Antieau, Kim

When her little brother is kidnapped and taken from Pakistan to race camels in the desert, eighteen-year-old Nadira overcomes her own past abuse and, dressed as a boy and armed with knowledge of the powerful storytelling of the legendary Scheherazade, is determined to find and rescue him.

Tells the story of Hurricane Katrina from the point of view of Ruby, an unusually intuitive girl who lives with her grandmother in New Orleans but has powerful memories of an earlier life in the swamps.

Gloria Stone, living in the Arizona territory in the post-industrial United States, awakes in a cave with no memories but finds she has the touch of healing.

Fifteen-year-old Mercy, believing herself to be an angel, and suffering under the political burden of starvation, gives up food and denies that she has an eating disorder until she is sent to a clinic in New Mexico.