Witch Spinners possess the gift of creating conjuring cloths, a revered tool that channels energy two ways instead of one. A user of such a piece wields great power. Larissa North Strondovan's family is one of the remaining few who can create such a fine magical tool, but an old quarrel with the South Hawthorne clave has left her family despised and scattered to different parts of the earth. The discord between the two claves has reverberated to such a degree that the world teeters on the ...

Larissa North Strondovan and August South Hawthorne continue their quest to unravel the truth about the conjuring cloth and witch spinners who create them—but not without major interruptions along the way. With help from their loyal bodyguard and a proud dwarf they meet on their travels, the members struggle to untangle themselves from dire predicaments and traps set by the formidable and power-hungry Anguis clave.Edouard Anguis, the upcoming heir ...

Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure. Like many Greek intellectuals living in the high...

Galen is the most important physician of the Roman imperial era. Many of his theories and practices were the basis for medical knowledge for centuries after his death and some practices—like checking a patient’s pulse—are still used today. He also left a vast corpus of writings which makes up a full one-eighth of all surviving ancient Greek literature. Through her readings of hundreds of Galen’s case histories, Susan P. Mattern presents the first systematic investigation of Galen’s clinica...

Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure. Like many Greek intellectuals living in...

Once conquered, your fears can become your greatest source of strength.As a new year begins at the Magnifico Finishing School for Magical Arts, Olivia, Esme and Agatha are looking forward to learning new spells and making their guardian, Uncle Rufus, burst his buttons with pride.New friends meet, old relationships are tested, and the Fairchild triplets discover the true meaning of sisterhood. But a storm is coming, and none of them are prepared for the epic...

Spring is in the air—and so is monkey poo, when fated mates connect at the Zoo.Since her graduation with two degrees from a tony university, Michelle Margaret Maypo, a curvy and quick-witted young woman approaching her thirties, has been at loose ends. Lovingly known as Shelly to her friends and family, she writes feature articles for the local paper the 'Cape Coast Crier' but yearns for more excitement in her life.Mixing business a...

A TRIPLE MAGICAL THREAT!The Fairchild triplets Olivia, Esme and Agatha have earned a scholarship to the MAGNIFICO FINISHING SCHOOL FOR MAGICAL ARTS, but these witches keep havin' glitches!Get all three G'Witches Magical Mysteries in one beautifully formatted omnibus.Inside:G'WitchesG'Witches 2: The Harpy HarbingerG'Witches 3: Summoning SecretsHidden from street view yet occupying se...

Focusing on everyday rituals, the essays in this volume look at spheres of social action and the places throughout the Atlantic world where African–descended communities have expressed their values, ideas, beliefs, and spirituality in material terms. The contributors trace the impact of encounters with the Atlantic world on African cultural formation, how entanglement with commerce, commodification, and enslavement and with colonialism, emancipation, and self-rule manifested itself in the ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling World Almanac comes a colorful, fun-filled book devoted to the odd, fascinating, and unusual animals that share our planet.From the weirdest mammals and birds, to reptiles, amphibians, insects, and fish you may not have even known existed, this book combines trivia and fast facts with solid science on the oddest critters around. Find a new pest––or pet possibility?––on every page, complete with eye-catching p...

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They hunt at night. They spin bell-shaped webs. And they spend their whole lives under water. Look inside to discover what's going on in the world of water spiders.