The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairlyland...

The Labyrinth by Catherynne M. Valente

Here Monsters are hidden... A lyrical anti-quest through more...0 points

Here Monsters are hidden... A lyrical anti-quest through a conscious maze without center, borders, or escape--a dark pilgrim's progress through a landscape of vicious Angels, plague houses, crocodile-prophets, tragic chess-sets, and the mind of an unraveling woman, driven on by the mocking guide who seeks to destroy as much as save. Enter the world of the Labyrinth, where Doors do not wait to be opened, but hunt you in the night. This is Zarathustra in Wonderland, a puzzle which defies solution,...0 points

Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams by Catherynne M. Valente

In the mind of Ayako, an old woman in exile on a m more...0 points

In the mind of Ayako, an old woman in exile on a mountain in medieval Japan, nothing is certain, and nothing holds a familiar shape for long. This is a map of a psyche exalted and destroyed by solitude, and on its contorted surface Shinto philosophy, Greek mathematics, Hawaiian goddesses, Egyptian legend, quantum physics, and Babylonian myth meet and merge... In Catherynne M. Valente's second novel since the critically acclaimed The Labyrinth, language and myth construct a strange new geography...0 points

The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden by Catherynne M. Valente

A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up ReadersEvery once in more...0 points

A Book of Wonders for Grown-Up ReadersEvery once in a great while a book comes along that reminds us of the magic spell that stories can cast over us-to dazzle, entertain, and enlighten. Welcome to the Arabian Nights for our time-a lush and fantastical epic guaranteed to spirit you away from the very first page%u2026.Secreted away in a garden, a lonely girl spins stories to warm a curious prince: peculiar feats and unspeakable fates that loop through each other and back again to meet in...0 points

A Guide to Folktales in Fragile Dialects by Catherynne M. Valente

A GUIDE TO FOLKTALES IN FRAGILE DIALECTS by award-winning more...0 points

A GUIDE TO FOLKTALES IN FRAGILE DIALECTS by award-winning author and poet Catherynne M. Valente is a delightful collection of poetry, short fables, and fairy tales that explore myth and wonder, ancient and modern, with an introduction by Midori Snyder. "Structured around a series of folktale motifs, Valente's eloquent second full-length poetry collection dissects the perceived roles of women in Earth's and otherworldly fable and myth.... enlightening and enthralling." -- Publishers Weekly "Catherynne...0 points

For the Girl in the Garden - Songs and Readings in Celebration of Catherynne M. Valente's "Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden"

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Apocrypha by Catherynne M. Valente

Apocrypha: Catherynne M. Valente's first full-leng more...0 points

Apocrypha: Catherynne M. Valente's first full-length poetry collection, where freaks, emperors, bodhisattvas, beasts, witches, wicked stepmothers, Greek heroes, told seductively and wickedly in poem and prose, jostle and vie for supremacy . . .0 points

The Grass-Cutting Sword by Catherynne M. Valente

A new novel by the author of The Labyrinth and Yum more...0 points

A new novel by the author of The Labyrinth and Yume No Hon: The Book of Dreams, The Grass-Cutting Sword explores the strange landscape of primeval Japan, from the Heaven-Spanning Bridge to the hellish Root-Country: the troubled trickster Susanoo-no-Mikoto, god of wind and storms, is banished from heaven and wanders the earth, lost in human form, in search of his demonic mother and charged with the defeat of an eight-headed serpent... A 3 disc CD-Audio edition.0 points

Oracles: A Pilgrimage by Catherynne, M. Valente

Nam Sibyllam quidem cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi more...0 points

Nam Sibyllam quidem cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere... The Oracles of the ancient world spoke for the gods, they spoke for the future: but they could not speak for themselves. Here, their voices bubble up from the depths, enraged and sardonic, sorrowing and wild, finding themselves on new ground-scattered across the American continent, marking a path for the seeker to follow, from New England universities to Hawaiian volcanoes, from dilapidated factories to Chinatown kitchens,...0 points