Kathleen O'Neal Gear
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
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 and Cleo Mallawi. Cleo claims to be the reincarnation of Queen Cleopatra. She also believes she's being stalked by an ancient Egyptian demon, Ammut, the Devourer...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"In a magnificent war-torn world cut by soaring red canyons, an evil ruler launches a search for 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, Maicoh, whose only goal is achieving one last great kill. Caught...
3) Maze master
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Pub. Date
2018.
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...
4) The visitant
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Series
Anasazi mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 21
Description
At its pinnacle in A.D. 1150, the Anasazi empire was vast and sophisticated, unequaled until the arrival of the Europeans--and then they simply disappeared.Dr. Maureen Cole, one of the world's foremost physical anthropologists, is called in to examine and evaluate a mass grave discovered in New Mexico. The burial site contains nothing but the shattered skulls of women and children. As Dr. Cole works to unravel the mystery of these deaths, strange...
5) Sun Born
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
A thousand years ago, the mighty Cahokian civilization dominated the North American continent from its capital near modern St. Louis. From Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico, settlers and priests carried word of the power of their gods. People who wouldn't bow to that power were conquered or slaughtered. At the heart of the empire stood a vast city, teeming with tens of thousands. Power rested in one being, Morning Star, a god resurrected in the body...
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Description
The city of Cahokia, at its height, covered more than six square miles around what is now St. Louis and included structures more than ten stories high. Cahokian warriors and traders roamed from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. What force on earth would motivate hundreds of thousands of people to pick up, move hundreds of miles, and once plopped down amidst a polyglot of strangers, build an incredible city? A religious miracle: the Cahokians...
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Series
Anasazi mysteries volume 2
Description
Book two of the Anasazi mysteries
This memorable novel of the vanished Anasazi, the second in the series (following The Visitant), provides sober ecological lessons for our own civilization. The Gears, who are also collaborators on the First North Americans series, tell the brutal story of one 13th-century tribe, the Katsinas' People, as they tumble down the path that leads to the sudden disappearance of the Anasazi. In parallel, the authors also...
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Contact volume 1
Description
This series portrays the devastating clash of cultures that followed the European invasion of early America. Dramatic, authentic, and deeply moving, this first book in the Contact series tells the story of the blood-drenched years that followed Spanish explorer Hernando De Soto's landing in "La Florida" in 1529 as seen entirely through the eyes of two courageous Native Americans.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Description
"People of the Mist takes 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 war that could destroy it as a people." "High Fox, the young man who had an obsessive love for Red Knot, is the prime suspect in the murder. The woman who loves him cannot believe him guilty, offering herself, body and soul, to...
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Series
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 44
Description
A tale of the earliest people on the North American continent, set two millenia ago. The protagonist is Star Shell, daughter of a Hopewell chief, who undertakes a perilous journey to Niagara Falls to drown an evil totemic mask before it destroys her race. By the husband-and-wife team of archaeologists who wrote People of the Sea, People of the Wolf and People of the Fire.
13) Fire the sky
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
After being fought to a standstill by the courageous Apalachee Nation, Spanish invader Hernando de Soto has changed his tactics. He will employ promises of peace to accomplish what cannot be achieved by violence alone. Lured by a young man's tale of gold and aided by an arrogant princess's treachery, he makes his way through the beautiful southeastern landscape. One by one, the ancient Nations fall victim to his lies as rulers and commoners alike...
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Series
First North Americans volume 14
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
This is the sweeping saga of a visionary boy who led his people out of the path of one of the worst catastrophes in the history of the world, and the brave little girl who loved him enough to believe in his dream.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 34
Description
The Great Sun Chief endangers the entire Anasazi empire when he sets out to kill Cornsilk, the child his wife secretly bore to another man fifteen years earlier, forcing the girl to flee her attackers, along with her friend Poor Singer, and struggle to survive while she seeks to discover her true identity.
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"War Chief Koracoo and Deputy Gonda of the Standing Stone People have successfully rescued their children, Odion and Tutelo, from Gannajero the Trader. Known as the Crow, Gannajero is a figure out of nightmare--a witch who steals children. Odion's friend Wrass is still held captive, along with several other children, in Gannajero's camp, and Koracoo and Gonda are determined to save them all. This time, Koracoo and Gonda have allies: a battle-weary...
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Series
Formats
Description
The privileged bride of a Virginia military man, Robin Heatherton is a spy for the Confederacy. Disguised as a young boy, she infiltrates Yankee forces during the Battle of the Wilderness, but when her cover is compromised, she is forced to crawl through mud and gore, past the dead, to reach her own lines with vital information. Her husband dead at the hands of the Yankees, Robin flees into the untamed reaches of the Colorado Territory. Helped only...
18) It dreams in me
Author
Series
In me series volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Gear concludes her Black Falcon trilogy (It Sleeps in Me; It Wakes in Me) with this erotic and violent historic thriller. Chieftess Sora of the Black Falcon Nation-a confederation of Native American tribes in the Florida Panhandle-is suspected of committing several murders while suffering mysterious seizures and has been banished from her village until she is healed. Her possessive ex-husband Flint and a powerful healer, Priest Strongheart, take Sora...
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Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 29
Description
In the shattered Anasazi world, War Chief Browser and his second, Catkin, are horrified when a messenger from the Mogollon is murdered before divulging a secret concerning Poor Singer's prophecy. With his entire world in peril, Browser must determine who could want the young Mogollon warrior dead. But whom can he trust? The matron Blue Corn, or her conniving war chief? The Mogollon elder, who has his own desperate agenda? If they can find the answer,...
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Series
First North Americans volume 7
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 26
Description
This book is set in ancient Florida, in a village of fisherfolk who must face their deepest fear: Pondwader, a lanky youth of fifteen summers. He is 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 legends foretell that a Lightning Boy will make Sister Moon bury her face in the clouds and weep falling stars - and the winds of destruction will...