Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> Magical Realism

Era un soleado dia de primavera de finales del s.XIX. Me encontraba a punto de embarcar con mi pareja en el primer viaje que iba a realizar un barco de vapor desde un puerto del Jucar al mar Mediterraneo. Se respiraba un ambiente lleno de jubilo por la inauguracion y ademas nosotros celebrabamos nuestro primer aniversario. Cuando embarcamos todos, aquel ingenio al que llamaban piroscafo comenzo a avanzar y nosotros nos sentimos muy contentos ante una experiencia tan novedosa. El barco se alejaba cada vez mas del puerto fluvial del que partiamos rumbo al mar, era emocionante ver como ibamos...

Dr. Rainar Nitzsche wurde am 27.12.55 in Berlin geboren, ging im Saarland zur Schule und lebt in Kaiserslautern, wo er Biologie studierte und uber Brautgeschenke bei Spinnen promovierte. Er ist gelernter Buchhandler und grundete 1989 den Rainar Nitzsche Verlag. Seit 2015 veroffentlicht er nicht mehr in seinem eigenen Verlag, sondern als Autor seine Belletristik und Kunstbucher in Buchform und als E-Books bei BoD und neobooks. Seit seiner Jugend fotografiert er Tiere, insbesondere Insekten und Spinnen, die sich in seinen Sachbuchern: u. a. Spinnen kennen lernen, Spinnen-Sex und mehr, aber auch...

Kinney Road, a short, rural road that dead ends at the fortified gate of a nondescript building and the Pacific Ocean, is the setting for this tale of good versus evil, of nature versus technology, of love enduring hardship, and the end of one epoch of Man and the beginning of the next.

As penance for a liaison with 'Adil Tannous, a Copt of her village, Hanan Bayt al-Mal is sent to live with relatives in Cairo. There, against the background of the first days of the Sadat regime, she finds work organizing the library of Benedict Risk, an enigmatic academic with whom she shares an enthusiasm for the works of Jurji Zaydan, the father of the Arab historical novel. Thus begins Hanan's strange relationship with two men: the one who, from beyond the grave, becomes the voice of her imagination and conscience, the other who prepares her for a future in scholarship and is the object...

The Last Song is the final novel of The Blue Child Series. In this book Ruby, Agnes and Blue are pursued by the evil Lilin as the two sisters and the Star Child try to return to the House of the Mother. Grace, the third sister, is in another dimension helping the children stolen generations earlier by soldiers near the border of the United States and Mexico. Among the Lilin a potent force is at work - an old entity has been called. Timing is everything in a complex ceremony reaching across the dimensions of time and place.

Set in London, Italy and Central America, a tale of a failed writer's descent towards a destiny written centuries earlier. Soundtrack available on spotify spoti.fi/23u6JC7

The first book in The Kingdom of the Ancients saga. The Kingdom of the Ancients saga tells the story of Ancient Kings, Mystics, and Wizards that are from a mystical realm or dimension. The saga tells how these ancients influenced the past and the future, and how, like 'normal' people, they fell in love, got married, and even had families. Not knowing who you are and finding out that you might not even be from this realm is a lot to take in. Mishka and Yuri find themselves unraveling many startling secrets about themselves as they embark on a journey of self-discovery. Along the way they find...

When Jamie Reed moves into an apartment building, he can't foresee the impact he will have on the lives of his neighbors. As a veteran and amputee, his outlook sets an example and inspires others through his actions, and not his words. He later returns to the farm where he was raised, and continues to teach those around him to Turn the Page. Our time is limited. Life lessons must be learned, and taught, without regrets, as we strive to be the best we can be. Are you ready to Turn the Page? As a gesture of gratitude to those who have bravely served our country, a portion of each book sale will...

WAR VERSES: A JIHADIST FAIRYTALE is literary accessible fiction with historical, multicultural, and magical realism elements in the tradition of THE SATANIC VERSES. Framed within a year of jihadist terrorism, WAR VERSES: A JIHADIST FAIRYTALE tells how a family in Arkham, Massachusetts confronts the supernatural ambition behind holy war. The husband and father of this family is an Arabic professor with a jihadist past who travels to India to protect a medieval manuscript written by the blind Nestorian priest who declared Muhammad a prophet. The manuscript promises the secret to ending...

Sitting alone in his basement apartment, Space Larrabee wades through his dark night of the Soul hoping to reassemble the pieces of his broken world into a new life.

Two interwoven love stories as told by Space and Thyme usher us through seven spirited years of discovering love and searching for deeper meaning in the seventies. Space is led to a nameless path with no roadmap. Thyme sets off on another course.

This tapestry unfurls into a compelling, sophisticated story incorporating a wealth of cultural references in the arts, science fiction, mythology, music, poetry, and...

Sitting alone in his basement apartment, Space Larrabee wades through his dark night of the Soul hoping to reassemble the pieces of his broken world into a new life.

Two interwoven love stories as told by Space and Thyme usher us through seven spirited years of discovering love and searching for deeper meaning in the seventies. Space is led to a nameless path with no roadmap. Thyme sets off on another course.

This tapestry unfurls into a compelling, sophisticated story incorporating a wealth of cultural references in the arts, science fiction, mythology, music, poetry, and...

Lena, a shamanistic cat, and her conjure woman Eulalie live in a small town near the Apalachicola River in Florida's lightly populated Liberty County, where longleaf pines own the world. In Eulalie's time, women of color look after white children in the homes of white families and are respected, even loved, but distrusted and kept separated as a group. A palpable gloss, sweeter than the state's prized tupelo honey, holds their worlds firmly apart. When that gloss fails, the Klan restores its own brand of order.

When some white boys rape and murder a black girl named Mattie near the...

Causality - the book in the book. The intro reports on the author & Hayley have to laugh. She is the main character of the novel about cause -Effect - mind - will - back event and Sola...

The fourteen fantastical stories in Magic For Unlucky Girls take the familiar tropes of fairytales and twist them into new and surprising shapes. These unlucky girls, struggling against a society that all too often oppresses them, are forced to navigate strange worlds as they try to survive. From carnivorous husbands to a bath of lemons to whirling basements that drive people mad, these stories are about the demons that lurk in the corners and the women who refuse to submit to them, instead fighting back sometimes with their wit, sometimes with their beauty, and sometimes with shotguns...

Salem, Massachusetts was home to one of the most infamous periods in American History. False witches were burned at the stake while actual witches stood by and watched in revery. The flames scratched the skies with horrendous height as the heart of man darkened. At least that's how the story goes. Sparrow is a teen who loves everything vintage. Jason is her best friend who relies on their friendship as a steady constant in his life. They are both eager to graduate high school and leave their old lives behind for something greater. However, neither of them could have predicted that they would...

Perdue Voila ce que Lise est depuis son reveil au milieu de cet etrange brouillard. Alors que la jeune femme cherche desesperement a retrouver la memoire de ces vingt quatre dernieres heures, ses pas la menent jusqu'a un manoir plutot d'un genre atypique..."

Torreya, a small 1950s Florida Panhandle town, is losing its men. They disappear on nights with no moon and no witnesses. Foreclosure signs appear in their yards the following day while thugs associated with the Klan take everything of value from inside treasured homes that will soon be torn down. The police won't investigate, and the church keeps its distance from all social and political discord.

Conjure woman Eulalie Jenkins, her shamanistic cat Lena, and neighbor Willie Tate discover that the new "whites only" policy at the once friendly mercantile and the creation of a...

Hurt and betrayed by the man she loved, Oceana has left the vampires behind and returned to her old life. A year on, and still unable to forgive Tristan for his misdeeds, she is in no mood to help out when his family arrive on her doorstep begging for her help. But when the price for making a stand is the death of a man she holds dear, she is once again sucked unwillingly into the politics of vampire kind. With the French threatening to annexe Britain and her powers spiralling wildly out of control, Oceana knows she has to risk it all. There is no room for error in the sprawling political...