The servants at the Bennet family\"s Longbourn estate--only glancingly mentioned in Jane Austen\"s classic--take center stage in Jo Baker\"s delightful novel. While Elizabeth and her sisters worry about balls and inheritances, their servants are busy scrubbing floors and emptying chamber pots....

Malin has always felt different. The fact that, according to her father, her absent mother was actually a mermaid only makes matters worse. When Malin\"s father dies, leaving her alone in the world, her choice is clear: stay, and never feel at home, or leave and go in search of the fantastical inheritance she is certain awaits her....

A small-scale country on the surface, Panama is a Central American giant and gem just awakening to its vast potential. Esteemed travel writer Christopher Baker takes the reader on a journey of this fascinating place in his fully updated edition....