title: The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden
author:  Catherynne M. Valente 
description: A lonely girl with a dark tattoo across her eyelids made up of words spelling out countless tales unfolds a fabulous, recursive Arabian Nights-style narrative of stories within stories in this first of a new fantasy series from Valente (The Grass-Cutting Sword). The fantastic tales involve creation myths, shape-changing creatures, true love sought and thwarted, theorems of princely behavior, patricide, sea monsters, kindness and cruelty. As a sainted priestess explains, stories "are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words," and this volume does not so much arrive at a conclusion but stops abruptly, leaving room for endless sequels. Each descriptive phrase and story blossoms into another, creating a lush, hallucinogenic effect.<br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: THE  
  ORPHAN’S  
  DISGRACE  
  VICTORIAN ROMANCE
  
  Catharine Dobbs
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2019 by Catharine Dobbs.
  
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  Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and
  incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Locales and public names
  are sometimes used for atmospheric purposes. Any resemblance to actual people,
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  Contents
  
   _Chapter One An Act of Kindness_
  
   _Chapter Two A New Start_
  
   _Chapter Three Feeling Unwelcome_
  
   _Chapter Four Quiet Desperation_
  
   _Chapter Five S