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Catherynne M. Valente enchanted readers with her spellbinding<b> In the Night Garden</b>. Now she continues to weave her storytelling magic in a new book of Orphan’s Tales—an epic of the fantastic and the exotic, the monstrous and mysterious, that will transport you far away from the everyday….<br><b><br></b>Her name and origins are unknown, but the endless tales inked upon this orphan’s eyelids weave a spell over all who listen to her read her secret history. And who can resist the stories she tells? From the Lake of the Dead and the City of Marrow to the artists who remain behind in a ghost city of spice, here are stories of hedgehog warriors and winged skeletons, loyal leopards and sparrow calligraphers. Nothing is too fantastic, anything can happen, but you’ll never guess what comes next in these intimately linked adventures of firebirds and djinn, singing manticores, mutilated unicorns, and women made entirely of glass and gears. Graced with the magical illustrations of Michael Kaluta, <b>In the Cities of Coins and Spice</b> is a book of dreams and wonders unlike any you’ve ever encountered. Open it anywhere and you will fall under its spell. For here the story never ends and the magic is only beginning….
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Valente obviously spent a lot of time think...more...]]>
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The Orphan's Tales features basilisks and sirens, a creature made of teeth and a woman made of glass, djinni and duchesses, and some answers about the origins of the story-teller herself. Some of t...more...]]>
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The sequel brings more of the same, but it lost me somewhere along the way. Her creativity is at times just too danged bizarre for my tastes. Often her cr...more...]]>
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The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden.
To the extent that In the Night Garden focused on anything (far-reaching and interconnecting as its stories were), it focused on women transforming and being transformed. Cities of ...more...]]>
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This second one was even better than the first, if that's possible.]]>