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TASIMU is a youth who can call down the power of the northern lights to win a rock-throwing contest, but he is also a boy troubled by the mystery surrounding his birth. Others taunt him, claiming that he isn't truly human. Before he can discover the truth, gold is discovered on tribal land, and soldiers from the Empire come north with orders to remove his people from their northern home. Taste of Memory deals with issues of family breakup, ritual...
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TASIMU is a youth learning of his spiritual gifts and his place in the world. When his people were forced by soldiers to leave their northern home, Tasimu and his family learned hardship as refugees. Now they are struggling in a dry southern land among unfamiliar cultures. Trying to be what his family needs, Tasimu works to connect with natural powers of the world. When Memory Dies deals with issues of defining family roles and cultural disintegration...
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Shape-shifting beings and magical powers move in the natural world, and curious humans find unexpected roles to play in these stories from a celebrated author. Selkies and dragons have their tales to tell here. Ghosts and aliens with their own agendas and a troll interact with humans in stories that reference myths in new ways. Here, the reader will find reverence and reflection as well as adventure, and even humour.
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Sairsa is facing challenges as Dunnagh's wife -- as one of the wives of the first kashallan and his symbiote Tani. While Sairsa and her sister-wife are raising their babies, it's rare to get news of their husband on his dangerous adventures forging what he calls the kashallan alliance among many races of the planet Timorna. When a day outside the safety of Ticca Keep goes suddenly very wrong for Sairsa and her cousin, the other humans rally for a...
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Nathan and Phillip, with their symbiotes, strain to lead the Kashallan Alliance against their Ghostlander enemies. They must learn to trust native war magics as well as their own off-world technology, as all resources are needed to protect them in this struggle. And what can Tessa do if her human body is not strong enough for the fighting that her own inner Demon must win, to protect them all? Treacherous Campaign is the eighth book in the series...
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Dunnagh and his symbiote Tani are no longer the only symbiotes in their band of diverse peoples.To support their band of human and alien refugees, scientists Philip and Tessa have taken on roles as hosts for which they have little preparation. In adjusting to their new home on Timorna, the humans are physically changed by the kavay that now runs in their veins and socially changed by cultural ceremonies practiced with deepest reverence on this world....