Magical Realism Fantasy

Longlisted for the National Book Award Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Shortlisted for the 2025 Housatonic Book Award for Nonfiction Shortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in Memoir A brilliant, singular collection of essays that looks to music...

Kenna is a human in a magic-biased world, but a night at the club changes everything. There she meets four sexy strangers who unbind the magic she never knew she had. Now, she needs their help to train her wild and unpredictable magic and to find the truth of who she really is before someone she loves gets hurt. She is tormented by events in her past, and the secret she has guarded for so long threatens to destroy everything.

Son of the Keeper: The Complete Box Set is a thrilling young adult fantasy adventure filled with magic, destiny, and epic battles across worlds. For centuries, the magical people of Xandia have hidden among humans—guardians of an ancient portal and a fragile peace. But when a dark Horde rises and discovers their sanctuary on Earth, the last hope rests in a boy who never knew he was royalty. Alex thought he was just another orphan—until the day he unlocks a power buried deep within. Thrust into a world of enchanted realms, powerful magic schools, and rival kingdoms, Alex must train, ...

Having a superpower is ordinary. Your power determines your entire life. But 17-year-old Ugene is powerless. He can’t read minds or enhance his strength. He can’t manipulate natural matter or heal injuries. Determined to find out why he is different, Ugene submits himself as a test subject at Paragon. But nothing is as it seems. All exits from the testing floor are sealed. Subjects endure brutal and sometimes deadly injuries. No amount of power can save them.

The youngest warlock to ever wield lightning, 14-year-old Anna Atticus Stone dreams of attending the prestigious Academy of Arcane Arts. Except her life is a mess. She's friendless, her older sister keeps knocking her teeth out, and her parents constantly argue.

Amber Sand's matchmaking business is threatened by a YouTube star with a flair for showbiz, but when she meets Jane, the fairy behind the new fad, Amber finds a kindred spirit. Jane never got her wings and, like Amber, feels like an outsider in her family. Meanwhile, the gang is enjoying the summer after senior year and gearing up for college. They team up with Jane to track down the rare and difficult-to-obtain fairy dust and try to restore Ivy's siren powers. Perhaps most risky of all, Jane offers to tell Amber who her match truly is.

"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." –Booklist In the vein of The Time...

Once upon a time, there was a forgotten era of magic and monster. But the remnants—and all memory—of the old world have been replaced by the sane, the scientific, and the rational. But sometimes the magical past isn’t content to stay past. That’s where Jack Damian comes in. It’s his joy to protect our present from the supernatural remnants of an earlier time, a different history. It’s his job to make the past safe. Jack is called to the Tate Museum, where dozens of people have disappeared beneath the surface of a painting.

When you’re Queen of the Underworld, love triangles are deadly and secrets have teeth... My life as Queen of the Underworld is complicated enough—ruling over witches, warlocks, vampires and other supernatural creatures requires a steady hand and nerves of steel. But now I’m facing my greatest challenge yet. The Lurkers, mysterious half-vampire creatures, are growing stronger by the day. They’ve abducted twenty vampires from my kingdom, and worse, they’ve infiltrated my dreams, claiming I’m one of them. Me? A Lurker? Impossible... right? As if that weren’t enough, I’m still ...

Welcome to Newford: to the music clubs, the waterfront, and the alleyways where ancient myths and magic spill into the modern world. Gemmins live in abandoned cars and skells traverse the tunnels below, while mermaids swim in the gray harbor waters and fill the cold night with their song. Come meet Jilly, painting wonders in the rough city streets; and Geordie, playing fiddle while he dreams of a ghost; and the Angel of Grasso Street gathering the fey and the wild and the poor and the lost.

In the wake of the tragedy, 17-year-old Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirrored her own. The group calls themselves The Ordinary, and they spend their free time investigating local ghost stories and legends, filming their exploits. It's silly, it's fun, and it keeps them from dwelling on the sadness that surrounds them. Until one evening, when the strange and dangerous thing they film isn't fiction - it's a bright light, something massive hurtling toward them from the sky. And when it crashes and the teens go to investigate...everything changes.

Vuelve esta divertidísima comedia romántica grumpy x sunshine ambientada en un mundo de fantasía de la autora superventas número 1 del New York Times y sensación en TikTok. SE OFRECE RECOMPENSA: Se busca a la aprendiz de El Villano por (leve) traición, (presunto) daño a la propiedad mágica y un incidente perpetrado con un bollito (arrojado con mucha puntería). Vista con frecuencia acompañada de una rana (criticona y cascarrabias) que lleva una corona. Responde al nombre de «Evie» o «Deja eso». Evie Sage no tenía intención de convertirse en la mano derecha de El Villano más temido del reino.

In a sprawling mansion filled with peculiar treasures, January Scaller is a curiosity herself. As the ward of the wealthy Mr. Locke, she feels little different from the artifacts that decorate the halls: carefully maintained, largely ignored, and utterly out of place. Then she finds a strange book. A book that carries the scent of other worlds and tells a tale of secret doors, of love, adventure, and danger. Each page turn reveals impossible truths about the world, and January discovers a story increasingly entwined with her own.

The Dragon King's Claw A Gay Fantasy Romance in the World of Serai In a world ruled by dragons and bound by fate, love is the most dangerous magic of all. Claw Detective Tekhan Shinkai doesn’t believe in fairytales—especially the one where dragons are destined to find their perfect mates. But when a brutal murder draws the attention of the enigmatic and devastatingly handsome Dragon King, Tekhan is thrust into a royal investigation…and into the King’s sights. Tor'rien is everything Tekhan resists—powerful, beautiful, and completely convinced they’re fated. But Tekhan refuses to ...

An Echo was never meant to fall in love... At the edge of a dreaming world, she is called to a voice only she can hear—a voice that doesn't belong to this life. All her life, Emma has been told to stay quiet, to keep her thoughts tucked behind a well-mannered smile. But something ancient is awakening in her blood, and with it comes a resonance that defies the life she thought she knew. When a moonlit encounter shatters the boundary between myth and memory, Emma finds herself caught between two men: one who grounds her to the world she’s always known, and one who calls to the deepest ...

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Three-time Hugo Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author N.K. Jemisin crafts her most incredible novel yet, a "glorious" story of culture, identity, magic, and myths in contemporary New York City. In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember...

Death walks beside me. Two weeks ago, I was hired by the Dragon Prince of Zaru to help his brother, the King, deal with their dead. Not that there is an abundance of corpses in their kingdom, but those who die aren't staying in their graves. As a necromancer, I'm one of the few people on Serai who can put the dead to rest and discover why they are rising. As a Raltven, I'm particularly good at it. Good enough that the King of Zaru sent his brother across the sea to find someone like me. At first sight, desire sparked between Prince Racmar and me. On the way to Zaru, our attraction for each ...

'If you want a series with a strong, kick-ass female lead, then this is it!' Hounded by the police, trying to learn a new job in a new town, and constantly picking up after her slob of a flatmate, Anastasia has all she needs on her plate … … add being hunted by demons to the mix won’t help then. When former soldier, Anastasia Aaronson, stumbles across two hellish creatures, her body reacts by channeling magic to defend itself and unleashes a power the Earth has forgotten. The sudden and unwanted discovery soon attracts a lot of heat: the demons all seem to want her, but the ancient ...

The year is 1984 and the city is Tokyo.

A young woman named Aomame follows a taxi driver's enigmatic suggestion and begins to notice puzzling discrepancies in the world around her. She has entered, she realizes, a parallel existence, which she calls 1Q84 - "Q" is for "question mark". A world that bears a question....