Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the prophets have foretold, a child of power has been born unto the Turtle People of the Iroquois Nation. The Elders call him False Face Child, for he is the son of a powerful spirit. A living talisman, the child has inhuman eyes-black mirrors, ageless and deep-and all fear him.
All but Jumping Badger, the most powerful war leader of the Bear People. He destroys an entire village to take the boy to use as a spiritual weapon. But, his triumph is...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel on 11th Century Indians in the area of New Mexico. They were the Anasazi and the book traces their customs, politics and wars. A tale of human sacrifice and massacres, as when a chief orders the execution of a village to thwart a prophecy that a stolen child will return to conquer his people. By the authors of People of the Lightning.
4) The visitant
Author
Series
Anasazi mysteries volume 1
Physical Desc
364 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two investigations, eight hundred years apart, into the 12th century murders of Indian women and children in what is now New Mexico. One is conducted by a tribal chief at the time they were committed, the other by an anthropologist in the present.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in what will become Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan, People of the Lakes is another spellbinding epic in New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors' W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's North America's Forgotten past saga.
Clan fighting over a powerful totemic mask has brought the Mound Builder people of the Great Lakes region to the edge of destruction. It is up to Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, to rid her people...
Author
Series
DAW book collectors volume No. 1848
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This standalone fantasy brings an ancient Egyptian mystery to life against a modern background, in a tale expertly crafted by a seasoned anthropologist. Set against the glory and tragedy of ancient Roman Egypt, this novel brings to life the greatest love story of all time. Sixteen-year-old Hal Stevens is a budding historical scholar from a small town in Colorado. A virtual outcast at high school, he has only two friends: Roberto the Biker Witch...
8) Maze master
Author
Physical Desc
ix, 337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
LucentB is a retrovirus that's inevitable, unstoppable, and utterly catastrophic for humanity. The US government believes the only person who can find the cure is the geneticist who tried to warn them about it and then disappeared: James Hakari. They assign the task of finding him to his former student Anna Asher, who in turn recruits paleographer and religious studies scholar Dr. Martin Nadai. The brilliant but insane geneticist is leaving clues...
Author
Series
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A conclusion to the series featuring Dekanawida the Peacemaker finds the growing League of the Great Law of Peace threatened by marauding warriors from the People of the Mountain, who Dekanawida urges to join the League to save their shared world.
10) It Dreams in Me
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sora, the High Chieftess of the Black Falcon Nation, has been banished by her own people until she can find healing for her broken spirit. Her seductive, murderous rampages have led to war with nearby clans and caused dissension in her own, as well. If another body was to turn up, Sora will certainly be blamed-even her own clan will demand her death. Now facing her thirty-third winter, she and her husband Flint are wandering the land searching frantically...
Author
Language
English
Description
People of the Lightning takes us into ancient Florida, to a village of fisher folk who must face their deepest fear: Pondwander, the White Lightning Boy, the first of his kind to be born in tens of tens of summers. His white hair, pink eyes, and pale skin make him fearsome enough, but prophecy foretells that a Lightning Boy is destined to make Sister Moon bury her face in the clouds and weep falling stars-and unleash the winds of destruction.
Fearing...
Author
Language
English
Description
With VIKINGS IN NORTH AMERICA, W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear, renowned archaeologists and bestselling authors of America's Forgotten Past series, discuss the fascinating myths that compelled the first Norse explorers to brave the oceans to reach North American shores.
Author
Language
English
Description
With People of the Mist, bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear take us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entire Algonquin Nation against itself in a brutal war that could destroy them as a people.
No ordinary woman, Red Knot was the heir to the Greenstone Clan and the future leader of the independent villages....
Author
Physical Desc
300 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Young Wrass, still being held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero's camp, organizes the children for an assault on Gannajero's warriors. Meanwhile Koracoo and Gonda are coming for the children and they have allies: a battle-weary Mohawk war chief and a Healer from the People of the Dawnland.
Author
Series
North America's forgotten past volume 26
Physical Desc
317 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A tale of trapped magic, a tyrant who wants to wield its power...and a young girl who could be the key to save a people."--
The tyrant known as the Blessed Sun seeks a mystical artifact that he hopes will bring him ultimate power: an ancient witch's pot that reputedly contains the trapped soul of the most powerful witch ever to have lived. The aged healer Tocho has to stop him, but to do it he must ally himself with the bitter and broken witch hunter,...
19) Fracture Event
Author
Language
English
Description
Award-winning archaeologists and New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear bring us a gripping disaster thriller.
The seas flood their banks. Storms devastate entire continents. Fires envelop the world in darkness. The collapse begins…
Anthropologist Anika French makes an explosive discovery: due to climate change, our world is threatened with collapse in just a few years, and humanity will perish....
Author
Language
English
Description
As the Ice Age ends and the glaciers release their hold on North America, a brave band of people make their way into the new continent. The climate is changing and the game is scarce. A hostile tribe pursues them, driving them ever southward. In their midst rises a young shaman, who receives a Dream from the spirit of the Wolf, a vision of paradise on the other side of the impenetrable ice. An older, more powerful Dreamer teaches the young man how...
Search Tools Get RSS Feed Email this Search