...

Centuries after the destruction of Pacha Rurac, a flourishing town in the Peruvian highlands, Helébora is born. As a direct descendant of the Curaka of Pacha Rurac, the girl´s destiny is determined: "Liberate the Andes from the forces of evil," which she...

Cid is living a life of unfulfilled dreams. One day he wakes up to look out his window and see something that shakes up his life. He has to face it and when he does he begins to fulfill his dreams. He goes off in an adventure that changes everything for...

Michael Hart would do anything to bring her back.Fate took her away from him, then, years later, fate pushes him to the town of Malway, a town with a secret. Michael, a retired policeman, believes he has stumbled across a crime, but soon discovers it is...

More outrageous and humorous experiences with a twist of satire and magical realism await you in Mostly True II: Episodes like those that appeared in Mostly True: Short Stories. Enjoy that bumpy trek called "Life", once again from the lady...