Julie Berry

In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates-- and the hearts-- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, is filled...

In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...

"Judith can't speak. But when her close-knit community of Roswell Station is attacked by enemies, Judith is forced to choose: continue to live in silence, or recover her voice"--Provided by publisher.

When her stubborn cow, Alfalfa, runs away, young dairymaid Begonia chases after her. Meanwhile, a couple of ancestral spirits decide to teach the twenty-one-year-old bully of an emperor a lesson, sending him fleeing his castle on an ostrich. Begonia encounters the emperor, whose bedraggled appearance makes him unrecognizable, as well as Key, a farmer boy who thinks he is a hero and Begonia is a damsel in distress. Before long, Begonia, Key, and the...

A mother talks to her baby, recounting the Christmas story, and linking it to the love and hope she feels for her own child.

In 1897 England, while visiting Cambridge University, thirteen-year-old Maeve Merritt and her friends encounter charmed mirrors, meddling thieves, and a lady scholar who does not believe in magic--yet.