Ellen Herrick's debut novel spins an enchanting love story about a place where magic whispers just beneath the surface and almost anything is possible, if you aren't afraid to listen, with echoes of the alchemy of Practical Magic, the lushness of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, and the darkly joyful wickedness of the Witches of Eastwick. The Sparrow Sisters are as inextricably linked to Granite Point, a coastal New England village, as the wild sweet peas that climb the stone walls around the bay. Sorrel, Nettie, and Patience are as bright as the beach plums on the dunes and as enigmatic as the fog that comes into town at twilight.

Patience is the village healer, and when a new doctor arrives in Granite Point, he carries with him a mystery so intriguing that Patience is attracted to love him even as she fights to treat him. However, when Patience Sparrow's herbs and tinctures are suspected of being involved in a local tragedy, Granite Point is gripped by a long-buried fear—and its three-hundred-year-old past resurfaces as a modern-day witch-hunt approach. Plants and flowers, fruit trees and tall hedges wither and die, and the entire town begins to disintegrate; fishermen return to the port empty-handed, and blight settles on the old elms that border the roads.

Patience and her community appear to be lost until the ladies of Granite Point come together to save the Sparrow. Will they be able to turn the tide and bring life back to Granite Point as they assemble and take strength from one another? The Sparrow Sisters is a stunning, spooky, and completely enthralling tale that will grab your mind.

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Author: Ellen Herrick
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/24331491-the-sparrow-sisters

In this intriguing and poetic debut, a young lady goes on a fanciful voyage of self-discovery after discovering a mysterious book in the early 1900s. January Schaller is a curiosity in a large home packed with odd items. As the affluent Mr. Locke's ward, she feels similar to the objects that adorn the halls: meticulously preserved, generally overlooked, and completely out of place. Then she comes upon an odd book.

A book with the aroma of other planets that narrates a story of secret doors, love, adventure, and peril. Each page flip exposes unbelievable realities about the universe, and January learns a tale that is becoming increasingly intertwined with her own. Alix E. Harrow's enchanting debut is lush and beautifully conceived, with a story of impossible adventures, memorable love, and the eternal power of stories—step inside and find its enchantment.

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Author: Alix E. Harrow
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/43521657-the-ten-thousand-doors-of-january

Clay Jannon's existence as a San Francisco Web-design drone has been shoved out by the Great Recession, and chance, pure curiosity, and the ability to climb a ladder like a monkey have secured him a new job working the night shift at Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore. However, after only a few days on the job, Clay realizes that this establishment is far stranger than the name indicates. There are just a few customers, yet they come infrequently and never appear to buy anything, instead of checking out impossibly obscure volumes from odd nooks of the store, all as part of some complicated, long-standing deal with the gnomic Mr. Penumbra.

Clay thinks that the business must be a front for something bigger, and soon he's gone on a detailed analysis of the customers' behavior and enlisted the support of his buddies to find out what's going on. However, when they present their discoveries to Mr. Penumbra, they discover that the mysteries stretch well beyond the bookstore's boundaries.

Robin Sloan has crafted a literary adventure story for the twenty-first century with irresistible brio and dazzling intelligence, evoking both the fairy-tale charm of Haruki Murakami and the enthusiastic novel-of-ideas wizardry of Neal Stephenson or a young Umberto Eco, but with a unique and feisty sensibility that is rare in the world of literary fiction. Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore is exactly what it sounds like: a place you must visit and will never want to leave, a modern-day cabinet of wonders ready to energize any eager reader at any time of day.

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Author: Robin Sloan
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/13538873-mr-penumbra-s-24-hour-bookstore

Anthony Peardew is the keeper of misplaced items. He inadvertently misplaced a souvenir from his loving fiancée, Therese, forty years ago. She died abruptly the next day. Anthony finds solace in retrieving lost objects—things that others had dropped, forgotten or inadvertently left behind—and creating stories about them. Now that he is nearing the end of his life, Anthony is concerned that he has not completed his responsibility to reunite all of the missing items with their rightful owners. As he nears the end of his life, he bequeaths his hidden life's goal to his unwitting helper, Laura, giving her his mansion and all its lost treasures, including an irritating ghost.

Laura, who is recovering from a painful divorce, is in some ways one of Anthony's lost items. When the lonely lady moves into his house, though, her life begins to change. Sunshine, the neighbor's colorful kid, becomes a new friend, and Freddy, the rough gardener, becomes a nice distraction. Laura, backed by her new companions, sets out to fulfill Anthony's final wish: restoring his treasured lost belongings with their owners, as the black cloud encompassing her lifts.

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Author: Ruth Hogan
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/30363088-the-keeper-of-lost-things

Gemma and Oliver have been great friends since they were children. But, no matter how well Ollie believes he knows Gemma, there's one secret that stands between them, one she vowed she'd never reveal: magic is real. And she's waited her entire life for it. Gemma and her twin brother, Milo, will be Claimed by one of the three branches of magic on their sixteenth birthday. Only then would they be able to tap into the power they've always glimpsed but never touched. Gemma is counting down the days until she becomes a Claimed, but she is torn between desiring her magic and keeping Ollie in her life. This farewell feels difficult, especially given Ollie's habit of looking at her when he thinks no one is looking.

Gemma is taken over by a weird force that no one understands on the night of the Claiming, leaving her reeling in the aftermath. That night, Ollie is drawn into a world he never knew existed as he discovers the truth behind the falsehoods. Gemma and Ollie find magic based on hidden mysteries and a long-forgotten past. They must work together to solve the mystery that surrounds them and their families before fate takes them for its own.

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Author: Nicole Adair
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/57925754-a-tangle-of-dreams

The key to a house, the key to a heart, the key to a secret—keys Oyeyemi's not only open aspects of her characters' lives, but they also promise other labyrinths on the other side. In "Books and Roses", a mysterious key unlocks a library, a garden, and clues to the destinies of at least two lovers. In "Is Your Blood as Red as This?" an odd key unlocks the heart of a puppeteering pupil.

"'Sorry' Doesn't Sweeten Her Tea" takes place in a "home of locks", whose doors can only be locked with a key—with unexpected, unobservable events. In "If a Book Is Locked, There's Probably a Good Reason for That, Don't You Think?" a key keeps a mysterious notebook locked away (for good reason). Oyeyemi's stories span numerous periods and places, teasing the lines between coexisting realities.

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Author: Helen Oyeyemi
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/25810500-what-is-not-yours-is-not-yours

Readers of Alice Hoffman will like this creative and beautifully graphic tale about teenage lovers on a mission to discover a cure for a magical sickness. Strange things are happening on St. Hauda's Land, a lonely and snowbound archipelago. Unusual winged creatures flit over the freezing bogland, albino animals lurk in the snow-glazed woodlands, and Ida Maclaird slowly turns to glass. Ida is an outsider in these parts, a mainlander who has only been to the islands once. However, it was during that fateful visit that the glass change began, and she has now returned in quest of a cure.

Midas Crook is a young loner who has spent his entire life on the islands. Something about Ida's sorrowful, stubborn attitude pierces his emotional shields when he meets her. Midas progressively untangles his heart as he assists Ida in coming to grips with her illness. Love must be paid in precious hours, and time is slipping away quickly as the glass encroaches. Will they be able to stop the spread of the glass? The Girl with Glass Feet is a dazzlingly inventive and enchanting debut novel, a treasured love story.

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Author: Ali Shaw
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/6063110-the-girl-with-glass-feet

This fascinating generational epic is haunted by magical realism, poetic writing, and the sorrow and intensity of human love. Foolish love appears to be the Roux family's inheritance, which bodes ill for Ava Lavender, the family's most recent child. Ava, a typical girl in every other way, is born with bird wings.

Sixteen-year-old Ava journeys into the outside world, ill-prepared for what she could uncover and naive to the twisted goals of others, in an attempt to comprehend her unusual temperament and a growing yearning to fit in with her classmates. Others, such as the religious Nathaniel Sorrows, misidentify Ava as an angel and develops a crush on her until the night of the Summer Solstice celebration. The heavens open up that night, rain and feathers flood the air, and Ava's search and her family's tale reach a horrific climax.

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Author: Leslye Walton
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/18166936-the-strange-and-beautiful-sorrows-of-ava-lavender

This is a familial and historical narrative. When little Noa falls into the Pacific Ocean, his family believes the sharks that materialize will devour him. Instead, they carefully scoop him up in their jaws and hand him over to his mother. Noa is practically the stuff of tales after that. His brothers, Dean and Kaui, are overlooked in Noa's shadow as his parents try to support him with his newfound abilities.

Sharks in the Time of Saviors follows these three brothers as they grow into adults, documenting their affection for one another and their varied attempts to alleviate the family's crippling poverty. Dean's and Kaui's magical skills emerge as the narrative progresses. Is the magic strong enough to help them overcome systematic prejudice, poverty, and trauma? In this magnificent and expansive debut novel, Washburn fills this page-turner with magic as he addresses a variety of topics (not the least of which is the significance of investing in the home).

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Author: Kawai Strong Washburn
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/45892255-sharks-in-the-time-of-saviors

The majority of Silvia Moreno-works Garcia's involve some element of magic. Mexican Gothic, for example, is oozing with magic (albeit, as the title says, it's technically gothic horror). Moreno-Gods Garcia's of Jade and Shadow takes readers on a thrilling ride through Jazz Age Mexico. Casiopea, the protagonist, is going about her existence and dreaming of more when she comes into a curious box in her grandfather's chamber.

As one might anticipate, opening the box brings Casiopea's fate into conflict with that of the Mayan deity of death. They collaborate against his brother, and there is betrayal, adventure, and (of course) love along the way. Moreno-Garcia has written a magical realism novel that is very difficult to put down in Gods of Jade and Shadow.

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Author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Link to read: goodreads.com/book/show/36510722-gods-of-jade-and-shadow