Books with category Transformation Tales
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Shark Heart

2023

by Emily Habeck

Shark Heart tells the poignant tale of Lewis and Wren, whose first year of marriage is also destined to be their last. Just weeks after their wedding, Lewis is diagnosed with a rare condition: while he will retain his consciousness, memories, and intellect, his body will gradually transform into a great white shark.

As Lewis begins to exhibit the features and impulses of one of the ocean's most predatory creatures, his complex artist’s heart grapples with unfulfilled dreams. Can he find peace within this new reality?

Initially, Wren struggles internally with her husband’s fate. Is there a future for them after Lewis's transformation? Her journey is further complicated by the surfacing of long-repressed memories, which take her back to her childhood on a houseboat in Oklahoma, her college years with an ex-girlfriend, and her unique friendship with a woman expecting twin birds.

The Last White Man

2022

by Mohsin Hamid

From the New York Times bestselling author of Exit West, comes a story of love, loss, and rediscovery in a time of unsettling change.

One morning, a man wakes up to find himself transformed. Overnight, Anders’s skin has turned dark, and the reflection in the mirror seems a stranger to him. At first, he shares his secret only with Oona, an old friend turned new lover. Soon, reports of similar events begin to surface. Across the land, people are awakening in new incarnations, uncertain how their neighbors, friends, and family will greet them.

Some see the transformations as the long-dreaded overturning of the established order that must be resisted to a bitter end. In many, like Anders’s father and Oona’s mother, a sense of profound loss and unease wars with profound love. As the bond between Anders and Oona deepens, change takes on a different hue—an opportunity for a kind of rebirth, a chance to see ourselves anew.

In Mohsin Hamid’s lyrical and urgent prose, The Last White Man powerfully uplifts our capacity for empathy and the transcendence over bigotry, fear, and anger it can achieve.

Sing Me to Sleep

2010

by Angela Morrison

The Transformation
Beth has always been "The Beast"—that's what everyone at school calls her because of her awkward height, facial scars, and thick glasses. Beth's only friend is geeky, golden-haired Scott. That is, until she's selected to be her choir's soprano soloist, and receives the makeover that will change her life forever.

The Love Affair
When Beth's choir travels to Switzerland, she meets Derek: pale, brooding, totally dreamy. Derek's untethered passion—for music, and for Beth—leaves her breathless. Because in Derek's eyes? She's not The Beast, she's The Beauty.

The Impossible Choice
When Beth comes home, Scott, her best friend in the world, makes a confession that leaves her completely torn. Should she stand by sweet, steady Scott or follow the dangerous, intense new feelings she has for Derek?

The Heartbreak
The closer Beth gets to Derek, the further away he seems. Then Beth discovers that Derek's been hiding a dark secret from her that could shatter everything.

Pack Challenge

What's an Alpha Male to do when he meets the Alpha Female of his dreams?

Step one, hide all sharp objects.

All Zach Sheridan ever wanted was to become Alpha Male of his Pack and be left alone. What he definitely didn't need in his life was some needy female demanding his attention. What he never saw coming was the vicious, scarred female who not only demanded his attention but knew exactly how to get it.

Sara Morrighan knew this was the best she could expect from her life. Good friends. A nice place to live. And a safe job. But when Zach rode into her small Texas town with his motorcycle club, Sara knew she wanted more. She knew she wanted him.

But after one sexy encounter with her dream biker, everything is starting to change. Her body. Her strength. That new thing she's doing with the snarling. Even her best friends are starting to wonder what's going on with her.

But this is only the beginning. Sara's about to find out her life was meant for so much more. And Zach's about to find true love with the one woman who makes him absolutely insane.

Troll: A Love Story

Everyone has their rough nights, but things take a surreal turn when Angel, a young photographer, finds a group of drunken teenagers taunting a young troll in the courtyard of his apartment building. In Scandinavian mythology, trolls are known as wild beasts, but this one is just a small, wounded creature.

Angel decides to offer it a safe haven for the night. In the morning, he thinks he dreamed it all, but he finds the troll alive, well, and drinking from his toilet. What does one do with a troll in the city?

Angel begins researching frantically, searching the Internet, folklore, nature journals, and newspaper clippings. However, his research doesn't reveal that trolls exude pheromones with a profound aphrodisiac effect on those around them. As Angel's life changes beyond recognition, it becomes clear that the troll is familiar with his most forbidden feelings, possibly taking him across lines he never thought he'd cross.

A novel of sparkling originality, Troll is a wry, peculiar, and beguiling story of nature and man's relationship to wild things, and of the dark power of the wildness within ourselves.

The Golden Ass

1998

by Apuleius

The Golden Ass is a unique, entertaining, and thoroughly readable Latin novel, the only work of fiction in Latin to have survived in its entirety. It tells the story of Lucius, whose curiosity and fascination for sex and magic result in his transformation into an ass.

After suffering a series of trials and humiliations, he is ultimately transformed back into human shape by the kindness of the Goddess Isis.

Blending romantic adventure, fable, and religious testament, The Golden Ass is one of the truly seminal books of European literature, of intrinsic interest as a novel in its own right, and one of the earliest examples of the picaresque.

This enchanting story has inspired generations of writers with its dazzling combination of allegory, satire, bawdiness, and sheer exuberance, remaining one of the most continuously and accessibly amusing books from Classical antiquity.

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