Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Fantasy - Contemporary

Inspired by the ancient legends of her people, Arabella-the free-thinking daughter of a simple goatherd-sets out to find the kind of magic that might save her race. The only problem is "that" magic exists in only one place-the world which they had fled over two thousand years ago to escape persecution and genocide. The world of...

Upon completion of this wondrous tale, the elements, seasons, and many other natural phenomena will no longer remain a mystery to you. You will learn why the leaves fall from the trees in autumn, and why the flowers bloom again every spring.

Readers will find themselves swept away by the book's childlike appeal, intertwined with adult themes of...

Frumpy, obese Jainey Warren feels that all her dreams have come true when she mysteriously wakes up thin one morning. Suddenly the world opens up to her as a normal-sized person, as if her life had always been on hold. Now she can really start to live.

Live, that is, if she is no longer interested in keeping her soul.

Jainey soon discovers that she is a pawn in the spiritual realm, where visits from demons and archangels become commonplace. As she tries to sort out her role in this great battle, she becomes an unwilling...

Stuart Hart awoke to find that he was floating alongside the couch. His eyes were wide open. Their view --- the ceiling. The bright bulb caused his pupils to constrict - everything was delicately sharp. He was lying on his back - torso - legs - arms - head - all in one plane, as if someone or something had pulled the couch out from under him, but the couch had not moved. It was still in its place against the wall. Stuart Hart had moved! He was suspended in space. During his sleep, the sentinel of consciousness had failed to detect some force that changed...

Acclaimed by critics and readers on its first publication in 1987, winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Emma Bull's War for the Oaks is one of the novels that has defined modern urban fantasy.

Eddi McCandry sings rock and roll. But her boyfriend just dumped her, her band just broke up, and life could hardly be worse. Then, walking home through downtown Minneapolis on a dark night, she finds herself drafted into an invisible war between the faerie folk. Now, more than her own survival is at risk--and her own preferences, musical and personal, are very much beside the...

2017 Aurora Awards Best of the Decade Finalist

In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary and affecting people work to keep the whole world turning.

At the center of all the entwined lives in Newford stands a young artist named Jilly Coppercorn, with her tangled hair, her paint-splattered jeans, a smile perpetually on her lips--Jilly, whose paintings capture the...