A witch-centered children’s story that places a mother–child relationship at its core, exploring how familial duty, protection, and guidance play out against a backdrop of magic. The narrative sets a young character’s choices and emotional development against maternal influence and witchcraft-inflected conflict.

Amina Al-Sirafi is a seafaring adventurer drawn back into one last dangerous voyage that mixes piracy, treasure-seeking, and ancient, magical mysteries.

Set around a richly imagined city and its secret histories, the novel follows characters entangled with djinn, political factions, and the social order of an elemental magical society.

A small ensemble of visitors gather at a large, notorious house where unsettling occurrences and interpersonal fractures intensify around the building itself.

An eighteen-year-old narrator lives with her agoraphobic sister and ailing uncle in an isolated family home long shunned by their village after a past tragedy. The novel records how the household maintains rituals and defenses while outside hostility and the characters’ secrets exert pressure on daily life.

A sweeping, literary account of cancer treated as a historical subject: how clinicians, researchers, and institutions have identified, named, studied, and attempted to treat cancer over decades and centuries.

Set in the 1920s, the novel follows a young woman whose life becomes entangled with Maya gods and a mythic journey. A relationship with a divinity prompts a quest and confrontations with death and fate, folding Mexican fable elements into a period social world.

A young woman travels to a remote family estate after receiving a desperate letter from her cousin claiming danger in her marriage. She must probe the household’s strange customs and hidden histories to determine whether the threat is supernatural, social, or criminal.

A grandchild listens to a collection of long-storied tales about the Old Country while another strand follows two men who accompany a dying goddess across that realm.