Fantasy (for people who don't read fantasy)
Annotation:Eddie believes that he is living a "nothing" life – single and working as a maintenance man. On his 83rd birthday, he dies trying to save a little girl and wakes up in heaven, where five people show him the true meaning and value of his life.
Place a Hold
Annotation:Solving the murder of a malicious neighbor, Lori Shepherd seeks help from her Aunt Dimity, a friendly ghost who communicates through messages in a journal.
Annotation:A teacher travels to his favorite author’s hometown with hopes of researching and writing a biography of the author. But the town is under a strange spell - everyone knows everything – and the teacher is terrified.
Annotation:A young hermit and a British girl care for an injured Canadian goose that later guides a convoy of soldiers retreating from Dunkirk during World War II.
Annotation:A Santa hired to work the Christmas season at Macy’s department store brings the magic of Christmas to a jaded little girl.
Annotation:As the youngest daughter in a turn-of-the-century Mexican home, Tita is required never to marry but stay home and tend to her parents. Not content with this edict, Tita uses magical spices in her cooking to break this tradition.
Annotation:A down-on-his-luck L.A. private investigator - who also happens to be a dinosaur - struggles to uncover the mystery of his partner's death and overcome his dangerous basil addiction.
Annotation:Hearing strange noises in a cottage her family has rented, a young girl uncovers the sad history of another young woman who was killed 75 years earlier.
Annotation:Several British officials are in a plane that is hijacked and forced into the Tibetan Mountains. Landing at a strange monastery named Shangri-La, at first they all want to leave, but soon the place enchants them.
Annotation:Two sisters are raised by a pair of witches who use their craft for matchmaking. When the girls grow up, they swear never to concoct these potions but love is too powerful a force.
Annotation:A bear steals a manuscript from a professor and claims it as his own. When the book is published, the bear becomes a celebrity author. Envious of his success, the professor tries to sue him but strangely, he is fast transforming into a bear.
Annotation:A couple move to a sleepy little town and are horrified to discover that all the women have become brainless housewives while their husbands gather nightly at a mysteriously secret clubhouse.
Annotation:A baseball player is destined to stardom with a magical bat. This bat, however, only works as long as he’s honest and sincere. Whenever he caves into temptation, he immediately falls into a slump.
Annotation:For the guests at Ruth Bennett's fashionable Georgetown home, the seance was just a playful diversion . . . until Ruth's niece Sara spoke in a deep guttural voice not her own and the game becomes frighteningly real.
Annotation:Three cats caught up in a murder, a bombing and a homeless dog, work hard to solve the cases and restore peace to their town.
Annotation:A disillusioned artist meets an enchanted child on a sidewalk who inspires him to paint her portrait. Whimsically she asks him to wait for her to grow up and magically she ages several years each time they meet.
Annotation:A love story between a Chicago librarian who involuntarily time-travels whenever he is nervous and the girl he keeps meeting through various stages of her life.
Annotation:A murdered 14-year-old-girl looks down from heaven to check on her family. Can they survive their grief and move on with their lives?
Annotation:J.J. Smith loves his job as Keeper of the Records for "The Book of Records," but even he is not prepared for the ultimate record breaker--a man who is ingesting a 747 piece by piece to prove his love for a woman.
Annotation:Born in the 14th century to a woman of faerie blood, Beauty is raised by a negligent father and several doting aunts. Rebelling at sixteen, she undertakes a journey across centuries to the modern world in search of her destiny.
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