loyalty

Artemis, a great athlete, enlists her fellow goddesses Athena, Persphone, and Aphrodite in a plan to persuade Zeus to open up the boys-only Olympic Games to girls.

Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.

Artemis, a great athlete, enlists her fellow goddesses Athena, Persphone, and Aphrodite in a plan to persuade Zeus to open up the boys-only Olympic Games to girls.

Sally Gifford, a Patriot shoemaker's daughter, tries to maintain her close friendship with Kitty Lawton, the daughter of a Loyalist official, as pre-Revolutionary War tensions in 1773 Boston increase and push them apart.

"When Tris and Tobias leave their faction-based society, their new reality is even more alarming than the one they left behind"--.

Life has calmed down for Sumi and Soichiro following a fire in which he was badly injured, but the arrival of new maid Keiko-Kinoshita, who is actually a spy for the vice president of Soichiro's company, threatens to disrupt the household and their marriage once again.

Julius, a cynical intellectual, decides to demonstrate how easily loving couples, caring friends, and devoted siblings can betray their loyalties.

Using real life situations for examples, explains the concept of loyalty as a necessary force, connecting people in a confusing world.

In Cincinnati in 1927, paperboy Willie Brinkman tries to sell extras on the Dempsey-Tunney boxing match in his workingman's neighborhood.