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Audiobooks by Catherynne M. Valente
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Charlotte and Emily must enter a fantasy world that they invented in order to rescue their siblings in this adventurous and fiercely intelligent novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.
Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne Brontë have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school, a school they might not return from. But on this Beastliest Day, the day Anne and Branwell walk their sisters to the train station, something incredible happens: the train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a wonderland all their own.
This is their Glass Town, exactly like they envisioned it...almost. They certainly never gave Napoleon a fire-breathing porcelain rooster instead of a horse. And their soldiers can die; wars are fought over the potion that raises the dead, a potion Anne would very much like to bring back to England. But when Anne and Branwell are kidnapped, Charlotte and Emily must find a way to save their siblings. Can two English girls stand against Napoleon's armies, especially now that he has a new weapon from the real world? And if he escapes Glass Town, will England ever be safe again?
Together the Brontë siblings must battle with a world of their own creation if they are to make it back to England alive in this magical celebration of authorship, creativity, and classic literature from award-winning author Catherynne M. Valente.
Mit einem süßen Hündchen spielen und darauf warten, dass die Mutter aus der Fabrik heimkommt - das reicht der zwölfjährigen September nicht. Als der Grüne Wind an ihr Fenster kommt, stürzt sie sich mit ihm ins Abenteuer und reitet auf der Leopardin der leichten Lüfte ins Feenland. Dort wird sie gebraucht: Die grausame Marquess, nicht älter als September selbst, verlangt, dass ihr ein magisches Schwert aus dem Gespinstwald gebracht wird - andernfalls würde sie den Bewohnern des Feenlandes das Leben zur Hölle machen. Doch mit diesem Schwert will sie die Welt der Feen und die der Menschen endgültig trennen - September ist verzweifelt. Doch sie hat Freunde und begegnet verrückten Wesen wie dem Lindwurm A-L, dem blauen Dschinn Samstag, einer Herde wilder Fahrräder und dem Seifengolem Lug.
Eine phantastische, humorvolle und verwunschene Geschichte voller Herz und Mut!
September has longed to return to Fairyland after her first adventure there. And when she finally does, she learns that its inhabitants have been losing their shadows - and their magic - to the world of Fairyland-Below. This world has a new ruler: Halloween, the Hollow Queen, who is September's shadow. And Halloween has no intentions of giving Fairyland's shadows back. Fans of Valente's bestselling first Fairyland book will revel in the lush setting, characters, and language of September's journey. Listners will also welcome back good friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday. But in Fairyland-Below, even the best of friends aren't always what they seem. . . .
This is a kind of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by way of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland -- it's the sort of book one doesn't want to end." -- Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review September is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn't you?) But Fairyland is in turmoil, and it will take one twelve-year-old girl, a book-loving dragon, and a strange and almost human boy named Saturday to vanquish an evil Marquess and restore order.
