Títulos em Realismo Mágico

1954: In the quaint town of Mendol, Oklahoma, Bailey Dowery is a Black dressmaker for the wives and daughters of local oil barons. She earns a good living fitting designer gowns and creating custom wedding dresses for the town’s elite. But beyond her needle and thread lies a deeper talent, one passed down from her mother: the gift of insight. With just a fleeting touch or brush against the skin, Bailey has sudden flashes of intuition.

Mistaking an ad to join the titular The Loneliest Band in France for one to sell his blood, Migara de Silva, the novella’s narrator—a Sri Lankan student, new to Montpellier—finds himself, instead, under the sway of the band, drinking heavily and being recruited to play a battle-of-the-bands-esque concert (that night) at the local Café Bovary with its four members: Noël, Guy, Lucien, and Michel. Not only is there prize money attached to the concert, the bandmates also see this as an opportunity to debut a new song—one, they claim, that can hurt—even kill—its listeners.

Armand Ptolemy was just an ordinary man, until he unlocked the secrets of an ancient Egyptian AI. Now, he's racing against time and sinister forces to save not just his inheritance, but the future of humanity. When Armand discovers that his brothers have cheated him out of his inheritance, he is plunged into a secret world of synchronicity engines, karma cryptocurrencies, ancient "living information" and modern artificial intelligences.

Emilia and Gregorio spent their childhood following their grandmother through the mountains of central México, gathering the ingredients she used for curandera work and learning about the supernatural world. When she passes away, the siblings are left alone. So they scrape together their money and pay coyotes to smuggle them to their father in the United States. The siblings are exhausted before they even reach the border, where the coyotes seize Emilia for their own harsh ends.

Three generations of men gather at their family homestead in New Jersey as Franklin Bowman faces impending death. With a plan in mind, Franklin summons his son George, who faces the uncertainties of retirement, and his grandson Jack, who faces the prospect of discovering himself after being fired from his job.

Fleurs Leben ist das Internet. Dieser Ort bietet der Datenforensikerin im Gegensatz zur realen Welt Geborgenheit. Als Fleur die Wohnung ihrer verhassten französischen Großmutter erbt, wird sie mit ihrer ungeklärten Familiengeschichte konfrontiert. Auf den Spuren ihrer Ahnen reist Fleur nach Frankreich in die Auvergne. Dort stößt sie auf ein dunkles Geheimnis, das bis in die Zeit der Aufklärung zurückreicht. Dabei blickt sie auch einer Bestie ins Gesicht, die das Schicksal ihrer Familie seit Generationen überschattet. Nach dieser Begegnung wird Fleur für immer eine andere sein.

London, 1927. On the morning of Friday 5th February, 1927, Miss Agnes Humphries – the landlady of the attractive, if-slightly shabby, white-fronted townhouse at Number 23 Burlington Square – has a decision to make. The rooms of the second floor lie empty, since poor Mr Blandford’s unfortunate demise, God rest his soul. And Agnes must make up her mind as to who will be her new lodger. Agnes must choose between them. But what will her decision lead to? One of the choices could result in scandal, one in devastation, and one could even lead to happiness. If only she gets it right.

For fifty years, Venetia Hargreaves’s world revolved around her husband. She built their life around his big career, with dinner on the table at six, a lovely home, and a dutiful son just as business-minded as his father. Now Venetia’s a wealthy widow left with a beautiful but empty home, an enviable bank balance, and a distinct feeling that she missed the boat. Once upon a time, she was a dance instructor who dreamed of opening her own ballroom school with a fellow teacher who won her heart. Instead, Venetia chose the safer path.

O caminho das estrelas conta a história de Lenita, que desencarna ainda adolescente por causa de um câncer.

Aranmanoth es una novela de iniciación a la vida y al amor, protagonizada por un muchacho medio humano medio mágico, hijo del Señor del Lines y de un hada de las aguas. En una Edad Media ensombrecida por guerras infinitas, Aranmanoth parte en búsqueda de su destino, alejándose de los demás mortales y obedeciendo a misteriosas señales de las hojas de los árboles y de los pájaros que atraviesan el cielo. Aranmanoth y Windumanoth, su niña amada, esposa de su padre, viajan en pos de un sueño de plenitud, hacia la tierra prometida de su infancia que, poco a poco, revela hallarse en su interior.

Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to fight for a future in a world where so much has already been lost. Seventeen-year-old Judith Holliman escapes the monotony of Sydney Town during the nineteenth century, when her naval captain father lets her accompany him on a voyage. Telma Velasco is hunting for a miracle in a world ravaged by global heating: a leafy seadragon, long believed extinct, has been sighted. But as Telma investigates, she finds hope in unexpected places.

John is about to discover what happens when the company behind the world's biggest social media company starts working on quantum-based weapons. The experiment is anything but ordinary, and starts a chain reaction that will unleash previously unknown darkness, threatening to destroy everything John has ever cared for.

A boy searches for his father, a prison guard on Sakhalin Island. In Barcelona, a woman is tasked with spying on a prizefighter who may or may not be her estranged son. A samurai escorts an orphan to his countrymen in the Edo Period. A formerly incarcerated man starts a new life in a small town in upstate New York and attempts to build a family. The Hive and the Honey is a bold and indelible collection by celebrated author Paul Yoon, one that portrays the vastness and complexity of diasporic communities, with each story bringing to light the knotty inheritances of their characters.

Lucy Hart knows better than anyone what it's like to grow up without parents who loved her. In a childhood marked by neglect and loneliness, Lucy found her solace in books, namely the Clock Island series by Jack Masterson. Now a twenty-six-year-old teacher's aide, she is able to share her love of reading with bright young students, especially seven-year-old Christopher Lamb, who was left orphaned after the tragic death of his parents. Lucy would give anything to adopt Christopher, but even the idea of becoming a family seems like an impossible dream without proper funds and stability.

Manchmal musst du die Grenzen deiner Welt sprengen, um die Liebe hineinzulassen. "Das Wunder der kleinen Dinge" ist ein modernes Märchen voller Herz und ein tragisch-schöner Roman um Liebe, Familie und das große Wunder im Kleinen. Vom Dachboden ihres Häuschens in den Bergen Arizonas verzaubert die 34-jährige Myra tausende Menschen mit ihrem Blog über ihr Miniatur-Herrenhaus. Seit einem Unfall in ihrer frühen Kindheit lebt Myra zurückgezogen und steckt all ihre Zeit und Liebe in die "Villa Liliput", die ein seltsames Eigenleben zu führen scheint.

Die unvergessliche Geschichte eines Sámi-Mädchens, das in einer im Verschwinden begriffenen Welt für seinen Platz im Leben kämpft. Ein Roman, so fesselnd und bezaubernd wie die schneebedeckte Weite, in der er spielt. Die Sámi Elsa ist neun Jahre alt, als sie allein Zeugin des Mordes an ihrem Rentierkalb wird. Der Täter zwingt sie, zu schweigen. Sie kann nichts tun und fühlt sich doch schuldig, gegenüber ihrer Familie und allen, die ihr nah sind, denn wieder einmal sieht die Polizei keinerlei Anlass, in einem Verbrechen zu ermitteln.

When Red Lake wakes up in the middle of nowhere with no memory of the past two years, she’s brought home to her adopted family. It doesn’t take long before Red discovers that something new is growing inside of her. Unusual powers now flow within Red’s veins, and she has no idea where they came from or how to get them under control.

Banned by the Nazis, the haunting novel At the Edge of the Night (Am Rande der Nacht), by the German writer Friedo Lampe, is a work of magic realism. This poignant book, beautifully translated by Simon Beattie, was, in Lampe’s own words, ‘born into a regime where it could not breathe’; he hoped that one day it might rise again. It evokes the sensations and impressions of a sultry September evening on the waterfront of Bremen, with its charm and tenderness, squalor and lust.

We're all a little bit broken, aren't we? Young widow Tracie Shaw may be more than most. She spends her days hidden away, making beautiful treasures out of other people's trash. When she finds someone's abandoned ashes in a storage bin auction, her life begins to change. When she meets a woman who might have a clue as to where the ashes came from and what they mean, her life turns upside down.

Keryth Miller is disappearing. Between the growing distance from her husband, the demands of two teenage daughters, and an all-encompassing burnout, she sometimes feels herself fading away. Actual translucence, though—that’s new. When Keryth wakes up one morning with her hand completely gone, she is frantic. But she quickly realizes two things: If she is disappearing, it’s because her father, an artist with the otherworldly ability to literally capture life in his art, is drawing her. And if he’s drawing her, that means he’s still alive.