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Novels by Robin Jarvis: The Oaken Throne, the Whitby Witches, the Dark Portal, the Alchymist's Cat, the Crystal Prison, the Final Reckoning
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-25.
ISBN 9781156855461
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Oaken Throne, the Whitby Witches, the Dark Portal, the Alchymist's Cat, the Crystal Prison, the Final Reckoning, Fleabee's Fortune, the Woven Path, Whortle's Hope, Ogmund's Gift, Thomas, Thorn Ogres of Hagwood, a Warlock in Whitby. Excerpt: The Oaken Throne is the second novel in the Deptford Histories Trilogy by Robin Jarvis (first published in 1993). Set hundreds of years before the Deptford Mice Trilogy in the Middle Ages, the story tells the tale of the squirrel maiden Ysabelle, daughter of the ruler of the Hazel Realm, Lady Ninnia, and Vespertilio (or Vesper), a young bat. The story begins in a ruined tower in London where the Bats live, and they are readying themselves to go to war to fight the squirrels. They believe that the Starwife, ruler of the black squirrels, has stolen their birthright of insight and seeing into the future. In the midst of the preparations, Vesper longs to experience the battle for himself, but he is too young to go. Meanwhile, in the Hallowed Oak in Greenreach, the Starwife has been seriously ill. Unbeknownst to her, her trusted handmaiden Morwenna has been poisoning her. As the bat army launches an attack that will destroy her realm, the poison begins taking full effect on the Starwife and Morwenna reveals her treachery. But before she perishes, the Starwife summons a peregrine falcon who carries her symbol of office, a silver acorn necklace, away to safety. The next day, far away in the Hazel Realm, the celebration for the holiday of Aldertide has begun. Ysabelle is eager to join the festivities, much to the dismay of her field mouse nursemaid Griselda. Soon however, a group of bats who are pursuing the falcon bring an end to the day's happiness. The bats manage to kill the falcon and, to Ysabelle's hor... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1862100
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