Memory Magic

Be careful what you touch. My name is Darla, and people think I’m weird. I know this because I’m a telepath. After my second husband bails without a word, I’m moving back to my hometown, San Marcos, Florida, one of the nation’s oldest cities. I’m here to open a nearly 300-year-old inn and hopefully begin a new life. It turns out the inn comes with ghosts and other supernatural features. And the paranormal in my genes is going haywire. By touching an object, I can read the thoughts and emotions of other people who have touched it. Sweet emotions as well as memories of murder.

Why would I want to learn all the notes of my fretboard? Over my 25+ year career as a musician and guitar teacher, I have come across many guitarists who cannot name all the frets on the fretboard. Learning the guitar or music theory for that matter, with no knowledge of the basic fundamental organization of the fretboard is a bit like trying to learn to swim without getting into the water.

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...

In a kingdom where memory is power and forgetting is treason, one woman’s forbidden magic could rewrite history… and her own heart. Sera Blackwood woke up at twelve years old with no past and no name—just ink. Living black tattoos coil over her skin, shifting when she dreams and burning when she lies. Now, ten years later, those same marks are her only clue to who she used to be—and why someone erased her memories in the first place. To find the truth, Sera forges her way into the elite Remembrance Academy, where gifted mages harvest memories from the dying to preserve the ...

This book is a spellbound invitation to journey into the depths of One Hundred Years of Solitude, where reality and magic blur, revealing the enigmatic world of Macondo and its unforgettable inhabitants, the Buendía family. Step into a realm where prophecies unfold with haunting precision, where time loops in endless cycles, and the very air is thick with mystery and memory. This immersive analysis unearths the heartbeats of a place suspended between dreams and decay, offering fresh perspectives on García Márquez’s masterpiece. Whether you are a lifelong reader or new to this tale, ...

From acclaimed Japanese author Sanaka Hiigari comes a heartwarming, life-affirming novel about a magical photo studio, where people go after they die to view key moments from their life—and relive one precious memory before they pass into the afterlife. The hands and pendulum of the old...

The third novel in the international bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold series, following four new customers in a cafe where customers can travel back in time. On the hillside of Mount Hakodate in northern Japan, Cafe Donna Donna is fabled for its dazzling views of Hakodate port. But...

Ray Bradbury’s moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author’s most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928...

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK “The Phoenix Pencil Company is a masterful blending of history, fantasy, and romance that sank into my heart . . . This book had me smiling through my tears.” — Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga In this dazzling debut novel, a hidden and nearly forgotten...

As we age, our memories become unreliable; we misplace things and forget details. In Ultimate Memory Magic, memory expert Jim Karol shows that these side effects of aging are not inevitable. His memory-boosting system, called Cogmental Intelligence, goes beyond preserving mental acuity and actually enhances memory and mental function through lifestyle changes and mental exercises. Concentration, alertness, and focus can all be strengthened - by anyone, at any age.

On the eve of his 90th birthday, a bachelor decides to give himself a wild night of love with a virgin. As is his habit - he has purchased hundreds of women - he asks a madam for her assistance. The 14-year-old girl who is procured for him is enchanting, but exhausted as she is from caring for siblings and her job sewing buttons, she can do little but sleep. Yet with this sleeping beauty at his side, it is he who awakens to a romance he has never known. Tender, knowing, and slyly comic, Memories of My Melancholy Whores is an exquisite addition to a master's work.

The fantasy adventure sequel to the instant New York Times and #1 Indie Bestseller, The Marvellers by Dhonielle Clayton! Return for Year Two at the global magic school in the sky in The Memory Thieves. "The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this...

"Listeners will be captivated as each narrator provides glimpses of Jamie's present and Serena's past, interspersed with snippets from the book of magic that Jamie is studying." — AudioFile In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a multicast...

Seven Salazar and Thorn Laroux are finally reunited with their best friend, Valley Pepperhorn, after curing the hex that almost took her from them. But evil still dwells in Ravenskill, and it's staking its claim over all of the Twelve Towns. The Witchlings are determined to stop Ambert Lophiifor's plans of taking the Twelve Towns back to a time where warlocks ruled. With Seven's Uncle powers and their new coven behind them, surely they'll be able to defeat him at last. But strange things are happening around Ravenskill.

Sebastian was a gargoyle warrior bound by duty to rescue his kin. Aurora was a red-haired enigma found unconscious by a river's edge, her past a blank slate. From the moment their eyes met, a primal connection ignited, a forbidden flame that defied his stoic nature. Amnesia stole Aurora's memories, but not the searing heat that pulsed between them, nor the strange, untamed fire that flickered at her fingertips. As their perilous journey deepened, so did their passion, a dangerous dance between duty and desire. Aurora's forgotten past hides a dangerous truth: she's an immortal, a vessel of ...

Rob has progressed something not seen in generations. Now he must be more. Rob has progressed to a dragon blood, having connected to all of the different essences. Now he struggles to understand what that means. When a strange attack threatens his border, he thinks it the same threat he’s faced before. What he finds is a new danger—and one that even a dragon blood may not be able to repel. How can he progress when he doesn’t know what comes next? Dragon Memory is book 8 in an exciting progression fantasy series!

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF CATWEAZLE! Created by Richard Carpenter, Catweazle burst onto TV screens in 1970, capturing the hearts of children and adults alike. It starred Geoffrey Bayldon as the eponymous Saxon wizard, who was twice catapulted through time to a 1970s England full of technology that left him bewildered. His companions and mentors in “the new magic” were children, Carrot (Robin Davies) and Cedric (Gary Warren), both of whom he befriended. Tis Magic! Our Memories of Catweazle celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the series with forty brilliant essays in which writers explore ...

El audiolibro de la última novela que escribió García Márquez narrado por Alfonso Ortiz, el actor colombiano que ha dedicado su vida al teatro, al cine y a la televisión. Un viejo periodista decide festejar sus noventa años a lo grande, dándose un regalo que le hará sentir que todavía está vivo: una jovencita virgen, y con ella «el principio de una nueva vida a una edad en que la mayoría de los mortales están muertos».

A cozy tale of the power of memory and the nourishing magic of gardens from the USA TODAY bestselling author of the “sparkling, witty” (Katie Crouch, New York Times bestselling author) How to Eat a Cupcake. Lucy Barnes is a gardener with an uncanny ability to know exactly which scent among...

The latest saga in the New York Times bestselling world of Osten Ard concludes in the fourth and final Last King of Osten Ard novel. The Hayholt is in flames. Once the home of the immortal Sithi, now capital of the kingdom of men, the fabled castle has been set ablaze by vengeful Norns. And as...