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Bone Walker: An Anasazi Mystery
KATHLEEN O'Neal Gear & Michael Gear
Forge, Dec 2001, 26.95, 352 pp.
ISBN: 0312877420
In the thirteenth century, the once majestic Anasazi Empire is in a rapid state of decline. A nasty drought has led to a food shortage, which exacerbates the religious disputes and inter-clan genocide becomes the norm. War chief Browser and his trusted aide Catkin want to kill the witch Two Hearts, who burned their home to the ground. Two Hearts covets an a...
Coming of the Storm: Book One of Contact: The Battle for America
Coming of the Storm is the first book in a trilogy by Michael and Kathleen Gear about the first, bloody contacts between Native Americans in the southeast and Hernando de Soto's Kristiano conquistadors exploring the devastating results of this epic clash of cultures. Black Shell is an outcast Chicaza noble who earns his living as a trader and he wants to see, first-hand, the strange, white, bearded Kristiano invaders he has heard so much about, the stran...
People of the Wolf
People of the Wolf tells the story of a set of twins in pre-historic America. Runs in Light, is the dreamer of the tribe. He is also one part of a set of twins that are polar opposites. While Runs in Light believes in peace, Raven Hunter, his brother believes in the power of warfare.
In the beginning the main character, Runs in Light, is hunting a wolf. It is pre-historic America, it is cold and the tribe is slowly starving to death. After Runs in Li...
Raising Abel
Warner, Jul 2002, 25.95, 572 pp.
ISBN: 0446526150
Paleoanthropologist Dr. Veronica Tremain is stunned when the FBI informs her that her brother Dr. Scott Ferris was tortured before being burned to death. Scott's girlfriend Dr. Amanda Alexander is also brutally killed with the same M.O. Around the globe, other scientists have been viciously slain too. The only non-scientist among the dead is Elizabeth Carter, employed by the Atlanta based Apost...
