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Fiction with just a hint of magic while still grounded in the real world.
Perfect for the magical realism non-believer.
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The Rules of Magic
Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Book
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Find your magic. For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three... |
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The Water Dancer
Ta-Nehisi Coates - One World
Format: Book
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Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage. When his mother was sold away, Hiram was robbed of all memory of her - but was gifted with a mysterious power. Years later, when Hiram almost drowns in a river, that same power saves his life. This brush with death births an urgency in Hiram and a daring... |
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The Immortalists
Chloe Benjamin
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A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by Lorrie Moore as a "great new talent."If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?It's 1969 in New York City's Lower East |
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The World That We Knew: A Novel
Alice Hoffman - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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In Berlin in 1941 during humanity's darkest hour, three unforgettable young women must act with courage and love to survive, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Marriage of Opposites Alice Hoffman. In Berlin, at the time when the world... |
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Magic for Liars
Sarah Gailey - Tor Books
Format: Book
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Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it.
Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life - or at least, she's perfectly fine.
She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her estranged, gifted twin sister.
Ivy Gamble is a liar.
When... |
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Lost Lake
Sarah Addison Allen - St. Martin's Press
Format: Book
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The first time Eby Pim saw Lost Lake, it was on a picture postcard. Just an old photo and a few words on a small square of heavy stock, but when she saw it, she knew she was seeing her future. That was half a life ago. Now Lost Lake is about to slip into Eby's past. Her husband George... |
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Harry's Trees
Jon Cohen - Harlequin Audio and Blackstone Audio
Format: Audiobook
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Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane, lifelong lover of trees, works as an analyst in a treeless US Forest Service office. When his wife dies in a freak accident, devastated, he makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, intent on losing himself. But fate... |
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Conjure Women: A Novel
Afia Atakora - Random House
Format: Book
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A dazzling debut novel that sweeps across eras and generations to tell the story of a mother and daughter with a shared talent for healing--and the conjuring of curses.The intimate bonds and transgressions among people and across racial divides, during both slaverytime and freedomtime,... |
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In the Midst of Winter: A Novel
ISABEL ALLENDE - Atria Books
Format: Book
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In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident - which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster - a 60-year-old human rights scholar - hits the car of Evelyn... |
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Sisterland: A Novel
Curtis Sittenfeld - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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From an early age, Kate and her identical twin sister, Violet, knew that they were unlike everyone else. Kate and Vi were born with peculiar “senses”—innate psychic abilities concerning future events and other people’s secrets. Though Vi embraced her visions, Kate... |
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All the Crooked Saints
Maggie Stiefvater - Scholastic Audio
Format: Hardcover
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From best-selling author Maggie Stiefvater, a gripping tale of darkness, miracles, and family. Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full... |
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