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Sphere Song by Tricia O'Malley
16 ratingsThe dramatic and heartwarming conclusion to the Isle of Destiny Series. Neala O’Riordan is no stranger to the sweet and spicy things in life although that’s more to do with running a highly acclaimed bakery in Kilkenny than because of having any semblance of a dating life...Categorized as:
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![Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Novak]()
Dark Mother Earth by Kristian Novak
14 ratingsAn amnesiac writer’s life of lies and false memories reaches a breaking point in this stunning English-language debut from an award-winning Croatian author.As a novelist, Matija makes things up for a living. Not yet thirty, he’s written two well-received books. It’s his third that is as big a failure as his private life... -
![The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom by Nikita Gill]()
The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom by Nikita Gill
14 ratingsBestselling poet, writer, and Instagram sensation Nikita Gill returns with a collection of poetry and prose exploring Hindu mythology and legend.Let her be a little less human, a little more divineGive her heart armor so it doesn't break as easily as mineMeet Paro. A girl with a strong will, a full heart, and much to learn... -
![The Cool Aunt by Ilona Andrews]()
The Cool Aunt by Ilona Andrews
14 ratingsOne minute you are doing your make up and making plans, and the next your oldest sister is giving birth to a baby who awakened as a Prime mage while in the womb. You think Exorcist is scary? Connor and Nevada’s baby says, “Hold my milk. You ain’t seen nothing yet.” Timeline: Takes place at the end of Emerald Blaze...Categorized as:
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![Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson]()
Trickster Drift by Eden Robinson
16 ratingsFollowing the Scotiabank Giller Prize-shortlisted Son of a Trickster comes Trickster Drift, the second book in Eden Robinson's captivating Trickster trilogy.In an effort to keep all forms of magic at bay, Jared, 17, has quit drugs and drinking. But his troubles are not over: now he's being stalked by David, his mom's ex--a preppy, khaki-wearing psycho with a proclivity for rib-breaking...Categorized as:
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![The Chosen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun]()
The Chosen Witch by Chandelle LaVaun
8 ratingsMy magic doesn’t define me.Within my secret, ancient race of witches, everyone prays to join the most powerful circle of all—The Coven. Well, everyone except for me. All I want is to discover the truth of the past that was stolen from me. So I lay low, defending the world from demons and training to strengthen my magic...Categorized as:
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![The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts]()
The Oversoul Seven Trilogy: The Education of Oversoul Seven, The Further Education of Oversoul Seven, Oversoul Seven and the Museum of Time by Jane Roberts, Robert F. Butts
10 ratingsJane Roberts has contributed to The Oversoul Seven Trilogy as an author.Roberts was considered one of the most important psychics of the twentieth century...Categorized as:
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![The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer]()
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
6 ratingsYears ago, a reclusive mega-bestselling children’s author quit writing under mysterious circumstances. Suddenly he resurfaces with a brand-new book and a one-of-a-kind competition, offering a prize that will change the winner’s life in this absorbing and whimsical novel.“Clever, dark, and hopeful . .Categorized as:
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![The Good Part by Sophie Cousens]()
The Good Part by Sophie Cousens
10 ratingsBy the New York Times bestselling author of Just Haven't Met You Yet, a downtrodden twenty-six-year-old wakes up to the life she's always wanted, but is it really a dream come true?At twenty-six, Lucy Young is tired. Tired of fetching coffees for senior TV producers, tired of going on disastrous dates, and definitely tired of living in a damp flat share with flatmates who never buy toilet roll...Categorized as:
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![Every Gift a Curse by Caroline O'Donoghue]()
Every Gift a Curse by Caroline O'Donoghue
12 ratingsA spellbinding supernatural teen drama and final book in the Gifts series from a New York Times bestselling author.With the return of the Housekeeper on the cards, Maeve must find out everything she can about the vengeful tarot spirit in order to finally defeat her...Categorized as:
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![A Very Declan Christmas by Maggie Stiefvater]()
A Very Declan Christmas by Maggie Stiefvater
14 ratings"I’ve done a holiday short for the last few years. Here’s another one from the Raven Cycle universe... -
![The Shiver by Jakub Małecki]()
The Shiver by Jakub Małecki
16 ratingsONLY ONE CHAPTER - 1938-1969 One of the most renowned books of 2015.Polish bestseller.The book compared to the works of Johnatan Carroll, Fiodor Dostojewski, Andy Weir and Jurij Andruchowycz.The novel has been recommended by the best Polish Wiesław Myśliwski, Jacek Dukaj, Szczepan Twardoch, Wit Szostak.Masterly prose wrapped in magical realism...Categorized as:
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![Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett]()
Unlikely Animals by Annie Hartnett
6 ratings"A lost young woman returns to small-town New Hampshire under the strangest of circumstances in this one-of-a-kind novel of life, death, and whatever comes after from the acclaimed author of Rabbit Cake. The Starlings live in Everton, an ordinary enough New Hampshire town... -
![Ella: An Amish Retelling of Cinderella by Sarah Price]()
Ella: An Amish Retelling of Cinderella by Sarah Price
6 ratingsIn Sarah Price’s heartwarming Amish version of this best-loved fairytale, a hardworking, overlooked young woman is rewarded in unexpected ways . . . “Be kind and have faith.” Ella Troyer strives to abide by her mother’s final words, although life in the small Amish town of Echo Creek isn’t always easy...Categorized as:
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![Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky]()
Poor Deer by Claire Oshetsky
6 ratingsA wondrous, tender novel about a young girl grappling with her role in a tragic loss—and attempting to reshape the narrative of her life—from PEN/Faulkner Award nominee Claire OshetskyMargaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died.No one blames Margaret...Categorized as:
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![Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan]()
Fruiting Bodies: Stories by Kathryn Harlan
12 ratingsIn stories that beckon and haunt, Fruiting Bodies ranges confidently from the fantastical to the gothic to the uncanny as it follows characters—mostly queer, mostly women—on the precipice of change. Echoes of timeless myth and folklore reverberate through urgent narratives of discovery, appetite, and coming-of-age in a time of crisis...Categorized as:
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![Flames by Robbie Arnott]()
Flames by Robbie Arnott
14 ratingsA young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his twenty-three-year-old sister, Charlotte—who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire...Categorized as:
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![In a Thousand Different Ways by Cecelia Ahern]()
In a Thousand Different Ways by Cecelia Ahern
14 ratingsFinding your way is never a simple journey…Alice sees the best in people.She also sees the worst.She sees a thousand different emotions and knows exactly what everyone around her is feeling.Every. Single. Day.But it’s the dark thoughts.The sadness. The rage.These are the things she can’t get out of her head. The things that overwhelm her...Categorized as:
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![The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernières]()
The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman by Louis de Bernières
16 ratingsThe epic finale of the Latin American trilogy following The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts and Senor Vivo and the Coca LordWhile the economy of his small South American country collapses, President Veracruz joins his improbable populace of ex-soldiers, former guerrillas, unfrocked priests and reformed - though by no means inactive - whores, in a bizarre search for sexual fulfilment...Categorized as:
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![The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris]()
The Strawberry Thief by Joanne Harris
18 ratingsThe compelling new novel from the author of the bestselling Chocolat.Vianne Rocher has settled down. Lansquenet-sous-Tannes, the place that once rejected her, has finally become her home. With Rosette, her 'special' child, she runs her chocolate shop in the square, talks to her friends on the river, is part of the community. Even Reynaud, the priest, has become a friend... -
![Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages, Neil Gaiman]()
Portable Childhoods by Ellen Klages, Neil Gaiman
6 ratingsEmerging from a unique and powerful voice, this innovative collection offers a tantalizing glimpse of what lies hidden just beyond the ordinary, skirting the border between childhood and adulthood...Categorized as:
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![Versions of Her by Andrea Lochen]()
Versions of Her by Andrea Lochen
6 ratingsOn the surface, Melanie Kingstad-Keyes’s life is the picture of success. She’s a tenure track professor at a prestigious university and has a perfect husband. But a recent miscarriage has left her reeling and her marriage tenuous. Selling her family’s Lake Indigo summer home, which she hasn’t visited in fifteen years, feels like the perfect distraction from her problems... -
![Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino]()
Safe as Houses by Marie-Helene Bertino
8 ratingsSafe as Houses, the debut story collection of Marie-Helene Bertino, proves that not all homes are shelters. The titular story revolves around an aging English professor who, mourning the loss of his wife, robs other people's homes of their sentimental knick-knacks. In "Free Ham," a young dropout wins a ham after her house burns down and refuses to accept it...Categorized as:
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![A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman]()
A Red Heart of Memories by Nina Kiriki Hoffman
10 ratingsMatilda "Matt" Black possesses the unique ability to speak with inanimate objects and witness the dreams of other people. Alone, yet never lonely, she s now found a kindred spirit in Edmund Reynolds a wandering witch of a spiritual quest to help those in need. Together, these two special people who live outside normal reality will embark on an odyssey of the imagination... -
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![Mystic Tea by Rea Nolan Martin]()
Mystic Tea by Rea Nolan Martin
10 ratingsA community of quirky, mismatched, and endearing women struggle to find meaning and purpose on a ramshackle monastery in upstate New York. Having spent their lives in service to a church that seems to no longer serve them, they are confused about their own futures and the future of the entire monastery...Categorized as:
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![The Bone Fire by György Dragomán]()
The Bone Fire by György Dragomán
12 ratingsFrom an award-winning European writer, a Gothic page-turner with all the menace and promise of a fairy tale In the aftermath of a revolution that has plunged her country into chaos, thirteen-year-old Emma’s small corner of the world is shattered after her dissident parents' death in a car crash... -
![Timeskipper by Stefano Benni]()
Timeskipper by Stefano Benni
14 ratingsFrom the author of Margherita Dolce Vita One late-winter morning as he is "hop-hiking" downhill toward his character-building destination, a vomit-yellow cube surrounded by a garden of barbarously unkempt weeds known as the Bisacconi elementary school, Stefano Benni's young hero encounters a peculiar man--as big as a mountain and as filthy as a garbage dump, with a vast beard the color of a...Categorized as:
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![Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan]()
Man Tiger by Eka Kurniawan
18 ratingsA wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce around and torment this magical being... -
![Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block]()
Baby Be-Bop by Francesca Lia Block
14 ratingsEveryone has a story to tell ... Dirk McDonald's life was almost perfect. He lived with this grandmother, Fifi, in a beautiful gingerbread cottage in Hollywood. He had the beach, and his surfboard, and Fifi's red-and-white 1955 Pontiac convertible. But Dirk wasn't happy. Inside, he was harboring a deep, dark secret...Categorized as:
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![Lead Me On by Julie Ortolon]()
Lead Me On by Julie Ortolon
14 ratingsWhen a woman who is willing meets a man who's resisting, let the seduction begin.Allison St. Claire has the face of an angel. That's part of the problem. She also sells quaint tea sets in the Pearl Island Inn gift shop. It doesn't exactly scream sexy. Years of having men treat her like a little sister is enough to drive a healthy woman crazy... -
![Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill]()
Daydreams of Angels by Heather O'Neill
12 ratingsInventive, outlandish, and tender fairy tales from a bestselling authorThe fantastic has always been at the edges of Heather O'Neill's work. In her bestselling novels Lullabies for Little Criminals and The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, she transformed the shabbiest streets of Montreal with her beautiful, freewheeling metaphors... -
![My Life From Hell by Tellulah Darling]()
My Life From Hell by Tellulah Darling
10 ratingsSave herself.Save the world. Humanity may be screwed.To say that Sophie Bloom is at the top of her game with one only week until Spring Equinox and the final showdown with Zeus and Hades would be, well, lying. The Goddess of Spring feels more like the Goddess of Bzzz, Thanks For Playing than the savior of humanity. And could her relationships be any more messed up?Good times... -
![The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons]()
The Wrong Heaven by Amy Bonnaffons
10 ratings"In her amazing, wildly inventive collection, Amy Bonnaffons writes about transformation, each story further complicating the world as we know it. With a style that blends humor and sincerity in such strange, perfect ratios, Bonnaffons reveals the mysteries inside of us, just waiting to make themselves known. The Wrong Heaven, so wondrous, will alter you in all the necessary ways...Categorized as:
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![Circle Magic by Madeline Freeman]()
Circle Magic by Madeline Freeman
10 ratingsIt’s only a matter of time before everything Krissa Barnette knows and loves is destroyed. Seth Whitacre, a centuries-old psychic witch, is determined to exact his revenge on everyone who stands between him and his ultimate goal: taking over the town of Clearwater and turning it into a stronghold for people with abilities. People like him...Categorized as:
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![Before You Go by Tommy Butler]()
Before You Go by Tommy Butler
10 ratingsIn this “dazzling debut” (Publishers Weekly), the moving story of one man’s quest for happiness is interwoven with speculative tales of the Before and After, resulting in a profound yet playful literary journey into the ache and wonder of being human.In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake—if it was a mistake—until too late...Categorized as:
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![The Garden of Magic by Sarah Painter]()
The Garden of Magic by Sarah Painter
10 ratingsA magical Pendleford prequel novella from the bestselling author of The Language of Spells, that introduces the world to Iris Harper – the original Harper witch.Iris Harper has lived in Pendleford for decades, the local witch is mistrusted by the townsfolk, but that doesn't stop some coming to her begging for potions, spells and quick-fixes...Categorized as:
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![Silver Collar by Gill McKnight]()
Silver Collar by Gill McKnight
10 ratingsTwenty years ago, Emily Johnston’s father drowned in the Silverthread River, and no one in the town of Lost Creek believes it was an accident. For years, Emily has been spying on the reclusive family that lives in Little Dip Valley. She has some ideas of her own as to what they really are. Now her chance has come... -
![Flying Leap by Judy Budnitz]()
Flying Leap by Judy Budnitz
8 ratingsThis surreal collection features such storylines as: a young man is persuaded to donate his heart to his dying mother; a girl comes of age in strange suburbia; and a man and a woman conduct a passionate love affair on a park bench...Categorized as:
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![Tales of Falling and Flying by Ben Loory]()
Tales of Falling and Flying by Ben Loory
8 ratings“Mesmerizing and magical. . . . A stunning book.” —NPR.org“Short stories so imaginative — and yet so perplexingly familiar — they could have formed in a dream. . . . Taut, meticulously balanced and written in Loory’s direct, witty prose, his own stories take a page from Aesop: high-flying tales nonetheless boiled down to the essentials...Categorized as:
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![The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford]()
The Empire of Ice Cream by Jeffrey Ford
8 ratingsMixing the mundane with the metaphysical, the pairings of the everyday and the extraordinary in this collection of short fiction yield supernatural results—a young musician perceives another world while drinking coffee, a fairy chronicles his busy life in a sandcastle during the changing tide, a demonic 16th-century chess set shows up in a New Jersey bar, and Charon, the boatman of hell, takes a...Categorized as:
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![The Challenge Box by Isobel Bird]()
The Challenge Box by Isobel Bird
8 ratingsReach inside and choose your challenge, Find the path that you must travel.What trials have you to overcome?What mysteries shall you unravel?Of her circle, Kate has always struggled the most in learning the ways of the Craft. As her Wiccan initiation approaches, a final challenge threatens to overcome her at last...Categorized as:
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![When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds]()
When Mystical Creatures Attack! by Kathleen Founds
8 ratingsIn When Mystical Creatures Attack!, Ms. Freedman’s high school English class writes essays in which mystical creatures resolve the greatest sociopolitical problems of our time. Students include Janice Gibbs, “a feral child with excessive eyeliner and an anti-authoritarian complex that would be interesting were it not so ill-informed,” and Cody Splunk, an aspiring writer working on a time machine... -
![Rubik by Elizabeth Tan]()
Rubik by Elizabeth Tan
6 ratingsThe dead aren’t really gone, they persist as phone numbers, social media accounts, newsletter recipients, and as members of fan-fiction forums. Digital ghosts move and connect us: we feel we know people we have only seen online just as corporations masquerade as familiar friends...Categorized as:
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![Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn, Deborah Burgess]()
Sodom Road Exit by Amber Dawn, Deborah Burgess
6 ratingsIt's the summer of 1990, and Crystal Beach has lost its beloved, long-running amusement park, leaving the lakeside village a virtual ghost town. It is back to this fallen community Starla Mia Martin must return to live with her overbearing mother after dropping out of university and racking up significant debt...Categorized as:
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![Stealing Magic by Tanya Huff]()
Stealing Magic by Tanya Huff
6 ratingsTwo complete collections of Tanya Huff_s comical short stories featuring Magdelene (the world's most powerful and laziest wizard) and Terazin (a top-notch thief)... -
![Tex and Molly in the Afterlife by Richard Grant]()
Tex and Molly in the Afterlife by Richard Grant
6 ratingsMolly's and Tex's abrupt and accidental deaths have granted them a unique opportunity to brazenly reinvent their personal realities--not to mention a chance to commune with various forsaked ancient deities and down-and--out woodland spirits. But a pair of gentle souls once firmly rooted in the Earth cannot so easily vacate this corporeal plane...Categorized as:
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![Initiation by Isobel Bird]()
Initiation by Isobel Bird
6 ratingsTonight you take the last step on Your journey of a year and a day. Welcome home, o new-made witch, And in our circle rest and stay.The joyful culmination of a year and a day's dedication--Kate, Annie, and Cooper's Wiccan initiation--brings celebration, an exhilarating ritual, and unexpected choices for the new witches...Categorized as:
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![Under the Healing Sign by Nick O'Donohoe, Segrelles]()
Under the Healing Sign by Nick O'Donohoe, Segrelles
6 ratingsBJ Vaughan has ventured beyond the frontiers of science to become a veterinarian in Crossroads--where she treats species she thought only existed in fantasy. Unfortunately, others have learned the way to Crossroads, those who threaten to tear this magical place apart... -
![Age of Witches by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko]()
Age of Witches by Marina Dyachenko, Sergey Dyachenko
6 ratingsIs it easy to be a witch? Who can, and more importantly, who would want to understand her: this evil otherworldly creature, the symbol of promiscuity and whimsy? The symbol of the Woman? Is it easy to be the Great Inquisitor? Who can, and more importantly, who would want to understand him, a heartless executioner, carrying out the will of the Inquisition? What would happen if the souls of these...Categorized as:
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![Hunt by L.C. Mawson]()
Hunt by L.C. Mawson
6 ratingsWhen the Earth is reduced to a smoking crater, the only thing left to do is turn back the clock.Lily Snow, granddaughter of Death and one of the most powerful magical beings on Earth, knows that her daughter most likely won’t survive in this timeline, so she gives her life to create another...
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