Discovering a speech-disabled boy asleep on their porch, young couple John and Marta forge a loving bond with the child and come to think of him as their own while wondering about his mysterious past and enjoying the world through his eyes.

When her best friend Frenchie, who is autistic and doesn't speak, disappears after they encounter a rare piebald deer in the Maine woods, Aurora feels that she's to blame and does everything she can to find him.

"In the dead of night, shots ring out over the grounds of a sprawling English estate. The world-weary butler Eustace recognizes the gunman-his longtime employer, Mr. Crowe-and knows he must think and act quickly. Who is the man lying dead on the lawn? Who is the woman in his company? Can he clean up his master's mess like he always has before? Or will this bring a new kind of reckoning? Mr. Crowe was once famed for his gifts-unaccountable gifts, known...

When Mia Sokolov, Mafia heiress and selective mute, successfully gives Landon King a taste of his own medicine, she discovers that her actions may have unwelcome consequences. Landon King is a genius artist, a posh rich boy, and Mia's nightmare. Now, he's obsessed with her. He's never met someone with the same penchant for mischief as himself. But he realizes that beneath Mia's hard outer shell, she is struggling with something that is too horrible...

The parents of pearl-eyed princess Cinnamon offer a reward to anyone who can help their daughter speak, a plea answered by an exotic tiger who arrives at the palace, armed with knowledge of the world.

"The students in Miss Seabrooke's Kindergarten class are surprised when they welcome a new student and she doesn't respond, even when they talk LOUDER. They are even more surprised when Tayra doesn't answer the teacher. And they are outraged when she accidentally knocks over one of the students and doesn't apologize. Except for Kitty, who puts herself in Tayra's shoes, offers a welcoming hand, and shows Tayra around. When the other students see them...

고통스러운 이혼과 아들의 양육권 상실 후 한 여성이 말을 잃기 시작한다. 그리스어 강사인 한 남자가 천천히 시력을 잃고 있다. 두 사람은 서로의 마음을 전달하기 위해 몸짓을 시작한다.

A novel of the charged relationships between European and Polynesian descendents in New Zealand explores the fluctuating bonds connecting three South Sea natives as they struggle to endure.