brooklyn (new york, n.y.)

Brooklyn Museum curator and professor Piers Knight, having saved the world by using magical artifacts and worked out a treaty of peace with the dragon council, teams up with his former lover, Tian Lu, his seventeen-year-old intern, and a dragon ally in an effort to stop a dragon who is using nuclear weapons to enslave humanity.

Adora Benet fears her summer will be a disaster when her best friends and her boyfriend all announce they are heading off on separate journeys, leaving Adora alone in the city to try and earn money for college, but with the help of some new friends, Adora learns an important lesson about being true to herself.

After Midnight's father's empire is attacked, he is sent with his mother to live in the United States, but on the streets of Brooklyn, Midnight remains true to his beliefs while attempting to reclaim his former wealth and protect his family, while attracting the lustful attention of a number of women.

When Hank Tobin's son is accused of firebombing a Brooklyn mosque, Hank takes the investigation into his own hands and discovers his son was framed by a man who has been waiting a decade to have his revenge on Hank.

An ambitious scientist discovers a gene that may contain the secret of happiness for everyone, and when it is tested on an unknowing suburban family, the experiment yields surprising results.

High school freshman Teenie hopes to get into a prestigious study abroad program so she can trade her home in Brooklyn and strict parents for Spain, but when her long-time crush starts to pay attention to her, Teenie's grade point average begins to suffer.

One Sunday morning, a lion, a leopard, and a wolf greeted the first visitors to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Nobody seemed to know where the wild beasts came from except seven-year-old Susan and her five-year-old brother Brian, but no one would believe them.

While wrestling with memories of his father, who died when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001, eleven-year-old Gus, born into a family of musicians, starts taking oboe lessons, begins to compose music, and joins his sister in auditioning for a school musical.

"Five years after her young husband's death, Celia Cassill has moved from one Brooklyn neighborhood to another, but she has not moved on. The owner of a small apartment building, she has chosen her tenants for their ability to respect one another's privacy. Celia believes in boundaries, solitude, that she has a right to her ghosts. She is determined to live a life at a remove from the chaos and competition of modern life. Everything changes with the arrival of a new tenant, Hope, a dazzling woman of a certain age on the run from her husband's recent betrayal."--Jacket flap.