Teen Magical Realism

Winning a national high-school geography competition should be the high point of Jomon's life. So why does he find himself running through the streets of Georgetown, Guyana, later that same night - so angry and desperate? Why does he heave his hard-won medal through the front window of a liquor store? Why does a teenaged boy decide life is not worth living? Arrested by police and detained in a jail cell, Jomon is jolted out of his suicidal thoughts by the sudden appearance of another teenaged boy - who claims to be his great-great-grandfather....

Sophie Seymour has been shielded her whole life from a world of magic and wonder. A traumatic event in 16-year-old Sophie’s life leaves her devastated, her nightmares and grief only increasing her turmoil. All that is about to change when twins, Joshua and Ethan Walker, come into her life along with a mysterious and mischievous cat.

Emlyn Perry never expected to be demon hunting in the most notorious haunted house in Savannah, Georgia. Before her mother died, Emlyn was an average teenager, preparing for her senior year with her best friend and boyfriend. After discovering a secret Emlyn's parents kept hidden for 17 years, Emlyn embarks on a journey to embrace a lineage of Celtic magic but soon realizes a life of witchcraft comes with consequences. As soon as she accepts her powers, Emlyn becomes the target of the Ainbertach Coven, a powerful organization of dark witches with roots dating to early-1300 Ireland.

Mysterious murders, shadowy figures, and high school. Life can be hard, death can be harder. Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing. The community has been quarantined. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko? Time is running out.

Late at night our friend wanders a little and ponders quite a lot on a long walk along a river looking for a reason to keep on living. He meets up with a troll and a few other all-night ghouls as he drifts along, searching for purpose. They all find it amazing our friend can negotiate his way through the day posing as a teacher.

Bonnie’s life is fairly conventional until a nasty bout of writer’s block threatens to derail the cushy life she’s built for herself. She’s convinced she’ll never write again—until she meets an unusual typewriter with a talent for romance novels. Once she publishes the best novel of her career—thanks entirely to the typewriter’s efforts—a suspicious book critic’s curiosity launches a chain of events that gets the author arrested for a murder she would have been happy to commit, but didn’t.

Береза по-фински будет koivu — это позывной нового отца Симы, пропахшего рыбой, копченым дымом и свежей травой. А еще у Симы есть мама, которую он очень любит. Однажды при загадочных обстоятельствах она превращается в прозрачную водяную женщину с водорослями вместо волос. Как жить дальше, когда над тобой постоянно довлеет семейная тайна? Мысли о будущем тяжелые и далекие, как строительные краны, которыми утыкано небо чужих кварталов. Но у Симы есть Сан Серыч Пушкин, друг Рупла и прекрасная Елена.

"Hvis bare det var en drøm" er en filosofisk gyser om at miste kontrollen over sit eget liv, men også om at finde tilbage til sig selv og sin egen historie. Og så er det en hyldest til fiktionen og læsningens. Olga er en helt almindelig pige, som lever et helt almindeligt liv. I hvert fald lige indtil ulykken. Da en fremmed pige pludselig dukker op hjemme hos Olga og påstår, at hun ikke aner, hvordan hun er havnet dér, eller hvordan hun kommer hjem igen, ved Olga ikke, hvad hun skal tro. Samtidig lader pigen til at vide alt om Olgas tanker, familie og venner.

The Last Elephant in New York City is the story of Maxwell, a Ghanaian wildlife ranger, Jessie, an American researcher, and the elephant that united them. On a decades-long mission of compassion, this is a journey of heartbreak, hope, and redemption, laid out in snapshots, like memory itself. Illustrating the worst and best of humanity, it's a glimpse of parallel worlds - the ongoing sorrows of African elephant poaching and the struggles of life for elephants in zoos. Listen to it with someone you love.

Louise has travelled with her father to the island of Lindisfarne every year ever since she can remember - it's the place Louise's mother loved best of all. The arrival of Hassan from war-torn Syria changes everything. Louise is restless and yearning for independence; meanwhile, the fiercely free and self-reliant Hassan seems to know the island from long ago as if it were his home from birth. Hassan is an acrobat, maybe a sorcerer, possibly a source of great danger. The wild boys who call the island their home want to cast him out.

La historia del Escuadrón 20.20 comienza en la pirámide de Chichén Itzá, en donde Maceo se encuentra explorando en busca de unas reliquias mayas. En el proceso de búsqueda, repentinamente un extraño portal secreto se abre justo debajo de nuestro protagonista, tele transportándolo instantáneamente a un mundo paralelo donde los mayas habitan y monitorean las actividades de la gente en la tierra. Al llegar a este lugar, los mayas informan al explorador que ha sido elegido por todos para crear un equipo especial para ayudar a los animales en peligro de extinción.

Previously published as My Fairy Godmother's Gifts on Kindle Vella by author Arla Jones. When the ocean's darkest secrets rise to claim her, one teenage girl must confront the ruthless fate that awaits her as the last heir of an ancient underwater kingdom. Dive into the depths of fate and deception, where the line between fortune and disaster is blurred. For Samantha, an orphan's life is turned upside down by the revelation of a fairy godmother and a hidden underwater realm. But as she trades the human world for a fairytale empire, she finds herself entangled in a web of politics, power ...

Peter King was an ordinary high school boy, tall and thin with long, flowing brown hair hanging over his protruding ears. I could see his family's mansion from my park bench seat. Built with the enormous profits from the coal mine, the house was like one of those celebrity homes you see in Beverly Hills. Peter was an exceptional boy from an uncommon family. However, I later found that he and I had some similar qualities though we both came from different sides of the track. We could re-experience the past and see the future.

It features coming of age stories on the theme of closeness to home, deftly interwoven with illuminating autobiographical pieces on the inspirations behind the fiction. Stories include: "The Missing Link", "Joe Quinn's Poltergeist", "Harry Miller's Run", "Slog's Dad", "Klaus Vogel and the Bad Lads", "Mary Malone", "Half a Creature from the Sea", and, "When God Came to Kathleen's Garden".

The circle of life can sometimes be cruel and misunderstood. The cycle of life, spell casting, death, and marriage in one script.