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Seasons in Hippoland / by Ngũgĩ, Wanjikũ Wa,author.;
"Victoriana is a country ruled by an Emperor-for-Life who is dying from an illness not officially acknowledged in a land where truth and facts are decided by the Emperor. The elite goes along with the charade. Their children are conditioned to conform. It is a land of truthful lies, where reality has uncertain meaning. Mumbi, a rebellious child from the capital of Westville, and her brother are sent to live in rural Hippoland. But what was meant to be a punishment turns out to be a glorious discovery of the magic of the land, best captured in the stories their eccentric aunt Sara tells them. Most captivating to the children is the tale of a porcelain bowl supposed to possess healing powers. Returning to Westville as an adult, Mumbi spreads the story throughout the city and to the entire country. Exhausted by years of endless bleak lies, the people are fascinated by the mystery of the porcelain bowl. When word of its healing powers reaches the Emperor himself, he commands Mumbi to find it for him--with dramatic consequences for everyone in Victoriana. Captivating and enchanting, Seasons in Hippoland plays with the tradition of magic realism. Every image in this novel is a story, and every story is a call for resistance to anyone who tries to confine our imagination or corrupt our humanity."--Amazon.
Subjects: Magic realism (Literature); Fantasy fiction.; Novels.; Magic; Magic realism (Literature);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Procession of the dead / by Shan, Darren.(CARDINAL)420694;
Young, quick-witted and cocksure, Capac Raimi arrives in the City determined to make his mark in a world of sweet, sinister sin. Then Capac crosses paths with The Cardinal, and his life changes forever. Faced with hard choices and his own soaring ambition, Capac must find his way alone in this deadly world.HL670LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Noir fiction.; Novels.; Gangsters; Magic realism (Literature);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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All the pretty bright things, all the pretty dead things / by Clifford, Alex,author.;
"Surreal, absurd, and strange -- Marilyn Monroe a fish in a clawfoot bathtub. All the Pretty Bright Things, All the Pretty Dead Things is a collection of lyrical stories set in dark American dreamscapes. So violent, they are beautiful. Women become wild horses and men fish from city balconies and good, soft 'merican girls make the earth spin. Round and round and round." --
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.; Short stories, American.; Magic realism (Literature);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Folk songs for trauma surgeons : stories / by Rosson, Keith(Novelist),author.;
Includes bibliographical references.The lesser horsemen -- At this table -- Baby Jill -- Their souls climb the room -- Hospitality -- This world or the next -- Gifts -- Coyote -- Yes, we are duly concerned with calamitous events -- Winter, spring, whatever happens after that -- Forgive me this -- Dunsmuir -- Homecoming -- The melody of the thing -- Brad Benske and the hand of light."With Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons, award-winning author Keith Rosson once again delves into notions of family, identity, indebtedness, loss, and hope with the surefooted merging of literary fiction and magical realism he's explored in previous novels"--Back cover.
Subjects: Short stories.; Fiction.; Short stories, American.; Magic realism (Literature);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Tomato rhapsody : a fable of love, lust and forbidden fruit / by Schell, Adam.(CARDINAL)494299;
The almost-true tale of how the tomato came to 16th century Italy and the forbidden love between Davido, a Jewish tomato farmer, and Mari, a beautiful Catholic girl. But it's not only Davido and Mari who have secrets of the heart. Everyone around them yearns for something--from Davido's grandfather, who tenderly cultivates the tomato plant he stole on his voyages with Columbus, to Mari's villainous stepfather, whose eye is trained on his stepdaughter's virginity and his neighbor's land. Caught in the midst of these passions and machinations is a village full of eccentrics who speak in rhyme, celebrate the Feast of the Drunken Saint, and live a life untouched by the passage of time. The schemes and dreams of these men and women are about to change as what is forbidden becomes too delicious to resist. Tradition, religion, and good taste collide in a story about the courage to pursue love and tomato sauce at all costs.
Subjects: Fables.; Romance fiction.; Magic realism (Literature); Tomatoes;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 4
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Lost coast literary / by Alexander, Ellie,author.(CARDINAL)346844;
"A young editor inherits her grandmother's estate only to learn that her editing pen has the power not only to change stories but also to change lives." --
Subjects: Novels.; Paranormal fiction.; Magic realism (Literature); Families;
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The past is never : a novel / by Tyson, Tiffany Quay.(CARDINAL)802732;
"Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the Devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water. Until the day six-year-old Pansy vanishes. Not drowned, not lost . . . simply gone. When their father disappears as well, Bert and Willet leave their childhoods behind to try and hold their broken family together." -- Amazon.com
Subjects: Fiction.; Magic realism (Literature);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The past is never : a novel / by Tyson, Tiffany Quay,author.(CARDINAL)802732;
Siblings Bert, Willet, and Pansy know better than to go swimming at the old rock quarry. According to their father, it's the devil's place, a place that's been cursed and forgotten. But Mississippi Delta summer days are scorching hot and they can't resist cooling off in the dark, bottomless water. Until the day six-year-old Pansy disappears. Not drowned, not lost . . . simply gone. After years with no sign, no hope of ever finding Pansy alive, Bert and Willet have tried to move on. But as surely as their mother died of a broken heart, they can't let go. So when clues surface drawing them to the remote tip of Florida, they drop everything and drive south. Deep in the murky depths of the Florida Everglades they may find the answer to Pansy's mysterious disappearance . . . but truth, like the past, is sometimes better left where it lies.
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Magic realism (Literature);
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Beasts of extraordinary circumstance / by Lang, Ruth Emmie,author.(CARDINAL)416642;
"Full of nature and wonder, love and adventure, Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance is a beautifully written novel that "bristles with charm and curiosity" (Winston Groom, New York Times bestselling author of Forrest Gump).Born in a blizzard, orphaned, and believed to be raised by wolves, Weylyn Grey is someone who inspires endless curiosity in everyone he's ever met. People say that once Weylyn wanders into your world, you'll wish he'd never leave. But what makes him different? How does he possess the ability to transform others' lives? How does he manage to find--and create--magic in the ordinary? This is the story of Weylyn's journey, told from the perspective of those who knew him, loved him, or were bewildered by him along the way. In this stunning and deeply imaginative debut, author Ruth Emmie Lang introduces us to a character who will live in readers' hearts long after the last page is turned." -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Magic realist fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Romance fiction.; Magic realism (Literature); Magic; Man-woman relationships; Paranormal romance stories.;
Available copies: 15 / Total copies: 18
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Norma / by Oksanen, Sofi,1977-author.(CARDINAL)348224; Witesman, Owen,translator.(CARDINAL)348225;
"When Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty"--
Subjects: Magic realist fiction.; Paranormal fiction.; Beauty, Personal; Magic realism (Literature); Mothers and daughters;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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