"Stirred, but not shaken Swamped with work and surrounded by dragons, the normally unshakable Miss Kobayashi begins to hear a strange voice. Meanwhile, a mysterious inverted scale

"In 1932, Ruth Russo flees the farm where she arrived as an orphaned teenager and seeks refuge at Sisters of Mercy Home for unwed mothers. When the haven she hopes for becomes a place of tragedy, she flees again, and attempts to support herself in a culture of discrimination and a country burdened by the Great Depression. Her days brighten when she reconnects with Jack, a friend from high school. But Jack is a budding lawyer, and she is a maid in...

Wally Baker is no ordinary girl. Living in her grandparents{u2019} Brooklyn Heights brownstone, she doesn{u2019}t like dresses, needlepoint, or manners. Her love of Wonder Woman comics and ants makes her feel like a misfit{u2014}especially in the shadow of her dazzling but unstable mother, Stella. Acclaimed author Elizabeth Gaffney{u2019}s irresistible novel captures postwar Brooklyn through Wally{u2019}s eyes, opening on V-J day, as she grows up...

Kobayashi and Tohru share their feelings, Kanna plays with her dad, Fafnir runs away from home, Ilulu and Lucoa cause trouble...it's another typical day with dragons. But then Telne appears with a big announcement that threatens this community's harmony.

"Telne, an ancient and powerful harmony dragon, has arranged for Elma to return to the dragon world and enter a political marriage. While Elma herself is agreeable, Kobayashi and Tohru are unable to accept it, and they find themselves re-evaluating everything they thought they understood. When a dragon and a human put their heads together, what kind of answer will they find?"-- provided by publisher.

A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being accused of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. And though there was never enough evidence to have him arrested, his reputation is in tatters as well as his soul. He needs sanctuary. He needs Bluff House.

After Amerley is raped by her employer's son she realizes she two choices--stay quiet and keep her job or live her truth and speak up for herself and for justice. Ghana. Eldest of four girls, Amerley is offered a job working for one of her mother's old school friends. She has to accept: her wages will feed her family, help her sisters stay in school, and ensure that her mother won't have to worry about them. Amerley's move to Accra isn't easy, but...

The war was not 'over by Christmas' after all and as 1915 begins, the Hunters begin to settle into wartime life. Diana, the eldest Hunter daughter, sees her fiance off to the Front but doesn't expect such coldness from her future mother-in-law. David's battalion is almost ready to be sent to the Front, but how will Beattie's fragile peace of mind endure? Below stairs, Ethel, the under housemaid, is tired of having her beaux go off to war so she deliberately...