The wizard works alone. She was his one exception.Before Master Kitable appeared in Galanth at the age of thirteen, he'd been a complete unknown. Even twenty years later, he is still only "Master Kitable," a man without a last name, a wizard without history. He operated in the shadows for the Prince of Galanth when the borders were drawn, then helped the legendary King Tohmas take over Espar. Now, he enforces their tentative unity by policing wizard magic across th...

Kaine Chamberlain thought moving to Cape Boady would be temporary. A quiet coastal town. A new school. A place to disappear after his father's death. But Cape Boady was never meant to be quiet. At the center of town stands Walter Randall Academy, a school full of mystery and danger. Kaine must navigate his new life, while mysterious forces attempt to destroy all he and the world knows.

Should the Seers ever leave the lands of Nanterac, all its people will perish.Askaran knows he must walk into the sands before his sanity slips away and his tainted blood destroys the only waters on Nanterac. But his home city is overrun and the only remaining desert seer is a child needing his protection. Insanity must wait.When Funanya stumbles across a lone hunter in the desert, she considers it a great fortune. But in capturing Askaran, she unwittingly ...

The Phratries of Attica provides the first comprehensive account in English of a key institution in ancient Athens: the Attic phratries. These hereditary groups of citizens, linked to one locale or more in Attica, played a crucial role in regulating access to Athenian citizenship. The author concentrates upon the evidence — largely empirical— for the period 450-250 B.C., but he also considers the role of the phratry in the reforms of Cleisthenes and examines the institution’s probable demi...

She seeks to bring down the Lionian Sovereignty. He is determined to save it.Aurion Illica is proud to be a councilman of the Lionian Sovereignty. But as corruption taints the Council, assassinations shake the Sovereign's power, and the rebellions of the slave races, particularly the Nurmi savages of the Corelands, threaten to extinguish the greatness of Lione, Aurion must choose between Lione and his life.Lania is a Warrior of the Nurmi, one half of the re...

She seeks to bring down the Lionian Sovereignty. He is determined to save it.Aurion Illica is proud to be a councilman of the Lionian Sovereignty. But as corruption taints the Council, assassinations shake the Sovereign's power, and the rebellions of the slave races, particularly the Nurmi savages of the Corelands, threaten to extinguish the greatness of Lione, Aurion must choose between Lione and his life.Lania is a Warrior of the Nurmi, one half of the re...

Should the Seers ever leave the lands of Nanterac, all its people will perish.Askaran knows he must walk into the sands before his sanity slips away and his tainted blood destroys the only waters on Nanterac. But his home city is overrun and the only remaining desert seer is a child needing his protection. Insanity must wait.When Funanya stumbles across a lone hunter in the desert, she considers it a great fortune. But in capturing Askaran, she unwittingly ...

To save his home, he must destroy it.Aurion Illica's life is buried in Lione's politics until an assassination attempt lands him in the hands of enemy Nurmi warriors, whom Lione had enslaved for decades. In exchange for his life, he leaves behind his affluent life and agrees to remain in the north and serve them.Lania, the Warrior of the Nurmi, never expected to save a Lionian councilman, but far from regretting it, she forms a bond with her old master. She...

To save his home, he must destroy it.Aurion Illica's life is buried in Lione's politics until an assassination attempt lands him in the hands of enemy Nurmi warriors, whom Lione had enslaved for decades. In exchange for his life, he leaves behind his affluent life and agrees to remain in the north and serve them.Lania, the Warrior of the Nurmi, never expected to save a Lionian councilman, but far from regretting it, she forms a bond with her old master. She...

These are the first steps along the path to conquest. Tread lightly.Born Esparan but raised in isolation, Tohmas Galanth wavers between blood and upbringing. Called north to defend the family he never knew, he must inspire Espar to rally, lest the invading Northlander forces conquer the land between the Ice Oceans and Outland Plains.But Tohmas is not the naive commander his enemies or his allies expect. War is in his blood. He will not be deterred, though r...

This is the story of how and why such powerhouse Wall Street law firms as Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Davis Polk & Wardwell, and Sullivan & Cromwell, grew from nineteenth-century entrepreneurial origins into icons of institutional law practice; how, as white-shoe bastions with the social standards of an exclusive gentlemen’s club, they promoted the values of an east coast elite; and how they adapted to a radically changed legal world, surviving snobbish insularity and ferocious competition to...

The wizard works alone. She was his one exception.Before Master Kitable appeared in Galanth at the age of thirteen, he'd been a complete unknown. Even twenty years later, he is still only "Master Kitable," a man without a last name, a wizard without history. He operated in the shadows for the Prince of Galanth when the borders were drawn, then helped the legendary King Tohmas take over Espar. Now, he enforces their tentative unity by policing wizard magic across th...