Category: Magical Realism


The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender By Leslye Walton

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender Author: Leslye Walton Category: Young Adult Publisher: Chronicle Books Release Date: 3-25-14 Foolish love appears to be the Roux family birthright, an ominous forecast for its most recent progeny, Ava Lavender. Ava—in all other ways a normal girl—is born with the wings of a bird. In a […]

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Lost Lake By Sarah Addison Allen

Lost Lake Author: Sarah Addison Allen Category: Women’s Fiction Publisher: St. Martin’s Release Date: 1-21-14 Suley, Georgia, is home to Lost Lake Cottages and not much else. Which is why it’s the perfect place for newly-widowed Kate and her eccentric eight-year-old daughter Devin to heal. Kate spent one memorable childhood summer at Lost Lake, had […]

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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake Author: Aimee Bender Category: Fiction Publisher: Knopf Release Date: 6-1-10 On the eve of her ninth birthday, unassuming Rose Edelstein, a girl at the periphery of schoolyard games and her distracted parents’ attention, bites into her mother’s homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can […]

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The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen

The Peach Keeper Author: Sarah Addison Allen Category: Fiction Publisher: Bantam Release Date: 3-22-11 It’s the dubious distinction of thirty-year-old Willa Jackson to hail from a fine old Southern family of means that met with financial ruin generations ago. The Blue Ridge Madam—built by Willa’s great-great-grandfather during Walls of Water’s heyday, and once the town’s […]

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