Fiction Realism

Xavier T. Fletcher is an Odd Duck. At least, that’s what everyone in his sleepy little suburb seems to think. Luckily, birds happen to be the aspiring naturalist’s favorite things, so he doesn’t mind the label quite as much as you might expect. But when Xavier’s father loses his job, everything changes. His family is forced to move to his Nana Susan’s farm. There, he meets Clementine, a strange, messy girl who doesn’t see him as an Odd Duck at all. Too bad she has the unfortunate habit of using her slingshot to hunt the birds he loves.

لا يجد السارد مفرًا من الانشغال بتفسير لوحة «مقتل الكومنداتور»، ويصل في ذلك إلى الربط بين محتوى تلك اللوحة المنفذة وفق أسلوب ياباني موغل في القدم، وأحداث شهدتها ألمانيا والنمسا واليابان في ثلاثينيات القرن الماضي، على خلفية بروز نزعات نازية وفاشية في ذلك الفضاء الأورو آسيوي.

Ever since his mother was killed, 17-year-old Cayder Broduck has had one goal - to see illegal users of magic brought to justice. People who carelessly use extradimensional magic for their own self-interest, without a care to the damage it does to society or those around them, deserve to be punished as far as Cayder is concerned. Because magic always has a price. So when Cayder lands a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to apprentice under a premier public defender, he takes it.

تهجر «يوزو» زوجها رسام البورتريهات دون سابق إنذار، فيغادر شقته متخليًا عن كل شيء زاهدًا في التواصل البشري في رحلة تيهٍ تنتهي بإقامته في منزل «توموهيكو أمادا» الرسام الياباني الشهير؛ إذ تجمعه صداقة مع ابن أمادا. وفي ذلك المنزل، تتلاقى السبل الغرائبية بين البطل وأمادا الذي يعاني من ألزهايمر ويعيش في دار لرعاية المسنين.

“Se Dio non è qui, non è da nessuna parte; questo stesso istante è la perfezione.” Nonna Teresa si arrabbiò con Dio e con quanti continuavano a credere in Lui dopo la micidiale inondazione del fiume Dnepr. È così che comincia la meravigliosa, magica storia di una famiglia cilena di origine ebreo-russa, una storia di antenati lontanissimi e mitici, reali e immaginari, che risalgono la corrente dei secoli attraverso la lente deformante dell’ironia e della parodia, per diventare romanzo e favola.

After losing her job, boyfriend and flat just a few weeks before Christmas, Ellie Lancaster makes some resolutions: 1. Exact revenge on ex. 2. Be unboring. 3. Find a job. With 1 complete, Ellie manages to tick off 2 and 3 simultaneously by accepting a mysterious archiving job on a tiny Scottish Island that doesn't seem to exist on any map. In the new year, her equally new bosses - celebrity baker Clementine Jones and her straight-laced twin brother Cole - introduce Ellie to the archives: a vast network of underground caverns, filled with scrolls dating back centuries.

She is the adventurer of the family. Her brother, the gentle dreamer. Even as they bond over folktales and hold each other close, their world has never felt so dangerous. Revolutionaries and pelones are in conflict, soldiers have turned into scavengers, and an escaped tiger has slipped up the mountain, looking for easy prey. As the darkest of legends becomes real, a young girl will do anything to save her brother’s life.

Strangers Jo, Adelaide and Kye are the least likely people to find themselves across the threshold of a bookshop. But as their midnight book club shows them that a single book can change everything, all three realise that their own stories can be rewritten.

Twenty-nine-year-old Momoko has been tragically dumped. She thought she and her boyfriend were soulmates. He even took her to a love hotel, where she believed he was going to propose. Instead, he left her after four years. So Momoko does what many broken-hearted people do—she gets incredibly drunk. So drunk that she passes out in an empty cafe. When she awakens, she’s eager to tell her story to anyone who will listen, and pours her heart out to a curious manager and the sole other customer in the cafe, a monk who trains at a temple nearby.

A fable, weaving our connections to birds, meandering rivers and dragons, fermenting miso and consciousness, wetlands, our extended kin and ancestors, our mentors, and Wisdom. Inspired by actual events and a sense of place and belonging by a woman who addresses the reader on behalf of the earth.

The day Oona was kicked out of her mother’s coven at eighteen, she gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft she’d imagined was her birthright. Years later, she's carved out an ordinary life with her husband, though she is filled with a longing she can barely name. If she can only carry a pregnancy to term, become a mother, then—according to island lore—she will come into her magic.

There is bad luck in New Felicity. The people of the small coastal village have taken in Milagros, an eleven-year-old Venezuelan refugee, just as Trinidad's government has begun cracking down on undocumented migrants—and now an American journalist has come to town asking questions. New Felicity's superstitious fishermen fear the worst, certain they've brought bad luck on the village by killing a local witch who had herself murdered two villagers the year before.

Cutthroat NYC lawyer Mary Whelton just buried her problematic old mentor. But as she leaves the mourners and protesters behind, the press stays hot on her heels. Desperate to escape, she unwittingly barrels deep into a remote forest in upstate New York. Until a collision—with a buzzing, oozing throng of cicadas—stops her dead in her tracks. She awakens in a crude cabin, held captive by Girl, a simple, hulking woman who mistakes Mary for her derelict mother and obsesses over a mysterious Brood.

Klug, katastrophal und witzig – wie das Leben: Matt Haigs inspirierender Roman darüber, was es bedeutet, ein Mensch zu sein Andrew Martin, Mathematikprofessor aus Cambridge, kann sich nur wundern: Über sich selbst, denn er läuft nackt über eine Autobahn, empfindet beim Gedanken an Essen Übelkeit und mag weder seine liebevolle Frau Isobel noch ihren gemeinsamen Sohn Gulliver. Vor allem aber über den Rest der Menschheit mit ihrem Ehrgeiz, ihrem Egoismus und ihren zerstörerischen Leidenschaften. Andrew ist nicht er selbst, und er hat eine Mission.

اختار فتح الله فرّاج، الخروج من فقره المدقع، بأي ثمن، مكممًا صوت ضميره؛ فبعد عودته من معسكرات التنقيب عن الذهب، مات صديقه جبريل مسمومًا جراء ابتلاع خاتمين ذهبيين عثر عليهما داخل أحد القبور النوبية الأثرية، وقرر الاحتفاظ بهما، بدلًا من تسليمهما إلى المنقِّب الذي وظفهما، تزامن مع موت جبريل، ظهور ديك غريب في منزله يبيض بيضات ذهبية.

기괴한 요괴 레스토랑에서 벌어지는 시아의 신비한 모험. 우연히 발견한 고양이에게 이끌려 기괴한 레스토랑에 들어가게 된 주인공 시아. 레스토랑 주인인 해돈에게 자신의 심장이 먹힐 위기에 처한다.

정원사에게 선물 받은 약초를 구하고 말리며 어느새 시아와 쥬드는 둘도 없는 친구가 된다. 게다가 시아는 레스토랑에서의 첫 번째 미션을 수행하며 요괴들의 도움을 받게 되는데, 이들의 도움을 탐탁지 않게 생각하는 이가 있으니 바로 하츠였다. 루이의 공연장에서 만난 시아와 하츠. 하츠는 시아를 불러 친구들을 향한 경고를 하는데....

Elle is rudderless, jobless and she's soon to be homeless. When she spies an advert that looks like it could answer all her problems she's devastated to see one huge catch. Elle definitely does not love Christmas. On Mistletoe Square, an eccentric elderly woman and her unconventional housekeeper have an enormous Christmas tree and a box of delicate decorations collected over what must be centuries. With each decoration comes a story and with each story a breath-taking glimpse of a Christmas past.

Kate Jenkins doesn’t believe in fate. She believes in a clear vision, meticulous planning, and hard work in order to achieve her culinary dreams. On the cusp of opening her own Parisian restaurant, Bistro Exotique, she isn’t even concerned when her standoffish—and annoyingly sexy—neighbor dismisses her as a crazy American tourist or when she meets the wildly eccentric Garrance, the self-proclaimed Spice Master of Paris, who ominously warns her of the previous owner’s failures.

Lilian Estrada seemingly has it all: an ob-gyn star on the rise, a master at balancing work with whirlwind romances and part of a family of fiercely loyal and exceptional women, all bound together by an extraordinary secret. The Estrada women each possess a unique power, and Lily shines with the rare gift to manipulate memories. Yet not even her mystical abilities can shield her from a harrowing event at the hospital, one that sends her powers—and her confidence—spiraling out of control.