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Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful work of Afro-magic realism that interrogates the legacy of slavery and roots of poverty, witnesses the beauty and power in survival, and asks whether belief, magic, and intention can forge new realities"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"An eighty-year-old woman, Ma, slips into a deep depression after the death of her husband. Despite her family's cajoling, she refuses to get up from bed. Her responsible eldest son, Bade, and dutiful, Reebok-sporting daughter-in-law, Bahu, flit around trying to attend to Ma's every need, while her favorite grandson, the cheerful and gregarious Sid, entertains her with his guitar. But it is only when Sid's younger brother-Serious Son, pathologically...
3) Other birds
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale filled with magical realism and moments of pure love that won't let you go. Between the real and the imaginary, there are stories that take flight in the most extraordinary ways. Right off the coast of South Carolina, on Mallow Island, The Dellawisp sits-a stunning cobblestone building shaped like a horeshoe and named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside...
Author
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"One evening, Ma tells Daughter a story about a tiger spirit who lived in a woman's body, named Hu Gu Po. She hungered to eat children, especially their toes. Soon afterwards, Daughter awakes with a tiger tail. And more mysterious events follow: Holes in the backyard spit up letters penned by her grandmother; a visiting aunt leaves red on everything she touches; another aunt arrives with eels in her belly. All the while, Daughter is falling for her...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From her attic in the Arizona mountains, thirty-four-year-old recluse Myra Malone blogs about a dollhouse mansion that captivates thousands of readers worldwide. Myra's stories have created legions of fans who breathlessly await every blog post, trade photographs of Mansion-modeled rooms, and swap theories about the enigmatic author. Myra herself is tethered to the Mansion by mysteries she can't understand--rooms that appear and disappear overnight,...
Author
Publisher
Forge, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Ava Harrison receives a letter containing an unusual job listing one month after the sudden death of her ex-boyfriend, she thinks she's being haunted. The listing--a job as a live-in caretaker for a peculiar old man and his cranky cat in Driftwood, Alabama--is the perfect chance to start a new life. A normal life. Ava has always been too fearful to even travel, so no one's more surprised than she is when she throws caution to the wind and drives...
7) Eartheater
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A woman from an slum in contemporary Argentina teams up with a withdrawn police officer when she develops a compulsive urge to eat dirt that triggers visions of murdered and missing people, including her own mother.
8) The do-over
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Emilia has always wanted to fit in with the A crowd. So, when Ben, the hottest guy in school, asks her out, she chooses him over Alistair, her best friend -- even after he confesses his feelings to her. Six months later, Emilia wonders how her life would have been different if she'd chosen Alistair instead. Haunted by her mistake, she finds a magical solution that promises to rectify the past. As a result, everything in her life is different. What...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Set in an unnamed valley--surrounded by other valleys, each twenty years apart in time--a masterful, moving literary speculative novel in which the Conseil determines if a bereaved resident can cross the border to the past or the future on a "mourning tour." One sixteen-year-old Conseil candidate spots two visitors from the future, but is shocked when she recognizes them as the parents of the boy she loves"-- Provided by publisher.
10) Mysterious ways
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Maya struggles with her omniscient abilities, but when she meets a cute guy at her new school, he helps her learn how to cope with knowing too much.
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin...
14) Summerlong
Author
Publisher
Tachyon
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"It is a dark and stormy Puget Sound winter--until the arrival of Lioness Lazos. Even the weather takes notice when Lioness appears, as if out of nowhere, waiting tables in a diner. As though compelled, a complicated family brings the young woman into their lives. Energetic Joanna, academic Abe, and lovelorn Lily each fall under Lioness's spell, and she in turn awakens their long-hidden dreams and desires. As an impossibly beautiful spring leads into...
Author
Series
Before the coffee gets cold volume 5
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling magic continues as new patrons journey to the past, experiencing reunions, making amends and revisiting memories.
16) After life
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
"One spring afternoon after school, Amber arrives home on her bike. It's just another perfectly normal day. But when Amber's mom sees her, she screams. Because Amber died seven years ago, hit by a car while on the very same bicycle she's inexplicably riding now. This return doesn't only impact Amber. Her sister, Melissa, now seven years older, must be a new kind of sibling to Amber. Amber's estranged parents are battling over her. And the changes...
17) Unspoken magic
Author
Series
Unseen magic volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In the magical town of Aldermere, eleven-year-old Fin and her friends find a baby bigfoot and try to reunite her with her pack, but their efforts are complicated by a film crew who have come to town to debunk strange occurrences and expose mythical creatures as frauds.
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2025.
Language
English
Description
Reimagines Gershom Scholem, renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism, as he embarks on a post-war quest to recover stolen Jewish books, intertwined with Menke Klepfisch, a mischievous jester, in their shared struggle against Nazi brutality using humor and magic.
19) Monstrilio
Author
Publisher
Zando
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Grieving mother Magos cuts out a piece of her deceased eleven-year-old son Santiago's lung. Acting on fierce maternal instinct and the dubious logic of an old folktale, she nurtures the lung until it gains sentience, growing into the carnivorous little Monstrilio she keeps hidden within the walls of her family's decaying Mexico City estate. Eventually, Monstrilio begins to resemble the Santiago he once was, but his innate impulses--though curbed by...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Returning to Appalachia to live with her grandmother, Belva, Lee vows to stay far away from Belva's world of magic until the target of one of Belva's spells is discovered dead and she fears she may have conjured something far more sinister, forcing Lee to rediscover her power to protect them all.
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