Books with author Catherine Fet

To finish her training in magic, all 13-year old Alice Inkling has to do is leave her home of Wonderland and lend her mystical talents to an Earther community. With Coral Meadows as her chosen city and private investigator as her chosen role there, Alice is more than ready to shine among these silly Earthers. None of Earth’s ridiculous rules are going to stand in her way, not even those administered by Corinne the Intern, Alice’s assigned adult and master of paperwork. Coral Meadows seems disappointingly quiet until Dorian Tweed, the biggest businessman in the city, asks her for help. Witnesses claim he’s behind the recent string of thefts and he’s even been caught on camera, but he continues to claim he’s innocent, and needs Alice to prove it. Baffling and bewitching, this mystery is exactly what Alice has been hoping for. The more evidence Alice finds, the more she suspects that something from her home has escaped to Earth. Then buildings and roads start exploding and finding the culprit becomes much more than an entertaining puzzle. Alice knows she has the powers to stop the escaped monster, but her spells have a cost. The more magic one uses, the more they risk The Madness, an magical affliction of the mind and body, and Alice is already suffering visions and sounds nobody else can see or hear. If she uses the magic needed to stop the monster, she’ll risk never fully recovering from The Madness. If she doesn’t, she’ll be returning to Wonderland as a failure – and leaving her Earthers hopelessly undefended.

Galen and his apprentice, Raffi, are searching for the ancient relics with the power to save their city, Anara. First they hear of Flian’s Coronet, which might be the only way to defeat the encroaching evil—but the Coronet has not been seen for centuries, and they must enlist some dangerous allies to find it. And then, when Raffi knows he is being hunted, he must face his deepest fears in the deepest, darkest part of Anara, the Pits of Maar—and there, evil is unmasked, loyalty is tested, and the greatest secret in all of the city is revealed.“Anyone who has kept up with the story will be on tenterhooks.”—Kirkus Reviews on The Hidden Coronet

Evoking the classic fantasy adventures of Joan Aiken and Eva Ibbotson, this darkly delightful new novel from New York Times best-selling author Catherine Fisher glimmers with winter magic.Orphan Seren Rhys is on her way to a new life at the remote country mansion of Plas-y Fran when she is given a package by a stranger late at night in an empty train station. The package contains a crotchety, mechanical talking crow, which Seren reluctantly brings to her new home. But when she gets there, the happy Christmas she had hoped for turns out to be an illusion—the young son of the house, Tomos, has been missing for almost a year, rumored to have been taken by the fairies. With the Crow’s reluctant help and a little winter magic, Seren sets off on a perilous journey to bring Tomos home. An enthralling story of family and belonging set in frost-bound Victorian Wales.

You Talking to Me? ooks at the thousands of languages humans speak, plus how we communicate with symbols and codes, and even how animals communicate. This is your chance to travel the world and explore all the cool ways humans and animals communicate with each other. From the over 7000 languages humans speak around the world, to bugs that communicate with smells, and text messages that use emojis, everyone communicates in a unique way.You’ll get to see how languages develop and how they change from one language to another and over generations. Follow root words such as proto (the Greek word for first) around the globe from one language to another. Discover insider languages such as slang, gestures, and symbols.Domestic and wild animals do some pretty cool communicating, too. Learn about elephants and bats that talk with frequencies we cannot hear, insects and reptiles that communicate with chemicals we cannot smell, and birds and frogs that use color to advertise.

The obsidian mirror. Its power is great and terrible. Men have been lost in it, the dead brought back to life through it, and the future annihilated by it. Or this is what "will" happen unless the mirror is destroyed. Three people seek the mirror: the first has been sent from the future to shatter its power; the second will protect the mirror at all costs, obsessed with its power; and the third needs the mirror to find a murdered father and save his life. But only one can succeed. The mirror can send you to the past, but it will not bring you back. With superb world-building that includes the real world, the faery world, and a dystopic future, this hauntingly astonishing adventure is the start of a new trilogy from the master of the sci-fi/fantasy genre, Catherine Fisher. Fans of Orson Scott Card, Shakespeare, Grimm, and Blade Runner won't be disappointed.

In Snow-Blind, Christian youth fiction by Catherine Farnes, the Craig teens return in a fast-paced story set in the wintry Montana wilderness. Visitors arrive on the scene, not as backpackers but apparently for "business" of an alarming nature. When Jacy and Dakota find out that their own father may be terminally ill and that he may be selling Back Trails, the wilderness tours service, they begin to despair. But as a series of temptations arise that increase their perils, they begin to learn that they must patiently trust the Lord in all of life’s complex and challenging circumstances.