Zeigt Titel in Magischer Realismus

When ballet dancer Clara Campbell arrives in New Orleans, lonely and homesick, she is immediately captivated by the story of Windisle Plantation and the tragic tale that is said to have transpired beyond its gate. Legend has it that it is abandoned by all living souls, but to Clara’s great surprise, it is not a ghost she hears through the stone wall surrounding the property, but a flesh and blood man: a scarred stranger with a pain deeper and darker than the churning waters of the Mississippi river that flows beside his self-imposed prison.

Kalkutta 1969: Die kleine Varsha Gupta möchte Fisch zum Abendessen. Ihre Familie ist schockiert. Woher weiß die Dreijährige so viel über Fische und ihre Zubereitung? Denn die reichen Guptas sind strenge Vegetarier. Aber Varsha behauptet, sie könne sich an ein anderes Leben erinnern, an eine ärmliche Lehmhütte am Fluss. Als sich die verzweifelten Eltern an die Psychiaterin Dr. Shoma Bose wenden, die seit Jahren Fälle von Reinkarnation untersucht, wird ihr aller Weltbild durch Varshas Enthüllungen und Fähigkeiten verändert.

Es ist der Tag vor Heiligabend - Tamara, Ingmar und Elisabeth packen ihre Kinder, Geschenke und Partner in die Autos und fahren "nach Hause", um mit ihren Eltern Weihnachten zu feiern. Schneeflocken fallen sanft vom Himmel, und das vertraute Heim weckt für einen Moment die Hoffnung auf ein besinnliches Fest. Doch wie jedes Jahr ist es mit der Idylle vorbei, sobald alle an einem Tisch sitzen: Tamara ist neidisch auf Elisabeth, die nicht nur beruflich erfolgreicher ist, sondern jetzt auch noch diesen attraktiven neuen Freund mitgebracht hat.

Daria steht vor ihrer bis jetzt größten Herausforderung. Mit Darias neuer Berufung innerhalb des Ordens entstehen für sie viele Schwierigkeiten, aber auch ungeahnte Möglichkeiten. Ein halbwegs normales Leben zu führen, ist für sie allerdings absolut unmöglich geworden.

Finley hat es als Schwarzmagier verstanden, sich lange Zeit durchs Leben zu schummeln. Doch nun sind seine magischen Kontrakte erloschen und sein Leben wird eingefordert. Allerdings bekommt er eine letzte Chance: Wenn er heute, am Heiligen Abend, eine Seele vor dem Sturz in die Dunkelheit...

Set in a fantasy world inspired by Tudor England and the real astrologers who advised kings, The Court of Venus is Bel Banta's alluring romantic fantasy and a beautiful historical debut about rival magicians. 'Our kind has many names. Planetborn. Sorcerer. Witch or wizard. Magician.' In Alvion...

In the sequel to the nationally bestselling The Bear and the Nightingale, a gifted young woman with ties to the old magic of her homeland blazes a trail out of the frozen wilderness and into the court intrigues of Moscow. “A masterfully told story of folklore, history, and magic with a...

Anna wächst in Armut und Ausgrenzung auf, bis ein unerwarteter Moment der Güte ihr Leben für immer verändert. Durch die Begegnung mit einem geheimnisvollen Fremden wird sie unsterblich – unberührbar von Zeit und Schmerz. Über die Jahrhunderte hinweg sucht Anna nach einem Leben, das mehr bedeutet als bloßes Überleben. Menschen kommen und gehen, Orte verblassen, doch einer kehrt immer wieder zu ihr zurück: Khiran, der gestaltwandelnde Gott, der ihr die Unsterblichkeit schenkte.

'The Women of Wild Hill has everything you could want, with a fascinating tapestry of characters and an interesting magic system’ Daily Express ‘Perfection! An Inspiration! A must-read!’ Reader review ★★★★★ ‘The Women of Wild Hill certainly weaves its magic from the very first...

Brought to you by Penguin. **One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World** Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He is also a compulsive storyteller and an exile. As we travel with him on a route that...

They say a tiger that devours too many humans can take the form of a man and walk amongst us.... In 1930s colonial Malaya, a dissolute British doctor receives a surprise gift of an 11-year-old Chinese houseboy. Sent as a bequest from an old friend, young Ren has a mission: to find his dead master's severed finger and reunite it with his body. Ren has 49 days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth forever.

As humanity is taking its final breath, facing extinction from a myriad of monsters, the last three people on earth are creating a final chance for the hero to go back in time and stop the apocalypse. However, before the hero can enter the chronomancer portal to the past, she and the portal's creator are both killed, leaving only the weak assistant to carry on their dream of saving the world. Will Nick be able to right the wrongs done to him, and prepare the hero for the world to come?

A debut novel full of magic, adventure, and romance, The Book of Doors opens up a thrilling world of contemporary fantasy for readers of The Midnight Library, The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, The Night Circus, and any modern story that mixes the wonder of the unknown with just a tinge of...

Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico became a best-selling phenomenon with its winning blend of poignant romance and bittersweet wit. The classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, as the tyrannical owner, Mama Elena, chops...

On her 12th birthday, Sierva Maria - the only child of a decaying noble family in an 18th-century South American seaport - is bitten by a rabid dog. Believed to be possessed, she is brought to a convent for observation. And into her cell stumbles Father Cayetano Delaura, who has already dreamed about a girl with hair trailing after her like a bridal train. As he tends to her with holy water and sacramental oils, Delaura feels something shocking begin to occur. 

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER What if you got to do everything in your life—twice? The heart of Mitch Albom’s newest novel—charmingly narrated by Mitch himself—is a stunning love story that dares to explore how our unchecked desires might...

With the same deadpan mania and genius for dislocation that he brought to his internationally acclaimed novels A Wild Sheep Chase and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami makes this collection of stories a determined assault on the normal. A man sees his favorite...

*INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND NATIONALBESTSELLER* Two women, bound by blood and betrayal, must break silence across centuries—or be silenced forever, in the dazzling new novel by New York Times bestselling author Madeline Martin. Lilith Legare’s life is unraveling. Since her mother’s death...

From the New York Times bestselling author comes an evocative, compelling novel of lost love and the unravelling of a small town and its many secrets. Emery Blackwood's life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of...

My name is Delaney Stone: small-town pharmacist, certified pilot, and first-known genetic inheritor of supernatural pica. Hand-in-hoof with my emotional support pig, I travel the world tasting every mineral I can get my hands on, alchemizing their special essences into “parascientific” potions. Until recently, life was lonely but simple… And then along came Heath Spencer, Disrupter of Solitude and Disseminator of Chaos.