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Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Fiction
Severin Unck is the headstrong young daughter of a world famous film director. She has inherited her father's love of the big screen but not his exuberant gothic style of filmmaking. Instead, Severin makes documentaries, artful and passionate and even rather brave - for she is a realist in a fantastic a ...Show more
Radiance (PB) by Catherynne M Valente
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Severin Unck is the headstrong young daughter of a world famous film director. She has inherited her father's love of the big screen but not his exuberant gothic style of filmmaking. Instead, Severin makes documentaries, artful and passionate and even rather brave - for she is a realist in a fantastic a ...Show more
Six-Gun Snow White by Catherynne M Valente
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
A "New York Times" bestselling author offers a brilliant reinvention of one of the best-known fairy tales of all time with Snow White as a gunslinger in the mythical Wild West. Forget the dark, enchanted forest. Picture instead a masterfully evoked Old West where you are more likely to find coyotes as t ...Show more
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Science Fiction
2019 HUGO AWARD FINALIST, BEST NOVELThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets the joy and glamour of Eurovision in bestselling author Catherynne M. Valente's science fiction spectacle, where sentient races compete for glory in a galactic musical contest...and the stakes are as high as the fate of plane ...Show more
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy meets Eurovision in an over-the-top galactic science fiction spectacle from bestselling author Catherynne Valente where sentient races compete for glory in a universe-wide musical contest-where the stakes are as high as the fate of planet Earth.A century ago, the Sen ...Show more
Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy
Galaxies compete for glory in a universe-wide musical contest in this over-the-top spectacle from bestselling author Valente. "As if Ziggy Stardust went on a blind date with "The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, " then they got smashed and sang karaoke all night long."--"New York Times"-bestselling auth ...Show more
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Children's
When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a Changeling - a human boy - in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature and his Changeling fate, while attend ...Show more
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Children's
When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Golden Wind, he becomes a changeling - a human boy - in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland when seen through trollish eyes. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature an ...Show more
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (#4) by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Junior Fiction | Series: Fairyland
"One of the most extraordinary works of fantasy, for adults or children, published so far this century."-Time magazine, on the Fairyland seriesWhen a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Red Wind, he becomes a changeling-a human boy-in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less b ...Show more
The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland #4) by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Fairyland
When a young troll named Hawthorn is stolen from Fairyland by the Golden Wind, he becomes a changeling - a human boy - in the strange city of Chicago, a place no less bizarre and magical than Fairyland when seen through trollish eyes. Left with a human family, Hawthorn struggles with his troll nature an ...Show more
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making #1 by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Young Adult Fiction
September is a twelve-year-old girl, Somewhat Grown and Somewhat Heartless, and she longs for adventure. So when a Green Wind and a Leopard of Little Breezes invite her to Fairyland - well, of course, she accepts (mightn't you?). When she gets there, she finds a land crushed by the iron rule of a villai ...Show more
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland on a Ship of Her Own Making (#1) by Catherynne M. Valente
Category: Children's fantasy | Series: Fairyland
Twelve-year-old September lives in Omaha, and used to have an ordinary life, until her father went to war and her mother went to work. One day, September is met at her kitchen window by a Green Wind (taking the form of a gentleman in a green jacket), who invites her on an adventure, implying that her he ...Show more