Zeigt Titel in Magischer Realismus

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...

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart—he breaking under the...

On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life and inherit a fortune but would meet a cruel, untimely death. Years later, strange dreams plague Katya Nemcová, a teenager burdened with a rare and curious gift. Memories come to Katya in her dreams - images and stories from a past that isn't her own. Are these ghosts real? And what of the memory she seems to have of Heloise's treasures, two centuries old? 

A 20-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realise is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan.

Obra literária obrigatória para os vestibulares UEL 2025 e UFSC 2025. Um texto épico e lírico, realista e mágico que revela, para além de sua trama, um poderoso elemento de insubordinação social. Nas profundezas do sertão baiano, as irmãs Bibiana e Belonísia encontram uma velha e misteriosa faca na mala guardada sob a cama da avó. Ocorre então um acidente. E para sempre suas vidas estarão ligadas — a ponto de uma precisar ser a voz da outra. Numa trama conduzida com maestria e com uma prosa melodiosa, o romance conta uma história de vida e morte, de combate e redenção.

The extraordinary novel tracing a centuries-old curse back to its beginning from the author of PRACTICAL MAGIC and THE DOVEKEEPERS We first met the Owens in the glorious novel Practical Magic. We discovered the tragedy of the Owens siblings in Rules of Magic. Now we learn how it all began...

Seven authors enter the manor Can they survive the story within? When legendary horror author Mortimer Queen passes, a group of writers find themselves invited to his last will and testament reading expecting a piece of his massive fortune. Each have their own unique connection to the literary...

This profoundly moving tale of love, bravery, and tragedy by New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende brings to life a country ruled with an iron fist—and the men and women who dare to challenge it. Irene Beltrán is a force to be reckoned with. As a magazine journalist, an unusual...

Seit Monaten kann Wanda kein einziges Bild vervollständigen. Bis sie wie im Rausch zu Stift und Papier greift und plötzlich ein fremder Mann auf ihrem Sofa sitzt - völlig verblüfft darüber, dass sie ihn sehen kann. Neo ist Wandas Muse und sollte eigentlich längst verschwunden sein. Denn je länger er ihr Inspiration spendet, desto schwächer wird er.

Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit is one of poverty and violence - both from outside the family and also, devastatingly, from within. When her family's darkest secrets are brought to light, Betty has no choice but to reckon with the brutal history hiding in the hills, as well as the heart-wrenching cruelties and incredible characters she encounters in her rural town of Breathed, Ohio.

After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. She throws herself into her work from dusk to dawn, until her solitary routine is disrupted by the appearance of a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin barefoot and covered in bruises. The girl calls herself Ursa, and she claims to have been sent from the stars to witness five miracles.

In an abandoned mansion at the heart of Barcelona, a young man, David Martín, makes his living by writing sensationalist novels under a pseudonym. The survivor of a troubled childhood, he has taken refuge in the world of books, and spends his nights spinning baroque tales about the city's underworld. But perhaps his dark imaginings are not as strange as they seem, for in a locked room deep within the house lie photographs and letters hinting at the mysterious death of the previous owner.

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...

Nicht nur die Erde mit ihren Umweltproblemen steht vor einer nie dagewesenen Herausforderung, sondern auch die Wunschwelt, in der egoistische Wünsche immer mehr die Oberhand gewinnen. Ami kämpft darum, ihre Ängste zu überwinden und Nido das Leben zu retten. Gleichzeitig fühlt sie sich als Wunschelbe verantwortlich für die ganze Welt. Wird sie der Willkür und dem Laster des Lebens etwas entgegensetzen können? Wird sie die Wahrheit über ihre eigene Geschichte aufdecken? Aber vor allem: Wird die Liebe zwischen Ami und Nido stärker sein als ihre Vergangenheit?

Wenn ich denke, es könnte in meinem Leben nicht schlimmer kommen, erscheint ein verrückter Kerl, der sich für einen nordischen Gott hält und mich nach Asgard bringt. Jedenfalls in die Nähe der sagenumwobenen Götterwelt. Den Weg dorthin muss ich selbst finden, um meinen Wert zu beweisen. Denn ich soll die nächste Frau Holle werden, die nicht nur eine Märchenfigur ist, sondern eine mächtige Göttin und Gefährtin Odins. Als ich allerdings erfahre, dass ich dazu in wenigen Wochen einen der drei Prinzen des Reichs heiraten soll, habe ich nur einen Gedanken: Flucht.

The second book in the multi-million-copy bestselling series about a cosy Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time. Toshikazu Kawaguchi’s heartwarming Tales from the Cafe, translated from Japanese by Geoffrey Trousselot, explores the age-old question: what would...

A glittering, bold, darkly funny novel about two sisters—one in New York, one in Singapore—who are bound by an ancient secret Sisterhood is difficult for Su and Emerald. Su leads a sheltered, moneyed life as the picture-perfect wife of a conservative politician in Singapore. Emerald is a...

An extraordinary and startlingly original sequel to Ishmael “Enthralling, shocking, hope-filled, and utterly fearless, Daniel Quinn leads us deeper and deeper into the human heart, history, and spirit. In My Ishmael, Quinn strikes out into entirely new territory, posing questions that...

Rebecca glaubte, ihr Leben zu kennen. Gefangen im täglichen Spagat zwischen den Bedürfnissen ihrer Familie und ihren eigenen unerfüllten Sehnsüchten ahnt Rebecca nicht, dass ein geheimnisvoller Traum und ein spontaner Urlaub in den Highlands Schottlands alles verändern werden. Inmitten einer neu entdeckten Welt, umgeben von uralter Magie, unbändiger Kräfte und rätselhafter Wesen wird Rebecca auf eine harte Probe gestellt.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer, read by Jeff Woodman and Scott Shina. THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING NOVEL ADAPTED INTO A FEATURE FILM WITH ELIJAH WOOD From the bestselling author of Here I Am, Extremely Loud...