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Jessika, Kassandra, Rikah, and Karolan found a home among the wild griffins and there grew safely towards adulthood, but they have never forgotten the home they came from: the conquered kingdom of Northnest. Certainly Jessika has not. She was third born of the royal children. Northnest is both her birthright and her people, taken by wizards and their swarms of drakes. Now the girl has become a woman, and she thinks to reclaim her country. Bein...

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Vor Hearthsraven spent the winter in her mountain hermitage, pondering her past and future. She emerges with the spring, prepared to seize her present. She will return to her home country of Weldom, to reunite with Giri Holstor and investigate the path to becoming a Weldom Wizard, but she's not sure yet if either wizardom or Giri are what's best for her. Before she can decide, Vor finds herself in the midst of rising civil unrest. The growing ...

The river otter twins, Lukas and Jaxon, are getting older--old enough for a summer vacation to the ocean. They bring their magic stick and magic rock, and with their parents they journey to the coast of Northern California, but they are immediately tempted by the excitement of a new place to explore. They rush ahead of their parents' warnings and are immediately in over their heads. Luckily, a young sea otter spots them and pulls them to safet...

We follow Vor from her childhood after the war, to her coming of age as apprentice to the cruel lord Altare. It is a dark turn for the series, as Vor endures the trials of a blood path mage, but sees a glimmer of hope.

This collection of five never before released short stories and one new novella fills in gaps in the lives of the four children rescued by Hawkwind in "Hawkwind's Tale" between the end of that book and where the story resumes in "The Fledging of Hawkwings." They learn to grow their own food, struggle with maturing in a place where there are only griffins to raise them, decide their destinies, and feel the first bitter taste of unrequited love....

The river otter twins, Lukas and Jaxon, are getting older--old enough for a summer vacation to the ocean. They bring their magic stick and magic rock, and with their parents they journey to the coast of Northern California, but they are immediately tempted by the excitement of a new place to explore. They rush ahead of their parents' warnings and are immediately in over their heads. Luckily, a young sea otter spots them and pulls them to safet...

Third in the Northnest Saga, "Hearthsraven" follows Vor, a young mage introduced in book 2. Orphaned on the streets of a conquered city, Vor's fledgling mage powers kept her alive, but also drew the attention of the conquering lord, Altare Dhordirh, who took her for his apprentice. Now, recent events as seen in book 2 and as continued here, will force on her a choice: follow her master's bloody path, or find the courage to rise up and defy him...

Jessika, Kassandra, Rikah, and Karolan found a home among the wild griffins and there grew safely towards adulthood, but they have never forgotten the home they came from: the conquered kingdom of Northnest. Certainly Jessika has not. She was third born of the royal children. Northnest is both her birthright and her people, taken by wizards and their swarms of drakes. Now the girl has become a woman, and she thinks to reclaim her country. Bein...

Hawkwind was born a Feathyr: descendant of wild griffins who ended a war by swearing a pact with the humans of Northnest. She was raised to protect the human royal family with her life, but she never expected she'd have to. For generations the kingdom of Northnest, with its unique alliance with griffins, had been ignored by conquerors, until now. The only griffin to escape the slaughter, with four tiny human children, Hawkwind must flee for he...

Hawkwind was born a Feathyr: descendant of wild griffins who ended a war by swearing a pact with the humans of Northnest. She was raised to protect the human royal family with her life, but she never expected she'd have to. For generations the kingdom of Northnest, with its unique alliance with griffins, had been ignored by conquerors, until now. The only griffin to escape the slaughter, with four tiny human children, Hawkwind must flee for he...

This volume of Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library looks closely at issues of policy and infrastructure for libraries that wish to provide leadership on their campus in the transition to more open forms of scholarship. The authors discuss how to make the case for open access on campus, as well as the political and policy implications of libraries that themselves want to become publishing entities.

This volume, the second in the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library dealing with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries and examines the legal and practical obstacles that must be overcome in a successful transition to more open forms of scholarship.

This volume, the second of two in the series Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library that deals with the topic of open access in academic libraries, focuses on the implementation of open access in academic libraries. Chapters on the legalities and practicalities of open access in academic libraries address the issues associated with copyright, licensing, and intellectual property and include support for courses that require open access dist...

This volume of Creating the 21st-Century Academic Library looks closely at issues of policy and infrastructure for libraries that wish to provide leadership on their campus in the transition to more open forms of scholarship. The authors discuss how to make the case for open access on campus, as well as the political and policy implications of libraries that themselves want to become publishing entities.