title: Julia's Words
author:  Judith L. Roth 
description: I like the honest emotion within the story. My daughter was instantly drawn in. Julia's condemnation of her friend was an unexpected twist, one that forces readers to evaluate their own levels of persistence within relationships. I also like that the back of the book offers illustrations teaching various words in American Sign Language. Very few books feature deaf characters, so this is fantastic. Also, few books feature Asian main characters. Having an interracial family, this is a big 'plus' to me. --Christian Children's Book Review
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  He was clad in a close-fitting swallowtail coat and skin-tight silk evening
  breeches that between them left very little of the gentleman’s well-muscled
  form to the imagination.
  
  Julia glanced casually around the room and managed to register, in profile,
  tanned skin, an arrogant nose, a very decided chin and long dark lashes which
  were presently lowered either in deep thought or terminal boredom.
  
  The knot of apprehension which had been lodged uncomfortably in the pit of her
  stomach all evening tightened. I know you. Which was impossible: she could not
  have forgotten this man. I know you from my dreams. He shifted, restless, as
  though he felt her scrutiny, and then, before she had the chance to move away,
  he turned his head and stared right into her face. And he was studying her
  with eyes that were the amber of a hunting cat’s, the deep, peaty gold at the
  bottom of a brandy glass.
  
  They were the eyes she had last seen burning with scarce-suppressed
  frustration in the f