Titoli in Realismo magico

Grace, as her friends call her, has a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg and grease worked deep into her hands. She works at Sanchez Motorworks customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. Now Grace has to find the line in her own life. Grace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful, except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business: He's haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never stopped feeling responsible.

A blue girl lives in the woods, eating secrets baked into moon pies and shaking up a small lakeside town. In this small lakeside town, mothers bake their secrets into moon pies they feed to a silent blue girl. Their daughters have secrets too - that they can’t sleep, that they might sleep with a neighbor boy, that they know more than they let on. But when the daughters find the blue girl, everyone’s carefully held silences shake loose.

After failing to save the enslaved magical creatures, Lesti and Astria redouble their training efforts. Now, joined by Aurelia and Fang, they continue to unlock new ways of using magic. However, a critical challenge lies just around the corner: the spring tournament. Lesti will have to win if she is to have any chance of taking the lordship of her homeland. At the same time, Astria spots a girl with unique powers at the academy. But she runs away screaming before she can even learn her name.

After solving one impossible mystery, Deirdre Green remains stumped by the remaining clues left by her late father. Every time she makes progress with The Monarch Papers, she realizes his cryptic riddles have only created more questions. As Deirdre begins to walk stranger, more dangerous paths, she finds that dark forces hell-bent on her destruction wait in the shadows....

In this short story by bestselling author Myla Goldberg (originally published in Harper's magazine), an unemployed artist lands a freelance job that gives him a strange brand of influence over the population of a distant island nation and places him in an equally strange relationship with the...

In this enthralling historical epic, set in New York City and the Middle East in the years leading to World War I— the long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed New York Times bestseller The Golem and the Jinni—Helene Wecker revisits her beloved characters Chava and Ahmad as they confront...

Brought to you by Penguin. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce...

Olivia Mercer's meticulously planned culinary career lies in ruins after her prestigious Boston restaurant collapses in scandal. With her reputation tarnished and job prospects nonexistent, she reluctantly returns to her hometown of Leafwood Falls to temporarily manage the town's café. The...

A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince and sings to him until he falls sick with love for her. A determined hero tracks his beloved through several incarnations, struggling to win her back. A young warrior seeks a woman who turns into a swan. These are the plots of...

Vinte anos depois de desaparecer sem deixar rastro, João Grilo volta a Taperoá e reencontra Chicó, que passou todo esse tempo propagando a história de que Nossa Senhora operou um milagre e trouxe o amigo do mundo dos mortos. Agora, visto como uma espécie de santo, João chama a atenção de políticos poderosos, que querem usá-lo como cabo eleitoral.

In a small Georgia town, Nelle’s life has been carefully scripted by her creator and captor, the reclusive author Wallace Quill. Born from ink and imagination, every breath she takes is dictated by his pen. But on a star-studded Fourth of July night, she meets James—a young man with dreams as vivid as the fireworks above them—and suddenly, the unwritten becomes possible.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own. "The Witch is classic NDiaye. Taut, spellbinding and strange...

Disgraced. Beheaded. And out for revenge . . . We all know what happened to Henry VIII’s second wife, Anne Boleyn. But what if she woke up the day after her execution and took it upon herself to seek justice? “Fabulous! A marvelously inventive and mythic reworking of the story of Anne Boleyn...

“This wonderful tale is for all lovers of golf, especially the weekend hackers with embarrassing handicaps (like me). Now we have hope. If we can just find the magic clubs.”—John Grisham A recently laid-off golf reporter. A down-on-his-luck caddie. And a magical set of clubs once owned by...

Published in 1980 by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, Pnball, 1973 is the second book in the "Trilogy of the Rat" series. It is preceded by Hear the Wind Sing (1979) and followed by A Wild Sheep Chase (1982), and is the second novel written by Murakami...

Es 1873 en Santander, al norte de España. Magdalena y Juan son un matrimonio sin muchos recursos, cuyo deseo de tener hijos no se cumple. Un aborto fractura sus esperanzas y transforma a Magdalena en una figura sombría e incómoda. Al empeorar la situación, Juan decide tomarle la palabra a su tío y viajan a los Altos de Jalisco, en México, para cambiar su futuro. Este es el punto de partida de una narrativa que explora la migración, la revuelta revolucionaria, la subalternidad femenina y la resistencia de los oprimidos.

Als Isabelle d'Hiver aus Paris flieht, lässt sie alles zurück; die Erinnerungen an den Mann, der ihr Herz gebrochen hat, ebenso wie die Verpflichtungen als Erbin ihres Hauses. Doch nur drei Jahre später zwingt eine bedrohliche Dunkelheit sie zurück in das Haus ihrer Ahnen: die uralte Magie, die auch in ihren Adern fließt, scheint zu erlöschen. Um das zu verhindern, muss Isabelle sich lange gehüteten Familiengeheimnissen stellen. Dabei erhält sie ausgerechnet von dem dunkelsten aller Magiebegabten Hilfe – Balthasar d'Ivoire.

Brought to you by Penguin. A JAPANESE MODERN CLASSIC Discover the highly original and moving literary gem for fans of Banana Yoshimoto and Kawaguchi's BEFORE THE COFFEE GETS COLD What if you could come back after death to watch over your loved one, installing yourself in a treasured mug, for...

Audiobook narrated by Kimberly Farr. In this funny and unforgettable modern day fairy tale, seven sisters raised in the woods fight to keep their freedom. Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of...

Als die junge Himari ihre beste Freundin bei einem Autounfall verliert, bleibt ihre Welt stehen. Ihr einziger Wunsch ist es, den Unfall ungeschehen zu machen. Kann Frau Hayari ihr helfen? Und was ist mit der Frau, die sich bei einem unnötigen Streit mit ihrer Schwester entzweit hat? Wer Frau Hayaris zauberhaftes kleines Café am Rand des Parks von Sapporo betritt, erhält eine besondere Chance. Denn für die 4 Minuten und 33 Sekunden, die die Barista für die Zubereitung der perfekten Tasse Kaffee benötigt, können ihre Gäste in die Vergangenheit reisen.