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22) The inheritors
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Physical Desc
233 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eight Neanderthals encounter another race of beings like themselves, yet strangely different. This new race, Homo sapiens, fascinating in their skills and sophistication, terrifying in their cruelty, sense of guilt, and incipient corruption, spell doom for the more gentle folk whose world they will inherit.
24) Spirit Walker
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Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 2
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a deadly illness begins to afflict the clans, twelve-year-old Torak, with help from Renn and Wolf, embarks on a journey to find a cure.
25) Outcast
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Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 4
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cast out of the Raven clan, Torak heads to the reedbeds at Lake Axehead, where he is hunted by the hidden people and he must do battle with an ancient evil.
26) Kali's song
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Thousands and thousands of years ago, a young boy gets his first hunting bow and learns to shoot, but he prefers to use the bow to make music.
27) The wolf's boy
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Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marked as tabat--the unlucky one--Kai and his wolf, Uff, must brave the long winter together and learn what it takes to survive on their own"--
Author
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirty thousand years ago, an imaginative child sees the shapes of animals in clouds and on the walls of the cave he shares with his family, but no one else can see them until he makes the world's first drawing. Includes author's note on cave drawings.
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Physical Desc
493 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
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.
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Written in the voice of Mother Africa, who speaks to her children -- human beings -- this stunning picture book thrums with the love between mother and child as it celebrates humanity's common roots. Before words or tools or fire, Mother Africa's caves sheltered us and her forests fed us. She could not protect us from all dangers, but, like mothers everywhere, she gave her children all she could and sent us into the world with confidence and love....
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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.
34) Ghost hunter
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 6
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
To fulfill his destiny, Torak must defy demons and tokoroths, navigate through the Gorge of the Hidden People, and battle the evil Eagle Owl Mage.
35) 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.
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Physical Desc
383 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
By 1300 AD, the Sky Hand people had crushed and enslaved the Albaamaha people and built their high-walled capital, Split Sky City, to dominate towns up and down the Black Warrior River. But a violent wind is brewing that may topple the city's mighty walls.
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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.
39) Oath breaker
Author
Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 5
Physical Desc
292 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Bane is killed by the Soul-Eater Thiazzi, Torak sets off into the Deep Forest with his foster father and Renn to avenge his friend's murder, but they find themselves in the midst of a war between the Deep Forest clans.
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Series
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mo and Jo are cavemen who, in three easy-to-read chapters, try to improve the smell of themselves and their cave, attempt to play hide-and-seek, and discover that there is more than one way to stay warm on a cold day.
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