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Lucy Barnes is a gardener with an uncanny ability to know exactly which scent among her flowers will illuminate to a person a key from their past that might change their future. Sadly, after a tragedy ten years ago, she no longer uses her gift and has fled her hometown. But six months after her mother’s death, Lucy awakens to find her mother’s unmistakable scent drifting over her, and she knows that she is being called home.

When twenty-seven-year-old Yeon-hwa loses her grandmother, enigmatic and distant proprietor of the Hwawoldang, she decides to respect her wishes by keeping the store going for at least another month, between the hours of 10pm and midnight. She has never learnt to make the traditional desserts herself, and hopes to learn more about her grandmother in the process. On her very first day at work, she is soon interrupted by one of her grandmother’s most regular visitors, who hints that Hwawoldang is no ordinary pastry shop, and its customers not entirely alive…

Scarlett Fernsby holds the world record for shortest relationships. Mostly thanks to overprotective parents and an interfering brother, every attempt at dating has been a disaster. When her whole family is out of town for six glorious months, she knows it's time to find love. What she didn't count on was Wade Hendrix. Her older brother's best friend. He's even worse than her brother. He's soon crashing every date of hers, and Scarlett's beginning to wonder if he's made it his life's mission to annoy her. Wade is a firefighter with a hero complex; she doesn't want to be his pity problem.

At the crossroads of his life, Lipsha Morrissey is summoned by his grandmother to return to the reservation. There, he falls in love for the very first time—with the beautiful Shawnee Ray, who’s already considering a marriage proposal from Lipsha’s wealthy entrepreneurial boss, Lyman Lamartine. But when all efforts to win Shawnee’s affections go hopelessly awry, Lipsha seeks out his great-grandmother for a magical solution to his romantic dilemma—on sacred ground where a federally sanctioned bingo palace is slated for construction.

Hidden down a quiet alley, glowing softly under moonlight, there is a bar like no other. Long ago, Mun was the guardian at a magical library where every book held the story of a person's life story. Due to his beliefs that those stories belonged not on dusty shelves but in people's hearts, Mun was cast out and shunned. He found hope in the most unexpected person - Bo-reum, a magical Moon Rabbit who gave him an enchanted recipe that could turn memories into magic.

1943, El Paso, Texas. La adolescente Nena pasa sus días cuidando de los hijos pequeños de sus hermanas mayores y anhelando una vida de aventuras. Las premociones y desvanecimientos que ha padecido desde la niñez están empeorando, y a Nena le preocupa acabar como la espeluznante curandera de su calle. Reza por recibir ayuda y cuando la misteriosa Hermana Benedicta llega una noche, la sigue a través de los límites del espacio y del tiempo. En el México colonial, Nena desarrolla su poder, encuentra el amor y aprende que la magia siempre tiene un precio.

Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the Bombay neighbourhood of Midnight's Children, a magical musician is unhappily married to a multibillionaire. In an English college, an undead academic can't rest until he avenges his former tormentor. The Eleventh Hour is the magisterial new work from one of our greatest living writers. It speaks deeply to what Salman Rushdie has come from and through, and strikes into the heart of our fractious times.

From internationally renowned, award-winning author Salman Rushdie, a spellbinding exploration of life, death, and what comes into focus at the proverbial eleventh hour of life.

Juliet Nightingale is lucky to be alive. Months after a freak accident involving lightning, she’s fully recovered but is left feeling that something is missing from her life. Something big. Impulsively, she decides to take a solo summer road trip, hoping that the journey will lead her down a path that will help her discover exactly what it is that she’s searching for.

Paris, 1900. Tag und Nacht arbeitet der gefeierte Künstler Gilbert an seinem Meisterwerk: einem neuartigen Karussell für die Weltausstellung. Ein Pferdchen darauf soll den Namen Théo tragen, wie Gilberts kleiner Sohn, der vor kurzem gestorben ist. Chicago, 1920. Die junge Engländerin Maisie träumt von einem neuen Leben in Amerika, ohne die quälenden Fragen ihrer Vergangenheit. Als sie ein wunderschönes altes Karussell entdeckt, macht sie es zum Herzstück eines kleinen Themenparks.

During a séance in 1924, Houdini―the greatest entertainer in the world―was cursed by a vengeful spirit, who said his days were numbered. Houdini laughed. He believed talking to the dead was impossible. By 1926, Houdini was dead. This is the untold story of the last performance of Harry Houdini, who―inspired by his hero Abraham Lincoln―devotes himself full-time to a personal crusade against Spiritualism, the practice of speaking to the dead.

A sweeping, multicultural family story of keen observation and the supernatural in which one man’s journey to wholeness against the collapse of the West Indies’ banana industry during the 1990s reflects the lasting impacts of colonialism, Catholicism, and immigration. Before the gadèt-zafè came to warn his mother she would die, six-year-old Fidel knew only the everyday mystery of the Guadeloupe around him.

The White Octopus Hotel follows Anna, an art valuer, who is asked by an old man to value a strange ornamental white octopus as his dying wish. As she investigates, she follows its trail to the wreck of a glamourous art deco hotel, once known for a collection of magical artefacts. Anna manages to track down a key, but when she uses it, she is transported through time to the White Octopus Hotel as it was during its heyday in the 1930s and is caught up in a scavenger hunt.

London, 2015. When reclusive art appraiser Eve Shaw shakes the hand of a silver-haired gentleman in her office, the warmth of his palm sends a spark through her. His name is Max Everly—curiously, the same name as Eve’s favorite composer, born one hundred sixteen years prior. And she has the sudden feeling that she’s held his hand before . . . but where, and when?

In Japan, cats are a symbol of good luck. As the myth goes, if you are kind to them, they'll one day return the favor. And if you are kind to the right cat, you might just find yourself invited to a mysterious coffee shop under a Christmas-time Kyoto moon. Satomi is devoted to her job in Tokyo, but when her boyfriend hints that he is going to propose to her on Christmas Day, she becomes torn between the career in the city that she loves and a quieter life with her boyfriend in the country. What will the magical cats see for her future? Koyuki, meanwhile, works at Satomi’s company.

Cutthroat NYC lawyer Mary Whelton just buried her problematic old mentor. But as she leaves the mourners and protesters behind, the press stays hot on her heels. Desperate to escape, she unwittingly barrels deep into a remote forest in upstate New York. Until a collision—with a buzzing, oozing throng of cicadas—stops her dead in her tracks. She awakens in a crude cabin, held captive by Girl, a simple, hulking woman who mistakes Mary for her derelict mother and obsesses over a mysterious Brood.

Olivia Pennington has spent her whole life competing with Logan Alexander—and losing. From spelling bees to science fairs, he's always been one step ahead, snagging the trophies, titles, accolades, and now … he's after the promotion she desperately wanted. As if that's not bad enough, Logan also moved into the apartment she had her heart set on. Logan's been secretly falling in love with Olivia since the third grade. His strategy? Stay close, win her over.

Satomi catches wind of her boyfriend's plan to propose on Christmas Eve, finding herself torn between him and her career in Tokyo. Her listless intern, Koyuki, has her own reasons for dreading the day ever since her father died in a tragic car accident. And Satomi's sister-in-law Junko, who has been estranged from home for two decades, receives some unexpected news concerning her elderly father.

Nach dem Tod seiner Eltern hatte Alex Roth nur einen Wunsch: ein Zauberer zu werden. Durch harte Arbeit wurde er an der Universität von Generasi angenommen, der besten Zauberakademie der Welt. Das Schicksal hatte aber andere Pläne. An seinem 18. Geburtstag wird er durch eine Prophezeiung als einer der fünf Helden des Königreichs gezeichnet, die dazu bestimmt sind, den Ravener zu bekämpfen, den größten Feind des Landes. Sein Zeichen ist aber das des „Narren“. Das schlimmste der Zeichen.

In this novel based on the familiar story of the Exodus, Zora Neale Hurston blends the Moses of the Old Testament with the Moses of black folklore and song to create a compelling allegory of power, redemption, and faith.