BOOK 2 - Wizards of White Haven. Set apart by being the only academy specialising in wizard and animus students, outsiders watch Jim's leadership of White Haven closely, with either approval or trepidation. Whilst students are being enrolled in greater numbers than ever before, other factions seek to forcibly remove Jim as headmaster. Building on their alliance with Jim, Clan Green Bear now have a long-term refuge, if they can keep it secret, and Drako finally has a home to call his own. The last thing Drako expects is to fall in love with an elusive student. Clan custom dictates however, that Drako seek approval from the clan and permission from his father and brother, the heir, before he dates any woman. His brother also has a nasty habit of taking what he wants, especially as he has been promised a bride for himself. Drako has a thorny challenge before him winning over his clan whilst she has to reassure her family that marrying a fugitive will not be the grave risk they expect. Facing repeated attack, Jim evolves from a young inexperienced wizard, to being frighteningly powerful. His potential is coveted by enemies and friends alike, and one too many external threats have unexpected, frightening and far-reaching consequences.

About the Author Joe Knotts has lived in Oregon most of his life. He loves hiking, camping, backpacking, swimming and boating with friends. On a number of occasions he has had the privilege of observing black bear cubs, mother bear, and even a solitary father bear. He has camped in areas where enterprising black bear have managed to access food supplies hung high on ropes between two trees and watched as other bear have successfully opened coolers with ease. Joe's grandfather - known as "Uncle Joe" - originally made up the Green Bear Stories telling them to his camping buddies and grandchildren as stories with moral truths. "Uncle Joe" made every effort to involve his listeners in the stories by asking questions along the way. He would then weave their answers into his stories. Joe has taken those original stories, added a bit of real bear fact, tossed them about, told them, re-told them, and truthfully enjoyed mixing fact with fantasy. Joe and his daughter, Tessa, who at the age of seven drew a number of pencil illustrations for the first edition, still live in Oregon. About the Book A " Read With Your Child Book" A young black bear cub grows rapidly into an adult without realizing it. The changes happen so fast he hardly has time to process the decisions he makes along the way or the forces shaping his life. Life moves quickly from being taught by Mother Bear how to survive, to doing the tasks to please his mother, to adventuring off to prove himself. Finally, he is officially "kicked out" of his family when he tries to go back. What are the choices along the way? What is home? What is family? Sometimes what appears to be bad is good and what appears to be good is bad. Who is to sort that out? Told in easy to read, fast action episodes, some hilarious, some educational, some pure fantasy, would the reader make similar or different choices than Green Bear? Great stories to read to your child to help stimulate conversation between you. About the Illustrator Native Oregonian Jessie Street is a mixed media artist. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art and Master of Arts in Teaching from Eastern Oregon University. Teaching children to make art is her passion and could hardly be considered "work." Her artwork has been shown and recognized in several galleries throughout Eastern Oregon, as well as in three issues of Oregon East Magazine.

Stories of the primordial woman who married a bear, appear in matriarchal traditions across the global North from Indigenous North America and Scandinavia to Russia and Korea. In The Woman Who Married the Bear, authors Barbara Alice Mann, a scholar of Indigenous American culture, and Kaarina Kailo, who specializes in the cultures of Northern Europe, join forces to examine these Woman-Bear stories, their common elements, and their meanings in the context of matriarchal culture. The authors reach back 35,000 years to tease out different threads of Indigenous Woman-Bear traditions, using the lens of bear spirituality to uncover the ancient matriarchies found in rock art, caves, ceremonies, rituals, and traditions. Across cultures, in the earliest known traditions, women and bears are shown to collaborate through star configurations and winter cave-dwelling, symbolized by the spring awakening from hibernation followed by the birth of "cubs." By the Bronze Age, however, the story of the Woman-Bear marriage had changed: it had become a hunting tale, refocused on the male hunter. Throughout the book, Mann and Kailo offer interpretations of this earliest known Bear religion in both its original and its later forms. Together, they uncover the maternal cultural symbolism behind the bear marriage and the Original Instructions given by Bear to Woman on sustainable ecology and lifeways free of patriarchy and social stratification.

Death had only ever been a small misunderstanding for the high mage. After his seventh reincarnation, he'd begun thinking of it differently, viewing it as nothing more than a slight hiccup in his plans. But he'd forgotten one thing: when those plans get in the way of those higher up the ladder, punishment is soon to follow. And one more death brought faint consolation. Sent to another world, he found himself in a stranger's body, though the worst part was that he was left with only the memories he'd built since his previous reincarnation. All the mage had learned before that point was gone. Finding himself in that challenging situation, his dilemma was between carving out his place in the sun and throwing up his hands in despair. But giving in wasn't an option for Leg Ondo. The Brown Bear clan brooked no cowards. If fighting was the way to go, it was a fight to the death, to the last drop of blood. Most importantly, the new world needed to be explored and understood, the local iteration of magic in particular. Let nobody ever say that the youngest of the Bears was unworthy!

This enhanced eBook includes: • Eight never-before-seen video interviews with Jean M. Auel where she discusses The Clan of the Cave Bear and the Earth’s Children® series: “You Must Be Able to Change in Order to Survive,” “Jondalar and Ayla,” “On Language," “Cro-Magnons and Neanderthals: The Crossbreeding Question,” “On Research (and Glaciers),” “The Domestication of Horses and Wolves,” “The Painted Caves,” and “What Is It Like Finishing a Series?” • An excerpt from The Land of Painted Caves • An Earth’s Children® series sampler • A text Q&A with Jean M. Auel • The full text of the novel This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read Through Jean M. Auel’s magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves The Clan of the Cave Bear. A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous land until she is found by a woman of the Clan, people very different from her own kind. To them, blond, blue-eyed Ayla looks peculiar and ugly—she is one of the Others, those who have moved into their ancient homeland; but Iza cannot leave the girl to die and takes her with them. Iza and Creb, the old Mog-ur, grow to love her, and as Ayla learns the ways of the Clan and Iza’s way of healing, most come to accept her. But the brutal and proud youth who is destined to become their next leader sees her differences as a threat to his authority. He develops a deep and abiding hatred for the strange girl of the Others who lives in their midst, and is determined to get his revenge.

In 1738, a great plague killed nearly half the Cherokee people and drove the survivors higher into the Smoky Mountains. Years later another kind of plague - the invasion of the white men - would ultimately lead to the forced exodus of the Cherokees in 1838 on the Trail of Tears. During this hundred-year span, murder and massacre prey on all people in the Enchanted Land, including the Africans who were brought to this land not by choice, but by slavery. Born into this world is Bucklee Brown, a boy destined to live in a mystical land where Cherokee spiritualism and Christian beliefs collide and blend. Unto this land come the soldiers following brutally clear orders to remove the Cherokees by any means necessary. Blood law and blood lust lead to battle in the blue smoke of the great mountains. This is a time of good and evil, of redemption and revenge. In the midst of tragedy and death, this is a time of spiritual strength found through faith in an amazing grace.