Miaka enters the Universe of the Four Gods to collect the seven magic stones that contain Taka's lost memories or she risks losing him forever. He has always protected her; is Miaka up to the challenge? And, there's something unsettling about the new exchange student at Miaka's high school.

"Berlin is an intricate look at the fall of the Weimar Republic through the eyes of its citizens--Marthe Muller, a young woman escaping the memory of a brother killed in World War I, Kurt Severing, an idealistic journalist losing faith in the printed word as fascism and extremism take hold; the Brauns, a family torn apart by poverty and politics. Lutes weaves these characters' lives into the larger fabric of a city slowly ripping apart. The city itself...