Forced to choose between loyalty and destiny. Cadvin is destined to become the greatest Augur to have ever lived. When he alone is selected for training, he vows to pass along everything he learns to his childhood friends, despite the law. When they discover that their aptitudes lie in forbidden magic, Cadvin is forced to walk the line between duty and friendship. Daimin, Cadvin’s closest friend, refuses to hide his powers from the authorities. Nothing in Cadvin’s prophetic visions can prepare him for their impending confrontation. Centuries later, Fridrik, a student of Kayla Freeland’s, discovers an aptitude for forbidden magic. Refusing to deny his newfound identity, he goes on the run to escape the unforgiving magicians bent on enforcing the ancient law. His only hope at acceptance is a desperate search for the truth that was buried along with Cadvin and Daimin so long ago. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Ordeals of Ornland takes you on a thrilling adventure to the past and present. This novel can be read as a sequel to “The Conquest of Kiynan” and “The Legacy of Lethe” or as a stand-alone story.

In this provocative new book, sociologist Orlando Patterson takes on the intractable dilemma of race in late 20th-century America. Using current demographic research, Patterson exposes common misperceptions about the lives and experiences of black and white Americans, misperceptions that are hampering the success of integration.

★★★★★ “Impossible to put down… Caillibot kick starts The Kiynan Chronicles series with this fascinating concoction of epic fantasy, mystery, magic, and action.” - The Prairies Book Review ★★★★★ “The book follows multiple point-of-view characters through an unlikely thread that weaves them together in a patchwork of royalty, loyalty, war, and magic. [...] The Conquest of Kiynan is an incredibly ambitious book” - Readers’ Favorite ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ When the entire world erupts into war, can anyone triumph? An ancient Conjurer escapes from his imprisonment in the spirit world. Bent on revenge, he raises an army of demons crafted from stolen flesh and bones. An uneasy alliance of magicians is formed to oppose him, but they soon realise that even with their might combined, it will not be enough to survive the coming storm. In desperation, they seek help from distant, long-alienated kin. Among them is Kayla Freeland, a young woman who may be the key to unlocking the long-forgotten magic of the fallen House Calm, perhaps the only means of stopping the Conjurer and his endless minions. Far to the West, a barbarian High King launches an all-out invasion. Old rivalries are reignited and alliances tested as nobles and commoners alike are thrown into chaos by the sudden aggression. A young, naïve King and a conscripted thief find themselves forced to work together to survive. As kingdoms fall, the unlikely heroes must overcome fear, loss and remorse to unite fragmented armies and feuding magicians against their merciless enemies, or face subjugation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Conquest of Kiynan is the first instalment of an epic, high fantasy series. The story is split across multiple viewpoint characters, forced to navigate conflict, coming of age, clashing cultures and magic. The threads are gradually woven together, leading to a single, thrilling conclusion.

For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important question, focusing on Reconstruction's need to form an enduring Union without sacrificing the framework of federalism and republican democracy. Assessing the era nationally, Summers emphasizes the variety of conservative strains that confined the scope of change, highlights the war's impact and its aftermath, and brings the West and foreign policy into an integrated narrative. In sum, this book offers a fresh explanation for Reconstruction's demise and a case for its essential successes as well as its great failures. Indeed, this book demonstrates the extent to which the victors' aims in 1865 were met--and at what cost. Summers depicts not just a heroic, tragic moment with equal rights advanced and then betrayed but a time of achievement and consolidation, in which nationhood and emancipation were placed beyond repeal and the groundwork was laid for a stronger, if not better, America to come.

The paradoxical and tragic story of America's most prominent Loyalist - a man caught between king and country.

A history of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt based on first-person interviews with Brotherhood rank-and-file members.